Shauna Gambill

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Shauna Gambill was Miss Teen USA 1994 and also held the Miss California Teen USA and Miss California USA titles.

Gambill first won the Miss California Teen USA title in late 1993. In August 1994 she competed in the Miss Teen USA in the national pageant televised live from Biloxi, Mississippi. Her performance in the preliminary competition placed her sixth among the top twelve semi-finalists, but her scores were consistently high throughout the three final rounds of competition, ranking highest in swimsuit (August 16). Having impressed the finals judges, Gambill was crowned Miss Teen USA at the end of the pageant broadcast. She was seventeen years old at the time.

In 1997, two years after passing on the crown, she won the Miss California USA 1998 pageant. Gambill then competed at Miss USA 1998, where she placed first runner-up to Shawnae Jebbia of Massachusetts. The competition between the two is widely regarded by pageant fans to be one of the closest decisions in recent Miss USA history. Gambill was placed third among the ten semi-finals in the preliminary competition, with Jebbia in the middle in fifth place. In the final competition, however, Jebbia won both the Swimsuit and Evening Gown competitions, placing poorly in interview, whilst Gambill was consistently high across all rounds of competition. Had Gambill beat Jebbia to become Miss USA 1998, she would have been the first women to compete at all 3 pageants (Miss Teen USA, Miss USA, and Miss Universe) and the first Miss Teen USA to compete at Miss Universe.

She attended Highland High School in Palmdale, California.

Gambill went on to compete for the United States at the Miss World pageant, where she was a semi-finalist. She married Mitch Gerth in Santa Barbara Hills, California on October 23, 2000, In 2004, she was a judge at the Miss Teen USA pageant won by Shelley Hennig of Louisiana.