Alyssa George

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Alyssa George Beauty pageant titleholder
Birth name:	Alyssa Anne George
Birth location:	Minneapolis, Kansas
Eye color:	Brown
Hair color:	Brown
Ethnicity:	White/Caucasian
Title(s):	Miss Kansas 2007
Major Competition(s):	Miss America 2008

Alyssa Anne George is a pageant competitor from Minneapolis, Kansas who will compete in the Miss America pageant in 2008.

George won the Miss Kansas 2007 title in a state pageant held in Pratt on June 10, 2007^[1]. She competed as Miss Sedgewick County, a local title she won in September 2006. She also won the swimsuit competition, the Instrumentalist Award and the Kansas State Ambassador Award^[2].

George had previously competed at Miss Kansas 2004 and 2005. She did not win in either year, but did win a preliminary swimsuit award in 2004. George also competed at Miss Kansas USA 2006, where she made the top fifteen.

During the remainder of the year 2007 she is scheduled to tour throughout the state of Kansas to talk about her platform "Bullying: The Bystander Effect." She will also compete in the Miss America 2008 contest in Las Vegas in 2008.

George graduated from Minneapolis High School and is a student at the University of Kansas. She is taking a year off from college to fulfull her duties as Miss Kansas and plans to return in the fall of 2008 for her senior year^[3].