Miss Alaska

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For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Alaska USA

The Miss Alaska competition is a scholarship pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alaska in the Miss America pageant.

Alaska has placed only once in the state's forty-eight year participation at the pageant, when Joslyn Tinker was selected for the Top Ten. One Miss Alaska won a preliminary swimsuit and another won a talent award. Several other delegates have been awarded non-finalist and special scholarships.

Miss Alaskas 1975 and 1978, Cindy Suryan and PJ Gentry, were popular Anchorage television and radio personalities for many years, but it was the eighties that produced the biggest crop of high-profile winners. Miss Alaska 1981, Laura Trollan, worked in local television as an Anchorage weather broadcaster. Miss Alaska 1982 became an award-winning realtor and business woman, achieving recognition for The Kristan Cole Team. Miss Alaska 1984, Maryline Blackburn, pursued a career in music and has received critical acclaim as a recording artist. Miss Alaskas 1985 and 1986 went on to establish successful careers in modeling: Jerri Morrison as a plus-size supermodel, most recognizable for her catalog work for Nordstrom and JC Penney, and Kristina Christopher-Taylor as a TV and print model featured in several national campaigns.

[edit] Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Local Title	Placement at Miss America	Special scholarships at Miss America	Notes
2007	Cari Leyva	Anchorage				Previously Miss Alaska USA 2004
2006	Stephanie Wonchala	Eagle River	Miss Chugiak/Eagle River
2005	Rebecca Hayes	Anchorage				2nd runner-up to Miss Alaska USA 2007
2004	Christina Reasner	Sterling
2003	Blair Chenoweth	Anchorage				Future Miss Alaska USA 2007
2002	Peggy Willman	Anchorage	Miss North Star
2001	Eugenia Primis	Eagle River	Miss South Central		Charles and Theresa Brown Scholarship
2000	Audrey Solomon	Anchorage	Miss University Center		Bert Parks Non-finalist Scholarship award; Non-finalist Talent
1999	Shannon Kelly	Palmer	Miss South Central
1998	Joslyn Tinker	Soldotna	Miss Alyeska	Top 10	Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Charles and Theresa Brown Scholarship award	Former Alaska's Junior Miss 1994
1997	Michelle Titus	Fairbanks
1996	Christine Buschur	Eagle River	Miss Cook Inlet
1995	Stacey Storey	Eagle River	Miss Chugiak/Eagle River			Future Miss Alaska USA 2003
1994	Patricia Marlow	Eagle River	Miss Anchorage
1993	Rebecca Nyboer	Anchorage	Miss Alyeska		Nonfinalist Talent Award
1992	Keri Baumgardner	Eagle River	Miss Anchorage
1991	Beth Gustafson	Palmer	Miss Denali		Natural White's Smile of Confidence Scholarship Winner
1990	Holly Salo	Kenai	Miss Mat-Su Valley
1989	Christine McCubbins	Kenai	Miss Denali
1988	Launa Middaugh	Wasilla	Miss South Central
1987	Teresa Murton	Anchorage	Miss Anchorage
1986	Jerri Morrison	Anchorage	Miss Northern Lights
1985	Kristina Christopher-Taylor	Anchorage	Miss Talkeetna
1984	Maryline Blackburn	Anchorage	Miss South Central		Nonfinalist Talent Award	Selected and traveled with USO
1983	Jennifer Smith	Soldotna	Miss Soldotna
1982	Kristan Sapp	Wasilla	Miss South Central
1981	Laura Trollan	Juneau	Miss Juneau
1980	Sandra Lashbrook	Eagle River	Miss Chugiak-Eagle River
1979	Lila Oberg	Palmer	Miss Willow Area
1978	Patty-Jo Gentry	Valdez	Miss Fairbanks
1977	Lisa Granath	Kenai	Miss Greater Kenai
1976	Kathy Tebow	Anchorage	Miss Anchorage		Non-finalist Talent
1975	Cindy Suryan	Kodiak	Miss Kodiak
1974	Darby Moore	Kenai	Miss Kenai
1973	Virginia Adams	Anchorage	Miss Anchorage
1972	Deborah Wood	Anchorage	Miss Anchorage			*Deborah Wood was 1st runner up in the Miss Alaska pageant and replaced Linda Hogue when she was disqualified. Linda Hogue's name appeard in Miss America program, 1972.
1971	Linda Smith	Anchorage			Special Judge's Award
1970	Virginia Walker	Kotzebue	Miss Kotzebue/Arctic Circle			First Miss America contestant from the Arctic Circle
1969	Gwenn Gregg	Anchorage	Miss Northern Lights
1968	Jane Haycraft	Fairbanks	Miss Greater Fairbanks Area
1967	Penny Thomasson	Spenard
1966	Nancy Lorell Wellman	Fairbanks	Miss Greater Fairbanks Area
1965	Mary Ruth Nidiffer	Anchorage	Miss Alaska Methodist University
1964	Karol Hommon	Anchorage
1963	Colleen Kendall	Anchorage	Miss Alaska State Fair
1962	Mary Dee Fox	Anchorage	Miss Greater Anchorage
1961	Jean Ann Holm	Fairbanks
1960	June Bowdish	Anchorage
1959	Alansa Carr	Ketchikan
1958	Stuart Johnson	Douglas City
1950	Maxine Cothern	Fairbanks
1937	Marguerite Lee	Nome				West is her married name
1922	Helmer Liederman					disqualified