Miss North Dakota

Miss North Dakota
Formation	1949
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Williston
Location	North Dakota;
Membership	Miss America
Official language	English
President	Debbie Richter
Website	www.missnorthdakota.org

The Miss North Dakota competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Dakota in the Miss America pageant. The first Miss North Dakota to compete at Miss America was Kitty Page in 1949.^[1] In 2017, Cara Mund became the first North Dakotan to win the Miss America title, when she won the Miss America 2018 pageant.^[2]

Sophia Richards of Hope was crowned Miss North Dakota 2024 on June 8, 2024, at Bakken Auditorium in Williston, North Dakota. She will compete for Miss America 2025.

Gallery of past titleholders

Roxana Saberi,
Miss North Dakota 1997
Annette Olson,
Miss North Dakota 2006
Cara Mund,
Miss North Dakota 2017 and Miss America 2018

Results summary

The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss North Dakota titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition during which a placement and/or award was garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title.

Placements

Miss America: Cara Mund (2018)
Top 10: Donna Grotberg (1977), Tina Curran (1989), Roxana Saberi (1998)
Top 16: Jacky Arness (2015)

Awards

Preliminary awards

Preliminary Talent: Karen Kopseng (1965), Rosie Sauvageau (2013)

Non-finalist awards

Non-finalist Talent: Joan Teets (1950), Margaret Aandahl (1953), Claudia Gullickson (1960), Denise Fledderman (1967), Georgia Ann Becker (1973), Daureen Podenski (1980), Rosie Sauvageau (2013)

Other awards

Miss Congeniality: Ashley Young (2008), Jacky Arness (2015)
Miss America Scholar: Roxana Saberi (1998)
Quality of Life Award 1st runners-up: Cara Mund (2018)

Winners

Declared as winner
Ended as a runner-up
Ended as a finalist or semi-finalist

Year	Name	Hometown	Age	Local Title	Miss America Talent	Placement at Miss America	Special scholarships at Miss America	Notes
2024	Sophia Richards	Hope	23	Miss West Fargo	Vocal	TBA	TBA
2023	Sydney Helgeson^[3]	Bismarck	22		Vocal
2022	Sidni Kast^[4]	Minot	24	Miss Grand Forks	Piano, "Somebody to Love"
2021	Reyna Bergstrom^[5]	Fargo	25	Miss State Capitol	Vocal
2019–20	Haley D. Wolfe^[6]	Carrington	21	Miss West Fargo	Dance			Previously Distinguished Young Woman of North Dakota 2016^[7]
2018	Katie Olson^[8]	Williston	20	Miss Fargo	Lyrical Dance, "I Will Wait"
2017	Lizzie Jensen^[9]	Fargo	23	Miss West Fargo	Vocal, "Hallelujah"	Did not compete; originally first runner-up, later assumed the title after Mund was named Miss America 2018^[10]^[9]
2017	Cara Mund^[11]	Bismarck	23	Miss Northern Lights	Jazz Dance, “The Way You Make Me Feel”	Winner^[2]	Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up^[12]	Previously Miss North Dakota's Outstanding Teen 2010^[11] 4th runner-up at Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2012 pageant^[13]
2016	Macy Christianson^[14]	Minot	19	Miss Grand Forks	Contemporary Ballet			Later Miss North Dakota USA 2020^[15]
2015	Delanie Wiedrich ^[16]	Hazen	19	Miss Grand Forks	Vocal, "A New Life" from Jekyll & Hyde			Delanie Jane Wiedrich is a native of Tracy, California.
2014	Jacky Arness	Fargo	21	Miss Peace Garden	Vocal, "Feeling Good"	Top 16	Judges' Choice Miss Congeniality	1st runner-up at Miss North Dakota USA 2018 pageant^[17]
2013	Laura Harmon	Grand Forks	23	Miss Grand Forks	Vocal, "’O sole mio"
2012	Rosemary (Rosie) Elizabeth Sauvageau ^[18]	Fargo	24	Miss Fort Abercrombie	Piano / Vocal, "To Make You Feel My Love"		Preliminary Talent Award^[19] Non-finalist Talent Award	First black woman to be named Miss North Dakota
2011	Ariana Walker^[20]	Bismarck	20	Miss State Capitol	Contemporary Lyrical Dance, "Defying Gravity" from Wicked			Previously Miss North Dakota's Outstanding Teen 2008^[21] Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2010^[22]
2010	Beth Dennison	Hutchinson, MN	21	Miss Grand Forks	Modern Dance, "All'improvviso Amore"			Eligible as a student at the University of North Dakota
2009	Katherine (Katie) Elise Ralston	Carrington	22	Miss Red River Valley	Vocal, "One Hundred Easy Ways" from Wonderful Town
2008	Tessie Louise Jones	West Fargo	21	Miss Dickinson	Piano			Contestant at National Sweetheart 2007 pageant
2007	Ashley Anne Young^[23]	Grand Forks	20	Miss Grand Forks	Classical Vocal, "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die Fledermaus		Miss Congeniality
2006	Annette Ellen Olson	Baldwin	23	Miss Peace Garden	Vocal, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"			Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005 pageant
2005	Jacqueline Marie Johnson^[24]	Fargo	20	Miss Red River Valley	Cello, "Julio"
2004	Ashley Jo Ford^[25]	Cavalier	21	Miss Potato Queen	Vocal, "There You Are"
2003	Sara Marie Schelkoph	Grand Forks	23	Miss Fort Abercrombie	Lyrical Ballet, "Somewhere"
2002	Stacey lynn Thomas^[26]	Bismarck	19	Miss Fort Abercrombie	Jazz en Pointe, "Sparkling Diamonds" from Moulin Rouge!			Previously Miss North Dakota's Outstanding Teen 1999^[27] Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2001^[13]
2001	Jillayne Ann Mertens	Motley, MN	19	Miss North Dakota State College of Science	Violin / Vocal, "Look to the Rainbow" from Finian's Rainbow
2000	Carrie Ann Haberstroh	Lisbon	21	Miss Red River Valley	Classical Piano, Prelude in C sharp minor by Rachmaninoff
1999	Kathryn (Kay) Ruth Picconatto	Minot	21	Miss Dakota Territory	Vocal, "Journey to the Past"
1998	Sonja Marie Gedde	Fargo	18	Miss Fargo	Piano, "Malagueña"
1997	Roxana Saberi	Fargo	20	Miss Fargo	Classical Piano, Prelude in G minor by Rachmaninoff	Top 10	Miss America Scholar	In 2009 gained worldwide attention after being imprisoned for 100 days for alleged espionage in Iran^[28]
1996	Stephanie Lee Hamilton	Williston	18	Miss Williston	Lyrical Dance, "On My Knees"
1995	Kimberly (Kim) Ann Cooley	Grand Forks	24	Miss Potato Bowl	Tap Dance, "Luck Be a Lady"
1994	Nicci Elkins	Grand Forks	21	Miss Red River Valley	Tap Dance			Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1991 Top 6 at Miss Teen USA 1991 pageant
1993	Suzanne Janelle Spilde	Casselton	24	Miss Pride of the Prairie	Vocal, "On a Wonderful Day like Today" from The Sweetheart Tree
1992	Stephanie Jean Fisher	Larimore	24	Miss Watford City	Vocal, "Until Now"
1991	VanNessa Straub	Fargo	24	Miss US Durum	Piano, Warsaw Concerto
1990	Lezlie Joan Lund	Tolna	23	Miss US Durum	Vocal, "Time Heals Everything" from Mack & Mabel
1989	Susan Jacobson	Grand Forks	23	Miss Potato Bowl	Vocal / Dance, "One Night Only"
1988	Tina Marie Curran	Grand Forks	21	Miss Oil Country	Ballet en Pointe, "Capriccio Espagnol"	Top 10 Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Miss_North_Dakota Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. Navigácia: Veda > Analytika Antropológia Aplikované vedy Bibliometria Dejiny vedy Encyklopédie Filozofia vedy Forenzné vedy Humanitné vedy Knižničná veda Kryogenika Kryptológia Kulturológia Literárna veda Medzidisciplinárne oblasti Metódy kvantitatívnej analýzy Metavedy Metodika Metodológia vedy Náboženstvo a veda Náučná literatúra Podvody vo vede Popularizácia vedy Potravinárstvo Prírodné vedy Pseudoveda Scientometria Spoločenské vedy Teórie Teatrológia Technické vedy Technika Terminológia Umenie Výskum Veda Veda a technika podľa štátu Veda a technika podľa kontinentu Veda a technika podľa roka Veda v kozme Vedci Vedecká literatúra Vedecké databázy Vedecké experimenty Vedecké konferencie Vedecké metódy Vedecké ocenenia Vedecké organizácie Vedecké parky Vedeckí spisovatelia Vzdelávanie Záhady Príbuzné výrazy: Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. www.astronomia.sk \| www.biologia.sk \| www.botanika.sk \| www.dejiny.sk \| www.economy.sk \| www.elektrotechnika.sk \| www.estetika.sk \| www.farmakologia.sk \| www.filozofia.sk \| Fyzika \| www.futurologia.sk \| www.genetika.sk \| www.chemia.sk \| www.lingvistika.sk \| www.politologia.sk \| www.psychologia.sk \| www.sexuologia.sk \| www.sociologia.sk \| www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk

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