Madison Guthrie (Miss Alabama)
Representing the University of Alabama, Guthrie was the only fan selected to be featured in the ESPN “Who’s In?” 2014 college football commercials
Kimberly Agron (Miss Alaska)
Agron is working toward obtaining her student pilot’s license
Maureen Montagne (Miss Arizona)
This ASU Sun Devil is pursuing her dream of being a reporter in Asia
Leah Blefko (Miss Arkansas)
Blefko is hot sauce-obsessed and puts it on just about everything
Natasha Martinez (Miss California)
Martinez has worked as a Laker Girl, a Disneyland princess and parade performer
Talyah Polee (Miss Colorado)
Polee is a former Division I Track and Field athlete, from the University of Nevada Las Vegas
Ashley Golebiewski (Miss Connecticut)
Golebiewski is a certified personal trainer and enjoys high-intensity cardio workouts such as kickboxing
Renee Bull (Delaware)
Bull started her first business in 2014, Intricate Designs, a jewelry and accessory online boutique
Lizzy Olsen (Miss District of Columbia)
Olsen is the majority director of operations for the Senate Committee of Environment and Public Works
Ashleigh Lollie (Miss Florida)
Lollie became an advocate for the Parkinson’s Foundation after her grandmother was diagnosed with the disease
Brooke Fletcher (Miss Georgia)
Fletcher was a gymnast for 11 years, and then transitioned into competitive cheerleading
Emma Wo (Miss Hawaii)
Wo studied abroad at Oxford University in England at the age 16
Claira Hollingsworth (Miss Idaho)
Hollingsworth is a state and national rodeo qualifier
Renee Wronecki (Miss Illinois)
After she graduated from high school, Wronecki and her mother were both diagnosed with skin cancer. They’re now cancer-free
Gretchen Reece (Miss Indiana)
Reece is a registered American Kennel Club breeder. Throughout college, she paid for textbooks by saving money from three litters she sold
Taylor Even (Miss Iowa)
Even hopes to graduate from college with a respiratory therapy degree and work at a children’s hospital
Alexis Railsback (Miss Kansas)
Railsback has a fraternal twin sister named Ashley who is older than her by two minutes, but shorter than her by six inches
Katie George (Miss Kentucky)
George was the Kentucky Gatorade Player of the Year and Prep Volleyball’s National Player of the Year
Candice Bennatt (Miss Louisiana)
Bennatt serves as an Ambassador for the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Heather Elwell (Miss Maine)
She can play seven different instruments including the flute, tenor saxophone and violin
Mame Adjei (Miss Maryland)
Adjei’s first modeling experience was at the age of six in Switzerland, when she was scouted to be featured in a Church brochure
Polikseni Manxhari (Miss Massachusetts)
Manxhari went to both junior and senior prom alone because she was not asked by anyone — big mistake, boys
Rashontae Wawrzyniak (Miss Michigan)
Wawrzyniak is terrified of escalators
Jessica Scheu (Miss Minnesota)
Scheu is a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do
Courtney Byrd (Miss Mississippi)
Byrd sponsors and writes to a girl in India through Compassion International
Rebecca Dunn (Miss Missouri)
Dunn studied abroad in Europe and went on a mission trip to Africa where she visited orphanages in Kenya and Malawi
Tahnee Peppenger (Miss Montana)
Peppenger plans on serving her state and country through public or military service
Hoang-Kim Cung (Miss Nebraska)
Growing up, Cung built computers with her brother and now is learning how to code
Brittany McGowan (Miss Nevada)
McGowan is multi-racial. She is English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Puerto Rican and African American
Samantha Poirier (Miss New Hampshire)
Poirier is a 23-year-old model, student and outdoor enthusiast from Dover, New Hampshire
Vanessa Oriolo (Miss New Jersey)
Oriolo speaks English, Italian and Spanish
Alexis Duprey (Miss New Mexico)
Duprey’s family has three German Shorthaired Pointers. Lucca (the oldest) is a show grand champion.
Thatiana Diaz (New York)
Diaz was features editor for Pace University’s The Pace Press and interned at several companies including Vogue and Latina Magazine
Julia Dalton (Miss North Carolina)
Dalton can quote every episode of the NBC series “Friends”
Molly Ketterling (Miss North Dakota)
Ketterling attended the International Science Fair for two years thanks to her growing and studying cancer cells in a Petri dish
Sarah Newkirk (Miss Ohio)
Newkirk was home schooled and did not have a television in her home until the ninth grade
Olivia Jordan (Miss Oklahoma)
While at Boston University, Jordan won first prize in a pie baking contest, taking the prize for Alpha Phi in an all-sorority bake-off
Bridget Wilmes (Miss Oregon)
Wilmes is currently working on a mystery thriller novel
Elizabeth Cardillo (Miss Pennsylvania)
Cardillo was adopted as a baby and now works with the Genesis Foundation of Pittsburgh Adoption Service Agency
Anea Garcia (Miss Rhode Island)
Garcia is attending Roger Williams University on a full tuition grant through the International Leadership Award
Sarah Weishuhn (Miss South Carolina)
Weishuhn once was able to be in the operating room and watch an open heart, double bypass surgery being performed
Lexy Schenk (Miss South Dakota)
Schenk was a four-sport athlete in high school, involved in volleyball, basketball, track and cheerleading
Kiara Young (Miss Tennessee)
Young has been a NFL cheerleader for the Tennessee Titans for two years
Ylianna Guerra (Miss Texas)
Guerra has worked with various nonprofit organizations such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Easter Seals, Proyecto Desarollo Humano and the Texas Children’s Hospital
Nicol Powell (Miss Utah)
Powell was a “Child of Light” ice skater for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City
Jackie Croft (Miss Vermont)
Croft is ambidextrous, making her able to use both sides of her body equally
Laura Puleo (Miss Virginia)
Puleo graduated from Duke with degrees in Latin and Attic Greek
Kenzi Novell (Miss Washington)
After finding out Syfy would be filming a zombie television show in her hometown, Novell auditioned and was cast as a zombie in “ZNation”
Andrea Mucino (Miss West Virginia)
Mucino’s career ambition is to receive a dual JD/MBA Degree and become a lobbyist for education and women’s rights
Haley Laundrie (Miss Wisconsin)
Laundrie was the valedictorian of her high school class
Caroline Scott (Miss Wyoming)
Scott went on a medical mission trip to Costa Rica; during her trip she helped set up small clinics in different towns
