Miss Maryland USA

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Casandra Tressler, Miss Maryland USA 2008

Michaé Holloman, Miss Maryland USA 2007

The Miss Maryland USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Maryland in the Miss USA pageant.

Maryland had one winner in 1957: Leona Gage. However, she was later discovered to be a mother of two sons and was therefore dethroned.

Four Maryland titleholders are former Miss Maryland USAs. These four all reigned in the early 1990s, and in fact four out of six titleholders from 1990-1995 were former teens. Only one Miss Maryland USA has competed at Miss America.

From 2006-2008, each woman who won Miss Maryland USA was the previous year's first runner-up.

1 Results summary
- 1.1 Awards
2 Winners
3 External links

[edit] Results summary

Winners: Mary Leona Gage (1957) (dethroned)
1st runners-up: Paulette Reck (1968)
4th runners-up: Betty Jo Grove (1973)
Top 10: Rowann Brewer (1988), Marina Harrison (2005)
Top 11/12: Carol Theis (1971), Tonja Walker (1980), Linda Lambert (1981), Angie Boyer (1982), Jennifer Wilhoit (1995)
Top 15: Barbara Eschenburg (1954), Charlene Holt (1956), Diane White (1959), Royette Tarry (1964), Roselaine Zetter (1966), Sandy Clevering (1967)

[edit] Awards

Miss Photogenic: Rowann Brewer (1988)
Style Award: Megan Gunning (2001)

[edit] Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age¹	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2008	Casandra Tressler	Damascus	22
2007	Michaé Holloman	Bowie	25			Cheerleader, Washington Redskins
2006	Melissa DiGiulian	Ocean City	20
2005	Marina Harrison	Severn	24	Finalist		Previously Miss Maryland 2003, finished 3rd runner-up at Miss America 2004
2004	Tia Shorts	Gaithersburg	24
2003	Jamie Kramer	Pasadena
2002	Mistie Adams	Silver Spring
2001	Megan Gunning	Fallston			Style award
2000	Christie Davis	Silver Spring
1999	Kelly Donohue
1998	Maria Lynn Sheriff
1997	Ann Coale	Baltimore
1996	Michele Michael
1995	Jennifer Wilhoit			Top 12		Previously Miss Maryland Teen USA 1991
1994	Wendy Davis
1993	Mary Ann Cimino	Baltimore				Previously Miss Maryland Teen USA 1990
1992	Renee Rebstock					Previously Miss Maryland Teen USA 1987
1991	Lisa Lawson
1990	Julie Stanford					Previously Miss Maryland Teen USA 1986
1989	Jackie Carroll	Gaithersburg
1988	Rowann Brewer	Silver Spring		Semi-finalist	Miss Photogenic	Married rock musician Jani Lane
1987	Michelle Snow	Germantown
1986	Kelly Koehler
1985	Christine Marie	Baldwin
1984	Betsy Cook	Bethesda
1983	Shawn Keller	Ashton
1982	Angie Boyer	Dunkirk		Semi-finalist
1981	Linda Lambert	Baltimore		Semi-finalist
1980	Tonja Walker			Semi-finalist		Miss Teen All American 1979
1979	Jean Bourne
1978	Rhonda Koch
1977	Twyla Littleton
1976	Linda Lee Potter
1975	Ellen Bowie
1974	Mary Jo Ruppert
1973	Betty Jo Grove			4th runner-up
1972	Patty Townsend
1971	Carol Theis			Semi-finalist
1970	Beckie Price
1969	Ardis Fowler
1968	Paulette Reck			1st runner-up		2nd runner up at Miss World USA 1969
1967	Sandy Clevering			Semi-finalist
1966	Roselaine Zetter			Semi-finalist
1965	Barbara Keefer
1964	Royette Tarry			Semi-finalist		represented Delaware in Miss World USA 1970, did not place
1963	Marcia Metrinko
1962	Shelda Farley
1961	Gail Baxter
1960	Jerri Fiorilli
1959	Diane White			Semi-finalist		3rd runner up at Miss World USA 1961
1958	Patricia Vogts
1957	Mary Leona Gage			Winner		later dethroned
1956	Charlene Holt			Semi-finalist
1955	Gloria Ruth King
1954	Barbara Eschenburg			Semi-finalist
1953	Diane Gale Durham
1952	Did Not Compete