Miss North Carolina World
 | |
| Formation | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Fayetteville |
| Location | |
| Members | Miss World America (1951âpresent) |
Official language | English |
State Director | Kathy Keefe Jensen |
| Website | Official Website |
Miss North Carolina World is an American state beauty pageant that selects a representative for the Miss World America national competition from the State of North Carolina. The pageant is headquartered in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, and is currently directed by Kathy Keefe Jensen, who serves as State Director.
To date, four women from North Carolina have been crowned Miss World America:
- Debra Jean Freeze, 1978
- Carrie Ann Stroup, 2001
- Rebekah Chantay Revels, 2002
- Elizabeth Safrit Scott, 2014
Winners
[edit]- Color key
- Â Declared as Winner/Ended as Miss World America
- Â Ended as runner-up
- Â Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
- Â Ended as special awards winner
- Â Ended as Miss USA
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age [notes 1] |
Placement at Miss World America | Special awards at Miss World America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | ||
| 2023 | Tisha Abdul | Concord | 19 | Beauty With A Purpose Ambassador for the Northeast Region of the United States | ||
| 2019 | Peyton Brown[1] | Dunn | 18 | 2nd Runner-Up | 1st Runner-Up at Miss North Carolina's Outstanding Teen 2018[2] Later Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2020. | |
| 2018 | Shivali Patel | Raleigh | 21 | 2nd Runner-Up | ||
| Sania Laraib | Raleigh | 21 | Top 10 | |||
| 2017 | Shivali Patel | Raleigh | 20 | Top 16 | ||
| Nicole Owens | Lumberton | 19 | ||||
| 2016 | Shivali Patel | Raleigh | 19 | 1st Runner-Up | Previously NAMiss North Carolina Jr. Teen 2011 and 2nd Runner-Up at NAM Jr. Teen 2011. | |
| 2015 | Selena Price[3] | Huntersville | 19 | |||
| Miss North Carolina United States 2014 | ||||||
| 2014 | Elizabeth Safrit | Kannapolis | 22 | Miss United States 2014/Miss World America 2014 | 2nd Runner-Up at Miss World 2014. | |
| Miss North Carolina World | ||||||
| 2013 | No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 2006 to 2013. | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||
| 2009 | ||||||
| 2008 | ||||||
| 2007 | ||||||
| 2006 | ||||||
| 2005 | No known representatives from North Carolina from 2003 to 2005. | |||||
| 2004 | ||||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| 2002 | No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 1995 to 2002. | |||||
| 2001 | ||||||
| 2000 | ||||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| 1995 | ||||||
| 1994 | Michelle Mauney | Stanley | Top 7 | Later Miss North Carolina USA 1995 and competed in Miss USA 1995. | ||
| 1993 | Vicki Johnson | |||||
| 1992 | Shanna Phillips | Top 10 | ||||
| Miss North Carolina USA 1981â1991 | ||||||
| 1991 | Pat Arnold | Chapel Hill | 21 | Top 6 (5th place) | Miss Photogenic | |
| 1990 | Altman Allen | Shelby | ||||
| 1989 | Jacqueline Padgette | Hobgood | ||||
| 1988 | Tammy Tolar | Fayetteville | ||||
| 1987 | Donna Wilson | Davidson | ||||
| 1986 | Rhonda Nobles | Fayetteville | 20 | Top 10 | ||
| 1985 | Kate Kenney | Raleigh | ||||
| 1984 | Cookie Noak | Hickory | 23 | Top 10 | ||
| 1983 | Allison Payge Pinson | Mooresville | ||||
| 1982 | Jeannie Boger | Sanford | Mother of Miss USA 2009 Kristen Dalton (Miss North Carolina USA 2009) and Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2008 Julia Dalton (second-runner up at Miss Teen USA 2008). | |||
| 1981 | Lisa Swift | Southport | ||||
| Miss North Carolina World | ||||||
| 1980 | Monica Boston | Top 15 | ||||
| 1979 | Deborah Ann Fountain | Bronx, NY | Top 8 | Later Miss New York USA 1981. Later competed in Miss USA 1981, as New York, but was disqualified after being found to have padded her swimsuit.[4] | ||
| 1978 | Debra Jean Freeze | Mooresville | 20 | Miss World America 1978 | Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss World 1978. | |
| 1977 | Betty Lou Hutchinson | |||||
| 1976 | Sharon Denise Smith | Miss Congeniality | ||||
| 1975 | Tonda Brown | |||||
| 1974 | Gail Lynn Hinton | |||||
| 1973 | Doris E. Davis | |||||
| 1972 | Julia Ann Lane | |||||
| 1971 | Terri Lee Horn | |||||
| 1970 | Judith Ellen Steed | |||||
| 1969 | did not compete | |||||
| 1968 | ||||||
| 1967 | Brenda Carol Ray | Top 7 | ||||
| 1966 | Ann Elizabeth Bailey | |||||
| 1965 | Jean Parson Pender | |||||
| 1964 | Susan Harrill | Top 15 | ||||
| 1963 | did not compete | |||||
| 1962 | Louise Furr | Top 15 | ||||
| 1961 | Betsy Medlin | |||||
| 1960 | Rita Souther | 3rd Runner-Up | ||||
| 1959 | No known representatives from North Carolina in 1958 & 1959. | |||||
| 1958 | ||||||
| Miss North Carolina USA 1953â1957 | ||||||
| 1957 | Peggy Dennis | Lilesville | ||||
| 1956 | Shirley Bagwell | Raleigh | 18 | Top 15 | ||
| 1955 | Mary Ratliffe | Wadesboro | ||||
| 1954 | Ann Pickett | Charlotte | ||||
| 1953 | Libby Walker | Wilton | ||||
| Miss North Carolina World | ||||||
| 1952 | No known representatives from the North Carolina in 1951 & 1952. | |||||
| 1951 | ||||||
- Notes to table
- â Age at the time of the Miss World America pageant
References
[edit]- â "Miss World America â North Carolina".
- â "Meet the new Miss North Carolina". Star-News. June 25, 2018. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
- â "Miss North Carolina World 2015 Selena Price â Pagenat LIVE". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- â "Headliners; Truth in Packaging". New York Times. 1981-05-24. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
