Rachel Saunders

Pageant titleholder bio
title=Miss Kansas USA 2005
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nationalcompetition=Miss USA 2005
location= Tonganoxie, Kansas, U.S.
birthname= Rachel Saunders
eye color= Green
hair color= Brown
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Rachel Saunders (born 1984) is a beauty queen who has held the title Miss Kansas USA 2005 and competed at Miss USA.

Saunders , who hails from Tonganoxie, Kansas attended Tonganoxie High School and later Johnson County Community College and the University of Kansas. She has enrolled in a variety of classes, including occupational therapy, marketing, art, and photography, but has yet to decide on her major. At the time of her reign she was working in a bridal boutique in Kansas City.

Saunders was encouraged to compete in pageants by local high school teacher Vicki Cackler, mother of Danielle Boatwright who has represented Kansas at both Miss USA and Miss Teen USA and would later go on to win . Saunders' first pageant experience came in 2004, when she was a finalist in the Miss Kansas USA pageant won by Lisa Forbes. She won the crown on her second attempt in the following year.

In April 2005 Saunders represented Kansas in the Miss USA 2005 pageant held in Baltimore, Maryland. She failed to place in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Chelsea Cooley of North Carolina. In December 2005, Saunders passed on her crown to Ashley Aull of Lansing.

References

* [http://www.wdaftv4.com/fullstory.asp?ID=6603 Miss Kansas Pageant Winner] , Fox 4 News, 29 November 2004 (accessed 6 May 2006)
* [http://www.tonganoxiemirror.com/section/local/story/7601 After months of hard work, THS graduate off to pageant] , Tonganoxie Mirror, 30 March 2006 (accessed 6 May 2006)
* [http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/apr/12/pageant_dreams_come/ Pageant dreams come up short] , Lawrence Journal-World, 12 April 2005 (accessed 6 May 2006)
* [http://www.misskansasusa.com/rachel_bio.html Biography on the Official Miss Kansas USA website] (accessed 6 May 2006)

External links

* [http://www.misskansasusa.com/ Official Miss Kansas USA website]
* [http://www.tftj.com/Miss/USA/05States/KS/a_KS.htm Turn for the Judges Profile]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050910001101/www.missusa.com/delegates/2005/files/KS.html Miss USA official profile] (Internet Archive cache)

Vanbros titleholders
Year=2005
KS USA=Rachel Saunders
KS TUSA=Latasha Lawrie
MO USA=Andrea Ciliberti
MO TUSA=Rachel Woolard
NE USA=Jana Murrell
NE TUSA=Kelsy Brown
OK USA=Laci Scott
OK TUSA=Crystle Glidden