Amanda Rammell

Pageant titleholder bio
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title=Miss Idaho Teen USA 2003
Miss Idaho USA 2007
nationalcompetition=Miss Teen USA 2003
Miss USA 2007
location= Rexburg, Idaho, U.S.
birthname= Amanda Lynn Rammell
height=height|ft=5|in=10
eye color= Blue
birth = birth date and age|1985|05|22
hair color=Brown

Amanda Lynn Rammell (born May 22, 1985) is a beauty queen from Rexburg, Idaho who has competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant will compete in the Miss USA competition in 2007.

Rammell won the Miss Idaho Teen USA pageant on October 19 2002 and later represented Idaho in the Miss Teen USA 2003 pageant broadcast live from Palm Springs, California in August 2003. She failed to place in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Tami Farrell of Oregon.

In 2006, Rammell competed for the Miss Idaho USA title and won the crown on her first attempt. She was crowned on October 28 2006, [cite news|publisher=KIFI Local News 8|url=http://www.localnews8.com/news/local/4521351.html|title=Rexburg Girl Named Miss Idaho|date=2006-10-30|accessdate=2006-11-05 (includes video)] a day when another former Miss Teen USA delegate, Amber Seyer of Missouri won the Miss Missouri USA crown, and a third former Miss Teen USA delegate won the Miss North Carolina USA title. Rammell was the sixth former Miss Teen USA delegate to win a Miss USA 2007 state title, and the fourth from the class of 2003 to win such a title. Rammell will now compete in the Miss USA 2007 pageant which will be broadcast live from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 23, 2007. Her "sister" titleholder is Krista McNeal of Sandpoint, Miss Idaho Teen USA 2007.

Rammell created controversy following her win by declaring that she would not be photographed with Idaho governor Jim Risch because he ordered the killing of a herd of domesticated elk which had escaped her father's farm. [cite news|url=http://www.magicvalley.com/news_other/news_idaho/?storyid=/dynamic/stories/I/ID_ESCAPED_ELK_PAGEANT_IDOL-|title=New Miss Idaho won't be photographed with guv due to elk fight |publisher=The Times-News (Associated Press)|date=2006-10-30|accessdate=2006-11-05] Risch later refused to apologise for this action. [cite news|title=Idaho gov declines to apologize for ordering emergency elk hunt|publisher=Casper Star Tribune|url=http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2006/11/04/ap-state-wy/d8l5rm3o1.txt|date=2006-11-04|accessdate=2006-11-05]

Rammell graduated from Madison High School in 2003 [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20040501154854/tftj.com/Teen/USA/03States/ID/a_ID.htm Turn for the Judges, Miss Idaho Teen USA pageant information] . Retrieved 2006-11-05] and is currently attending Brigham Young University-Idaho. [cite news|url=http://www.idahostatesman.com/101/story/58544.html|title=Beauty pageant winners named|publisher=Idaho Statesman|date=2006-11-02|accessdate=2006-11-05] She was encouraged to enter pageants by former Miss Idaho Teen USA and Miss Idaho USA Brandi Sherwood, the only woman to have held both the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA titles. [cite news|title=Amanda Rammell Selected as Miss Idaho|url=http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=37455|date=2006-10-30|publisher=KPVI-TV|accessdate=2006-11-05 (includes video)]

References

External links

* [http://idaho.missusa.com Miss Idaho USA official website]
* [http://www.missusa.com Miss USA official website]