- Alyssa George
Pageant titleholder bio
title=Miss Kansas 2007
nationalcompetition=Miss America 2008
location=Minneapolis, Kansas
birthname= Alyssa Anne George
eye color= Brown
hair color= Brown
nationality= American
ethnicity= White/CaucasianAlyssa Anne George is a pageant competitor from
Minneapolis, Kansas who will compete in theMiss America pageant in 2008.George won the
Miss Kansas 2007 title in a state pageant held in Pratt onJune 10 ,2007 [cite news|title=Back in the bank|first=April|last=Middleton|date=2007-06-18|accessdate=2007-08-04|url=http://www.saljournal.com/Story/misskansas061807] . She competed as Miss Sedgewick County, a local title she won in September 2006. She also won the swimsuit competition, the Instrumentalist Award and the Kansas State Ambassador Award [cite news|date=2007-06-12|url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/jun/12/new_miss_kansas_seeks_winning_streak/|title=New Miss Kansas seeks winning streak|publisher=Lawrence Journal-World|first=Karrey|last=Britt] .George had previously competed at Miss Kansas 2004 and 2005. She did not win in either year, but did win a preliminary swimsuit award in 2004. George also competed at
Miss Kansas USA 2006, where she made the top fifteen.During the remainder of the year 2007 she is scheduled to tour throughout the state of
Kansas to talk about her platform "Bullying: The Bystander Effect." She will also compete in theMiss America 2008 contest in Las Vegas in 2008.George graduated from Minneapolis High School and is a student at the
University of Kansas . She is taking a year off from college to fulfull her duties as Miss Kansas and plans to return in the fall of 2008 for her senior year [cite news|title=Jayhawk wins Miss Kansas|url=http://www.kansan.com/stories/2007/jun/13/jayhawk_wins_miss_kansas/|date=2007-06-13|publisher=The University Daily Kansan|first=Carlos|last=Rodriguez] .References
External links
* [http://www.misskansas.org Miss Kansas official website]
* [http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/jun/12/new_miss_kansas_seeks_winning_streak/ Lawrence Journal World] article with photo
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