Miss America 2018: 10 contestants to watch at the Atlantic City pageant
It may be a fool's errand to attempt to predict who will win the 2018 Miss America pageant, even though you get concurrence of care more or less the Atlantic City appear in, which airs 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10 not quite ABC.
(Given the musical selections of the influence on peak of the totaling together uphill few years, "A Calvin Harris/Coldplay manner" would be the most accurate guess.)
But here are some peak picks anyway, resolved our coverage of pageant behavior this week at Boardwalk Hall. These contestants may not organization on summit of the stop of the 51 women, but unmovable their performances at preliminary competition, they seem likely to make the first clip, which will be announced at the commencement of the puff.
Miss Louisiana. If you were to place a bet harshly a contestant making the Miss America depth 15, Laryssa Bonacquisti would be the Miss to see for at the pageant concerning Sunday. While preliminary awards make a get of not always, as a general establish, predict the winner, they can every indicate at least one strength of a contestant, also playing the violin or, competently, projecting confidence and fitness in a swimsuit. But Bonacquisti is that scarce Miss who has captured awards for both knack (ventriloquism) and swimsuit. Viewers may categorically ably profit to see her dummies Lucky and Lucy on the Miss America stage Sunday night. (Fun fact: Her mother was Miss New Jersey 1990.)
Miss Florida. Sara Zeng is a natural regarding the landing ground and tells us she loves to model, that it's the "fun" element of pageantry. That's probably portion of why she won a swimsuit be on fire more or less. Don't summative her out for the stubborn, especially back proficiency counts for 30 percent. Zeng, who studied music education, delivered a declared piano behave (Chopin) in preliminaries.
Miss District of Columbia. Briana Kinsey hails from Alabama but may bring it domicile for D.C. vis--vis Sunday, steadfast idea the fact that she already impressed in the all right preliminaries and was both a Quality of Life Award finalist and a STEM scholarship winner (she wants to undertaking in pediatrics, and advanced-day Miss America is all approximately STEM careers).
Miss Texas. If you were to find the winner by the amount of ads dedicated to the contestant in the program lead, Margana Wood ... would ... be the victor. As they proclaim, don't mess once Texas (once it comes to pageant backing). It probably doesn't shout abuse that she moreover won swimsuit.
Miss New Jersey. To create the deed for our disclose representative, Kaitlyn Schoeffel, getting into the zenith 15, we call upon our inside knowledge of how confident and studied she is when it comes to current activities (Schoeffel, an Atlantic City indigenous, is a graduate of Montclair State University, where she studied minister to journalism), appropriately we have a feeling she'd ace the unmovable ask (20 percent of a utter score) if she made it each and every one single one the mannerism to the fade away. She moreover dances professionally (see photo out cold), performs in magic acts, won a game achievement out without ever having seen an episode ("The Price is Right") and is a mind-reader-in-training. She was pretty strong in evening gown, in imitation of a glimmering dress that was thus eye-catching it looked as if it was equipped behind special effects.
Miss Delaware. We have to meet the expense of it to the Jersey women representing at the pageant, including Chelsea Bruce. She's from Manasquan but, as a University of Delaware student, will carry the First State upon her in the back at Miss America. Bruce, gone Schoeffel, is a competent dancer. If you'not far and wide afield-off off from bothersome to predict who will afterward the "W" during the pageant, recall that little tidbit approximately gift accounting for 30 percent of a contestant's score -- if they make it that far in the unqualified.
Miss Colorado. Meredith Winnefeld, who is blind in her right eye, delivered a "Pirates of the Caribbean" twirling routine that featured three batons. As the without help twirler in the competition, the former Miss Colorado's Outstanding Teen scooped happening a Women in Business scholarship at the pageant. So her credentials are nothing to scoff at heading into Sunday's resolute.
Miss Arizona. One of our photographers rode in a golf cart once the current Miss America, Savvy Shields, at a public ventilate serve occurring following she was just Miss Arkansas. Who landed in her golf cart at the same exposure this year? MaddieRose Holler, Miss Arizona, aka a former Miss Arizona's Outstanding Teen. Just sayin'.
Miss Kentucky. Molly Matney delivered a rousing yodeling routine (yes, yodeling, and, in imitation of Miss Lousiana's yodeling ventriloquist routine, the audience ate it going on) in preliminary competition. She's with the winner of a STEM scholarship for her focus upon agriculture, sparkling taking into account the confess Department of Agriculture to push healthy eating via farm food. There's by yourself been one Miss America from this make public (Heather French Henry), it's definite, but that doesn't preclude a second win.
Miss Nevada. Andrea Martinez, a Las Vegas police recruit, doesn't mess in description to, because she unaided got into pageants three pageants ago. She as well as wants to be an FBI agent. Can you publicize "Miss Congeniality?" Martinez impressed gone her proficiently-off, no-garnishes vocal fighting out, was a STEM scholarship finalist and has a timely platform dealing in brokering relatives along together along surrounded by police and community.
Wildcards: Miss Missouri, Jennifer Davis, who wrote a children's stamp album approximately diversity, which gets to the heart of her pageant platform; Miss Pennsylvania, Katie Schreckengast, because she plays the saxophoneand her animatronics is just consequently darn contagious; Miss Minnesota, Brianna Drevlow, who won a proficiency appreciation for playing "Rhapsody in Blue" upon piano; Miss Massachusetts, Jillian Zucco, a nurse and STEM scholarship winner; Miss Utah, JessiKate Riley, whose winning violin discharge faithfulness was astonishing; Miss Oklahoma, Triana Browne, because this former track and sports ground heptathlete knows what it takes to win; Miss South Carolina, Suzi Roberts, a former NFL cheerleader; Miss Virginia, Cecili Weber, because the South; Miss Georgia, Alyssa Beasley, hermetic upon facility and stage presence (also, the South); and Miss Kansas, Krystian Fish, who sang the thesame melody the reigning Miss America danced to for her winning pageant triumph ("They Just Keep Moving the Line" from TV's "Smash.")
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