U.S. Air Drive active-duty officer, Madison Marsh, was topped as 2024 Miss America.
On Sunday, 22-year-old Marsh, who represented Colorado, gained the celebrated pageant.
In an interview after the present, Marsh mentioned, “You possibly can obtain something. The sky just isn’t the restrict and the one person who’s stopping you is you,” per a video on Miss Universe’s Instagram story. Madison added that she got here from “a small city, not being a part of the pageant [world],” and was capable of step into the pageant-world, so the chance is open to anybody.
In one other video shared on the Miss Universe Instagram account, Marsh shared that she just lately graduated from the Air Drive Academy.
“I am very excited to have the ability to characterize girls who can break stereotypes in each fields,” she added.
The U.S. Air Drive congratulated Marsh on her accomplishment in a heartfelt message on X, previously generally known as Twitter.
“Congratulations to our very personal #Airman, 2nd Lt. Madison Marsh, aka Miss Colorado — who was simply topped @MissAmerica 2024! Marsh is the primary lively responsibility servicemember to ever win the title,” the message learn. “#AimHigh.”
Marsh succeeds Grace Stanke of Wisconsin, who was topped the 2023 Miss America. Stanke topped Marsh on Sunday.
There have been 51 contestants within the 2024 Miss America pageant, every representing america and the District of Columbia. The 11 semi-finalists competed in 4 rounds which included a health runway stroll, a “scorching matters” dialogue, a night robe presentation and a expertise present.
The 5 finalists needed to share their objectives and goals as Miss America.
Previous to Marsh’s victory, she was a visitor on FNC’s “Fox & Mates Weekend” the place she instructed the hosts she is “a pilot choose proper now, simply graduated from the Air Drive Academy, and everybody has been so, so excited to get to have me right here.”
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Co-host Pete Hegseth learn Marsh’s lengthy checklist of accomplishments earlier than transferring on to her schooling.
“Along with all of these things,” he mentioned, “you’re a Nationwide Truman Scholar, two-time Nationwide Astronaut scholar, eight-time Dean’s Listing on the Air Drive — three-times Superintendent’s Listing, a Nationwide Rhodes finalist, licensed personal pilot, and a black belt in taekwondo, and also you’re a graduate of the Kennedy Faculty at Harvard.”
Marsh gave a preview of her expertise, which she competed with through the pageant: a “monologue” of her first solo flight at simply 16.
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Explaining why it’s an essential story to inform, she continued, “‘Trigger I began flying round 15, that’s every time I type of fell in love with the Air Drive Academy and the thought of serving. And so I stroll by what that flight seems to be like and a number of the issues that went fallacious and the way they relate to me at the moment as a pacesetter and an officer, and type of how that goes into pageantry as nicely.”
“So, it’s somewhat little bit of a unique, non-conventional expertise to say the least,” Marsh added.
Fox Information Digital’s Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.