Miss America 2023 is the 95th edition of the Miss America pageant, which was performed at the Mohegan Sun on December 15, 2022.
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Miss Wisconsin Grace Stanke became the Miss America 2023.
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Grace Stanke is a 20-year-old from Wausau, Wisconsin, who grew up competing in scholarship-based pageants, is an advocate for clean energy sources.
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Grace Stanke is a talented violinist. She picked up the instrument at 8 years old and it became one of her passions.
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Grace Stanke is a senior at UW-Madison and is studying to become a nuclear engineer.
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As a 13-year-old Grace Stanke first competed in the Miss Wisconsin Outstanding Teen organization.
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Stanke won Miss Wausau’s Outstanding Teen in 2016 and then in 2017 captured the Miss Harbor Cities’ Outstanding Teen. She became Miss Wisconsin Outstanding Teen in 2017.
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Grace Stanke continued her success a few years later becoming Miss Madison in 2020-21.
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Stanke came back this year and won Miss Badgerland before taking the Miss Wisconsin 2022 title in June.
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Grace Stanke is the third woman to be crowned Miss America from Wisconsin in the organization’s 101 year history.
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Grace Stanke won the $50,000 cash scholarship that went with the title of Miss America.
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