Miss Twin Cities History

MISS TWIN CITIES SCHOLARSHIP ORGANIZATINON HISTORY
~A Tradition of Excellence~

ISS TWIN CITIES
HISTORY
1981 - Casey Kovacic
3rd runner up Miss Minnesota 1982, 1st runner up Miss Minnesota 1984 (as Miss Bloomington), preliminary talent winner both years

1982 - Vicki Plaster
Miss Minnesota 1983

1983 - Lauren Green
Miss Minnesota 1984,
*3rd Runner-up and preliminary talent winner at Miss America 1985

1983 - Susan Hubbard - Became Miss Twin Cities when Lauren became Miss Minnesota

1984 - Diana Winkel
4th runner up Miss Minnesota 1985

2007 - Cindy Neseth
Top 10 Miss Minnesota 2007

2008 - Angela McDermott
Miss MInnesota 2008

2009 - Brooke Kelly Kilgarriff
Miss Minnesota 2009
*Quality of Life Finalist - Miss America 2010
*Non Finalist Talent Award - Miss America 2010
*2nd overall in CMN funds raised with over $14,000

2010 - Kathryn Knuttila**
Miss Minnesota 2010***
Competing for Miss America 2011 - Jan. 2011!
In 1980 Miss Twin Cities began under the direction of Kathy Shellum:*Those who won Miss Minnesota are highlighted in blue; those who placed or won an award at Miss America are highlighted in red.

In 2006 - Director David Shepardson becomes Co-Executive Director of the Miss Minnesota Scholarship Program. The MISS TWIN CITIES Pageant is turned over to new leadership.

In October, 2006, MISS TWIN CITIES brought out of "retirement," Kathy Shellum, Judy Register (who used to chair MISS INVER GROVE HEIGHTS in the 80's) and Bruce Krause, to continue what they had begun years ago! (Bruce "re-retired" at end of 2007)

In July, 2010 Judy Register resigns as co-director of Miss Twin Cities.



**Shares title with her sister Kari Knuttila, who was Miss Twin Cities 2001!

***Becomes the second set of sisters, representing the same local pageant, to win the Miss Minnesota crown
MISS METROPOLITAN
HISTORY

1989 - Lynne Schacher
Miss Minnesota 1989
(1st runner up Miss Mn 1989 as Miss Thief River Falls)

1991 - Julianne Greif
4th runner up Miss Minnesota 1991

1992 - Sarah Wojtowicz
Top Ten Miss Minnesota 1992

In 1989 Miss Twin Cities changed it's name to MISS METROPOLITAN and ran from 1989 through 1991 under the direction of Bruce Krause~

MISS TWIN CITIES
AND
MISS METROPOLITAN
COMBINE

2000 - Katherine Hill
Miss Minnesota 2000

2001 - Kari Knuttila**
Miss Minnesota 2001

2002 - Allyson Kearns
Miss Minnesota 2002

2002 - Heidi Hammond
Miss Metropolitan
2nd Runner-up Miss Minnesota 2002

2003 - Jennifer Hilde
4th runner up Miss Minnesota 2003

2004 - Jackie Ballard
3rd runner up Miss Minnesota 2004

2004 - Tiffany Ogle (Miss Metropolitan) Miss Minnesota 2004

2005 - Grace Pellow
2nd runner up Miss Minnesota 2005

2006 - Nicole Swanson
Miss Minnesota 2006
*Non-Finalist Talent Award - Miss America 2007

In 1999, David Shepardson and Rod Simonson brought MISS TWIN CITIES back under it's original name. In the years 2001 and 2003, both a MISS TWIN CITIESand a MISS METROPOLITAN were selected to represent the Twin Cities area~

**Shares title with her sister Kathryn Knuttila, who is Miss Twin Cities 2010! And becomes the second set of sisters to share the Miss Minnesota crown when her sister Kathryn is crowned Miss Minnesota 2010!
MISS CAPITAL CITY

2009 - Sara Larson
1st runner up Miss Minnesota 2009

2010 - Kaylah Dockter
Top 10 Miss Minnesota 2010

In 2008 Andrea Worley became the Director of Scholarships & Fundraisers. The Miss Twin Cities Organization under the direction of Kathy Shellum & Judy Register, added a new local title under the "umbrella" of Miss Twin Cities Scholarship Organization. She will be called
MISS CAPITAL CITY.

In 18 years of existence, 11 Miss Twin Cities and Miss Metropolitan
representatives have gone on to win the Miss Minnesota title!

The Miss Twin Cities ScholarshipOrganization

is an "OPEN" Pageant.

You must live, work or go to school

in the State of Minnesota to

participate. Proof of residence and/or college enrollment will be required.

MISS CAPITAL CITY SCHOLARSHIP ORGANIZATION

KAYLAH DOCKTER - MISS CAPITAL CITY 2010 - Top 10 Miss Minnesota