Miss USA 2011

Miss USA 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss USA pageant, was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday, June 19, 2011. Miss USA 2010, Rima Fakih of Michigan crowned her successor, Alyssa Campanella of California, at the end of this event.  She represented the United States at the Miss Universe 2011 pageant in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. For the first time ever, one of the sixteen semifinalists was selected exclusively by fans via online voting and SMS messaging. Due to this, the competition formats were changed to reality series style group eliminations, Top 16, Top 8 and Top 4.


Final results
State Contestant

                                             Miss USA 2011 California -  Alyssa Campanella
                                             Born March 21, 1990

                                                   1st runner-up  Tennessee Ashley Durham

                                                  2nd runner-up  Alabama Madeline Mitchell

                                                      3rd runner-up Texas Ana Rodriguez


Top 8 

                                                             Hawaii - Angela Byrd

                                                            Maine - Ashley Lynn Marble

                                                              Maryland -  Allyn Rose

                                                      South Carolina - Courtney Hope Turner



Top 16

                                                           Arizona - Brittany Dawn Brannon

                                                          Florida - Lissette Garcia

                                                          Georgia -  Kaylin Reque

                                                          Indiana - Jillian Wunderlich

                                                          Missouri - Hope Driskill

                                                          New Mexico - Brittany Toll 

                                                         New York - Amber Marie Collins

                                                           Utah - Jamie Crandall


 Other Contestants

                                                              Miss-Idaho-Erza Haliti

                                                           Miss Illinois-Angela Sparrow