Miss University of Georgia Competition

Miss University of Georgia Competition Congratulations to Ella Ryann Cottrell, Miss UGA 2025, who was crowned at the 64th annual pageant on January 18, 2025.

Former Representation of Miss Athens, Miss Pandora Yearbook, and Miss University of Georgia-

2023- Sarah Park
2022- Audrey Kittila
2020/2021- Karson Pennington (2021 Miss Georgia)
2019- Briana Hayes
2018- Holly Haynes
2017- Hanna Holley
2016- Annie Jorgensen (2018 Miss Georgia)
2015- Madison Giddens
2014- Adeline Kenerly (2015 Miss Georgia)
2013- Jenna Jackson
2012- Shelby McLeod
2011- Katherine

Phipps
2010- Laura Lyn McLeod
2009- Briana Jewett
2008- Liza Pitts
2007- Ashley Foster
2006- Janna Gay
2005- Deondra Rose
2004- Brooke Garner
2003- Monica Pang (2005 Miss Georgia, 1st RU Miss America)
2002- Tiffany Dupont
2001- Amy Mulkey
2000- Katie Freeman
1999- Osjha Anderson (Miss Georgia), Eryn McHugh
1998- Kerri Francis
1997- Samantha Hayes
1996- Wendy Nalls
1995- Rachel English (Miss Georgia), Sarah Smith
1994- Joanne Grogan (Miss Georgia), Mary Beth Schmerhorn
1993- Shea Olliff
1992- Kim Hilliard
1991- Susan Woodworth
1990- Mary Beth Ewing
1989- Michelle Waschak
1988- Angela Edwards
1987- Angela Ashworth
1986- Lori Freeman
1985- Heidi Houelskoetter
1984- Mandy Malone
1983- Kym Clark
1982- Bobbie Eakes (Miss Georgia)
1981- Joy Bland
1980- Amy Heetdreks
1979- Lisa Carter
1978- Jennifer Sloan (Miss Pandora)

1974- Beth Bussell (Miss Athens)
1974- Debbie Abernathy (Miss UGA

1972- Debbie Currier (Miss Athens)
1972- Faren Sanders (Miss UGA)

1971- Kippy Scarborough (Miss Athens)
1971- Elsie Low (Miss UGA)

1970- Lynn Griffin (Miss Athens)
1970- Paula Nunnally (Miss Pandora)

1969- Risa Bonanova (Miss Athens)
1969- Jane Brooks (Miss Pandora)

1968- Gail Harridge (Miss Athens)
1968- Cynthia Hill (Miss Pandora)

1967- Phyllis Giles (Miss Athens)
1967- Gwen Fain (Miss Pandora)

1966- Bebe Durden (Miss Athens)
1966- Sandra Fitzsimmons (Miss Pandora)

1965- Lyda Dickinson (Miss Athens)
1965- Brenda Seagraves (Miss Pandora)

1964- Gayle Clarke (Miss Athens)
1964- Avis Wright (Miss Pandora)

1963- Dawn Cashwell (Miss Athens)
1963- Claudia Hope (Miss Pandora)

1962- Emma Jo Jones (Miss Athens)
1962- Lynn Shirley (Miss Pandora)

1961- Lynn Shirley (Miss Athens)
1961- Marilyn DeLong (Miss Pandora)

1960- Linda Bradbury (Miss Athens)
1960- Alice Whitehead (Miss Pandora)

1959- Sue Redfern (Miss Pandora)
1958- Betsy Tant (Miss Pandora)

1957- Jody Shattuck (Miss Athens, Miss Georgia, 1st RU Miss America),
1957- Sandra Lee Thompson (Miss Pandora)

1956- Carolann Conner (Miss Pandora)
1955- Georgia White (Miss Pandora)
1954- Anne Nicholson (Miss Pandora)

1953- Elsie Smith (Miss Athens)
1953- Victoria Diane Bennett (Miss Pandora)

1952- Kay Stribling (Miss Athens)
1952- Joanne Fulcher

1951- Lucy Lane Lambert (Miss Pandora)
1950- Ann Brooker (Miss Pandora)
1949- Ruth Wellman (Miss Athens)
1948- Jane Dickenson (MIss Pandora)
1947- Carol Pyle
1946- Carol Thomas
1944- Carroll Magill (Miss Pandora)
1943- Lucille Hauton
1942- Dorothy Ann Wellman
1941- Eleanor Morgan
1940- Marjorie Dekle

01/25/2026
01/24/2026

Congratulations to your new Miss University of Georgia 2026, Sailor Ott!

Due to the impending Winter Storm Watch, the Miss UGA Pageant is being moved up one night to FRIDAY, January 23rd. Door...
01/21/2026

Due to the impending Winter Storm Watch, the Miss UGA Pageant is being moved up one night to FRIDAY, January 23rd. Doors will open at 6:30pm, with the show to start at 7:00.

Mobile tickets have been updated for this change. If you are unable to attend due to the schedule change, please email us at [email protected] for refund information.

Thank you for your understanding and we hope to see you on Friday night when we crown the next Miss University of Georgia! Go Dawgs!

2026 Miss UGA Information Meeting on Sunday, November 9 at 2:30. Room 482 Tate Center. Open to UGA women enrolled fal...
11/06/2025

2026 Miss UGA Information Meeting on Sunday, November 9 at 2:30. Room 482 Tate Center. Open to UGA women enrolled fall and spring semesters. Poster of the current Miss UGA, Ella Ryann Cottrell

Applications are now available for the 2026 Miss University of Georgia Pageant, to be held on Saturday, January 24, 2026...
10/30/2025

Applications are now available for the 2026 Miss University of Georgia Pageant, to be held on Saturday, January 24, 2026. This Miss America Preliminary Pageant is open to UGA women enrolled for Fall semester and will be enrolled Spring semester. An INFORMATION MEETING will be held on Sunday, November 9, 2025 at the Tate Student Center.

01/30/2025
Congratulations to our new Miss University of Georgia Ella Ryann Cottrell!1st Runner-up- Landon Knight (Interview winner...
01/19/2025

Congratulations to our new Miss University of Georgia Ella Ryann Cottrell!

1st Runner-up- Landon Knight (Interview winner)
2nd Runner-up- Kira Doppel
3rd Runner-up- Taryn Hooks
4th Runner-up- Isabella Fiorentino

Miss Congeniality- Aiyana Egins
People's Choice- Ella Ryann Cottrell

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