2024-01-15 19:25:49
An active-duty Air Force officer won the ‘Miss America’ contest on the 14th. The winner, Madison Marsh, graduated from the Air Force Academy and is said to be a black belt in Taekwondo. /UPI Yonhap News
An active-duty Air Force officer won the ‘Miss America’ contest, which determines America’s most beautiful woman. This is the first time an active-duty officer has won the competition, which began in 1921.
According to foreign media such as the Washington Post (WP) and CNN on the 15th, Madison Marsh (22), who participated as a representative of Colorado, won the 2024 Miss America pageant held at the Walt Disney Theater in Orlando, Florida on the 14th. Marsh said immediately after winning, “You can achieve anything,” wrote Miss America on Instagram. “The sky is the limit and the only person stopping you is you,” he wrote. “I hope my story can tell young girls that they don’t have to play traditional roles,” Marsh told the Harvard Crimson, the school’s newspaper, ahead of the final round of the competition. Upon winning the championship, the U.S. Air Force posted a message on X (old Twitter) saying, “Congratulations to our Airmen.” The Air Force Academy cheered Marsh throughout the competition by sharing photos of him standing next to an airplane in his uniform. “You have inspired so many young girls to dream big and reach for the stars,” Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade told X.
Last year, while attending the U.S. Air Force Academy, Marsh entered a beauty pageant with permission from the school and was selected as ‘Miss Colorado’, and also participated in this year’s Miss America pageant. She is currently serving as a second lieutenant in the Air Force after graduating from school, and was selected for the Truman Scholarship, which aims to cultivate leaders in the field of ‘public service’, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. He is also researching technology to diagnose pancreatic cancer using artificial intelligence (AI) as a graduate student intern at Harvard Medical School. According to her profile on the ‘Miss Colorado’ website, Marsh is a black belt in Taekwondo. Marsh, who majored in physics in college, also led the creation of the Whitney Marsh Foundation, a charitable foundation to support pancreatic cancer research and help treat patients after his mother died of pancreatic cancer in 2018. According to the Miss Colorado website, the foundation has raised more than $250,000 to date.
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