Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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Miss Kansas USA Amanda Carraway, junior in journalism and mass waves to family and friends during the second commercial break of 48th Miss USA ageant Feb. 5 at the Grand Palace in Branson, Mo.

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Pageant Finale Preparations and hopes for the crown end after preliminaries. PHOTOS BY JEFF COOPER STORY BY ROCHELLE STEELE The futures of rested on a list 10 names. As the host read the last name, the realization sunk in for Amanda Carraway — she would not be Miss USA. Carraway, Miss Kansas USA and junior in journalism and mass communications, said she felt she might not have made the cut after the host read the first few names. You can usually tell by the third name because there ' s kind of a pattern. I started to get a feeling, and I looked out at my family and thought, ' Well, it ' s not my night. ' ' ' It was not her night, but it was an important evening for the delegates, who represented all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the Miss USA Pageant. CBS televised the Feb. 5 event from The Grand Palace in Branson, Mo. After the announcement of the finalists, Carraway said she talked with other contestants backstage. A lot of the girls were really upset and were crying backstage, she said. I just got out a little bag of cookies that I had, and some of us sat back there and talked until we had to go back on stage. Since contestants could not re-enter the pageant, Carraway ' s dream of becoming Miss USA and months of preparations drew to an end. Carraway said she worked out, chose her wardrobe trained with an interview coach and prepared mentally the months prior to the event. continued on Page 29

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Greeting her family after dress Feb. 5, Amanda Carraway, Miss Kansas USA and in and mass hugs her cousin, German. German and her family traveled from St. Louis to Branson, Mo. Shemar Moore, an actor on the daytime drama The Young and the Restless, hosts the 48th Miss USA Pageant Feb. 5. Carraway spoke with Moore about acting at the Coronation Ball after the pageant. I want to be on a soap opera, she said. Shemar told me how to go about things and who to talk to. Carraway waves to her family in the hotel lobby. Although it was less than six hours before the pageant, Carraway said she did not feel nervous. The bus ride to the Grand Palace seemed really long, and it was just across the street, she said. I was anxious to get there. Congratulating her after rehearsal, Carraway ' s boyfriend Monty Beisel, sophomore in journalism and mass communications, kisses Carraway. Beisel attended the preliminary competition, dress rehearsal and the pageant to support Carraway. It was amazing to watch her on stage, Beisel said after preliminaries. She was so smooth and confident. She really knows how to handle herself. 28 student life