Miss Nevada Nia Sanchez Crowned Miss USA 2014!
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Kapow!
Fourth-degree black belt and all-around stunner Nia Sanchez was crowned Miss USA 2014, the biggest battle of the now former Miss Nevada's life being the struggle to hold back all the tears after her name was called at the end of the three-hour the annual beauty-and-personality-fest, hosted this year by Giuliana Rancic and Thomas Roberts.
She had clasped hands and traded well wishes with first runner-up Miss North Dakota, Audra Mari, as they waited out those final seconds--but it was Sanchez who stood alone with the bouquet, the sash and-of course-the tiara.
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Sanchez beat out 50 other fellow beauty queens to claim the title, which was handed over by outgoing Miss USA 2013 Erin Brady.
Her night started to take a turn for the fabulously possible when she was named one of 20 semifinalists.
Florida Georgia Line and got to live out every man's fantasy by being the chosen act to perform (their hit 'Cruise,' of course) during the swimsuit runway competition, during which each member of the top 20 wore the same white bikini-you know, to be able to tell who's best.
Let's just say, any one of them has probably made many a guy roll his window down.
After the bikini parade, the field was halved to 10: Florida, North Dakota, Georgia, Maryland, California, South Carolina, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nevada and Louisiana.
Those 10 beauties scored the opportunity to compete in the evening gown competition, during which the contestants' individual style finally got a chance to emerge.
The fashionable choices ranged from the more risqué, such as Miss Maryland, Taylor Burton, who flashed plenty of Angelina Jolie leg in a pink sparkly gown with a slit up to there, to the more demure, such as the empire-waisted royal-blue gown worn by hometown sweetheart Miss Louisiana, Brittany Guidry, who easily was the recipient of the biggest rounds of applause all night simply for being there.
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