Theresa Vail
| Theresa Vail | |
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| Born |
Theresa Marie Vail October 1, 1990 Manhattan, Kansas, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Leavenworth High School Kansas State University |
| Known for | First contestant to display tattoos in the Miss America pageant |
| Home town | Manhattan, Kansas, United States |
| Title | "America's Choice" and Top 10, Miss America 2014 Miss Kansas 2013 Miss Leavenworth County 2013 |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 2007–present |
| Rank |
 Sergeant
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Theresa Marie Vail (born October 1, 1990) is Miss Kansas 2013. She subsequently placed in the top ten of the Miss America 2014 pageant, where she became the first contestant to openly display tattoos (during the swimsuit competition) and won the "America's Choice" award. Vail later hosted programs for the Outdoor Channel. She is currently a student at Kansas State University.
Vail graduated in 2009 from Leavenworth High School, Leavenworth, Kansas. She began her education at Kansas State University in 2009, before taking a leave of absence when she became Miss Kansas in 2013. After finishing her year as Miss Kansas, and briefly hosting programs for the Outdoor Channel, Vail returned to Kansas State and completed her B.A. in Psychology in 2016. She is currently finishing a second B.A. in Chemistry and is also working on a master's degree in Psychology while she prepares for medical school.
Vail is a mechanic and section leader in the Kansas Army National Guard Medical Detachment.
Vail competed in the Miss Leavenworth County Pageant in 2012. As Vail is an athlete who specializes in archery, marksmanship, skydiving, and boxing, she had assumed that her talent would be archery. A few days before preparing to compete as Miss Leavenworth County, however, she found out that "projectile objects were forbidden" and that she had to choose a new talent or drop out of the competition. Vail began to search "YouTube for opera songs to perform" because she felt that she "couldn't sing anything contemporary." From this search, she chose to sing the aria, Nessun Dorma which she learned in 48 hours. Vail states that she had "never sung opera in my life [...] I had an appreciation for it [...] and I sang soprano in choir back in high school, but I hadn't sung since then and certainly never opera." After winning Miss Leavenworth County, she became Miss Kansas on June 8, 2013.
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