Savannah Janine Shields Wolfe ( Shields; July 1, 1995) is an American

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titleholder from Fayetteville, Arkansas, who was crowned

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2016. On September 11, 2016, she was crowned

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Early life and education

Shields earned a degree in fine arts and a minor in business at the

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in 2018. She was also a member of the Gamma Nu chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Arkansas. After her reign as Miss America, she returned to the University of Arkansas in January 2018.

Pageantry

Early pageantry

Shields won the Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen 2009 title in June 2009 and represented Arkansas at the 2010

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pageant in Orlando, Florida in August. After winning Miss Arkansas Collegiate, Shields was crowned Miss Collegiate America 2013 at the Miss Collegiate America Pageant in Orlando, Florida on July 8, 2013.

Miss Arkansas 2016

In July 2016, Shields competed as Miss Heart of the Ozarks and won the preliminary lifestyle and fitness and preliminary talent awards at the

2016 pageant. She went on to win the

2016 title, with a platform of “Eat Better, Live Better.”

Miss America 2017

Shields represented Arkansas at the

competition held at

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in Atlantic City, New Jersey in September 2016. Her platform was "Eat Better, Live Better." Shields won the talent portion and a $2,000 scholarship at the conclusion of the second round of preliminary competitions on Wednesday, September 7, 2016, for her jazz dance performance to the song, “They Just Keep Moving the Line” from the TV show '' Smash''. In the final round of the competition, Shields was asked about presidential candidate,

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, by judge,

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. In her allotted 20 second response, she answered, "If you're trying to be leader of the free world, everything you say and do matters, and all of your actions are held to a higher standard. And unfortunately, the media does love to sensationalize everything, and its hard to tell what is truth and what is truly scandal..." She bested first runner-up,

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2016, Rachel Wyatt, for the 2017 Miss America title and was crowned by

, on September 11, 2016. Along with the title of Miss America, Shields also won a $50,000 scholarship. Shields is the third

to win the Miss America title, along with

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in 1964, and Elizabeth Ward in 1982.

Personal life

About three months after her passing on the crown at the

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pageant, Shields' long-time boyfriend, Nate Wolfe, proposed on December 15, 2017. The couple were married on July 28, 2018 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shields, Savvy 1995 births Living people American beauty pageant winners Miss America winners People from Fayetteville, Arkansas University of Arkansas alumni