While I’m preparing the grand finale of my three-part series, Scoring Miss Universe, I thought I’d share another quick clip in honour of the recent Miss USA competition. One of the most incredible achievements in all of pageantry is the five consecutive victories for Texas at Miss USA in the 1980s.

Trained by the famed duo "GuyRex", then-Miss Texas USA state directors Richard Guy and Rex Holt, the above queens swept all before them between 1985 and 1989 to claim one of the most fiercely contested national pageants in the world.

This quintet were unstoppable at Miss USA, but they fell just short of capturing the Miss Universe crown in their respective years:

🇺🇸 1985: Laura Harring (Top 10 at Miss Universe)
🇺🇸 1986: Christy Fichtner (1st Runner-Up)
🇺🇸 1987: Michelle Royer (2nd Runner-Up)
🇺🇸 1988: Courtney Gibbs (Top 10)
🇺🇸 1989: Gretchen Polhemus (2nd Runner-Up)

Nonetheless, these amazing queens deserve some huge adulation for a feat that may never be repeated!

The “Texas Aces” feature in Part 2 of Scoring Miss Universe, in which I look at the success rate of women who won the Preliminaries and Semifinals at Miss Universe and went on to capture the crown.

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