Alexandra Hoffman

This article is about the beauty queen and swimmer. For the football player, see Alex Hoffman-Ellis.

Alexandra Hoffman
Beauty pageant titleholder
Born	Alexandra Hoffman (1987-11-10) November 10, 1987 Eureka, South Dakota
Other names	Alex Hoffman
Education	South Dakota State University
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Brown
Title(s)	Miss South Dakota Teen USA 2006 Miss South Dakota State University 2008 Miss South Dakota 2008
Major competition(s)	Miss Teen USA 2006 Miss America 2009 (Top 15)

Alexandra "Alex" Hoffman (born November 10, 1987) is a beauty queen and athlete from Eureka, South Dakota, who competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant and placed in the Top 15 at Miss America 2009.

Biography

Pageants

Hoffman won her first state pageant title in late 2006 when she was crowned Miss South Dakota Teen USA 2006, having placed in the semi-finals in pageant the year before. She later represented South Dakota in the Miss Teen USA 2006 pageant held in Palm Springs, California on August 11, 2006, but did not place. In the 2007 pageant, when she passed on her title to Kari Schull of Watertown, her sister Elizabeth placed second runner-up. Elizabeth won the Miss South Dakota Teen USA 2008 title the following year, making the Hoffmans the second sister pairing in four years to win the Miss South Dakota Teen USA title.

One week after her sister won Miss South Dakota Teen USA, Hoffman was crowned Miss SDSU, a local preliminary title for Miss South Dakota.^[1] She competed in the Miss South Dakota pageant in early June 2008, winning a swimsuit preliminary on 5 June, the talent preliminary award for her vocal performance on 6 June and the title on 8 June.^[2]^[3] She is the first Miss South Dakota Teen USA to win a Miss America state title, and the first of the Miss Teen USA 2006 delegates to win a second major pageant title. She and her sister reigned concurrently for five months. Her second runner-up was Alexis LeVan, who reigned as Miss South Dakota USA when Hoffman was Miss South Dakota Teen USA in 2006. Hoffman competed in the Miss America 2009 pageant in January 2009 where she made the top 15.

Personal life

Hoffman graduated from Eureka (S.D.) High School in 2006 and was a student at South Dakota State University, where she holds a number of competitive swimming records.^[4]^[5] Her father Charles Hoffman was a member of South Dakota House of Representatives representing 23rd district from 2009 to 2015, her mother Holly Hoffman was a contestant on Survivor: Nicaragua.^[6] Hoffman is currently a traffic reporter for KETV in Omaha, Nebraska.^[7]

References

↑ Westerberg, Brittany (2007-11-07). "Miss SDSU, Miss Brookings winners crowned". The Collegian. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
↑ Associated Press (2008-06-09). "Miss South Dakota named". KMEG 14. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
↑ "Local takes home two awards at Miss S.D.". The Daily Republic. 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
↑ "Alexandra Hoffman Bio". South Dakota State University Athletics. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
↑ "Here she swims, Miss South Dakota 2008". Argus leader. 2008-06-15. Retrieved 2008-06-15.
↑ Kirschenmann, Jay (August 10, 2010). "Eureka native to be on 'Survivor: Nicaragua'". Argus Leader.
↑ "Alex Hoffman - KETV 7 News Team Story - KETV Omaha". KETV. Retrieved 2012-01-12.

External links

Preceded by Amanda DeCurtins	Miss South Dakota Teen USA 2006	Succeeded by Kari Schull
Preceded by Kate Wismer	Miss South Dakota 2008	Succeeded by Morgan Peck

Miss Teen USA 2006, state titleholders

KS: Gentry Miller MD: Jamie O'Brien MT: Katie Blair NJ: Julianna White SD: Alexandra Hoffman TN: Ashley Durham VA: Samantha Casey

Miss America 2009, state titleholders

DE: Galen Giaccone FL: Sierra Minott IN: Katie Stam KY: Emily Cox MS: Christine Kozlowski MT: Jennifer Hepner NM: Christina Olmi NY: Leigh-Taylor Smith SD: Alexandra Hoffman TX: Rebecca Robinson UT: Kayla Barclay VT: Ashley Wheeler

South Dakota pageant winners

Miss South Dakota	Mary Harum (1970) Shantel Swedlund (1997) Vanessa Short Bull (2002) Alexandra Hoffman (2008) Morgan Peck (2009) Meridith Gould (2014) Autumn Simunek (2015)

Miss South Dakota's Outstanding Teen	Autumn Simunek (2007) Meridith Gould (2012)

Miss South Dakota USA	Jessica Fjerstad (2005) Alexis LeVan (2006) Suzie Heffernan (2007) Lexy Schenk (2015)

Miss South Dakota Teen USA	Jessica Fjerstad (2002) Alexandra Hoffman (2006) Lexy Schenk (2011)

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