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Amanda Longacre wins Miss Delaware

Miss Delaware 2014 Amanda Longacre is crowned by Miss Delaware 2013 Rebecca Jackson as Miss Delaware 2009 Heather Lehman Contant looks on. Longacre was the reigning Miss Pike Creek and is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. BY DAN COOK
Dan Cook
June 21, 2014
Miss Delaware 2013 Rebecca Jackson leads the contestants in the opening number "Everybody Say Yeah" from Kinky Boots. BY DAN COOK
Taylor Demaria, Miss Milford, is introduced to the crowd. BY DAN COOK
Miss Delaware 2013 Rebecca Jackson sings a solo from the movie "Frozen" in her spotlight. BY DAN COOK
Miss Diamond State and Cape Henlopen High School graduate Rebecca Lusk poses during the swimsuit competition. BY DAN COOK
Miss Pike Creek Amanda Longacre poses during the swimsuit competition. BY DAN COOK
Keturah Braithwaite, Miss Kent County, poses during the swimsuit competition. BY DAN COOK
Charity Cramer, Miss Coastal Bay, poses during the swimsuit competition. BY DAN COOK
Brittany Lewis, Miss Wilmington, poses during the swimsuit competition. BY DAN COOK
Brooke Mitchell, Miss Dover, competes in the swimsuit competition. BY DAN COOK
Miss Outstanding Teen Grace Otley of Wilmington performs a solo for the crowd. BY DAN COOK

Seventeen contestants started the weekend hoping to be the new 2014 Miss Delaware and when the pageant came to an end Saturday night, June 14, at Dover Downs, Amanda Longacre, Miss Pike Creek stood alone as the newly-crowned queen.

She will represent Delaware at the Miss America Pageant in September in Atlantic City.

Longacre, a 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania working toward her master;s degree in social work, chose a platform Breaking the cycle: Teen dating violence prevention and awareness.

"I'm so honored to serve the state of Delaware'" she said. "I'm hoping to make them really proud at Miss America."

Longacre had won the prelimary competitions in the talent and swimsuit categories. For her talent, she sang “I Dreamed a Dream," from Les Miserables.

Miss Wilmington Brittany Lewis was first runner-up to Longacre.

Others finishing in the top five at Saturday’s pageant were second runner-up Brooke Mitchell of Selbyville, third runner-up Amanda Debus of Middletown, and fourth runner-up Donnata Leckie of Hockessin.

Cape graduate Rebecca Lusk placed in the top 10 contestants and tied for second place in the Carol Maclary Exellence in Education award.

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Dan has worked for the Cape Gazette for more than 30 years as a photographer and reporter, covering high school sports and happenings around eastern Sussex County. He won a photography award from the National Newspaper Association, and numerous awards from the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association. A Delaware native, Dan graduated from Cape in 1972 and returned as a teacher and coach in the 1980s. He retired from the classroom in 2016. He was inducted into Cape High’s Legends Stadium in 2016. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife, two sons, grandchildren and dogs. 

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