Amanda Pennekamp

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Amanda Pennekamp Beauty pageant titleholder
Image:AmandaPennekamp.jpg Pennekamp competing in swimsuit at Miss Earth 2006
Birth name:	Amanda Helen Pennekamp
Birth location:	Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
Height:	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Eye color:	Brown
Hair color:	Brown
Ethnicity:	White/Caucasian
Title(s):	Miss South Carolina USA 2004 Miss Earth USA 2006
Major Competition(s):	Miss USA 2004 (1st runner-up) Miss Earth 2006 (Top 16)

Amanda Helen Pennekamp is a beauty queen from Columbia, South Carolina who has competed in the Miss USA and Miss Earth pageants.

Pennekamp won the Miss South Carolina USA 2004 title in late 2003 and represented South Carolina in the Miss USA 2004 pageant held in Hollywood, California in April 2004. She placed first runner-up to Shandi Finnessey of Missouri in the nationally televised pageant, the state's highest placement since Lu Parker won the Miss USA title in 1994.

In August 2006 Pennekamp won the first Miss Earth USA pageant and succeeded Amanda Kimmel as the United States' representative at the Miss Earth pageant. The pageant took place in Manila,Philippines on November 26, 2006. She made the top 16 and also placed in the top 15 preliminary swimsuit competition.

Pennekamp, who studied theatre and speech communications at Newberry College,^[1] is a member of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority.^[1] The college established the Pennekamp Scholarship for the Performing Arts in her honour.^[2]

She is currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada and working as a model and Host of The V Fixxx for the Vegas Entertainment Network. She is one of many former and current beauty queens represented by the Patrick Talent Agency.^[3]

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^ ^a ^b Spring 2004 Quill - Sister Profiles. Alpha Xi Delta (2004). Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
^ Newberry College, Class Notes, page 3 (accessed 2006-09-06)
^ Patrick Talent Agency, personality profile (accessed 2006-09-06)

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Preceded by Anna Hanks	Miss South Carolina USA 2004	Succeeded by Sarah Medley
Preceded by Amanda Kimmel	Miss Earth USA 2006	Succeeded by Lisa Forbes