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| signature = | website = | footnotes = }} Theresa Vail (born October 1, 1990)〔 is an American media personality who is the host of the Outdoor Channel hunting show ''Limitless with Theresa Vail.'' Vail was Miss Kansas 2013 and participated in the Miss America 2014 pageant. She became the first contestant to openly display tattoos (during the swimsuit competition), won the "America's Choice" award, and placed in the top ten of the Miss America pageant. She is a mechanic and section leader in the Kansas Army National Guard Medical Detachment and her future goal is to become an Army dentist. ==Early Life, Miss Kansas 2013, and Miss America 2014== Vail graduated in 2009 from Leavenworth High School, Leavenworth, Kansas. She began her education at Kansas State University, completing all but her final year there as a double major in Chemistry and Chinese.〔 She is currently a Psychology major at American Military University. When she was 19 and the only female mechanic in a military motor pool, she experienced verbal sexual harassment and "inappropriate comments" from co-workers.〔 She spoke out against it and later began to speak about the issue when Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli (the adjutant general of the Kansas National Guard) asked her to give public service announcements about it.〔 Vail competed in the Miss Leavenworth County Pageant in 2012.〔(PHOTO Miss Kansas Theresa Vail’s tattoo from Miss America swimsuit prelims )〕 As Vail is an athlete who specializes in archery, marksmanship, skydiving, and boxing,〔 she had assumed that her talent would be archery. A few days before preparing to compete as Miss Leavenworth County, however, she found out that "projectile objects were forbidden" and that she had to choose a new talent or drop out of the competition.〔〔 Vail then searched on YouTube for something to sing〔 and chose the aria, ''Nessun Dorma.'' Vail learned the piece in 48 hours though she later stated that she had "never sung opera in my life () I had an appreciation for it () and I sang soprano in choir back in high school, but I hadn't sung since then and certainly never opera."〔 After winning Miss Leavenworth County, she became Miss Kansas on June 8, 2013.〔 She next competed (as Miss Kansas) in the Miss America 2014 contest with the platform, "Empowering Women: Overcoming Stereotypes and Breaking Barriers." 〔〔 This platform was inspired by the way that outdoor sports with her father helped her to overcome being bullied as a child: "I was bullied when I was a kid. It got so bad that I nearly took my own life ... My dad (Army dentist stationed in Germany ) took me hunting with him and it saved my life."〔〔 Vail stated that her primary goal at the Miss America pageant was to set an example, stating in a Twitter message: "Win or not tonight, I have accomplished what I set out to do. I have empowered women. I have opened eyes.” She further commented that her real goal was to break stereotypes.〔 The pageant began with her win of the "America's Choice," award, which automatically placed her as one of the 15 semifinalists.〔〔 Next, Vail passed the swimsuit competition, in which she became the first Miss America contestant to openly display tattoos, in her case the insignia of the United States Army Dental Command on her left shoulder and one of the ''Serenity Prayer'' along the right side of her torso.〔 She then placed into the Top 10, after passing the evening gown portion of the contest. Vail, however, was eliminated from the pageant after the talent portion (in which she performed her aria, ''Nessun Dorma),'' and thus did not make it into the Top 5.〔 Both Kansas Journalist Diana Reese (in ''The Washington Post)'' and Lisa Gutierrez (in''The Wichita Eagle'' ) focused on the fact that Vail did not formally train over a period of years to be an Opera singer as the reason why she was not chosen for the Top 5. Reese stated that she didn't attribute the loss to the tattoos but rather to Vail's decision to "teach herself an operatic aria in a matter of days by watching YouTube videos," as well as choosing a work which "should be sung by someone with more training." Gutierrez concured stating: "You can’t be Miss America if you learn how to sing opera from YouTube." Though she did not win the Miss America crown, Vail said that she enjoyed the experience.〔 In an interview given the day after the Miss America contest, she also stated that during the pageant, she became good friends with the winner, Miss New York Nina Davuluri, and felt "very confident in her ability to do the job." Despite this fact, there was a backlash of xenophobic and racist comments in social media against Davuluri shortly after she was crowned Miss America 2014 that involved images of Vail. Vail denounced this response on her blog and later condemned the social media response in a few interviews. After the Miss America pageant, Vail continued to serve as Miss Kansas 2013 until June 8, 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theresa Vail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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