A woman in a red dress holding a bouquet of flowers and wearing a crow and sash is surrounded by confetti
The confetti rains down from the ceiling while Madison Marsh, Miss Colorado is crowned Miss America 2024.
  • Madison Marsh was crowned Miss Colorado less than a week before graduating the US Air Force Academy.
  • The US Air Force 2nd Lt. went on to compete — and win — the crown for Miss America on Sunday.
  • The 22-year-old is the first active-duty Air Force officer to compete in the Miss America pageant.

Miss Colorado Madison Marsh, a 2nd Lt. in the US Air Force, traded her flight helmet for a tiara after she won Miss America on Sunday night.