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competition(s) Miss USA 1994 Major competitions Miss USA 1994 | Name Linda Chiaraluna | |
Full Name Linda Lee Chiaraluna Title(s) Miss Pennsylvania USA 1994 Education Indiana University of Pennsylvania | ||
Linda Lee Chiaraluna (now Andreassi) (born 1969) is a business woman and former beauty queen from Pennsylvania.
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Pageantry
Chiaraluna's first pageant title was Miss Pennsylvania Perfect Teen, and she went on to place third runner-up at the Miss America's Perfect Teen pageant. She then competed in several Miss Pennsylvania and Miss Virginia local pageants, placing 2nd runner-up at Miss Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2nd runner-up at Miss Roanoke, and 2nd runner-up at Miss Virginia State Fair.
In 1993 she won the Miss Pennsylvania USA 1994 pageant and went on to compete at Miss USA 1994. She did not make the finals but did place in the top twenty during the preliminary competition.
Education and employment
Chiaraluna graduated from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in Journalism. Her years of training in tap, ballet, jazz, competitive gymnastics, and baton twirling led her to be chosen as a member of the University's Dance Company, with whom she performed for three years. She also used her dance routines in the Miss America pageant talent competitions.
After graduating she worked for three years as a newspaper reporter and editor, and then decided to move into the public relations business, becoming spokesperson and communications director for the Seneca Valley School District in Jackson Township, Pennsylvania in 1995.
Chiaraluna has also worked as a Miss USA state pageant coordinator, judge and consultant and owns a pageant training business with her sister Tina. She is the official trainer for the Miss Indiana USA, Miss West Virginia USA and Miss Pennsylvania USA and Teen USA pageants.