Miss Kansas Profiles

Miss Hay Capitol Briane Falls

A college cheerleader and high school volleyball player, Briane Falls wants to encourage Kansans to “Move Towards a Healthier Tomorrow” as Miss Kansas. She believes that physical activity is a must for Kansas residents of all ages.

Falls, a native of LeRoy, is a graduate of Neosho County Community College and currently works as a teller at the Farmers State Bank of Aliceville.

She was captain of her college and high school cheer squads, as well as the Southern Coffey County High School volleyball team, where she was also a member of the student council and taught after school cheer and dance classes.

She has been dancing for 16 years and received first place on her hip hop solo at the Nations Best dance compeition. Falls was a Universal Cheerleaders Association All-Star cheerleader for four straight years, and qualified for state forensics every year of high school, placing sixth on two occasions.

Falls plans to obtain a bachelors degree in elementary education and she would also like to find a cure for the eye disease called Stargardts, as her younger brother and sister are both afflicted with the rare disease.

During the talent competition, Falls will perform a pom dance to “Show Me the Money.”

Miss Liberal Elizabeth Rohloff

Music affects people’s lives, children’s educations and the quality of life in America’s communities, according to Elizabeth Rohloff, who will advocate for music education if she is selected as Miss Kansas.

Seventy-seven percent of Americans have been involved in school music programs, and 85 percent of them are college graduates and have a household income of $75,000 and up, she says, citing a Harris Poll of 2007.

Just 15 minutes of music instruction a week dramatically improves a preschooler’s ability to learn math and science.

She wants to make sure that community members and school administrators understand the value of music education, especially as they draw up school budgets.

As well as performing with the Liberal Redskin Singers, she also took debate and forensics as learning experiences and attended state contests for all three.

She plays volleyball, does ceramics, is an avid reader and graduated with honors from Liberal High School. She is fascinated with the 1930s and ’40s eras and is inspired by the confidence when times were rough.

A sophomore at Seward County Community College, her goal is to obtain a master’s degree in biology.

She will perform a pop vocal for the pageant’s talent competition.

Miss Flint Hills Becki Ronen

It’s a family tradition for Miss Flint Hills Becki Ronen as she returns to the Miss Kansas Pageant for her second try at the title. Ronen’s mother, sister, aunt and great aunt have all been pageant contestants. Ronen, a senior and a trumpet performance major at Kansas State University, has traveled with KSU music groups, playing her trumpet in Paris, Athens and London.

She incorporates her love of music into her platform “A Heart for Art: Supporting Creativity in our Children,” promoting the arts in school. She is a KSU music ambassador actively recruiting students to pursue their passion for music and a private trumpet instructor for students ages 11 to 16. She as also created a coloring book depicting all facets of the arts.

She plans a career as a traveling soloist and playing classic solos with various world-class orchestras.

Her talent competition is a classic trumpet solo “Stars in a Velvety Sky.”

A winner of numerous academic and instrumental honors at KSU and in high school at Buhler, she is also an American Red Cross swim instructor and organized a walk/run fundraiser for Accessible Arts Inc. raising over $1,800 in donations.

Ronen loves Italian food and she can’t live without diet Pepsi.