Yesenia Vidales, 24, graduated from Phoenix College in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States in 2018 with an associate’s degree in communication. She turned 24 on October 6, 2020.
On January 5, 2020, Vidales represented Uptown Phoenix at Miss Arizona USA 2019, competed against 33 other candidates at the Ikeda Theater of the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Maricopa County and won the title. On July 11, 2021, she crowned her successor Cassidy Jo Jacks of Mesa at the Higley Center for the Performing Arts in Gilbert, Maricopa County.
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Miss Arizona USA 2021 results
| beauty pageant: Miss Arizona national membership: Miss USA |
| edition: 70th date: July 11, 2021 venue: Higley Center for the Performing Arts, Gilbert, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States candidates: 53 |
FINALISTS
| PLACEMENT | NAME (HOMETOWN) |
| Top 28 | McKenna Leiva (Camelback) Holli Peters (Foothills) Grace Taskinsoy (Fountain Hills) Alondra Mitchell (Grand Canyon) Kelsey Kelleher (North Phoenix) Yara Solorzano (Pima County) Machenzie Dipman (Sabino Canyon) Alexia Lorch (Saguaro) Jena Masero (Scottsdale Quarter) Taelor Parker (Sedona) Natalie Jacobsen (South Scottsdale) Paige Guiliani (Sun Devil) Mireille Mukiza (Sun Valley) Candace Kanavel (Tempe) Shayla Bristow (Tombstone) Arisia Huff (Wildcat) |
| Top 12 | Andie Valera (Ahwatukee) Sammi Landsman (DC Ranch) Mariah Larronde (Heritage District) Ashley Cutright (Maricopa County) Saphyone White (North Scottsdale) Natalie Razey (Paradise Valley) Britni Ebert (Prescott) |
| Top 5 | McKenzie Majerle (Biltmore) Jordyn Owen (Catalina Foothills) Isabel Ticlo (Desert Rose) Rachel Voltz (Phoenix) Cassidy Jo Jacks (Usery Mountain) |
SPECIAL AWARDS
| AWARD | CANDIDATE |
| Miss Congeniality | Alondra Mitchell Grand Canyon |
| Miss Photogenic | Courtney Hocog Kierland |
WINNERS
| PLACEMENT | 2021 | 2020 |
| 4th runner-up | Rachel Voltz Phoenix | McKenzie Jones Tempe Town Lake |
| 3rd runner-up | Jordyn Owen Catalina Foothills | Andrea Valera Ahwatukee |
| 2nd runner-up | McKenzie Majerle Biltmore | Isabel Ticlo Chandler |
| 1st runner-up | Isabel Ticlo Desert Rose | Alexa Zellers North Valley |
| Miss Arizona USA | Cassidy Jacks Usery Mountain | Yesenia Vidales Uptown Phoenix |
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