Miss USA 2002

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Miss USA 2002
Shauntay Hinton of District of Columbia, Miss USA 2002
Date	March 1, 2002
Presenters	Deion Sanders Ali Landry
Entertainment	Sara Evans
Venue	Genesis Convention Center, Gary, Indiana
Broadcaster	CBS, WBBM-TV
Entrants	51
Placements	12
Winner	Shauntay Hinton District of Columbia
Congeniality	Meredith McCannel Montana
Photogenic	Shannon Ford Florida
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Miss USA 2002 was the 51st Miss USA pageant, held at Genesis Convention Center in Gary, Indiana on March 1, 2002. The event was won by Shauntay Hinton of the District of Columbia, who was crowned by outgoing queen Kandace Krueger of Texas.^[1] The host was Deion Sanders.^[1]

This was the last Miss USA show was aired on CBS. Beginning with Miss USA 2003, NBC assumed co-ownership of the pageant along with Donald Trump, and as a result began televising the pageant.