Rachel Saunders

Who is Rachel Saunders?

Rachel Saunders is a beauty queen who has held the title Miss Kansas USA 2005 and competed at Miss USA. She is also known as 'Bissy' or 'Mwissy' but her official title is now Mrs Sunshine.

Saunders, who hails from Tonganoxie, Kansas, attended Tonganoxie High School and later Johnson County Community College and the University of Kansas. She has enrolled in a variety of classes, including occupational therapy, marketing, art, and photography, but has yet to decide on her major. At the time of her reign she was working in a bridal boutique in Kansas City.

Saunders was encouraged to compete in pageants by local high school teacher Vicki Cackler, mother of Danielle Boatwright, who has represented Kansas at both Miss USA and Miss Teen USA and would later go on to win Survivor: Guatemala. Saunders' first pageant experience came in 2004, when she was a finalist in the Miss Kansas USA pageant won by Lisa Forbes. She won the crown on her second attempt in the following year.

In April 2005 Saunders represented Kansas in the Miss USA 2005 pageant held in Baltimore, Maryland. She failed to place in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Chelsea Cooley of North Carolina. In December 2005, Saunders passed on her crown to Ashley Aull of Lansing.