Nia Temple Sanchez Booko (born February 15, 1990) is an American
model, television presenter, and beauty pageant titleholder who won
Miss USA 2014. Sanchez is the first contestant from Nevada to be
crowned Miss USA. She represented the United States in the Miss
Universe 2014 competition on January 25, 2015, and placed 1st
runner-up.Nia Sanchez was born in Sacramento, California on February
15, 1990, to David Sanchez, a military veteran born in a military base
in Germany, and mother Nicole Sanford, who was born in a military base
in Iran. Her paternal grandfather, Wilbur Sanchez, is Mexican and her
paternal grandmother is German, while her mother is of Spanish, and
other European mixture. Her parents divorced when she was 6 and she
briefly lived in a women's shelter with her mother. When she was eight
she and her brother (David, Jr.), moved to Menifee, California with
their father, and she went on to graduate from Paloma Valley High
School in 2008.Her first beauty pageant was the Miss San Jacinto
Valley, which she entered when she was 13; at 19, she won Miss Citrus
Valley USA, which qualified her to take part in the Miss América
Latina competition in Ecuador.
model, television presenter, and beauty pageant titleholder who won
Miss USA 2014. Sanchez is the first contestant from Nevada to be
crowned Miss USA. She represented the United States in the Miss
Universe 2014 competition on January 25, 2015, and placed 1st
runner-up.Nia Sanchez was born in Sacramento, California on February
15, 1990, to David Sanchez, a military veteran born in a military base
in Germany, and mother Nicole Sanford, who was born in a military base
in Iran. Her paternal grandfather, Wilbur Sanchez, is Mexican and her
paternal grandmother is German, while her mother is of Spanish, and
other European mixture. Her parents divorced when she was 6 and she
briefly lived in a women's shelter with her mother. When she was eight
she and her brother (David, Jr.), moved to Menifee, California with
their father, and she went on to graduate from Paloma Valley High
School in 2008.Her first beauty pageant was the Miss San Jacinto
Valley, which she entered when she was 13; at 19, she won Miss Citrus
Valley USA, which qualified her to take part in the Miss América
Latina competition in Ecuador.
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