Image: MissAmerica.org   BY JASMINE BAILEY New York’s Mallory Hagan took home the crown at the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas Saturday. KHNL has the moment the winner was announced. “Your new Miss America is Miss New York." (Applause and reaction) The 23-year-old beat out first and second runner-ups Miss South Carolina Ali Rogers and Miss Oklahoma Alicia Clifton. Hagan stole the judges’ hearts with a tap routine to James Brown’s “Get Up Offa That Thing” and a confident answer to a question about the NRA’s controversial plan to post armed guards at schools. The New York Daily News Reports she answered the question by saying. “I don’t think the proper way to fight violence is with violence…I think the proper way is to educate people on guns and the ways we can use them properly. We can lock them up, we can have gun safety classes, we can have a longer waiting period.” But as E! News points out— the new Miss America isn’t the only contestant making headlines.There are quite a few inspirational stories to be told: Miss Montana, Alexis Wineman was the competition’s first contestant with Autism and the winner of the America's Choice award. Allyn Rose, Miss Washington DC, announced she will undergo a double mastectomy to lower her risk of breast cancer— a disease that killed her mother, grandmother and great aunt. And Miss Iowa , Mariah Cary’s — struggle with Tourette syndrome. Hagan’s platform was stopping child sex abuse. So what’s next for the newly crowned Miss America? News 13: “Hagan not only gets the crown but a $50,000 college scholarship as well. She is expected to a nationwide spend her reign on speaking tour and raising money for the Children's Miracle Network.” Hagan, a Fashion Institute of Technology student, ended a three-decade dry spell for New York contestants. The last Miss New York to win the competition was Vanessa Williams, who became Miss America 1984.