[7] Fazzolari won the competition on Saturday, July 11, 1987, when she received her crown from outgoing Miss Oregon titleholder Jana Svea Peterson.
[8] Fazzolari was Oregon's representative at the Miss America 1988 pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September 1987.
[7] The swimwear she wore at Miss America was donated by Jantzen, an apparel company based in Portland, Oregon.
[14] On the morning of May 21, 1982, when Fazzolari was 15 years old, she was raped on the campus of Benjamin Franklin High School in Portland, Oregon.
[15][16] Her parents sued the Portland Public Schools and after a series of trials and appeals, the case was settled in the family's favor in November 1987.