It's hard to believe last night was the finale for America's Next Top Model Cycle 11! Time flies when you're having fun. We were down to the final three: Analeigh, Samantha and McKey and we've got to be honest - at the beginning of Cycle 11, these were not the three we had picked to make it to the finale. That being said, watching their skills mature throughout the season was inspiring.

"Oh my God, I just won America's Next Top Model and I can't believe it!" McKey said after being crowned the reality competition series' eleventh-season champ during last night's finale broadcast on The CW.

"I was not the little girl who said 'I wanna grow up and be a model.' I was very much the tomboy. I was hardcore into soccer, so I got started in modeling when I was 15-years-old and I put all my energy, all my competitiveness into modeling and it's something I've wanted so bad and it just didn't happen," McKey continued. "This was the last thing for me. I was gonna try out for America's Next Top Model and that was going to be it. I made the show and it was the best thing for me. It made me realize that maybe this was something that really can happen."

As Top Model's eleventh-season winner, McKey receives a management deal with Elite Model Management, a $100,000 contract with cosmetics company CoverGirl, and a cover story and six-page fashion spread in an issue of Seventeen magazine.

"Now I'm America's Next Top Model, and from here this is the beginning, I'm gonna get to keep going. I'm gonna get to keep rising and keep channeling my energy into stuff. It's just a dream come true," she added.

Samantha Potter, an 18-year-old student athlete from Woodland Hills, CA, finished as the season's runner-up.