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Formation | 1983 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Shawnee |
Location | |
Membership | Miss Teen USA |
Official language | English |
Key people | John M. Vannatta Jason Vannatta Jennifer Vannatta-Fisher, State Pageant Director |
Website | Official Website |
The Miss Arkansas Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
The state pageant was directed by Premier Pageants from 2002 to 2007 before becoming part of the Vanbros organization, headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas. In 2007, Vanbros group took over the management of the pageant with the Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma pageants.
From 1986 until 2004, when Sarah French won Miss Photogenic, no Miss Arkansas Teen USA had placed or won an award at the national competition. From 2008 until 2010, Arkansas had placed at Miss Teen USA three consecutive years, including Stevi Perry winning their first Miss Teen USA title in 2008.
Three Miss Arkansas Teen USA titleholders have gone on to win the Miss Arkansas USA title and three have won Miss America state titles, more than any other state.
Arkansas holds a record of 9 placements at Miss Teen USA.
Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement at Miss Teen USA | Special awards at Miss Teen USA | Notes |
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2024 | Siyona Karkera | Little Rock | 19 | Top 10 | ||
2023 | Mackenzie Scott | Fayetteville | 19 | |||
2022 | Allie Shanks | White River | 16 | |||
2021 | Madeline Bohlman | Fayetteville | 19 | Eligible as a student of University of Arkansas at the time of crowning Later Miss Arkansas USA 2024 | ||
2020 | Anna Claire Hay | Little Rock | 15 | Top 16 | ||
2019 | Maggie Williams | Piggott | 17 | Top 15 | ||
2018 | Mackenzie Hinderberger | Fayetteville | 18 | Later Miss Arkansas USA 2023 | ||
2017 | Allison Tucker | Clarksville | 16 | |||
2016 | Makenzie Sexton | Cabot | 16 | Daughter of Miss Missouri USA 1992 Tonya Snodgrass | ||
2015 | Arynn Johnson | Hot Springs | 18 | Top 15 | Later Miss Arkansas USA 2017 | |
2014 | Lauren Weaver | Greenwood | 17 | Later Miss Arkansas USA 2018 | ||
2013 | Abby Floyd | Searcy | 17 | Top 16 | Later Miss Arkansas USA 2016 & Top 10 at Miss USA 2016 | |
2012 | Amber Mitchell | Sheridan | 18 | |||
2011 | Mary-Kate Hartley | Hamburg | 17 | |||
2010 | Megan Michelle Burgess | Hot Springs | 18 | Top 15 | ||
2009 | Allison Kusenberger | Little Rock | 18 | Top 15 | ||
2008 | Stevi Perry | Hamburg | 17 | Miss Teen USA 2008 | ||
2007 | Tiffany Greenstreet | Melbourne | 18 | |||
2006 | Taylor Wright | White Hall | 18 | |||
2005 | Ashton Schmidt | Batesville | 17 | |||
2004 | Sarah French | Hot Springs | 18 | Miss Photogenic | Later Miss Missouri 2006 | |
2003 | Brittany Carpenter | Conway | 18 | |||
2002 | Rachel Eggers | North Little Rock | 16 | |||
2001 | Lauren Arnold | Arkadelphia | 18 | |||
2000 | Paula Taylor | Carlisle | 16 | |||
1999 | Sarah Moody | Pollard | Later competed three times at Miss Arkansas | |||
1998 | Joan Lucas | Fayetteville | ||||
1997 | Brandi Watkins | Brinkley | Later competed four times at Miss Arkansas [1] | |||
1996 | Aimee Delatte | Stuttgart | Later 1st runner-up to Miss Arkansas USA 2001 & 2002 | |||
1995 | Natalie Fisher | Stuttgart | ||||
1994 | Rebekah Hall | Conway | ||||
1993 | Tiffany Parks | Jacksonville | Later Miss Arkansas USA 1996 | |||
1992 | Stacy Freeman | Sheridan | Later Miss Arkansas 1997 | |||
1991 | Paula Montgomery [2] | Cabot | Later Miss Arkansas 1995 | |||
1990 | Karen Pugh | Little Rock | Later Mrs. Arkansas International 2004 as Karen Pugh-Thompson | |||
1989 | Susan Marshall | Cabot | ||||
1988 | Jessica Welch | Pine Bluff | ||||
1987 | Paige Yandell | Greenwood | Later Miss Arkansas USA 1989 | |||
1986 | Dana Moody | Batesville | Miss Congeniality | |||
1985 | Rhonda Ann Heird | Pine Bluff | 17 | Top 10 | ||
1984 | Melissa Staples | Calion | Later Miss Arkansas USA 1988 | |||
1983 | Angela Boyd | Manila | Semi-finalist | Miss Congeniality |
1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant
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