Formation | 1983 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Honolulu |
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Membership | Miss Teen USA |
Official language | English |
Website | Official website |
The Miss Hawaii Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Hawaii in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
Although Hawaii has made the cut fewer times than many states, they have achieved a number of high placings. Hawaii Teen USAs have been quite successful at Miss Teen USA, and are ranked fifteenth in terms of number and value of placements and were ranked third in the 1980s . Kelly Hu won the competition in 1985 becoming the 3rd state that won the Miss Teen USA title for the first time and Kiʻilani Arruda won in 2020 becoming the 38th Miss Teen USA titleholder, while two other Hawaii teens have placed as first runner-up.
Kelly Hu was the first Hawaii teen to cross over to Miss Hawaii USA, and she was also the most successful. Only three other Teens have competed at Miss USA.
NoeLani Denisi of Kahului was crowned Miss Hawaii Teen USA 2023 on January 15, 2023 at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu. She will represent Hawaii for the title of Miss Teen USA 2023.
Hawaii holds a record of 11 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 | Hokuaoka’ale Gilman | Maui | 19 | |||
2023 | NoeLani Denisi | Kahului | 18 | |||
2022 | Malulani Paiste | Mililani | 18 | Top 16 | ||
2021 | Tia Bustamante | Kaneohe | 18 | |||
2020 | Kiʻilani Arruda | Kapaʻa | 17 | Miss Teen USA 2020 | 2nd Runner Up in 2019 | |
2019 | Leimakamae Freitas | Honolulu | 17 | |||
2018 | Kylyn Rapoza | Hilo | 17 | |||
2017 | Lauren Teruya | Kāhala | 18 | Sister of Miss Hawaii Teen USA 2012 and Miss Hawaii 2017 Kathryn Teruya 4th runner-up at Miss Hawaii 2021 [1] Later Miss Hawaii 2022 and Top 11 at Miss America 2023 | ||
2016 | Joahnnalee Ucol | Maui | 16 | First 1st generation immigrant to be crowned Miss Hawaii Teen USA | ||
2015 | Kyla Hee | Honolulu | 17 | Daughter of Miss Hawaii 1987 Luana Alapa | ||
2014 | Mariah Gosling | Honolulu | 18 | |||
2013 | Samantha Neyland | Honolulu | 17 | Top 16 |
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2012 | Kathryn Teruya | Kāhala | 15 | Top 16 |
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2011 | Courtney Coleman | Moanalua | 17 | Miss Photogenic | Represented Hawaii in Miss International 2017 | |
2010 | Julianne Chu | Kāhala | 18 |
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2009 | Ashley Moser [2] [3] | Hawai'i Kai | 17 | Miss Congeniality [3] | ||
2008 | Emma Wo | Honolulu | 18 | Later Miss Hawaii USA 2015 | ||
2007 | Serena Karnagy | Honolulu | 16 | Top 15 | Represented Hawaii in Miss International 2008. | |
2006 | Hannah Thomas | Honolulu | 17 | |||
2005 | Melissa Benz | Honolulu | 18 | |||
2004 | Sonya Balmores [4] | Kalaheo | 18 | 1st runner-up | ||
2003 | Camille Peraro | Honolulu | 17 | Top 10 | ||
2002 | Erin Madden | Kailua | 17 | |||
2001 | Alana Paulo-Tamashiro | Honolulu | 16 | |||
2000 | Lauren Madden | Kailua | 18 | |||
1999 | Aureana Tseu | Mililani | 15 | Later Miss Hawaii USA 2009 | ||
1998 | Toby Pohaikealoha Carter | Mililani | 17 | |||
1997 | Mahana Walters | Pupukea | 17 | 2nd runner-up | ||
1996 | Monica Ivey | Mililani | 17 | |||
1995 | Sara Kirby | |||||
1994 | Emily Elizabeth Huff | |||||
1993 | Juliana Maili Kaulukukui | Honolulu | 18 | Top 6 | Miss Congeniality | |
1992 | Cameo DeCosta | |||||
1991 | Trini-Ann Kaopuiki | 18 | Later Miss Hawaii USA 1999 | |||
1990 | Sunny Kanaʻiaupuni | |||||
1989 | Paulette Dean | |||||
1988 | Michelle Wong | |||||
1987 | Leslie-Ann Lum | Honolulu | Later 1st runner up at Miss Hawaii USA 1997. Assumed the Miss Hawaii USA 1997 title when Brook Lee became Miss USA 1997 (later Miss Universe 1997). | |||
1986 | Michelle Hardin [5] | |||||
1985 | Kelly Hu | Honolulu | 16 | Miss Teen USA 1985 | Later Miss Hawaii USA 1993, finished 3rd runner-up at Miss USA 1993 | |
1984 | Malia Yamamura | Honolulu | 16 | 1st runner-up | ||
1983 | Erika Matich | Honolulu |
1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant
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