Miss Kansas Teen USA

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Miss Kansas Teen USA
Formation1983
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
At the conclusion of the Miss Kansas USA and Miss Kansas Teen USA 2008 pageant held in Lawrence, Kansas in December 2007, Jessie Colonna is crowned by Jaymie Stokes (right) Miss Kansas USA and Miss Kansas Teen USA 2008.png
At the conclusion of the Miss Kansas USA and Miss Kansas Teen USA 2008 pageant held in Lawrence, Kansas in December 2007, Jessie Colonna is crowned by Jaymie Stokes (right)
Miss Kansas Teen USA 2008 semi-finalists in evening gowns Miss Kansas Teen USA 2008 semi-finalists.png
Miss Kansas Teen USA 2008 semi-finalists in evening gowns
Madison Moore (Miss Kansas Teen USA 2016) crowns her sister Malerie Moore as Miss Kansas Teen USA 2017. This is the first consecutive back-to-back crowning of sisters in Kansas and only the 3rd time in the history of the Miss Universe Organization at that time. Miss Kansas Teen USA 2016 AND 2017.jpg
Madison Moore (Miss Kansas Teen USA 2016) crowns her sister Malerie Moore as Miss Kansas Teen USA 2017. This is the first consecutive back-to-back crowning of sisters in Kansas and only the 3rd time in the history of the Miss Universe Organization at that time.
Malerie Moore is crowned by her sister Madison as Miss Kansas Teen USA 2017. Madison - Malerie Moore.jpg
Malerie Moore is crowned by her sister Madison as Miss Kansas Teen USA 2017.

The Miss Kansas Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kansas in the Miss Teen USA pageant. This pageant has been part of the Vanbros organisation since 1992, and in 2006, they celebrated their fifteen-year anniversary with a reunion of former titleholders at the 2007 pageant. For the first time, all the judges for both the Miss Kansas USA and Miss Kansas Teen USA pageants were former titleholders from the Vanbros states: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

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Prior to 1994, the pageant was held concurrently with the Miss Kansas USA event, which was hosted by Kansas City. In 1994, the pageant was moved to Wichita. In 2000, the pageant directors moved the event to the small town of Maize, just outside Wichita, [1] where it was also held the following year, before it was brought back to Wichita proper from 2002 to 2003. The pageant was held in Overland Park for the first time in 2004 and also in 2005. In 2006, it moved to Lawrence.

Kansas had a slow start at Miss Teen USA, and did not place until 1991. Despite this, they placed extremely well in the 1990s, with one semi-finalist placing, one finalist placing, two 2nd runner-up placings and one winner, and were in fact the second highest placed state in that decade. [2] Latasha Laine Lawrie brought Kansas back into the placings in the 21st century with her finalist placing in 2005. She also won the Miss Photogenic award, the only major award won by a Kansas teen.

Seven Kansas teens have gone on to win the Miss Kansas USA crown. The most successful, and most notable of these was Danielle Boatwright, who placed 2nd runner-up to Miss Teen USA, 1st runner-up to Miss USA and won the reality TV show Survivor: Guatemala .

In 1995, Keylee Sue Sanders won the national crown in Wichita, Kansas making Kansas the only state to win the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA titles in their home state.

Gracie Hendrickson of Newton was crowned Miss Kansas Teen USA 2022 on May 8, 2022 at B&B Live and Music Theater in Shawnee. She will represent Kansas for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.

Results summary

Placements

Kansas holds a record of 14 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

Winners

YearNameHometownAge1Placement at Miss Teen USASpecial awards at Miss Teen USANotes
2023 Riley Steinman Shawnee 19
2022 Gracie Hendrickson Newton 17Top 16
2021 Madilynn Becker Herington 17
2020 Cyara Heredia Liberal 18
2019 Hannah DeBok Olathe 17Top 15
2018 Hunter Fraley Pittsburg 18Did not competeOriginally first runner-up, succeeded Colborn when she won Miss Teen USA 2018
Hailey Colborn Wichita 17Miss Teen USA 2018
2017 Malerie Moore Olathe 16Sister of Miss Kansas Teen USA 2016, Madison Moore
2016 Madison Moore Olathe 17Sister of Miss Kansas Teen USA 2017, Malerie Moore
2015 Melanie Shaner Overland Park 17Later Miss Kansas USA 2018
2014 Claire-Bailey Lee Andover 17Daughter of Miss Kansas USA 1986, Audra Ockerman
2013 Alyssa KlinzingOlathe15Top 16Later Miss Kansas USA 2019 and finished Top 10 at Miss USA 2019
2012 Katie TaylorOlathe18Top 16
2011 Taylor Clark Topeka 173rd runner-up
2010 Olivia Harlan Mission Hills 17A reporter on ESPN and the SEC Network, Daughter of Kevin Harlan, an American television sports announcer and granddaughter of Bob Harlan, former Green Bay Packers executive [3]
2009 Alexis RewaltOlathe18Later Miss Kansas United States 2013
2008 Jessie Colonna Leawood 17
2007 Jaymie Stokes Lenexa 16Top 10Later Miss Kansas USA 2011
2006 Gentry Miller Wichita 18Top 10Later Miss Kansas USA 2012
2005 Latasha LawrieWichita18Top 10 Miss Photogenic
2004 Carissa Kelley Winfield 17Later Miss Kansas 2011
2003 Megan Price Garden City 18
2002 Amber Ross [4] Manhattan 17
2001 Lindsey Mackey [5] Olathe16
2000 Sarah JumpWichita16Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005
1999 Grace ShibleyWichita19
1998 Ashley TessendorfManhattan17
1997 Mariah Bergmann Haysville 18Top 6
1996 Mandy CarrawayWichita18Style AwardLater Miss Kansas USA 1999
1995 Keylee Sue Sanders Louisburg 18Miss Teen USA 1995Former co-director of the Miss California USA and Miss California Teen USA pageants under her married name, Keylee Sanders-Hochberg
1994 Melissa Hurtig Courtland 182nd runner-up
1993 Christy Dippre Augusta 17
1992 Danielle Boatwright Tonganoxie 172nd runner-up [6] Later Miss Kansas USA 1996 1st runner up at Miss USA 1996, sports broadcaster and Survivor: Guatemala winner
1991 Denise Blatchford Arkansas City 17Semi-finalist
1990 Carrie Williams [7] Wichita18
1989 Tracey KnopWichita19
1988 Jennifer EstesWichita19
1987 Stephanie Resnick Whitewater 17
1986 Kimberlee GirrensWichita18Later Miss Kansas USA 1992, Top 6 finalist at Miss USA 1992, and Mrs. Kansas America 2004 under her married name, Kimberlee Easter. [8]
1985 Tammy Lampton [9] Wichita15
1984 Nancy MardisWichita16
1983 Melissa Lyczak Russell 17

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

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References

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  2. ↑ Miss Teen ranking, 1990s
  3. ↑ Stanton, Loren (2010-01-06). "Pretty Sweet: Shawnee Mission East junior wins Miss Kansas Teen USA crown". Sun Publications.
  4. ↑ "Lawrence woman crowned Miss Kansas USA" (Press release). Associated Press. 2001-09-09.
  5. ↑ "Miss Kansas USA, Miss Kansas Teen USA chosen" (Press release). Associated Press. 2000-09-10.
  6. ↑ "CROWN TRICK Through the storm, pageant kept suspense alive". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 1992-08-28. p. D/12.
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  8. ↑ "2004 Mrs America". Archived from the original on June 24, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
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