Formation | 1982 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Cincinnati |
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Membership | Miss Teen USA |
Official language | English |
Key people | Melissa Proctor-Pitchford, state pageant director |
Website | Official website |
The Miss Kentucky Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kentucky in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
Although Kentucky has not produced a Miss Teen USA titleholder, five delegates have placed as Top 5 or Top 6: Krista Keith in 1983, Kristi Dawn Hicks in 1989, April Vaughn in 1990, Kristen Johnson in 2000 and Tara Conner in 2002. Their most recent placement was Taylor Hubbard who placed in the Top 15 in 2010.
Reese Burt of Lexington was crowned Miss Kentucky Teen USA 2025 on July 19, 2025, at The Vern Riffe Center for the Arts Shawnee State University in Portsmouth. She will represent Kentucky at Miss Teen USA 2025.
The participant must be a single, legally recognized female between the ages of 14 and 18 years old. Specifically, the contestant has to be under 19 years old before January 1 of the pageant year. Also, the applicant must have never been married, pregnant, or had a marriage annulled. A contestant can only be eligible if she is a United States citizen and remains a United States citizen throughout the competition at both a state and national level. She must have lived in the state she desires to compete in permanently, at least six months prior to the pageant date, or be a full-time student in the state with one semester completed by December 31 of the pageant year.
Kentucky holds a record of 11 placements at Miss Teen USA.
Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Local title | Placement at Miss Teen USA | Special awards at Miss Teen USA | Notes |
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2025 | Reese Burt | Lexington | TBA | Miss Keeneland Teen | TBA | TBA | |
2024 | Karlie Holmen | Gilbertsville | 17 | Miss Purchase District Teen | |||
2023 | MéShyia Bradshaw | Elizabethtown | 17 | Miss Hardin County Teen | |||
2022 | Gabriella Hembree | Carrollton | 18 | Miss Two Rivers City Teen | |||
2021 | Kennedy Mosley | London | 16 | Miss London Teen | |||
2020 | Mattie Barker | Louisville | 17 | Miss Southern Kentucky Teen |
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2019 | Emma Johns | Pikeville | 16 | Miss Pikeville Teen | |||
2018 | Jordan Crozier [1] | Somerset | 18 | Miss Pulaski County Teen | |||
2017 | Olivia Prewitt [2] [3] | Danville [2] | 18 [2] | Miss Danville Teen | |||
2016 | Christiaan Prince [4] | Grayson [4] | 15 [4] | Miss Carter County Teen | |||
2015 | Caroline Ford | Bowling Green | 18 | Miss South Central Teen | |||
2014 | Megan Ducharm | Shelbyville | 18 | Miss Shelby County Teen | |||
2013 | Gracie Sapp | Lexington | 15 | Miss Fayette County Teen | |||
2012 | Tiffany Cline | Georgetown | 14 | Miss Scott County Teen | |||
2011 | Stephanie Jones | Elizabethtown | 18 | ||||
2010 | Taylor Hubbard [5] | London [5] | 15 | Top 15 | |||
2009 | Jefra Bland | Campbellsville | 19 | Top 15 | Later contestant on Survivor: Cagayan [6] | ||
2008 | Shannen Reil | West Van Lear | 15 | ||||
2007 | Katrina Giannini | Princeton | 17 | ||||
2006 | Tiffany Withrow | Ashland | 17 | ||||
2005 | Sarah Bryan Withers | Columbia | 18 | Top 15 | |||
2004 | Megan Frank | Greensburg | 19 | ||||
2003 | Amanda Nunnelley | Louisville | 17 | Top 10 | |||
2002 | Tara Conner [7] | Russell Springs | 16 | 2nd runner-up | Body Glove Swimsuit Award |
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2001 | Katherine Faulkner | Hazard | 17 | ||||
2000 | Kristen Johnson | Slaughters | 18 | 2nd runner-up | Miss Photogenic |
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1999 | Lexie Kemper [8] | Louisville [8] | 17 [8] | Top 10 | Miss Photogenic [9] | ||
1998 | Elizabeth Arnold | Columbia | 18 |
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1997 | Kelli Jones | Louisville | 18 | ||||
1996 | Kelly Marie Sodan | Berea | 15 | ||||
1995 | Brittany Johnson | Virgie | 17 | Top 12 | |||
1994 | Crystal Hayden | Paducah [10] | 16 | ||||
1993 | Holly Riggs | Paducah [10] | 15 | ||||
1992 | Heather Boggess | Paducah [10] | 17 | ||||
1991 | Christine Jackman | Louisville | 18 | ||||
1990 | April Vaughn | Louisville | 17 | Top 6 | |||
1989 | Kristi Dawn Hicks [11] | Bardstown | 17 [11] | 1st runner-up |
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1988 | Marti Hendricks [12] | Danville [12] | 19 [12] | ||||
1987 | Tracey Marsee | Middlesboro | 16 | ||||
1986 | Amy Miller | Louisville | 15 | ||||
1985 | Leanne Gregory | Lexington | 15 | ||||
1984 | Suzy Neclerio | Georgetown | 18 | ||||
1983 | Krista Keith | Louisville | 16 | 2nd runner-up |
1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant