Miss Massachusetts USA

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Miss Massachusetts USA
Formation1952
Type Beauty pageant
Headquarters Malden
Location
Membership Miss USA
Official language
English
Key people
Laurie Clemente
Anthony Clemente
Website Official website

The Miss Massachusetts USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Massachusetts in the Miss USA pageant. It is currently produced by The Clemente Organization based in Malden, Massachusetts, which also produces the Maine pageant.

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Shawnae Jebbia was crowned Miss USA in 1998 and Susie Castillo won the crown in 2003. Both Miss USA winners from Massachusetts were asked the same final question during the live telecasts. The most recent placement was Melissa Sapini in 2024, placing Top 10.

Perianne Caron of Boston was crowned Miss Massachusetts USA 2025 on June 15, 2025 at the Plymouth Memorial Hall in Plymouth.

Results summary

Awards

Winners

Color key
YearNameHometownAge1Local titlePlacement at Miss USASpecial awards at Miss USANotes
2025 Perianne Caron Boston 25Miss West EndTBATBA
2024 Melissa Sapini North Attleborough 21Miss North AttleboroughTop 10Miss Photogenic
2023 Annika Sharma Newton 22Miss CommonwealthMiss Photogenic
2022 Skarlet Ramirez [1] Lawrence 27Miss LawrenceBorn in the Dominican Republic [1]
2021 Sarah DeSouza Dracut 25
2020 Sabrina Victor Brockton 23
2019 Kelly O'Grady Cambridge 27Later became correspondent for Fox Business
2018 Allissa Latham Lowell 26Top 15
2017 Julia Scaparotti [2] [3] Peabody [3] 24 New England Patriots Cheerleader [2]
2016 Whitney Sharpe [4] Burlington 21
2015 Polikseni Manxhari Boston 24Born in Albania
2014 Caroline Lunny Holliston 22

Contestant on The Bachelor (season 22), Bachelor in Paradise (season 5) and Bachelor in Paradise Australia (season 2)

2013 Sarah Kidd[ citation needed ] Leominster 20Top 15
2012 Natalie Pietrzak Somerville 25Sister of Monica Pietrzak, Miss Connecticut USA 2009 and Miss USA 2009 semifinalist
2011 Alida D'Angona Bolton 23
2010 Lacey Wilson Boston 26
2009 Alison Michele Cronin East Weymouth 21
2008 Jackie Bruno Assonet 23Top 10, finishing in 10th place
2007 Despina Delios Lynn 23
2006 Tiffany Kelly Braintree 18
2005 Cristina Nardozzi Seekonk 21Was contestant on Fear Factor in 2005 on the Miss USA episode #5.29
2004 Maria Lekkakos Rockport 25
2003 Susie Castillo Lawrence 23Miss USA 2003
2002 Latoyia Cimone Foster Lowell
2001 Dana Tenille Powell Brookline
2000 Rosalie M. Allain Leominster
  • Later Mrs. Massachusetts America 2009 under her married name, Rosalie Allain-Morris. [5]
1999 Jennifer KrafveSaugusMother of Avery Turner, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2024
1998 Shawnae Jebbia Mansfield 26Miss USA 1998
1997 Jennifer K. Chapman Maynard
1996 Jacquelyn DoucetteLynnfield26Mother of Jillian Driscoll, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2022
1995 Kristen Mastroianni Wilbraham 23Semi-finalist, finishing in 10th place
1994 Michelle Atamian Belmont
1993 Stacey Blaine Bellingham Miss Bellingham Miss Congeniality
1992 Christine NetishenLowell
1991 Laura Wheeler Framingham
1990 Laureen MurphyBoston
1989 Kimberley Wallace Ipswich
1988 Anita Marie Lovely Franklin
1987 Rosanna Iversen Great Barrington Represented Massachusetts in Miss Oktoberfest 1987, did not place
1986 Sheila Benson Quincy
1985 Mercedes Waggoner Boston 21Semi-finalist, finishing in 8th place
1984 Deborah Neary Onset
1983 Robin Jeanne Silva Swansea
1982 Janet Marie Flaherty Wilmington 24Semi-finalist
1981 JoAnne Savery East Bridgewater Miss East BridgewaterBest State Costume
1980 Diane Campbell Melrose Miss Melrose
1979 Monica Patricia MagnusBoston24Semi-finalist
1978 Diane Elizabeth PollardHamilton201st runner-up
1977 Carol Marcil Chelmsford
1976 Holly Ann HoyleAttleboro
1975 Rilla Posson Natick
1974 Ethellean HicksRoxbury
1973 Judith "Judy" Ann GregoryBoston
1972 Dale CarderWellesley
1971 April DowAmesbury
1970 Cheryl Stankiewicz Brockton
1969 Martha CawleyNeedham
1968 Sonja Fritz [6] Boston
1967 Pamela ProcterMarbleheadDaughter of Miss Massachusetts 1940 Polly Connors, 3rd Runner-Up to Miss America. [7]
1966 Nancy Joan BrackettBrighton20Semi-finalist
1965 Mary Lou VolpeBraintree
1964 Barbara Helen RoberyBoston
1963 Sandra SmithNewton Upper Falls23Semi-finalist
1962 Gale PopeWellesley
1961 Elaine CusickHyde Park18Semi-finalist photograph
1960 Barbara Gale FeldmanNatick20Semi-finalist
1959 Beatrice DupreyWeymouthAlso competed in the 1960 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant
1958 Sally Ann Freedman PeabodyFinalist in the 1961 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant
1957 Sandra RamseyHaverhill19Semi-finalist
1956 Elaine MurphyWeston
1955 Jean DernagoSpringfield
1954 Nan CowanSterling
1953 Joan DalySomerville
1952 Vel DorneBoston

1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

References

  1. 1 2 Harmacinski, Jill (March 30, 2022). "The new Miss Massachusetts is Lawrence's own Skarlet Ramirez". The Eagle-Tribune . Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  2. 1 2 Dearborn, Leah (10 December 2016). "little Miss Massachusetts 2017: 'We are athletes'". Boston Globe. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 DePlacido, Jean (13 February 2017). "Miss Massachusetts leans on lessons learned on basketball court at Peabody High". The Salem News. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  4. Warren, Chris (2016-01-28). "Positively Whitney: Meet Miss Massachusetts USA 2016 Whitney Sharpe of Burlington". Wicked Local Burlington. Burlington, Massachusetts: Wicked Local.
  5. "2009 Mrs America". Archived from the original on October 12, 2010. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
  6. "Grounded Wire-Walker". Hartford Courant. 18 May 1968. p. 13. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  7. "Sisters, Mom Are Queens". Press and Sun-Bulletin. 15 May 1967. p. 12. Retrieved 5 August 2023.