Formation | 1983 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Collierville |
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Membership | Miss Teen USA |
Official language | English |
Key people | Kim Greenwood, State Pageant Director |
Website | Official Website |
The Miss Mississippi Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Mississippi in the Miss Teen USA pageant. The pageant was directed by Premier Pageants from 2001 to 2010, before becoming part of Greenwood Productions in 2010 under the ownership of Miss Tennessee USA 1989 Kim Greenwood. [1]
Mississippi has two Miss Teen USA, one in 1987 becoming the 5th state that won the Miss Teen USA title for the first time, and most recent in 2024 with Addison Carver. Seven titleholders have competed at Miss USA and one at Miss America as Miss Tennessee.
Addison Carver of Monticello was crowned Miss Mississippi Teen USA 2024 on April 6, 2024 at the Pearl River Resort in Choctaw, Mississippi. She represented Mississippi for the title of Miss Teen USA 2024 and won the title.
Mississippi holds a record of 10 placements at Miss Teen USA.
Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Local title | Placement at MTUSA | Special awards at MTUSA | Notes |
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2024 | Addison Carver | Monticello | 16 | Miss Spirit of Volunteer Teen | Miss Teen USA 2024 | ||
2023 | Claire Ulmer | Natchez | 18 | Miss MS Volunteer Teen | |||
2022 | McKenzie Cole | Vicksburg | 15 | Miss Vicksburg Teen | |||
2021 | Mattie Grace Morris | Flowood | 17 | Miss Rankin County Teen | Top 16 | ||
2020 | Zoe Bigham | Louisville | 17 | Miss Louisville Teen | |||
2019 | Kaylee Brooke McCollum | Amory | 18 | Miss Monroe Co. Teen | 3rd runner-up |
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2018 | Julieanna Jackson | Mize | 15 | Miss Mize Teen |
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2017 | Hannah Claire Chisolm | Collinsville | 17 | Miss Lauderdale Co. Teen | |||
2016 | Lauren Rymer | Natchez | 17 | Miss Natchez Teen | |||
2015 | Andrea Davidson Hightower | Oxford | 17 | Miss Oxford Teen | |||
2014 | Vaeda Mann | Hattiesburg | 16 | Miss Aok Grove Teen | 1st runner-up | ||
2013 | Madison Brock | Crystal Springs | 17 | Miss Copiah Co. Teen | |||
2012 | Jessica Carter | Petal | 18 | Miss Perry County Teen | |||
2011 | Sarah Bobo | Corinth | 19 | Miss Crossroad Teen | |||
2010 | Haley Brooke Sowers | Collinsville | 16 | 4th runner-up |
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2009 | Paromita Mitra | Hattiesburg | 17 |
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2008 | Elizabeth Hollomon | Madison | 18 | Miss Congeniality | |||
2007 | Anne Elise Parks | New Albany | 18 | Miss Congeniality | |||
2006 | Raegan Raulston | Clinton | 17 | ||||
2005 | Kathleen Williams | Columbus | 18 | ||||
2004 | Jessica McRaney | Byram | 18 |
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2003 | Krisi Nash | Amory | 18 | ||||
2002 | Grace Gore | Grenada | 18 |
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2001 | Ashley Buckman | Bay Springs | 17 | ||||
2000 | Jennifer Duke | Pearl | 18 | ||||
1999 | Allison Bloodworth | Grenada | 18 |
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1998 | Jennifer Reel | Olive Branch | 17 | Semi-finalist | |||
1997 | Cara Lewis | Heidelberg | 17 | ||||
1996 | Brandee Loving | Southaven | 18 | ||||
1995 | Merideth Cash | Biloxi | 17 | ||||
1994 | Angie Carpenter | Lexington | 17 | Semi-finalist |
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1993 | Bridgette Cain | Jackson | 18 | ||||
1992 | Arleen McDonald | Tupelo | 17 | Semi-finalist |
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1991 | Jimmy Ann Glenn | Amory | 17 | ||||
1990 | Kim Faulkner | Jackson | 18 | ||||
1989 | Valarie Penn | Clinton | 15 | ||||
1988 | Honey East | Jackson | 16 | Semi-finalist | |||
1987 | Kristi Addis | Holcomb | 16 | Miss Teen USA 1987 | |||
1986 | Michelle Veshay | Jackson | 15 | ||||
1985 | Shelly Wilson | Water Valley | 19 | Miss Congeniality | |||
1984 | Mona Bryant | Gulfport | 19 | ||||
1983 | Laura Zapponi | Leland | 16 |
1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant
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