Miss North Dakota Teen USA

Miss North Dakota Teen USA

Formation	1983
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Savage
Location	Minnesota
Membership	Miss Teen USA
Official language	English
Website	Official website

The Miss North Dakota Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Dakota in the Miss Teen USA pageant. ^[1]

Compared to the sister Miss North Dakota USA pageant, North Dakota Teen USAs have been quite successful at Miss Teen USA, and are ranked fifteenth in terms of number and value of placements . North Dakota is one of only ten states to have had nine or more semifinalist (or better) placements at Miss Teen USA . Despite this, no Miss North Dakota Teen USA has ever won the Miss Teen USA crown, though both Audra Mari and Caitlyn Vogel finished as 1st runner-up in 2011 and 2019 respectively.

Seven Miss North Dakota Teen USAs have gone on to win Miss North Dakota USA, and more unusually, two have competed at Miss America, including Stacey Thomas who is the most recent Miss North Dakota Teen USA delegate to compete at the Miss America pageant.

Berkley Lundeen of Minot was crowned Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2022 on May 1, 2022, at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She represented North Dakota for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.

Results summary

Placements

• 1st runners-up: Audra Mari (2011), Caitlyn Vogel (2019)
• 2nd runner-up: Katie Cooper (2006)
• 4th runners-up: Dayna Decker (1987), Heidi Langseth (1989)
• Top 6: Nicci Elkins (1991)
• Top 10: Kari Larson (1984), Jill Hutchinson (1985), Katrina Bergstrom (1996), Julie Nagle (1997), Marisa Field (2003)
• Top 15: Breanna Abernathy (2004)
• Top 20: Morgan Schwindt (2023)

North Dakota holds a record of 13 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

• Miss Congeniality: Heidi Langseth (1989), Breanna Abernathy (2004)

Winners

•   Declared as Winner
•   Ended as runner-up
•   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2024	Jaycee Parker [2]	Minot	17
2023	Morgan Schwindt	Fargo	19	Top 20
2022	Berkley Lundeen	Minot	18			Cousin of Caitlyn Vogel, Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2019 and Miss North Dakota USA 2021
2021	Aspen Hennessy	Des Lacs	18
2020	Amanda Higginbotham	Grand Forks	18			Later 3rd runner-up at Miss North Dakota 2022
2019	Caitlyn Vogel	Minot	18	1st runner-up		Later Miss North Dakota USA 2021 and 1st runner-up at Miss USA 2021 She is the second woman to make 1st runner-up at both Miss Teen USA and Miss USA Cousin of Berkley Lundeen, Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2022
2018	Ashlyn Erickson	Fargo	17
2017	Kilyn Parisien-Hill	Belcourt	16
2016	Paige Mathison	Fargo	15
2015	Hannah Nelson	Hunter	18
2014	Josie Hettich	Bismarck	18
2013	Emilee Mahar	Fargo	17
2012	Tiffany Fletschock	Casselton	18
2011	Audra Mari	Fargo	16	1st runner-up		Later Miss North Dakota USA 2014 and 1st runner-up at Miss USA 2014 pageant She is the first woman to make 1st runner-up at both Miss Teen USA and Miss USA Later Miss World America 2016 and Top 11 at Miss World 2016
2010	Ariana Walker [3]	Bismarck	19			Previously Miss North Dakota's Outstanding Teen 2008 [4] Later Miss North Dakota 2011 [5]
2009	Codi Miller [6]	Amidon	15			Later North Dakota High School Rodeo Queen 2010
2008	Gretchen Dawley	Munich	17
2007	Taylor Kearns	Fargo	18			Later Miss North Dakota USA 2010
2006	Katie Cooper	Westhope	17	2nd runner-up
2005	Caitlin Brown	Colgate	17
2004	Breanna Abernathy	Lansford	18	Top 15	Miss Congeniality
2003	Marisa Field	Fargo	17	Top 10
2002	Jessica Deringer	Bismarck	18
2001	Stacey Thomas	Fargo	18			Later Miss North Dakota 2002 [7]
2000	Amy Kensok	Fargo	15
1999	Natalie Larson	Cooperstown	15
1998	Brandy Smolen	Dickinson	16
1997	Julie Nagle	Fargo	18	Top 10 Finishing in 8th Place
1996	Katrina Bergstrom	Fargo	17	Top 10 Finishing in 9th Place
1995	Jessica Spier	West Fargo	17			Younger sister of 1992 titleholder Juliette Spier
1994	Alison Nesemeier	Casselton	16			Later Miss North Dakota USA 1998
1993	Wendy Howe	Grand Forks	15
1992	Juliette Spier	West Fargo	16			Later Miss North Dakota USA 1996 Finished 6th at Miss USA 1996 pageant
1991	Nicci Elkins	Grand Forks	17	Top 6 Finishing in 4th Place		Later Miss North Dakota 1994 Cousin of Amy Elkins, Miss North Dakota USA 2002
1990	Sherry Bernadis	Fargo	18
1989	Heidi Langseth	Fargo	17	4th runner-up	Miss Congeniality
1988	Jennifer Siminary	Fargo	18			Later Miss North Dakota USA 1993
1987	Dayna Decker	Fargo	17	4th runner-up
1986	Shannon Keiser	Williston	15
1985	Jill Hutchinson	Fargo	17	Top 10 Finishing in 7th Place
1984	Kari Larson	Bismarck	17	Top 10 Finishing in 6th Place		Later Miss North Dakota USA 1990
1983	Lisa Rubin	Grand Forks	17

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

1. "Miss North Dakota USA & Miss North Dakota Teen USA Pageants".
2. "Miss North Dakota USA & Miss North Dakota Teen USA Pageants". www.missnorthdakotausa.com. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
3. "Two crowned at pageant". Bismarck Tribune. December 2, 2009.
4. Kliner, Kate (June 11, 2008). "Youth pageant winners take home titles and scholarships". Williston Herald.
5. "And the winner is: Ariana Walker is crowned Miss ND". Williston Herald. June 11, 2011.
6. "Wahpeton teen competes in Miss North Dakota USA pageant". Daily News . December 3, 2008. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
7. Neft, Sue. "Thomas named Miss N.D." Williston Herald. Retrieved 2018-02-23.

External links

• Official website
• State Director's Official Website.