Miss Virginia Teen USA

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Miss Virginia Teen USA
Formation1983
Type Beauty pageant
Headquarters Richmond
Location
Membership
Miss Teen USA
Official language
English
Key people
Kimberly Nicewonder-Johnson, Executive Director
Website Official website
Megan Myrehn, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2008 Megan Myrehn headshot.png
Megan Myrehn, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2008
Samantha Casey, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2006 Samantha Casey.jpg
Samantha Casey, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2006
Miss Virginia Teen USA 2003 and Miss Virginia USA 2006 Amber Copley Amber Copley 2006.jpg
Miss Virginia Teen USA 2003 and Miss Virginia USA 2006 Amber Copley

The Miss Virginia Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Virginia in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

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Virginia is one of the more successful states at Miss Teen USA, and is placed in the top twenty in terms of number and value of placements . Their most successful decade was the 1980s.

No Miss Virginia Teen USA has won the Miss Teen USA crown, but their highest placement came in the first year of competition, when Tina Marrocco placed 1st runner-up to Ruth Zakarian of New York.

Virginia ties the record for the most Teens to cross over to win the Miss Virginia USA title and compete at Miss USA with ten in all, two others have later been crowned in other states, Indiana and North Carolina. One of these is Kristi Lauren Glakas, a Triple Crown winner who competed at Miss USA 2004 and placed 3rd runner-up at Miss America 2006.

The current titleholder is Ashley Wang, who was crowned on April 30 2023 at Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas and placed top 20 at Miss Teen USA 2023. Wang is the state's first Chinese American titleholder. [1]

Results summary

Placements

Virginia holds a record of 12 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Winners

YearNameHometownAge1Placement at Miss Teen USASpecial awards at Miss Teen USANotes
2024 Julia Allen Lynchburg 17TBA
2023 Ashley Wang Herndon 16Top 20First Chinese American Miss Virginia Teen USA [2]
2022 Hannah Grau Fredericksburg 17
2021 Alyssa Mawyer Broadway 18Previously Miss High School America 2019
2020 Amya Caldwell Ashburn 16
2019 Morgan Duty Lebanon 16
2018 Himanvi Preeti Panidepu Centreville 17First Asian American and first East Indian American Miss Virginia Teen-USA


Later Miss Virginia USA 2024

2017 Madison Walker Virginia Beach 16
2016 Gracyn Blackmore Bristol 16
2015 Annie Kutyna Herndon 15
2014 Olivia Fletcher Louisa 16
2013 Caelynn Miller-Keyes Fredericksburg 17Later Miss North Carolina USA 2018 and first runner up at Miss USA 2018. Contestant on season 23 of The Bachelor and season 6 of Bachelor in Paradise
2012 Elizabeth Coakley Abingdon 17
2011 Susie Evans Poquoson 17Later Miss Virginia USA 2020
Winner of season 26 of The Bachelor
2010 Jacqueline Carroll Stanardsville 16Top 15Later Miss Virginia USA 2017
2009 Maggie Lawson Bristol 18
2008 Megan Myrehn Catharpin 18Top 15Later Miss Indiana USA 2012
2007 Emily Bruce Lynchburg 17Top 10
2006 Samantha Casey Jeffersonton 173rd runner-upLater Miss Virginia USA 2010 and second runner up at Miss USA 2010
2005 Tori Hall Midlothian 18Top 10Later Miss Virginia USA 2008

Cast member on Road Rules 2007: Viewers' Revenge

2004 Mally Gent Honaker 18
2003 Amber Copley Abingdon 18Later Miss Virginia USA 2006
2002 Lauren Barnette Wise


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Later Miss Virginia USA 2007, top 10 at Miss USA 2007,

Model on NBC's Deal or No Deal

2001 Stephanie Card Staunton 16
2000 Jennifer Hawkins Lynchburg 17
1999 Kristi Lauren Glakas Centreville 18Semi-finalist Triple Crown winner, Later Miss Virginia USA 2004 and Miss Virginia 2005, 3rd runner up to Miss America 2006
1998 Misty Horn Richlands 18Top 5
1997 Kimberly Grigsby Richmond 18Semi-finalist
1996 Kandy Marshall Richmond 16
1995 Kristel Jenkins Vinton 17Later Miss Virginia USA 2001
1994 Kristen Wilson Richmond 15
1993 Heather Anderson Richmond 17
1992 Andrea Ballengee Richmond 19Semi-finalistCrowned Miss Virginia 1995 but was disqualified when it was discovered that she had embellished her academic record; [3] [4] later Mrs California 2006 and Mrs America 2006 (top ten at Mrs World 2006) married name Andrea Preuss.
1991 Linda Overhue Richmond 16
1990 Yoranda Harris Richmond 19
1989 Stephanie Satterfield Virginia Beach 15Later Miss Virginia USA 1993
1988 Audra Wilks Richmond 15Later Miss Virginia USA 1997
1987 Kristi Pearce Colonial Heights 15
1986 Angela Thigpin Fort Smith153rd runner-up
1985 Alice Robinson Richmond 17
1984 Shannon Lea Rundle Poquoson 16
1983 Tina Marrocco McLean 161st runner-up

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

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References

  1. "Herndon student crowned Miss Virginia Teen USA". wusa9.com. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  2. "Oakton High Student Is First East Asian to Win Miss Virginia Teen USA". NBC4. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  3. "New Miss Virginia to Keep Crown". Charleston Daily Mail. 1995-07-07.
  4. Reed, David (2007-07-20). "Pageant Organizers Strip Miss Virginia of Crown". Associated Press.