Miss North Dakota Teen USA

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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.

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 [1]. North Dakota is one of only ten states to have had nine or more semifinalist (or better) placings at Miss Teen USA [2]. Despite this, no Miss North Dakota Teen USA has won the Miss Teen USA crown, and in fact the highest placement ever reached by a North Dakota teen is 2nd runner-up, which was awarded to Katie Cooper 2006.

Four 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 Teen USA delegate to compete at the Miss America pageant.

[edit] List of Winners

  • 2007 - Taylor Kearns
  • 2006 - Katie Cooper (2nd runner-up at Miss Teen USA 2006)
  • 2005 - Caitlin Brown
  • 2004 - Breanna Abernathy (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA and Miss Congeniality)
  • 2003 - Marisa Field (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA)
  • 2002 - Jessica Deringer
  • 2001 - Stacey Thomas -- future Miss North Dakota (America) 2002
  • 2000 - Amy Kensok
  • 1999 - Natalie Larson
  • 1998 - Brandy Smolen
  • 1997 - Julie Nagle (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA)
  • 1996 - Katrina Bergstrom (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA)
  • 1995 - Jessica Spier
  • 1994 - Alison Nesemeier -- future Miss North Dakota USA 1998
  • 1993 - Wendy Howe
  • 1992 - Juliette Spier -- future Miss North Dakota USA 1996
  • 1991 - Nicci Elkins (Finalist at Miss Teen USA) -- future Miss North Dakota (America) 1994
  • 1990 - Sherry Bernadis
  • 1989 - Heidi Langseth (4th runner-up at Miss Teen USA and Miss Congeniality)
  • 1988 - Jennifer Siminary -- future Miss North Dakota USA 1993
  • 1987 - Dayna Decker (4th runner-up at Miss Teen USA)
  • 1986 - Shannon Keiser
  • 1985 - Jill Hutchinson (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA)
  • 1984 - Kari Larson (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA) -- future Miss North Dakota USA 1990
  • 1983 - Lisa Rubin

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