Jamie Solinger

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Jamie Solinger Beauty pageant titleholder
Birth name:	Jamie Solinger
Birth location:	Altoona, Iowa
Eye color:	Blue
Hair color:	Brown
Title(s):	Miss Iowa Teen USA 1992 Miss Teen USA 1992 Miss Iowa USA 1998
Major Competition(s):	Miss Teen USA 1992 (winner) Miss USA 1998

Jamie Solinger is a beauty queen from Altoona, Iowa who won the title Miss Teen USA 1992.

Solinger competed as Miss Iowa Teen USA in the Miss Teen USA 1992 in pageant which was nationally broadcast from Biloxi, Mississippi on 25 August 1992. Although the pageant was televised live, the threat of Hurricane Andrew meant that the conclusion was unable to be broadcast. Instead, what later became known in beauty pageants as the "Hurricane Option" was used where both Solinger and the other member of the top two, Angela Logan of Oklahoma were taped "winning" the title. Solinger was eventually declared the winner and her crowning shown.

Solinger was only the second teen from Iowa to place in the national pageant, and her state would not place again until 1995. The latest placement of Iowa was in 2003.

Solinger later won the Miss Iowa USA 1998 title, and competed in the Miss USA pageant alongside Shauna Gambill of California who had also previously held the Miss Teen USA title, in 1994. This was the second time that two former Miss Teen USA titleholders had competed in the same Miss USA pageant. The first time was in Miss USA 1984, where Miss Teen USA 1983 and 1984 competed as "Miss Teen USA." That year featured the most delegates in a Miss USA pageant--53. Solinger failed to place at the Miss USA 1998 pageant.

Copying Miss Teen USA 1989 and Miss USA 1997, Brandi Sherwood, Gambill placed 1st runner up. Unlike Sherwood, however, the crown did not pass to Gamble because the winner, Shawnae Jebbia, did not go on to win Miss Universe. Had Gamble won the title of Miss USA, she would have been the first Miss Teen USA winner competing at Miss Universe, and the second woman to compete at all 3 pageants (Miss Teen USA, Miss USA, and Miss Universe). Ali Landry, Miss USA 1996 and Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1990, was the first.

After completing her year as Miss Iowa USA, Jamie crowned her sister Jaclyn as Miss Iowa USA 1999. They are one of few pairs of sisters to compete at Miss USA, and the first to win the same title in subsequent years. It would not happen again until 2003-2004 when sisters Alicia and Justine Michioka won consecutive Miss Hawaii USA titles.