Miss Connecticut USA
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The Miss Connecticut USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Connecticut in the Miss USA pageant. This pageant is directed by Crown Productions, who took over the pageant in 2003.
Despite a number of semi-finals placements in the 1960s, Connecticut is overall one of the least successful states at Miss USA. From 1969 until 2002, not one Miss Connecticut USA had placed at the national competition. This spell was broken by Alita Dawson, who placed 4th runner-up. Dawson was one of three former Miss Connecticut Teen USAs to win the Miss crown (although a former Miss Wisconsin Teen USA also won this competition).
[edit] Results summary
- First runners-up: Diana Zabicki (1962), Pat Denne (1966)
- Fourth runner-up: Alita Dawson (2002)
- Top 15: Andrea Todd (1954), Joyce Trautwig (1960), Florence Mayette (1961), Janice Shilinsky (1968), Elizabeth Wanderman (1969)
[edit] Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Melanie Mudry | New Hartford | 26 | |||
| 2006 | Jeannine Phillips | Lisbon | 22 | |||
| 2005 | Melissa Mandak | Hamden | 26 | |||
| 2004 | Sheila Wiatr | Rocky Hill | 24 | |||
| 2003 | Michelle LaFrance | Orange | 24 | |||
| 2002 | Alita Dawson | Hamden | 22 | 4th Runner-Up | Previously Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1997 | |
| 2001 | Amy Vanderoef | Bristol | 26 | |||
| 2000 | Sallie Toussaint | Hartford | 25 | |||
| 1999 | Christina DAmico | |||||
| 1998 | Kristina Hughes | |||||
| 1997 | Christine Pavone | Shelton | 23 | |||
| 1996 | Wanda Gonzalez | 24 | ||||
| 1995 | Traci Bryant | New Haven | ||||
| 1994 | Mistrella Egan | Danbury | ||||
| 1993 | Alison Benusis | Ridgefield | Previously Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1991 | |||
| 1992 | Catherine Sanchez | |||||
| 1991 | Valorie Abate | |||||
| 1990 | Allison Barbeau-Diorio | Previously Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1987 | ||||
| 1989 | Lisa Vendetti | |||||
| 1988 | Cathy Galasso | |||||
| 1987 | Jolene Foy | Clinton | ||||
| 1986 | Jennifer Benusis | Ridgefield | ||||
| 1985 | Adrianne Hazelwood | Hamden | Previously Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 1984 | |||
| 1984 | Lynne Scalo | Bridgeport | ||||
| 1983 | Mary Seleman | Swansea | ||||
| 1982 | Maureen Szekeres | |||||
| 1981 | Kelly Thompson | |||||
| 1980 | Kristine Wilson | |||||
| 1979 | Mary Beth Lombardi | |||||
| 1978 | Martha Szabo | |||||
| 1977 | Sue Crone | |||||
| 1976 | Rozalyn Ralph | |||||
| 1975 | Michele Menegay | |||||
| 1974 | Valerie Cappello | |||||
| 1973 | Wendy Vecchiarino | |||||
| 1972 | Diane Stevens | |||||
| 1971 | Diane Turetsky | |||||
| 1970 | Patricia Matthews | |||||
| 1969 | Elizabeth Wanderman | Semifinalist | ||||
| 1968 | Janice Shilinsky | Semifinalist | ||||
| 1967 | No Pageant Held | |||||
| 1966 | Pat Denne | 1st Runner-Up | ||||
| 1965 | Elizabeth Matusko | |||||
| 1964 | Patricia Powell | |||||
| 1963 | Gail Dinan | |||||
| 1962 | Diana Zabicki | 1st Runner-Up | ||||
| 1961 | Florence Mayette | Semifinalist | ||||
| 1960 | Joyce Trautwig | Semifinalist | ||||
| 1959 | Jayne Burghardt | |||||
| 1958 | Dorothy Dillen | |||||
| 1957 | Rosemary Galliotti | |||||
| 1956 | Dorothy Bailey | |||||
| 1955 | Jane Bartolotta | |||||
| 1954 | Andrea Todd | Semifinalist | ||||
| 1953 | Beverlee Burlant | |||||
| 1952 | Jo Kuhlmann |
1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
[edit] External links
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