Miss Kansas Teen USA
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The Miss Kansas Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kansas in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
This pageant has been part of the Vanbros organisation since 1992, and in 2006 celebrated their fifteen-year anniversary with a reunion of former titleholders at the 2007 pageant. For the first time, all the judges for both the Miss Kansas USA and Miss Kansas Teen USA pageants were former titleholders from the Vanbros states: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Prior to 1994 the pageant, held concurrently with the Miss Kansas USA event, was hosted by Kansas City. In 1994 the pageant was moved to the state capital Wichita. In 2000, the pageant directors moved the event to the small town of Maize, just outside Wichita,[1] where it was also held the following year, before it was brought back to Wichita proper from 2002-2003. The pageant was held in Overland Park for the first time in 2004 and also in 2005. In 2006 it moved to Lawrence.
Kansas had a slow start at Miss Teen USA, and did not place until 1991. Despite this they placed extremely well in the 1990s, with one semi-finalist placing, one finalist placing, two 2nd runner-up placings and one winner, and were in fact the second highest placed state in that decade [1]. Latasha Laine Lawrie brought Kansas back into the placings in the 21st century with her finalist placing in 2005. She also won the Miss Photogenic award, the only major award won by a Kansas teen.
Three Kansas teens have gone on to win the Miss Kansas USA crown. The most successful, and most notable of these was Danielle Boatwright, who placed 2nd runner-up to Miss Teen USA, 1st runner-up to Miss USA and won the reality tv show Survivor: Guatemala.
[edit] Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement at Miss Teen USA | Special awards at Miss Teen USA | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jaymie Stokes | Lenexa | 16 | |||
| 2006 | Gentry Miller | Wichita | 18 | Top 10 | ||
| 2005 | Latasha Laine Lawrie | Wichita | 18 | Finalist | Miss Photogenic | |
| 2004 | Carissa Kelley | |||||
| 2003 | Megan Price | Garden City | ||||
| 2002 | Amber Ross[2] | Manhattan | ||||
| 2001 | Lindsey Mackey[3] | Olathe | ||||
| 2000 | Sarah Jump | |||||
| 1999 | Grace Shibley | |||||
| 1998 | Ashley Tessendorf | |||||
| 1997 | Mariah Bergmann | Haysville | 18 | Finalist | ||
| 1996 | Mandy Carraway | 18 | Style Award | Later Miss Kansas USA 1999 | ||
| 1995 | Keylee Sue Sanders | 18 | Winner | director of the Miss California USA pageant (2006-) | ||
| 1994 | Melissa Hurting | 2nd runner-up | ||||
| 1993 | Christy Dipree | |||||
| 1992 | Danielle Boatwright | 2nd runner-up[4] | Later Miss Kansas USA 1996, sports broadcaster and Survivor: Guatemala winner | |||
| 1991 | Denise Blatchford | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1990 | Kerri Williams | |||||
| 1989 | Tracey Knopp | |||||
| 1988 | Jennifer Eastes | |||||
| 1987 | Stephanie Resnick | |||||
| 1986 | Kimberlee Girrens | Later Miss Kansas USA 1992 | ||||
| 1985 | Tammy Lansing | |||||
| 1984 | Nancy Mardis | |||||
| 1983 | Melissa Lyczak | |||||
| 1982 | Shari Newell |
1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant
[edit] References
- ^ Associated Press (2000-09-04). Miss Kansas USA moves to Maize. Press release.
- ^ Associated Press (2001-09-09). Lawrence woman crowned Miss Kansas USA. Press release.
- ^ Associated Press (2000-09-10). Miss Kansas USA, Miss Kansas Teen USA chosen. Press release.
- ^ "CROWN TRICK Through the storm, pageant kept suspense alive", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1992-08-28, p. D/12.
[edit] External links
| Kansas Pageantry | |
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| Miss America Miss Kansas |
Miss USA Miss Kansas USA |
| Miss America's Outstanding Teen Miss Kansas's Outstanding Teen |
Miss Teen USA Miss Kansas Teen USA |
| Vanbros State Pageants | ||||||
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| Miss Kansas USA 1993- Miss Kansas Teen USA 1992- |
Miss Missouri USA 1993- Miss Missouri Teen USA 1993- |
Miss Nebraska USA 2002- Miss Nebraska Teen USA 2002- |
Miss Oklahoma USA 1997- Miss Oklahoma Teen USA 1997- |
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