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 North Dakota Teen USA delegate to compete at the Miss America pageant.

[edit] Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age¹	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2008	Gretchen Dawley	Munich	17
2007	Taylor Kearns	Fargo	18
2006	Katie Cooper	Westhope	17	2nd runner-up
2005	Caitlin Brown	Colgate	17
2004	Breanna Abernathy	Lansford	18	Semi-finalist	Miss Congeniality
2003	Marisa Field		17	Semi-finalist
2002	Jessica Deringer
2001	Stacey Thomas					Later Miss North Dakota 2002
2000	Amy Kensok
1999	Natalie Larson	Cooperstown
1998	Brandy Smolen
1997	Julie Nagle			Semi-finalist
1996	Katrina Bergstrom			Semi-finalist
1995	Jessica Spier					Younger sister of 1992 titleholder Juliette Spier.
1994	Alison Nesemeier					Later Miss North Dakota USA 1998
1993	Wendy Howe
1992	Juliette Spier					Later Miss North Dakota USA 1996, finished 6th at Miss USA 1996
1991	Nicci Elkins			Finalist)		Later Miss North Dakota 1994
1990	Sherry Bernadis
1989	Heidi Langseth			4th runner-up	Miss Congeniality
1988	Jennifer Siminary					Later Miss North Dakota USA 1993
1987	Dayna Decker	Fargo		4th runner-up
1986	Shannon Keiser
1985	Jill Hutchinson			Semi-finalist
1984	Kari Larson		17	Top 10		Later Miss North Dakota USA 1990
1983	Lisa Rubin