Miss Kentucky Teen USA
| Formation | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Louisville |
| Location | |
Membership | Miss Teen USA |
Official language | English |
| Website | Official website |
The Miss Kentucky Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kentucky in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
Kentucky is ranked eight in terms of place and value of placements across all twenty-three years of competition at Miss Teen USA. When this is broken down to the six pageants 2000-2005, Kentucky places second.[1] They are one of only five states to have won more than one Photogenic award.[2]
Miss Kentucky Teen USA 2002 Tara Conner, who placed second runner-up to Vanessa Semrow at Miss Teen USA, later became Miss Kentucky USA 2006. She is one of three teens to cross over to the corresponding Miss title, although one went on to compete at Miss America.
Results summary
Placement at Miss Teen USA
- First runners-up: Kristi Dawn Hicks (1989)
- Second runners-up: Krista Keith (1983), Kristen Johnson (2000), Tara Conner (2002)
- Top 6: April Vaughn (1990)
- Top 10: Lexie Kemper (1999), Amanda Nunnelley (2003)
- Top 12: Brittany Johnson (1995)
- Top 15: Sarah Withers (2005), Jefra Bland (2009), Taylor Hubbard (2010)
Awards
- Miss Photogenic: Lexie Kemper (1999), Kristen Johnson (2000)
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement at Miss Teen USA | Special awards at Miss Teen USA | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Caroline Ford | Bowling Green | 18 | |||
| 2014 | Megan Ducharm | Shelbyville | 18 | |||
| 2013 | Gracie Sapp | Lexington | 15 | |||
| 2012 | Tiffany Cline | Georgetown | ||||
| 2011 | Stephanie Jones | Elizabethtown | 18 | |||
| 2010 | Taylor Hubbard | London | 15 | Top 15 | ||
| 2009 | Jefra Bland | Campbellsville | 19 | Top 15 | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2012; later contestant on Survivor: Cagayan | |
| 2008 | Shannen Reil | West Van Lear | 15 | |||
| 2007 | Katrina Giannini | Princeton | 17 | |||
| 2006 | Tiffany Withrow | Ashland | 17 | |||
| 2005 | Sarah Bryan Withers | Columbia | 18 | Top 15 | ||
| 2004 | Megan Frank | Greensburg | 19 | |||
| 2003 | Amanda Nunnelley | Louisville | 17 | Top 10 | ||
| 2002 | Tara Conner | Russell Springs | 16 | 2nd runner-up | Body Glove Swimsuit Award | Later Miss Kentucky USA 2006 and Miss USA 2006, 4th Runner up at Miss Universe 2006 |
| 2001 | Katherine Faulkner | Hazard | ||||
| 2000 | Kristen Johnson | Slaughters | 18 | 2nd runner-up | Miss Photogenic | Later Miss Kentucky USA 2005, 2nd runner up at Miss USA 2005 |
| 1999 | Lexie Kemper | Louisville | 17 | Top 10 | Miss Photogenic | |
| 1998 | Elizabeth Arnold | Columbia | Later Miss Kentucky USA 2002 | |||
| 1997 | Kelli Jones | |||||
| 1996 | Kelly Marie Sodan | Berea | ||||
| 1995 | Brittany Johnson | Virgie | 17 | Top 12 | ||
| 1994 | Crystal Hayden | |||||
| 1993 | Holly Riggs | |||||
| 1992 | Heather Boggess | |||||
| 1991 | Christine Jackman | Louisville | ||||
| 1990 | April Vaughn | 17 | Top 6 | |||
| 1989 | Kristi Dawn Hicks | Bardstown | 17 | 1st runner-up | Later Miss Kentucky 1995 | |
| 1988 | Marti Hendricks | Danville | ||||
| 1987 | Tracey Marsee | Middlesboro | ||||
| 1986 | Amy Miller | |||||
| 1985 | Leanne Gregory | Lexington | ||||
| 1984 | Suzy Neclerio | Georgetown | ||||
| 1983 | Krista Keith | 16 | 2nd runner-up |
1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant
References
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