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Miss Virginia Teen USA

Miss Virginia Teen USA

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The Miss Virginia Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Virginia in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

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Megan Myrehn, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2008
Samantha Casey, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2006
Miss Virginia Teen USA 2003 and Miss Virginia USA 2006 Amber Copley

Virginia is one of the more successful states at Miss Teen USA, and is placed in the top twenty in terms of number and value of placements . Their most successful decade was the 1980s.

No Miss Virginia Teen USA has won the Miss Teen USA crown, but their highest placement came in the first year of competition, when Tina Marrocco placed 1st runner-up to Ruth Zakarian of New York.

Virginia ties the record for the most Teens to cross over to win the Miss Virginia USA title and compete at Miss USA with ten in all, two others have later been crowned in other states, Indiana and North Carolina. One of these is Kristi Lauren Glakas, a Triple Crown winner who competed at Miss USA 2004 and placed 3rd runner-up at Miss America 2006.

The current titleholder is Ashley Wang, who was crowned on April 30 2023 at Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas and placed top 20 at Miss Teen USA 2023. Wang is the state's first Chinese American titleholder.[1]

Results summary

Placements

  • 1st runners-up: Tina Marrocco (1983)
  • 3rd runners-up: Angela Thigpin (1986), Samantha Casey (2006)
  • Top 5: Misty Horn (1998)
  • Top 10: Kimberly Grigsby (1997), Kristi Lauren Glakas (1999), Tori Hall (2005), Emily Bruce (2007)
  • Top 12: Andrea Ballengee (1992)
  • Top 15: Megan Myrehn (2008), Jacqueline Carroll (2010)
  • Top 20: Ashley Wang (2023)

Virginia holds a record of 12 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Winners

  •   Declared as Winner
  •   Ended as runner-up
  •   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
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1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant


References

  1. "Herndon student crowned Miss Virginia Teen USA". wusa9.com. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  2. "New Miss Virginia to Keep Crown". Charleston Daily Mail. 1995-07-07.
  3. Reed, David (2007-07-20). "Pageant Organizers Strip Miss Virginia of Crown". Associated Press.

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