Miss Missouri Teen USA

Miss Missouri Teen USA

Formation	1983
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Shawnee
Location	Kansas
Membership	Miss Teen USA
Official language	English
Key people	John M. Vannatta Jason Vannatta Jennifer Vannatta-Fisher, State Pageant Director
Website	Official website

Jeni Dixon, Miss Missouri Teen USA 2008

The Miss Missouri Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Missouri in the Miss Teen USA pageant. It is directed by Vanbros and Associates, based in Shawnee, Kansas. In 1993, Missouri joined the Vanbros group of state pageants for the Miss USA and Teen USA system.

Missouri is in the top 10 most successful states at Miss Teen USA in terms of number and value of placements. Six Missouri teens have gone on to compete at Miss USA, although only four as Miss Missouri USA. The other two represented Kansas, another Vanbros state.

Two notable Miss Missouri Teen USAs (who both later won the title Miss Missouri USA) are Larissa Meek and Melana Scantlin, who appeared on the reality TV show Average Joe.

Shae Smith of Bolivar was crowned Miss Missouri Teen USA 2022 on May 1, 2022, at The Mansion Theater for the Performing Arts in Branson, Missouri. She will represent Missouri for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022 in the fall of 2022.

Results summary

Placements

• Miss Teen USAs: Marissa Whitley (2001), Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff (2017)
• 2nd runners-up: Audra Shurman (1991)
• 4th runners-up: Rhonda Hoglan (1985), Sydnee Stottlemyre (2011)
• Top 6: Tiffany Meyer (1994), Leah Sexton (1996)
• Top 10: Caitlin McIntosh (2000)
• Top 12: Tavia Shackles (1990), Melana Scantlin (1995)
• Top 15: Alissa Reitmeier (2004), Sierra Drimak (2009), Christina Stratton (2015), Dallas Ezard (2016)
• Top 16: Brenda Smith-Lezama (2013)^‡, Anna Long (2021)
• Top 20: Madison Beck (2023)

Missouri holds a record of 17 placements at Miss Teen USA.

‡ Voted into Top 16 as America's Choice

Awards

• Miss Photogenic: Melanie Breedlove (1993), Christina Stratton (2015)
• Miss Congeniality: Rachel Woolard (2005)

Winners

•   Declared as Winner
•   Ended as runner-up
•   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Year	Name	Hometown	Age^1	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2024	Shelby Welling	Jefferson City	18	Top 20
2023	Madison Beck	Barnhart	18	Top 20
2022	Shae Smith	Bolivar	18			Previously Miss Missouri's Outstanding Teen 2019 4th runner-up at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2020
2021	Anna Long	Lake Winnebago	17	Top 16
2020	Holly McDowell	Lee's Summit	15
2019	Abilene Lortz	St. James	15
2018	Chloe Bartlett	Liberal	18			Daughter of Miss Missouri USA 1990 Lori Suschnick
2017	Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff	Kansas City	16	Miss Teen USA 2017
2016	Dallas Ezard	St. Louis	18	Top 15		Daughter of Miss Missouri USA 1993 Stephanie Nunn Ezard.
2015	Christina Stratton	Sedalia	15	Top 15	Miss Photogenic	Later Miss Missouri's Outstanding Teen 2016 Top 8 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2017
2014	Samantha Bowers	Harrisonville	18
2013	Brenda Smith-Lezama	Columbia	18	Top 16		Student at University of Missouri at the time of crowning Later Mexicana Universal Ciudad de México 2019 2nd runner up at Mexicana Universal 2020 Later Señorita Panamá 2021
2012	Jayde Ogle	Liberty	17
2011	Sydnee Stottlemyre	St. Louis	17	4th runner-up		Previously Miss Missouri's Outstanding Teen 2008 4th runner up at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2009 Later Miss Missouri USA 2016 Top 10 at Miss USA 2016
2010	Erica Sturdefant	Springfield	16			Later Miss Missouri USA 2014
2009	Sierra Drimak	Cottleville	18	Top 15
2008	Jeni Dixon	Hartville	17
2007	Lauren Peterson	Farmington	16			Later Miss Grand USA 2015
2006	Breanna Huellinghorst	O'Fallon	16
2005	Rachel Woolard	Naylor	17		Miss Congeniality
2004	Alissa Reitmeier	St. Charles	17	Top 15
2003	Amber Seyer	Oran	17			Later Miss Missouri USA 2007 Top 10 Miss USA 2007
2002	Courtney Chilcutt	Dexter	18
2001	Marissa Whitley	Springfield	17	Miss Teen USA 2001
2000	Caitlin McIntosh	New Haven	18	Top 10		3rd runner up at Miss Oktoberfest 2002
1999	Andrea Camile Elliott	Independence	19
1998	Brittany McDonald	Sikeston	18
1997	Larissa Meek	St. Louis	17			Later Miss Missouri USA 2001 Finished 5th at Miss USA 2001
1996	Leah Sexton	Independence	17	Top 6
1995	Melana Scantlin	Gladstone	19	Top 12		Later Miss Missouri USA 2002
1994	Tiffany Meyer	Parkville	19	Top 6		Later Miss Kansas USA 2000 Finished 4th at Miss USA 2000 2nd runner-up at Miss Oktoberfest 2001 as Miss Missouri
1993	Melanie Breedlove	Mountain Grove	19		Miss Photogenic	Later Miss Missouri USA 1998 2nd runner-up at Miss USA 1998
1992	Robin Swain	Lilbourn	18
1991	Audra Sherman[1]	Sikeston	15	2nd Runner-up
1990	Tavia Shackles	Lee's Summit	18	Top 12		Later Miss Kansas USA 1993 2nd runner up at Miss USA 1993 Later married Kansas City Chiefs owner and CEO Clark Hunt Mother of Gracie Hunt, Miss Kansas USA 2021 Daughter-in-law of Chiefs and AFL and MLS founder Lamar Hunt
1989	April Smith	Kansas City	15
1988	Beverly Boatright	Republic	19
1987	Sherri Garner	Kansas City	17
1986	Jennifer Tangora[2]	Mexico	18
1985	Rhonda Hoglan	Kansas City	16	4th Runner-up		Later Miss Missouri USA 1989
1984	Leanne Sydenstricker	Mexico	17
1983	Lisa Logan	Columbia	18

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

1. "Miss Missouri Teen". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 25 August 1991. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
2. "A trunk full". The Delaware Gazette. 7 January 1986. Retrieved 24 May 2023.

External links

• Official website