- Miss Kansas Teen USA
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At the conclusion of the Miss Kansas USA and Miss Kansas Teen USA 2008 pageant held in Lawrence, Kansas in December 2007, Jessie Colonna is crowned by Jaymie Stokes (right)
Miss Kansas Teen USA 2008 semi-finalists in evening gownsThe 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 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.
In 1995, Keylee Sue Sanders won the national crown in Wichita, Kansas making Kansas the only state to win the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA titles in their home state.
Contents
Results summary
Placements
- Winners: Keylee Sue Sanders (1995)
- Second runners-up: Danielle Boatwright (1992), Melissa Hurtig (1994)
- Third runners-up: Taylor Clark (2011)
- Top 6: Mariah Bergmann (1997)
- Top 10: Latasha Lawrie (2005), Gentry Miller (2006), Jaymie Stokes (2007)
- Top 12: Denise Blatchford (1991)
Awards
- Miss Photogenic: LaTasha Lawrie (2005)
- Style Award: Mandy Carraway (1996)
Winners
Year Name Hometown Age1 Placement at Miss Teen USA Special awards at Miss Teen USA Notes 2011 Taylor Clark Topeka 17 3rd runner-up 2010 Olivia Harlan Mission Hills 17 Daughter of Kevin Harlan, an American television sports announcer and granddaughter of Bob Harlan, former Green Bay Packers executive[2] 2009 Alexis Rewalt Olathe 18 2008 Jessie Colonna Leawood 17 2007 Jaymie Stokes Lenexa 16 Top 10 Later Miss Kansas USA 2011 2006 Gentry Miller Wichita 18 Top 10 2005 Latasha Laine Lawrie Wichita 18 Top 10 Miss Photogenic 2004 Carissa Kelley Winfield 17 Later Miss Kansas 2011 2003 Megan Price Garden City 18 2002 Amber Ross[3] Manhattan 2001 Lindsey Mackey[4] Olathe 2000 Sarah Jump Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005 1999 Grace Shibley 1998 Ashley Tessendorf Manhattan 1997 Mariah Bergmann Haysville 18 Finalist 1996 Mandy Carraway 18 Style Award Later Miss Kansas USA 1999 1995 Keylee Sue Sanders Louisburg 18 Winner Former co-director of the Miss California USA and Miss California Teen USA pageants under her married name, Keylee Sanders-Hochberg 1994 Melissa Hurtig Courtland 18 2nd runner-up 1993 Christy Dippre Augusta 17 1992 Danielle Boatwright Tonganoxie 17 2nd runner-up[5] Later Miss Kansas USA 1996 1st runner up at Miss USA 1996, sports broadcaster and Survivor: Guatemala winner 1991 Denise Blatchford Arkansas City Semi-finalist 1990 Kerri Williams 1989 Tracey Knopp 1988 Jennifer Eastes Wichita 1987 Stephanie Resnick Whitewater 1986 Kimberlee Girrens Wichita Later Miss Kansas USA 1992, Top 6 finalist at Miss USA 1992, and Mrs. Kansas America 2004 under her married name, Kimberlee Easter.[6] 1985 Tammy Lansing Wichita 1984 Nancy Mardis 1983 Melissa Lyczak Russell 1982 Shari Newell 1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant
References
- ^ "Miss Kansas USA moves to Maize" (Press release). Associated Press. 2000-09-04.
- ^ Stanton, Loren (2010-01-06). "Pretty Sweet: Shawnee Mission East junior wins Miss Kansas Teen USA crown". Sun Publications. http://www.sunpublications.com/201001063488/community/pretty-sweet-shawnee-mission-east-junior-wins-miss-kansas-teen-usa-crown.html.
- ^ "Lawrence woman crowned Miss Kansas USA" (Press release). Associated Press. 2001-09-09.
- ^ "Miss Kansas USA, Miss Kansas Teen USA chosen" (Press release). Associated Press. 2000-09-10.
- ^ "CROWN TRICK Through the storm, pageant kept suspense alive". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 1992-08-28. p. D/12.
- ^ "2004 Mrs America". http://www.tftj.com/db/delegates.htm/33/Mrs/2004. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
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