Miss North Carolina Teen USA

Katie Coble, Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2007

The Miss North Carolina Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Carolina in the Miss Teen USA pageant and is part of the RPM Productions group.

North Carolina has been moderately successful at Miss Teen USA, but has never won the title. Their best placement was in 1987 when Peggy Blackwell placed first runner-up to Kristi Addis of Mississippi. North Carolina's greatest success came from the mid-1980s to early 1990s. Their most recent placement came in 2008, when Julia Dalton placed second runner-up.

Two Miss North Carolina Teen USA's has crossed over to win the Miss North Carolina USA title. The first was Chelsea Cooley, who went on to win the Miss USA title and place in the top 10 at Miss Universe. The other was Erin O' Kelley, Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2001 who made the top 15 at Miss USA 2007. Their placements at Miss USA were better than their teen placements.

Kristen Dalton, who came in first-runner up at the 2005 Miss North Carolina Teen USA pageant to Nikkie Groat, went on to win Miss North Carolina USA in 2009, and won the title of Miss USA 2009. She represented the United States at the Miss Universe pageant in August 2009. Her younger sister Kenzie Dalton, who was first-runner up at the 2006 Miss North Carolina Teen USA pageant, became engaged to actor Chad Michael Murray the same year she placed first-runner up to Melissa Lingafelt (who placed first-runner to Katie Blair of Montana at Miss Teen USA 2006.) Their mother, Jeannie Dalton (Boger) was Miss North Carolina USA 1982, and their sister Julia Dalton was Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2008, and placed second-runner up to Stevi Perry of Arkansas at Miss Teen USA 2008.

Results summary

Placements

• First runners-up: Peggy Blackwell (1997), Melissa Lingafelt (2006)
• Second runners-up: Katie Coble (2007), Julia Dalton (2008)
• Top 6: Holly Furman (1991), Rachel Adcock (1992), Ali Burr (1997)
• Top 10: Tracey Kaggell (1984), Kimberly Jordan (1985)

Awards

• Miss Congeniality: Holly Furman (1991)
• Miss Photogenic: Rachel Adcock (1992), Melissa Lingafelt (2006)

Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Placement at MTUSA	Special awards at MTUSA	Notes
2011	Vanessa McClelland[1]	Fayetteville	19
2010	Lauren Ashley Martz	Salisbury	17
2009	Scarlett Howell	Ansonville	16
2008	Julia Dalton	Wilmington	16	2nd runner-up		Daughter of Jeannie Dalton (Boger), Miss North Carolina USA 1982, Sister of Kristen Dalton, Miss USA 2009 (Miss North Carolina USA 2009)
2007	Katie Coble	Matthews	17	2nd runner-up[2]
2006	Melissa Lingafelt	Concord	16	1st runner-up	Miss Photogenic
2005	Nikkie Groat	Matthews	17
2004	Elizabeth Carty	High Point	17			Miss United States Teen 2005
2003	Erin Hendricks	High Point	18
2002	Brittany Crews	Wake Forest				1st runner up at Miss North Carolina USA 2008
2001	Erin O'Kelley	Asheville				Later Miss North Carolina USA 2007,semifinalist and 15th at Miss USA 2007
2000	Chelsea Cooley	Charlotte				Later Miss North Carolina USA and Miss USA 2005, 9th at Miss Universe 2005,Miss United States Teen 2001, 1st runner up at Miss Teen International 2001 as Miss USA
1999	Stephanie Holt	Albemarle
1998	Lucy Parker	Denver
1997	Ali Burr	Stanfield		Finalist
1996	Tammy Ashton	Gastonia
1995	Meridith Jackson	High Point
1994	Valarie Beasley	Dunn
1993	Wendy Williams	Wade				Sister of Heidi Sue Williams, Miss North Carolina 1992[3]
1992	Rachel Adcock	Conover	17	Top 6	Miss Photogenic
1991	Holly Furman	Boone	17	Top 6	Miss Congeniality
1990	Heather Simmons	Wilmington
1989	Kelly Sheppard	Leicester
1988	Michelle Moore	Fuquay-Varina
1987	Peggy Blackwell	Fayetteville		1st runner-up
1986	Denise Jacobs
1985	Kimberly Jordan	Wilmington		Top 10
1984	Tracey Kaggell	Waynesville	17	Top 10
1983	Janet Freeman	Asheville

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

1. ^ "About Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2011". RPM Productions, Inc.. 2010. http://www.missnorthcarolinausa.com/aboutncteenusa.html. Retrieved May 13, 2011. 
2. ^ Price, Mark (2007-08-24). "Area teen places in Miss Teen USA top 5". Charlotte Observer. http://www.charlotte.com/breaking_news/story/249996.html. Retrieved 2007-08-24. 
3. ^ Womble, Jeffery (1993-03-06). "Fayetteville Teen Brings Home State Pageant Crown". The Fayetteville Observer. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=FV&p_theme=fv&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F54F65611CF01ED&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. 

External links

• Official website