Miss West Virginia Teen USA

Miss West Virginia Teen USA
Formation1983
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersBuckhannon
Location
Membership
Miss Teen USA
Official language
English
WebsiteOfficial Website
Chelsea Welch, Miss West Virginia Teen USA 2007

The Miss West Virginia Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of West Virginia in the Miss Teen USA pageant. This pageant is independently conducted and produced by Empower2 Productions LLC. and is formerly directed by Sanders & Associates, Inc., dba- Pageant Associates based in Buckhannon, West Virginia.

Despite a relatively strong start in the 1980s, with two semi-finals finishes, no Miss West Virginia Teen USA placed from 1988 to 2005, when Andrea Turner placed 2nd runner-up to Allie LaForce of Ohio. After this, West Virginia had more success with more placements in 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018.

Four Miss West Virginia Teen USA's have also won the Miss West Virginia USA title and competed at Miss USA.

Emma Kitchen of Buckhannon was crowned Miss West Virginia Teen USA 2022 on June 5, 2022 at Virginia Thomas Law Center for the Performing Arts in West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon. She will represent West Virginia for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.

Results summary

Placements

  • 1st runners-up: Elizabeth Sabatino (2012)
  • 2nd runners-up: Andrea Turner (2005), Haley Holloway (2013)
  • 4th runners-up: Chelsea Welch (2007), Olivia Travis (2024)
  • Top 10: Jodi Caldwell (1986), Wendy Stephens (1988)
  • Top 15: Susan Hines King (2011), Lexsey Marrara (2014), Olivia Hutchison (2017), Trinity Tiffany (2018)

West Virginia holds a record of 10 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

  • Miss Congeniality: Jasmine Lemons of Wheeling (2020)
  • Miss Photogenic: Cayton Carder of Masontown (2020)

Winners

  •   Declared as Winner
  •   Ended as runner-up
  •   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
Year Name Hometown Age1 Placement at Miss Teen USA Special awards at Miss Teen USA Notes
2024 Olivia Travis Gerrardstown 19 4th Runner-up
2023 Lakyn Campbell Parkersburg 18
2022 Emma Kitchen Buckhannon 18
2021 Brylee Knotts Grafton 18
2020 Sophia Isabella Martino Bridgeport 17
2019 Brennah Groves Summersville 17
2018 Trinity Tiffany Huntington 16 Top 15
2017 Olivia Hutchison Huntington 18 Top 15
2016 Cassy Trickett St. Marys 18
2015 Cora King Hurricane 16 Miss Congeniality
2014 Lexsey Marrara Morgantown 17 Top 15
2013 Haley Holloway Morgantown 17 2nd runner-up Later Miss West Virginia USA 2019
2012 Elizabeth Sabatino[1] Morgantown 16 1st runner-up
2011 Susan Hines King Fairmont 16 Top 15
2010 Ally Grace Brandfass Morgantown 16
2009 Alysia Thompson Ripley 16
2008 Micah Michael[2] Morgantown 17
2007 Chelsea Welch West Union 16 4th runner-up Later Miss West Virginia USA 2013 and Top 15 at Miss USA 2013
2006 Lora Gallagher Bridgeport 18
2005 Andrea Turner Benwood 17 2nd runner-up
2004 Mary Ellen Wolfe Huntington 18 Daughter of Mrs. America 1984- Deborah Wolfe[3]
2003 Whitney Veach Petersburg 16 Later Miss West Virginia USA 2011
2002 Heather Estep Hurricane 18
2001 Tara Szersen Wheeling 17
2000 Ginneene Barone Charleston 18
1999 Carrie Anne Fleshman Pinch/Charleston 16
1998 Erica Bevins Huntington 18
1997 Amanda Burns Charleston 17 Later Miss West Virginia USA 1999 and Mrs. West Virginia America 2004 under her married name, Amanda Duffy.[4]
1996 Heather Gray Charleston 16
1995 Sarah Russell Hurricane 15
1994 Jonelle Spiker Charleston 17
1993 Jennifer Pringle Charleston 19
1992 Kelly Humphreys Charleston 15
1991 Tracey Rexroad Weston 18
1990 Mindy Green Buckhannon 18
1989 Jennifer Dunn Buckhannon 18
1988 Wendy Stephens Parkersburg 18 Top 10
1987 Cheryl Cullop Beckley 17
1986 Jodi Caldwell Nitro 15 Top 10
1985 Kelly Porterfield Martinsburg 16 Best State Costume
1984 Trina Vertillo Richwood 15
1983 Kay Scadden Newell 17

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

  1. ^ "3 area women make semi-finalist in Miss West Virginia USA pageants". Herald-Dispatch. October 31, 2011.
  2. ^ "Pageants". Herald-Dispatch. November 3, 2007.
  3. ^ West Virginia 2004 Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, TFTJ
  4. ^ "2004 Mrs America". Archived from the original on June 24, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2010.