Miss Virginia Teen USA

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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

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

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 [1]. 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 Marocco placed 1st runner-up to Ruth Zakarian of New York. Their most recent placement was in 2006, when Samantha casey finished 3rd runner-up, tieing with Angela Thigpin (1986) for Virginia's second-highest placement. This follows 2005, when Tori Hall reached the finals, ending a six-year dry spell.

Virginia ties the record for the most Teens to cross over to win the Miss Virginia USA title and compete at Miss USA. 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 most recent Miss Virginia USA, Lauren Barnette, is also a former Teen.

[edit] Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age¹	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2008	Megan Myrehn	Catharpin	17		Miss Teen Beauties of America 2007
2007	Emily Bruce	Lynchburg	17	Top Ten
2006	Samantha Casey	Jeffersonton	17	Third runner-up
2005	Tori Hall	Midlothian	18	Finalist	Later Miss Virginia USA 2008 Contestant on Road Rules 2007: Viewer's Revenge
2004	Mally Gent	Honaker	18
2003	Amber Copley	Abingdon	18		Later Miss Virginia USA 2006
2002	Lauren Barnette	Wise	17		Later Miss Virginia USA 2007, top 10 at Miss USA 2007
2001	Kathleen Lighthiser
2000	Jennifer Hawkins
1999	Kristi Lauren Glakas	Centreville	18	Semi-finalist	Triple Crown winner, Later Miss Virginia USA 2004 and Miss Virginia 2005, 3rd runner up to Miss America 2006
1998	Misty Horn	Richlands	18	Finalist
1997	Kimberly Grigsby			Semi-finalist
1996	Kandy Marshall
1995	Kristel Jenkins				Later Miss Virginia USA 2001
1994	Kristen Wilson
1993	Heather Anderson
1992	Andrea Ballengee			Semi-finalist	Crowned Miss Virginia 1995 but was disqualified when it was discovered that she had embellished her academic record^[1]^[2]; later Mrs California 2006 and Mrs America 2006 (top ten at Mrs World 2006)married name Andrea Preuss
1991	Linda Overhue
1990	Yoranda Harris
1989	Stephanie Satterfield				Later Miss Virginia USA 1993
1988	Audra Wilks				Later Miss Virginia USA 1997
1987	Kristi Pearce	Colonial Heights
1986	Angela Thigpin			3rd runner-up
1985	Alice Robinson
1984	Marcy Brickhouse
1983	Tina Marocco			1st runner-up

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

[edit] References

^ "New Miss Virginia to Keep Crown", Charleston Daily Mail, 1995-07-07.
^ Reed, David. "Pageant Organizers Strip Miss Virginia of Crown", Associated Press, 2007-07-20.