Miss Iowa Teen USA

Miss Iowa Teen USA
Formation1983
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersSavage
Location
MembershipMiss Teen USA
Official language
English
WebsiteOfficial Website
Dakota Crosswhite, Miss Iowa Teen USA 2007

The Miss Iowa Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Iowa in the Miss Teen USA pageant, which is co-owned by the Miss USA Organization by Crystle Stewart. This pageant is produced by Future Productions, LLC which also produces state pageants for Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

Miss Iowa Teen USA 1992 Jamie Solinger was crowned Miss Teen USA at the national pageant held in Biloxi, Mississippi that year. Iowa became the 9th state that won the Miss Teen USA title for the first time.

Solinger is one of only three Iowa teens to cross over and win the Miss Iowa USA title.

Marisa Mathson of Waukee was crowned Miss Iowa Teen USA 2022 on May 21, 2022, at Des Moines Marriott Downtown in Des Moines. She will represent Iowa for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.

Results summary

Placements

  • Winner: Jamie Solinger (1992)
  • Top 12: Chelsey Ridge (1995)
  • Top 15/16/20: Alyssa Cook (2003), Carley Arnold (2017), Angel Strong (2021), Marisa Mathson (2022), Maddie Erickson (2023)

Iowa holds a record of 7 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Special Award

  • Miss Photogenic: Allyson Hovda (2009)

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 Grace Smithey Polk City 19
2023 Maddie Erickson Ankeny 19 Top 20
2022 Marisa Mathson Waukee 17 Top 16
2021 Angel Strong West Des Moines 19 Top 16 Eligible as a student of Drake University at the time of crowning
2020 Hailey Parton West Des Moines 17
2019 Kristen Hovda Cedar Rapids 18 Sister of Allyson Hovda, Miss Iowa Teen USA 2009
2018 Isabella Russell Marshalltown 17
2017 Carley Arnold Chariton 17 Top 15
2016 Hannah Bockhaus Tripoli 17
2015 Aryn Book Adel 18
2014 Amanda Armstrong Sioux City 16
2013 Morgan Kofoid Leon 16 Later Miss Iowa USA 2020
2012 Carissa Becker Waterloo 17
2011 Richelle Orr [1] Hampton 19 Later Miss Iowa USA 2013
2010 Erica Lansman Bettendorf 19
2009 Allyson Hovda Cedar Rapids 18 Miss Photogenic Originally first runner-up; assumed the title after Ally Cymboluk resigned
Later National All-American Miss 2012–2013
Ally Cymboluk Waukon 16 Did not compete Relinquished the title on January 1, 2009, for personal reasons.
2008 Emily Bey Cedar Rapids 18
2007 Dakota Crosswhite Cedar Rapids 18
2006 Danielle Malatek North Liberty 17
2005 Jocelyn Borkowski Harlan 17
2004 Shannon Hofmeister Oelwein 18
2003 Alyssa Cook Adel 18 Top 15
2002 Haley Johnson Des Moines 18
2001 Ashley Hanson Spencer 17
2000 Jennifer Ellison Bettendorf 17
1999 Teresa Moberg Des Moines 16
1998 Arianna Kem Harlan 19
1997 Sarah Sucher Des Moines 18
1996 Allison Dickey Des Moines 19
1995 Chelsey Ridge Muscatine 17 Top 12
1994 Erika Miller Indianola 17
1993 Melissa Baxter Marion 18
1992 Jamie Solinger Altoona 18 Miss Teen USA 1992 Later Miss Iowa USA 1998, Mrs. Idaho America 2004, and 3rd runner-up to Mrs. America 2004 under her married name, Jamie Patterson.[2]
1991 Tina Foehring Fort Madison 18[3]
1990 Faith Windsor Des Moines 18
1989 Stacie Beckwith Boone
1988 Stacy Horst Vail
1987 Jan Hoyer Fort Madison Later Miss Iowa USA 1993, finished 8th at Miss USA 1993
1986 Kristin Hudson Des Moines
1985 Alisha Black Ames
1984 Kim Carlson Des Moines
1983 Kimberly Heck Des Moines

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

  1. ^ Miss Iowa Teen 2011
  2. ^ "2004 Mrs America". Archived from the original on June 24, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
  3. ^ "Miss Iowa USA & Miss Iowa Teen USA Pageants". www.missiowausa.com. Retrieved 2020-11-27.