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Miss Kentucky Teen USA

Beauty pageant competition

Field	Value
name	Miss Kentucky Teen USA
formation
type	Beauty pageant
headquarters	Cincinnati
location	Ohio
membership	Miss Teen USA
language	English
key_people	Melissa Proctor-Pitchford, state pageant director
website	Official website

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

Although Kentucky has not produced a Miss Teen USA titleholder, five delegates have placed as Top 5 or Top 6: Krista Keith in 1983, Kristi Dawn Hicks in 1989, April Vaughn in 1990, Kristen Johnson in 2000 and Tara Conner in 2002. Their most recent placement was Taylor Hubbard who placed in the Top 15 in 2010.

Reese Burt of Lexington was crowned Miss Kentucky Teen USA 2025 on July 19, 2025, at The Vern Riffe Center for the Arts Shawnee State University in Portsmouth. She represented Kentucky at Miss Teen USA 2025.

Eligibility

The participant must be single, legally recognized female, between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years old. Specifically, the contestant has to be under nineteen years old before January 1 of the pageant year. Also, the applicant must have never been married, pregnant, or had a marriage annulled. A contestant can only be eligible if she is a United States citizen and remains a United States citizen throughout the competition at both a state and national level. She must have lived in the state she desires to compete in permanently, at least six months prior to the pageant date, or be a full-time student in the state with one semester completed by December 31 of the pageant year.

Results summary

Placement at Miss Teen USA

1st runner-up: Kristi Dawn Hicks (1989)
2nd runners-up: Krista Keith (1983), Kristen Johnson (2000), Tara Conner (2002)
Top 6: April Vaughn (1990)
Top 10: Lexie Kemper (1999), Amanda Nunnelley (2003)
Top 12: Brittany Johnson (1995)
Top 15: Sarah Withers (2005), Jefra Bland (2009), Taylor Hubbard (2010) Kentucky holds a record of 11 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

Miss Photogenic: Lexie Kemper (1999), Kristen Johnson (2000)

Winners

Declared as Winner
Ended as runner-up
Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Local title	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2025	Reese Burt	Lexington	19	Miss Keeneland Teen
2024	Karlie Holmen	Gilbertsville	17	Miss Purchase District Teen
2023	MéShyia Bradshaw	Elizabethtown	17	Miss Hardin County Teen
2022	Gabriella Hembree	Carrollton	18	Miss Two Rivers City Teen
2021	Kennedy Mosley	London	16	Miss London Teen
2020	Mattie Barker	Louisville	17	Miss Southern Kentucky Teen
2019	Emma Johns	Pikeville	16	Miss Pikeville Teen
2018	url=http://www.somerset-kentucky.com/news/two-pulaski-girls-fair-well-in-miss-teen-kentucky-pageant/article_35e493fa-0ad6-11e8-b389-2718aa1dffad.html	title=Two Pulaski girls fair well in Miss Teen Kentucky pageant	last=Harris	first=Chris	date=2018-02-06	work=Commonwealth Journal	access-date=2018-02-18	language=en}}	Somerset	18	Miss Pulaski County Teen
2017	url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17568716/	title=Danville Teen wins Miss Kentucky USA pageant	date=2017	work=The Advocate-Messenger	access-date=2018-02-18	pages=A01}}	Danville	18	Miss Danville Teen
2016	url=http://www.journal-times.com/news/local_news/miss-kentucky-teen-usa-juggles-life-work-and-school/article_137caba4-11fe-11e6-aa41-9bcbc23ede32.html	title=Miss Kentucky Teen USA juggles life, work and school	last=Preston	first=Tim	work=Journal-Times	access-date=2018-02-18	language=en}}	Grayson	15	Miss Carter County Teen
2015	Caroline Ford	Bowling Green	18	Miss South Central Teen
2014	Megan Ducharm	Shelbyville	18	Miss Shelby County Teen
2013	Gracie Sapp	Lexington	15	Miss Fayette County Teen
2012	Tiffany Cline	Georgetown	14	Miss Scott County Teen
2011	Stephanie Jones	Elizabethtown	18
2010	url=http://www.sentinel-echo.com/news/trump-has-stake-in-laurel-teen-s-recovery/article_82435832-2367-5e83-a0f4-579e5efcfd1e.html	title=Trump has stake in Laurel teen's recovery	last=Dillard	first=Carrie	date=2012-10-19	work=The Sentinel-Echo	access-date=2018-02-18	language=en}}	London	15		Top 15
2009	Jefra Bland	Campbellsville	19			Later contestant on Survivor: Cagayan
2008	Shannen Reil	West Van Lear	15
2007	Katrina Giannini	Princeton	17
2006	Tiffany Withrow	Ashland
2005	Sarah Bryan Withers	Columbia	18		Top 15
2004	Megan Frank	Greensburg	19
2003	Amanda Nunnelley	Louisville	17		Top 10
2002	url=http://www.carolineprogress.com/former-miss-usa-describes-life-with-drugs-alcohol-and-recovery/	title=Former Miss USA describes life of drugs, alcohol and recovery	date=2013-12-03	work=The Caroline Progress	access-date=2018-02-18	language=en}}	Russell Springs	16		2nd runner-up	Body Glove Swimsuit Award
2001	Katherine Faulkner	Hazard	17
2000	Kristen Johnson	Slaughters	18		2nd runner-up	Miss Photogenic
1999	url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17568861/the_courierjournal/	title=Winner of state's Miss Teen has options outside pageants	date=1999-06-30	work=The Courier-Journal	access-date=2018-02-18	pages=44}}	Louisville	17		Top 10	Miss Photogenic
1998	Elizabeth Ann "Lizzie" Arnold	Columbia	18
1997	Kelli Jones	Louisville
1996	Kelly Marie Sodan	Berea	15
1995	Brittany Johnson	Virgie	17		Top 12
1994	Crystal Hayden	Paducah	16
1993	Holly Riggs	Paducah	15
1992	Heather Boggess	Paducah	17
1991	Christine Jackman	Louisville	18
1990	April Vaughn	Louisville	17		Top 6
1989	url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17569036/the_courierjournal/	title=Miss Kentucky speaks out	date=1995-08-09	work=The Courier-Journal	access-date=2018-02-18	pages=35}}	Bardstown	17		1st runner-up
1988	url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17568825/the_advocatemessenger/	title=Senior wins Miss Kentucky Teen	date=1988-05-12	work=The Advocate-Messenger	access-date=2018-02-18	pages=9}}	Danville	19
1987	Tracy Starr Marsee	Middlesboro	15
1986	Amy Miller	Louisville
1985	Leanne Gregory	Lexington
1984	Suzy Neclerio	Georgetown	18
1983	Krista Keith	Louisville	16		2nd runner-up

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

Harris, Chris. (2018-02-06). "Two Pulaski girls fair well in Miss Teen Kentucky pageant". Commonwealth Journal.
(2017). "Danville Teen wins Miss Kentucky USA pageant". The Advocate-Messenger.
Manouchehri, Kat. (2017-07-24). "She's the first biracial Miss Teen Kentucky and next she'll be competing for Miss Teen USA". Lexington Herald-Leader.
Preston, Tim. "Miss Kentucky Teen USA juggles life, work and school". Journal-Times.
Dillard, Carrie. (2012-10-19). "Trump has stake in Laurel teen's recovery". The Sentinel-Echo.
"Survivor Cast: Jefra Bland".
(2013-12-03). "Former Miss USA describes life of drugs, alcohol and recovery". The Caroline Progress.
(1999-06-30). "Winner of state's Miss Teen has options outside pageants". The Courier-Journal.
(1999-09-08). "Ballard Senior makes friends & memories at Miss Teen pageant". The Courier-Journal.
(21 June 1994). "Reidland contestant wins Miss Kentucky Teen title". The Paducah Sun.
(1995-08-09). "Miss Kentucky speaks out". The Courier-Journal.
(1988-05-12). "Senior wins Miss Kentucky Teen". The Advocate-Messenger.
(13 July 1987). "Set for Miss Teen pageant". [[The Citizens' Voice]].

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