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Miss Massachusetts USA

Beauty pageant competition

Field	Value
name	Miss Massachusetts USA
formation	1952
type	Beauty pageant
headquarters	Malden
location	Massachusetts
membership	Miss USA
language	English
key_people	Laurie Clemente
Anthony Clemente
website	Official website

Anthony Clemente The ** Miss Massachusetts USA **competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Massachusetts in the Miss USA pageant. It is currently produced by The Clemente Organization based in Malden, Massachusetts, which also produces the Maine pageant.

Shawnae Jebbia was crowned Miss USA in 1998 and Susie Castillo won the crown in 2003. Both Miss USA winners from Massachusetts were asked the same final question during the live telecasts. The most recent placement was Melissa Sapini in 2024, placing Top 10.

Perianne Caron of Boston was crowned Miss Massachusetts USA 2025 on June 15, 2025 at the Plymouth Memorial Hall in Plymouth. She represented Massachusetts at Miss USA 2025.

Gallery of titleholders

File:Susie Castillo.jpg|Susie Castillo, Miss Massachusetts USA and Miss USA 2003 File:Maria Lekkakos headshot.png|Maria Lekkakos, Miss Massachusetts USA 2004 File:TiffanyKelly.jpg|Tiffany Kelly, Miss Massachusetts USA 2006 File:Jackie Bruno.png|Jackie Bruno, Miss Massachusetts USA 2008 File:Whitney Sharpe - Miss Massachusetts USA 2016.jpg|Whitney Sharpe, Miss Massachusetts USA 2016

Results summary

Miss USAs: Shawnae Jebbia (1998), Susie Castillo (2003)
1st runner-up: Diane Pollard (1978)
Top 10/12: Monica Magnus (1979), Janet Marie Flaherty (1982), Mercedes Waggoner (1985), Kristen Mastroianni (1995), Jacqueline Bruno (2008), Melissa Sapini (2024)
Top 15: Sandra Ramsey (1957), Barbara Feldman (1960), Elaine Cusick (1961), Sandra Smith (1963), Nancy Brackett (1966), Sarah Kidd (2013), Allissa Latham (2018)
Massachusetts holds a record of 16 placements at Miss USA.

Awards

Miss Photogenic: Annika Sharma (2023), Melissa Sapini (2024)
Miss Congeniality: Stacey Blaine (1993)
Best State Costume: JoAnne Savery (1981)

Winners

;Color key

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

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Local title	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2025	Perianne Caron	Boston	26	Miss West End
2024	Melissa Sapini	North Attleborough	21	Miss North Attleborough	Top 10	Miss Photogenic	Later Miss Universe Haiti 2025.
2023	Annika Sharma	Newton	22	Miss Commonwealth		Miss Photogenic
2022	url=https://www.eagletribune.com/news/merrimack_valley/the-new-miss-massachusetts-is-lawrences-own-skarlet-ramirez/article_58166e0a-b061-11ec-b929-37ad6c239565.html	title=The new Miss Massachusetts is Lawrence's own Skarlet Ramirez	work=The Eagle-Tribune	last=Harmacinski	first=Jill	date=March 30, 2022	access-date=April 3, 2022}}	Lawrence	27	Miss Lawrence	Born in the Dominican Republic
2021	Sarah DeSouza	Dracut	25
2020	Sabrina Victor	Brockton	23
2019	Kelly O'Grady	Cambridge	27				Later became correspondent for Fox Business
2018	Allissa Latham	Lowell	26		Top 15
2017	url=https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2016/12/10/more-than-just-another-pretty-face-in-peabody	title= little Miss Massachusetts 2017: 'We are athletes'	last=Dearborn	first=Leah	date=10 December 2016	newspaper=Boston Globe	access-date=8 February 2017}}	Peabody	24		New England Patriots Cheerleader
2016	last=Warren	first=Chris	url=http://burlington.wickedlocal.com/article/20160128/NEWS/160125609	title=Positively Whitney: Meet Miss Massachusetts USA 2016 Whitney Sharpe of Burlington	work=Wicked Local Burlington	location=Burlington, Massachusetts	publisher=Wicked Local	date=2016-01-28 }}	Burlington	21
2015	Polikseni Manxhari	Boston	24				Born in Albania
2014	Caroline Lunny	Holliston	22
2013	Sarah Kidd	Leominster	20		Top 15
2012	Natalie Pietrzak	Somerville	25				Sister of Monica Pietrzak, Miss Connecticut USA 2009 and Miss USA 2009 semifinalist
2011	Alida D'Angona	Bolton	23
2010	Lacey Wilson	Boston	26
2009	Alison Michele Cronin	East Weymouth	21
2008	Jackie Bruno	Assonet	23		Top 10, finishing in 10th place
2007	Despina Delios	Lynn	23
2006	Tiffany Kelly	Braintree	18
2005	Cristina Nardozzi	Seekonk	21				Was contestant on Fear Factor in 2005 on the Miss USA episode #5.29
2004	Maria Lekkakos	Rockport	25
2003	Susie Castillo	Lawrence	23		Miss USA 2003
2002	Latoyia Cimone Foster	Lowell
2001	Dana Tenille Powell	Brookline
2000	Rosalie M. Allain	Leominster
1999	Jennifer Krafve	Saugus					Mother of Avery Turner, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2024
1998	Shawnae Jebbia	Mansfield	26		Miss USA 1998
1997	Jennifer K. Chapman	Maynard
1996	Jacquelyn Doucette	Lynnfield	26				Mother of Jillian Driscoll, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2022
1995	Kristen Mastroianni	Wilbraham	23		Semi-finalist, finishing in 10th place
1994	Michelle Atamian	Belmont
1993	Stacey Blaine	Bellingham		Miss Bellingham		Miss Congeniality
1992	Christine Netishen	Lowell
1991	Laura Wheeler	Framingham
1990	Laureen Murphy	Boston
1989	Kimberley Wallace	Ipswich
1988	Anita Marie Lovely	Franklin
1987	Rosanna Iversen	Great Barrington					Represented Massachusetts in Miss Oktoberfest 1987
1986	Sheila Benson	Quincy
1985	Mercedes Waggoner	Boston	21		Semi-finalist, finishing in 8th place
1984	Deborah Neary	Onset
1983	Robin Jeanne Silva	Swansea
1982	Janet Marie Flaherty	Wilmington	24		Semi-finalist
1981	JoAnne Savery	East Bridgewater		Miss East Bridgewater		Best State Costume
1980	Diane Campbell	Melrose		Miss Melrose
1979	Monica Patricia Magnus	Boston	24		Semi-finalist
1978	Diane Elizabeth Pollard	Hamilton	20		1st runner-up
1977	Carol Marcil	Chelmsford
1976	Holly Ann Hoyle	Attleboro
1975	Rilla Posson	Natick
1974	Ethellean Hicks	Roxbury
1973	Judith "Judy" Ann Gregory	Boston	26
1972	Dale Carder	Wellesley
1971	April Dow	Amesbury
1970	Cheryl Stankiewicz	Brockton
1969	Martha Cawley	Needham
1968	Sonja Fritz	Boston
1967	Pamela Procter	Marblehead					Daughter of Miss Massachusetts 1940 Polly Connors, 3rd Runner-Up to Miss America.
1966	Nancy Joan Brackett	Brighton	20		Semi-finalist
1965	Mary Lou Volpe	Braintree
1964	Barbara Helen Robery	Boston
1963	Sandra "Su-Su" Smith	Newton Upper Falls	23		Semi-finalist
1962	Gale Pope	Wellesley
1961	Elaine Cusick	Hyde Park	18		Semi-finalist		photograph
1960	Barbara Gale Feldman	Natick	20		Top 15
1959	Beatrice Duprey	Weymouth					Also competed in the 1960 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant
1958	Sally Ann Freedman	Peabody					Finalist in the 1961 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant
1957	Sandra Ramsey	Haverhill	19		Semi-finalist
1956	Elaine Murphy	Weston
1955	Jean Dernago	Springfield
1954	Nan Cowan	Sterling
1953	Joan Daly	Somerville
1952	Vel Dorne	Boston

1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

References

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Harmacinski, Jill. (March 30, 2022). "The new Miss Massachusetts is Lawrence's own Skarlet Ramirez". [[The Eagle-Tribune]].
Dearborn, Leah. (10 December 2016). "little Miss Massachusetts 2017: 'We are athletes'". Boston Globe.
DePlacido, Jean. (13 February 2017). "Miss Massachusetts leans on lessons learned on basketball court at Peabody High". The Salem News.
Warren, Chris. (2016-01-28). "Positively Whitney: Meet Miss Massachusetts USA 2016 Whitney Sharpe of Burlington". Wicked Local.
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(18 May 1968). "Grounded Wire-Walker". Hartford Courant.
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(18 July 1963). "MISS U.S.A. AND 14 RUNNERS-UP". [[Iowa City Press-Citizen]].
(2 July 1960). "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL". [[Philadelphia Daily News]].

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