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Miss Michigan Teen USA

Beauty pageant competition

Summary

Beauty pageant competition

Field	Value
name	Miss Michigan Teen USA
formation	1983
type	Beauty pageant
headquarters	Cincinnati
location	Ohio
membership	Miss Teen USA
language	English
key_people	Melissa Proctor-Pitchford, state pageant director
website	MissMichiganUSA.com

The Miss Michigan Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Michigan in the Miss Teen USA pageant and the name of the title held by that winner. This pageant is produced by Proctor Productions, including Melissa Pitchford who was Miss Ohio USA 1990.

In terms of number of placements, Michigan has a moderated success at Miss Teen USA, having only placed ten times. The state's highest placement was in 2005, when Catherine "Cathy" Laurion was 1st runner-up to Allie LaForce of Ohio. Courtney Pizzimenti placed 2nd runner-up at Miss Teen USA 2012.

Eliy Simmer of Clare was crowned Miss Michigan Teen USA 2025 on August 9, 2025, at McMorran Entertainment Center in Port Huron, Michigan. She will represent Michigan at Miss Teen USA 2025.

Results summary

Placements

1st runner-up: Catherine "Cathy" Laurion (2005)
2nd runners-up: Alicia Jaros (2003), Courtney Pizzimenti (2012)
3rd runner-up: Isabella Mosqueda (2022)
Top 5: Sara Dusendang (1999)
Top 10: Tamika Thomas (1996)
Top 15: Raquel McClendon (2006), Kristen Danyal (2009), Iris Robare (2014), Anane Loveday (2018) Michigan holds a record of 10 placements at Miss Teen USA.

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	Eliy Simmer	Clare	19	Miss Clare Teen
2024	Maddison Lynn Kott	Troy	18	Miss Heart of Michigan Teen
2023	Avery Hill	Farmington Hills	16	Miss Farmington Hills Teen
2022	Isabella Mosqueda	Cedar Springs	19	Miss Pure Michigan Teen	3rd runner-up
2021	Jada Moylan	Hudsonville	17	Miss Lake State Teen			Daughter of Miss Michigan Teen USA 1999, Sara Dusendang-Moylan
2020	Aneesa Sheikh	Bloomfield Hills	18	Miss Bloomfield Hills Teen			Longest running Miss Teen USA state titleholder at onto the organization's history
2019	Alexis Lubecki	Canton	18	Miss Canton Teen
2018	url=https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/local/port-huron/2017/09/30/miss-wayne-county-wins-miss-michigan-usa-title/720410001/	title=Miss Wayne County wins Miss Michigan USA title	last=Gross	first=Bob	date=2017-09-30	work=The Times Herald	access-date=2018-10-27	language=en}}	Grosse Ile	16	Miss Grosse Ile Teen	Top 15
2017	Kenzie Weingartz	Marysville	17	Miss Marysville Teen
2016	url=https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2016/05/formerly_homeless_pageant_quee.html	title=Formerly homeless pageant queen uses crown to inspire	last=Slagter	first=Lauren	date=2016-05-25	work=MLive.com	access-date=2018-10-27	language=en-US}}	Ypsilanti	18	Miss Heart of Michigan Teen
2015	Maria Rendina	Monroe	18	Miss Monroe Teen
2014	Iris Robare	Gladstone	16	Miss Upper Peninsula Teen	Top 15
2013	Ruby King	Ludington	17	Miss Mason County Teen
2012	Courtney Pizzimenti	Oakland Township	17	Miss Oakland Teen	2nd runner-up
2011	Taylor Sherman	Dearborn Heights	17	Miss Dearborn Heights Teen
2010	Catherine McGhee	Ortonville	16	Miss Ortonville Teen
2009	Kristen Danyal	Sterling Heights	19	Miss Sterling Heights Teen	Top 15
2008	Elizabeth Hawthorne	Clarkston	17	Miss Clarkston Teen
2007	Caitlin Klug	Eau Claire	18	Miss Berrien County Teen
2006	Raquel McClendon	Kincheloe	17	Miss Northern Michigan Teen	Top 15
2005	Catherine "Cathy" Laurion	West Branch	17	Miss West Branch Teen	1st runner-up
2004	Yelena Crawford	Brooklyn	18	Miss Southern Michigan Teen
2003	Alicia Jaros	Riverview	17	Miss Metro Detroit Teen	2nd runner-up
2002	Kyleen Krstich	Troy	18	Miss Troy Teen
2001	Chelsea-Lyn Rudder	Rochester Hills	17
2000	Kylie Rhew	Bridgman	17
1999	Sara Dusendang	Paris	18		Top 5, finishing in 5th place		Later Mrs. Michigan America 2008 under her married name, Sara Dusendang-Moylan. Mother of Miss Michigan Teen USA 2021, Jada Moylan
1998	Elizabeth Mathis	Detroit	18
1997	Che'vonne Burton	Detroit	15
1996	Tamika Thomas	Detroit	18		Top 10
1995	Kathleen McConnell	Trenton	18
1994	Melissa Jackson	Wixom
1993	Ashley Whitt	Macomb
1992	WaLynda Lou Sipple	Berrien Springs
1991	Lori Hahnbomb	Chelsea
1990	Erica Webber	Niles
1989	Betsy Cox	Edwardsburg	18
1988	Melissa Sinkevics	Dearborn Heights					Mother of Aidan Hutchinson and Miss Michigan USA 2022 Aria Hutchinson
1987	Elena Hall	Warren
1986	Terri Turner	Clawson
1985	Tracy Shaw	St. Clair
1984	Dawn Downing	South Haven
1983	Cathy McBride	Farmington Hills

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

Gross, Bob. (2017-09-30). "Miss Wayne County wins Miss Michigan USA title". The Times Herald.
Rath, Anya. (2016-09-24). "Krista Ferguson crowned Miss Michigan USA". The Times Herald.
Slagter, Lauren. (2016-05-25). "Formerly homeless pageant queen uses crown to inspire". MLive.com.
Gross, Bob. (2014-09-27). "Miss Michigan USA crowned". Detroit Free Press.
(2013-09-17). "Local teen named Miss Michigan Teen".
(September 21, 2010). "MANCHESTER: Junior at high school competes in Miss Michigan Teen USA pageant in Ann Arbor". The Manchester Enterprise.
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(25 July 1989). "TOP TEENS". [[Tucson Citizen]].

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