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Miss Virginia Teen USA

Beauty pageant competition

Summary

Beauty pageant competition

Field	Value
name	Miss Virginia Teen USA
formation	1983
type	Beauty pageant
headquarters	Richmond
location	Virginia
membership	Miss Teen USA
language	English
key_people	Darrell Williams, Executive Director

website

Kyle Kelley, Assistant Director

Lacie Ross, Assistant Director

Sheatiel Carter, Assistant Director

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 https://web.archive.org/web/20060502054907/http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-teen-usa/ranking/. 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 Marrocco placed 1st runner-up to Ruth Zakarian of New York.

Virginia ties the record for the most Teens to cross over to win the Miss Virginia USA title and compete at Miss USA with eleven in all, two others have later been crowned in other states, Indiana and North Carolina. 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 current titleholder is Emma McReynolds, was crowned on February 16, 2025, at Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington. She represented Virginia at Miss Teen USA 2025.

Results summary

Placements

1st runner-up: Tina Marrocco (1983)
3rd runners-up: Angela Thigpin (1986), Samantha "Sam" Casey (2006)
Top 5: Misty Horn (1998)
Top 10: Kimberly "Kim" Grigsby (1997), Kristi Lauren Glakas (1999), Tori Hall (2005), Emily Bruce (2007)
Top 12: Andrea Ballengee (1992)
Top 15: Megan Myrehn (2008), Jacqueline Carroll (2010)
Top 20: Ashley Wang (2023), Julia Allen (2024) Virginia holds a record of 13 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	Notes
2025	Emma McReynolds	Coeburn	18	Miss Wise County Teen
2024	Julia Allen	Lynchburg	17	Miss Spirit of Volunteer Teen	Top 20
2023	Ashley Wang	Herndon	16	Miss Herndon Teen	Top 20	First Chinese American Miss Virginia Teen USA
2022	Hannah Grau	Fredericksburg	17	Miss Fredericksburg Teen
2021	Alyssa Mawyer	Broadway	18	Miss Broadway Teen
2020	Amya Caldwell	Ashburn	16	Miss Old Dominion Teen
2019	Morgan Brooke Duty	Lebanon	16	Miss Lebanon Teen
2018	Himanvi Preeti Panidepu	Centreville	17	Miss Central Virginia Teen		First Asian American and first East Indian American Miss Virginia Teen-USA
2017	Madison Walker	Virginia Beach	16	Miss Chesapeake Teen
2016	Gracyn Blackmore	Bristol	16
2015	Annie "Ann" Kutyna	Herndon	15
2014	Olivia Fletcher	Louisa	16
2013	Caelynn Miller-Keyes	Fredericksburg	17
2012	Elizabeth Coakley	Abingdon	17
2011	Susie Evans	Poquoson	17
2010	Jacqueline Carroll	Stanardsville	16		Top 15
2009	Maggie Lawson	Bristol	18
2008	Megan Leigh Myrehn	Catharpin	18		Top 15
2007	Emily Bruce	Lynchburg	17		Top 10
2006	Samantha Evelyn "Sam" Casey	Jeffersonton	17	Miss Jeffersonton Teen	3rd runner-up
2005	Victoria Marie "Tori" Hall	Midlothian	18		Top 10
2004	Mally Paige Gent	Honaker	18
2003	Amber Brooke Copley	Abingdon	18
2002	Lauren Elizabeth Barnette	Wise	17
2001	Kathleen Lighthiser	Staunton	16
2000	Jennifer Hawkins	Lynchburg	17
1999	Kristi Lauren Glakas	Centreville	18		Semi-finalist	Triple Crown winner
1998	Misty Rene Horn	Richlands	18		Top 5
1997	Kimberly "Kim" Grigsby	Richmond	18		Semi-finalist
1996	Kandy Marshall	Richmond	16
1995	Kristel Jenkins	Vinton	17
1994	Christin Brooke Wilson	Bristol	17
1993	Heather Dawn Anderson	Richmond	17
1992	Andrea Ballengee	Richmond	19		Semi-finalist
1991	Linda Overhue	Richmond	16
1990	Yuranda Harris	Richmond	19
1989	Stephanie Satterfield	Virginia Beach	15
1988	Audra Elizabeth Wilks	Richmond	15
1987	Kristi Renee Pearce	Colonial Heights	15
1986	Angela Thigpen	Portsmouth	15		3rd runner-up
1985	Alice Robinson	Richmond	17
1984	Marcy Brickhouse	Virginia Beach	16
1983	Tina Marrocco	McLean	16		1st runner-up

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

"Oakton High Student Is First East Asian to Win Miss Virginia Teen USA".
(1995-07-07). "New Miss Virginia to Keep Crown". Charleston Daily Mail.
Reed, David. (2007-07-20). "Pageant Organizers Strip Miss Virginia of Crown". Associated Press.

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