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Miss Wyoming USA

Beauty pageant competition

Field	Value
name	Miss Wyoming USA
formation	1952
type	Beauty pageant
headquarters	Savage
location	Minnesota
membership	Miss USA
language	English
key_people	Denise Wallace
Craig Heitkamp
website

Craig Heitkamp The **Miss Wyoming USA **competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Wyoming in the Miss USA pageant. It is, , produced by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota since 2005.

Wyoming has placed twice in Miss USA (in 1986 and 2010), won five Miss Congeniality awards, and one Miss Photogenic award.

Six Miss Wyoming USAs have won the Miss Wyoming Teen USA title and competed at Miss Teen USA, six have competed at Miss America and two has competed at Miss America's Outstanding Teen.

Eilish Young of Spring, TX was appointed Miss Wyoming USA on September 30th, 2025 after the open casting call from Thomas Brodeur, the new owner of the national pageant. She represented Wyoming at Miss USA 2025.

Gallery of titleholders

File:Katie Rudoff Dunn.jpg|Katie Rudoff, Miss Wyoming USA 2004 File:KristinGeorge.jpg|Kristin George, Miss Wyoming USA 2006 File:Holly Allen, 2011.jpg|Holly Allen, Miss Wyoming USA 2012

Results summary

Placements

Top 10: Beth King (1986)
Top 15: Claire Schreiner (2010)

Wyoming holds a record of 2 placements at Miss USA.

Awards

Miss Congeniality: Linda Leafdale (1966), Pam Williams (1979), Cynthia Pate (2009), Mikaela Shaw (2017), Callie Bishop (2018)
Miss Photogenic: Beth King (1986)

Winners

;Color key

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

Year	Name	Hometown	Age	Local title	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2025	Eilish Young	Spring, TX	29
2024	Mackenzie Rush	Sheridan	19	Miss Northeast Wyoming
2023	Beck Bridger	Sheridan	27	Miss Sheridan County
2022	Morgan McNally	Casper	27	Miss Central Wyoming
2021	Mackenzie Kern	Casper	21
2020	Lexi Revelli	Lyman	26
Caitlin "Katie" Bozner	Buffalo	24		did not compete}}	Resigned the title three weeks before the Miss USA 2020 pageant due to academic obligations
2019	Addison Treesh	Gillette	18
2018	Callie Bishop	Casper	27			Miss Congeniality
2017	Mikaela Shaw	Casper	23			Miss Congeniality (tied with Miss Missouri USA 2017 Bayleigh Dayton)
2016	Autumn Olson	Saratoga	21
2015	Caroline Scott	Cheyenne	22
2014	Lexi Hill	Gillette	20
2013	Courtney Gifford	Sheridan	24				Triple Crown winner
2012	Holly Allen	Lander	23
2011	Kaitlyn Davis	Laramie	20
2010	Claire Schreiner	Gillette	23		Top 15
2009	Cynthia Pate	Casper	22			Miss Congeniality
2008	Cassie Shore	Casper	22
2007	Robyn Johnson	Sheridan	22
2006	Kristin George	Casper	24
2005	Abby Norman	Laramie	21				Miss Congeniality at National Sweetheart 2002
2004	Katie Rudoff	Green River	20
2003	Jamie Gorman	Cheyenne
2002	Jeannie Crofts	Cheyenne
2001	Heather Jackelen	Rock Springs
2000	Rebecca Smith	Jackson Hole
1999	Arnica Bryant	Cheyenne
1998	Megan Starr Wigert	Cheyenne	22
1997	Stacy Dawn Cenedese	Cheyenne
1996	Kellee Nicole Kattleman	Laramie
1995	Susan Elizabeth Shaffer	Cheyenne
1994	Tolan Clark	Cheyenne
1993	Leissann Marie Stolz	Cheyenne
1992	Lisa Postle	Green River
1991	Wendy Lee Dunn	Laramie
1990	Cheryl James	Cheyenne
1989	Chandra Anderson	Jackson
1988	Kristen Youmans	Casper
1987	Michelle Zimmermann	Recluse
1986	Beth King	Cheyenne	22		Top 10	Miss Photogenic
1985	Wendy Hartwigsen	Gillette
1984	Cheryl Rawson	Laramie
1983	Joanie Engstrom	Rawlins
1982	Judy Lynn Wilder	Casper
1981	Deborah Aspinwall	Riverton
1980	Suzie Harris	Casper
1979	Pam Williams	Casper				Miss Congeniality
1978	Kathryn Flitner	Greybull
1977	Michele Fisser	Cheyenne
1976	Murlie Colosky	Laramie
1975	Kimerli Jayne Pring	Cheyenne
1974	Debbie K. Petty	Rawlins
1973	Michele Walter	Cheyenne
1972	Tamara Tulley	Cheyenne
1971	Mary Kay Heaton	Cheyenne
1970	Elizabeth Swarthout	Sheridan
1969	Pam Lewis	Cheyenne
1968	Penny Smathers	Douglas
1967	Helen M. Barker	Buffalo	20
1966	Linda Leafdale	Thermopolis				Miss Congeniality
1965	Linda Lou Peck	Sheridan
1962	Ann Bonner	Powell			did not compete}}	Withdrew
1961	Judy Larae Walton	Cokeville
1960	Anita Simon	Cheyenne
1958	Dorothy Kochiras	Evanston
1957	Marilyn Hawkins	Casper
1956	Marilyn Scott	Cheyenne
1955	Barbara Kaye Latta	Casper
1954	Faith Radenbaugh	Heart Mountain
1953	Nancy Rogers	Cheyenne

References

"Future Productions, LLC State Directors".
Romero, Hannah. (October 23, 2020). "Rock Springs resident will be Miss Wyoming". [[Rock Springs Daily Rocket-Miner]].
(16 May 1973). "FINAL TOUCHES". [[Mansfield News Journal]].
(20 May 1971). "THE BEACH AND BEAUTIES". [[The Scranton Times-Tribune.
(16 May 1967). "MISS MONTANA'S RIGHT UP FRONT". [[Missoulian]].
(May 13, 2010). "Gillette woman to compete in Miss USA pageant". [[KULR-TV]].
(May 12, 1986). "Miss Wyoming Wins Miss Photogenic". [[Kentucky New Era]].

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