{{multiple issues| {{fanpov|date=February 2018}} {{notability|Organizations|date=February 2018}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2018}} {{Short description|Beauty pageant competition}} }} {{Infobox organization |name = Miss Virginia Teen USA |image = |image_border = |image_size = |caption = |map = |map_size = |map_caption = |formation = 1983 |type = Beauty pageant |headquarters = Richmond |location = Virginia |membership = Miss Teen USA |language = English |leader_title = |leader_name = |key_people = Darrell Williams, Executive Director <br> Kyle Kelley, Assistant Director <br> Lacie Ross, Assistant Director <br> Sheatiel Carter, Assistant Director |num_staff = |budget = |website = {{official|http://www.missvirginiausa.com/}} }} thumb|140px|Megan Myrehn, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2008right|thumb|140px|Samantha Casey, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2006 [[Image:Amber Copley 2006.jpg|right|thumb|140px|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 == {{plainlist| * {{Color box|gold|border=darkgray}} Declared as Winner * {{Color box|#FFFF66|border=darkgray}} Ended as runner-up * {{Color box|#FFFACD|border=darkgray}} Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists }}
{| class="wikitable"style="font-size:90%;" |- ! width=5% | Year ! width=20%| Name ! width=10%| Hometown ! width=3%|Age<sup>1</sup> ! width=12%| Local title ! width=14%| Placement at Miss Teen USA ! width=17%| Special awards at Miss Teen USA ! width=31%| Notes |- | 2025 | Emma McReynolds | Coeburn | 18 | Miss Wise County Teen |
| | |-style="background-color:#FFFACD;” | 2024 | Julia Allen | Lynchburg | 17 | Miss Spirit of Volunteer Teen | Top 20 | | |- |-style="background-color:#FFFACD;” | 2023 | Ashley Wang | Herndon | 16 | Miss Herndon Teen | Top 20 | | First Chinese American Miss Virginia Teen USA<ref>{{cite news |title=Oakton High Student Is First East Asian to Win Miss Virginia Teen USA |url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/celebrating-aapi-heritage/oakton-high-student-is-first-east-asian-to-win-miss-virginia-teen-usa/3356357/ |access-date=1 June 2023 |agency=NBC4}}</ref> |- | 2022 | Hannah Grau | Fredericksburg | 17 | Miss Fredericksburg Teen | | | |- | 2021 | Alyssa Mawyer | Broadway | 18 | Miss Broadway Teen | | | * Previously Miss High School America 2019 |- | 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 * Later Miss Virginia USA 2024 ** Top 10 at Miss USA 2024 |- | 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 | | | | * Later Miss North Carolina USA 2018 ** First runner up at Miss USA 2018. * Contestant on season 23 of ''The Bachelor'' and season 6 of ''Bachelor in Paradise'' |- | 2012 | Elizabeth Coakley | Abingdon | 17 | | | | |- | 2011 | Susie Evans | Poquoson | 17 | | | | * Later Miss Virginia USA 2020 * Winner of season 26 of ''The Bachelor'' |-style="background-color:#FFFACD;” | 2010 | Jacqueline Carroll | Stanardsville | 16 | | Top 15 | | * Later Miss Virginia USA 2017 |- | 2009 | Maggie Lawson | Bristol | 18 | | | | |-style="background-color:#FFFACD;” | 2008 | Megan Leigh Myrehn | Catharpin | 18 | | Top 15 | | * Later Miss Indiana USA 2012 |-style="background-color:#FFFACD;” | 2007 | Emily Bruce | Lynchburg | 17 | | Top 10 | | |-style="background-color:#FFFF66;” | 2006 | Samantha Evelyn "Sam" Casey | Jeffersonton | 17 | Miss Jeffersonton Teen | 3rd runner-up | | * Later Miss Virginia USA 2010 ** Second runner up at Miss USA 2010 |-style="background-color:#FFFACD;” | 2005 | Victoria Marie "Tori" Hall | Midlothian | 18 | | Top 10 | | * Later Miss Virginia USA 2008 Cast member on ''Road Rules 2007: Viewers' Revenge'' |- | 2004 | Mally Paige Gent | Honaker | 18 | | | | |- | 2003 | Amber Brooke Copley | Abingdon | 18 | | | | * Later Miss Virginia USA 2006 |- | 2002 | Lauren Elizabeth Barnette | Wise | 17 | | | | * Later Miss Virginia USA 2007, ** Top 10 at Miss USA 2007 Model on NBC's ''Deal or No Deal'' |- | 2001 | Kathleen Lighthiser | Staunton | 16 | | | | |- | 2000 | Jennifer Hawkins | Lynchburg | 17 | | | | |-style="background-color:#FFFACD;” | 1999 | Kristi Lauren Glakas | Centreville | 18 | | Semi-finalist | | Triple Crown winner * Later Miss Virginia USA 2004 and Miss Virginia 2005, 3rd runner up to Miss America 2006 |-style="background-color:#FFFF66;” | 1998 | Misty Rene Horn | Richlands | 18 | | Top 5 | | |-style="background-color:#FFFACD;” | 1997 | Kimberly Elizabeth "Kim" Grigsby | Richmond | 18 | | Semi-finalist | | |- | 1996 | Kandy Marshall | Richmond | 16 | | | | |- | 1995 | Kristel Jenkins | Vinton | 17 | | | | * Later Miss Virginia USA 2001 |- | 1994 | Christin Brooke Wilson | Bristol | 17 | | | | |- | 1993 | Heather Dawn Anderson | Richmond | 17 | | | | |-style="background-color:#FFFACD;” | 1992 | Andrea Ballengee | Richmond | 19 | | Semi-finalist | | * Crowned Miss Virginia 1995 but was disqualified when it was discovered that she had embellished her academic record;<ref>{{cite news|title=New Miss Virginia to Keep Crown|publisher=Charleston Daily Mail|date=1995-07-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Pageant Organizers Strip Miss Virginia of Crown |first=David|last=Reed|publisher=Associated Press|date=2007-07-20}}</ref> later Mrs California 2006 and Mrs America 2006 (top ten at Mrs World 2006) married name Andrea Preuss. |- | 1991 | Linda Overhue | Richmond | 16 | | | | |- | 1990 | Yuranda Harris | Richmond | 19 | | | | |- | 1989 | Stephanie Satterfield | Virginia Beach | 15 | | | | * Later Miss Virginia USA 1993 |- | 1988 | Audra Elizabeth Wilks | Richmond | 17 | | | | * Later Miss Virginia USA 1997 |- | 1987 | Kristi Renee Pearce | Colonial Heights | 15 | | | | |-style="background-color:#FFFF66;” | 1986 | Angela Thigpen | Portsmouth | 15 | | 3rd runner-up | | |- | 1985 | Alice Robinson | Richmond | 17 | | | | |- | 1984 | Marcy Brickhouse | Virginia Beach | 16 | | | | |-style="background-color:#FFFF66;” | 1983 | Tina Marrocco | McLean | 16 | | 1st runner-up | | |} <sup>1</sup> Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.missvirginiausa.com Official website]
{{State pageantry|State=Virginia}}
{{Miss Teen USA state}}
Virginia Category:Women in Virginia