# Miss Arkansas Teen USA

The Miss Arkansas Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
The state pageant was directed by Premier Pageants from 2002 to 2007 before becoming part of the Vanbros organization, headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas. In 2007, Vanbros group took over the management of the pageant with the Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma pageants.
From 1986 until 2004, when Sarah French won Miss Photogenic, no Miss Arkansas Teen USA had placed or won an award at the national competition. From 2008 until 2010, Arkansas had placed at Miss Teen USA three consecutive years, including Stevi Perry winning their first Miss Teen USA title in 2008.
Eight Miss Arkansas Teen USA titleholders have gone on to win the Miss Arkansas USA title and three have won Miss America state titles, more than any other state.
The current Miss Arkansas Teen USA is Siyona Karkera of Little Rock who was crowned on April 14, 2024 at the OCCC Performing Arts Center in Oklahoma City. She represented Arkansas at Miss Teen USA 2024 and placed in the Top 10.

## Results summary
### Placements

* Winner: Stevi Perry (2008)
* Top 10: Angela Boyd (1983), Rhonda Heird (1985), Siyona Karkera (2024)
* Top 15/16: Allison Kusenberger (2009), Megan Burgess (2010), Abby Floyd (2013), Arynn Johnson (2015), Maggie Williams (2019), Anna Claire Hay (2020)
Arkansas holds a record of 10 placements at Miss Teen USA.

### Awards

* Miss Congeniality: Angela Boyd (1983), Dana Mooney (1986)
* Miss Photogenic: Sarah French (2004)

## Winners

* Declared as Winner
* Ended as runner-up
* Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age$^1$ | Local title | Placement at Miss Teen USA | Special awards at Miss Teen USA | Notes |
| 2024 | Siyona Karkera | Little Rock | 19 | Miss Pulaski County Teen | Top 10 | | |
| 2023 | Mackenzie Scott | Fayetteville | 19 | Miss Fayetteville Teen | | | |
| 2022 | Allie Shanks | White River | 16 | Miss White River Teen | | | |
| 2021 | Madeline Bohlman | Fayetteville | 19 | Miss Northwest Arkansas Teen | | | Eligible as a student of University of Arkansas at the time of crowning Later Miss Arkansas USA 2024 |
| 2020 | Anna Claire Hay | Little Rock | 15 | Miss White River Teen | Top 16 | | |
| 2019 | Maggie Williams | Piggott | 17 | Miss White River Teen | Top 15 | | |
| 2018 | Mackenzie Hinderberger | Fayetteville | 18 | Miss Windsor Lake Teen | | | Later Miss Arkansas USA 2023 Top 20 at Miss USA 2023 |
| 2017 | Allison Tucker | Clarksville | 16 | Miss Johnson County Teen | | | |
| 2016 | Makenzie Sexton | Cabot | 16 | Miss Cabot Teen | | | Daughter of Miss Missouri USA 1992 Tonya Snodgrass |
| 2015 | Arynn Johnson | Hot Springs | 18 | Miss Diamond State Teen | Top 15 | | Later Miss Arkansas USA 2017 |
| 2014 | Lauren Weaver | Greenwood | 17 | Miss Greenwood Teen | | | Later Miss Arkansas USA 2018 |
| 2013 | Abby Floyd | Searcy | 17 | Miss Searcy Teen | Top 16 | | Later Miss Arkansas USA 2016 Top 10 at Miss USA 2016 |
| 2012 | Amber Mitchell | Sheridan | 18 | Miss Timberfest Teen | | | |
| 2011 | Mary-Kate Hartley | Hamburg | 17 | Miss Diamond State Teen | | | |
| 2010 | Megan Michelle Burgess | Hot Springs | 18 | Miss Hot Springs Teen | Top 15 | | |
| 2009 | Allison Kusenberger | Little Rock | 18 | Miss Little Rock Teen | Top 15 | | |
| 2008 | Stevi Perry | Hamburg | 17 | Miss Hamburg Teen | Miss Teen USA 2008 | | |
| 2007 | Tiffany Greenstreet | Melbourne | 18 | | | | |
| 2006 | Taylor Wright | White Hall | 18 | | | | |
| 2005 | Ashton Schmidt | Batesville | 17 | | | | |
| 2004 | Sarah French | Hot Springs | 18 | | | Miss Photogenic | Later Miss Missouri 2006 |
| 2003 | Brittany Carpenter | Conway | 18 | | | | |
| 2002 | Rachel Eggers | North Little Rock | 16 | | | | |
| 2001 | Lauren Arnold | Arkadelphia | 18 | | | | |
| 2000 | Paula Taylor | Carlisle | 16 | | | | |
| 1999 | Sarah Moody | Pollard | | | | | Later competed three times at Miss Arkansas |
| 1998 | Joan Lucas | Fayetteville | | | | | |
| 1997 | Brandi Watkins | Brinkley | | | | | Later competed four times at Miss Arkansas |
| 1996 | Aimee Delatte | Stuttgart | | | | | Later 1st runner-up to Miss Arkansas USA 2001 & 2002 |
| 1995 | Natalie Fisher | Stuttgart | | | | | |
| 1994 | Rebekah Hall | Conway | | | | | |
| 1993 | Tiffany Parks | Jacksonville | | | | | Later Miss Arkansas USA 1996 |
| 1992 | Stacy Freeman | Sheridan | | | | | Later Miss Arkansas 1997 |
| 1991 | Paula Montgomery | Cabot | | | | | Later Miss Arkansas 1995 |
| 1990 | Karen Pugh | Little Rock | | | | | Later Mrs. Arkansas International 2004 as Karen Pugh-Thompson |
| 1989 | Susan Marshall | Cabot | | | | | |
| 1988 | Jessica Welch | Pine Bluff | | | | | |
| 1987 | Paige Yandell | Greenwood | | | | | Later Miss Arkansas USA 1989 |
| 1986 | Dana Moody | Batesville | | | | Miss Congeniality | |
| 1985 | Rhonda Ann Heird | Pine Bluff | 17 | | Top 10 | | |
| 1984 | Melissa Staples | Calion | | | | | Later Miss Arkansas USA 1988 |
| 1983 | Angela Boyd | Manila | | | Semi-finalist | Miss Congeniality | |
$^1$ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant