# Miss Iowa Teen USA

The Miss Iowa Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Iowa in the Miss Teen USA pageant, which is co-owned by the Miss USA Organization by Crystle Stewart. This pageant is produced by Future Productions, LLC which also produces state pageants for Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Miss Iowa Teen USA 1992 Jamie Solinger was crowned Miss Teen USA at the national pageant held in Biloxi, Mississippi that year. Iowa became the 9th state that won the Miss Teen USA title for the first time.
Solinger is one of only three Iowa teens to cross over and win the Miss Iowa USA title.
Marisa Mathson of Waukee was crowned Miss Iowa Teen USA 2022 on May 21, 2022, at Des Moines Marriott Downtown in Des Moines. She will represent Iowa for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.

## Results summary
### Placements

* Winner: Jamie Solinger (1992)
* Top 12: Chelsey Ridge (1995)
* Top 15/16/20: Alyssa Cook (2003), Carley Arnold (2017), Angel Strong (2021), Marisa Mathson (2022), Maddie Erickson (2023)
Iowa holds a record of 7 placements at Miss Teen USA.

### Special Award

* Miss Photogenic: Allyson Hovda (2009)

## Winners

* Declared as Winner
* Ended as runner-up
* Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age$^1$ | Placement at Miss Teen USA | Special awards at Miss Teen USA | Notes |
| 2024 | Grace Smithey | Polk City | 19 | | | |
| 2023 | Maddie Erickson | Ankeny | 19 | Top 20 | | |
| 2022 | Marisa Mathson | Waukee | 17 | Top 16 | | |
| 2021 | Angel Strong | West Des Moines | 19 | Top 16 | | Eligible as a student of Drake University at the time of crowning |
| 2020 | Hailey Parton | West Des Moines | 17 | | | |
| 2019 | Kristen Hovda | Cedar Rapids | 18 | | | Sister of Allyson Hovda, Miss Iowa Teen USA 2009 |
| 2018 | Isabella Russell | Marshalltown | 17 | | | |
| 2017 | Carley Arnold | Chariton | 17 | Top 15 | | |
| 2016 | Hannah Bockhaus | Tripoli | 17 | | | |
| 2015 | Aryn Book | Adel | 18 | | | |
| 2014 | Amanda Armstrong | Sioux City | 16 | | | |
| 2013 | Morgan Kofoid | Leon | 16 | | | Later Miss Iowa USA 2020 |
| 2012 | Carissa Becker | Waterloo | 17 | | | |
| 2011 | Richelle Orr | Hampton | 19 | | | Later Miss Iowa USA 2013 |
| 2010 | Erica Lansman | Bettendorf | 19 | | | |
| 2009 | Allyson Hovda | Cedar Rapids | 18 | | Miss Photogenic | Originally first runner-up; assumed the title after Ally Cymboluk resigned Later National All-American Miss 2012–2013 |
| 2009 | Ally Cymboluk | Waukon | 16 | Did not compete | Did not compete | Relinquished the title on January 1, 2009, for personal reasons. |
| 2008 | Emily Bey | Cedar Rapids | 18 | | | |
| 2007 | Dakota Crosswhite | Cedar Rapids | 18 | | | |
| 2006 | Danielle Malatek | North Liberty | 17 | | | |
| 2005 | Jocelyn Borkowski | Harlan | 17 | | | |
| 2004 | Shannon Hofmeister | Oelwein | 18 | | | |
| 2003 | Alyssa Cook | Adel | 18 | Top 15 | | |
| 2002 | Haley Johnson | Des Moines | 18 | | | |
| 2001 | Ashley Hanson | Spencer | 17 | | | |
| 2000 | Jennifer Ellison | Bettendorf | 17 | | | |
| 1999 | Teresa Moberg | Des Moines | 16 | | | |
| 1998 | Arianna Kem | Harlan | 19 | | | |
| 1997 | Sarah Sucher | Des Moines | 18 | | | |
| 1996 | Allison Dickey | Des Moines | 19 | | | |
| 1995 | Chelsey Ridge | Muscatine | 17 | Top 12 | | |
| 1994 | Erika Miller | Indianola | 17 | | | |
| 1993 | Melissa Baxter | Marion | 18 | | | |
| 1992 | Jamie Solinger | Altoona | 18 | Miss Teen USA 1992 | | Later Miss Iowa USA 1998, Mrs. Idaho America 2004, and 3rd runner-up to Mrs. America 2004 under her married name, Jamie Patterson. |
| 1991 | Tina Foehring | Fort Madison | 18 | | | |
| 1990 | Faith Windsor | Des Moines | 18 | | | |
| 1989 | Stacie Beckwith | Boone | | | | |
| 1988 | Stacy Horst | Vail | | | | |
| 1987 | Jan Hoyer | Fort Madison | | | | Later Miss Iowa USA 1993, finished 8th at Miss USA 1993 |
| 1986 | Kristin Hudson | Des Moines | | | | |
| 1985 | Alisha Black | Ames | | | | |
| 1984 | Kim Carlson | Des Moines | | | | |
| 1983 | Kimberly Heck | Des Moines | | | | |
$^1$ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant