# Miss Vermont Teen USA

The Miss Vermont Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Vermont in the Miss Teen USA pageant. It is formerly directed by Sanders & Associates, Inc., dba- Pageant Associates based in Buckhannon, West Virginia from 2004 to 2017 before GDB Theatre and Pageant Productions becoming the new directors of the stage pageant since 2018.
Charlotte Lopez, Miss Vermont Teen USA 1993, was the first Vermont Teen to win the Miss Teen USA crown and the 10th state that won the title for the first time. Four Miss Vermont Teen USA titleholders have won the Miss Vermont USA title and competed at Miss USA.
Prior to 2022, no sisters had been held the Miss and Teen titles in a single state. Vermont became the first state to have biological sisters holding the statewide Miss USA and Miss Teen USA titles simultaneously, when Kenzie Golonka crowned Teen and her sister (and former Teen titleholder) Kelsey crowned Miss.
Nadja Dacres of Colchester was crowned Miss Vermont Teen USA 2023 on March 25, 2023. She will represent Vermont for the title of Miss Teen USA 2023.
Fifteen-year old, Josslyn McKenna of Colchester was crowned Miss Vermont Teen USA 2024 on June 9, 2024. She represented Vermont for the title of Miss Teen USA at the 41st Annual Miss Teen USA on August 1, 2024 at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The last televised Miss Teen USA pageant was in 2007, which was the 25th anniversary of the pageant. The 2024 Miss Teen USA pageant was the first time the pageant was televised since 2007, airing on The CW.

## Results summary
### Placements

* Miss Teen USAs: Charlotte Lopez (1993)
* 2nd runners-up: Kara Quinn (1989)
* Top 15: Alexandra Marek (2015), Tammy Vujanovic (2016), Kelsey Golonka (2017)
Vermont holds a record of 5 placements at Miss Teen USA.

### Awards

* Miss Congeniality: Lavinia Magruder (1996), Karsen Woods (2012)

## 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 | Josslyn McKenna | Colchester | 15 | | | |
| 2023 | Nadja Dacres | Colchester | 16 | | | |
| 2022 | Kenzie Golonka | Montpelier | 16 | | | Sister of Kelsey Golonka, Miss Vermont Teen USA 2017 and Miss Vermont USA 2022 |
| 2021 | Jamisyn Baker | Rutland | 15 | | | |
| 2020 | Kiera Pipeling | West Rutland | 17 | | | |
| 2019 | Jenna Howlett | Bridport | 16 | | | Later Miss Vermont USA 2023 |
| 2018 | Alexandra Diehl | St. Albans | 17 | | | Previously Miss Vermont's Outstanding Teen 2016 |
| 2017 | Kelsey Golonka | Montpelier | 17 | Top 15 | | Later Miss Vermont USA 2022, Top 12 at Miss USA 2022; sister of Kenzie Golonka, Miss Vermont Teen USA 2022 |
| 2016 | Tammy Vujanovic | Burlington | 16 | Top 15 | | |
| 2015 | Alexandra Marek | Barre | 16 | Top 15 | | |
| 2014 | Madison Cota | Bellows Falls | 17 | | | Later Miss Vermont USA 2017 Semifinalist at Miss Massachusetts 2018 |
| 2013 | Sophia Hadeka | Fair Haven | 15 | | | Previously Miss Vermont's Outstanding Teen 2011 |
| 2012 | Karsen Woods | Westford | 17 | | Miss Congeniality | |
| 2011 | Bridget Martin | Stowe | 14 | | | |
| 2010 | Shelby Gregoire | Barre | 17 | | | |
| 2009 | Brittany Kelemen | Jonesville | 18 | | | |
| 2008 | Sydney Perry | Middlesex | 17 | | | Later Miss North Carolina USA 2012 |
| 2007 | Olivia Hubbard | Rutland | 17 | | | |
| 2006 | Katharine Williams | Richmond | 17 | | | |
| 2005 | Jessica Fillion | Williston | 18 | | | |
| 2004 | Maggie Geha | Brattleboro | 16 | | | |
| 2003 | Jenna Lajeunesse | Barre | 17 | | | |
| 2002 | Melinda Karr | Burlington | 15 | | | |
| 2001 | Heather Moylan | Derby | 18 | | | |
| 2000 | JoAnna Velucci | Burlington | 17 | | | |
| 1999 | Jennifer Ripley | Barre | 19 | | | Later Miss Vermont USA 2003 and Mrs. Vermont America 2009 under her married name, Jennifer Bisson. |
| 1998 | Dawn Carrow | Vernon | 18 | | | |
| 1997 | Mariah Billado | Burlington | 18 | | | |
| 1996 | Lavinia Magruder | Burlington | 17 | | Miss Congeniality | |
| 1995 | Melissa Perron | Barton | 18 | | | |
| 1994 | Christel Marquardt | Vergennes | 17 | | | |
| 1993 | Charlotte Lopez | Dorset | 16 | Miss Teen USA 1993 | | |
| 1992 | Lisa Robie | Milton | 18 | | | |
| 1991 | Anne-Marie Geroe | Newport | 17 | | | |
| 1990 | Gessica Tortolano | Randolph | 16 | | | |
| 1989 | Kara Quinn | Rutland | 15 | 2nd runner-up | | |
| 1988 | Andrea Varney | South Hero | 16 | | | |
| 1987 | Christy Beltrami | Barre | 18 | | | Later Miss Vermont USA 1994 |
| 1986 | Holly Matava | Brattleboro | 17 | | | |
| 1985 | Wanda Minard | South Burlington | 17 | | | |
| 1984 | Darcy Hedrick | Bennington | 17 | | | |
| 1983 | Cindy Gentile | Charlotte | 17 | | | |
$^1$ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant