# Miss Minnesota Teen USA

The Miss Minnesota Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Minnesota in the Miss Teen USA pageant. This pageant is directed by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota.
Minnesota has not been very successful at Miss Teen USA, with their first placement coming in 1995, in the pageant's thirteenth year. Minnesota teens have performed best in the 2000s, with two top fifteen, three top ten placements and a 4th runner-up placement.
Five Minnesota teens have won the Miss Minnesota USA pageant and competed at Miss USA.
The current titleholder is Ava Ernst of St. Paul, was crowned on May 29, 2022, at Ames Center in Burnsville. She will represent Minnesota for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.

## Results summary
### Placements

* 4th runners-up: Maggie McGill (2013)
* Top 10: Alla Ilushka (2002), Allison Arling (2004), Vanessa Vonbehren (2007)
* Top 12: Michelle Borg (1995)
* Top 15: Lauren Hindi (2005), Hannah Corbett (2011)
Minnesota holds a record of 7 placements at Miss Teen USA.

### Awards

* Miss Congeniality: Olivia Herbert (2019)

## 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 Stahl | Minnetonka | 17 | | | |
| 2023 | Mikhala Rivers | Maple Grove | 17 | | | |
| 2022 | Ava Ernst | Saint Paul | 18 | | | |
| 2021 | Annika Wiese | Owatonna | 18 | | | |
| 2020 | Gwendolyn Buchanan | Duluth | 18 | | | |
| 2019 | Olivia Herbert | Andover | 16 | | Miss Congeniality | Cousin of Miss Minnesota USA 2011 Brittany Thelemann |
| 2018 | Peyton Schroeder | Rosemount | 18 | | | |
| 2017 | Tori Trittin | Lakeville | 15 | | | Later Miss Wisconsin USA 2024 |
| 2016 | Sophia Primozich | Minnetonka | 16 | | | |
| 2015 | Hayden Grace Hammond | Maple Grove | 18 | | | |
| 2014 | Catherine Stanley | Bloomington | 18 | | | Later Miss Minnesota USA 2019 |
| 2013 | Maggie McGill | Plymouth | 18 | 4th runner-up | | |
| 2012 | Kendra Berger | Apple Valley | 16 | | | |
| 2011 | Hannah Corbett | Excelsior | 17 | Top 15 | | |
| 2010 | Haley O'Brien | Victoria | 18 | | | Later Miss Minnesota USA 2014, later Miss Collegiate America 2012 |
| 2009 | Vanessa Johnston | Lakeville | 17 | | | America's Next Top Model Cycle 15 semi-finalist, Eliminated first round of cuts |
| 2008 | Sarah Sprayberry | St. Paul | 16 | | | |
| 2007 | Vanessa Vonbehren | Apple Valley | 17 | Top 10 | | |
| 2006 | Amy Blue | Anoka | 17 | | | |
| 2005 | Lauren Hindi | Stacy | 16 | Top 15 | | |
| 2004 | Allison Arling | Lakeville | 18 | Top 10 | | |
| 2003 | Kristin Swoboda | White Bear Lake | 16 | | | |
| 2002 | Alla Ilushka | Eden Prairie | 17 | Top 10 | | Later Miss Minnesota USA 2007 |
| 2001 | Serene Aandahl | Minneapolis | | | | Top 10 at Miss Universe Canada 2007, 4th runner up at Miss Minnesota USA 2008 |
| 2000 | Jennifer Jones | Lakeville | | | | |
| 1999 | Laura Beth Reier | Brooklyn Park | | | | |
| 1998 | Kristin Hilgenberg | Lakeville | 19 | | | Daughter of former professional American football player Wally Hilgenberg |
| 1997 | Jamie Duffney | Plymouth | 17 | | | |
| 1996 | Sarah Cahill | Waseca | 17 | | | Later Miss Minnesota USA 2003 |
| 1995 | Michelle Borg | Brainerd | 17 | Semi-finalist | | |
| 1994 | Paige Swenson | Fridley | | | | Later Miss Minnesota USA 2000 |
| 1993 | Charity Lundy | Stacy | 16 | | | |
| 1992 | Elizabeth Peters | Lake Hubert | 16 | | | |
| 1991 | Natasha Grudnoske | Arden Hills | | | | |
| 1990 | Jennifer Bell | Blooming Prairie | 16 | | | |
| 1989 | Darcy Inglested | Prior Lake | | | | |
| 1988 | Julie Ward | Savage | | | | |
| 1987 | Karin Hargroves | Shoreview | | | | |
| 1986 | Jennifer Geckal | Bloomington | | | | |
| 1985 | Lana Burke | Crystal | | | | |
| 1984 | Heather Johnson | Truman | | | | |
| 1983 | Kimberly Ess | Shakopee | | | | |
$^1$ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant