# Miss California Teen USA

The Miss California Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of California in the Miss Teen USA pageant. It was formed in 1983. This pageant is part of the Miss USA Organization.
California is in the top five most successful states at Miss Teen USA in terms of number and value of placements. Miss California Teen USA titleholders have been invited to red-carpet movie premieres, such as that for Santa Clause 3 attended by Kylee Lin, and She's the Man, attended by Jessica Powell.
The current titleholder is Paige Gonor of San Diego, who is crowned on June 23, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Orange County. Gonor represented California for the title of Miss Teen USA 2024.

## History

In the 1980s, the pageant was directed by Richard Guy and Rex Holt, who also oversaw the Miss California USA, Miss Texas USA and Miss Texas Teen USA pageants. They lost the contract in 1990, when it came up for renewal.

## Gallery of titleholders

* Kylee Lin, Miss California Teen USA 2007, at the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End film premiere
* Miss California Teen USA 2009, Chelsea Gilligan, attending the "Beauty of California Dinner" at The Riviera Resort & Spa, Palm Springs, CA on Nov. 21, 2009
* Miss California Teen USA 2010, Emma Baker, on-stage at the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, CA on Nov. 22, 2009
* Miss California Teen USA 2011, Alexis Swanstrom, Rancho Mirage, CA on Nov. 21, 2010
* Miss California Teen USA 2012 Alexa Jones, Irvine, California on June 16, 2012
* Miss California Teen USA 2013 and Miss Teen USA 2013, Cassidy Wolf, Irvine, California on January 4, 2014
* Miss California Teen USA 2014 Bianca Vierra, Long Beach, California on January 4, 2014
* Miss California Teen USA 2015 Melanie Mitchell, Corona, California on July 19, 2015
* Miss California Teen USA 2016 Athenna Crosby, Long Beach, California on December 6, 2015
* Miss California Teen USA 2019 Alina Carranza, Los Angeles, California on March 14, 2019

## Results summary
### Placements

* Miss Teen USAs: Shauna Gambill (1994), Cassidy Wolf (2013)
* 1st runners-up: Jennifer Morgan (2002), Melanie Mitchell (2015)
* 2nd runners-up: Michelle Cardamon (1996), Chelsea Gilligan (2009), Emma Baker (2010), Alexis Swanstrom (2011), Cassidy Hill (2022)
* 3rd runner-up: Bianca Vierra (2014)
* 4th runners-up: Stephanie Brink (2005), Jaanu Patel (2017)
* Top 6: Natasha Allas (1992)
* Top 10: Shawn Gardner (1983), Angi Aylor (1987), Casey McClain (2001)
* Top 12: Trisha Robey (1990), Kellie Foster-Moore (1995)
* Top 15/16/20: Taylor Atkins (2008), Athenna Crosby (2016), Janeice Love (2018), Zoe Hunt (2020), Cameron Doan (2021), Taliya Ariana Peiris (2023)
California holds a record of 24 placements at Miss Teen USA.

## Winners
### Color key

* 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 | Paige Gonor | San Diego | 18 | Miss San Diego County Teen | | | |
| 2023 | Taliya Ariana Peiris | San Ramon | 18 | Miss Bay Area Teen | Top 20 | | |
| 2022 | Cassidy Hill | Newport Beach | 18 | Miss Newport Beach Teen | Second runner-up | | |
| 2021 | Cameron Doan | Anaheim | 19 | Miss Anaheim Hills Teen | Top 16 | | Previously Miss California's Outstanding Teen 2018 Top 9 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2019 |
| 2020 | Zoe Hunt | Coronado | 17 | Miss Coronado Teen | Top 16 | | |
| 2019 | Alina Rae Carranza | Los Angeles | 17 | Miss Woodland Hills Teen | | | |
| 2018 | Janeice Love | Barstow | 17 | Miss Coastal Cities Teen | Top 15 | | |
| 2017 | Jaanu Patel | Huntington Beach | 16 | Miss Huntington Beach Teen | Fourth runner-up | | |
| 2016 | Athenna Crosby | San Jose | 17 | Miss Santa Monica Teen | Top 15 | | Top 15 at Miss Utah USA 2019 |
| 2015 | Melanie Mitchell | Anaheim | 16 | Miss Anaheim Hills Teen | First runner-up | | |
| 2014 | Bianca Vierra | Hayward | 19 | Miss Brea Canyon Teen | Third runner-up | | 1st runner-up at Miss California USA 2018 |
| 2013 | Chloe Hope Hatfield | Norco | 18 | Miss Malibu Teen | did not compete | did not compete | 1st runner-up at Miss California Teen USA 2013; succeeded Cassidy Wolf when Wolf won Miss Teen USA 2013 Later Miss Collegiate America 2016 |
| 2013 | Cassidy Wolf | Temecula | 19 | Miss Greater San Diego Teen | Miss Teen USA 2013 | | |
| 2012 | Alexa Jones | Ramona | 18 | Miss Orange County Teen | | | First runner-up Miss Arizona USA 2014 Top 20 Miss Arizona USA 2015-2016 Miss California U.S. International 2016 Top 20 Miss California USA 2017 |
| 2011 | Alexis Swanstrom | San Diego | 17 | Miss San Diego Teen | Second runner-up | | Third runner-up at Miss California USA 2014 Top 10 at Miss California USA 2015 |
| 2010 | Emma Baker | Poway | 18 | Miss Poway Teen | Second runner-up | | Second runner-up at Miss Washington USA 2014 |
| 2009 | Chelsea Gilligan | Beaumont | 18 | Miss Beaumont Teen | Second runner-up | | |
| 2008 | Taylor Atkins | Piru | 17 | Miss Ventura County Teen | Top 15 | | |
| 2007 | Kylee Lin | San Rafael | 16 | Miss Marin Teen | | | |
| 2006 | Jessica Powell | Barstow | 18 | Miss Barstow Teen | | | |
| 2005 | Stephanie Brink | Bellflower | 18 | | Fourth runner-up | | |
| 2004 | Stacey Beltran | Oxnard | 18 | | | | Miss California Teen International 2005 |
| 2003 | Shannon Byrne | Vacaville | 18 | | | | |
| 2002 | Jennifer Morgan | Alpine | 17 | | First runner-up | | |
| 2001 | Casey McClain | San Marcos | 18 | | Semi-finalist | | |
| 2000 | Alexandra Thompson | Vacaville | 15 | | | | |
| 1999 | Marianne Kennedy | Long Beach | 17 | | | | |
| 1998 | Amanda O'Leary | Fullerton | 19 | | | | |
| 1997 | Kimberly Gloudemans | Bakersfield | 16 | | | | First runner-up to National Sweetheart 2001 |
| 1996 | Michelle Cardamon | San Diego | 18 | | Second runner-up | | |
| 1995 | Kellie Foster-Moore | Fresno | 17 | | Semi-finalist | | |
| 1994 | Shauna Gambill | Acton | 17 | | Miss Teen USA 1994 | | Later Miss California USA 1998, First runner up at Miss USA 1998 Miss World USA 1998, represented the United States at Miss World 1998 (Top 10). |
| 1993 | Stefanie Sweeney | El Dorado Hills | 18 | | | | Now Stevi McShane; owner of Crowned One Productions, a pageant production company, and director of the Miss California U.S. International Pageant and the Jr. Miss and Miss Teen and Miss California American Beauty Pageant. She was also Mrs. California International, 2008. |
| 1992 | Natasha Allas | Los Angeles | 18 | | Finalist | | Later Miss World USA 1999, Semi-finalist at Miss World 1999 |
| 1991 | Jolene Fulkner | Yorba Linda | 14 | | | | Youngest ever Miss California Teen USA |
| 1990 | Trisha Robey | Los Angeles | 18 | | Semi-finalist | | |
| 1989 | Michealean Bonilla | Los Angeles | 17 | | | | |
| 1988 | Alison Moreno | El Toro | 15 | | | Best State Costume | Disqualified from competing at the national pageant curfew violation, contrary to pageant rules. |
| 1987 | Angi Aylor | El Toro | 14 | | Semi-finalist (6th) | Miss Photogenic (tie) | Second runner up in Miss World USA 1994 |
| 1986 | Michelle Lowell | Ontario | 17 | | | | |
| 1985 | Sharon Gunther | Clovis | 16 | | | | |
| 1984 | Jodie Alvarez | San Pedro | 19 | | | | |
| 1983 | Shawn Gardner | Modesto | 17 | | Semi-finalist | | Placed first runner-up in state pageant, assumed title when winner resigned title to get married. |
| 1983 | Teresa St. Nicholas | Monterey | 17 | | | | Resigned |
$^1$ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant