# Miss Connecticut Teen USA

The Miss Connecticut Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Connecticut in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
The state pageant directors are:
* Crown Productions from 2003 to 2008
* Sanders & Associates, Inc., dba- Pageant Associates based in Buckhannon, West Virginia from 2009 to 2017
* Five Crown Pageant Productions based in Washington, D.C. from 2018 to 2019
* Ewald Productions from 2020
Connecticut has been one of the least successful states at Miss Teen USA. In 2002, Ashley Bickford's placement followed the 4th runner-up placement of Miss Connecticut USA Alita Dawson, who had previously been Miss Connecticut Teen-USA 1997. This was Connecticut's highest joint placement, and the highest joint placement of any state that year. Dawson was one of four Miss Connecticut Teen-USA titleholder to later win the Miss Connecticut-USA title.
The state has produced two Miss Teen USA winners: Logan West who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2012, and Kaliegh Garris who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2019.
Daviana Mary Plaza of Windham was crowned Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2025 on January 26, 2025, at Marriott Airport Hotel in Windsor. She will represent Connecticut for the title of Miss Teen USA 2025.

## Results summary
### Placements

* Miss Teen USAs: Logan West (2012), Kaliegh Garris (2019)
* Top 10: Ashley Bickford (2002)
* Top 12: Cynthia Schneck (1993)
* Top 16: Samantha Sarelli (2020)
Connecticut holds a record of 5 placements at Miss Teen USA.

### Awards

* Miss Congeniality: Allison Barbeau-Diorio (1987)

## 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 |
| 2025 | Daviana Mary Plaza | Windham | | Miss Windham Teen | TBA | | |
| 2024 | Ava Celentano | North Haven | 14 | Miss North Haven Teen | | | |
| 2023 | Jade Ferdinand | Stamford | 19 | Miss Stamford Teen | | | |
| 2022 | Mya Xeller | New Haven | 17 | Miss New Haven County Teen | | | |
| 2021 | Nikitha Kikanamada | South Windsor | 19 | Miss South Windsor Teen | | | First Indian American Miss Connecticut Teen USA |
| 2020 | Samantha Sarelli | Westport | 18 | | Top 16 | | |
| 2019 | Kaliegh Garris | New Haven | 18 | | Miss Teen USA 2019 | | |
| 2018 | Elle Sauli | Newtown | 17 | | | | |
| 2017 | Lana Coffey | New Canaan | 18 | | | | |
| 2016 | Katy Brown | Hebron | 18 | | | | |
| 2015 | Savannah Marie Giammarco | Middletown | 16 | | | | Previously National American Miss Junior Teen 2012–13 1st runner-up at Miss Connecticut 2019 competition |
| 2014 | Sydney West | Vernon | 16 | | | | Sister of Logan West, Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2012 and Miss Teen USA 2012 |
| 2013 | Kendall Leary | Wallingford | 17 | | | | |
| 2012 | Logan West | Southington | 18 | | Miss Teen USA 2012 | | Sister of Sydney West, Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2014 Previously Miss Connecticut's Outstanding Teen 2010 |
| 2011 | Samantha Mary Sojka | North Granby | 19 | | | | |
| 2010 | Alyssa Taglia | Cheshire | 16 | | | | |
| 2009 | Tiffany Ann Teixeira | Bridgeport | 17 | | | | Later Miss Connecticut USA 2016 Top 10 at Miss USA 2016 |
| 2008 | Brianne Hiltz | Shelton | 18 | | | | |
| 2007 | Olga Yurievna Litvinenko | Greenwich | 17 | | | | Emigrated from Ukraine to the US at age three Later Miss Connecticut USA 2017 |
| 2006 | Kristen Heide | Madison | 18 | | | | |
| 2005 | Jennifer Brooks | Bristol | 17 | | | | Top 10 at Miss Teen America 2003 |
| 2004 | Kayla Salerno | New Britain | 16 | | | | |
| 2003 | Nina Musumeci | Hartford | 17 | | | | |
| 2002 | Ashley Bickford | Hartford | 17 | | Semi-finalist | | Triple Crown winner: Previously Miss Rhode Island 2007 and Preliminary Swimsuit Winner and Miss Photogenic at the Miss America 2008 pageant Later Miss Connecticut USA 2010 |
| 2001 | Marie-Lynn Piscitelli | North Haven | 15 | | | | Later Miss Connecticut USA 2012 |
| 2000 | Lisa DeLeo | Guilford | 17 | | | | |
| 1999 | Bethany McGlynn | Preston | 18 | | | | |
| 1998 | Natalie Perez | Meriden | 18 | | | | |
| 1997 | Alita Dawson | Hamden | 18 | | | | Later Miss Teen All American 1998 Later Miss Connecticut USA 2002 4th runner up at Miss USA 2002 pageant |
| 1996 | Marissa Perez | Meriden | 18 | | | | Later Miss Connecticut 2001 |
| 1995 | Tiffanyanne Kosma | Voluntown | | | | | |
| 1994 | Stacey Ann Raffone | New Haven | | | | | |
| 1993 | Cynthia Schneck | Wilton | 17 | | Semi-finalist | | |
| 1992 | Tiffany Selivonchik | New Milford | | | | | |
| 1991 | Allison Benusis | Ridgefield | | | | | Later Miss Connecticut USA 1993 |
| 1990 | Amy Raboin | Hartford | | | | | |
| 1989 | Suzanne Ianucci | West Haven | | | | | |
| 1988 | Bobbie-Jo Shanahan | East Hartford | | | | | |
| 1987 | Allison Barbeau-Diorio | Fairfield | | | | Miss Congeniality | Later Miss Connecticut USA 1990 |
| 1986 | Karen Zawacki | Danbury | | | | | |
| 1985 | Kristine Kunst | Wallingford | 16 | | | | |
| 1984 | Monique Savery | Hartford | | | | | |
| 1983 | Beth Waldron | Hartford | | | | | |
$^1$ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant