page_title: Miss Tennessee Teen USA
hierarchical_section_title: Miss Tennessee Teen USA
caption_attribution_description: English: Surrounded by soldiers atop an MRAP vehicle, Miss USA Rachel Smith watches the 2007 USO Holiday Tour stop at Logistics Support Area Anaconda, Balad, Iraq
context_page_description: The Miss Tennessee Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Tennessee in the Miss Teen USA pageant. The pageant is directed by Greenwood Productions under the ownership of Miss Tennessee USA 1989, Kimberly Payne Greenwood, since 1992.
  Tennessee is in the top 5 most successful states at Miss Teen USA in terms of number and value of placements. In the 1990s, they were placed first. They have the third highest number of semi-finalist placings and are one of only five states to have received more than three awards.
  Five Tennessee teens have gone on to win the Miss Tennessee USA title and compete at Miss USA, including Lynnette Cole, who won the Miss USA title in 2000 and Rachel Smith, Miss USA 2007. Both Cole and Smith won Miss Photogenic awards at Miss Teen USA, each five years prior to their Miss USA win. This makes Miss Tennessee Teen USA the only state and pageant to have two Miss USAs win the Miss Photogenic award at Miss Teen USA.
  Ansley Ecker of Memphis was crowned Miss Tennessee Teen USA 2020 on October 12, 2019 at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville.
context_section_description: The Miss Tennessee Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Tennessee in the Miss Teen USA pageant.  The pageant is directed by Greenwood Productions under the ownership of Miss Tennessee USA 1989, Kimberly Payne Greenwood, since 1992.
  Tennessee is in the top 5 most successful states at Miss Teen USA in terms of number and value of placements . In the 1990s, they were placed first .  They have the third (equal) highest number of semi-finalist (or better) placings and are one of only five states to have received more than three awards .
  Five Tennessee teens have gone on to win the Miss Tennessee USA title and compete at Miss USA, including Lynnette Cole, who won the Miss USA title in 2000 and Rachel Smith, Miss USA 2007.  Both Cole and Smith won Miss Photogenic awards at Miss Teen USA, each five years prior to their Miss USA win. This makes Miss Tennessee Teen USA the only state and pageant to have two Miss USAs win the Miss Photogenic award at Miss Teen USA.
  Ansley Ecker of Memphis was crowned Miss Tennessee Teen USA 2020 on October 12, 2019 at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville. She will represent Tennessee for the title of Miss Teen USA 2020 on the spring of 2020.
caption: Rachel Smith, Miss Tennessee Teen USA 2002 and Miss USA 2007 (image taken in 2007)
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