Miss Kentucky Teen USA

The Miss Kentucky Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kentucky in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Kentucky is ranked eight in terms of place and value of placements across all twenty-three years of competition at Miss Teen USA. When this is broken down to the six pageants 2000-2005, Kentucky places second [1]. They are one of only five states to have won more than one Photogenic award [2].

Miss Kentucky Teen USA 2002 Tara Conner, who placed second runner-up to Vanessa Semrow at Miss Teen USA, later became Miss Kentucky USA 2006. She is one of three teens to cross over to the corresponding Miss title, although one went on to compete at Miss America.

Results summary

Placement at Miss Teen USA

• First runners-up: Kristi Dawn Hicks (1989)
• Second runners-up: Krista Keith (1983), Kristen Johnson (2000), Tara Conner (2002)
• Top 6: April Vaughn (1990)
• Top 10: Lexie Kemper (1999), Amanda Nunnelley (2003)
• Top 12: Brittany Johnson (1995)
• Top 15: Sarah Withers (2005), Jefra Bland (2009), Taylor Hubbard (2010)

Awards

• Miss Photogenic: Lexie Kemper (1999), Kristen Johnson (2000)

Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2012	Tiffany Cline
2011	Stephanie Jones	Elizabethtown	18
2010	Taylor Hubbard	London	15	Top 15
2009	Jefra Bland	Campbellsville	19	Top 15
2008	Shannen Reil	West Van Lear	15
2007	Katrina Giannini	Princeton	17
2006	Tiffany Withrow	Ashland	17
2005	Sarah Bryan Withers	Columbia	18	Top 15
2004	Megan Frank	Greensburg	19
2003	Amanda Nunnelley	Louisville	17	Top 10
2002	Tara Conner	Russell Springs	16	2nd runner-up	Body Glove Swimsuit Award	Later Miss Kentucky USA 2006 and Miss USA 2006, 4 th Runner up at Miss Universe 2006
2001	Katherine Faulkner	Hazard
2000	Kristen Johnson	Slaughters	18	2nd runner-up	Miss Photogenic	Later Miss Kentucky USA 2005, 2nd runner up at Miss USA 2005
1999	Lexie Kemper	Louisville		Top 10	Miss Photogenic
1998	Elizabeth Arnold	Columbia				Later Miss Kentucky USA 2002
1997	Kelli Jones
1996	Kelly Marie Sodan	Berea
1995	Brittany Johnson	Virgie		Top 12
1994	Crystal Hayden
1993	Holly Riggs
1992	Heather Boggess
1991	Christine Jackman	Louisville
1990	April Vaughn			Top 6
1989	Kristi Dawn Hicks	Bardstown	17	1st runner-up		Later Miss Kentucky 1995
1988	Marti Hendricks	Danville
1987	Tracey Marsee	Middlesboro
1986	Amy Miller
1985	Leanne Gregory	Lexington
1984	Suzy Neclerio	Georgetown
1983	Krista Keith			2nd runner-up

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

External links

• Official website