Miss West Virginia Teen USA

Chelsea Welch, Miss West Virginia Teen USA 2007

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

The current titleholder is Miss Susan Hines King of Fairmont, West Virginia.

West Virginia is one of the least successful states at Miss Teen USA, having placed on only four occasions. Despite a relatively strong start in the 1980s, with two semi-finals finishes, no Miss West Virginia Teen USA placed from 1988 to 2005, when Andrea Turner placed 2nd runner-up to Allie LaForce of Ohio. This was West Virginia's highest placement.

One West Virginia teen has also won the Miss West Virginia USA title and competed at Miss USA.

Results summary

Placements

• Second runner-up: Andrea Turner (2005)
• Fourth runner-up: Chelsea Welch (2007)
• Top 10: Jodi Caldwell (1986), Wendy Stephens (1988)
• Top 15: Susan King (2011)

Awards

• Best State Costume: Kelly Porterfield (1985)

Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2012	Elizabeth Sabatino	Morgantown	16
2011	Susan Hines King	Fairmont	16	Top 15
2010	Ally Grace Brandfass	Morgantown	16
2009	Alysia Thompson	Ripley	16
2008	Micah Michael	Morgantown	17
2007	Chelsea Welch	West Union	16	4th runner-up
2006	Lora Gallagher	Brideport	18
2005	Andrea Turner	Benwood	17	2nd runner-up
2004	Mary Ellen Wolfe	Huntington	18			Daughter of Mrs. America 1984- Deborah Wolfe
2003	Whitney Veach	Petersburg	16			Later Miss West Virginia USA 2011
2002	Heather Estep	Hurricane
2001	Tara Szersen	Wheeling
2000	Ginneene Barone
1999	Carrie Fleshman
1998	Erica Bevins	Huntington
1997	Amanda Burns					Later Miss West Virginia USA 1999 and Mrs. West Virginia America 2004 under her married name, Amanda Duffy.
1996	Heather Gray
1995	Sarah Russell	Hurricane
1994	Jonelle Spiker
1993	Jennifer Pringle
1992	Kelly Humphreys
1991	Tracey Rexroad	Weston
1990	Mindy Green	Buckhannon
1989	Jennifer Dunn	Buckhannon
1988	Wendy Stephens	Parkersburg		Top 10
1987	Cheryl Cullop	Beckley
1986	Jodi Caldwell	Nitro		Top 10
1985	Kelly Porterfield	Martinsburg			Best State Costume
1984	Trina Vertillo	Richwood
1983	Kay Scadden	Newell

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

External links

• Official website