Miss Missouri USA

The Miss Missouri USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Missouri in the Miss USA pageant. In 1993, Missouri joined the Vanbros group of state pageants for the Miss USA and Teen USA system.

Missouri has had only one Miss USA, Shandi Finnessey, who placed as 1st Runner-up to Jennifer Hawkins of Australia in the Miss Universe 2004 pageant.

Three Miss Missouri USAs have competed at Miss America, including Finnessey who is one of only two Miss USA winners since 1980 to win the Miss USA title. Six former Miss Teen USA delegates have also won the title, equalling Indiana and Virginia for the most crossovers, although both Indiana and Missouri have had titleholders who competed in a different state at Miss Teen USA.

Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age¹	Placement at Miss USA	Notes
2007	Amber Seyer	Oran	20	Top 10	Previously Miss Missouri Teen USA 2003
2006	Kristi Capel	Springfield	22
2005	Andrea Ciliberti	Kansas City	21		Contestant on Beauty and the Geek, season 3
2004	Ashley Litton	Olathe	20
2004	Shandi Finnessey	Florissant	25	Winner	1st runner up at Miss Universe 2004, previously Miss Missouri 2002, 3rd runner up at Miss Oktoberfest 2000
2003	Tara Bollinger		23
2002	Melana Scantlin	Gladstone	24		Previously Miss Missouri Teen USA 1995 and top 12 at Miss Teen USA 1995, Reality TV star (Average Joe)
2001	Larissa Meek	St. Louis	23	4th Runner-Up	Previously Miss Missouri Teen USA 1997, Reality TV star (Average Joe)
2000	Denette Roderick
1999	Teri Bollinger				Previously Miss Illinois Teen USA 1990
1998	Melanie Breedlove			2nd Runner-Up	Previously Miss Missouri Teen USA 1998
1997	Amanda Jahn	St Joseph	25
1996	Aimee Rinehart		24
1995	Britt Powell			Semi-Finalist
1994	Shelly Lehman			Semi-Finalist
1993	Stephanie Nunn	Springfield
1992	Tonya Snodgrass
1991	Tiffany Hazel
1990	Lori Suschnick
1989	Rhonda Hoglan				Previously Miss Missouri Teen USA 1985
1988	Alecia Workman
1987	Dawn Fonseca	Independence	22	3rd Runner-Up
1986	Barbara Webster	Kansas City			Previously Miss Missouri 1983
1985	Amy Ruth Coverdale	Columbia		Semi-Finalist	Won Miss Teenage California 1980
1984	Sandy Percival	Sunrise Beach	20	3rd Runner-Up	Miss USA at Miss International 1984, did not place
1983	Robin Elizabeth Riley	Columbia			Later Miss Missouri 1987
1982	Susan Heiman	Kansas City
1981	Karien Smagacz	Fulton
1980	Kelly Laxson
1979	Virginia Dean
1978	Paula Anita Taylor
1977	Connie Ast
1976	Donna Hibbitts			Semi-Finalist
1975	Nancy LaRose			Semi-Finalist
1974	Dorothy Ann McElven			Semi-Finalist
1973	Camilla Crist
1972	Janet Potter
1971	Nancy Rebecca			3rd Runner-Up
1970	Suzette Grenham
1969	Sherry Hoffman
1968	Jan Barton
1967	Karen Hendrix			4th Runner-Up
1966	Martha Taylor
1965	Barbara Brooks
1964	Sandy Bawol				4th runner up in Miss World USA 1963
1963	Sandra Lee Marlin			2nd Runner-Up
1962	Mikee Campbell
1961	Joan Roberts
1960	Marilyn Jean Stalcup			Semi-Finalist
1959	Barbara Jayne Stell
1958	Beverly Sue Wright
1957	Judith Ann Murback
1956	Carol Rae Thrower
1955	Bennie Joan Pritchard
1954	Alice Jean Porritt
1953	Donna Gardner
1952	Carolyn Carlew			2nd Runner-Up

¹ Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

External links

Official website

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