Miss Massachusetts USA
| Formation | 1952 |
|---|---|
| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Boston |
| Location | |
Membership | Miss USA |
Official language | English |
| Website | Official website |
The Miss Massachusetts USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Massachusetts in the Miss USA pageant.
Whilst Massachusetts is not one of the more successful states in terms of number of placements or semi-finalists, their fortunes were improved in recent years when Shawnae Jebbia was crowned Miss USA in 1998 and Susie Castillo won the crown in 2003. Both Miss USA winners from Massachusetts were asked the same final question during the live telecasts.
Results summary
- Miss USA winners: Shawnae Jebbia (1998), Susie Castillo (2003)
- 1st runners-up: Diane Pollard (1978)
- Top 10 placements: Mercedes Waggoner (1985), Jacqueline Bruno (2008)
- Top 12 placements: Monica Magnus (1979), Janet Marie Flaherty (1982), Kristen Mastroianni (1995)
- Top 15 placements: Sandra Ramsey (1957), Barbara Feldman (1960), Elaine Cusick (1961), Sandra Smith (1963), Nancy Brackett (1966), Sarah Kidd (2013), Allissa Latham (2018)
Awards
- Miss Congeniality: Stacey Blaine (1993)
- Best State Costume: JoAnne Savery (1981)
Winners
- Color key
- Declared as Winner
- Ended as runner-up
- Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Allissa Latham | Lowell | 26 | Top 15 | ||
| 2017 | Julia Scaparotti[2][3] | Peabody[3] | 25 | New England Patriots Cheerleader[2] | ||
| 2016 | Whitney Sharpe | Burlington | 21 | |||
| 2015 | Polikseni Manxhari | Holden | 24 | Born in Albania | ||
| 2014 | Caroline Lunny | Holliston | 23 | Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2008 and top 15 at Miss Teen USA 2008 | ||
| 2013 | Sarah Kidd[4] | Leominster | 20 | Top 15 | ||
| 2012 | Natalie Pietrzak | Somerville | 25 | Sister of Monica Pietrzak, Miss Connecticut USA 2009 and Miss USA 2009 semifinalist | ||
| 2011 | Alida D'Angona | Bolton | 23 | |||
| 2010 | Lacey Wilson | Boston | 26 | Previously Miss Illinois Teen USA 2002 | ||
| 2009 | Alison Michele Cronin | East Weymouth | 21 | Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2005 | ||
| 2008 | Jackie Bruno | Assonet | 23 | Top 10, finishing in 10th place | Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2003 | |
| 2007 | Despina Delios | Lynn | 23 | |||
| 2006 | Tiffany Kelly | Braintree | 18 | |||
| 2005 | Cristina Nardozzi | Seekonk | 21 | Was contestant on Fear Factor in 2005 on the Miss USA episode #5.29 | ||
| 2004 | Maria Lekkakos | Rockport | 25 | |||
| 2003 | Susie Castillo | Lawrence | 23 | Miss USA 2003 | Top 15 semifinalist at Miss Universe 2003, previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1998 | |
| 2002 | Latoyia Cimone Foster | Lowell | ||||
| 2001 | Dana Tenille Powell | Brookline | ||||
| 2000 | Rosalie M. Allain | Leominster | Later Mrs. Massachusetts America 2009 under her married name, Rosalie Allain-Morris.[5] | |||
| 1999 | Jennifer Krafve | Saugus | ||||
| 1998 | Shawnae Jebbia | Mansfield | 26 | Miss USA 1998 | Top 5 Finalist at Miss Universe 1998 | |
| 1997 | Jennifer K. Chapman | Maynard | ||||
| 1996 | Jacquelyn Doucette | Lynnfield | ||||
| 1995 | Kristen Mastroianni | Wilbraham | 23 | Semi-finalist, finishing in 10th place | Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1987, top 10 at Miss Teen USA 1987 | |
| 1994 | Michelle Atamian | Belmont | ||||
| 1993 | Stacey Blaine | Bellingham | Miss Congeniality | |||
| 1992 | Christine Netishen | Lowell | ||||
| 1991 | Laura Wheeler | Framingham | ||||
| 1990 | Laureen Murphy | Boston | ||||
| 1989 | Kimberley Wallace | Ipswich | ||||
| 1988 | Anita Marie Lovely | Franklin | ||||
| 1987 | Rosanna Iversen | Great Barrington, Massachusetts | Represented Massachusetts in Miss Oktoberfest 1987, did not place | |||
| 1986 | Sheila Benson | Quincy | ||||
| 1985 | Mercedes Waggoner | Boston | 21 | Semi-finalist, finishing in 8th place | ||
| 1984 | Deborah Neary | Onset, Massachusetts | ||||
| 1983 | Robin Jeanne Silva | Swansea | ||||
| 1982 | Janet Marie Flaherty | Wilmington | 24 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1981 | JoAnne Savery | East Bridgewater | Best State Costume | |||
| 1980 | Diane Campbell | Melrose | ||||
| 1979 | Monica Patricia Magnus | Boston | 24 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1978 | Diane Elizabeth Pollard | Hamilton | 20 | 1st runner-up | ||
| 1977 | Carol Marcil | Chelmsford | ||||
| 1976 | Holly Ann Hoyle | Attleboro | ||||
| 1975 | Rilla Posson | Natick | ||||
| 1974 | Ethellean Hicks | Roxbury | ||||
| 1973 | Judith "Judy" Ann Gregory | Boston | ||||
| 1972 | Dale Carder | Wellesley | ||||
| 1971 | April Dow | Amesbury | ||||
| 1970 | Cheryl Stankiewicz | Brockton | represented Massachusetts in the 1966 Miss World USA pageant | |||
| 1969 | Martha Cawley | Needham | ||||
| 1968 | Sonja Prince | Boston | ||||
| 1967 | Pamela Procter | Marblehead | Daughter of Miss Massachusetts 1940 Polly L. Connors, 3rd Runner-Up to Miss America. | |||
| 1966 | Nancy Joan Brackett | Brighton | 20 | Semi-finalist | semifinalist in Miss World USA 1963 as Miss Boston, MA | |
| 1965 | Mary Lou Volpe | Braintree | ||||
| 1964 | Barbara Helen Robery | Boston | ||||
| 1963 | Sandra Smith | Newton Upper Falls | 23 | Semi-finalist | Non-finalist at Miss World USA 1961 | |
| 1962 | Gale Pope | Wellesley | ||||
| 1961 | Elaine Cusick | Hyde Park | 18 | Semi-finalist | photograph | |
| 1960 | Barbara Gale Feldman | Natick | 20 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1959 | Beatrice Duprey | Weymouth | Also competed in the 1960 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant | |||
| 1958 | Sally Ann Freedman | Peabody | Finalist in the 1961 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant | |||
| 1957 | Sandra Ramsey | Haverhill | 19 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1956 | Elaine Murphy | Weston | ||||
| 1955 | Jean Dernago | Springfield | ||||
| 1954 | Nan Cowan | Sterling | ||||
| 1953 | Joan Daly | Somerville | ||||
| 1952 | Vel Dorne | Boston |
1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
References
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- ^ a b Dearborn, Leah (10 December 2016). "Miss Massachusetts 2017: 'We are athletes'". Boston Globe. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
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- ^ "2009 Mrs America". Retrieved July 9, 2010.