The Miss Mississippi Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Mississippi in the Miss Teen USA pageant. The pageant was directed by Premier Pageants from 2001 to 2010, before becoming part of Greenwood Productions in 2010 under the ownership of Miss Tennessee USA 1989 Kim Greenwood.[1]

Miss Mississippi Teen USA
Formation1983
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersCollierville
Location
Membership
Miss Teen USA
Official language
English
Key people
Kim Greenwood, State Pageant Director
WebsiteOfficial Website

Mississippi has two Miss Teen USA, one in 1987 becoming the 5th state that won the Miss Teen USA title for the first time, and most recent in 2024 with Addison Carver. Seven titleholders have competed at Miss USA and one at Miss America as Miss Tennessee.

Addison Carver of Monticello was crowned Miss Mississippi Teen USA 2024 on April 6, 2024 at the Pearl River Resort in Choctaw, Mississippi. She represented Mississippi for the title of Miss Teen USA 2024 and won the title.

Results summary

Placements

  • Miss Teen USAs: Kristi Addis (1987), Addison Carver (2024)
  • 1st runners-up: Vaeda Mann (2014)
  • 3rd runners-up: Kaylee Brooke McCollum (2019)
  • 4th runners-up: Haley Sowers (2010)
  • Top 10: Honey East (1988), Jennifer Reel (1998)
  • Top 12: Arleen McDonald (1992), Angie Carpenter (1994)
  • Top 16: Mattie Grace Morris (2021)

Mississippi holds a record of 10 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

  • Miss Congeniality: Shelly Wilson (1985), Anne Elise Parks (2007), Elizabeth Hollomon (2008)

Winners

  •   Declared as Winner
  •   Ended as runner-up
  •   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
Year Name Hometown Age1 Local title Placement at MTUSA Special awards at MTUSA Notes
2024 Addison Carver Monticello 16 Miss Spirit of Volunteer Teen Miss Teen USA 2024
2023 Claire Ulmer Natchez 18 Miss MS Volunteer Teen
2022 McKenzie Cole Vicksburg 15 Miss Vicksburg Teen
2021 Mattie Grace Morris Flowood 17 Miss Rankin County Teen Top 16
2020 Zoe Bigham Louisville 17 Miss Louisville Teen
2019 Kaylee Brooke McCollum Amory 18 Miss Monroe Co. Teen 3rd runner-up
2018 Julieanna Jackson Mize 15 Miss Mize Teen
  • Former 2014 International Junior Miss Pre-teen
2017 Hannah Claire Chisolm Collinsville 17 Miss Lauderdale Co. Teen
2016 Lauren Rymer Natchez 17 Miss Natchez Teen
2015 Andrea Davidson Hightower Oxford 17 Miss Oxford Teen
2014 Vaeda Mann Hattiesburg 16 Miss Aok Grove Teen 1st runner-up
2013 Madison Brock Crystal Springs 17 Miss Copiah Co. Teen
2012 Jessica Carter Petal 18 Miss Perry County Teen
2011 Sarah Bobo Corinth 19 Miss Crossroad Teen
2010 Haley Brooke Sowers Collinsville 16 4th runner-up
2009 Paromita Mitra Hattiesburg 17
2008 Elizabeth Hollomon Madison 18 Miss Congeniality
2007 Anne Elise Parks New Albany 18 Miss Congeniality
2006 Raegan Raulston Clinton 17
2005 Kathleen Williams Columbus 18
2004 Jessica McRaney Byram 18
2003 Krisi Nash Amory 18
2002 Grace Gore Grenada 18
2001 Ashley Buckman Bay Springs 17
2000 Jennifer Duke Pearl 18
1999 Allison Bloodworth Grenada 18
1998 Jennifer Reel Olive Branch 17 Semi-finalist
1997 Cara Lewis Heidelberg 17
1996 Brandee Loving Southaven 18
1995 Merideth Cash Biloxi 17
1994 Angie Carpenter Lexington 17 Semi-finalist
1993 Bridgette Cain Jackson 18
1992 Arleen McDonald Tupelo 17 Semi-finalist
1991 Jimmy Ann Glenn Amory 17
1990 Kim Faulkner Jackson 18
1989 Valarie Penn Clinton 15
1988 Honey East Jackson 16 Semi-finalist
1987 Kristi Addis Holcomb 16 Miss Teen USA 1987
1986 Michelle Veshay Jackson 15
1985 Shelly Wilson Water Valley 19 Miss Congeniality
1984 Mona Bryant Gulfport 19
1983 Laura Zapponi Leland 16

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

  1. ^ "Producers". Miss Mississippi USA/Teen USA Pageants. Retrieved August 27, 2010.