Miss Maryland Teen USA

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

Miss Maryland Teen USA

Formation	1983
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Clermont
Location	Florida
Membership	Miss Teen USA
Official language	English
Key people	Deborah Miller Cindy Provost
Website	Official website

Kamie Crawford, Miss Maryland Teen USA 2010 & Miss Teen USA 2010

Taylor Dawson, Miss Maryland Teen USA 2015 and Mame Adjei, Miss Maryland USA 2015 at an event for military families

Ana Maria Lawson, Miss Maryland Teen USA 2008 assembles military care packages with Casandra Tressler, Miss Maryland USA 2008

Maryland did not place at Miss Teen USA until 1992, but since then this state has been quite successful, including earning four runner-up placements, and a winner in 2010.

Seven Maryland teens have gone on to win the Miss Maryland USA title, and two competed at Miss America.

The current Miss Maryland Teen USA is Sanjana Yendluri of Germantown. Yendluri made the top 10 at Miss Teen USA 2024.

Results summary

Placements

• Miss Teen USA: Kamie Crawford (2010)
• 2nd runners-up: Khosi Roy (1999)
• 3rd runners-up: Michelle Attai (2002), Amanda Williams (2004), Kasey Staniszewski (2009)
• Top 6: Jennifer Smith (1996)
• Top 10: Jamie O'Brien (2006)
• Top 12: Vanessa Malinas (1992)
• Top 15: Alessandra Torres (2005), Kirsten Nicholson (2011), Taylor Spruill (2017), Caleigh Shade (2018), Amalia Sanches (2019)
• Top 16: Hannah Brewer (2013), Maria Derisavi (2021)

Maryland holds a record of 15 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

• Miss Photogenic: Stacey Harris (1989), Mary Ann Cimino (1990), Allison Farrow (2007)

Winners

•   Declared as Winner
•   Ended as runner-up
•   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2024	Sanjana Yendluri	Germantown	19	Top 10
2023	Madelyn Posey[1]	Newburg	17
2022	Soniya Krishan	Wheaton	19
2021	Maria Derisavi[2]	Leonardtown	18	Top 16
2020	Heavyn McDaniels	Baltimore	18
2019	Amalia Sanches	Bethesda	17	Top 15
2018	Caleigh Shade	Cumberland	18	Top 15		Later Miss Maryland USA 2022
2017	Taylor Spruill	Upper Marlboro	18	Top 15
2016	Amy Ingram	Germantown	18
2015	Taylor Nicole Dawson	Germantown	17
2014	Mariela Pepin	Severn	17			Born in Puerto Rico Later placed Top 10 at Miss World America 2017 Later Miss Maryland USA 2019 Later Miss Intercontinental Puerto Rico 2022 and 1st runner-up at Miss Intercontinental 2022
2013	Hannah Brewer[3]	Manchester	15	Top 16		Later Miss Maryland 2016 & Top 7 Finalist at Miss America 2017;[4] sister of Miss Pennsylvania 2005 Nicole Brewer[3]
2012	Stephanie Chervenkov[5]	Bel Air	17
2011	Kirsten Nicholson	Sykesville	18	Top 15
2010	Kamie Crawford	Potomac	17	Miss Teen USA 2010
2009	Kasey Staniszewski	Edgewater	18	3rd runner-up		Sister of Miss Maryland 2010- Lindsay Staniszewski; previously Miss Maryland's Outstanding Teen 2007 Later Miss Maryland USA 2013 and top 15 at Miss USA 2013
2008	Ana Maria Lawson	Westminster	16
2007	Allison Farrow	Earleville	18		Miss Photogenic
2006	Jamie O'Brien	Owings Mills	18	Top 10
2005	Alessandra Torres	Potomac	18	Top 15
2004	Amanda Williams	Jarrettsville	18	3rd runner-up
2003	Courtney Hejl	Gaithersburg	17
2002	Michelle Attai	Severn	18	3rd runner-up
2001	Precious Grady	Baltimore	18
2000	Niambi Powell	Bowie	17			Sister of Shana Powell, Miss Maryland 2007.[6]
1999	Khosi Roy	Silver Spring	17	2nd runner-up
1999	Kristina Sisco	Baltimore	18			Resigned when she was offered a role on As the World Turns
1998	Amber Coffman	Glen Burnie	16
1997	Brandi Burkhardt	Pasadena	18			Later Miss New York 1999, vocalist and actress
1996	Jennifer Smith	Annapolis	18	Top 6
1995	Jennifer Ritz	Phoenix	19
1994	Denise Fisher	Rockville	18
1993	Angelisa Proserpi	Linthicum	17
1992	Vanessa Malinis	Baltimore	18	Semi-finalist		Died from cervical cancer on March 5, 2001[7]
1991	Jennifer Wilhoit	Annapolis	18			Later Miss Maryland USA 1995, semifinalist, finished 11th in Miss USA 1995
1990	Mary Ann Cimino	Baltimore	17		Miss Photogenic	Later Miss Maryland USA 1993
1989	Stacey Harris	Gaithersburg	18		Miss Photogenic
1988	Sherry Twilley	Delmar	16
1987	Renee Rebstock	Pasadena	17			Later Miss Maryland USA 1992[8]
1986	Julie Stanford	Annapolis	18			Later Miss Maryland USA 1990
1985	Lynn Bogardus	Delmar	17
1984	Christie Bohraus[9]	Bethesda	17
1983	Carla Kemp	Baltimore	17

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant