Miss Virginia Teen USA

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

Miss Virginia Teen USA

Formation	1983
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Richmond
Location	Virginia
Membership	Miss Teen USA
Official language	English
Key people	Darrell Williams, Executive Director Kyle Kelley, Assistant Director Lacie Ross, Assistant Director Sheatiel Carter, Assistant Director
Website	Official website

Megan Myrehn, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2008

Samantha Casey, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2006

Miss Virginia Teen USA 2003 and Miss Virginia USA 2006 Amber Copley

Virginia is one of the more successful states at Miss Teen USA, and is placed in the top twenty in terms of number and value of placements . Their most successful decade was the 1980s.

No Miss Virginia Teen USA has won the Miss Teen USA crown, but their highest placement came in the first year of competition, when Tina Marrocco placed 1st runner-up to Ruth Zakarian of New York.

Virginia ties the record for the most Teens to cross over to win the Miss Virginia USA title and compete at Miss USA with eleven in all, two others have later been crowned in other states, Indiana and North Carolina. One of these is Kristi Lauren Glakas, a Triple Crown winner who competed at Miss USA 2004 and placed 3rd runner-up at Miss America 2006.

The current titleholder is Emma McReynolds, was crowned on February 16, 2025, at Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington. She will represent Virginia for the title of Miss Teen USA 2025.

Results summary

Placements

• 1st runners-up: Tina Marrocco (1983)
• 3rd runners-up: Angela Thigpin (1986), Samantha Casey (2006)
• Top 5: Misty Horn (1998)
• Top 10: Kimberly Grigsby (1997), Kristi Lauren Glakas (1999), Tori Hall (2005), Emily Bruce (2007)
• Top 12: Andrea Ballengee (1992)
• Top 15: Megan Myrehn (2008), Jacqueline Carroll (2010)
• Top 20: Ashley Wang (2023), Julia Allen (2024)

Virginia holds a record of 13 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Winners

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

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Local title	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2025	Emma McReynolds	Wise County	18	Miss Wise County Teen	TBA	TBA
2024	Julia Allen	Lynchburg	17	Miss Spirit of Volunteer Teen	Top 20
2023	Ashley Wang	Herndon	16	Miss Herndon Teen	Top 20		First Chinese American Miss Virginia Teen USA[1]
2022	Hannah Grau	Fredericksburg	17	Miss Fredericksburg Teen
2021	Alyssa Mawyer	Broadway	18	Miss Broadway Teen			Previously Miss High School America 2019
2020	Amya Caldwell	Ashburn	16	Miss Old Dominion Teen
2019	Morgan Duty	Lebanon	16	Miss Lebanon Teen
2018	Himanvi Preeti Panidepu	Centreville	17	Miss Central Virginia Teen			First Asian American and first East Indian American Miss Virginia Teen-USA Later Miss Virginia USA 2024 Top 10 at Miss USA 2024
2017	Madison Walker	Virginia Beach	16	Miss Chesapeake Teen
2016	Gracyn Blackmore	Bristol	16
2015	Annie Kutyna	Herndon	15
2014	Olivia Fletcher	Louisa	16
2013	Caelynn Miller-Keyes	Fredericksburg	17				Later Miss North Carolina USA 2018 First runner up at Miss USA 2018. Contestant on season 23 of The Bachelor and season 6 of Bachelor in Paradise
2012	Elizabeth Coakley	Abingdon	17
2011	Susie Evans	Poquoson	17				Later Miss Virginia USA 2020 Winner of season 26 of The Bachelor
2010	Jacqueline Carroll	Stanardsville	16		Top 15		Later Miss Virginia USA 2017
2009	Maggie Lawson	Bristol	18
2008	Megan Myrehn	Catharpin	18		Top 15		Later Miss Indiana USA 2012
2007	Emily Bruce	Lynchburg	17		Top 10
2006	Samantha Casey	Jeffersonton	17	Miss Jeffersonton Teen	3rd runner-up		Later Miss Virginia USA 2010 Second runner up at Miss USA 2010
2005	Tori Hall	Midlothian	18		Top 10		Later Miss Virginia USA 2008 Cast member on Road Rules 2007: Viewers' Revenge
2004	Mally Gent	Honaker	18
2003	Amber Copley	Abingdon	18				Later Miss Virginia USA 2006
2002	Lauren Barnette	Wise	17				Later Miss Virginia USA 2007, Top 10 at Miss USA 2007 Model on NBC's Deal or No Deal
2001	Stephanie Card	Staunton	16
2000	Jennifer Hawkins	Lynchburg	17
1999	Kristi Lauren Glakas	Centreville	18		Semi-finalist		Triple Crown winner Later Miss Virginia USA 2004 and Miss Virginia 2005, 3rd runner up to Miss America 2006
1998	Misty Horn	Richlands	18		Top 5
1997	Kimberly Grigsby	Richmond	18		Semi-finalist
1996	Kandy Marshall	Richmond	16
1995	Kristel Jenkins	Vinton	17				Later Miss Virginia USA 2001
1994	Kristen Wilson	Richmond	15
1993	Heather Anderson	Richmond	17
1992	Andrea Ballengee	Richmond	19		Semi-finalist		Crowned Miss Virginia 1995 but was disqualified when it was discovered that she had embellished her academic record;[2][3] later Mrs California 2006 and Mrs America 2006 (top ten at Mrs World 2006) married name Andrea Preuss.
1991	Linda Overhue	Richmond	16
1990	Yoranda Harris	Richmond	19
1989	Stephanie Satterfield	Virginia Beach	15				Later Miss Virginia USA 1993
1988	Audra Wilks	Richmond	15				Later Miss Virginia USA 1997
1987	Kristi Pearce	Colonial Heights	15
1986	Angela Thigpin	Fort Smith	15		3rd runner-up
1985	Alice Robinson	Richmond	17
1984	Shannon Lea Rundle	Poquoson	16
1983	Tina Marrocco	McLean	16		1st runner-up

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant