Formation | 1983 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Savage |
Location | |
Membership | Miss Teen USA |
Official language | English |
Website | Official Website |
The Miss Wisconsin Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Wisconsin in the Miss Teen USA pageant. It is currently produced by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota since 2007.
Wisconsin has placed at Miss Teen USA on seven occasions. The first placement was in 1984, when Adrianne Hazelwood made the ten semi-finalists, and then endured an eighteen-year dry spell until Vanessa Semrow won the Miss Teen USA crown in 2002. Then lastly with two consecutive semi-final placements with Katherine (Kate) Patrice Redeker (2013) and Patience Ann Vallier (2014), followed by Shreya Gundelly in 2021 and her sister Sage Gundelly in 2022. Shelby Lynn Hohneke was among the 20 quarter-semi-finalists in 2023 when the national pageant was held in Reno, Nevada.
Six Wisconsin teen titleholders have competed at Miss USA, (four as Miss Wisconsin-USA in 1995, 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2023, and one as Miss Connecticut USA in 1985). One teen, Maria Kim, has also competed at Miss America in 1987 and won two talent awards. In 2007, Bishara Abridasheed Dorre, Miss Wisconsin Teen-USA 2006, became the first former Miss Teen USA state titleholder to win a Miss America's Outstanding Teen state title, when she was crowned Miss Wisconsin's Outstanding Teen 2007.
Third time was the charm for Olivia Mae Negri of Park Falls who was crowned Miss Wisconsin Teen-USA on her third attempt at the state teen pageant held on June 15, 2024 at the Verona High School's Performing Arts Center in Verona over twelve other statewide entrants. She will represent Wisconsin for the title of Miss Teen USA 2024 on August 1, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.