Miss Alaska USA & Teen USA 2016 results recap

Congratulations to Ariane Audett Miss Alaska USA 2016 and Nneamaka Isolokwu, Miss Alaska Teen USA 2016! Both were competing for the first time. This will be a short one (it's Alaska!) but major kudos to photographer Matthew Crockett who has totally transformed our awareness of the Alaska pageant - there are many years, even early 2010s, where I have but one solitary pageant photo of the Alaska titleholders, but since Matthew become photographer in 2014 we've seen many wonderful pics the night of the pageant.  Check his page out here.

There were nine Miss contestants and five Teens in the competition this year (a correction on my earlier comment that there appeared to be six Teens with one left out - turns out one of the Miss contestants ended up on the Teen side of the photo!)  First runner-up in the Miss division was Ardrianna Everett, fourth runner-up in 2013, who I don't think has competed since then.  Second runner-up was Brandy Kellner, third runner-up last year and fourth runner-up in 2014.  The other top five finalists were JoEllen Walters, last year's 1RU and Emma Halsey, also a finalist in 2013.

In Teen, 2015 second runner-up Tana Bartels improved one spot to first runner-up and newcomer Vanessa Stadler was second runner-up.  Rylee Lewis and Sabrina Simons completed the top five.

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Full results

Miss Alaska USA 2016: Ariane Audett
1RU: Ardrianna Everett (4RU 13)
2RU: Brandy Kellner (3RU 15, 4RU 14)

Finalists:
JoEllen Walters (1RU 15, 2RU 14)
Emma Halsey (NF 15, NF 14, 3RU 13)

Congeniality: Brandy Kellner
Photogenic: Kiana Beddow

Miss Alaska Teen USA 2016: Nneamaka Isolokwu
1RU: Tana Bartels (2RU 15)
2RU: Vanessa Stadler

Finalists: 
Rylee Lewis
​Sabrina Simons 

Ardrianna Everett (1RU), Ariane Audett (Miss AK USA), Brandy Kellner (2RU) (click to view full size)

Vanessa Stadler (2RU), Nneamaka Isolokwu (Miss AK Teen USA), Tana Bartels (1RU) (click to view full size)