Miss Missouri USA & Teen USA 2019 contestant rundown

This weekend we have a triple header with new titleholders being crowned in Missouri, Wyoming (contestants still yet to be posted) and Montana (click here to view my contestant rundown for MT).  Miss MO USA contestants can be seen here and Teen here. 

Numbers are down in both divisions in Missouri this year with only 35 in the Miss competition and 27 in Teen.  In recent years the Miss competition has averaged 40-50 contestants and Teen anywhere between 50-70.  However it's not the lowest numbers I have recorded (I have a contestant numbers spreadsheet which runs from 2007 to now) for MO - from 2009-2011 the Miss competition averaged mid 30s and 2011 also had 27 Teens.

Miss MissourI Teen USA 2014 Samantha Bowers is back in the Miss competition after placing 2RU in 2017 and sitting out last year's pageant.  She will be the second 2014 Teen to compete this year (with one more confirmed to be competing in a couple of weeks) and the eight former Teen to be confirmed to return this year. 

She is joined by 2018 1st runner-up Miriah Ludtke, who was also a runner-up in 2017, as well as placing 1RU at Miss IL Teen USA 2011, Ashleigh Bedwell, 3RU in 2018 and second runner-up at Miss MO Teen USA 2017 and 2018 4RU Sydney Benson.  Sadly I have yet to find a photo of either top five from last year, as very few photos from the pageant were ever posted - let me know if you might be able to help! ;).   Allison Bowles, 4RU to Samantha at Miss MO Teen USA 2014, is competing in Miss for the first time and Caroline Campbell, who was a runner-up in Illinois in 2015 & 2016 and a Miss semi-finalist at Miss IL USA 2018 is competing in MO this year (she attends Lindenwood, as do quite a few other of this year's contestants!). 

Other returning contestants are Alexandria Spry, a semi-finalist three years in a row 2015-2017, 2018 semi-finalist and former Miss MO (America) runner-up Katie Moeller, another 2018 semi-finalist CJ Thomas, and three-time Teen runner-up Adrienne Burfield,   

Contestants mentioned above & a few others that caught my eye: Samantha Bowers, Miriah Ludtke, Ashleigh Bedwell, Sydney Benson | Allison Bowles, Caroline Campbell, Ali Spry, Katie Moeller | CJ Thomas, Adrienne Burfield, Karley Young, Sarahbella Bubbers | Alexandria Peebles Britney Janssen, Sydney Wilhelm, Hannah Brown

The Teen competition this year is going to be an extremely open affair, with only four out of 27 contestants having competed previously (& only two of those in 2018).  Abilene Lortz is the only returning runner-up (3RU last year), she also made the semi-finals at Miss MO's Outstanding Teen over the summer.  Destiny Drake was a semi-finalist in 2018 and a non-finalist in 2017, Rae-Ann Riddle was a non-finalist in 2017 & 2016 and Lauren Everett was also a non-finalist in 2017.

Click "read more" below right to view the full list of contestants with notes of past placements.

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Contestant Lists

​MISS MISSOURI USA 2019 CONTESTANTS (35) 
Abbey Kimbrough • Bluebird (NF MO TUSA 18)
Sarah Kerns • Boone County (NF MO TUSA 16)
Kamaria Braye • Central Columbia
Brittany Leutzinger • City of Fountains
Miriah Ludtke • City of St Louis (1RU 18, 3RU 17, SF IL TUSA 12, 1RU IL TUSA 11)
Carolyn Bartley • Clayton
Sara Allen • Columbia (SF 17)
MarSeanna Young • Florissant (SF 18)
Hannah Brown • Greater Kansas City
Alison Bowles • Greater O'Fallon (4RU MO TUSA 14)
Sydney Benson • Greater St Charles (4RU 18, SF 17, SF MO TUSA 16)
Mariama Waheed • Greater St Louis
Kearsten Jones • Greene County
Samantha Bowers • Kansas City (2RU 17, MO TUSA 14)
Felisha Bertrand • Lake of the Ozarks
Karley Young • Maysville
Breanna Fleschner • Metro St Charles
Sarahbella Bubbers • Mizzou
Alexandria Peebles • O'Fallon (NF 18)
Morgan Baker • Osage County
Ashley Bird • Parkville (SF MO TUSA 13, NF 12)
Monet Penson • Pride of St Louis
Adrienne Burfield • South Wilby (NF 18, NF 16, SF MO TUSA 13, SF 12, SF 11, NF 09)
CJ Thomas • Southern Ozarks (SF 18, NF 17, NF 16)
Britney Janssen • Spirit of St Louis (NF 18, NF 17)
Ashleigh Bedwell • Springfield (3RU 18, 2RU MO TUSA 17, 2RU 16)
Casey Jones • St Charles
Caroline Campbell • St Charles County (SF IL USA 18, 1RU IL TUSA 16, 2RU 15, SF 13)
Ashlyn Hoock • St Louis (SF IL TUSA 14)
Sarah Cohen-Smith • St Louis County
Katie Moeller • St Louis Metro (SF 18)
Sydney Wilhelm • Webster Groves
Angela Luna • Wentzville
Radhika Patel • West County
Alexandria Spry • Wildwood (SF 17, SF 16, SF 15)

MISS MISSOURI TEEN USA 2019 CONTESTANTS (27)
Paige Crumpecker • Bootheel
Lauren Everett • Campbell (NF 17)
Claire Rowe • Creve Coeur
Rae-Ann Riddle • Dexter (NF 17, NF 16)
Sophia Bianco • Dixon
Alexis Adams • Fulton
Avery Pennington • Greater Lee's Summit
Abigail Stone • Heart of America
Jenna Williams • Jackson County
Josilin Kerr • Kansas City
Destiny Drake • Lake of the Ozarks (SF 18, NF 17)
Hailie Rice • Lake St Louis
Maryn White • Lee's Summit
Katelyn Cupp • Linn County
Kennedy Oliver • Loch Lloyd
Briley Johnson • Mineral Area
Alexis Malone • Mother of the West
Ashley Barton • Oregon County
Gracie Morris • Rolla
Ali Towner • Show Me State
Rachel Ward • St Charles
Suliah Thomas • St Charles County
Mara Miller • St Louis County
Beth Reidenbach • St Peters
Emma Kreitner • Steelville
Abilene Lortz • Vienna (3RU 18)
Catherine Heckemeyer • Wappapello Lake​