For the first time in a couple of years RI has a former Teen competing, Lindsey Bucci Miss RI Teen USA 2011. Her twin sister Amanda was a semi-finalist in Miss in 2014. Lindsey will be the first former Teen to compete this year! Miss Rhode Island 2015 Alexandra Curtis is competing in the USA system for the first time.
There are two returning runners-up in the Miss competition, 2015 and 2016 first runner-up Kelsey Swanson will be hoping to go one better this year. She's the second coming of Olivia Culpo! Also back is Asia Turner, 3RU last year and a past semi-finalist in Georgia. Returning this year after a six year break is 2010 Teen second runner-up Sarah Reynolds who was also a SF in 2009.
Past semi-finalists are Kimberly Frazier & Prutha Patel (2016), Victoria Smurro (2015 & 2016, in NY), Ashley Waterman (2014), and Gabriella Alves (2015 Teen). Victoria had aged out under the previous rule and took advantage of the age extension this year!


Contestants
Mary Kate Agnew
Gabriella Alves (SF RI TUSA 15)
Alexandra Ash
Lindsey Bucci (Miss RI USA 2011)
Kendall Conley
Alexandra Curtis
Angelica D'Arezzo
Carissa DeSantis (NF 16)
Mary Ernster
Kerry Farrea
Kimberly Frazier (SF 16)
Krista-Louise Genereux
Jackie Krischtschun
Nicole Lattarulo (NF NJ TUSA 16)
Ali Markarian
Samantha Metivier
Kerry Oliveira
Gabrielle Paone-Hart
Prutha Patel (SF & Photogenic 16)
Sarah Reynolds (2RU RI TUSA 10, SF 09)
Jena Ribeiro
Maricela Sanchez
Stephanie Santana
Victoria Smurro (SF NY USA 16, SF NY USA 15)
Kelsey Swanson (1RU 16, 1RU 15)
Asia Turner (3RU 16, SF GA USA 15, NF GA USA 11)
Justine Vastano (NF & Congeniality 11)
Ashley Waterman (SF 14, NF RI TUSA 11)
MISS RHODE ISLAND TEEN USA (42)
Molly Andrade (NF 14)
Alexis Annarummo
Jeilyn Avarista
Mya Benz (4RU 16)
Lyndsey Bowman
Alyze Brito
Erica Brum
Madeline Capladi
Hailee Clarke
Gabriella Costantini
Nakyah Dagraca
Sophia Desmarais (3RU 16, SF 14)
Cassidy Detsavanh
Nina DeBenedetto
Nicole Famiglietti
Melissa Ferrante
Blake Ferretti (2RU 16)
Sarah Gongoleski
Tayla Grasso
Zoe Habershaw (NF 16)
Tori Hanuschak
Kylie Hartley
Julia Hawkins
Anita Hazziez
Janelcy Hidalgo
Mikal Jamielle
Taylor Josephson
Camerin Lavoie
Abby Mansolillo (SF 16, 3RU 15, SF 14)
Lauren McGuirk
Kylie Miller
Aliyah Moore
Carrigan Nelson
Likhet Or
Alexa Papigiotis (NF 15)
Nina Pineyro
Alexis Quinn
Lexi Rodrigues
Sofia Rodriguez
Yolymar Ruiz
Morgan Steele (NF 16)
Madison Turner