Miss Connecticut USA & Teen USA 2016 results recap

Shoutout to the new Miss Connecticut USA 2016 Tiffany Teixeira and Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2016 Katy Brown.  Tiffany was Miss CT Teen USA 2009 and first competed in Miss in 2013 when she finished first runner-up to eventual Miss USA winner Erin Brady.  In 2014 and 2015 she finished second runner-up.  Tiffany is a sweetheart and a big favourite of mine, like so many winners this year I really admire her perseverance.  She works as an ICU nurse at Yale-New Haven Hospital.  Katy was competing in the pageant for the first time and is the first titleholder from her hometown of Hebron.  Tiffany is from Bridgeport, the first Miss titleholder from there since 1984, according to my records (although I do have some gaps in the 80s & 90s).

Photos by Edwin Shaw Photography.

In the Miss division, all three former Teens made the top five.  The final two were Tiffany and Samantha Sojka​, Miss CT Teen USA 2011 and fourth runner-up last year.  This was the second time this state pageant season that two former Teens were holding hands at the end - the other time was in Alabama last week.  Olga Litvinenko, Miss CT Teen USA 2007, made the top five in her fifth shot at the Miss title (she now has only one year left).  After competing in New York for four years she returned to her home state and placed fourth runner-up.  I love that she chose an orange gown, the same colour she won her Teen title in.

Second runner-up went to Dalila May, a semi-finalist in 2013 and 2014 and third runner-up, for the second year in a row, was Brittany Capozziello.  Brittany has one year left and Dalila has now aged out, as has three-time runner-up Amaryllis Rodriguez who finished in the top ten this year and won Miss Photogenic.

In Teen, first runner-up went to Shelby Gallagher, the sister of two-time CT Teen runner-up Taylor Gallagher.  Shelby is only 15 so has plenty of time to return!  Second and third runner-up went to newcomers Meera Gupta (Photogenic winner) and Alexandria Palmer, and Sarah Barrett repeated her fourth runner-up placement from last year and also won Congeniality.

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Full results

Miss Connecticut USA 2016: Tiffany Teixeira (2RU 15, 2RU 14, 1RU 13, CT TUSA 09, 1RU CT TUSA 08, 2RU CT TUSA 07)
1RU: Samantha Sojka (4RU 15, CT TUSA 11) 
2RU: Dalila May (SF 14, SF 13)
3RU: Brittany Capozziello (3RU 15, SF 14)
4RU: Olga Litvinenko (SF NY USA 15, SF 14, NF 13, NF 12, CT TUSA 07) ​

Semi-finalists:
Samantha Lusniak (NF 15, SF 14)
Cara Cama
Hillary Scoville (SF 15)
Brianna Munoz (SF MA USA 11, 2RU MA TUSA 08, 4RU MA TUSA 07)
Amaryllis Rodriguez (1RU 15, 2RU 13, 3RU 10, NF CT TUSA 06) 

Congeniality: Katrina Kovalski
Photogenic: Amaryllis Rodriguez 

Tiffany Teixeira, Samantha Sojka, Dalila May, Brittany Capozziello, Olga Litvinenko

Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2016: Katy Brown
1RU: Shelby Gallagher
2RU: Meera Gupta
3RU: Alexandria Palmer
4RU: Sarah Barrett (4RU 15, NF 14)

Congeniality: Sarah Barrett
Photogenic: Meera Gupta

Katy Brown, Shelby Gallagher, Meera Gupta, Alexandria Palmer, Sarah Barrett