Miss Connecticut USA & Teen USA 2017 contestant commentary

Miss Connecticut USA & Teen USA 2017 will be crowned tomorrow, with the final competition starting at 2pm.  Connecticut will farewell Miss CT USA Tiffany Teixiera and Miss CT Teen USA Katy Brown - Tiffany made the top ten at Miss USA and is only the fourth from her state to make the cut at Miss USA since 1969!

Three runners-up from last year are returning, two of whom are former Teens:  Miss CT Teen USA 2011 Samantha Sojka was first runner-up last year and fourth runner-up in 2015 and  Miss CT Teen USA 2007 Olga Litvinenko was foruth runner-up after competing four years in New York.  The third is 2016 semi-finalist Dalila May who has returned thanks to the age limit increase.  Miss Connecticut USA 2013 third runner-up Fiona White, who was in the top five that year alongside Tiffany and future Miss USA Erin Brady,  is competing for the first time in four years.  

Brianna Munoz, who started her USA pageant career placing fourth runner-up at Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2007 and second runner-up in 2008, is competing in Connecticut for the second time.  She, Samantha Lusniak, Hillary Scoville and Elizabeth Wolanin are returning semi-finalists. 

As with last year there are only nine contestants in the Teen pageant.  Only one has returned from last year, third runner-up Alexandria Palmer - although 2016 second runner-up Meera Gupta competed in Indiana this year and placed first runner-up.  2014 semi-finalist and Congeniality winner Celina Chapman is back for the first time since then.  Three-time New York contestant Lana Coffey is competing in Connecticut for the first time, as is Brynn Slicer whose only other year competing was at Miss DE Teen USA 2013 when she was only 14.

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​Contestant lists

MISS CONTESTANTS (30)
​​Akosua Adzenyah
Karla Aponte Roque
Deja Brooks
Caraline Bruzinski
Sade Burke
Anastasia Foster
Stephanie Hernandez
Kiara Irizarry
Kyleigh Knoob (NF CT TUSA 16, NF 15)
Frances LeBlanc
Olga Litvinenko (4RU 16, SF NY USA 15, SF 14, NF 13, NF 12, Miss CT Teen USA 2007) ​
Samantha Lusniak  (SF 16, NF 15, SF 14)
Mariah Malinguaggio
Fayne Mascarenhas
Dalila May (2RU 16, SF 14, SF 13)
Brianna Munoz (SF 16, SF MA USA 11, 2RU MA TUSA 08, 4RU MA TUSA 07)
Jonét Nichelle (NF 14, SF CT TUSA 13, 4RU CT TUSA 12)
Dominika Ortonowski
Krishna Parekh
Tajah Ramsey
Azria Rountree (NF 16, SF 15, SF 14, SF 13)
Hillary Scoville (SF 16, SF 15)
Alexandra Segar
Samantha Sojka (1RU 16, 4RU 15, Miss CT Teen USA 2011, 4RU 10)
Lindsay Taylor
Jamoy Thomson (NF 14)
Katherine Tirado
Amber Marie Walker
Fiona White (3RU 13, T10 CT TUSA 12)
Elizabeth Wolanin (SF CT TUSA 15, SF 14, NF 13) 

TEEN CONTESTANTS (9)
Celina Chapman (SF & Congeniality 14)
Lana Coffey (SF NY TUSA 15, SF 14)
Jocelyn Feliciano
Anuragi Khadka
Megan McCarthy
Taliyah McGee
Savannah Meaike
Alexandria Palmer (3RU 16)
Brynn Slicer (NF DE TUSA 13)​