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Colorado

One of my favourite sections of the site (even if I’ve never settled on the perfect name for it!), a look at all the Miss Colorado Teen USA titleholders who’ve gone on to compete at Miss USA or in other state pageants. It’s always inspiring to see where their journeys have taken them — whether they won a crown early on, competed once or twice and then hung up the heels or kept showing up year after year, showing persistence in their quest to walk the Miss USA stage.

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Background

Alaska has one of the lowest rates of former Teen titleholders returning to compete in Miss and only three have won Miss Alaska USA and competed at Miss USA.  Unusually, all three won within two or three years of holding their Teen title.

My records may be inaccurate for the early 1980s and 1990s but I have only one former Teen from the 1990s recorded as competing in Miss – Laurie Miller (1997), who won in 2000, and won from the 2000s, Laurie’s Teen sister titleholder Christina Olejniczak (2000) who won in 2002.  More have returned in the 2010s but only Kimberly Agron (2013) was able to win the crown.

Miss Colorado Teen USAs who have competed at Miss USA

Debbie James

Miss Colorado Teen USA 1985 • Miss Colorado USA 1989 (SF Miss USA)
1985

Jana Durbin

Miss Colorado Teen USA 1989 • Miss Colorado USA 1993
1989

Katee Doland

Miss Colorado Teen USA 1998 (SF Miss Teen USA) • Miss Colorado USA 2001 (Photogenic @ Miss USA)
1998

Statistics

Miss USA placements & awards

Placements

Semi-finalist

1

Debbie James (1989)

Non-finalist

6

Jana Durbin (1989), Katee Doland (1998), Blair Griffith (2006), Caley Rae Pavillard (2011), Chloe Brown (2013), Alexis Glover (2017)

Awards

Photogenic

1

Katee Doland (1998)

Miss USA years competed at

1989

1

Debbie James (1989)

1993

1

Jana Durbin (1989)

2001

1

Katee Doland (1998)

2011

1

2016

1

2018

1

Chloe Brown (2013)

2022

1

Alexis Glover (2017)

Winners per decade (Teen year)

1980s

2

Debbie James (1985), Janna Durbin (1989)

1990s

1

Katee Doland (1998)

2000s

1

2010s

3

2020s

0

Participation in Miss USA state pageants

Debbie James

Miss Colorado Teen USA 1985

Jana Durbin

Miss Colorado Teen USA 1989

Katee Doland

Miss Colorado Teen USA 1998

Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA

Maureen O'Murray

Miss Colorado Teen USA 1999

At Miss Colorado USA:

Other titles:

3rd runner-up Miss CO USA 2005

Shannon Herndon

Miss Colorado Teen USA 2000

At Miss Colorado USA:

Semi-finalist Miss CO USA 2005

Krystal Spurr

Miss Colorado Teen USA 2001

At Miss Colorado USA:

1st runner-up Miss CO USA 2009

Karis Donahue

Miss Colorado Teen USA 2003

At Miss Colorado USA:

Blair Griffith

Miss Colorado Teen USA 2006

Congeniality at Miss Teen USA

Winner • Miss CO USA 2011

Danielle Scimeca

Miss Colorado Teen USA 2008

Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA

At Miss Colorado USA:

2nd runner-up Miss CO USA 2012

Taylor Schettler

Miss Colorado Teen USA 2009

At Miss Kansas USA:

1st runner-up Miss KS USA 2017
Winner • Miss CO USA 2016

At Miss Colorado USA:

3rd runner-up Miss CO USA 2019

At Miss Arizona USA:

Winner • Miss CO USA 2018

At Miss Colorado USA:

4th runner-up Miss CO USA 2017
Winner • Miss CO USA 2022

At Miss Colorado USA:

Semi-finalist Miss CO USA 2021

State-level Statistics

Contestants per decade (Teen year)

Winners highlighted in italics.  Stats may be inaccurate, especially for the 1980s & 1990s as I am reliant on newspaper archives which do not list all contestants.

1980s

2

Debbie James (1985), Janna Durbin (1989)

1990s

2

Katee Doland (1998), Morgan O’Murray (1999)

2000s

6

Shannon Herndon (2000), Krystal Spurr (2001), Karis Donahue (2003), Blair Griffith (2006), Danielle Scimeca (2008), Taylor Schettler (2009)

2010s

6

2020s

0

States competed in

Colorado, Arizona, Kansas

Highest state pageant placement

Winner

7

Debbie James (1985), Janna Durbin (1989), Katee Doland (1998), Blair Griffith (2006), Caley Rae Pavillard (2011), Chloe Brown (2013), Alexis Glover (2017)

1st runner-up

3

Shannon Herndon (2000), Krystal Spurr (2001), Taylor Schettler (2009)

2nd runner-up

1

Danielle Scimeca (2008)

3rd runner-up

2

Morgan O’Murray (1999), Jacqueline Zuccherino (2012)

4th runner-up

1

Taylor Kelly (2015)

Semi-finalist

2

Karis Donahue (2003), Sydney Boehler (2019)