Miss RI USA Mary Malloy • Miss RI Teen USA Lola Paolissi (results)
Miss RI USA Mary Malloy • Miss RI Teen USA Lola Paolissi (results)
Your ultimate Miss USA state pageant resource
Take a trip back into the history of the Miss Kansas USA and Teen USA pageants, from the first winner to the most recent. Get to know every single Miss and Teen titleholder with a full listing, hometown map and extensive photo archive, with state pageant photos, Miss USA and Teen USA competition photos and more.
21 • Liberal
Top 6
at Miss Universe
18 • Louisburg
17 • Wichita
21 • Overland Park
21 • Olathe
Top 10
at Miss USA
21 • Leawood
22 • Overland Park
Top 16
at Miss USA
23 • Lawrence
Top 12
at Miss USA
| YEAR | NAME | HOMETOWN | AGE | PLACEMENT | AWARD | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Elyse Noe | Lawrence | 23 | Top 12 | ||
| 2021 | Gracie Hunt | Overland Park | 22 | Top 16 | Daughter of Miss MO Teen USA 90 & Miss KS USA 93 Tavia Shackles | |
| 2020 | Hayden Brax | Leawood | 21 | |||
| 2019 | Alyssa Klinzing* | Olathe | 21 | Miss KS Teen USA 2013 (SF Miss Teen USA) | ||
| 2018 | Melanie Shaner* | Overland Park | 21 | Top 10 | Miss KS Teen USA 2015 | |
| 2017 | Catherine Carmichael | Manhattan | 26 | |||
| 2016 | Victoria Wiggins | Junction City | 26 | |||
| 2015 | Alexis Railsback | Shawnee | 19 | |||
| 2014 | Audrey Banach | Kansas City | 22 | |||
| 2013 | Staci Klinginsmith | Lenexa | 26 | |||
| 2012 | Gentry Miller* | Overland Park | 24 | Miss KS Teen USA 2006 (T10 Miss Teen USA) | ||
| 2011 | Jaymie Stokes* | Lenexa | 20 | Miss KS Teen USA 2007 (T10 Miss Teen USA) | ||
| 2010 | Bethany Gerber | Winfield | 21 | Top 15 | ||
| 2009 | Courtney Courter | Olathe | 23 | |||
| 2008 | Michelle Gillespie | Mission Hills | 22 | |||
| 2007 | Cara Gorges | Clearwater | 19 | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 2006 | Ashley Aull | Lansing | 20 | |||
| 2005 | Rachel Saunders | Tonganoxie | 21 | |||
| 2004 | Lisa Forbes | Overland Park | 22 | |||
| 2003 | Alicia Cabrera | Leawood | 23 | |||
| 2002 | Lindsay Douglas | Lawrence | 23 | 1st runner-up | ||
| 2001 | Kristie Knox | Hutchinson | 25 | |||
| 2000 | Tiffany Meyer* | Lawrence | 23 | 3rd Runner-up | Miss MO Teen USA 1994 (F Miss Teen USA) | |
| 1999 | Amanda Carraway* | Manhattan | 21 | Miss KS Teen USA 1996 | ||
| 1998 | Cammie Morisseau | Wichita | 21 | |||
| 1997 | Kathryn Taylor | Overland Park | 25 | |||
| 1996 | Danielle Boatwright* | Tonganoxie | 1st runner-up | Miss KS Teen USA 1992 (2RU Miss Teen USA) | ||
| 1995 | Deborah Daulton | Lawrence | 21 | |||
| 1994 | Carol Hovenkamp | Overland Park | 22 | |||
| 1993 | Tavia Shackles* | Shawnee | 22 | Semi-finalist | Best State Costume | Miss MO Teen USA 1990 (SF Miss Teen USA); mother of Miss KS USA 2020 Gracie Hunt |
| 1992 | Kimberlee Girrens | Wichita | 22 | 2nd Runner-up | Miss KS Teen USA 1986 | |
| 1991 | KELLI MCCARTY | Liberal | 21 | Finalist | T6 Miss Universe 1991 | |
| 1990 | Rebecca Porter | Wichita | 21 | Miss USA | ||
| 1989 | Nancy Burris | Wichita | 22 | |||
| 1988 | Cynthia Decker | Manhattan | 20 | |||
| 1987 | Martina Castle | Overland Park | ||||
| 1986 | Audra Ockerman | Wichita | Mother of Miss KS Teen USA 2014 Claire-Bailey Lee | |||
| 1985 | Jill Denzin | Leawood | ||||
| 1984 | Elizabeth Johnson | Prairie View | ||||
| 1983 | Renee Ruch | Mission | ||||
| 1982 | Stefani Larson | Overland Park | ||||
| 1981 | Missy Kaser | Wichita | ||||
| 1980 | Lisa Boyd | Wichita | ||||
| 1979 | Linda Shields | Lawrence | ||||
| 1978 | Mary Bell | Wichita | ||||
| 1977 | Sherry Brane | Wichita | ||||
| 1976 | Deborah Vitera | Ottawa | ||||
| 1975 | Robbin Loomas | Overland Park | ||||
| 1974 | Lorraine Breckenridge | Houston | ||||
| 1973 | Brenda Kopmeyer | Overland Park | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1972 | Mona Guesnier | |||||
| 1971 | Nancy Bishop | |||||
| 1970 | Norma Decker | Tecumseh | ||||
| 1969 | Molly McGugin | |||||
| 1968 | Anne Layton | |||||
| 1967 | Regina Wolfe | |||||
| 1966 | Pat Ravenscroft | |||||
| 1965 | Linda Bergsten | |||||
| 1964 | Barbara Ford | |||||
| 1963 | Diane Stoker | |||||
| 1962 | Linda Light | |||||
| 1961 | Dixie Cook | |||||
| 1960 | Peggy Patterson | |||||
| 1955-59 | No Representative | |||||
| 1954 | Sue Ravencroft | |||||
| 1953 | No Representative | |||||
| 1952 | Bette Lou Renick | Semi-finalist |
17 • Wichita
Winner of
Miss Teen USA 2018
19 • Pittsburg
Succeeded Hailey
18 • Olathe
Semi-finalist
at Miss Teen USA
19 • Liberal
17 • Herington
17 • Newton
Semi-finalist
at Miss Teen USA
| YEAR | NAME | HOMETOWN | AGE | PLACEMENT | AWARD | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Gracie Hendrickson | Newton | 17 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 2021 | Madilynn Becker | Herington | 17 | |||
| 2020 | Cyara Heredia Ruiz | Liberal | 19 | |||
| 2019 | Hannah DeBok | Olathe | 19 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 2018 | Hunter Fraley | Pittsburg | 18 | Succeeded Hailey as Miss KS Teen USA | ||
| 2018 | HAILEY COLBORN | Wichita | 17 | Miss Teen USA | ||
| 2017 | Malerie Moore | Olathe | 17 | Sister of Miss KS Teen USA 2016 | ||
| 2016 | Madison Moore | Olathe | 18 | Sister of Miss KS Teen USA 2017 | ||
| 2015 | Melanie Shaner* | Overland Park | 18 | Miss KS USA 2018 | ||
| 2014 | Claire-Bailey Lee | Andover | 15 | Daughter of Miss KS USA 1986 Audra Ockerman | ||
| 2013 | Alyssa Klinzing* | Kansas City | 15 | Semi-finalist | Miss KS USA 2019 (T10 Miss USA) | |
| 2012 | Katie Taylor | Olathe | 18 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 2011 | Taylor Clark | Topeka | 17 | 3rd runner-up | ||
| 2010 | Olivia Harlan | Mission Hills | 17 | |||
| 2009 | Alexis Rewalt | Olathe | 18 | |||
| 2008 | Jessie Colonna | Leawood | 17 | |||
| 2007 | Jaymie Stokes* | Lenexa | 16 | Top 10 | Miss KS USA 2011 | |
| 2006 | Gentry Miller* | Wichita | 18 | Top 10 | Miss KS USA 2012 | |
| 2005 | Latasha Lawrie | Wichita | 18 | Top 10 | Photogenic | |
| 2004 | Carissa Kelley^ | Winfield | 17 | Miss KS 2011 | ||
| 2003 | Megan Price | Garden City | 18 | |||
| 2002 | Amber Ross | Manhattan | 17 | |||
| 2001 | Lindsey Mackey | Olathe | 19 | |||
| 2000 | Sarah Jump | Basehor | 17 | |||
| 1999 | Grace Shibley | Overland Park | 17 | |||
| 1998 | Ashley Tessendorf | Manhattan | 17 | |||
| 1997 | Mariah Bergmann | Haysville | 18 | Finalist | ||
| 1996 | Mandy Carraway* | Chanute | 18 | Style | Miss KS USA 1999 | |
| 1995 | KEYLEE SUE SANDERS | Louisburg | 18 | Miss Teen USA | ||
| 1994 | Melissa Hurtig | Courtland | 18 | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1993 | Christy Dippre | Augusta | 17 | |||
| 1992 | Danielle Boatwright* | Tonganoxie | 17 | 2nd runner-up | Miss KS USA 1996 (1RU Miss USA) | |
| 1991 | Denise Blatchford | Arkansas City | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1990 | Kerri Williams | |||||
| 1989 | Tracey Knopp | |||||
| 1988 | Jennifer Eastes | Wichita | ||||
| 1987 | Stephanie Resnick | Whitewater | ||||
| 1986 | Kimberlee Girrens* | Wichita | Miss KS USA 1993 (F Miss USA) | |||
| 1985 | Tammy Lansing | Wichita | ||||
| 1984 | Nancy Mardis | |||||
| 1983 | Melissa Lyczak | Russell |
