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Miss Minnesota USA
Formation | 1952 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Minneapolis |
Location | |
Membership | Miss USA |
Official language | English |
Key people | Denise Wallace Craig Heitkamp |
Website | Official website |
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The Miss Minnesota USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Minnesota in the Miss USA pageant. It is directed by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota since its inception in 1995, which also directs the state pageants for Colorado, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.[1]
Barbara Elaine Peterson was the first Miss Minnesota USA to be crowned Miss USA (in 1976), and was also the first Miss USA to not place in the Miss Universe pageant. Her sister, Polly Peterson Bowles, was Miss Minnesota USA 1981.[2]
In 2016, Halima Aden became the first contestant to compete wearing a burkini, and the first to wear a hijab the entire time.[3] In 2017, Mikayla Holmgren was the first woman with Down syndrome to compete in a statewide Miss USA pageant.[4]
Katarina Spasojevic of Minnetonka was crowned Miss Minnesota USA 2021 on August 1, 2021 at Ames Center in Burnsville. She represented Minnesota for the title of Miss USA 2021.
Results summary
Placements
- Miss USA: Barbara Peterson (1976)
- 2nd runners-up: Deborah Cossette (1977), Meridith Gould (2017)
- 3rd runners-up: Lanore Van Buren (2002)
- 4th runners-up: Kari Lee Johnson (1985)
- Top 6: Angelique de Maison (1995)
- Top 10/12: Jodell Stirmlinger (1952), Carla Reid Peterson (1980), Jolene Stavrakis (1994)
- Top 15/19/20: Mary Ann Papke (1953), Dawn Joyce (1954), Kaylee Unverzagt (2008), Erica Nego (2009), Haley O'Brien (2014), Cat Stanley (2019)
Minnesota holds a record of 15 placements at Miss USA.
Awards
- Miss Congeniality: Elizabeth Jane Carroll (1965), Janet Tveita (1990), Dottie Cannon (2006), Amber Davis (2020)
- Miss Photogenic: Paige Swenson (2000), Sarah Cahill (2003)
Winners
- Color key
- Declared as Winner
- Ended as runner-up
- Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement | Special awards | Notes |
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2022 | To be announced May 29, 2022 | |||||
2021 | Katarina Spasojevic | Minnetonka | 20 | |||
2020 | Taylor Fondie | Ham Lake | 22 |
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2019 | Catherine "Cat" Stanley | Bloomington | 23 | Top 15 | Previously Miss Minnesota Teen USA 2014 | |
2018 | Kalie Wright[4] | Eagle Bend | 24 |
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2017 | Meridith Gould | Minneapolis | 22 | 2nd Runner-Up |
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2016 | Bridget Jacobs | Maple Grove | 20 | |||
2015 | Jessica Scheu | Prior Lake | 23 | |||
2014 | Haley O'Brien | Excelsior | 21 | Top 20 |
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2013 | Danielle Hooper[7] | Inver Grove Heights | 20 | |||
2012 | Nitaya Panemalaythong | Minneapolis | 26 | Born in Thailand | ||
2011 | Brittany Thelemann | Plymouth | 23 | Cousin of Olivia Herbert, Miss Minnesota Teen USA 2019 | ||
2010 | Courtney Basara | Duluth | 20 | |||
2009 | Erica Nego | Plymouth | 24 | Top 15 (12th place) | Later Miss Universe Ghana 2011 | |
2008 | Kaylee Unverzagt | Eagan | 20 | Top 15 (15th place) | ||
2007 | Alla Ilushka | Eden Prairie | 22 | Miss Minnesota Teen USA 2002 and Top 10 at Miss Teen USA 2002 | ||
2006 | Dottie Cannon[8] | Eagan | 22 | Miss Congeniality | ||
2005 | Carrie Lee | Sebeka | 25 | |||
2004 | Jessica Dereschuk | Stacy | 20 | |||
2003 | Sarah Cahill | Waseca | 24 | Miss Photogenic | Miss Minnesota Teen USA 1996 | |
2002 | Lanore Van Buren | Edina | 26 | 3rd Runner-Up | Bluepoint Apparel Swimsuit and Fitness Award | |
2001 | Anne Marie Clausen | Golden Valley | 23 | |||
2000 | Paige Swenson | Fridley | Miss Photogenic | Miss Minnesota Teen USA 1994 | ||
1999 | Crystal Vandenberg[9] | Brooklyn Center | 19 | |||
1998 | Josan Hengen | Eden Prairie/Circle Pines | 19 | |||
1997 | Melissa Hall | Minneapolis | ||||
1996 | Karin Smith | Brooklyn Park | 25 | |||
1995 | Angelique de Maison | St. Louis Park | Finalist (5th place) | |||
1994 | Jolene Stravrakis | Burnsville | Semifinalist (10th place) | |||
1993 | Kristi Bennecke[10] | Anoka | ||||
1992 | Amber Rue | Minneapolis | ||||
1991 | April Ann Herke | Eden Prairie | ||||
1990 | Janet Tveita | Minneapolis | Miss Congeniality | |||
1989 | Julie Knutson | Crystal | 22 | |||
1988 | Sue Bolich | Mound | N/A2 | |||
Jolene Stavrakis | Apple Valley | N/A2 | ||||
Julie Nelson | Bloomington | |||||
1987 | Christine Rosenberger | South St. Paul | ||||
1986 | Cynthia Jane Peterson | Edina | ||||
1985 | Kari Lee Johnson | Minneapolis | 4th Runner-Up | |||
1984 | Martha Mork | Edina | ||||
1983 | Carolyn Mattson | New Hope | ||||
1982 | Lori Kmetz | New Brighton | ||||
1981 | Polly Peterson | Edina | sister of Miss USA 1976 Barbara Peterson | |||
1980 | Carla Peterson | Albert Lea | Semifinalist (12th place) | |||
1979 | Cynthia Sue Lee | St. Paul | ||||
1978 | Janey Gohl | St. Cloud | ||||
1977 | Deborah Cossette | Minneapolis | 2nd Runner-Up | |||
1976 | Barbara Elaine Peterson | Edina | Miss USA 1976 | Non-semi-finalist at Miss Universe 1976 | ||
1975 | Dawn Lamotte | St. Paul | ||||
1974 | Gayle Johnson | Minneapolis | ||||
1973 | Cyndi James | Minneapolis | ||||
1972 | Darlene Koskiniemi | Roseville | ||||
1971 | Shirley Kittleson | Sherburn | ||||
1970 | Sally Strickland | St. Paul | ||||
1969 | Laureen Darling | Minneapolis | ||||
1968 | Arlene Larson | Minneapolis | ||||
1967 | Betty Ann Brewer | Richfield | ||||
1966 | Patricia Thatcher | |||||
1965 | Elizabeth Jane Carroll | Bloomington | Miss Congeniality | |||
1960-64 | No Representative | |||||
1959 | Muriel Fairbanks | Minneapolis | ||||
1958 | Sue Bouchard | Minneapolis | ||||
1957 | Mary Margaret Ford | Minneapolis | ||||
1956 | Marilyn Johnson | Minneapolis | ||||
1955 | Sally Ann Colombo | Stillwater | ||||
1954 | Dawn Joyce | Minneapolis | Semifinalist (Top 19) | |||
1953 | Mary Ann Papke | Minneapolis | Semifinalist (Top 20) | |||
1952 | Jodell Stirmlinger | St. Paul | Semifinalist (Top 10) |
1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
2 Contestant resigned title before the Miss USA pageant
References
- ^ "Future Productions, LLC State Directors". Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ^ Furst, Randy (1988-02-11). "3rd Miss Minnesota-USA has 'nothing to hide'". Star-Tribune Newspaper of the Twin Cities Mpls.-St. Paul. p. 01A.
- ^ "Halima Aden Breaks Ground as First Somali-American to Compete for Miss Minnesota USA". 17 November 2016.
- ^ a b Divine, Mary (November 27, 2017). "Standing ovations for first woman with Down syndrome to compete in Miss Minnesota USA". Twin Cities Pioneer Press.
- ^ Dunlap, Tetona (September 7, 2014). "Your Neighbor: The Kimberly Woman Crowned Miss National Sweetheart". Times-News. Twin Falls, ID: Lee Enterprises.
- ^ "Kimberly Native Crowned 'Miss Idaho'". magicvalley.com. June 23, 2015.
- ^ "Danielle Hooper Crowned Miss Minnesota USA 2013". Beauty Pageant News. November 26, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
- ^ Francis, Delma (2006-04-17). "Ambition takes local woman to Baltimore; Miss Minnesota USA, Dottie Cannon of Eagan, is competing Friday in the Miss USA pageant". Star-Tribune. p. 10E.
- ^ "New Miss Minnesota-USA, Miss Minnesota Teen USA crowned" (Press release). Associated Press. 1998-11-30.
- ^ Freeborn, Dan (1992-11-19). "She's got her cap set for an education // 'No. 1 priority is school,' says Miss Minnesota USA". Star-Tribune Newspaper of the Twin Cities Mpls.-St. Paul. p. 07B.
External links
- Miss USA state pageants
- Minnesota culture
- Women in Minnesota