Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2006

Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2006
Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2006 Participants and Results
Date	August 20, 2005
Presenters	Joey Fatone and Deidre Downs
Venue	Linda Chapin Theater
Entrants	52
Placements	15
Winner	Meghan Miller Texas
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Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2006 was the first Miss America's Outstanding Teen pageant, held at the Linda Chapin Theater in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida on August 20, 2005. At the conclusion of the event, Meghan Miller of Texas was crowned Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2006^[1] by Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs.

Results[]

Placements[]

Other awards[]

Pageant[]

Selection of contestants[]

One delegate from each state, District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands were chosen in state pageants held from September 2004 to June 2005.

Preliminaries[]

During the 3 days prior to the final night, the delegates compete in the preliminary competition, which involves private interviews with the judges and a show where they compete in talent, evening wear, casual wear, lifestyle and fitness in active wear, and on-stage question. They were held from August 17-19, 2005.

Finals[]

During the final competition, the top 15 compete in casual wear and evening wear, the top 10 compete in talent, and the top 5 compete in on-stage question.

Contestants[]

52 delegates participated:

State	Name	Hometown	Age	Talent[2]	Placement	Awards	Notes
Alabama	Jenna Bryant[3]	Hoover	17	Jazz Dance	Top 10
Alaska	Kimberly Carr[4]	Wasilla	17	Vocal		Scholastic Excellence Award	Previously Alaska's National Junior Teen-Ager 2004
Arizona	Adrienne Nurss[5]	Sierra Vista	17	Lyrical Dance	Top 10		Sister of Erin Nurss, Miss Arizona 2008
Arkansas	Hannah Joiner	Maumelle	17	Tap Dance	Top 10	Preliminary Evening Wear/OSQ Award Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award
California	Arianna Afsar	San Diego	13	Broadway Vocal	1st runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award	Top 36 Contestant on American Idol Later Miss California 2010 Top 10 at Miss America 2011 pageant Cast as Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in the Chicago production of Hamilton[6][7]
Colorado	Jocelyn Story	Parker	16	Lyrical Dance	Top 15
Connecticut	Sarah Lord	Norwich	17	Musical Theatre Dance
Delaware	Carly Economos	Georgetown	16	Classical Vocal			Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009 pageant
District of Columbia	Virginia Ryan	Washington D.C.	17	Vocal
Florida	Sierra Minott	Fort Myers	17	Musical Theater Jazz Dance	3rd runner-up[8]	Preliminary Evening Wear/OSQ Award	Later Miss Florida 2008 4th runner-up at Miss America 2009 pageant
Georgia	Kristen Springer	Snellville	16	Ballet en Pointe
Hawaii	Jalee Kate Fuselier	Haleiwa	17	Vocal			Later Miss Hawaii 2010 2nd runner-up at Miss America 2011 pageant[9]
Idaho	Amanda Workman	American Falls	17	Ballet/Hip Hop Dance
Illinois	Kathryn Strause			Classical Piano
Indiana	Sarah Gorecki	LaPorte	16	Vocal	Top 10
Iowa	Amanda Sabin	Walcott	17	Tap Dance			Later Mrs. Nebraska America 2014
Kansas	Lauren Susong	Wellington	17	Vocal
Kentucky	Erin Clark	Louisville	15	Musical Theatre Dance
Louisiana	Bethany Moore	Bastrop	18	Vocal
Maine	Katelyn Smith	Enfield	16	Tap Dance
Maryland	Lindsay Morris	Church Creek	15	Piano
Massachusetts	Tanya Lee Bonefant	Taunton	17	Lyrical Dance
Michigan	Ashley Noelle Loader	Blissfield	17	Ballet en Pointe
Minnesota	Giselle Marie Ugarte	Minnetonka	16	Jazz Dance
Mississippi	Natalie Wood	Oxford	15	Theatrical Jazz Dance
Missouri	Airen Ferguson	Hannibal	17	Clogging
Montana	Jacqueline Ingoin	Lambert	17	Tap Dance
Nebraska	Jessica States[10]	North Platte	17	Vocal, "I Am What I Am" from La Cage aux Folles
Nevada	Raechel Prosser	Gardnerville	15	Tap Dance
New Hampshire	Meghan Lemontagne	Pelham	17	Dance/Twirl			Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009 pageant Later Purdue University's 25th "Golden Girl"[11]
New Jersey	Katie Berry	Mount Laurel	16	Ballet en Pointe	Top 15		Contestant at National Sweetheart 2011 pageant 4th runner-up at Miss New Jersey 2009 pageant[12] 2nd runner-up at Miss New Jersey 2010 and 2011 pageants[13] 1st runner-up to Mallory Hagan at Miss New York 2012 pageant[14]
New Mexico	Sara Elizabeth Ryan	Roswell	16	Tap Dance
New York	Amanda Lee Alicea	Staten Island	16	Vocal
North Carolina	Kayla Moran	Mount Holly	15	Vocal
North Dakota	Laura Peinovich[15]	Fargo	17	Jazz Dance
Ohio	Ali Nance	Warren	15	Musical Theatre Dance	Top 15
Oklahoma	Becca Hester	Tulsa	17	Vocal	Top 15	Spirit of America Award
Oregon	Katie Ericson	North Bend	16	Classical Piano
Pennsylvania	Annie Rosellini	Butler	13	Lyrical Dance			Later Miss Pennsylvania 2013
Rhode Island	Kacie Ferraro[16]	Wakefield	17	Tap Dance
South Carolina	Lindley Mayer	Greenville	16	Tap Dance	Top 15
South Dakota	Hailey Soyland	Madison	17	Vocal			Currently a country singer who goes by the name "Hailey Steele"
Tennessee	Madeline Littrell	Germantown	16	Vocal	Top 10
Texas	Meghan Miller	Beaumont	17	Ventriloquism	Winner[17]	Overall Talent Award Preliminary Evening Wear/OSQ Award Preliminary Talent Award	Appeared on America's Got Talent
Utah	Jennifer Gulbrandsen	Provo	17	Classical Piano	4th runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award
Vermont	Brittany Rhodes	Jericho	17	Vocal
Virginia	Elle Elizabeth Bunn[18]	Virginia Beach	16	Vocal
Virgin Islands	Shakyma Roshundia Mercado	Saint Croix		Sign Language/Dance
Washington	Shalane Larango	Ridgefield	16	Tap/Jazz Dance	2nd runner-up		Later Miss Washington Teen USA 2007[19] First former Miss America's Outstanding Teen state titleholder to compete in Miss Teen USA pageant
West Virginia	Veronika Ohlinger	Letart	17	Vocal		Outstanding Academic Achievement Award	Later Miss Montana 2011
Wisconsin	Tonya Popowski[20]	St. Francis	17	Baton/Twirl
Wyoming	Courtney Gifford	Sheridan	17	Art			Later Miss Wyoming 2008 Later Miss Wyoming USA 2013 First former Miss America's Outstanding Teen state titleholder to compete in Miss USA pageant

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