Miss Massachusetts USA


The Miss Massachusetts USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Massachusetts in the Miss USA pageant. It is currently produced by The Clemente Organization based in Malden, Massachusetts, which also produces the Maine pageant.
Shawnae Jebbia was crowned Miss USA in 1998 and Susie Castillo won the crown in 2003. Both Miss USA winners from Massachusetts were asked the same final question during the live telecasts. The most recent placement was Melissa Sapini in 2024, placing Top 10.
Perianne Caron of Boston was crowned Miss Massachusetts USA 2025 on June 15, 2025 at the Plymouth Memorial Hall in Plymouth. She represented Massachusetts at Miss USA 2025.

Results summary

  • Miss USAs: Shawnae Jebbia, Susie Castillo
  • 1st runner-up: Diane Pollard
  • Top 10/'12: Monica Magnus, Janet Marie Flaherty, Mercedes Waggoner, Kristen Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bruno, Melissa Sapini
  • Top 15: Sandra Ramsey, Barbara Feldman, Elaine Cusick, Sandra Smith, Nancy Brackett, Sarah Kidd, Allissa Latham
  • Massachusetts' holds a record of 16 placements at Miss USA.

    Awards

  • Miss Photogenic: Annika Sharma, Melissa Sapini
  • Miss Congeniality: Stacey Blaine
  • Best State Costume: JoAnne Savery

    Winners

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YearNameHometownAge1Local titlePlacement at Miss USASpecial awards at Miss USANotes
2025Perianne CaronBoston26Miss West End
2024Melissa SapiniNorth Attleborough21Miss North AttleboroughTop 10Miss PhotogenicLater Miss Universe Haiti 2025.
2023Annika SharmaNewton22Miss CommonwealthMiss Photogenic
2022Skarlet RamirezLawrence27Miss LawrenceBorn in the Dominican Republic
2021Sarah DeSouzaDracut25
2020Sabrina VictorBrockton23
2019Kelly O'GradyCambridge27Later became correspondent for Fox Business
2018Allissa LathamLowell26Top 15
2017Julia ScaparottiPeabody24New England Patriots Cheerleader
2016Whitney SharpeBurlington21
2015Polikseni ManxhariBoston24Born in Albania
2014Caroline LunnyHolliston22
  • Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2008
  • * Top 15 at Miss Teen USA 2008.
  • Contestant on The Bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise and Bachelor in Paradise Australia
    2013Sarah KiddLeominster20Top 15
    2012Natalie PietrzakSomerville25Sister of Monica Pietrzak, Miss Connecticut USA 2009 and Miss USA 2009 semifinalist
    2011Alida D'AngonaBolton23
    2010Lacey WilsonBoston26
    2009Alison Michele CroninEast Weymouth21
  • Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2005
  • 2008Jackie BrunoAssonet23Top 10, finishing in 10th place
  • Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2003
  • * 3rd runner-up at Miss Teen USA 2003
  • 2007Despina DeliosLynn23
    2006Tiffany KellyBraintree18
    2005Cristina NardozziSeekonk21Was contestant on Fear Factor in 2005 on the Miss USA episode #5.29
    2004Maria LekkakosRockport25
    2003Susie CastilloLawrence23Miss USA 2003
  • Top 15 semifinalist at Miss Universe 2003
  • Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1998
  • 2002Latoyia Cimone FosterLowell
    2001Dana Tenille PowellBrookline
    2000Rosalie M. AllainLeominster
  • Later Mrs. Massachusetts America 2009 under her married name, Rosalie Allain-Morris.
  • 1999Jennifer KrafveSaugusMother of Avery Turner, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2024
    1998Shawnae JebbiaMansfield26Miss USA 1998
  • Top 5 Finalist at Miss Universe 1998
  • 1997Jennifer K. ChapmanMaynard
    1996Jacquelyn DoucetteLynnfield26Mother of Jillian Driscoll, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2022
    1995Kristen MastroianniWilbraham23Semi-finalist, finishing in 10th place
  • Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1987
  • * Top 10 at Miss Teen USA 1987
  • 1994Michelle AtamianBelmont
    1993Stacey BlaineBellinghamMiss BellinghamMiss Congeniality
    1992Christine NetishenLowell
    1991Laura WheelerFramingham
    1990Laureen MurphyBoston
    1989Kimberley WallaceIpswich
    1988Anita Marie LovelyFranklin
    1987Rosanna IversenGreat BarringtonRepresented Massachusetts in Miss Oktoberfest 1987
    1986Sheila BensonQuincy
    1985Mercedes WaggonerBoston21Semi-finalist, finishing in 8th place
    1984Deborah NearyOnset
    1983Robin Jeanne SilvaSwansea
    1982Janet Marie FlahertyWilmington24Semi-finalist
    1981JoAnne SaveryEast BridgewaterMiss East BridgewaterBest State Costume
    1980Diane CampbellMelroseMiss Melrose
    1979Monica Patricia MagnusBoston24Semi-finalist
    1978Diane Elizabeth PollardHamilton201st runner-up
    1977Carol MarcilChelmsford
    1976Holly Ann HoyleAttleboro
    1975Rilla PossonNatick
    1974Ethellean HicksRoxbury
    1973Judith "Judy" Ann GregoryBoston26
    1972Dale CarderWellesley
    1971April DowAmesbury
    1970Cheryl StankiewiczBrockton
  • Represented Massachusetts in the Miss World USA 1967 pageant
  • 1969Martha CawleyNeedham
    1968Sonja FritzBoston
    1967Pamela ProcterMarbleheadDaughter of Miss Massachusetts 1940 Polly Connors, 3rd Runner-Up to Miss America.
    1966Nancy Joan BrackettBrighton20Semi-finalist
  • Semifinalist in Miss USA World 1963 as Miss Boston, MA
  • 1965Mary Lou VolpeBraintree
    1964Barbara Helen RoberyBoston
    1963Sandra "Su-Su" SmithNewton Upper Falls23Semi-finalist
  • Non-finalist at Miss World USA 1961
  • 1962Gale PopeWellesley
    1961Elaine CusickHyde Park18Semi-finalist
    1960Barbara Gale FeldmanNatick20Top 15
    1959Beatrice DupreyWeymouthAlso competed in the 1960 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant
    1958Sally Ann FreedmanPeabodyFinalist in the 1961 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant
    1957Sandra RamseyHaverhill19Semi-finalist
    1956Elaine MurphyWeston
    1955Jean DernagoSpringfield
    1954Nan CowanSterling
    1953Joan DalySomerville
    1952Vel DorneBoston
    1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant