Miss Minnesota Teen USA


The Miss Minnesota Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Minnesota in the Miss Teen USA pageant. This pageant is directed by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota.
Minnesota has not been very successful at Miss Teen USA, with their first placement coming in 1995, in the pageant's thirteenth year. Minnesota teens have performed best in the 2000s, with two top fifteen, three top ten placements and a 4th runner-up placement.
Five Minnesota teens have won the Miss Minnesota USA and one the Miss Wisconsin USA pageant and competed at Miss USA.
The current titleholder is Maisie Adams of North Oaks, was crowned on August 10, 2025, at The Franklin Center in Des Moines. She represented Minnesota at Miss Teen USA 2025, placing as 1st runner-up.
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Results summary

Placements

  • 1st runner-up: Maisie Adams
  • 4th runners-up: Maggie McGill
  • Top 10: Alla Ilushka, Allison Arling, Vanessa Vonbehren
  • Top 12: Michelle Borg
  • Top 15: Lauren Hindi, Hannah Corbett
Minnesota holds a record of 8 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

Miss Congeniality: Olivia Herbert

Winners

YearNameHometownAge1Local titlePlacement at Miss Teen USASpecial awards at Miss Teen USANotes
2025Maisie AdamsNorth Oaks17Miss North Oaks Teen1st runner-upDaughter of Miss North Dakota USA 1994 Amy Lantz
2024Grace StahlMinnetonka17Miss Minnetonka Teen
2023Mikhala RiversMaple Grove17Miss Saint Paul Teen
2022Ava ErnstSaint Paul18Miss Saint Paul TeenPreviously Miss Minnesota High School America 2021
2021Annika WieseOwatonna18Miss Owatonna Teen
2020Gwendolyn BuchananDuluth18
2019Olivia HerbertAndover16Miss CongenialityCousin of Miss Minnesota USA 2011 Brittany Thelemann
2018Peyton SchroederRosemount18
2017Tori TrittinLakeville15
2016Sophia PrimozichMinnetonka16
2015Hayden Grace HammondMaple Grove18
2014Catherine StanleyBloomington18
  • Later Miss Minnesota USA 2019
    • 2013Maggie McGillPlymouth184th runner-up
    2012Kendra BergerApple Valley16
    2011Hannah CorbettExcelsior17Top 15
    2010Haley O'BrienVictoria18
  • Later Miss Minnesota USA 2014
  • Later Miss Collegiate America 2012
    • 2009Vanessa JohnstonLakeville17America's Next Top Model Cycle 15 semi-finalist, Eliminated first round of cuts
    2008Sarah SprayberrySt. Paul16
    2007Vanessa VonbehrenApple Valley17Top 10
    2006Amy BlueAnoka17
    2005Lauren HindiStacy16Top 15
    2004Allison ArlingLakeville18Top 10
    2003Kristin SwobodaWhite Bear Lake16
    2002Alla IlushkaEden Prairie17Top 10
  • Later Miss Minnesota USA 2007
    • 2001Serene AandahlMinneapolisTop 10 at Miss Universe Canada 2007, 4th runner up at Miss Minnesota USA 2008
    2000Jennifer JonesLakeville
    1999Laura Beth ReierBrooklyn Park
    1998Kristin HilgenbergLakeville19Daughter of former professional American football player Wally Hilgenberg
    1997Jamie DuffneyPlymouth17
    1996Sarah CahillWaseca17
  • Later Miss Minnesota USA 2003
    • 1995Michelle BorgBrainerd17Semi-finalist
    1994Paige SwensonFridley
  • Later Miss Minnesota USA 2000
    • 1993Charity LundyStacy16
    1992Elizabeth PetersLake Hubert16
    1991Natasha GrudnoskeArden Hills
    1990Jennifer BellBlooming Prairie16
    1989Darcy InglestedPrior Lake
    1988Julie WardSavage
    1987Karin HargrovesShoreview
    1986Jennifer GeckalBloomington
    1985Lana BurkeCrystal
    1984Heather JohnsonTruman
    1983Kimberly EssShakopee
    1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant