Miss Wisconsin Teen USA


The Miss Wisconsin Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Wisconsin in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
It is produced by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota from 2007 until 2024 and from 2025 onwards is produced by KPC Productions based in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Wisconsin has placed at Miss Teen USA on seven occasions. The first placement was in 1984, when Adrianne Hazelwood made the ten semi-finalists, and then endured an eighteen-year dry spell until Vanessa Semrow won the Miss Teen USA crown in 2002. Then lastly with two consecutive semi-final placements with Katherine "Kate" Redeker and Patience Vallier, followed by Shreya Gundelly in 2021 and her sister Sage in 2022. Shelby Hohneke was among the 20 quarter-semi-finalists in 2023 when the national pageant was held in Reno, Nevada.
Six Wisconsin teen titleholders have competed at Miss USA,. One teen, Maria Kim, has also competed at Miss America in 1987 and won two talent awards. In 2007, Bishara Abridasheed Dorre, Miss Wisconsin Teen-USA 2006, became the first former Miss Teen USA state titleholder to win a Miss America's Outstanding Teen state title, when she was crowned Miss Wisconsin's Outstanding Teen 2007.
After operating the Miss Wisconsin Teen-USA franchise along with the Miss Wisconsin-USA competition since 2008, Future Productions owners Craig Heitkamp and Denise Wallace, of Savage, Minnesota, announced on May 18, 2025 that they decided to end their "affiliation with the Miss USA Organization operated by VVV Global Entertainment, and its parent company, the Miss Universe Organization operated by JKN Global Group, effective immediately." Their press release continued to say "For over two decades we have worked diligently to provide women the opportunity to further their professional and educational endeavors and take part in top-notch, high caliber productions. We have worked hard to make sure our state titleholders are given the opportunity to form partnerships with charitable organizations. At this time, we do not feel we are operating under leadership that understands or prioritizes the business of the state-level franchises."
On June 23, 2025, KPC Productions owner Kelly McCoy of West Des Moines, Iowa was awarded the state franchises to operate Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota for the 2025 competitions, which took place on August 8--10, 2025 at the Franklin Center in Des Moines, Iowa. It marked the first time in Miss Wisconsin-USA and Miss Wisconsin Teen-USA history that the Wisconsin competitions were held in a different state. Five entrants took part in the 2025 Miss Wisconsin Teen-USA competition, while five women participated in the 2025 Miss Wisconsin-USA program.
Autumn Gunderson of DeForest who was crowned Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2025 on August 10, 2025, at The Franklin Center in Des Moines. She represented Wisconsin at Miss Teen USA 2025.
WWW misswisconsinusa.com

Results summary

Placements

  • Miss Teen USA: Vanessa Semrow
  • Top 10: Adrianne Hazelwood
  • Top 15: Patience Vallier
  • Top 16: Katherine "Kate" Redeker, Shreya Gundelly, Sage Gundelly
  • Top 20: Shelby Hohneke, Autumn Gunderson
Wisconsin holds a record of 7 placements at Miss Teen-USA.

Awards

People's Choice Award: Addison Gunderson

Winners

YearNameHometownAge1Local titlePlacement at Miss Teen USASpecial awards at Miss Teen USANotes
2025Autumn GundersonDeForest17Miss DeForest TeenTop 20 People's Choice Award Won state title on fourth attempt.
2024Olivia Mae NegriPark Falls17Miss Price County TeenWon state title on third attempt
2023Shelby Lynn HohnekeHudson19Miss Hudson TeenTop 20Won state title on fourth attempt
2022Sage GundellyMequon15Miss Milwaukee TeenTop 16Second East-Indian to win state teen title and the younger sister of Shreya Gundelly, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2021. They are the second set of sisters to win the state teen title, the others were Abigail and Elizabeth Bryson.
2021Shreya GundellyMequon19Miss Mequon TennTop 16First East-Indian to be selected as Miss Wisconsin Teen USA; Miss Wisconsin Jr. Teen at National American Miss 2017; and USA National Miss Wisconsin Teen 2018
2020Olivia J. LulichLyndon Station17
2019Sydney Nicole BobinskiKronenewetter17
2018Alexis Maria LoomansWaunakee16
  • Later Miss Wisconsin USA 2023
  • * Second runner-up to Miss USA 2023.
    • 2017Abigail Leigh BrysonBrookfield18Sister of Elizabeth Bryson, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2009
    2016Karly Diana KnausPlymouth17
    2015April Mia HarkeGreenville17
    2014Patience Ann VallierLake Mills17Top 15
    2013Katherine Patrice RedekerSheboygan16Top 16
  • Later Miss Wisconsin USA 2016
    • 2012Briana Joy YamatOak Creek15
    2011Victoria Sorone JohnstonEau Claire19Five-time Miss Wisconsin USA contestant and four-time entrant for Miss Minnesota USA
    2010Kirsten Jalbert NorderhaugBrookfield17Daughter of Linda Faye Paulson, Miss North Dakota USA 1976
    2009Elizabeth Marie BrysonBrookfield17Sister of Abigail Bryson, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2017
    2008Courtney Lynn LopezOak Creek18
  • Later Miss Wisconsin USA 2010
    • 2007Shauna Angel SabirMilwaukee17
    2006Bishara DorreMilwaukee16She was born Bishara Abridasheed Dorre.
  • Later Miss Wisconsin's Outstanding Teen 2007. First Miss Teen USA state delegate to win a Miss America's Outstanding Teen state title.
  • * Top 10 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2008.
  • Later Miss Wisconsin USA 2014
  • * Top 10 at Miss USA 2014.
    • 2005Anisa Yanti PhillipsStevens Point18
    2004Myla Grace DalbesioRacine17
    2003Jenna Christine TigheMadison17
    2002Vanessa SemrowRhinelander17Miss Teen USA 2002
    2001Kelly Ann LangfordMuskego17
    2000Erica Ellen GustafsonBristol16
    1999Deanndra Diane DeBlackMonroe16
    1998Heidi Alderson CodyMarkesan16
    1997Allison Kathleen SchroederElm Grove16
    1996Nicole Lynn WerraSouth Milwaukee16
    1995Rebecca Louise RowePrescott17
    1994Tara Ann Luellwitz WilliamsBrookfield15
    1993Tanae Gabryelle GeislerHudson17
  • Later Miss Wisconsin USA 1995
    • 1992Trina Ann LandowskiStevens Point16
    1991Pamela Ann SchroederGlendale16
    1990Deborah Ann SantacroceGlendale15
    1989Shannon Michelle RedmanHayward18
    1988Jennifer Ann SchwalenbergKaukauna19
    1987Barbara Faye NelsonOshkosh17
    1986Lanae Elizabeth St.JohnLa Crosse17
    1985Maria KimShorewood17
  • Later Miss Wisconsin 1987
    • 1984Adrianne HazelwoodGlendale16Top 10Miss Photogenic
  • Later Miss Connecticut USA 1985 and first Miss Teen USA state titleholder to win a Miss USA state title.
    • 1983Jane Elizabeth ZawadaNiagara18
    1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant