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 pageant and competed at Miss USA.
Gwendolyn Buchanan of Duluth was crowned Miss Minnesota Teen USA 2020 on December 1, 2019 at Ames Center in Burnsville. She will represent Minnesota for the title of Miss Teen USA 2020.

Results summary

Placements

Minnesota holds a record of 7 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

YearNameHometownAge1Placement at Miss Teen USASpecial awards at Miss Teen USANotes
2020Gwendolyn BuchananDuluth18TBA
2019Olivia HerbertAndover16Miss CongenialityCousin of Miss Minnesota USA 2011 Brittany Thelemann
2018Peyton SchroederRosemount18
2017Tori TrittinLakeville15
2016Sophia PrimozichMinnetonka16
2015Hayden Grace HammondMaple Grove18
2014Catherine StanleyBloomington18Later Miss Minnesota USA 2019
2013Maggie McGillPlymouth184th runner-up
2012Kendra BergerApple Valley16
2011Hannah CorbettExcelsior17Top 15
2010Haley O'BrienVictoria18Later 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 10Later 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 CahillWaseca17Later Miss Minnesota USA 2003
1995Michelle BorgBrainerd17Semi-finalist
1994Paige SwensonFridleyLater 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