Miss North Dakota Teen USA


The Miss North Dakota Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Dakota in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
Compared to the sister Miss North Dakota USA pageant, North Dakota Teen USAs have been quite successful at Miss Teen USA, and are ranked fifteenth in terms of number and value of placements . North Dakota is one of only ten states to have had nine or more semifinalist placements at Miss Teen USA . Despite this, no Miss North Dakota Teen USA has ever won the Miss Teen USA crown, though both Audra Mari and Caitlyn Vogel finished as 1st runner-up in 2011 and 2019 respectively.
Seven Miss North Dakota Teen USAs have gone on to win Miss North Dakota USA, and more unusually, two have competed at Miss America, including Stacey Thomas who is the most recent Miss North Dakota Teen USA delegate to compete at the Miss America pageant.
Amanda Higginbotham of Grand Forks was crowned Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2020 on September 21, 2019 at Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center in Brandon, South Dakota. She will represent North Dakota for the title of Miss Teen USA 2020 on the spring of 2020.

Results summary

Placements

North Dakota holds a record of 12 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

YearNameHometownAge1Placement at Miss Teen USASpecial awards at Miss Teen USANotes
2020Amanda HigginbothamGrand Forks18TBATBA
2019Caitlyn VogelBurlington171st runner-up
2018Ashlyn EricksonFargo17
2017Kilyn Parisien-HillBelcourt16
2016Paige MathisonFargo15
2015Hannah NelsonBismarck18
2014Josie HettichWilton18
2013Emilee MaharFargo17
2012Tiffany FletschockCasselton18
2011Audra MariFargo161st runner-up
2010Ariana WalkerBismarck19
  • Previously Miss North Dakota's Outstanding Teen 2008
  • Later Miss North Dakota 2011
    • 2009Codi MillerAmidon15
  • Later North Dakota High School Rodeo Queen 2010
    • 2008Gretchen DawleyMunich17
    2007Taylor KearnsFargo18
  • Later Miss North Dakota USA 2010
    • 2006Katie CooperWesthope172nd runner-up
    2005Caitlin BrownColgate17
    2004Breanna AbernathyLansford18Top 15Miss Congeniality
    2003Marisa FieldFargo17Top 10
    2002Jessica DeringerBismarck18
    2001Stacey ThomasFargo18
  • Later Miss North Dakota 2002
    • 2000Amy KensokFargo15
    1999Natalie LarsonCooperstown15
    1998Brandy SmolenDickinson16
    1997Julie NagleFargo18Top 10 Finishing in 8th Place
    1996Katrina BergstromFargo17Top 10 Finishing in 9th Place
    1995Jessica SpierWest Fargo17
  • Younger sister of 1992 titleholder Juliette Spier
    • 1994Alison NesemeierCasselton16
  • Later Miss North Dakota USA 1998
    • 1993Wendy HoweGrand Forks15
    1992Juliette SpierWest Fargo16
  • Later Miss North Dakota USA 1996
  • Finished 6th at Miss USA 1996 pageant
    • 1991Nicci ElkinsGrand Forks17Top 6 Finishing in 4th Place
  • Later Miss North Dakota 1994
    • 1990Sherry BernadisFargo18
    1989Heidi LangsethFargo174th runner-upMiss Congeniality
    1988Jennifer SiminaryFargo18
  • Later Miss North Dakota USA 1993
    • 1987Dayna DeckerFargo174th runner-up
    1986Shannon KeiserWilliston15
    1985Jill HutchinsonFargo17Top 10 Finishing in 7th Place
    1984Kari LarsonBismarck17Top 10 Finishing in 6th Place
  • Later Miss North Dakota USA 1990
    • 1983Lisa RubinGrand Forks17
    1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant