Miss South Carolina Teen USA

The Miss South Carolina Teen USA pageant is the competition that selects the representatives for the state of South Carolina in the Miss Teen USA pageant. The pageant has been directed by RPM Productions since its inception.
South Carolina is in the top 10 most successful states at Miss Teen USA in terms of number and value of placements, this state has placed 15 times at Miss Teen USA and has produced two winners. Vanessa Joy Minnillo won the Miss Teen USA title on August 17, 1998 in Shreveport, Louisiana and later went on to become successful in the entertainment industry and Katherine Lee Graham won the Miss Teen USA title on August 2, 2014 in Nassau, Bahamas.
South Carolina holds the record for the most Miss Congeniality awards. It has won three: 1994, 1998, and 2002. In 1998, Minnillo became the first teenager to win both Miss Congeniality and the national title, and is one of only two contestants to achieve this.
Six Miss South Carolina Teen USA titleholders have won the Miss South Carolina USA title and competed at Miss USA.
Gracen Grainger of Clemson was crowned Miss South Carolina Teen USA 2020 on November 23, 2019 at North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center in North Charleston. She will represent South Carolina for the title of Miss Teen USA 2020.

Gallery of titleholders

Results summary

Placements

Miss Teen USAs: Vanessa Joy Minnillo, K. Lee Graham
1st runners-up: Brittany Pjetraj, Tori Sizemore, Kirby Elizabeth Self
2nd runner-up: Marley Stokes
3rd runner-up: Caitlin Upton
Top 6: Mary Stevenson
Top 12: Lauren Poppell
Top 15: Lindsey Sporrer, Brittany Smith, Keyla Childs, Wesley Mitchell, Allie Richardson
Top 16: Shannon Ford

South Carolina holds a record of 15 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards

Miss Congeniality: Mary Stevenson, Vanessa Joy Minnillo, Austen Brown
Winners

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Year	Name	Hometown	Age¹	Placement at MTUSA	Special awards at MTUSA	Notes
2020	Ava Gracen Grainger	Clemson	18	TBA	TBA	Previously Miss Teen World America 2017
2019	Allie Richardson	Lexington	17	Top 15
2018	Kirby Elizabeth Self	Greenwood	16	1st Runner-Up
2017	Alexis Johnson	Myrtle Beach	17
2016	Marley D'Lynn Stokes	Lexington	18	2nd runner-up
2015	Wesley McCall Mitchell	Lexington	17	Top 15
2014	Katherine Lee Graham	Chapin	16	Miss Teen USA 2014		Daughter of Jennifer Neuen, Miss South Carolina Teen USA 1985
2013	Victoria "Tori" Carol Sizemore	Anderson	17	1st runner-up		Later Miss South Carolina USA 2018 4th runner-up at Miss South Carolina 2019 competition
2012	Shannon Noel Ford	Lexington	18	Top 16
2011	Keyla Starr Childs	Summerville	17	Top 15
2010	Megan Tyler Pinckney	North Charleston	18			Later Miss South Carolina USA 2013 *5th runner-up at Miss USA 2013
2009	Mary Helen Caver	North Augusta	18
2008	Brittany Pjetraj	Chapin	18	1st runner-up
2007	Lauren Caitlin Upton	Lexington	18	3rd runner-up		Contestant on The Amazing Race 16. Gained notoriety following her answer to the final question in the 2007 Miss Teen USA pageant, which was criticized as "strange" and "grammarless". Videos of her response were posted to YouTube and have received millions of views.
2006	Brittany Smith	Lyman	17	Top 15
2005	Lauren Taylor	Travelers Rest	18
2004	Lindsey Sporrer	Easley	17	Semi-finalist
2003	Stephanie Horton	Sumter	18
2002	Austen Brown	Charleston	17		Miss Congeniality	Later Mrs. America 2013
2001	Sarah Ashley Medley	North Charleston	15			Later Miss South Carolina USA 2005
2000	Morgan Smith	Lexington	17
1999	Hannah Grooms	Wallace	17
1998	Vanessa Joy Minnillo	Charleston	17	Miss Teen USA 1998	Miss Congeniality	Born in the Philippines. Later married actor and singer Nick Lachey
1997	Caroline Brigman	Latta	17
1996	Wendy Roberts	Pelzer	19
1995	Garianne Phillips	Leesville	18
1994	Mary Stevenson	Greenville	18	Finalist	Miss Congeniality	Granddaughter of Miss Universe 1954, Miriam Stevenson
1993	Lauren Poppell	Rock Hill	17	Semi-finalist		Later Miss South Carolina USA 1999, finished 4th in Miss USA 1999
1992	Shannon Pelerin	Lexington	17
1991	Jeanie Bowers	Prosperity	17
1990	Kathryn Hancock	Greenwood	15			Later Mrs. North Carolina America 2007 under her married name, Kathryn Hancock-Stuart.
1989	Michelle Warner	Inman	15
1988	Nicole Adams	West Columbia	16
1987	Carol Carver	Hilton Head	16
1986	Angela Shuler	Rock Hill	15			Later Miss South Carolina USA 1989
1985	Jennifer Neuen	Florence	19			Mother of Katherine Lee Graham, Miss Teen USA 2014
1984	Mary Delgado	Florence	17
1983	Elizabeth Woodard	Aiken	17			Later Miss South Carolina USA 1987

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

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Miss South Carolina Teen USA

Gallery of titleholders

Results summary

Placements

Awards

Winners