Miss North Dakota Teen USA

Miss North Dakota Teen USA

Formation	1983
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Fargo
Location	North Dakota
Membership	Miss Teen USA
Official language	English
Website	Official website

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 [1]. North Dakota is one of only ten states to have had nine or more semifinalist (or better) placings at Miss Teen USA [2]. Despite this, no Miss North Dakota Teen USA has won the Miss Teen USA crown, and in fact the highest placement ever reached by a North Dakota teen is 2nd runner-up, which was awarded to Katie Cooper 2006. The new record was made until Audra Mari placed 1st runner-up in 2011.

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.

Results summary

Placements

• 1st runners-up: Audra Mari (2011)
• 2nd runners-up: Katie Cooper (2006)
• 4th runners-up: Dayna Decker (1987), Heidi Langseth (1989)
• Top 6: Nicci Elkins (1991)
• Top 10: Kari Larson (1984), Jill Hutchinson (1985), Katrina Bergstrom (1996), Julie Nagle (1997), Marisa Field (2003)
• Top 15: Breanna Abernathy (2004)

Awards

• Miss Congeniality: Heidi Langseth (1989), Breanna Abernathy (2004)

Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2016	Paige Mathison	Fargo	15	TBA
2015	Hannah Nelson	Bismarck	18
2014	Josie Hettich	Wilton	18
2013	Emilee Mahar	Fargo	17
2012	Tiffany Fletschock	Casselton	18
2011	Audra Mari	Fargo	17	1st runner-up		Later Miss North Dakota USA 2014 and 1st runner-up at Miss USA 2014; only woman to place 1st runner-up at both Miss Teen USA and Miss USA.
2010	Ariana Walker	Bismarck	19			Previously Miss North Dakota's Outstanding Teen 2008, later Miss North Dakota 2011
2009	Codi Miller	Amidon	15			Later North Dakota High School Rodeo Queen 2010
2008	Gretchen Dawley	Munich	17
2007	Taylor Kearns	Fargo	18			Later Miss North Dakota USA 2010
2006	Katie Cooper	Westhope	17	2nd runner-up
2005	Caitlin Brown	Colgate	17
2004	Breanna Abernathy	Lansford	18	Top 15	Miss Congeniality
2003	Marisa Field	Fargo	17	Top 10
2002	Jessica Deringer	Bismarck	18
2001	Stacey Thomas	Fargo	18			Later Miss North Dakota 2002
2000	Amy Kensok	Fargo	15
1999	Natalie Larson	Cooperstown	15
1998	Brandy Smolen	Dickinson	16
1997	Julie Nagle	Fargo	18	Semi-finalist
1996	Katrina Bergstrom	Fargo	17	Semi-finalist
1995	Jessica Spier	West Fargo	17			Younger sister of 1992 titleholder Juliette Spier.
1994	Alison Nesemeier	Casselton	16			Later Miss North Dakota USA 1998
1993	Wendy Howe	Grand Forks	15
1992	Juliette Spier	West Fargo	16			Later Miss North Dakota USA 1996, finished 6th at Miss USA 1996
1991	Nicci Elkins	Grand Forks	17	Finalist		Later Miss North Dakota 1994
1990	Sherry Bernadis	Fargo	18
1989	Heidi Langseth	Fargo	17	4th runner-up	Miss Congeniality
1988	Jennifer Siminary	Fargo	18			Later Miss North Dakota USA 1993
1987	Dayna Decker	Fargo	17	4th runner-up
1986	Shannon Keiser	Williston	15
1985	Jill Hutchinson	Fargo	17	Semi-finalist
1984	Kari Larson	Bismarck	17	Top 10		Later Miss North Dakota USA 1990
1983	Lisa Rubin	Grand Forks	17

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

External links

• Official website
• State Director's Official Website.