:Miss California Teen USA
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|formation = 1983
|type = Beauty pageant
|headquarters = Santa Monica
|location = California
|membership = Miss Teen USA
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The Miss California Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of California in the Miss Teen USA pageant. It was formed in 1983. This pageant is part of the Miss USA Organization.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
California is in the top five most successful states at Miss Teen USA in terms of number and value of placements. Miss California Teen USA titleholders have been invited to red-carpet movie premieres, such as that for Santa Clause 3 attended by Kylee Lin,{{cite press release|title=World Premiere THE SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE Sunday, October 29 at The El Capitan Theater |url=http://www.seeing-stars.com/meet/MoviePremierePressReleases/SantaClause3.shtml|publisher=Walt Disney Pictures|access-date=2007-01-26}} and She's the Man, attended by Jessica Powell.[http://www.wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?igi=174099&s=jessica%20powell&sfld=C&vwmd=e Wireimage.com photo gallery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604012858/http://www.wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?igi=174099&s=jessica%20powell&sfld=C&vwmd=e |date=2011-06-04 }}. Retrieved 2007-01-26
The current titleholder is Paige Gonor of San Diego, who is crowned on June 23, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Orange County. Gonor represented California for the title of Miss Teen USA 2024.
History
In the 1980s, the pageant was directed by Richard Guy and Rex Holt, who also oversaw the Miss California USA, Miss Texas USA and Miss Texas Teen USA pageants. They lost the contract in 1990, when it came up for renewal.{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969535,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121140807/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969535,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 21, 2007|title=Profits In Poise and Pulchritude|publisher=Time Magazine|date=1990-03-05|access-date=2007-01-27|first=Richard|last=Woodbury}}
Gallery of titleholders
File:KyleeLin.jpg|Kylee Lin, Miss California Teen USA 2007, at the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End film premiere
File:Chelsea Gilligan 2009.jpg|Miss California Teen USA 2009, Chelsea Gilligan, attending the "Beauty of California Dinner" at The Riviera Resort & Spa, Palm Springs, CA on Nov. 21, 2009
File:Miss California Teen 2010.jpg|Miss California Teen USA 2010, Emma Baker, on-stage at the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, CA on Nov. 22, 2009
File:Alexis Swanstrom 2010.jpg|Miss California Teen USA 2011, Alexis Swanstrom, Rancho Mirage, CA on Nov. 21, 2010
File:Alexa Jones 2012.jpg|Miss California Teen USA 2012 Alexa Jones, Irvine, California on June 16, 2012
File:Cassidy Wolf 2012.jpg|Miss California Teen USA 2013 and Miss Teen USA 2013, Cassidy Wolf, Irvine, California on January 4, 2014
File:Bianca_Vierra_2014.jpg|Miss California Teen USA 2014 Bianca Vierra, Long Beach, California on January 4, 2014
File:Melanie Mitchell 2015.jpg|Miss California Teen USA 2015 Melanie Mitchell, Corona, California on July 19, 2015
File:Athenna Crosby 2015.jpg|Miss California Teen USA 2016 Athenna Crosby, Long Beach, California on December 6, 2015
File:Alina Carranza 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg|Miss California Teen USA 2019 Alina Carranza, Los Angeles, California on March 14, 2019
Results summary
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- Miss Teen USAs: Shauna Gambill (1994), Cassidy Wolf (2013)
- 1st runners-up: Jennifer Morgan (2002), Melanie Mitchell (2015)
- 2nd runners-up: Michelle Cardamon (1996), Chelsea Gilligan (2009), Emma Baker (2010), Alexis Swanstrom (2011), Cassidy Hill (2022)
- 3rd runner-up: Bianca Vierra (2014)
- 4th runners-up: Stephanie Brink (2005), Jaanu Patel (2017)
- Top 6: Natasha Allas (1992)
- Top 10: Shawn Gardner (1983), Angi Aylor (1987), Casey McClain (2001)
- Top 12: Trisha Robey (1990), Kellie Foster-Moore (1995)
- Top 15/16/20: Taylor Atkins (2008), Athenna Crosby (2016), Janeice Love (2018), Zoe Hunt (2020), Cameron Doan (2021), Taliya Ariana Peiris (2023)
California holds a record of 24 placements at Miss Teen USA.
Winners
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! width=5% | Year ! width=20%| Name ! width=10%| Hometown ! width=3%|Age1 ! width=10%| Local Title ! width=14%| Placement at Miss Teen USA ! width=17%| Special awards at Miss Teen USA ! width=31%| Notes |
| 2024
| Paige Gonor | 18 | Miss San Diego County Teen | | | |
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| 2023 | Taliya Ariana Peiris | 18 | Miss Bay Area Teen | Top 20 | | |
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|2022 | Cassidy Hill | 18 | Miss Newport Beach Teen | Second runner-up | | |
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| 2021 | Cameron Doan | Anaheim | 19 | Miss Anaheim Hills Teen | Top 16 | |
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| 2020 | Zoe Hunt | Coronado | 17 | Miss Coronado Teen | Top 16 | | |
| 2019
| Alina Rae Carranza | 17 | Miss Woodland Hills Teen | | | |
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| 2018 | Barstow | 17 | Miss Coastal Cities Teen | Top 15 | | |
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| 2017 | 16 | Miss Huntington Beach Teen | Fourth runner-up | | |
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| 2016 | San Jose | 17 | Miss Santa Monica Teen | Top 15 | |
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| 2015 | Anaheim | 16 | Miss Anaheim Hills Teen | First runner-up | | |
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| 2014 | Hayward |19 | Miss Brea Canyon Teen |Third runner-up | |
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| rowspan=2| 2013
| Chloe Hope Hatfield{{cite news |title=Pageant contestants want to dispel stereotypes |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2013/12/27/pageant-contestants-want-to-dispel-stereotypes/ |access-date=January 21, 2019 |work=Orange County Register |date=December 27, 2013}} | Norco | 18 | Miss Malibu Teen | colspan="2" align="center"|did not compete |
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| Cassidy Wolf{{cite news |title=CSULB Freshman Crowned Miss California Teen USA |url=https://www.presstelegram.com/2013/08/27/csulb-freshman-crowned-miss-california-teen-usa/ |work=Press Telegram |date=27 August 2013}} | Temecula | 19 | Miss Greater San Diego Teen | Miss Teen USA 2013 | | |
| 2012
| Ramona | 18 | Miss Orange County Teen | | |
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| 2011 | Alexis Swanstrom | 17 | Miss San Diego Teen | Second runner-up | |
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| 2010 | Emma Baker | Poway | 18 | Miss Poway Teen | Second runner-up | |
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| 2009 | Chelsea Gilligan | Beaumont | 18 | Miss Beaumont Teen | Second runner-up | | |
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| 2008 | Taylor Atkins | Piru | 17 | Miss Ventura County Teen | Top 15 | | |
| 2007
| Kylee Lin | 16 | Miss Marin Teen | | | |
| 2006
| Jessica Powell | Barstow | 18 | Miss Barstow Teen | | | |
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| 2005 | Stephanie Brink | 18 | | Fourth runner-up | | |
| 2004
| Stacey Beltran | Oxnard | 18 | | | |
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| 2003
| Shannon Byrne | 18 | | | | |
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| 2002 | Jennifer Morgan | Alpine | 17 | | First runner-up | | |
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| 2001 | 18 | | Semi-finalist | | |
| 2000
| Alexandra Thompson | Vacaville | 15 | | | | |
| 1999
| Marianne Kennedy | 17 | | | | |
| 1998
| Amanda O'Leary{{cite news|title=Fullerton Fast Facts / In the Know|publisher=Fullerton News Tribune |date=1997-09-04|page=03}} | 19 | | | | |
| 1997
| Kimberly Gloudemans | 16 | | | | First runner-up to National Sweetheart 2001 |
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| 1996 | Michelle Cardamon | San Diego | 18 | | Second runner-up | | |
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| 1995 | Kellie Foster-Moore | Fresno |17 | | Semi-finalist | | |
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| 1994 | Shauna Gambill{{cite news|title=Highland Valedictorian wins Miss California Teen USA|publisher=Los Angeles Daily News|first=Sharon|last=Smith|page=SC2|date=1994-04-04}} | Acton |17 | | Miss Teen USA 1994 | |
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| 1993
| Stefanie Sweeney | 18 | | | | Now Stevi McShane; owner of Crowned One Productions, a pageant production company, and director of the Miss California U.S. International Pageant and the Jr. Miss and Miss Teen and Miss California American Beauty Pageant.{{cite news |last1=Franz |first1=Chris |title="The Pageant Director's Point of View": Interview with Stevie McShane Pageant Director |url=http://www.magcloud.com/webviewer/716851 |access-date=June 1, 2014 |work=The Platform Magazine |date=March 2014 |page=7}} She was also Mrs. California International, 2008.{{cite web |title=Former Mrs. California International Titleholders |url=http://californiaintl.com/Titleholders.html |website=Mrs. California International |access-date=June 1, 2014}} |
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| 1992 | Natasha Allas | 18 | | Finalist | |
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| 1991
| Jolene Fulkner | 14 | | | | Youngest ever Miss California Teen USA{{cite news|title=Yorba Linda teen is pride of California|publisher=The Orange County Register |first=Susan|last=Gaede|page=04|date=1991-05-23}} |
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| 1990 | Trisha Robey | 18 | | Semi-finalist | | |
| 1989
| Michealean Bonilla | 17 | | | | |
| 1988
| El Toro |15 | | | Best State Costume | Disqualified from competing at the national pageant curfew violation, contrary to pageant rules. |
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| 1987 | El Toro | 14 | | Semi-finalist (6th){{cite news|title=Teen beauty queen from El Toro places sixth in national contest|publisher=The Orange County Register|first=Lillian|last=Heffernan|page=13|date=1987-07-23}} | Miss Photogenic (tie) |
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| 1986
| Michelle Lowell | Ontario | 17 | | | | |
| 1985
| Sharon Gunther | Clovis | 16 | | | | |
| 1984
| Jodie Alvarez | 19 | | | | |
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| rowspan=2|1983 | Shawn Gardner | Modesto | 17 | | Semi-finalist | | Placed first runner-up in state pageant, assumed title when winner resigned title to get married.{{cite news|title=Modestan Dons Miss Teen Crown|url=https://news.google.co.nz/newspapers?id=OH8kAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ANcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3305,1942304&dq=miss-*+universe+usa&hl=en|publisher=The Modesto Bee|date=1983-07-19|first=Walt|last=Williams}} |
| Teresa St. Nicholas
| Monterey | 17 | | | |Resigned |
1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant
References
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External links
- [http://www.misscaliforniausa.com/ Official website]
{{State pageantry|State=California}}
{{Miss Teen USA state}}