Miss Delaware USA
{{for|the state pageant affiliated with Miss America|Miss Delaware}}
{{Short description|Beauty pageant competition}}
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|formation = 1952
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Miss Delaware USA is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Delaware in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by its winner. The pageant is directed by V&M Productions.
Delaware had not placed in Miss USA until 2015, where Renee Bull placed in the Top 10. This is additionally Delaware's first, most recent, and only placement.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/116100410/?terms=%22miss%2Balaska%2Busa|title=Renee Bull breaks 'Delaware Curse' in Miss USA pageant|last=Brown|first=Robin|date=13 July 2015|newspaper=The News Journal|page=7|via=Newspapers.com}}
The current Miss Delaware USA is Alysa Bainbridge of Newark and was crowned on April 28, 2024 at Laird Performing Arts Center of The Tatnall School in Wilmington. Bainbridge represented Delaware at Miss USA 2024.
Gallery of titleholders
File:Nicole Bosso.jpg|Nicole Bosso, Miss Delaware USA 2007
File:Vincenza Carrieri-Russo.png|Vincenza Carrieri-Russo, Miss Delaware USA 2008
Results summary
=Placements=
- Top 11: Renee Bull (2015)
Delaware has only placed once.
=Awards=
- Miss Congeniality: Renee Bull (2015)
Winners
;Color key
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- {{Color box|gold|border=darkgray}} Winner
- {{Color box|#FFFF66|border=darkgray}} Runner-Up
- {{Color box|#FFFACD|border=darkgray}} Semifinalist
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! width=5% | Year ! width=20%| Name ! width=10%| Hometown ! width=3%|Age{{efn|Age at the time of crowning}} ! width=12%| Local title ! width=14%| Placement at Miss USA ! width=17%| Special awards at Miss USA ! width=31%| Notes |
| 2024
| Alysa Bainbridge | Newark | 25 | Miss Newark | | | |
| 2023
| Noa Mills | 25 | Miss Middletown | | | |
| 2022
| Grace Lange | Newark | 22 | Miss Greenville | | |
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| 2021
| Drew Sanclemente | Odessa | 24 | Miss Odessa | | | |
| 2020
| Katie Guevarra | 26 | | | | |
| 2019
| Jolisa Copeman | 24 | | | | |
| 2018
| Sierra Wright | 20 | | | |
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| 2017
| Mia Jones | Bear | 20 | | | |
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| 2016
| Alexandra Vorontsova | Newark | 20 | | | | |
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| 2015 | 21 | | |
| 2014
| Kelsey Miller | 23 | | | |
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| 2013
| Rachel Baiocco | Bear | 21 | | | | |
| 2012
| Krista Clausen | 18 | | | | |
| 2011
| Katie Hanson | Newark | 20 | | | | Contestant on Survivor: Philippines |
| 2010
|Julie Citro |Wilmington |26 | | | | |
| 2009
| Kate Banaszak | 24 | | | | |
| 2008
| Newark | 23 | | | | |
| 2007
| Nicole Bosso | Newark | 20 | | | | Contestant on Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants |
| 2006
| Ashlee Greenwell | 18 | | | | |
| 2005
| Sheena Benton | 23 | | | | |
| 2004
| Courtney Purdy | Newark | 21 | | | | |
| 2003
| Cheryl Crowe | Felton | 23 | | | |
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| 2002
| Deborah Hoffman | 25 | | | | |
| 2001
| Stacey Smith | Ocean View | 26 | | | | |
| 2000
| Jennifer Behm | Wilmington | 23 | | | | Winner of season two of MasterChef |
| 1999
| Jackie Pilla | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1998
| Sherri Davis | New Castle | | | | | |
| 1997
| Patricia Gauani | Dover | | | | | |
| 1996
| Star Behl | Claymont | | | | | |
| 1995
| Nicole Garis | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1994
| Teresa Kline | Bear | | | | | |
| 1993
| Annmarie Correll | Hockessin | | | | | |
| 1992
| Julie Ann Griffith | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1991
| Laurie Lucidonio | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1990
| Nicci Dent | Bear | | | | | |
| 1989
| Terri Spruill | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1988
| Christina Lee Angel | Millsboro | | | | | |
| 1987
| Shellie Haralson | Newark | | | | | |
| 1986
| Lynn Taylor | Bear | | | | | |
| 1985
| Sheila Saints | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1984
| Denise Lennick | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1983
| Shelley Perkins | Newark | | | | | |
| 1982
| Shawna Saints | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1981
| Natalie Ramsey | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1980
| Karen Giobbe | | | | | |
| 1979
| Lisa Toothman | Newark | | | | | |
| 1978
| Donna Lewis | | | | | |
| 1977
| Debby Faulkner | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1976
| Debbie Kucher | Newark | | | | | |
| 1975
| Sandy McClure | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1974
| Cheryl Fetkenher | Newark | | | | | |
| 1973
| Linda Graves | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1972
| Michele Voyer | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1971
| Nanette Crist | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1970
| Marilyn O'Neill | Newark | | | | | |
| 1969
| Marsha Stoppel | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1968
| Diana Parker | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1967
| Dianne Judefind | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1966
| Jacqueline Kalazinskas | Claymont | | | | | |
| 1965
| Shirl Chappell | Newark | | | | | |
| 1964
| Christina Klose | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1963
| Susan Kowalski | Newport | | | | | |
| colspan=8 {{N/A|Did not compete in 1962}} |
| 1961
| Ninea Lou Ringler | Dagsboro | | | | | |
| 1960
| Rose Ann Reed | Wilmington | | | | | |
| 1959
| Linda E. Humes | Harrington | | | | | |
| 1958
| Virginia Jefferson | Delmar | | | | | |
| 1957
| Patricia Ellingsworth | Millsboro | | | | | |
| 1956
| Sandra McCabe | Selbyville | | | | | |
| 1955
| Helen Denise Blackwell | Wilmington | | | | | |
| colspan=8 {{N/A|Did not compete between 1953 and 1954}} |
| 1952
| Sue J. Langton | Wilmington | | | | | |
Notes
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References
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External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020118185943/http://missdelawareusa.com/ Miss Delaware USA official webpage]}}
{{State pageantry|State=Delaware}}
{{Miss USA state}}
Category:Beauty pageants in Delaware
Category:Recurring events established in 1952
Category:Annual events in Delaware
Category:1950s establishments in Delaware
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