Miss Texas Teen USA

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The Miss Texas Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Texas in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Texas is the most successful state across all twenty-three years of competition at Miss Teen USA. They have had fifteen semi-finalists, three more than any other state. Despite this, they have only won the crown on one occasion, in 1996 when Christie Lee Woods took the title (Woods later went on to star in The Amazing Race 5). Despite the vast number of semi-finalists, they have not won any major awards, although Andria Mullins did win a Style award in 1997.

Texas's best performance came in the 1980s, where they placed in all but one year and were runners-up on five occasions. Despite this, they still placed second to New York in that decade in terms of number and value of placements [1]. Despite being on top overall, Texas has never been the best state in any particular decade.

While a number of Texas teens have competed for the Miss Texas USA title, only four have won both pageants. The most successful of these was Nicole O'Brien, who placed 1st runner-up at Miss Teen USA and 2nd runner-up at Miss USA. O'Brien also competed alongside Woods on The Amazing Race 5. Woods was the first Miss Teen USA to not win a Miss title on her first attempt, and despite competing in a number of years never won the Miss Texas USA crown. Andria Mullens was another who tried unsuccessfully to win the Miss Texas USA title on a number of occasions (she has also competed unsuccessfully at Miss New York USA and Miss California USA).

[edit] List of Winners

2006 - Raevan Valadez
2005 - April Ford
2004 - Magen Ellis (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA) -- future Miss Texas USA 2007
2003 - Tye Felan (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA)
2002 - Brittany Tiner
2001 - Katherine Perello (3rd runner-up at Miss Teen USA)
2000 - Nicole O'Brian (1st runner-up at Miss Teen USA) -- future Miss Texas USA 2003
1999 - Misty Giles (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA) -- contestant on reality tv show Survivor: Panama
1998 - Christie Cole (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA)
1997 - Andria Mullins (Style award)
1996 - Christie Lee Woods (Miss Teen USA) -- contestant on reality tv show The Amazing Race 5
1995 - Mandy Jeffreys
1994 - Jaqueline Pena
1993 - Erin Burnett
1992 - Carissa Blair -- future Miss Texas USA 1999
1991 - Kara Williams (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA) -- future Miss Texas USA 1996
1990 - Becky Fisher (Finalist at Miss Teen USA)
1989 - Kristi Wright (3rd runner-up at Miss Teen USA)
1988 - Libby Pelton (Semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA)
1987 - Richelle Kesling
1986 - Becky Pestana (1st runner-up at Miss Teen USA)
1985 - Koney Wheeling (3rd runner-up at Miss Teen USA)
1984 - Charlene Molinar (4th runner-up at Miss Teen USA)
1983 - Sheri Scholz (4th runner-up at Miss Teen USA)