Miss Virginia Teen USA



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

Virginia is one of the more successful states at Miss Teen USA, and is placed in the top twenty in terms of number and value of placements. Their most successful decade was the 1980s.

No Miss Virginia Teen USA has won the Miss Teen USA crown, but their highest placement came in the first year of competition, when Tina Marrocco placed 1st runner-up to Ruth Zakarian of New York.

Virginia ties the record for the most Teens to cross over to win the Miss Virginia USA title and compete at Miss USA with ten in all, two others have later been crowned in other states, Indiana and North Carolina. One of these is Kristi Lauren Glakas, a Triple Crown winner who competed at Miss USA 2004 and placed 3rd runner-up at Miss America 2006.

The current titleholder is Ashley Wang, who was crowned on April 30 2023 at Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas and placed top 20 at Miss Teen USA 2023. Wang is the state's first Chinese American titleholder.

Placements
Virginia holds a record of 12 placements at Miss Teen USA.
 * 1st runners-up: Tina Marrocco (1983)
 * 3rd runners-up: Angela Thigpin (1986), Samantha Casey (2006)
 * Top 5: Misty Horn (1998)
 * Top 10: Kimberly Grigsby (1997), Kristi Lauren Glakas (1999), Tori Hall (2005), Emily Bruce (2007)
 * Top 12: Andrea Ballengee (1992)
 * Top 15: Megan Myrehn (2008), Jacqueline Carroll (2010)
 * Top 20: Ashley Wang (2023)

Winners
Declared as Winner

Ended as runner-up

Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant