Miss Arkansas Teen USA
| Formation | 1983 |
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| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Shawnee |
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| Members | Miss Teen USA |
Official language | English |
Key people | John M. Vannatta Jason Vannatta Jennifer Vannatta-Fisher, State Pageant Director |
| Website | Official Website |
The Miss Arkansas Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
The state pageant was directed by Premier Pageants from 2002 to 2007 before becoming part of the Vanbros organization, headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas. In 2007, Vanbros group took over the management of the pageant with the Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma pageants.
From 1986 until 2004, when Sarah French won Miss Photogenic, no Miss Arkansas Teen USA had placed or won an award at the national competition. From 2008 until 2010, Arkansas had placed at Miss Teen USA three consecutive years, including Stevi Perry winning their first Miss Teen USA title in 2008.
Eight Miss Arkansas Teen USA titleholders have gone on to win the Miss Arkansas USA title and three have won Miss America state titles, more than any other state.
The current Miss Arkansas Teen USA is Raquel Olea of Maysville who was crowned on May 3, 2026, at The Center for the Arts in Russellville. She will represent Arkansas at Miss Teen USA 2026.
Results summary
Placements
- Miss Teen USA: Stevi Perry (2008)
- 1st runners-up: Raquel Olea (2026)
- Top 10: Angela Boyd (1983), Rhonda Heird (1985), Siyona Karkera (2024)
- Top 15/16: Allison Kusenberger (2009), Megan Burgess (2010), Abby Floyd (2013), Arynn Johnson (2015), Maggie Williams (2019), Anna Claire Hay (2020)
- Top 20: Jewelia Reece (2025)
Arkansas holds a record of 12 placements at Miss Teen USA.
Awards
- Miss Congeniality: Angela Boyd (1983), Dana Mooney (1986)
- Miss Photogenic: Sarah French (2004)
Winners
- Declared as Winner
- Ended as runner-up
- Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Local title | Placement at Miss Teen USA | Special awards at Miss Teen USA | Notes |
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| 2026 | Raquel Olea | Maysville | 18 | Miss Washington County Teen | 1st runner-up | ||
| 2025 | Jewelia Reece | Lowell | 17 | Miss White River Teen | Top 20 | ||
| 2024 | Siyona Karkera | Little Rock | 19 | Miss Pulaski County Teen | Top 10 | ||
| 2023 | Mackenzie Scott | Fayetteville | 19 | Miss Fayetteville Teen | |||
| 2022 | Allie Shanks | White River | 16 | Miss White River Teen | |||
| 2021 | Madeline Bohlman | Fayetteville | 19 | Miss Northwest Arkansas Teen |
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| 2020 | Anna Claire Hay | Little Rock | 15 | Miss White River Teen | Top 16 |
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| 2019 | Maggie Williams | Piggott | 17 | Miss White River Teen | Top 15 | ||
| 2018 | Mackenzie Elizabeth Hinderberger | Fayetteville | 18 | Miss Windsor Lake Teen |
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| 2017 | Allison Tucker | Clarksville | 16 | Miss Johnson County Teen | |||
| 2016 | Makenzie Sexton | Cabot | 16 | Miss Cabot Teen | Daughter of Tonya Snodgrass, Miss Missouri USA 1992 | ||
| 2015 | Arynn Nicole Johnson | Hot Springs | 18 | Miss Diamond State Teen | Top 15 |
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| 2014 | Lauren Ashton Weaver | Greenwood | 17 | Miss Greenwood Teen |
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| 2013 | Abby Elizabeth Floyd | Searcy | 17 | Miss Searcy Teen | Top 16 |
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| 2012 | Amber Mitchell | Sheridan | 18 | Miss Timberfest Teen | |||
| 2011 | Mary-Kate Hartley | Hamburg | 17 | Miss Diamond State Teen | |||
| 2010 | Megan Michelle Burgess | Hot Springs | 18 | Miss Hot Springs Teen | Top 15 | ||
| 2009 | Allison Kusenberger | Little Rock | 18 | Miss Little Rock Teen | Top 15 | ||
| 2008 | Stevi Lauren Perry | Hamburg | 17 | Miss Hamburg Teen | Miss Teen USA 2008 | ||
| 2007 | Tiffany Greenstreet | Melbourne | 18 | ||||
| 2006 | Taylor Wright | White Hall | 18 | ||||
| 2005 | Ashton Schmidt | Batesville | 17 | ||||
| 2004 | Sarah Sutton French | Hot Springs | 18 | Miss Photogenic |
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| 2003 | Brittany Celene Carpenter | Conway | 18 | ||||
| 2002 | Rachel Danielle Eggers | North Little Rock | 16 | ||||
| 2001 | Lauren Elizabeth Arnold | Arkadelphia | 18 | ||||
| 2000 | Paula Suzanne Taylor | Carlisle | 18 | ||||
| 1999 | Sarah Moody | Pollard | 17 | Later competed three times at Miss Arkansas | |||
| 1998 | Joan Leigh Lucas | Fayetteville | 17 | ||||
| 1997 | Brandi Watkins | Brinkley | Later competed four times at Miss Arkansas[1] | ||||
| 1996 | Aimee Delatte | Stuttgart | Later 1st runner-up to Miss Arkansas USA 2001 & 2002 | ||||
| 1995 | Natalie Fisher | Stuttgart | |||||
| 1994 | Rebekah Hall | Conway | 17 | ||||
| 1993 | Tiffany Brooke Parks | Cabot | 17 |
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| 1992 | Stacy Freeman | Sheridan |
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| 1991 | Paula Gaye Montgomery[2] | Cabot |
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| 1990 | Karen Pugh | Sherwood | 18 |
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| 1989 | Susan Marshall | Cabot | 18 | ||||
| 1988 | Jessica Welch | Pine Bluff | 17 | ||||
| 1987 | Paige Ann Yandell | Greenwood |
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| 1986 | Dana Moody | Batesville | Miss Congeniality | ||||
| 1985 | Rhonda Ann Heird | Pine Bluff | 17 | Top 10 | |||
| 1984 | Melissa Anne Staples | Calion |
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| 1983 | Angela "Angie" Boyd | Manila | 18 | Top 10 | Miss Congeniality |
1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant