Miss Missouri USA
The Miss Missouri USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Missouri in the Miss USA pageant. It is directed by Vanbros and Associates, based in Lenexa, Kansas. In 1993, Missouri joined the Vanbros group of state pageants for the Miss USA and Teen USA system.
Missouri has had only one Miss USA, Shandi Finnessey, who placed as 1st runner-up to Jennifer Hawkins of Australia in the Miss Universe 2004 pageant. Three Miss Missouri USAs have competed at Miss America, including Finnessey. Six former Miss Teen USA delegates have also won the title, equalling Indiana and Virginia for the most crossovers, although both Indiana and Missouri have had titleholders who competed in a different state at Miss Teen USA.
Megan Kelly of Seymour was crowned Miss Missouri USA 2020 on December 1, 2019 at Muriel W. Battle High School Performing Arts Center in Columbia. She will represent Missouri for the title of Miss USA 2020.Gallery of titleholders
Results summary
Placements
- Miss USA's: Shandi Finnessey
- 2nd runners-up: Carolyn Carlew, Sandra Lee Marlin, Melanie Breedlove
- 3rd runners-up: Nancy Rebecca Rich, Sandra Percival, Dawn Fonseca
- 4th runners-up: Karen Hendrix
- Top 5: Larissa Meek,
- Top 10/12: Dorothy Ann McElven, Nancy LaRose, Donna Hibbitts, Amy Ruth Coverdale, Shelly Lehman, Britt Powell, Amber Seyer, Candice Crawford, Ashley Strohmier, Sydnee Stottlemyre, Bayleigh Dayton
- Top 15/16/19: Alice Jean Porritt, Barbara Jayne Stell, Marilyn Jean Stalcup, Hope Driskill
Missouri holds a record of 24 placements at Miss USA.Awards
- Miss Congeniality: Bayleigh Dayton
Winners
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1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
