Miss Iowa Teen USA

The Miss Iowa Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Iowa in the Miss Teen USA pageant, which is co-owned by the Miss USA Organization by Crystle Stewart. This pageant is produced by Future Productions, LLC which also produces state pageants for Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

Miss Iowa Teen USA

Formation	1983
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Savage
Location	Minnesota
Membership	Miss Teen USA
Official language	English
Website	Official Website

Miss Iowa Teen USA 1992 Jamie Solinger was crowned Miss Teen USA at the national pageant held in Biloxi, Mississippi that year. Iowa became the 9th state that won the Miss Teen USA title for the first time.

Solinger is one of only four Iowa teens to cross over and win the Miss Iowa USA title.

Charlotte Lange of Cedar Rapids was crowned Miss Iowa Teen USA 2025 on August 10, 2025 at The Franklin Center in Des Moines. She represented Iowa at Miss Teen USA 2025.

Gallery of titleholders

• 
  Dakota Crosswhite, Miss Iowa Teen USA 2007
• 
  Jamie Solinger, Miss Iowa Teen USA 1992, Miss Teen USA 1992, Miss Iowa USA 1998

Results summary

Placements

• Winner: Jamie Solinger (1992)
• Top 12: Chelsey Ridge (1995)
• Top 15/16/20: Alyssa Cook (2003), Carley Arnold (2017), Angel Strong (2021), Marisa Mathson (2022), Maddie Erickson (2023)

Iowa holds a record of 7 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Special Award

• Miss Photogenic: Allyson Hovda (2009)

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
2025	Charlotte Lange	Johnston	18	Miss Johnson Teen
2024	Grace Smithey	Polk City	19	Miss Polk City Teen
2023	Maddie Erickson	Ankeny	19	Miss Ankeny Teen	Top 20
2022	Marisa Mathson	Waukee	17	Miss Dallas County Teen	Top 16
2021	Angel Strong	West Des Moines	19		Top 16		Eligible as a student of Drake University at the time of crowning
2020	Hailey Parton	West Des Moines	17
2019	Kristen Hovda	Cedar Rapids	18				Sister of Allyson Hovda, Miss Iowa Teen USA 2009
2018	Isabella Russell	Marshalltown	17
2017	Carley Arnold	Chariton	17		Top 15
2016	Hannah Bockhaus	Tripoli	17
2015	Aryn Book	Adel	18
2014	Amanda Armstrong	Sioux City	16
2013	Morgan Kofoid	Leon	16				Later Miss Iowa USA 2020
2012	Carissa Becker	Waterloo	17
2011	Richelle Orr [1]	Hampton	19				Later Miss Iowa USA 2013
2010	Erica Lansman	Bettendorf	19
2009	Allyson Hovda	Cedar Rapids	18			Miss Photogenic	Originally first runner-up; assumed the title after Ally Cymboluk resigned Later National All-American Miss 2012–2013
	Ally Cymboluk	Waukon	16		Did not compete		Relinquished the title on January 1, 2009, for personal reasons.
2008	Emily Bey	Cedar Rapids	18
2007	Dakota Crosswhite	Cedar Rapids	18
2006	Danielle Malatek	North Liberty	17
2005	Jocelyn Borkowski	Harlan	17
2004	Shannon Hofmeister	Oelwein	18
2003	Alyssa Cook	Adel	18		Top 15
2002	Haley Johnson	Des Moines	18
2001	Ashley Hanson	Spencer	17
2000	Jennifer Ellison	Bettendorf	17
1999	Teresa Moberg	Des Moines	16
1998	Arianna Kem	Harlan	19
1997	Sarah Sucher	Des Moines	18
1996	Allison Dickey	Des Moines	19
1995	Chelsey Ridge	Muscatine	17		Top 12
1994	Erika Miller	Indianola	17
1993	Melissa Baxter	Marion	18
1992	Jamie Solinger	Altoona	18		Miss Teen USA 1992		Later Miss Iowa USA 1998 Later Mrs. Idaho America 2004 3rd runner-up to Mrs. America 2004 under her married name, Jamie Patterson.[2]
1991	Tina Foehring	Fort Madison	18[3]
1990	Faith Windsor	Des Moines	18
1989	Stacie Beckwith	Boone
1988	Stacy Horst	Vail
1987	Jan Hoyer	Fort Madison					Later Miss Iowa USA 1993 finished 8th at Miss USA 1993
1986	Kristin Hudson	Des Moines
1985	Alisha Black	Ames
1984	Kim Carlson	Des Moines
1983	Kimberly Heck	Des Moines

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

External links

• Official website