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Miss Massachusetts USA
Formation1952
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersMalden
Location
Membership
Miss USA
Official language
English
Key people
Laurie Clemente
Anthony Clemente
WebsiteOfficial website

The Miss Massachusetts USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Massachusetts in the Miss USA pageant. It is currently produced by The Clemente Organization based in Malden, Massachusetts, which also produces the Maine pageant.

Shawnae Jebbia was crowned Miss USA in 1998 and Susie Castillo won the crown in 2003. Both Miss USA winners from Massachusetts were asked the same final question during the live telecasts. The most recent placement was Allissa Latham in 2018, placing Top 15.

Melissa Sapini of North Attleborough was crowned Miss Massachusetts USA 2024 on March 10, 2024 at the Burlington Marriott Grand Ballroom in Burlington.

Results summary

  • Miss USAs: Shawnae Jebbia (1998), Susie Castillo (2003)
  • 1st runners-up: Diane Pollard (1978)
  • Top 10/12: Monica Magnus (1979), Janet Marie Flaherty (1982), Mercedes Waggoner (1985), Kristen Mastroianni (1995), Jacqueline Bruno (2008), Melissa Sapini (2024)
  • Top 15: Sandra Ramsey (1957), Barbara Feldman (1960), Elaine Cusick (1961), Sandra Smith (1963), Nancy Brackett (1966), Sarah Kidd (2013), Allissa Latham (2018)
  • Massachusetts holds a record of 16 placements at Miss USA.

Awards

  • Miss Photogenic: Annika Sharma (2023), Melissa Sapini (2024)
  • Miss Congeniality: Stacey Blaine (1993)
  • Best State Costume: JoAnne Savery (1981)

Winners

Color key
  •   Declared as Winner
  •   Ended as runner-up
  •   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
Year Name Hometown Age1 Local title Placement at Miss USA Special awards at Miss USA Notes
2024 Melissa Sapini North Attleborough 21 Miss North Attleborough Top 10 Miss Photogenic
2023 Annika Sharma Newton 22 Miss Commonwealth Miss Photogenic Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2020
2022 Skarlet Ramirez[1] Lawrence 27 Miss Lawrence Born in the Dominican Republic[1]
2021 Sarah DeSouza Dracut 25
2020 Sabrina Victor Brockton 23
2019 Kelly O'Grady Cambridge 27 Later became correspondent for Fox Business
2018 Allissa Latham Lowell 26 Top 15
2017 Julia Scaparotti[2][3] Peabody[3] 24 New England Patriots Cheerleader[2]
2016 Whitney Sharpe[4] Burlington 21
2015 Polikseni Manxhari Boston 24 Born in Albania
2014 Caroline Lunny Holliston 22 Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2008 and top 15 at Miss Teen USA 2008. Contestant on The Bachelor (season 22), Bachelor in Paradise (season 5) and Bachelor in Paradise Australia (season 2)
2013 Sarah Kidd[citation needed] Leominster 20 Top 15
2012 Natalie Pietrzak Somerville 25 Sister of Monica Pietrzak, Miss Connecticut USA 2009 and Miss USA 2009 semifinalist
2011 Alida D'Angona Bolton 23
2010 Lacey Wilson Boston 26 Previously Miss Illinois Teen USA 2002
2009 Alison Michele Cronin East Weymouth 21 Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2005
2008 Jackie Bruno Assonet 23 Top 10, finishing in 10th place Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2003, Top 5 Finalist at Miss Teen USA 2003
2007 Despina Delios Lynn 23
2006 Tiffany Kelly Braintree 18
2005 Cristina Nardozzi Seekonk 21 Was contestant on Fear Factor in 2005 on the Miss USA episode #5.29
2004 Maria Lekkakos Rockport 25
2003 Susie Castillo Lawrence 23 Miss USA 2003 Top 15 semifinalist at Miss Universe 2003, previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1998
2002 Latoyia Cimone Foster Lowell
2001 Dana Tenille Powell Brookline
2000 Rosalie M. Allain Leominster Later Mrs. Massachusetts America 2009 under her married name, Rosalie Allain-Morris.[5]
1999 Jennifer Krafve Saugus Mother of Avery Turner, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2024
1998 Shawnae Jebbia Mansfield 26 Miss USA 1998 Top 5 Finalist at Miss Universe 1998
1997 Jennifer K. Chapman Maynard
1996 Jacquelyn Doucette Lynnfield 26 Mother of Jillian Driscoll, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2022
1995 Kristen Mastroianni Wilbraham 23 Semi-finalist, finishing in 10th place Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1987, top 10 at Miss Teen USA 1987
1994 Michelle Atamian Belmont
1993 Stacey Blaine Bellingham Miss Congeniality
1992 Christine Netishen Lowell
1991 Laura Wheeler Framingham
1990 Laureen Murphy Boston
1989 Kimberley Wallace Ipswich
1988 Anita Marie Lovely Franklin
1987 Rosanna Iversen Great Barrington Represented Massachusetts in Miss Oktoberfest 1987, did not place
1986 Sheila Benson Quincy
1985 Mercedes Waggoner Boston 21 Semi-finalist, finishing in 8th place
1984 Deborah Neary Onset
1983 Robin Jeanne Silva Swansea
1982 Janet Marie Flaherty Wilmington 24 Semi-finalist
1981 JoAnne Savery East Bridgewater Best State Costume
1980 Diane Campbell Melrose
1979 Monica Patricia Magnus Boston 24 Semi-finalist
1978 Diane Elizabeth Pollard Hamilton 20 1st runner-up
1977 Carol Marcil Chelmsford
1976 Holly Ann Hoyle Attleboro
1975 Rilla Posson Natick
1974 Ethellean Hicks Roxbury
1973 Judith "Judy" Ann Gregory Boston
1972 Dale Carder Wellesley
1971 April Dow Amesbury
1970 Cheryl Stankiewicz Brockton represented Massachusetts in the Miss World USA 1967 pageant
1969 Martha Cawley Needham
1968 Sonja Fritz[6] Boston
1967 Pamela Procter Marblehead Daughter of Miss Massachusetts 1940 Polly Connors, 3rd Runner-Up to Miss America.[7]
1966 Nancy Joan Brackett Brighton 20 Semi-finalist semifinalist in Miss USA World 1963 as Miss Boston, MA
1965 Mary Lou Volpe Braintree
1964 Barbara Helen Robery Boston
1963 Sandra Smith Newton Upper Falls 23 Semi-finalist Non-finalist at Miss World USA 1961
1962 Gale Pope Wellesley
1961 Elaine Cusick Hyde Park 18 Semi-finalist photograph
1960 Barbara Gale Feldman Natick 20 Semi-finalist
1959 Beatrice Duprey Weymouth Also competed in the 1960 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant
1958 Sally Ann Freedman Peabody Finalist in the 1961 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant
1957 Sandra Ramsey Haverhill 19 Semi-finalist
1956 Elaine Murphy Weston
1955 Jean Dernago Springfield
1954 Nan Cowan Sterling
1953 Joan Daly Somerville
1952 Vel Dorne Boston

1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

References

  1. ^ a b Harmacinski, Jill (March 30, 2022). "The new Miss Massachusetts is Lawrence's own Skarlet Ramirez". The Eagle-Tribune. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Dearborn, Leah (10 December 2016). "little Miss Massachusetts 2017: 'We are athletes'". Boston Globe. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  3. ^ a b DePlacido, Jean (13 February 2017). "Miss Massachusetts leans on lessons learned on basketball court at Peabody High". The Salem News. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  4. ^ Warren, Chris (2016-01-28). "Positively Whitney: Meet Miss Massachusetts USA 2016 Whitney Sharpe of Burlington". Wicked Local Burlington. Burlington, Massachusetts: Wicked Local.
  5. ^ "2009 Mrs America". Archived from the original on October 12, 2010. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
  6. ^ "Grounded Wire-Walker". Hartford Courant. 18 May 1968. p. 13. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Sisters, Mom Are Queens". Press and Sun-Bulletin. 15 May 1967. p. 12. Retrieved 5 August 2023.