Miss Connecticut USA
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The Miss Connecticut USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Connecticut in the Miss USA pageant. This pageant is directed by Crown Productions, who took over the pageant in 2003.
Despite a number of semi-finals placements in the 1960s, Connecticut is overall one of the least successful states at Miss USA. From 1969 until 2002, not one Miss Connecticut USA had placed at the national competition. This spell was broken by Alita Dawson, who placed 4th runner-up. Dawson was one of three former Miss Connecticut Teen USAs to win the Miss crown (although a former Miss Wisconsin Teen USA also won this competition).
[edit] Results summary
- First runners-up: Diana Zabicki (1962), Pat Denne (1966)
- Fourth runner-up: Alita Dawson (2002)
- Top 15: Andrea Todd (1954), Joyce Trautwig (1960), Florence Mayette (1961), Janice Shilinsky (1968), Elizabeth Wanderman (1969)
[edit] List of winners
- 2007 Melanie Mudry
- 2006 Jeannine Phillips
- 2005 Melissa Mandak
- 2004 Sheila Wiatr
- 2003 Michelle LaFrance
- 2002 Alita Dawson (4th Runner-Up at Miss USA) -- former Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1997
- 2001 Amy Vanderoef
- 2000 Sallie Toussaint
- 1999 Christina D'Amico
- 1998 Kristina Hughes
- 1997 Christine Pavone
- 1996 Wanda Gonzalez
- 1995 Traci Bryant
- 1994 Mistrella Egan
- 1993 Alison Benusis -- former Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1991
- 1992 Catherine Sanchez
- 1991 Valorie Abate
- 1990 Allison Barbeau-Diorio -- former Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1987
- 1989 Lisa Vendetti
- 1988 Cathy Galasso
- 1987 Jolene Foy
- 1986 Jennifer Benusis
- 1985 Adrianne Hazelwood -- former Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 1984
- 1984 Lynne Scalo
- 1983 Mary Seleman
- 1982 Maureen Szekeres
- 1981 Kelly Thompson
- 1980 Kristine Wilson
- 1979 Mary Beth Lombardi
- 1978 Martha Szabo
- 1977 Sue Crone
- 1976 Rozalyn Ralph
- 1975 Michele Menegay
- 1974 Valerie Cappello
- 1973 Wendy Vecchiarino
- 1972 Diane Stevens
- 1971 Diane Turetsky
- 1970 Patricia Matthews
- 1969 Elizabeth Wanderman (Semifinalist at Miss USA)
- 1968 Janice Shilinsky (Semifinalist at Miss USA)
- 1967 No Pageant Held
- 1966 Pat Denne (1st Runner-Up at Miss USA)
- 1965 Elizabeth Matusko
- 1964 Patricia Powell
- 1963 Gail Dinan
- 1962 Diana Zabicki (1st Runner-Up at Miss USA)
- 1961 Florence Mayette (Semifinalist at Miss USA)
- 1960 Joyce Trautwig (Semifinalist at Miss USA)
- 1959 Jayne Burghardt
- 1958 Dorothy Dillen
- 1957 Rosemary Galliotti
- 1956 Dorothy Bailey
- 1955 Jane Bartolotta
- 1954 Andrea Todd (Semifinalist at Miss USA)
- 1953 Beverlee Burlant
- 1952 Jo Kuhlmann
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