Pageant Crossovers
Nine former Miss Teen USA state titleholders competed at Miss USA 2009, the highest since 2007 and the second highest since 2003. For the first time five of the former teens competed at the same pageant, Miss Teen USA 2004. Aureana Tseu will become the first former Teen to represent her state at Miss USA ten years after competing at Miss Teen USA. This is also the first year that a Miss Teen USA 2006 contestant competed at Miss USA.
Nebraska crowned one of their former Teen USA state titleholders for the first time, and Florida crowned only their second. In Rhode Island, consecutive Teen titleholders (Amy Diaz and Alysha Castonguay) won consecutive Miss titles, the first time this has occurred in the history of the two pageants.
Unusually, there were no former Miss America competitors, but Lacey Minchew (Louisiana) won the title of Miss Teen America 2002. Minchew later crowned Alysha Castonguay (Rhode Island) Miss Teen America 2003. The Miss America and Miss Teen America pageants are not affiliated with each other.
The former teens competing at this Miss USA pageant are:
- Aureana Tseu (Hawaii) - Miss Hawaii Teen USA 1999
- Alysha Castonguay (Rhode Island) - Miss Rhode Island Teen USA 2002 (top 10 at Miss Teen USA 2002)
- Nicole White (District of Columbia) - Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2004
- Anastagia Pierre (Florida) - Miss Florida Teen USA 2004
- Jessica McRaney (Mississippi) - Miss Mississippi Teen USA 2004
- Meagan Winings (Nebraska) - Miss Nebraska Teen USA 2004 (top 10 at Miss Teen USA 2004)
- Alison Cronin (Massachusetts) - Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2005
- Courtni Hall (Indiana) - Miss Indiana Teen USA 2006
- Georgina Vaughan (Nevada) - Miss Nevada Teen USA 2006
Despite the high number of former Miss Teen USA competitors, this became the first time since 1994 that not a single former Miss Teen USA competitor managed to place.
In addition to the winner, Kristen Dalton of North Carolina competing at Miss Universe 2009, two other contestants went on to compete in Miss Universe, after winning national titles from other countries. They are:
- Anasgagia Pierre (Florida) - Later Miss Bahamas Universe 2011, competed in Miss Universe 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Erica Nego (Minnesota) - Later Miss Ghana Universe 2011, competed against Pierre at Miss Universe 2011.
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