Miss New Jersey Teen USA

Chenoa Greene, Miss New Jersey USA 2010 and Erica Scymanski, Miss New Jersey Teen USA 2010 appearing in a St. Patrick's Day parade

Alyssa Campanella, Miss New Jersey Teen USA 2007, first runner-up at Miss Teen USA 2007, Miss California USA 2011, and Miss USA 2011.

The Miss New Jersey Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New Jersey in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

New Jersey has had only marginal success at Miss Teen USA, with ten placements. In the first twenty years of the competition, New Jersey only recorded three placements; from 2003 they placed in four of five years. New Jersey's first top five placement came in 2003 when Jacklyn Pezzotta placed fourth runner-up, and this was bettered in 2007 when Alyssa Campanella placed 1st runner up.

Three New Jersey teens (2001, 2006, and 2008) have held the Miss New Jersey USA title and competed at Miss USA. Alyssa Campanella, Miss New Jersey Teen USA 2007, competed twice for Miss New Jersey USA, but relocated to California and won Miss California USA and won the title of Miss USA 2011, the first former Miss New Jersey Teen USA titleholder to win Miss USA, regardless of the representing state.

Results summary

Placements

• First runners-up: Alyssa Campanella (2007)
• Fourth runners-up: Jacklyn Pezzotta (2003), Valentina Sanchez (2014)
• Top 10: Rosalie Cuzo (1986), Michelle Knipfelberg (1988), Rachael Carrollo (2004), Regina Villano (2005), Julianna White (2006)
• Top 12: Kelli Paarz (1994)
• Top 15: Savannah Schechter (2011)
• Top 16: Christina Thompson (2013)

Awards

• Miss Photogenic: Jacklyn Pezzotta (2003)
• Miss Congeniality: Savannah Schechter (2011)

Winners

Color key

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

External links

• Official website