Miss Massachusetts USA

The Miss Massachusetts USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Massachusetts in the Miss USA pageant.

Whilst Massachusetts is not one of the more successful states in terms of number of placements or semi-finalists, their fortunes were improved in recent years when Shawnae Jebbia was crowned Miss USA in 1998 and Susie Castillo won the crown in 2003.

Results summary

Miss USA winners: Shawnae Jebbia (1998), Susie Castillo (2003)
1st runners-up: Diane Pollard (1978) *2nd runner up: Jacqueline Bruno (2008)
Top 10 placements: Mercedes Waggoner (1985
Top 12 placements: Monica Magnus (1979), Janet Marie Flaherty (1982), Kristen Mastroianni (1995)
Top 15 placements: Sandra Ramsey (1957), Barbara Feldman (1960), Elaine Cusick (1961), Sandra Smith (1963), Nancy Brackett (1966)

Awards

Miss Congeniality: Stacey Blaine (1993)
Best State Costume: JoAnne Savery (1981)

Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age¹	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2008	Jacqueline Bruno	Assonet	22	Top 10 finalist		Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2003, 3rd runner up at Miss Teen USA 2003
2007	Despina Delios	Lynn	23
2006	Tiffany Kelly	Braintree	18
2005	Cristina Nardozzi	Seekonk	21
2004	Maria Lekkakos	Rockport	25
2003	Susie Castillo	Lawrence	23	Winner		Top 15 semifinalist at Miss Universe 2003, previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1998
2002	Latoyia Foster	Lowell
2001	Dana Powell	Brookline
2000	Rosalie Allain	Leominster				2000 runner-up: Maria Menounos
1999	Jennifer Krafue
1998	Shawnae Jebbia	Mansfield	26	Winner		Top 5 Finalist at Miss Universe 1998
1997	Jennifer Chapman	Maynard
1996	Jacqueline Doucette
1995	Kristen Mastroianni	Wilbraham		Semi-finalist		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	South Egremont				Represented Massachusetts in Miss Oktoberfest 1987, did not place
1986	Sheila Benson	Quincy
1985	Mercedes Waggoner	Boston		Semi-finalist
1984	Deborah Neary	Oxford
1983	Robin Jeanne Silva	Swansea
1982	Janet Marie Flaherty	Wilmington		Semi-finalist
1981	Joann Savery	East Bridgewater			Best State Costume
1980	Diane Campbell
1979	Monica Magnus			Semi-finalist
1978	Diane Pollard			1st runner-up
1977	Carol Marcil
1976	Holly Ann Hoyle
1975	Rilla Posson
1974	Ethellean Hicks
1973	Judy Gregory
1972	Dale Carder
1971	April Dow
1970	Cheryl Stankiewicz
1969	Martha Cawley
1968	Sonja Fritz
1967	Pamela Procter
1966	Nancy Brackett			Semi-finalist		semifinalist in Miss World USA 1963 as Miss Boston, MA
1965	Mary Lou Volpe
1964	Barbara Helen Robery
1963	Sandra Smith			Semi-finalist		in Miss World USA 1961, did not place
1962	Gale Pope
1961	Elaine Cusick			Semi-finalist
1960	Barbara Feldman			Semi-finalist
1959	Beatrice Duprey
1958	Sally Ann Freedman
1957	Sandra Ramsey			Semi-finalist
1956	Elaine Murphy
1955	Jean Dernago
1954	Nan Cowan
1953	Joan Daly
1952	Vel Dorne

¹ Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

External links

Official Website