Miss New Mexico Teen USA

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

New Mexico has had little success at Miss Teen USA, with only five placements. Three of these came in the 1980s, and made New Mexico one of the more successful states in that decade. No New Mexico teen placed from 1988 until Brittany Toll made the finals in 2005.

Two New Mexico teens have gone on to win Miss New Mexico USA and compete at Miss USA. More unusually, two have also competed at Miss America. In 2003, former New Mexico teens held both the Miss New Mexico USA and Miss New Mexico (America) titles.

[edit] Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age¹	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2008	Victoria Padilla^[1]	Santa Fe	18
2007	Liz Kranz	Deming	17	Top 15
2006	Raquel Padilla	Santa Fe	18
2005	Brittney Toll	Las Cruces	18	Top 10
2004	Jocelyn Cruz	Las Cruces	17
2003	Courtney Clayshulte	Las Cruces	18
2002	Amber Evaro	Las Cruces
2001	Alaina Castillo
2000	Raelene Aguilar	Sunland Park			Later Miss New Mexico USA 2008
1999	Alina Ogle				Later Miss New Mexico USA 2003, top 10 at Miss USA 2003
1998	Rana Jones				Later Miss New Mexico 2003; 1st runner-up to Miss New Mexico USA 2007
1997	Vicki Hughes				3rd runner-up to Miss New Mexico USA 2000
1996	Whitni Zimmerman
1995	Shelby Phillips	Deming
1994	Samantha Sengel
1993	Lynette Ochoa
1992	Hillary Matkin	Deming
1991	Kimberly Apadocka
1990	Beth Baskin
1989	Shana Wilmont
1988	Jill Vasquez			Semi-finalist	Later Miss New Mexico USA 1994; director of the Miss California USA pageant (2007-), Represented New Mexico in Miss Oktoberfest 1994, did not place
1987	Samantha Owen
1986	Carolee Hanson			Semi-finalist
1985	Teresa Rodriguiz				Later Miss New Mexico 1988
1984	Cheryl Douds		17	Top 10
1983	Eloisa Serna