Miss New Hampshire USA

Miss New Hampshire USA

Formation	1952
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Manchester
Location	New Hampshire
Membership	Miss USA
Official language	English
Website	Official Website

For the state pageant affiliated with Miss America, see Miss New Hampshire.

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

New Hampshire has had little success at Miss USA, and has only placed four times. Two of those placings have been in the past ten years, with Bridget Vezina placing 1st runner-up to Lynnette Cole at Miss USA 2000, and the semi-finals placement of Vanessa Bissanti at Miss USA 2004.

Only two Miss New Hampshire USA titleholders have previously competed at Miss Teen USA, but three have competed at Miss America.

Results summary

Placements

• 1st runners-up: Bridget Vezina (2000)
• Top 12: Eva Dyer (1980)
• Top 15: Sandralee Kay (1962), Vanessa Bissanti (2004)

Awards

• Miss Congeniality: Diane Gadoury (1984)

Winners

Color key

•      Declared as Winner
•      Ended as runner-up
•      Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2016	Jessica Strohm	Manchester	24	TBA
2015	Samantha Sue Poirier	Dover	23
2014	Bridget Brunet	South Hampton	26
2013	Amber Faucher	Manchester	22			Previously Miss New Hampshire Teen USA 2009
2012	Ryanne Harms	Rochester	23
2011	LacyJane Folger	Farmington	22
2010	Nicole Houde	Manchester	23
2009	Christy Dunn	Laconia	25
2008	Breanne Silvi	Nashua	23
2007	Laura Silva	Londonderry	19
2006	Krystal Barry	Belmont	20
2005	Candace Glickman	Manchester	23			Previously Miss New Hampshire 2003, top 10 at Miss America 2004
2004	Vanessa Bissanti	Manchester	21	Semi-finalist
2003	Rachael Kay Rubeck	Manchester	24
2002	Audra Paquette	Merrimack	21			Later Miss New Hampshire 2005
2001	Melissa Anne Robbins	Manchester	24
2000	Bridget Jane Vezina	Manchester	19	1st runner-up
1999	Melissa MacLaughlin	Manchester	18
1998	Nadia Semerdjiev	Manchester	23
1997	Gretchen Durgin	Lancaster	21			Previously Miss New Hampshire Teen USA 1993
1996	Julie Minta Gleneck	Manchester	21
1995	Valerie Gosselin	Manchester	22
1994	Kelly Zarse	Manchester	19
1993	Heidi Cambra	Hampstead	25
1992	Rebecca Lee Lake	Manchester	26
1991	Adriana Molinari	Manchester	20			Stripped her crown when a tabloid revealed that she had been a stripper.
1990	Lisa Parnpichate	Manchester	23
1989	Fayleen Anne Chwalek	Manchester	24
1988	Diane Lynn Wright	Manchester	22
1987	Laurie Durkee	Hampton Beach	21
1986	Lynda Mary Poulin	Durham	24
1985	Janice LaCroix	Manchester	25
	Rhonda Niles	Manchester	20			Resigned four days after she was arrested for receiving stolen clothes.
1984	Diane Gadoury	Hampstead	26		Miss Congeniality
1983	Lynn Stockwell	Hampton	23
1982	Kathy Rogers	Seabrook
1981	Cynthia Leigh Graves	North Conway
1980	Eva Dyer	Amherst		Semi-finalist, finishing in 9th Place
1979	Patricia Brous	Peterborough
1978	Barbara Miller
1977	Belinda Bridgeman	Merrimack				Later Miss New Hampshire 1978; Mother of Miss New Hampshire Teen USA 2004- Brittany Freeman
1976	Sinceree Rowlette
1975	Bonnie Gates	Salem
1974	June Tedeschi
1973	Grace Knox
1972	Cathy Davis
1971	Jane Laroche
1970	Gale Eriksson	Concord
1969	Dorothy Conners
1968	Deborah Steers
1967	Jennifer Brown
1966	Elaine Brandt
1965	Kathryn Pines	Hollis	22
1964	Beverly Ann Hebert
1963	Janny McCloud
1962	Sandralee Kay			Semi-finalist
1961	Ellen Lipson
1960	Joan Joyce Chesleing
1959	Nancy Jeanne Gray
1958	Patricia Gail Larrabee
1957	Lyla Moran
1956	Rita Leclerc	Berlin	21
1955	Patricia Ann Mowry
1954	Myrna Louise Smith
1953	Muriel Roy
1952	Did Not Compete

¹ Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

External links

• Official Website