Miss Minnesota USA and Miss Minnesota TEEN USA

These pageants are the official state preliminary pageants to the national Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Pageants. The newly crowned Miss Minnesota USA will advance to compete in the nationally televised Miss USA Pageant in Las Vegas, live on NBC Universal television in the Spring. In addition, if she were to be named the new MISS USA in April, she will go on to represent the United States in the MISS UNIVERSE competition, which is televised in over 130 countries worldwide on NBC-Universal television.