Miss Teen USA pageant drops swimsuits from competition

– The Miss Teen USA pageant will no longer hold the swimsuit portion of the competition.

Miss Universe president Paula Shugart added in a separate statement about the decision, which was revealed in USA Today, that the shift is meant to celebrate women’s strength, confidence and beauty in different, “more constructive” ways.

Katharine Haik, Miss Teen USA 2015, will crown her successor at the conclusion of the event.

She stated that she had been a softball player her entire life, and therefore she had to spend a lot of time wearing athletic outfits.

Reigning Miss Teen USA Katherine Haik agrees with this new change since she says it is an excellent idea to want to celebrate the active lives of young women nowadays.

“The Venetian in Las Vegas is the ideal location for the Miss Teen USA pageant and we are delighted to bring this event to our resort for the first time”, said George Markantonis, president and chief operating officer of The Venetian, The Palazzo and Sands Expo.

This beauty pageant is getting a makeover.

The Miss Teen USA competition is doing away with its swimsuit portion, and we couldn’t be happier!

The new athletic wear competition creates a much-needed separation between the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants and will be a great new way for the teen competitors to show off their physical fitness.

Contestants setting up for a Miss Teen USA 2006 swimsuit poster shoot in Palm Springs, Calif., on August 4, 2006.

One of America’s top beauty pageants has axed its swimsuit competition – ditching bikinis for sportswear in a bid to fend off years of complaints that parading in a bikini is sexist and demeaning.

The Miss Universe franchise announced the change for the competition Wednesday.

However, I do not feel the same way about the Miss Universe Organization’s decision.

“There’s definitely some work I think still to be done, that’s where we’ve been talking with the producers”, Julianne Hough, Miss USA producer, told USA Today. “If you’re not eating good, if you’re not eating enough of the right things and you’re exercising too much, that balance is going to go off”.