Miss Delaware USA 2024 Alysa Bainbridge is a journalist based in Newark, Delaware, United States. She was born and raised in Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA.
On June 29, 2025, Bainbridge crowned her successor Tetra Shaylice Shockley at the Laird Performing Arts Center at The Tatnall School in Wilmington, Delaware. The latter is a lawyer with two children.
Miss Delaware USA 2025 results
| beauty pageant: Miss Delaware USA national membership: Miss USA executive director: Vincenza Carrieri-Russo |
| edition: 74th date: June 29, 2025 venue: Laird Performing Arts Center, The Tatnall School, Wilmington, Delaware, United States candidates: 7 |
FINALISTS
| PLACEMENT | NAME (HOMETOWN) |
| Top 7 | Anaya Jade Harrison (Claymont) Natalie Brooks (Dover) Danielle Nicole Rodriguez (Greenville) Brandi Dortch (Ocean View) |
| Top 3 | Tetra Shaylice Shockley (Camden) Julia Hatoum (Hockessin) Kelly Smith (Rehoboth Beach) |
WINNERS
| PLACEMENT | 2025 | 2024 |
| 5th runner-up | N/A | Christine Rich Middletown |
| 4th runner-up | N/A | Rebecca Gasperetti Wilmington |
| 3rd runner-up | N/A | Emaje Jabali Elsmere |
| 2nd runner-up | Kelly Smith Rehoboth Beach | Kelly Smith New Castle |
| 1st runner-up | Julia Hatoum Hockessin | EmmaKate Ledyard Yorklyn |
| Miss Delaware USA | Tetra Shockley Camden | Alysa Bainbridge Newark |
On April 28, 2024, Bainbridge represented Newark at Miss Delaware USA 2024 and competed against 11 other candidates at the Laird Performing Arts Center at The Tatnall School in Wilmington, Delaware. She won the title.
On August 4, 2024, Bainbridge represented Delaware at Miss USA 2024 and competed against 50 other candidates at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was unplaced.
On October 12, 2025, Shockley will represent Delaware at Miss USA 2025 and compete against 50 other candidates. She will make history as the second woman older than 40 to compete in Miss USA following Arizona’s Kristina Johnson who competed at Miss USA 2024 at age 41.
Shockley is the first mother, the first married woman and the first woman older than 30 to win Miss Delaware USA. On October 27, 2024, she turned 44.
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