Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff is the second entrant from Missouri to win the title after Marissa Whitley won Miss Teen USA 2001.
10 Facts About Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff
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Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff graduated from Park Hill South High School a year early in 2017, and attended the University of Kansas, where she studied political science and international studies and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
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Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff is a law student at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
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Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff is a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.
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Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff has created Community and Scholars Cooperatively, an organization dedicated to inspiring teenagers to take part in community service projects.
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Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff has lobbied with members of the Missouri Senate and Missouri House of Representatives to pass a law to assist adults with developmental disabilities in the state of Missouri.
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Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff was crowned Miss Missouri Teen USA 2017 on September 25,2016, along with Miss Missouri USA 2017 Bayleigh Dayton.
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Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff later competed at Miss Teen USA 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona on July 29,2017.
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Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff went on to win the competition, beating out first runner-up Vanessa Matheson of Oregon.
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Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff is the third Hispanic person to win the title of Miss Teen USA after Charlotte Lopez in 1993, and Hilary Cruz in 2007.