Miss Teen Tennessee Stormi Henley, of Crossville, Tenn., won the Miss Teen USA pageant Friday night at the Atlantis resort in Nassau, Bahamas. Miss Henley, 18, is the daughter of professional golf caddie and Chattanooga native Kip Henley and Sissi Henley, of Crossville.
“I am waiting to wake up at any moment now. It’s like it’s a dream,” Miss Henley said Friday night in a phone interview from Nassau. “I’m very excited. I guess God has a plan for me.”
Miss Teen Georgia Brooke Fletcher, of Peachtree City, Ga., who was Miss Henley’s roommate in Nassau, was first runner-up. The Miss Teen Tennessee and Miss Teen Georgia pageants are run by Kim Greenwood, wife of country music star Lee Greenwood.
Miss Henley, who recently graduated from Cumberland County High School, had been planning to study graphic design in Nashville but she will put off school for a year to fulfill her duties as Miss Teen USA.
She will travel to New York today for interviews and orientation about her duties for the next year.
Mr. Henley, who won the Golf Channel’s Big Break II competition in 2004, has been a caddie for several PGA pro golfers, and he was caddie for Brian Gay in June when he won the PGA Tour’s St. Jude Classic in Memphis.
“We knew going into it she was beautiful inside and out,” Mr. Henley said Friday night. “Tonight she turned it up a notch. It’s just unbelievable.”
Jim Tanner has worked as assistant sports editor at the Times Free Press since late 2006. He started at the Times Free Press in 2001 and worked as a news copy/design editor from 2001 through 2006. In addition to working as a night and weekend editor producing local and national sports coverage for print and online readers, Jim occasionally writes local sports and outdoors stories. Jim grew up in Ringgold, Ga., and is a graduate ...
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