Sophia Julieta Dominguez-Heithoff (born March 13, 2000) is a Mexican-American model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2017.
She is the second entrant from Missouri to win the title after Marissa Whitley won Miss Teen USA 2001.
Dominguez-Heithoff was born in Kansas City, Missouri to a military family, with her mother serving in the United States Air Force.
[2] She 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 (ΦΒΚ) honor society.
[10] She is the third Hispanic person to win the title of Miss Teen USA after Charlotte Lopez in 1993, and Hilary Cruz in 2007.