Indian American Pre-med Student Shreya Gundelly Crowned Miss Wisconsin Teen USA

Shreya Gundelly was crowned Miss Wisconsin Teen USA for 2021. (Miss Wisconsin Teen USA photo)

India-West Staff Reporter

Indian American teen Shreya Gundelly was crowned the new Miss Wisconsin Teen USA last month, according to a report by WMTV.

The 19-year-old from Mequon who is a pre-med student at New York University was quoted in the report as saying: “It brings tears to my eyes still, it was the best moment.”

A classic Indian dancer, Gundelly, the first Indian American to be crowned Miss Wisconsin Teen USA, began performing in pageants six years ago.

“Looking at pageants, I never had a role model to really look up to that looked like myself,” Gundelly said in the report, adding, “A lot of people told me I couldn’t do pageants because I was Indian.”

The Miss Teen USA pageant will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this November.