Contact: Landon Gibson
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Twenty-four students will compete for the title of Miss Maroon and White 2021 at Mississippi State University on Saturday [March 13].
The winner will be selected alongside four Maroon and White beauties at a public program in historic Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium. The event begins at 7:30 p.m., with doors opening at 7 p.m.
Admission is $15 for the general public and $10 for MSU students with current I.D. Tickets are available through the Center for Student Activities in Colvard Student Union, Suite 314 or online at https://msstate.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1461.
In addition to Mississippi, this year’s contestants represent Alabama and Tennessee. They include (by hometown):
BRANDON—Shelby G. Freeman, a senior marketing major; and Holley K. Yates, a junior accounting major.
CARRIERE—Jessie V. Besanson, a senior biochemistry major.
COLLIERVILLE, Tennessee—Channing E. Perrett, a sophomore biological science major.
COMO—Sarrah C. Stephenson, a junior animal and dairy sciences major.
CORINTH—Rachel G. Carpenter, a junior accounting major.
EUPORA—Chloe S. Vaughn, a senior communication major.
HATTIESBURG—Blakeley E. Baudoin, a sophomore biochemistry major.
HOUSTON—Addyson C. Crump, a freshman elementary education major.
KOSCIUSKO—Adyson D. Poole, a junior landscape architecture major.
MACON—Stephanie D. Kauffman, a senior educational psychology major.
MADISON—Savannah M. Richardson, a junior elementary education major; Abby E. Vance, a freshman food science, nutrition and health promotion major; and Camille Waller, a freshman communication major.
MADISON, Alabama—Dacey T. Burgess, a freshman elementary education major; and Elisa S. Castañeda, a junior architecture major.
MERIDIAN—Taylor C. Cook, a junior communication major.
MOBILE, Alabama—Madeleine I. Thompson, a sophomore communication major.
MURFREESBORO, Tennessee—Ainsley E. Gordon, a senior biological sciences major.
NESBIT—Kennedi L. Pigues, a senior accounting major.
OXFORD—Mary Paxton Heiskell, a freshman food science, nutrition and health promotion major.
RICHTON—Camille E. Green, a senior wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture major.
RIDGELAND—Candice R. Bruce, a sophomore communication major.
SEBASTOPOL—Lydia B. Bishop, a junior communication major.
MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.