STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University senior Madeleine Thompson, center, a communication/public relations major from Mobile, Alabama, is Miss Maroon and White for 2023. Other students honored during the Wednesday [March 22] program include, left to right, fourth runner-up Adyson Poole, a senior landscape architecture major from Kosciusko; second runner-up Chloe Carter, a sophomore communication/broadcast journalism major from Gluckstadt; first runner-up Claire Farmer, a sophomore special education major from Starkville; and third runner-up Meredith Adams, a freshman marketing/integrated digital marketing major from Philadelphia.