Folks at the University of Mississippi love to say stupid stuff that isn’t true like, “we are good at football“, “we don’t cheat in recruiting“, “we are the Harvard of the South“, and “we redshirt Miss America”.
No sense in allowing anyone to believe these myths, so we’ll set the record straight. And the records show that Miss Mississippi (2012) did go to Ole Miss – but she’s the first one since 2000 to do so.
2012 – Marie Wicks, Ole Miss
2011 – Mary Margaret Roark, Mississippi State
2010 – Sarah Beth James, Mississippi State
2009 – Anna Tadlock, Mississippi State
What’s that, the hat trick!
2008 – Christine Kozlowski, Southern Mississippi
2007 – Kimberly Morgan, Alcorn State
2006 – Taryn Foshee, Mississippi State (4th place in Miss America)
2005 – Kristian Dambrino, Delta State
2004 – Jalin Wood, Mississippi College
2003 – Allison Kellogg, Alabama
2002 – Jennifer Adcock, Southern Mississippi
2001 – Becky Pruett, Southern Mississippi
2000 – Christy May, Ole Miss
The rundown for this list
1. MSU – 4
2. USM – 3
3. Ole Miss – 2
4. Alcorn St., MC, Delta St. and Bama – 1
So lowly Southern beats out the school that claims to “redshirt Miss America”. Yet, somehow, they can’t manage to get too many to just win Miss Mississippi.
Myth/rumor/false bragging: busted. Oh, and Hail State.