LOS ANGELES – Okemos High School graduate Alma Cooper was named Miss USA on Sunday evening.
Cooper is a 22-year-old U.S. Army officer who has a Master’s in data science from Stanford University. She beat 50 other contestants in a pageant that included swimwear and evening gown competitions.
“As the daughter of a migrant worker, a proud Afro Latina woman and an officer of the United States Army, I am living the American dream,” she told the pageant’s judges during a Q&A session on Sunday’s finale telecast. “If there’s anything that my life and my mother have taught me, it’s that your circumstances never define your destiny: You can make success accessible through demanding excellence.”
Kentucky’s Connor Perry and Oklahoma’s Danika Christopherson were named first and second runners up, respectively.
Miss USA is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1952 to select the entrant from United States in the Miss Universe pageant.
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