Miss ASU Coronation Set for Saturday

By Hazel Scott/ASU

Alabama State University will host the 81st Coronation of Miss ASU (2020-2021) on Saturday. Oct. 24, at 6 p.m. at the John Garrick Hardy Student Center Ballroom.

Due to COVID-19, the event is not open to the public but will be live streamed at www.facebook.com/ASU.  For family members and friends in attendance, the event is mask mandatory and temperatures will be checked at the door.

Yasmine Whitehurst will be crowned the 81st Miss ASU during the ceremony, which will feature a variety of musical and dramatic performances that will surround and compliment her coronation theme, “The Forgotten Queendom: Retracing Our Culture.”

Whitehurst, a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with three minors -- business, general education and physical education.

For more information, contact ASU’s Student Activities at 334-229-4241.

Miss ASU’s Court: 

Tiffany Bailey -- Miss Senior 

Major: Rehabilitation Studies with a concentration in Addiction  

Hometown: Tuskegee, Alabama 

Dy'Oni Charlton – Miss Junior

Major: Marketing 

Hometown: Dayton, Ohio

Daniya Mitchell – Miss Sophomore

Major: Biology Pre-Health

Hometown: Millry, Alabama 

Justice Murphy – Miss Freshman

Major: Biology 

Hometown: Forrest City, Arkansas 

The outgoing Court is Jhaianne Cooper, Miss ASU (2019-2020); Ivana Angion, 1st Attendant; Saroyah Johnson, 2nd Attendant; Tiffany Bailey, Miss Junior; Mariah McClary, Miss Sophomore; and Stacey Foster, Miss Freshman.