The four alternates from 2024 are back to compete for Miss Mississippi 2025
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – The four alternates to Miss Mississippi 2024 are back in Vicksburg to compete for the title.
Of the 33 delegates, four of the Top 11 are also back hoping to win the title of Miss Mississippi 2025.
First Alternate to Miss Mississippi 2024 Becky Williams, Jane Granberry who is Miss Hattiesburg 2025. Granberry was also Miss Mississippi’s Teen in 2019. The Ole Miss Grad says she has already been a business owner and has big plans for the future.
Granberry said, “My plan is to open a PR firm to tell the stories of small businesses in the south. As a former business owner, I had my first LLC when I was 15, I think those stories deserve to be told and I would like to do it on a more accessible level for small businesses. I also would love to get into manufacturing a product of some sort. My jobs have been in the beauty industry and I just think there’s a lot of opportunity to grow and build on what we have there.”
Second Alternate in 2024 is this year’s Miss Vicksburg Morgan Nelson. Nelson graduated from Mississippi State in May and plans to use her scholarship earnings to attend Medical School. She is already a published author.
Nelson said, “It’s a recipe book. It’s called ;Don’t Sugarcoat it Y’all.’ It has over 20 sugar free dessert recipes in there for us to follow with healthy alternatives to those southern desserts that we love like peach cobbler, sweet tea even.”
2024′s Third alternate Sarah Randolph is back to compete as Miss Mississippi State University. She also graduated in May and is planning a career in Cosmetic Dentistry.
”My dad was stationed in the army in South Korea, so that’s how him and my mom met. So I was raised in Korea. I was born in Seoul, South Korea, and I moved here in the second grade whenever they moved my dad back for his job. So I’ve been in Vicksburg ever since. My mom actually had to literally follow me around to school in second grade to be my translator,” said Randolph.
The Fourth Alternate from last year is Miss Capital City Anna Leah Jolly. The dance teacher who already owns a dance studio is a sophomore at Belhaven University.
Jolly said, “It was my first year and coming from Ukraine I never thought myself, you know, to be on the Miss Mississippi stage, so it was really incredible and I feel like I even underestimated myself to be in that position so it really was a shock.”
Jolly is also one of seven delegates who are Quality of Life Finalists for their Community Service Initiatives.
The winners of scholarships will be announced later this week. Last year the Miss Mississippi Corporation offered more than 120-thousand dollars in scholarships to candidates in the program.
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