I mean, she has to be the tallest, right? Alverson, a four-year starter at guard / forward for Auburn’s Women’s Basketball team, is 6″3. In February, she was named the SEC’s women’s basketball’s scholar athlete of the year and today, during halftime of Auburn’s battle against New Mexico State, she was named Miss Homecoming. Her campaign slogan? “Ballin’ for Blanche.”
Has an Auburn athlete ever won Miss Homecoming? Can she dunk?
War Eagle, Blanche.
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First athlete to ever win Homecoming.
… and our hearts
As I recall things, back when I was a student (1961-1965) at Auburn we elected a homecoming queen by the name of Jeanie Swanner (I think) that was 6′ 4″ tall. I also believe that at one time she was Miss North Carolina in one of the national beauty pageants.
Aw snaps, the Internet says that she is only 6′ 2″ (of course, that value may be adjusted for inflation). Nevertheless, the morale of the story is to check your facts before you broadcast them.