Miss Mississippi USA 2016 results: Courtney Byrd crowns Haley Sowers in Tunica Resorts

Miss Mississippi USA 2016

• beauty pageant: Miss Mississippi USA
• edition: 58th
• national membership: Miss USA
• date: October 31, 2015
• venue: Gold Strike Casino, Tunica Resorts, Mississippi, United States

FINALISTS

PLACEMENT	NAME
Top 12	Hannah Day Ivy White Kaitlyn Orth Katie Nelson Laine Alden Mansour Rachel Henderson Taylor-Alice Mays
Top 5	April Mayfield  Chandler Short Courtney Byrd Jayce Henry  Olivia Haskins

SPECIAL AWARDS

• Miss Congeniality: Tamecia Myers 
• Miss Photogenic: Taylor-Alice Mays

WINNERS

PLACEMENT	2016	2015
4th runner-up	Olivia Haskins Pine County	Carly Hadaway Lafayette County
3rd runner-up	Chandler Short  Heart of Dixie	Chandler Short Heart of Dixie
2nd runner-up	Jayce Henry Pine Belt	Haley Sowers Lauderdale
1st runner-up	April Mayfield Vicksburg	Jayce Henry Pine Belt
Miss Mississippi USA	Haley Sowers Lauderdale	Courtney Byrd North Mississippi

Congratulations to Mississippi State alumna Haley Sowers on being crowned Miss Mississippi USA 2016. pic.twitter.com/OpEUe4xkAW

— Mississippi State (@msstate) November 9, 2015

Miss USA 2015

Courtney Byrd was 23 years old when she represented Mississippi at Miss USA 2015 at the Baton Rouge River Center Arena in Baton Rouse, Louisiana, USA on July 12, 2015. She competed against 50 other candidates including Oklahoma’s Olivia Jordan, who won the title.

Byrd was unplaced. Runner-up to Jordan was Texas’s Ylianna Guerra and the respective second, third and fourth runners-up were Rhode Island’s Anea Garcia, Nevada’s Brittany McGowan and Maryland’s Mamé Adjei.