Basara, 20, the first Duluthian to hold the title of Miss Minnesota USA, is in Las Vegas competing in the Miss USA Pageant, which culminates Sunday. The winner will be Miss USA and, since Trump owns the pageant, she’ll be working for him. She will live in Trump Towers in New York City.
Basara isn’t the sort of contestant who has been in pageants since she was a little girl. Miss USA will be only her fifth pageant, and she didn’t enter her first until she was in her junior year at Marshall School.
Which is where the prom comes in.
“It was around prom season so I was out shopping with my mom and I bought a prom dress,” Basara said in an interview earlier this month, the day before she left for Vegas. “And that year I didn’t get asked to the prom.”
But she had the dress, and other girls at school wanted to know why she had a prom dress if she wasn’t going to the prom.“My friend at the time said, ‘Well, Courtney is going to be in a pageant, and that’s why she bought the dress.’ So after she said that I had to find a pageant to enter.”
She found one, in Bloomington, Minn., and with that prom dress won the award for best evening gown. She also found out she liked being in pageants.
By the time she entered the Miss Minnesota USA pageant last year, Basara was a sophomore at the University of Minnesota Duluth, working toward a major in industrial engineering and a minor in communications.
She came out on top among 24 contestants in the pageant, which took place over Thanksgiving weekend in Burnsville.
Since then, she has majored in pageant preparation.“I’m taking the semester off,” Basara said. “I’ll definitely return to school, but right now I’m really focused on preparing myself for Miss USA.”
And what about Donald Trump as a potential boss?“I’ve heard that he’s actually kind of funny,” Basara said. “I’m excited to meet him.”
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