Miss USA winner Alma Cooper, who was crowned in 2024, has announced she won’t be attending this year’s pageant.

Taking to Instagram on Friday, October 24, the beauty queen, 23, told her followers that she made the “extremely difficult decision” to skip this year’s event. The post was shared just hours before the pageant, where she was expected to crown her successor.

“In every aspect of my life, I am always in pursuit of excellence. That relentless pursuit fueled me to graduate from West Point top 50 in my class, run three marathons in 10 months and become a Knight Hennessy Fellow at Stanford University,” she wrote in the lengthy caption that detail her decision. “I brought that same attitude with me when I won the title of Miss USA, energized by the opportunity to inspire youth across t

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