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Eva Delatte wins Miss Southeastern Crown

Southeastern Louisiana University English education major Eva Delatte of Ponchatoula has been chosen Miss Southeastern 2025.

Tonya Lowentritt

February 3, 2025

Miss Southeastern Top 3

Southeastern Louisiana University English education major Eva Delatte of Ponchatoula has been chosen Miss Southeastern 2025. She also won the Talent Award.

Delatte received her crown from Miss Southeastern 2024 Shelby Bordelon of Sunshine at the annual pageant Jan. 31 at Southeastern’s Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts. Sponsored by the Campus Activities Board and the Office for Student Engagement, the pageant is affiliated with the Miss America Pageant System.

The top three contestants for the pageant were Delatte, Miranda Sensat of Denham Springs, and Samantha Kapoulas of Baton Rouge.

First runner-up was Sensat, a music education major, who also won the Red-Carpet Award, and second runner-up was Kapoulas, a communication sciences and disorders major, who also received the Miss Congeniality Award.

Additional award winners included Spanish major Paige Bigelow of Rayville, who won the Student Government Association Academic Award; management major Sara Gil of French Settlement, who received the People’s Choice Award; and strategic communications major Ragan Hoover of Loranger, who received the Alumni Chapter Legacy Scholarship Award.

Delatte will advance to the Miss Louisiana Pageant that will be held in Monroe in June.

 

NEW MISS SOUTHEASTERN CROWNED – Southeastern Louisiana University English education major Eva Delatte, center, has been chosen as Miss Southeastern 2025. Pictured at left is first runner-up Miranda Sensat and second runner-up Samantha Kapoulas.

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