Hair color Blonde Name Alexa Jones | Major
competition(s) Miss America 2006 | |
Education Birmingham–Southern College
University of Alabama at Birmingham Title(s) Miss Covered Bridge Festival 2000
Miss Leeds Area 2001
Miss Jubilee 2002
Miss Birmingham–Southern College 2003
Miss Painted Rock 2004
Miss Mobile 2005
Miss Alabama 2005 | ||
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Alexa Jones Boatright (born 1981) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Andalusia, Alabama who was named Miss Alabama 2005. She worked as a news anchor and sports reporter on WIAT-TV from 2007 through 2011.
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Career
Jones began entering pageants as a youth in her local America's Junior Miss competition. She won the 1999 Covington County Junior Miss title, earning a $10,000 scholarship to Birmingham–Southern College. As an 18-year-old, she entered the Miss Leeds Area 1999 pageant and was named 1st runner-up.
Jones competed for the Miss Alabama title five times before her win in 2005: She was named Miss Covered Bridge Festival 2000, Miss Leeds Area 2001, and Miss Jubilee 2002. During her senior year in college, Jones won the crown as Miss Birmingham–Southern College 2003. She was named Miss Painted Rock 2004 and third runner-up as Miss Alabama 2004.
Entering the 2005 state competition as Miss Mobile 2005, Jones won the title of Miss Alabama on June 11, 2005, when she received her crown from outgoing titleholder Shannon Camper. Jones' platform was "Arts Education". Her competition talent for Miss Alabama was dancing ballet en pointe to "Fuego" by Bond. In August 2005, Jones was recognized with a homecoming celebration in Andalusia, Alabama, and a joint resolution of the Alabama Legislature.
Jones was Alabama's representative at the Miss America 2006 pageant on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Her platform was arts in education through the Renaissance Foundation of Alabama, which she founded. Jones was named 2nd runner-up in the competition and won a $15,000 scholarship. She was also named the pageant's Quality of Life 2nd runner-up.
In January 2007, Jones went to work for WIAT ("CBS 42") in Birmingham, Alabama, as the co-host of Wake Up Alabama, a morning news program, and a sports reporter. She left the station in January 2011.
Personal life
Jones is a 1999 magna cum laude graduate of Andalusia High School in Andalusia, Alabama. She is a 1999 initiate of the Alpha Omicron Pi women's fraternity, Tau Delta chapter, and earned a bachelor of arts degree in English from Birmingham–Southern College in 2003. When she won Miss Alabama, she was a graduate student in art history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband Shane Boatright, Chairman and CEO of Boatright Companies.