{"id":233880,"date":"2026-05-16T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233880\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:47:08","slug":"hailey-ready-announced-as-the-2026-500-festival-queen-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233880\/","title":{"rendered":"Hailey Ready announced as the 2026 500 Festival Queen Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement was made during the\u202f500 Festival\u202fBreakfast at the Brickyard held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 16.  <\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2026 500 Festival Queen Scholar<\/a> has been chosen!<\/p>\n<p>Hailey Ready, of Greenwood, was selected as the\u202f2026 500 Festival Queen\u202fScholar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made during the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/breakfast-at-brickyard-returns-ims-ahead-indy-500-indianapolis-indycar-race-speedway\/531-44e3afea-4a64-48f2-b6fd-5cb06821ed4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u202f500 Festival\u202fBreakfast at the Brickyard<\/a> held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 16. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ready is a senior at Marian University and pursuing a degree in biology and English.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ready is one of 33 college-aged Hoosier women selected for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/500festival.com\/programs\/princess-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">500 Festival Princess Program<\/a>,\u202fin which they serve as ambassadors for the 500 Festival, their hometowns and their colleges and universities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each 500 Festival Princess will get a $1,500 scholarship and a custom pendant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c8755858-c0d1-44e8-9064-93b292f2df44_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The announcement was made during the\u202f500 Festival\u202fBreakfast at the Brickyard held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-233880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}