{"id":376268,"date":"2026-10-18T14:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376268\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:02:19","slug":"meet-the-2026-lsu-homecoming-king-and-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376268\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 2026 LSU Homecoming King and Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BATON ROUGE \u2014 LSU named its 2026 homecoming king and queen Saturday at halftime of the Tigers&#8217; game against Mississippi State.<\/p>\n<p>Homecoming king Jaylen Pruiett is a Shreveport native in his senior year, majoring in psychology on the pre-med track. According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/lsureveille.com\/290428\/news\/whats-geauxing-on-meet-the-2026-homecoming-court\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview with the Reveille<\/a>, Pruiett currently serves as vice president of <a href=\"https:\/\/tigerlink.lsu.edu\/c100\/home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collegiate 100<\/a> and secretary of the Black Student Union.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Homecoming queen Tyhlar Holliway, also a Shreveport native, is a senior double majoring in English and political science. Holliway is a first-generation college student, president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodrecoverynetwork.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Food Recovery Network<\/a>\u00a0and vice president of Injustice Reform, according to the Reveille.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Holliway and Pruiett each beat out five other candidates for the student body&#8217;s vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE \u2014 LSU named its 2026 homecoming king and queen Saturday at halftime of the Tigers&#8217; game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-376268","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\/376268","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=376268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}