--- title: Girl Wins Homecoming Queen by Dressing Up as a T-Rex description: A Colorado high-school girl showed off a winning sense of humor when she dressed up as a T-Rex to compete for the title of Homecoming Queen. canonical: https://time.com/4495697/homecoming-queen-t-rex/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-15T18:37:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:37.470Z og:title: This Girl Won Homecoming Queen Dressed Up As a T-Rex og:description: Queen of homecoming and queen of our hearts og:url: https://time.com/4495697/homecoming-queen-t-rex/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcdbefdaa7c1a70fb/6988a64a2dce013aa19eaacf/gettyimages-98214761.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Boy in dinosaur costume og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Girl Won Homecoming Queen Dressed Up As a T-Rex twitter:description: Queen of homecoming and queen of our hearts twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcdbefdaa7c1a70fb/6988a64a2dce013aa19eaacf/gettyimages-98214761.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Girl Who Wore T-Rex Costume With Yellow Tutu to Win Homecoming Queen Is a National Treasure  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 15, 2016 6:37 PM UTC  Dennis Welsh—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 15, 2016 6:37 PM UTC A Colorado high school girl in the running for her [school’s homecoming court](http://time.com/4056777/homecoming-proposal/) showed off a winning sense of humor that eventually nabbed her the coveted [homecoming queen title](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/24/high-school-makes-students-sign-contracts-promising-they-wont-twerk-or-grind-at-homecoming-dance/), according to [ABC 11](http://abc11.com/news/student-in-t-rex-costume-crowned-homecoming-queen/1508286/). Sarah MacDonald has garnered not only the honor of being homecoming queen but also the queen of the internet’s hearts by dressing up in an inflatable [ T-Rex](http://time.com/4258240/t-rex-dinosaur-early-life/) costume (complete with a festive yellow tutu, because, this was a formal occasion, after all) to claim her rightful crown. No bouffant dress or copious amounts of Aqua Net needed. All hail Sarah McDonald, homecoming queen, sartorial dinosaur extraordinaire, and all-around national treasure. > [](https://twitter.com/sarahmac2859/status/774457803738079232) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4495697/homecoming-queen-t-rex/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4495697/homecoming-queen-t-rex/"},"headline":"Girl Who Wore T-Rex Costume With Yellow Tutu to Win Homecoming Queen Is a National Treasure","datePublished":"2016-09-15T18:37:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:37.470Z","description":"Aqua Net","url":"https://time.com/4495697/homecoming-queen-t-rex/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","viral","Funny","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcdbefdaa7c1a70fb/6988a64a2dce013aa19eaacf/gettyimages-98214761.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcdbefdaa7c1a70fb/6988a64a2dce013aa19eaacf/gettyimages-98214761.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Boy in dinosaur costume","caption":"Boy in dinosaur costume","creditText":"Dennis Welsh—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4495697/homecoming-queen-t-rex/","name":"Girl Who Wore T-Rex Costume With Yellow Tutu to Win Homecoming Queen Is a National Treasure"}}]}] ```