--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4920 og:image:height: 2768 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Girl Who Wore T-Rex Costume With Yellow Tutu to Win Homecoming Queen Is a National Treasure > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  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. 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