PASADENA, Calif.—Bella Ballard of Altadena was crowned Oct. 25 evening as the 2023 Rose Queen at Tournament House in Pasadena.
Ballard is a senior at The Ogburn School, a distance learning school. She is a volunteer with Ronald McDonald House Charities, a volunteer soccer coach with Chelsea Football Club, a soccer player with the Santa Clarita Blue Heat Football Club and West Coast Football Club, a street soccer player with the Venice Beach Football Club and plays tennis at the Arroyo Seco and Flint Canyon tennis clubs.
Ballard enjoys reading, calligraphy, collecting vinyl records, playing chess, and learning about astronomy and astrophysics. She will be attending Yale University in the fall and is interested in studying economics, law, and astrophysics….