Photos: 2011 Tournament of Roses Royal Court is announced
Tatyane Anaid Berrios, 17, a student at Arcadia High School, reacts after she is named to the seven-member Tournament of Roses Royal Court in Pasadena on Monday. The finalists were chosen from a field of more than a thousand applicants. As ambassadors of the Tournament of Roses, members of the Royal Court will attend more than 150 community and media functions leading up to the 122nd Rose Parade and the 97th Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, 2011. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Finalist Emily Pipes descends the stairway at Tournament House in Pasadena before the names of those in the Royal Court were announced. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Tenaya Miyoko Senzaki, 17, a student at Pasadena High School, gets a hug and a rose from Kinsey Stuart, a member of last year’s Royal Court. Senzaki was the first member of the 2011 court to be named Monday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Posing for photographers are the members of the 2011 Tournament of Roses Royal Court: Tenaya Miyoko Senzaki, left, Jessica Michelle Montoya, Sarah Christine Fredrickson, Michelle Kaye Washington, Kathryn Morris Thomson, Evanne Elizabeth Friedmann and Tatyane Anaid Berrios. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
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Michelle Kaye Washington, 18, a student at Pasadena City College, has her hair adjusted by her mother, Sharon, after getting a hug from her father, Henry, upon learning she will be a member of the 2011 Tournament of Roses Royal Court. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)