Beauty pageant titleholder | |
![]() LaForce conducts a sideline interview during the Army–Navy Game in 2015.
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Born |
Alexandra Leigh LaForce December 11, 1988 Vermilion, Ohio, USA |
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Other names | Allie LaForce |
Education | Ohio University |
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
Hair color | Blonde |
Eye color | Green |
Title(s) |
Miss Ohio Teen USA 2005 Miss Teen USA 2005 |
Major competition(s) |
Miss Teen USA 2005 (winner) |
Alexandra Leigh "Allie" LaForce (born December 11, 1988) is an American journalist, model and beauty queen. She is currently a reporter and anchor for CBS Sports and Turner Sports, where she serves as the lead reporter for SEC college football games, a court side reporter for college basketball games as well as on the NBA on TNT and host of We Need to Talk on the CBS Sports Network. LaForce worked as a broadcast sports anchor and reporter for the Cleveland, Ohio, FOX affiliate WJW. She won a 2011 Emmy award for anchoring FOX 8's Friday Night Touchdown high school football show. She was Miss Teen USA in 2005, and she played college basketball at Ohio University.
LaForce is from Vermilion, Ohio, and won the Miss Ohio Teen USA 2005 title in September 2004, in her first attempt at the title. She went on to represent Ohio in the Miss Teen USA 2005 pageant held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on August 8, 2005. LaForce competed in the evening gown, swimsuit and final interview competitions, and was crowned Miss Teen USA 2005. Her mother Lesa LaForce (née Rummell) was Miss Ohio USA 1977.
Her winnings included a one-year modeling contract with Trump Modeling Management and a scholarship to the School for Film and Television in New York City. It also earned her a guest appearance in the NBC soap opera Passions. LaForce made appearances throughout the United States, promoting causes such as drug and alcohol awareness, as well as continuing to attend high school in Ohio.