An Arcadia teenager has been named queen for the 2010 Pasadena Tournament of Roses. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Anne Innocenzi, a senior at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, accepted hugs and practiced her wave during an announcement ceremony today in Pasadena.
She and six princesses will ride a float at the 121st Rose Parade on New Year's Day. Innocenzi was chosen from among about 1,100 Pasadena-area females in a monthlong process. Her biography on the Tournament of Roses Web site says she is a member of her school's junior varsity tennis team, does track and field and is on the board for the Alzheimer's Foundation of America Teens. The Rose Parade theme this year is titled "2010: A Cut Above the Rest."