Princess Kay of the Milky Way crowned at Minnesota State Fair

ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) - 19-year-old Haley Hinrichs from Goodhue, Minn. was crowed the 63rd Princess Kay of the Milky Way at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds Wednesday evening.

Hinrichs, who represented Goodhue County, was one of 12 dairy county princesses from across the state competing for the title. For the next year, Hinrichs will serve as the official goodwill ambassador for the Minnesota Dairy Industry. She will spend her first day as Princess Kay having her likeness sculpted into a 90-pound block of butter, a Minnesota State Fair tradition.

Hinrichs is a student at Iowa State University, where she is studying agriculture education and communications.