Ashley O'Conner, an 18 year old resident  of Florence, South Carolina is the reigning Miss Garden City Teen 2021.

 

A freshman at New York University studying Music Performance, Ashley is the daughter of Gregory and Kathleen O"Conner of Florence, SC but now officially calls herself a "New Yorker"!

 

She is overjoyed for the opportunity to compete this June. “I am reminded that everything happens in the time it is supposed to happen. Particularly now in the age of COVID-19. Still new to the MAOT system but I cannot wait to go compete this summer.”

 

Ashley chose to graduate a year early from the SC Governor's School for Science & Math. Even far away she has still been advocate for the Orangeburg community for safe driving through her personal platform, “ALERT, ALIVE, Just Drive”.