Jaselyn Rossman, Miss Oklahoma 2026, is a native of Sapulpa and a graduate of Sapulpa High School. She was a high school valedictorian, 5A Girls Basketball State Champion and Senior Female Athlete of the Year. Jaselyn is also a 2026 graduate of Oklahoma State University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, majoring in accounting with a minor in finance. During her time at Oklahoma State, Jaselyn was a four-year member of the Oklahoma State University Pom Squad, served as the team’s social media manager and was named 2025 Homecoming Queen. She also received a four-year Academic Achievement Award and is a Pi Beta Phi alum. Her future plans include earning a Master of Science in Accounting and becoming a Certified Public Accountant.
As Miss Oklahoma, Jaselyn will travel the state sharing her Community Service Initiative, Workforce Readiness for Every Ability. The initiative helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their peers, prepare for meaningful opportunities by building confidence, recognizing strengths and challenging the assumptions that too often limit opportunity before ability is ever considered. Through her work with the Special Olympics and Tulsa-based The Bridges Foundation, Jaselyn has seen how inclusion can move from an idea to action when communities focus on what people can contribute, rather than what they cannot.
Through classroom visits as the official Oklahoma Cares for Children presenter, Jaselyn brings that message directly to students. Her lessons are hands-on, practical and built to help students recognize their strengths, understand barriers and take real steps toward independence. By connecting workforce readiness to everyday choices, she gives students a clearer picture of what confidence, responsibility and inclusion can look like in their own lives.
Jaselyn is also the only non-agent drug and alcohol avoidance presenter officially certified by the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control. In this role, she speaks to students and schools about making healthy choices and avoiding drugs and alcohol. Jaselyn’s OBN-certified presentation also satisfies Rain’s Law (House Bill 1484), which requires Oklahoma public school districts to provide annual, age-appropriate instruction on fentanyl abuse prevention and drug poisoning awareness for students in grades 6 through 12.
As Miss Oklahoma, Jaselyn is using her year to make inclusion practical, visible and personal across the state. Her message asks Oklahomans to look past assumptions and recognize the talent, work ethic and potential of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Whether she is speaking in a classroom, supporting inclusive employment or serving alongside organizations already doing the work, Jaselyn wants every community to understand that opportunity changes when we choose to see ability first.
Jaselyn is the daughter of Scott and Lisa Rossman of Sapulpa, Oklahoma and has one brother, Cody.
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