Royalty
Southern Utah University has had a long tradition with campus royalty, with the first documented royalty appearing in the 1930s with titles such as the King and Queen of Hearts, and Harvest, Snow, Open House and Campus Queens. After World War II, the then Branch Agricultural College began the Homecoming Queen tradition. In 1956, the College of Southern Utah created the second title of Miss CSU.
Many of the more obscure titles came and went, as the Homecoming Queen and Miss CSU titles remained. In the 1970s two more main titles were created. The first being the Miss Intertribal Princess, which later became the Miss Native SUU. The second being the Man of the Hour title, which became the Mr. SUU pageant.
In 2021, the SUU Student Programming Board broke with tradition and merged those the three pageants into one gender-neutral competition called the Homecoming Pageant. Held in September of that year, the first winner was given the title of Royal T-Bird.