Miss Bel Air 2024 twirls fire and has an eye for art

At 19, Gianna Romero has excelled in a wealth of activities, from ballet to baton twirling, and from acrobatics to art. In March, the Joppatowne native was named Miss Bel Air 2024. A graduate of the John Carroll School, Romero is a freshman and dean’s list student at Stevenson University, majoring in business communications.

Here are three things you may not know about Romero:

Flaming batons catch her fancy.

“I’ve twirled fire; it’s the same as baton twirling except for the fire blazing at both ends.