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...into my senior spring, it was time for the two-week National Finals competition. A week after graduating from high school I found myself on a plane bound for The Land of Dixie, wearing a borrowed red suit, my medallion and a nametag reading “Kristi Jobson, Maryland...
...exhibition North vs. South Junior Miss softball game in Minor League Mobile BayBears Stadium. I couldn’t believe how many people showed up to watch. Just a wee bit intimidating for a girl who wasn’t sure which hand her mitt went on. Maryland (that’s me) batted last for the South, down two with runners on first and second. Folks in Alabama haven’t forgotten the Civil War—the fans were going crazy screaming for me. Too bad I only hit a double, bringing Louisiana home but leaving South...
...jumps. Fitness rehearsals were the worst part of the weeks leading up to the telecast. Though my abs were burning, the muscles I worked hardest were in my face—if you stopped smiling for a nanosecond the kindly Southern volunteers would scream out, “SMIIIIIIIILE, Maryland! The judges like girls who look happy...
...program in an evening gown. I’m sure there are plenty of beauty queens who just adore perusing bridal shops and formalwear stores. I’m not one of them. Shopping for a dress was pure hell. If there’s a gown in the Maryland-Virginia-Delaware area, you can bet my poor body got zipped into it. Yellow washed me out. Orange clashed with my hair color. Red makes you look fat onstage. Black is too grown up. Blue, too conventional, green too free-thinking. White? Out of the question. That left pink...
...Day” by Celine Dion. Most people cringe and change the radio station when this syrupy little tune comes on. I was privy to Miss Dion for hours of rehearsal, not to mention the three nights of competition. In true Kristi form, I tripped onstage. Way to go, Maryland...