JACKSON, MI -- The idea of entering a Ms. Senior pageant dawned on Linda Sisco on the car ride back from a Myrtle Beach, while she was reading a book.
"I thought that would be a real stretch for me, but I turned to my husband and said, 'I think I'd like to find out more about this,'" Sisco said. She said her husband was skeptical, but she went along with the idea anyway. "I thought it would be fun."
But after all the preparation and hard work put into her routines, Sisco never thought she would enter her first pageant as a rookie and leave with the crown.
"I will never forget it, when they called my name," she said. "I was looking in the audience in the front row, at my husband because it was so loud I wasn't sure I would be able to hear them. I heard her say the new Ms. Senior Michigan is Linda -- and I was the only Linda in the pageant -- and everybody starting screaming and my husband was jumping up and down and everyone was crying."
Sisco was crowned Ms. Senior Michigan 2015 on July 15 and is now preparing to head to nationals, which will he held in Atlantic City, New Jersey on October 20-22.
Even though public perceptions of pageants might make it seem like they are only for young women, Sisco said he experience in the pageant has been mostly positive and transformative for her.
"I think this is truly a great time of life and we can do anything," she said. "I think stretching yourself and getting out there and trying something new is great. I mean, I'm not going to jump out of airplane, but this was my version of jumping out of an airplane."
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