Sarah Palin won Miss Wasilla Pageant
Filed Under (general) by Laura on 22-10-2008
Sarah Palin has very suddenly become very famous. If you take a look at her quite astonishing life it is easy to see why. It could be said that Sarah Palin’s rise to fame has been inexorable; certainly she has worked very hard at every point in her life.
With five children to look after while she deals with her ‘day job’ of being Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin is a self-confessed hockey mum with a can-do attitude. She is deeply religious – describing herself in an interview as being a Bible believing Christian – and this seems to have polarized people’s opinions on her.
Sarah’s illustrious career as a leader begin in Wasilla where she went to high school; she captained to the girls’ basketball team to success in a schools tournament and earned the nickname “Sarah Barracuda” because of her aggressive attitude and playing style.
At college and University Sarah Palin entered – and won – the Miss Wasillia pageant. Fitting, then, that she went on to be Mayor of that city. She also entered the Miss Alaska pageant, coming a respectable third.
After she finished her studying, Sarah went on to become a sportscaster for KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Alaska, and helped with her husband’s – Todd Palin – commercial fishing business.
[...] child of Sarah and Charles Heath, school secretary. Charles was a keen hunter and this is where the Sarah Palin learned to hunt moose: one of the many things that appears to have completely polarized public [...]