High school senior Tayler Riggie, 18, has been crowned the Bay City St. Patrick’s Day Parade Queen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pageant participants were required to be residents of Bay County and to be of Irish descent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Riggie, a high school senior, had never done a pageant before but decided to give this one a try with a chance to win a scholarship for college.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Riggie, the pageant doesn\u2019t focus on the looks of participants like a beauty pageant; instead, it focuses on answers from participants.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe weren’t competing against looks,\u201d Riggie said. \u201cIt was based off most of our points from the judges from the interview.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Having never done a pageant before, Riggie was nervous, even showing up late by accident to one of the practice days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite being late, Riggie found that her nerves calmed down once she got to meet everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI instantly became friends with everyone,\u201d Riggie said. \u201cAll of my worries went straight away. Everyone was so welcoming and so kind, even during the interviews.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She recalled being surprised when she won, noting that some of the other participants had already been in the pageant before.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now that the competition is over, Riggie noted that for the most part, she\u2019s a lot calmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI get noticed in public, and they’d be like, \u2018Oh my goodness, you’re the queen,\u201d\u2019\u00a0Riggie said. \u201cI still kind of feel dumbfounded. Like, \u2018Wait, you’re right. I am.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Riggie will continue her Queen duties throughout the weekend including attending Cocoa with the Queens, where the public can meet her at First Look Bridal Boutique & Tuxedo in Bay City on Sunday at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n
Following cocoa, Riggie will also be in the Bay City St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade which starts at 2 p.m. at the corner of Center and Park Avenues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Riggie won\u2019t be participating in the Queen Pageant next year because she’ll be a freshman at\u00a0Central Michigan University, she\u2019s considering doing more pageants in her future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt all depends on if the opportunity comes up and how busy I am by then,\u201d Riggie said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High school senior Tayler Riggie, 18, has been crowned the Bay City St. Patrick’s Day Parade Queen.\u00a0 Pageant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,66951,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-162396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-local","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}