SAUK CENTRE — She didn’t know it then, but Sara Peterson’s pageant journey began when her daughter got a random flier in the mail.

Mandy Schneider (formerly Peterson) was a teenager then; no one in her family had been in pageants before, and she was a complete fish out of water.

But Mandy came back as an adult and began competing at a high level in 2018. Despite being an introvert to Mandy’s extrovert, "momager" Sara was inspired by what she saw.A little push from Mandy didn’t hurt."I think she got bit by the pageant bug," Mandy said of her mom. […]

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