COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Madison Marsh, the newly crowned pageant queen of the United States, returned to Colorado for the first time since her big win, and stopped by a local elementary school to speak with students.
The Air Force graduate had made multiple visits to Jackson Elementary in the past while she was a cadet at the Academy, reading and talking to the young students.
Now, as Miss Colorado, turned Miss America, she wants to use her platform not just for her own ambitions but to inspire more young people to pursue higher education, and their goals in life.
“I hope a lot of these younger kids, men and women, have someone that they can look up to that with anything, you can overcome all those barriers.” explained Marsh.
She hopes those kids can take on the lesson of chasing what they’re passionate about, a lesson that was driven home for Marsh after the passing of her mother just a few years ago.
“She would give anything to have one extra day, one extra moment. And so for me, it is important to not waste any time, every moment that you waste on a passion that you don’t care about as a moment that is wasted in your life.” said Marsh about her late mother.