Champion grad is Miss Ohio and heads to Vegas to compete for Miss USA title

Natasha Vivoda Miss Ohio

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Natasha Vivoda Miss Ohio visits Champion High School.

CHAMPION — Chemistry and physics teacher John Fisher remembers future Miss Ohio Natasha Vivoda from the chemistry classes he taught her during her junior and senior years at Champion High School.

The most notable thing about her may have just been her determination to succeed in the honors-level classes she took from him.

“I remember seeing you in the classroom every day, paying attention to the marks on the board and never doubting yourself or doubting your ability to learn that difficult subject,” he said of the 2005 Champion graduate.

In 2004 and 2005, there was no way he could have predicted what the flute player and majorette’s future would hold, Fisher said, as he spoke today in the Champion High auditorium.

He and hundreds of others, including the student body at Champion High, wished her well as she prepared to travel Friday to Las Vegas for the Miss USA Pageant there April 19. She qualified by being crowned Miss Ohio in November.

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