Fitness Texas Champion Daisy Mastroianni says she had amazing time at the show. But the 35 year old Houston native explains keeping her kids involved with her in the gym is most rewarding. “My kids have been involved from the beginning and come and watch me train as I do for them when they train in Tae Kwon Do,” Daisy explains. “For me it’s about keeping the family fit and showing them you go after your dreams no matter what.” Daisy was is a trained ballet dancer also performed professionally for the NBA Houston Rockets and MLS Houston Dynamos. This season, Daisy is preparing for her FU Pro debut. “The opportunity to perform on a Fitness Universe stage has been a dream come true. I am very excited and working hard.”

International spokes model Jessica Vasquez recently traveled to India and Mexico City to spread the knowledge of health & fitness. Recognized for her incredibly aesthetic hour glass body, this 5x world Champion currently resides in Houston, Texas. Jessica has a passion for working with children and is a full time 2nd grade Bilingual teacher. She is not only a teacher in the classroom, but a teacher amongst her fitness peers too. Jessica finds teaching the most rewarding gift in the world. Inspiring and changing lives is what she loves and wants to be remembered for.

She is a strong Latin role model to young teens, aspiring athletes and anyone chasing a dream. All you have to do is believe big! See Jessica at the ’14 Fitness America Weekend show in November at Las Vegas!

Fitness Universe Pro Sharon PD took nearly a year off, but is determined to get back into competition shape. She just started training on July 19 and it is only 1 more week until the ’14 Texas Championships! Sharon says, “I’m going to do it! Can’t wait to show my transformation to prove that you can do it again! Even when life hits you hard, it is how you get back up!”

Last year, ’13 Ms. Bikini Texas winner Alina Adams made a determination to compete for the first time in the Texas show. She was happy with her overall win but the road to get there was difficult and depressing. After the show, Alina said she was exhausted and started eating horribly and skipping the gym for three months. She knew she could not allow her lifestyle to continue on as is and made another determination to compete. Alina stepped out of her comfort zone and joined Aaron Zambrano’s and Lauren Stogner’s training program. Alina could not be happier when she started training. She says, “Not only did they show me that I can enjoy prepping for a competition and there isn’t just one way to get ready for a show, they have become life coaches and wonderful friends as well. I have new friends that are like a family to me and an awesome support system that I’ve never had before.”

New to the competition scene, Alina Adams was able to take a 5x World Champion to the brink and nearly came away with the Model Universe title last weekend in Miami. Alina’s main focus in the off season will be to develop her physique, but also pursue her dream in commercial modeling. Model Texas is next in line for Alina and then on to Model America in Las Vegas.

Jamie Lynn Hughes and husband Chris (center front) recently opened a CrossFit box in Tyler, Texas. “We planned to open with around 30 members (which is really good for a CrossFit box), but within the first week, we almost doubled that!, explains Jamie. “Before the month is over, we are projecting to hit the membership goal we set for the end of the first complete year!”

Through it all, Jamie is training herself for Ms. Bikini Universe next weekend in Ft. Lauderdale. The ’13 Ms. Bikini America Top 5 Finalist says, “Opening a business is stressful enough, but we did so less than a month before I compete.”

“I feel like both the bodybuilding and CrossFit communities tend to alienate the other. But I believe there is much to be missed out on by being so single-minded. It is a goal of mine to combine each discipline and to show that you can achieve a ‘Ms. Bikini’ body with the CrossFit syle workouts.”

Since winning her first competition, Catherine Moran has set her sights on the Ms. Bikini & Model Universe next weekend. The 5’9″, 140 lbs., 29 year old corporate attorney has always been an avid athlete including playing collegiate basketball at Austin College where she earned a B.A. in English and Minor in Art. Then Catherine when on to earn her Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, she is writing a children’s art series and has participated in gallery showings around Houston and Sherman, Texas. Catherine says she’s “a world traveler, food and art enthusiast, part-time nutrition consultant and self-described foodie!” She says, “My ambition in life is to own one of the largest minority-owned property preservation companies in the country and experience a culture on every continent before I’m 35.” Well, with hundreds of competitors from around the world, Catherine will get a change to at least meet someone from every continent.

Team Musclemania spent this morning visiting a street orphanage in Bangalore, India and distributed over 1,000 donate school note pads to the street kids. Coordinated with the local CSR Agencies which helps homeless children, Ms. Bikini America Jessica Vasquez and MM Pros Ulisses & Simeon Panda personally meet with the kids and encouraged them to reach for their dreams. Said, Jessica who’s a 3rd grade school teacher in Texas, “This was such a rewarding experience the children, yes, but certainly for the guys and me.”

Team Musclemania will also hosts two seminars with over 2,000 bodybuilders, sports models and fitness ladies attending.

In just two season, Ada Abanobi became a Fitness Universe™ Pro. The 5’6″, 142, 34 year old trauma nurse is a former Houston Texans cheerleader and is the eldest of 7 children. Ada competed at Fitness America Weekend last November.  She trains in Houston with Musclemania® Pro Dewayne Malone’s and his team of fitness, bikini and model women plus natural bodybulders and physique competitors.

Texan Alina Adams has been training after work for a couple of years. But, at the urging of some friends the 5'6", 115 lbs, 28 year old bank recruiter recently entered her first show. So, Alina was a complete surprise when she walked on stage in Ft. Worth and won both the Ms. Bikini Texas and Model Texas Championships! The University of Texas graduate has a degree in psychology and says she just enjoys training to stay fit and healthy.