Maria Frisby of Middletown was a VIP in the 2021 Penn State Homecoming Parade in State College recently. She was escorted in a 1918 Dodge Brothers car by parade escort Drew. At the parade, she met Miss Pennsylvania America 2021 Meghan Sinisi, Miss Pennsylvania USA 2021 Sydney Robertson, State College Mayor Ron Filippelli and Centre County Commissioner Steven Dershem.

Frisby is a former Ms. Pennsylvania 2004 and was a finalist and second runner-up at the 2004 United States Beauties National Pageant in Bloomingdale, Ill. She was a member of a panel of judges at the 2017 Miss York County Scholarship Pageant, a preliminary of the Miss America Pageant. She is an alumna of Penn State University.