Eight contestants in the first-ever Mister USA pageant heated up a ballroom at the Lenox Hotel Saturday night, strutting the stage in Speedos and evening wear, and even managing a rather awkward group dance number. The charming Ivan Rusilko (above), of Meadville, Pa., took the sash from outgoing Mister USA Jake Hill, of Plymouth. Hill, who was appointed Mister USA but competed internationally, called competing in a tiny bathing suit "amazingly terrifying. Growing up in the Boston area, Speedos are not necessarily socially accepted, for a masculine man. But you have to take the good with the bad, and enjoy the experience." Hill, Miss Boston 2008 Alida D'Angona, and Suffolk University professor Dana Rosengard were among the judges who chose the new champ. Rusilko, a bodybuilder and fourth-year medical student, will rep America in the Mister International 2008 pageant in Taiwan in November. "I don't have any doubt that he can take it all," said Mister USA founder Rafa Delfin. "We have to doll him up a bit. As you can see, he has a great physique already. He's a champion bodybuilder. He has a great personality, great smile . . . and I'm just very, very happy with him."
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