As she grew older, Candy was not involved much with athletics and was preparing to enroll as a student at the University of Maryland when she saw an announcement on a bulletin board that ACW veteran Thelma Ferguson would be on campus giving an apartment wrestling demonstration. Candy attended the demonstration and when Ferguson asked for a volunteer from the audience, Candy stepped forward. When Ferguson attempted to demonstrate a full nelson, Candy slipped out of the hold, tripped Ferguson and then applied an ankle submission lock. In anger, Ferguson went after Sommers. Candy, thinking that it was all in good fun "played along" by dodging Ferguson and applying a sliding toehold. Enraged, Ferguson had to be restrained by several officials.