Elmore County Distinguished Young Women scholarship award winners were, from left, Tallassee High’s Taylor Goodman (fitness), Tallassee High’s Orliyah Poole (Roberta Pilcher Spirit Award), Tallassee High’s Sally Shipman (scholastic), Elmore County High’s Rhianna Lumpkin (scholastic, talent, first runner-up), Holtville High’s Blakley White (winner, interview, fitness, self-expression), 2019 Elmore County DYW winner Mary Fran Healey, Montgomery Academy’s Virginia Puckett (interview, talent, second runner-up), Elmore County High’s Kaitlyn Pack (Be Your Best Self) and Holtville High’s Kennedy Mullis (self-expression).
Elmore County Distinguished Young Women scholarship award winners were, from left, Tallassee High’s Taylor Goodman (fitness), Tallassee High’s Orliyah Poole (Roberta Pilcher Spirit Award), Tallassee High’s Sally Shipman (scholastic), Elmore County High’s Rhianna Lumpkin (scholastic, talent, first runner-up), Holtville High’s Blakley White (winner, interview, fitness, self-expression), 2019 Elmore County DYW winner Mary Fran Healey, Montgomery Academy’s Virginia Puckett (interview, talent, second runner-up), Elmore County High’s Kaitlyn Pack (Be Your Best Self) and Holtville High’s Kennedy Mullis (self-expression).
While a thunderstorm rattled the building outside, Blakley White showed her poise and character inside on the way to being selected the 2020 Elmore County Distinguished Young Woman on Saturday night.
White, a senior at Holtville, won the interview, fitness and self-expression awards and while clutching all those certificates still appeared delightfully shocked when her name was called as the county winner, throwing her left hand up to her face and smiling before walking across the stage at Wetumpka High School and getting the coveted medallion draped around her neck by 2019 county DYW Mary Fran Healey.
