Ellensburg entrant named Washington's DYW winner

Ellensburg's Distinguished Young Woman will be Washington's representative to the 2020 National Distinguished Young Women national scholarship program.

Tesslyn Preppernau, daughter of Tandy and Ladd Preppernau, was selected Saturday, Aug. 3, during the annual state program at Pullman High School's theater.

A total of 12 high school seniors from across Washington competed, including five from Whitman County: Suellen Rice of Pullman, Hayden Fulfs of Colfax, Brooke Bankus of Garfield//Palouse, Megan Kay of Colton/Uniontown and Kaitlyn Cornish of LaCrosse.

Rice was chosen as second runner-up, rece...