Law school next for Miss Washington

Wapato native is second runner-up at Miss America PageantShe'd been keeping it together for the past six months, through workouts and rehearsals, public appearances and interviews.

Now, she can rest.

While she isn't coming home with the Miss America title, she is coming home with $20,000 in scholarship money and a sense of accomplishment.

She made it as far as any Miss Washington ever has, tying with Miss Washington 1959, Sharon Joyce Vaughn of Port Orchard, who also was second runner-up.