Central Mountain’s Renninger named Laurel Festival Queen
Photo courtesy Kristine Brown-Meeker
WELLSBORO, PA – Central Mountain High School’s Jocelyn Renninger is this year’s Pennsylvania State Laurel Queen. Her selection as queen was announced Saturday night at the Deane Center’s Coolidge Theatre in Wellsboro. She is the daughter of Diane and James Renninger and graduated earlier this month from Central Mountain.
First runner-up was Alayna Dake of Williamsport High School and second runner-up was Amber Costello of Saegertown High School. In all there were 26 candidates at the 79th annual Laurel Festival.
In her four years of high school, Renninger was on high honor roll, was a member of the Central Mountain girls’ soccer team (captain, senior year) and track team, pole vaulting for three years, and was a section leader and sang soprano in the school chorus. For three years, she volunteered at the Special Olympics and Kent’s Fest.
She was a member of the National Honor Society as a junior and senior and on the homecoming court and a Black Lives Matter Club member as a senior.
This fall, Jocelyn will attend Penn State University and major in special education. Her career goal is to be a secondary special education teacher.
