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Young Singer from Schuylkill County Wins Prize

POTTSVILLE — It’s an offer most performers can only dream of and a teenager from Schuylkill County may turn it down. Makenna Copeland is still smili...

POTTSVILLE -- It's an offer most performers can only dream of and a teenager from Schuylkill County may turn it down.

Makenna Copeland is still smiling after a pretty big weekend. The high school senior at Nativity BVM High School in Pottsville spent the past few days in Indianapolis. She was there for the National Catholic Youth Conference.

The biannual conference draws about 25,000 people and is home to the "Top Talent" competition.

Copeland, 17, sings and acts, so she decided to enter the contest for fun.

"I honestly didn't think I was going to get through because there were so many talented kids there and I watched so many talented kids audition before me," she said.

Copeland got her start on stage at Nativity where she would perform for a few hundred people. She never thought, at this age, she would perform for a few thousand.

"To accomplish something like this, I don't think it sunk in totally yet for myself."

Copeland won the competition and the prize is a big one.

If she wants, she can now sign with a Catholic record label called Heartbeat Records and perform in a world tour.

But Copeland says singing around the globe isn't her main focus right now.

"I just want to go to college. I just want to go to college, get my degree, and hopefully get on stage."

Copeland hasn't said no to the prize just yet, but she says her true dream is to perform on Broadway.

"It's a wonderful opportunity and I definitely don't want to just let it pass me by, but focusing on college is my main goal right now because I want to major in musical theater."

The prize she truly hopes to win is an acceptance letter from Pace University in New York.

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