Recently, 116 Seniors from Trinity Christian Academy (TCA) walked the graduation stage and received their diplomas to being their college education at institutions across the country. Among the graduation class were 72 students who called TCA their school from kindergarten-12th grade. Otherwise known as "lifers," these students had some special moments throughout their last year at TCA.

This year’s class boasted seven National Merit Commended Students, eight Eagle Scouts, nine students going on to play varsity athletics at NCAA Division I schools, more than $6 million awarded in scholarships, a class average GPA of 3.89 and more than 22,000 hours of community service in the last four years. Some even developed engineering projects to help a three-year-old with hydrocephalus with his physical therapy, and others recently won three awards from the sixth annual Schmidt & Jones Awards for their performance in the production “Anything Goes.” After spending the last 13 years learning at TCA, many of the lifers will go on to pursue higher education at universities across the nation, including Yale, Northwestern, Virginia, Texas and Texas A&M.