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Graduation 2013: Plant City High

 
Sha’caria Lyttle, 18, adjusts her medallion Wednesday before Plant City High School’s graduation event in the Expo Center.
Sha’caria Lyttle, 18, adjusts her medallion Wednesday before Plant City High School’s graduation event in the Expo Center.
Published June 6, 2013

PLANT CITY HIGH

NUMBER OF GRADUATES: 407

VALEDICTORIAN: Sarah Winter

SALUTATORIAN: Molly Coovert

SPEAKERS: Principal Colleen Richardson, assistant principal Traci Durrance, Coovert, assistant principal Peggy Obel, and Winter.

CLASS FLOWER: Four-leaf clover

CLASS SONG: You're Gonna Miss This, by Trace Adkins. The Plant City High School vocal ensemble performed the song during the ceremony.

CLASS QUOTE: "It's not how you start, it's how you finish."

CLASS ACCOMPLISHMENT: The graduates earned over $5 million in scholarships.

BY THE NUMBERS: A record 157 students graduated with honors recognition. Thirty-nine seniors have enlisted in the U.S. armed forces. Sixteen graduates signed to play college sports. Eighty-five percent of the class has committed to college or technical programs in the fall.

Allie Davison, Auburn University, tb-two* staff