DCHS senior Bailey Redmon will be the only DeKalb student to cross the stage at DCHS commencement with a college diploma already in hand in 2017.

Redmon recently graduated from Motlow with a two-year degree. She will graduate from high school Friday night.

“My degree is an associates of art and history,” Redmon shared. “It was a lot of sacrifice, and a lot of time. The classes weren’t all that hard, but I missed a lot of my brother’s baseball games, and missed a lot of social events.”

Redmon began working on her college degree in her second year of high school.

“I started in my sophomore year,” she said. “I plan to go to MTSU in the fall. I’ll be jumping right into my junior year. I’m going to get my bachelor’s degree, and the go on and get my master’s and PhD in history. I want to teach college history.”

She said that the students who accomplished this feat before her spurred her to do it herself.

“I want to thank Matt Boss, because he was the first person I even heard about being able to do this. Also Leah Burchfield and Ashley Barnes, because they did it before me as well, and showed me it could be done. I took a lot of inspiration from them,” Redmon concluded.

Bailey is the daughter of Mike and Elizabeth Redmon, and her brother Grayson is a sophomore at DCHS.