Emily McCollum is the daughter of Tim and Christy McCollum. In addition to graduating from McCracken County High School, Emily will be graduating from Commonwealth Middle College at West Kentucky Community and Technical College with an Associates Degree in Science. She plans on pursuing nursing at Belmont University, in Nashville, Tennessee, in the fall of 2017. She will be receiving an academic scholarship from Belmont.  Emily spends her free time participating in the musicals at McCracken County High School and she has traveled to Ecuador on mission trips the past four summers in a row, something she plans on doing this summer as well.