Riley Eck of Grayson High School, Maxwell Grum of St. Pius X Catholic High School, Artice Hobbs of Newton County High School, Ayden Martin of South Gwinnett High School, Trontavious Tate of South Gwinnett and Micah Williams of Seoul American High School were nominated to the U.S. Military Academy in New York for the class of 2020.

Ella Stevens of Grayson High School was named the Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year.

Aliza T. Kaiman of Marietta graduated summa cum laude from Lynn University.

Sharon McKenna Camara of Brookhaven graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Chujia Wu of Kennesaw graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Kyle Turner of Alpharetta graduated from Bob Jones University.

William Alston Lanier of Atlanta graduated from Hampden-Sydney College.

Miatta Sicarr of Lawrenceville was named to Culver-Stockton College's dean's list.

Holy Innocents' Episcopal School alumnus Davis Love III hit a hole-in-one at the 16th hole durng The Masters at Augusta.

Linda Bain, Dave Butler, Pauline Drake, Cynthia Gentry, Ronald Johnson, Karl Schultz and Esther Stokes of Atlanta were honored by Park Pride as the 2016 Inspiration Award winners.