Years of hard work in the classroom paid off when a pair of Gwinnett County graduates were among the 10 valedictorians honored upon graduation from Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville.

Hannah Coursey, an accounting major who graduated from Lanier High School, and Kasey Bell, a public health major who graduated from Mountain View High School, were cited for their ability to maintain a 4.0 grade-point average throughout their four years of undergraduate coursework