Heather (Krull) Smith Role: Admissions | Athletics | Advancement
Heather Smith and Steve Anderson don’t just share a common school experience from their teen years. Today, they share an office. Heather is Steve’s assistant in the Admissions department and that’s just one of three hats she wears at TC Christian. “I manage to stay pretty busy,” Heather says with a grin. “Between my work with new families and helping the Athletic Director
schedule and reschedule games and tournaments around Covid, you could say my day is pretty full.” Add to that various fundraising events through the Advancement department and it soon becomes apparent that Heather’s office is a real hive of activity. Heather, along with Melissa Wheat, is one of the earliest TC Christian students now working on staff. “My
brother and I arrived at TC Christian in 1995, the year the school opened.” Back then, TC Christian was housed in an old church building on Keystone Road, now the home of City Church. Heather recalls that it was very family focused and a fun place to be. “Everyone was figuring out how to do school together. It was great!” Though a small school, TC Christian packed an educational punch. “The school lived up to its reputation for academic excellence,” says Heather. This came into focus for Heather in a way she hadn’t anticipated. “I loved math,” recalls Heather. “In 7th grade I was learning high school math and in 8th grade my math teacher, Judy Radtke, was preparing me for calculus. Unfortunately, in my sophomore year, I had to transfer out of TCCS to a new school. Thanks to the excellent education I received at TC Christian, I was academically so far ahead of my new peers that I graduated a year early from high school.” In 2003, Heather married Derek Smith, creator and CEO of Naveego,
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