Cheraw’s Kadin Thomas Named “NETC” Male Student Athlete of the Month

Staff Reports • March 18, 2025

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Cheraw’s Kadin Thomas Named “NETC” Male Student Athlete of the Month

Cheraw—Kadin Thomas is a junior two-sport athlete at Cheraw High, where he earned all-region honors this past season as a quarterback on the football team. He is currently playing in the outfield for the AA state ranked Braves high school baseball team.

He threw for over 2,000 yards on his football team with 17 passing touchdowns this past season. Thomas is currently being recruited by The Citadel, Charleston Southern and Elon for football. He will visit Charleston Southern on March, 29^th and The Citadel on April 5^th, In the class room he carries a 3.95 GPA and he has a strong desire to play football at the next level.

For all his athletic and academic accomplishments, Thomas has been chosen the “NETC” Male Student Athlete of the Month.”

This honor is bestowed through a partnership between the Northeastern Technical College and “The High School Sports Report” with the publication communicating with athletic directors at high schools in the counties of Dillon, Marlboro, and Chesterfield, where NETC serves the needs of high school students seeking to earn dual credits in various subjects that can be transferred to colleges after a student’s high school graduation.

The ”NETC” is currently offering over 44 online dual credit courses for the 2024-25 school year to students in the three counties they serve.

Thomas is currently enrolled in two dual credit online courses offered by the :NETC.” They are Probability & Statistics along with Spanish 101.

Thomas has a strong desire of majoring in Sports Management in college.

“Taking online courses through the “NETC” I feel like I am being prepared for what my actual experiences could be once I get to college,” said Thomas. “I am really enjoying the two online courses I am involved with right now, and I plan on taking two more online courses from the “NETC” next semester.

“Taking online courses through the “NETC” not only helps me bump up my GPA, that will help me with my college recruitment, but is teaches me how to manage my time better and learning time management is so important once you get to college,” said Thomas.

Thomas said thar while football is his favorite sport he has been playing baseball since he was 8-years old. “Playing baseball helps me to be a better quarterback in many ways,” said Thomas. “For example, playing baseball, hip rotation is very important when you are batting, or running down a fly ball in the outfield, and good hip rotation is also vital to a quarterback,” said Thomas. “Playing baseball keeps me in shape for football and vice versa.”

Thomas has a favorite play involving himself from this past football season. “We are at Barnwell in the third round of the play-offs and it is like two minutes left in the game,” said Thomas. “I am under pressure from the defense so I roll out of the pocket. On the dead run I threw a 60-yard touchdown pass to one of my receivers (Nick Gordan) in stride for a touchdown.”

Although Cheraw lost the evenly matched game 28-27, Thomas was the star of the game for the Braves. He passed for 274 yards and two touchdowns and he added 63 yards rushing on the ground.

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