Chesterfield High School’s Kaylee Leonard Named “NETC” Female Student Athlete of the Month
Kaylee Leonard is a senior and a multi-sport athlete at Chesterfield High School, where she plays basketball, softball, golf and cheers.
Chesterfield — Kaylee Leonard is a senior and a multi-sport athlete at Chesterfield High School, where she plays basketball, softball, golf and cheers. She’s been playing basketball and softball starting about 8 years old in rec league and YMCA league which continued into high school, then she joins the cheer team her junior year and just started playing golf this summer and joined the golf team for the ladies fall season.
Leonard said she enjoys all the sports, but basketball is her favorite. She explained that “basketball is a contact sport and to play it well, it requires playing with a strong mental game mindset.” She went on say that she “enjoys the mental challenge of basketball.” With all extracurricular activities and those demands on her time for school, family, friends, and sports, Leonard explained, that “Dad me early on about being organized and setting priorities. I owe it to him for teaching me the importance of getting my work done and with my NETC and high school schedule, I focus on getting my tech work done before it is due.”
In the classroom she carries a 5.1 GPA, and she has taken NETC classes every semester and summer session since her freshman year. She will graduate with an associate’s degree in science at the same time she receives her high school diploma. As for continuing sports at the next level, she says her priority after high school is her education and she plans to attend USC Columbia where she will pursue a degree in medicine and eventually specialize as an OB/GYN.
For all her athletic and academic accomplishments, Leonard has been chosen the “NETC” Female 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 2026-27 school year to students in the three counties they serve.
Currently, Leonard is enrolled in two dual credit online courses offered by NETC this semester and will continue with two more classes in the spring semester. When asked about what NETC did to help her, Leonard said, “with all the classes and earning my associates degree, this could save me a year’s cost of tuition and time which would equate to really saving money.” When asked how that works into her plan for medical school, she simply stated, “if I’m able to shave a year or more off the classes for my undergraduate degree, which means I’m started medical school sooner.”
Leonard describes her experience with NETC’s online college work as “really great. With online courses, you can take your work with you wherever you are. Being able to take my work with me, kept me up to date in classes anywhere I went.”
As for a favorite sports memory, Leonard says over “the years there are many good memories but one thing that stands out is from basketball and our rivalry with Cheraw. We played every year, developing a nice civil rivalry that I looked forward to and win or lose, it made the game more fun and full of energy.”
