Dillon High School’s Morgan Leonard Named “NETC” Female Student Athlete of the Month

Dillon — Morgan Leonard is a senior student athlete at Dillon High School, where she has participated in several team sports since the seventh grade. She’s played softball, soccer, Volleyball, and focused on Cheerleading for her junior and senior years. 

She is enjoying her senior year and continuing to take NETC online classes to help prepare for college.

Leonard said she enjoyed playing softball and volleyball and that she experienced joy during her time on the sidelines of football, basketball and cheering. After high school, Leonard plans to attend college to study Biology with plans to attend pharmacy school after graduation.  

In the classroom, she carries a 4.0 GPA, and she says that after high school she has not finalized which school she will attend but the College of Charleston, USC, and Claflin are her top choices.

For all her athletic and academic accomplishments, Morgan 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 2025-26 school year to students in the three counties they serve.

Currently, Leonard is enrolled in dual credit online courses offered by NETC.  She just started taking online classes as a junior, and is completing classes that will fill basic requirements for freshman year of college. She has taken American History, English 101, Algebra and will continue taking classes this spring.  

When asked what NETC does to help her prepare for college after her graduation, Leonard said taking these classes, “The online experience has helped me develop my time management skills, got me use to college classes online, and it will help me save money on college because I will have already fulfilled many of prerequisite classes I already completed.

“It’s been a great experience and the professors were easy to talk to about assignments and deadlines,” said Leonard. “They wanted to help me succeed.” 

Leonard rates the overall experience with the NETC online courses as positive, and she says she is grateful that she got to take these classes that will reduce the number of classes needed once she begins college. 

Leonard reflected on a favorite memory as a cheerleader, “During basketball season, the excitement of the crowd in a close game was intense, but when a player made a half-court shot, it seemed like everyone on the gym was cheering, and in that moment the energy in the gym was unmatched.”