Lake View’s Holden Lee Named The NETC Male Student Athlete of the Month

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Dillon — Holden Lee is a junior two-sport athlete at Lake View High School where he has been a three- year member on the Wild Gator football team while also being an outfielder and right-handed pitcher on the baseball team.

This past baseball season he achieved the rare accomplishment of pitching a double header and winning both games in the same day. In football, he an exceptional snapper and wide receiver and he will never forget snapping the ball in the pouring rain in the final seconds of a game against Loris this past season and the made field goal won the game for the Wild Gators. 

For all his athletic and academic accomplishments, Lee has been chosen the December  “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.

In the class room Lee is maintaining a 4.75 GPA.

Entering the second semester of his junior year, Lee’s states that his academic journey has been greatly enhanced by the 10 online courses he has taken so far, though the dual credit courses offered by the “NETC.”

These online Lee has already completed include: Music Appreciation, Probability & Statistics, English Composition, Industrial Safety, Print, Reading, and Sketching, Spanish I, Spanish II, Macro Economics, Ethics, and Theater.     

“I plan on taking several more online courses before I graduate and I should enter the College of Charleston as either a second semester sophomore, or first semester junior,” said Lee. “I like the College of Charleston because they offer a major in Finance with an emphasis on Real Estate. My goal is to be involved in Real Estate after I graduate from college.”

Lee said his favorite online course offered by the “NETC” so far, has been the English course he took. “Taking English Composition allowed me to comprehend and understand my own writing much better,” said Lee. “I liked what I learned from this class very much.”

Lee feels like a high school student learns more by taking online courses. “You have to be disciplined and manage your time wisely when you take online courses,” he said. “The online courses I have taken so far have really helped my GPA and made it very easy for me to qualify for the Life Scholarship funds that you have to qualify for the South Carolina Education Lottery.

“Taking online courses through the “NETC” has allowed me to jump ahead of many of my peers while also helping me knock out many general education courses I will not have to take again in college,” said Lee. “I would encourage any students entering high school in this part of the state to enroll in online courses offered at “NETC.”