WORTON — Class officers, team MVPs, outstanding sportsmen and scholars.
These are some of the descriptors for the top athletes in Kent County High School’s Class of 2024: listed alphabetically, they are Molly Depp, Jaeda Hoxter, Ryan Myers and Martin Parrish.
In voting by the KCHS head coaches, Hoxter and Parrish were named the outstanding performers and Depp and Myers were applauded for outstanding sportsmanship.
They are all college-bound — Depp to Washington College, Hoxter to Morgan State University, Myers to the University of Maryland, College Park and Parrish to Salisbury University.
Hoxter earned 12 letters in six sports, including four in volleyball punctuated by MVP honors in her senior year.
Hoxter embraced the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association’s new dual-sport option introduced in 2023-24 that allows athletes to play two sports in the same season; that’s how she was able to letter in cheerleading and indoor track last winter.
Over her four years as a Trojan, Hoxter also lettered in softball, basketball and outdoor track and field.
Off the field, she was president of the KCHS chapter of the Minority Scholars Program, vice president of the Class of 2024, carried a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, and walked across the stage on graduation day with various academic honors that included being a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Completer and earning a Certificate of Merit.
At Morgan, she intends to double-major in social work and elementary education.
KCHS coaches were unsuccessful in their attempts to recruit Parrish to winter sports of basketball and wrestling in his “off-season,” as the Salisbury commit stuck with soccer in the fall and lacrosse in the spring. He earned seven letters in just two sports and was the team MVP in five seasons — three in soccer and two in lacrosse.
He led the Trojans to a region title in soccer in 2021, the first in program history, and to a region runner-up finish in lacrosse this spring. He was an All-North Bayside Conference performer in both sports.
Parrish graduated with Distinguished Honors (grade point average of 3.67 or better) and as a STEM Completer.
He is going to play soccer at Salisbury, where he intends to major in entrepreneurship with a minor in marketing.
Depp is headed to Washington College at just the right time to continue her running career as cross country and track and field are to become varsity sports there in 2025-26, after competing on the club level this coming year. A coach already has been hired.
Depp was a year-round runner for the Trojans, lettering three times in cross country, two times in indoor track and four times in outdoor track. As a senior, she was the outstanding sportsman for the cross country and indoor track teams.
Her academic accomplishments include being a Dual Completer (Career and Technology Education plus Spanish 1 and 2) and a STEM Completer, earning a Certificate of Merit and maintaining a grade point average of at least 3.0 throughout her four years.
At Washington, Depp intends to double-major in biology and human development.
Myers also took advantage of the new dual-sport option in his senior year, lettering in both lacrosse and outdoor track and field this spring
All told, he earned 10 letters — four each in football and lacrosse, and one each in indoor track and track and field.
In addition to being the outstanding male sportsman in the Class of 2024, Myers was the class president. He graduated with Distinguished Honors, as a STEM Completer and with a Certificate of Merit.
At Maryland, he intends to major in aerospace engineering and participate in club sports.
While Hoxter, Parrish, Depp and Myers were at the head of the class when Athletic Director Kevin Taylor announced award recipients during the Senior Awards assembly, there were others who also were applauded for outstanding achievement. They are listed here.
• Bayside Conference Scholar Athlete Award, presented to a female and a male who lettered in a varsity sport in their senior year while maintaining a grade point average of 3.25 or better on a 4.0 scale: Drew Davis and Ben Loller.
• Monty Trimble Award, presented annually by the Rock Hall Alumni Association to an athlete who has lettered in at least two varsity sports, maintained a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 and attended grammar school in Rock Hall: Grace Lindsay.
Trimble won 12 varsity letters — in soccer, basketball and baseball — and graduated from Rock Hall High School in 1971, which was the last year for the school. He died in 1980 in a car crash.
• Mark Matthew Blake ’84 Memorial Scholarship, presented to an athlete who combines sportsmanship, athletic ability and high academic standing: Drew Davis.
Blake, a triple-threat in football, wrestling and lacrosse, was killed in a 1988 motor vehicle crash.
• Samantha Nicole Roark ’13 Scholarship, presented to an athlete who demonstrates an outstanding work ethic and dedication: Addisyn Litton.
Roark, who played field hockey, basketball and softball, was killed in a 2016 motor vehicle crash.
• U.S. Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award, presented to a female and a male athlete who display courage and poise on and off the field: Molly Depp and Brady Sutton.
