WORTON — As Kent County High School prepares to pull back the curtain on 2025-26 — practices for all fall sports start Wednesday, Aug. 13 — The Evening Enterprise gives one last shout-out to the outgoing class of headline-makers.
We can think of no finer representatives of Trojan Nation than, listed alphabetically, Isabelle “Izzy” Anderson, Kate Cannon, Ethan Clark and Gavin Larrimore.
They distinguished themselves in the classroom, on the playing fields and in leadership roles.
In voting by the KCHS head coaches, Cannon and Clark were named the outstanding performers and Anderson and Larrimore were applauded for outstanding sportsmanship for the Class of 2025.
Each graduated with Distinguished Honors, i.e., a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.67 on a 4.0 scale, with Certificates of Merit and as Dual Completers (Career and Technology Education plus Spanish 1 and 2).
Across the board, they are pursuing higher education.
Cannon and Clark, with class ranking of No. 1 and No. 5, respectively, have received “free rides,” i.e. full scholarships — Cannon on a Banneker/Key Scholarship to the University of Maryland and Clark on the Rhodes Silver Scholarship to Chesapeake College.
Anderson, with a class ranking of No. 4, is headed to the University of Vermont, while Larrimore, also in the top 10% of the graduating class of 123 students, will attend Washington College.
Cannon earned a total of 11 varsity letters, in field hockey, basketball and softball. Her awards included Coach’s Choice and two-time outstanding sportsman in field hockey; most valuable player on a mostly underclassman 2024-25 basketball team that came within a bucket of winning a region championship; and three-time team MVP in softball.
At College Park, she hopes to play club softball.
Cannon intends to major in kinesiology toward a career as a physical therapist or athletic trainer.
She is the recipient of a Banneker/Key Scholarship, UMD’s most prestigious merit scholarship for newly admitted freshmen invited to the Honors College.
Casting the widest net among the Class of ’25 athletes, Clark earned the maximum 12 letters — in soccer, golf, wrestling and lacrosse — as a triple-threat in each of his four high school years. He was the Coach’s Choice honoree in soccer and the team MVP in wrestling.
Clark won more than 100 career wrestling matches and was a state qualifier. He went 33-3 as a senior, with all three losses in tournament finals, and 14-2 in a junior campaign that was cut short because of injuries.
Clark also was a scoring juggernaut on KCHS lacrosse teams that finished second in the region in 2024 and ’25.
Other things to know about Clark … He was the class vice president and held a manufacturing shop apprenticeship at Chesapeake CNC Manufacturing Center in the program that paired high schoolers in Kent County with local businesses.
He intends to major in business at Chesapeake College, while also holding down a job. He said any sports he plays from now on will be purely for recreation.
Anderson was a four-time letter-winner in volleyball and swimming. It was in the pool that she was especially accomplished as the four-time team MVP and three-time qualifier for the state championships.
She also was the class president.
At UVM, Anderson will major in environmental science and hopes to play club volleyball.
Larrimore played soccer and baseball as a freshman, but then found his game with the Trojans’ indoor and outdoor track programs where he was the outstanding sportsman in both sports. In his junior year he established a school record of 45 feet, 0.5 inches in the outdoor shot put and qualified for the state championships in both the outdoor discus and shot put.
Larrimore also was involved in the Apprenticeship Maryland program, as a landscape management apprentice at Greenscapes Land Care.
At Washington College, he is going in as a business management major with the possibility of a minor in environmental studies.
Larrimore’s matriculation to WAC coincides with the college reinstating its track and field programs, so it’s possible that he will walk on as a competitor in discus and shot put.
Other awards that were presented to the Class of 2025 are listed here.
• Bayside Conference Scholar Athlete Award, presented to a female and a male who lettered in at least two varsity sports in their senior year while maintaining a grade point average of 3.25 or better on a 4.0 scale: Kate Cannon and Ethan Clark.
• 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: Gavin Larrimore.
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.
• Samantha Nicole Roark ’13 Scholarship, presented to an athlete who demonstrates an outstanding work ethic and dedication: Kate Cannon.
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: Paige Miller and Harrison Gibby.
