001side. Quay, you make your way up. Quay is a senior who carries a three-point average in the classroom and plays football and track. Offensively, his offensive stats for football, he had 84 receptions, 13 34 yards and 15 touchdowns. He also ran the ball with 82 carries yards. He had 785 and nine touchdowns. And he played both sides of the ball. uh defensive stats, tackles, he had 83 uh four interceptions, two pick sixes, a punt return for TD, and a kickoff return for a touchdown. Uh he meddled in uh the 100 and 200 at numerous track meets this season and his athletic accomplishments uh selected for the north south football game. He is a two-time all region and a two-time all state. Uh he is also the uh a recipient of the Shira alumni Kappa Alphasai
002scholarship and he will attend Newberry College on a football scholarship. Uh quote from head football coach Nick Dixon. Leadership isn't loud and Quake Clark proves that daily. With a solid 3.5 GPA, a strong work ethic work ethic and a humble spirit. He shows his teammates how it's done the right way. Thank you to his mother and father for raising a respectful, driven, and admirable young man. Quake Clark. [Applause] And last but not least, we have Coach David Bird of Terrell High School. Thank you, Dr. King, Dr. Hail, Chair Burch, and board members. Thank you for this opportunity uh to recognize some of our student athletes. Um yeah, I'm gonna have to pull those down for sure. I thought I'd talk a little bit before I had to pull them down, but I do appreciate the
003opportunity uh to recognize our student athletes. And congratulations to all the recipients here tonight. Our first uh athlete is our female athlete of the year for Shaw High School is Sharita Burns. And I'm going ask Sharita to stand up. Um in in attendance tonight is her mother, Tiffany Tony. I appreciate uh Sharita if you want to come on up. Uh Sharita is a senior. uh plays the sports of cheer, basketball, basketball MVP, uh defensive player of the year in basketball, other activities um uh Sharita's involved in which is the lot. Uh, Beta Club 2024, homecoming queen 2025 prom queen, cheer captain, girls basketball captain, volunteer for dress by grace, prom project, hosa member, help to, uh, help tech three program uh, currently doing her clinicals for her certification. Um the comment from her coach uh
004Eddie Chaplan, her basketball coach says, "Sharita was an allaround player who gave 110% every time. Sharita has the best attitude ever. She's always respectful and willing to do whatever needs to be done." And I'll say this too, Sharita, if you've ever seen Sharita play, she gives 110% is probably an underestimate. Um, always a smile on her face, just a tremendous athlete, no better person to recognize. Uh, for our Shir High School player, female player of the year, uh, Miss Sharita [Applause] Burns. Our next award is for our uh male player of the year. Our male player of the year for Sher High School is Deshawn Drake. Uh in attendance tonight is his family. Father Lamont Drake and mother Kai Drake. Lamont, if you want to I mean not Lamont. I knew Lamont would come up
005here in a minute. Deshawn if you want to come on forward. Deshawn is a senior played football and basketball for us. Uh has a GPA of 2.86. Um, uh, AB honor roll, all region in football, all region in basketball, wide receiver of the year in football, leading scorer and assist in basketball, obviously the MVP in basketball for us this year. Um, Deshawn has committed to play football at AI University and only playing two years of football. We begged him and begged him to get him out there and we finally got him out there and I will say this year a tremendous turn he had this year an improvement uh receiver and an opportunity to go play at the next year level by just playing two years of of of football. Um his football coach had
006a quote to say that um describes him Deshawn as a player who has outworked everyone this year and become a complete player and competitor. And I'd like just add that Deshawn just like Sharita are great student athletes. Uh never any issues with the school in the school. If you see them, they're more than willing to help. And the one thing I've noticed from both of them is they help the younger athletes. I've seen them take time to be able to do that when younger athletes have been on their teams. U Deshawn has grown uh tremendously uh not only on the football field and basketball court, but in the classroom as well. Our male player of the year at Shrol High School, Deshawn Drake. [Applause] All right. So, before you all take a seat, because I
007know y'all been standing for a while, um once each school votes on their player of the year, um our athletic directors meet and they vote for one female and one male overall district winner to be the Chesfield County School District PepsiCola of Bennisville athletic player of the year. This year, the votes were so close for both male and female district athletic athlete of the year, it was a tie for both male and female. So this year's Chesterfield County School District Pepsi Cola of Bennisville female co-athletic players of the year are Kai Price from Chesterville High School and Lily Beasley from Mby High School. All right. So, this year's Chesterville County School District PepsiCola of Bennettville male co-athletic players of the year are Jquavius Clark from Chesterville High School and Tyreek Wright from MCBY High School.
008[Music] So, everyone else can step to the side real quick. Now, you all are still special. Now, we going to take a picture with the district athletics of the year. Athletes of the year, excuse me. Now, can we give all of our athletes a round of applause? [Applause] You all may be seated. Thank you. Well done. Now, Mrs. Brun, coordinator of testing and accountability, gives her awards. Good evening, everyone. Tonight, it is my honor to recognize some of our outstanding, hardworking Beta Club students across our district. First, we'll start with Chesterfield Ruby Middle. And students, when I call your name, if you're here, please come to the front. In the science category, and that was Kwick. Okay, we will move on to New Heights Middle School. Aaylor Graves, first place in seventh grade social studies.
009Payton Diesson, first place 3D design. Jeffrey Bu first place 3D design. Dalon Blakey, first place 3D design. Christopher Thomas, first place 3D design. Anthony Smith Cruz, first place 3D design, and Isaiah Scott Johnson, fourth place in sculpture. At this time, I'd like to welcome Miss Sher Young, principal of Mackie High School, to the front to recognize her students. Dr. Hail, Madam Chairperson, members of the board, thank you so much for having me tonight. Uh the MBY High School Senior Beta Club took 40 members to the South Carolina Senior Beta Convention held in Myrtle Beach back in February. These students began working on the different uh competitions that they're going to enter back in August and they spend many hours of preparation in the fall. And that preparation definitely paid off as these members represented MHS
010well and came home with 11 state awards. These students qualify to compete at the National Senior Beta Convention that will be held in Orlando, Florida in June. We have six of those teams and individuals names if they would come forward. In the poetry division two, we had third place winner Ava Aino. In color photography division one, we had a second place award winner and that was Kaylee Chris. In the black and white photography division two, we had another second place winner and that was Eviana Martin. In on-site cake decorating, we had a first place winner and that was Miss Sarah Mims. Coming in third place, our robotics team uh was Tyreek Wright and Gabe Casten. And then in two-dimensional design, we had a third place winning team of Paige Talbert, Lily Beasley, Christa Ki, Kendra
011Olivera, and Carmen Scott. So all these students will have the opportunity to compete at the national level. [Applause] Thank you guys. [Applause] At this time, I'd like to invite Miss Lisa Evans, advisor at Sher High School, to come up and present her students with their awards. Okay. Sorry, a little short. Okay. Um, this year we took 47 students to our state beta club convention and I would like to uh recognize those students. We also are going to recognize our leadership team tonight that went to our leadership conference in uh September or October, I believe. And we have a couple other things we need to recognize for our beta club tonight also. Uh so we placed in I believe it's seven different events including two different ones that we uh did not actually have much experience
012in. In fact, it was the first time for one of the events that one of our young ladies competed in. Um so we would like to recognize Jakar Spivey who took first place in digital portfolio. Uh we also have um our technology team which is Jakar Spy Ja Hudley, Raven Drake, Alli Huggin, and Jaylen Harris for our technology video which we took third place for. Uh we have uh Jaylen Harris who took third place in accessorized design and she will be represented by Raven Drake. Uh Jala Hudley took second place in division 2 quilling. Um and that is the young lady who competed in a competition for the first time ever. In fact learning it this year. Um, we have Tyler Tolson who placed second place in woodworking D2 being represented by Bryson Hunter. We
013have Claire Vanderarch who placed in two different events. Mixed media D1, she took second place. She also took our biomed technology test for 10th grade and placed second place. She is being represented by Kiana Huntley. And we also had uh Miss Hatcher and a large group performing arts that took third place being represented by Kennedy Miller. Um along with those awards, we also went to our leadership and our leadership team was Jakar Spivey, Kiana Huntley, Jala Hudley, Ally Huggins, Raven Drake, Dakota Keith, Jerry Lee Hoder, Bryson Hunter, and Dennis Nolan. And they placed and qualified to compete at our national in Orlando in collaboration connection, lead outside the box, and project proposal. when they will be competing against 100 other teams uh down at national. Uh I would also like to recognize our entire club
014for the following. Um and we are being represented in the state for this one. So if we could have Jakar Spivey come forward. Uh Jakar Spivey and I'm going to try not to cry and he's going to get embarrassed because I'm going to cry. Uh, Jakar Spivey will be representing not only Sherah High School, Chesterfield County, and the state of South Carolina as the president of the Beta Club for the state. [Applause] Now what that also means is he has taken on the charge to compete at our national convention against uh I'm not sure exactly how many at this point but could be in excess of 10 other presidents from the entire United States to be our national president. If he does make national president, he will be representing not only our state but pretty
015much our entire nation as a beta club member. He will be traveling to multiple states. He will be um leading entire conventions and right now national convention I believe has over I believe they said something like 22,000 Beta Club members competing this year uh that are registered at the moment and I'm probably doing something crazy. So if you could give him another hand of applause and also I'm just going to put this in. If you would like to support us, please contact me at Shaw High School. I take any denomination, checks, cash app, anything you got. Okay. Also, uh we are going to recognize our entire club for the following. Uh we are a of course a school of merit for this year but our school actually our club stepped up to the plate so
016to speak. We are a grand slam service school for the state. We took second place with almost 30,000 recorded hours of service which means our students have recorded over a 100 plus hours of service um for the club and we took third in the nation this year. So we are the third highest recorded service club for the nation of beta. So, I would just like to say thank you to my [Applause] students and thank you. Thank you very much, guys. [Applause] All right. Next, we have Miss Sell. She's director of middle and high schools. Make her awards. [Music] Madame Chairman, Dr. Hail, members of the board, this evening I have the distinct pleasure of presenting the Superintendent Art Awards to four very deserving students. Each school in our district submitted one piece of art for
017primary grades K through two, elementary, elementary 3 through five, middle grades and high school. These pieces were reviewed by a panel of judges and the winners were selected. It was a tough decision as though there were so many amazing pieces. The pieces chosen for the superintendent's art award are on display here to e this evening to my left. And um tonight I would like to recognize the following students and ask them if they would please come to the front and be recognized. And if your art teacher is with you, I would like for you to come forward as well. Our first place winner in the primary category is Monteo Martinez Reyes from Petersburg Primary School. The art teacher is Mrs. Autumn Jack. The elementary category, Jade Burgess of Sher Intermediate School and art teacher is
018Mr. Mr. Victor [Applause] [Music] Santos in the middle school category, Sadie Usher from Chesterfield. And in the high school, the winner is Miss Selena Munosa of Central High School and art teacher is Miss Jamie [Applause] Bradford. We would like to encourage all of you to take a moment at the end of this evening to view these winning pieces that will be on display. also um they will be displayed as we said at the district office. So congratulations again to all of our superintendent art winners. [Applause] Thank you and congratulations again. Um my next recognition will be that of students that have attended um either the Governor's School, NETC, USCL, and have graduated or either will graduate with their two-year degree. So tonight, it is an honor and a privilege to recognize this group of young
019people who have gone beyond high school and or they soon will receive their two-year degree or diplomas. The students I'm going to recognize wanted more out of high school and they began reaching out to the local colleges and universities and began their co college careers. Their dream of graduation from high school with a two-year degree began with the option of taking dual credit courses before entering college. and they also were to receive their high school credit at the same time as they would get a college transfer credit. So these students were reaching beyond what we had at in the school district as our high school students. Chesterville County School District aligned our partnership with NETC, USCL, the Governor's School, and other community colleges and universities. These partnerships provided benefits to our students such as receiving
020us receiving a um or achieving a sense of what being in taking college courses was really like. Most dual credit courses are accepted as college transfer and they lead to an associates degree. tuition is cheaper and a good way to gain college credit before entering a 4-year university or college. Um, unlike AP Cam to receive a college credit, whereas dual credits, um, it's the courses that they take as well as other advantages. Chestville County School District is proud to recognize and congratulate 15 students who have earned an associates degree while preparing to graduate from high school. I'd like to ask these students to come forward and be recognized as um and remain for a photo. Now these students most of um them either have graduated in the last two weeks um or either they will
021be graduating within the next week with an associates degree. So at this time if you would come forward I'd like Christina Lee Cante Mattby High School. She has uh is receiving an associate of science degree. Aiden Hughes, MC High School, an associates degree. Lily Beasley, MCBY High School. She will receive an associates in science. Xander Hamilton, Chesterfield High School, will be receiving an associates in science. Emily Oliver, Chesterfield High School, an associates in science. Sarah Dixon, Sher High School, an associates in science. Jania Brown, Cherall High School, an associates in science. Ro Gaskan, Sher High School, an associate in science. Emma Andrews, Mattby High School, associate in science. Mariah Brock, Chesterfield High School, an associate in science. And Bradley Durr, Chesterfield High School, an associate in science. All of these students will be graduating this
022coming Friday from Northeastern Technical College with their associate of science degree. and then the following week will graduate from Chesterville County School District from their schools with a high school diploma. Let's give this [Applause] group now if and if you'll remain at this time I'd like Christian K. Miller to come forward. Shal High School. She is receiving an associate in arts from USC Lancaster. Camelin Kutchen Chesterfield High School, an associates in science. and Porter Karns Chesterfield High School, an associate in science. And these three young folks are all graduates from Lancaster. And I understand they have already been through graduation at USCL. So, let's give them a hand. [Applause]