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Talented coxswain headed to Drexel on scholarship
Kennett High senior excelled with Newport Rowing Club and in classroom
Crew anchored the college decision of a Kennett High School senior who recently signed a letter of intent to row with Drexel University, the school district announced.
received an athletic scholarship from Drexel University, a Division I school, where she will be the coxswain for the [...]
Deptula KAU Player of The Week
KENNETT — An outstanding five-inning pitching performance by Kennett Middle School seventh grader Richie Deptula has earned him KAU Little League Player of the Week honors.
The 12-year-old Deptula pitched five innings for his Intermediate Division Optimist team in its most recent victory. He allowed only two earned runs and threw 68 pitches before he turned [...]
Kennett softball clinches league title
KENNETT —Unable to mount much of an offensive attack, Unionville fell to Kennett — which clinched the Ches Mont American Division softball title, Tuesday night.
The Blue Demons’ Brooke Harner pitched a complete-game, five-hitter with seven Ks, leading Kennett (13-5, 13-6) to its first league title since 2009.
The Blue Demons grabbed the lead for good in [...]
MacMillian, Kirkland KAU Players of the week
KENNETT — Two fourth-graders from opposite ends of Chester County are the first KAU Players of the Week for the 2013 season.
Joey MacMillan of the Minor A Division Lehman & Pastino team helped his squad to a 2-0 record during the first week. He recorded the game-winning hit in the 6th inning of an 11-10 [...]
Upland, Kennett win lacrosse titles
Upland boys edge Kennett; Kennett girls take title
EAST MARLBOROUGH — Upland Country Day School hosted the school’s annual Boys’ and Girls’ Varsity Lacrosse Tournament this past weekend.
Kennett Middle School, St. Edmond’s Academy and Interboro School teams traveled to Upland’s campus for a day of strong competition.
Upland’s Boys’ team went undefeated taking First Place after gritting [...]
Standout pole-vaulter achieves new heights
Kennett senior signed letter of intent for Division I university
A Kennett High School senior achieved new heights by signing a letter of intent last week to take her standout pole-vaulting prowess to a Division 1 school, the district announced.
“I am very honored to even be considered a part of University of North Carolina’s (UNC) Division [...]
Teen shutterbugs urged to capture ‘picture of health’
Health Department sponsoring photography contest for high school students
Chester County wants high school students to be the “Picture of Health” – and then photograph it.
The Chester County Health Department is sponsoring the 4th Annual Healthy Photo Contest to promote National Public Health Week from April 1-7.
Any high school student in the county is eligible to enter [...]
Kennett HS student breaks world indoor rowing record for charity
KENNETT SQUARE — When Julia Baumel decides to “pull” for a cause, she doesn’t mess around. This Kennett High School junior and Newport Rowing Club (NRC) varsity rower used the club’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, the “Million Meter Marathon,” to attempt to break the World Record time for the lightweight junior women’s indoor [...]
Rochester sparks Demons to win
EAST MARLBOROUGH — Senior Maalik Rochester scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Kennett High School’s boys’ basketball team past Gospel of Grace Academy of Cheltenham, 60-54 in the Unionville Holiday Tournament, Friday.
The Blue Demons (5-3) ran out to an early lead and seemed to be in total control, leading 37-20 at the [...]
Kennett falls to Esperanza, 52-37
Blue Demons can’t overcome quickness of Philly squad
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — Speed kills. Whether on the highway or a basketball court and it can de decisive to one’s fate.
The Kennett High School boy’s basketball team learned this the hard way, Thursday in the opener of the Unionville Holiday Basketball Tournament, dropping [...]
