Kent County High School senior Sam Stead on Monday signs her National Letter of Intent to play ice hockey at NCAA Division III King’s College in Pennsylvania.
Kent County High School senior Sam Stead on Monday signs her National Letter of Intent to play ice hockey at NCAA Division III King’s College in Pennsylvania.
WORTON — It’s been a well-kept secret that Samantha “Sam” Stead is an accomplished ice hockey player.
Not so much anymore.
The Galena teenager, who is a senior at Kent County High School, on Monday signed her National Letter of Intent to take her game to the next level.
She is headed in the fall to NCAA Division III King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Stead is making school history as the first — and possibly only — KCHS female athlete to play collegiate ice hockey.
She verbally committed Jan. 9.
Monday’s formal signing was a cozy ceremony in the high school auditorium. Stead, 17, sat all alone on the stage at a table draped with her Philadelphia Junior Flyers club jersey and a Kent County Trojans banner.
After she had put pen to paper, Stead posed for photographs with her parents Mike and Dawn, younger brother Nick, a KCHS soccer player, and close friend and classmate Brooklyn Usilton; Athletic Director Kevin Taylor; and Assistant Principal Aaron Pretlow.
At KCHS, Stead is a member of the National Honor Society and the Student Government Association. Currently she is ranked second in the Class of 2023.
She will attend King’s on an academic scholarship.
A left-handed winger, Stead has been playing ice hockey since she was 7. Last year, the Junior Flyers lost to the Little Caesars of Michigan in the 19U national championship game, 4-1.
King’s is a member of the United Collegiate Hockey Conference, which competes in NCAA Division III as a hockey-only conference. The league consists of 11 schools from Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York.
The inaugural season for the Lady Monarchs was 2017-18.
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