Red Raiders student-athletes attend a signing ceremony Wednesday.
By MADDY VITALE
OCEAN CITY – Nine seniors who signed on to play sports at their respective colleges and universities attended signing ceremony at Ocean City High School Wednesday, Nov. 13.
From field hockey, crew, softball and baseball to lacrosse, soccer, tennis, cross country and track, students each walked up to the signing table to pose for photos with their families.
Jaden Millstein, 18, of Margate, will be going off to Vassar College in the fall to study neuroscience and play baseball
He also will perform somewhere other than the field – on a piano.
The classic pianist who also can play blues and jazz, performs for senior citizens at assisted living facilities.
He loves the piano so much that he is thinking about minoring it music, he said.
But that won’t affect how much time he devotes to baseball.
Millstein, whose parents and siblings attended the signing, said he has been juggling the two very different passions since he was about five or six years old.
“I love it all,” he said in an interview after his signing. “I think baseball and piano complement each other nicely. For me, they both help me with discipline and perseverance.”
And if he struggles with a piece of music, he said with a laugh, “I just take it into the batting cage.”
Field hockey player Chloe Prettyman, of Ocean City, (seated) with sister, Phoebe, and parents, Jay and Tiffany Prettyman and Athletic Director Geoffrey Haines and Schools Superintendent Dr. Kathleen Taylor pose for a photo.
Chloe Prettyman of Ocean City is happy to say she will be following in her sister Phoebe’s footsteps, when she heads off to college to play field hockey.
Prettyman, 17, will be attending Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, just 30 minutes from Dickenson College in Carlise where Phoebe, a junior, plays field hockey.
“I’m really excited. I love field hockey, and I’m pursuing my dream,” said Chloe, whose record includes being one of the Red Raider’s leaders in assists.
“Shippensburg is a half an hour away from my school. I’ll be able to go and catch some of her games,” Prettyman said.
The girls’ parents, Tiffany Prettyman, an Ocean City School Board member, and Jay Prettyman, chief of the Ocean City Police Department, said they are very proud of their daughters for playing a sport they love in college.
“We are a field hockey family,” said Tiffany Prettyman, who also played in high school.
Six other student-athletes who could not attend the signing ceremony will have their signing in the winter, Athletic Director Geoffrey Haines said.
“This is a very exciting day for us,” Haines told an audience of family and friends in the school library. “As you see, we have great student-athletes. I want to thank the parents. Thank you for the support. Without the parents, we couldn’t be here.”
Student-athletes recognized at the signing ceremony include:
Abigail Craige – Softball, Virginia Weslyan
Ashley Devlin – Lacrosse, Washington College
Emma Finnegan – Crew, Rutgers University
Margaret Kane – Crew, Rutgers University
Jacob McKenna – Baseball, St. Joseph’s University
Casey McLees – Cross Country/Track, LaSalle University
Jaden Millstein – Baseball, Vassar College
Chloe Prettyman – Field Hockey, Shippensburg University
Claudia Scherbin – Crew, Clemson University
The following student-athletes were unable to attend the ceremony:
Carly Reighard – Soccer, Thomas Jefferson University
Abigail Fenton – Lacrosse, Cabrini College
Delaney Lappin, Soccer Drexel University
Jordan Meyer – Tennis, The College of New Jersey
Morgan Pizagno – Field Hockey, Rowan University
Molly Reardon – Field Hockey/Lacrosse, Salisbury University
