The 2025-2026 Warrior baseball players are ready to face a new season with perseverance, consistency and dedication, after seven seniors graduated last year. The team is hoping to improve from last year's 7-17-1 season and show how much progress they have made in a year. The warriors will face the Speedway Sparkplugs at home on March 31 at 5:30 p.m, hoping to secure a win for the first game of the season.
Head Coach Justin Kamm has been leading the team for the past three years and is hoping to show everyone the skills and abilities he knows the team possesses, as well as their progression from last year. Coach Kamm wants to use this season to focus on pitching and getting the kids to play as much baseball as they can to help the team thrive this year.
“Our focus is always development,” he said. “We allow our young players to play, whether it be JV or varsity, and get better.”
Senior Kaiden Harris will be an outfielder and second baseman for his final season, but he started as a catcher his freshman year. Harris is mentally and physically preparing for the season by focusing on leadership and hitting.
He is excited for his final season of baseball because he gets to experience one more year of baseball and senior activities with his life-long teammate, Dylan Thompson, but he will miss the team and coaches very much. He believes in strong leadership skills as an upperclassman and is hoping to inspire the underclassmen for future years.
“It's hard for high school kids to keep positive when they're getting down,” Harris said. “So we try to keep energy up at all times [with] chants, cheering for our teammates when they're batting, even if they're in a slump, just to try to keep the energy up to be more successful.”
Thompson, outfielder and pitcher, has played for the Warriors all four years of his high school career. Thompson’s main goal this season is to win sectionals while also getting more RBIs, or “runs batted in.” Thompson will miss playing with Harris, his teammate from Little League, but is excited for the senior festivities and to play with his teammates in his final year. He plans to be as motivational as he can be to keep the team environment healthy and the chemistry strong this year.
“I want to improve the team chemistry,” Thompson said. “I feel like over the years, like my freshman year, we had a really good team, my freshman year, because those people had really good chemistry and knew each other for a long time. And I want to have that.”
Thompson and Harris both have one major goal they want the team to achieve this year, which is showing hard work and commitment. They want to encourage the underclassmen to always work hard, even through tough times. Harris and Thompson will lead by example and aim to always have a hard-working attitude to show the underclassmen that hard work pays off in the end.
“I have worked very hard to get where I am, and it is who I am,” Thompson said. “I just want to bring that down on other people, to have that same work ethic to get to a better position for them and for the team, and just make sure they are the best people and teammates they can be.”