2025 – 2026 Senior Class, as of today.
Emma Harman
Laiken Burnett
Holly Miller
Madison Coleman
Brooke Webb
Bailey Allen
As we head into the supposed Off Season, its a great time to reflect on anything new that can be done to assist the six young Student Athletes listed above.
In 2023 this group were Freshman in High School and Carroll County was flirting with the possibility of hanging a second State Championship banner on The Hill. While nobody can say with absolute certainty that it would have happened, I do feel that if Rick Nester has Lauren Alley’s Bat and Glove on his lineup card, we come home to a Parade.
Northside edged us at home and then the Vikings steamrolled the field on their way to the Crown 👑. That team had leadership to spare, including eight members of the Senior Class. They had worked their way through the system and it was their time to shine.
The 2024 season was a positive experience for the ever so young team, which will happen when you graduate 🎓 eight players. The group over achieved and followed the lead of Seniors Emma Leath and Katherine Lindamood.
That was a Top 10 Memory in regards to goofy things people do when they care about others.
The just completed season of 2024-2025 was a setback year for the program and anyone who was part of it knows the reasons why. The Trifecta of Emma Leath graduating, Jeff Tobler shocking passing away during the Christmas break and Holly Miller being lost for the season in the home opener.
Carlie Beamer was the lone Senior on the squad and one would be challenged to find a nicer person walking the earth. But the task of trying to lead the group through the obstacles in front of them should not have fallen on any one person.
Will the book we are working on move the needle for the group of six ? I can’t speak for anyone else but my recent exchange with Cheyenne Strickland makes me want to be better at everything I do. Such an amazing young Lady and she wasn’t the only one from that group.
Our Youth need role models and the 2015 team was stocked full of people to look up to and not just on the ball field.
The challenge here is to right the ship 🚢 and for the six Seniors involved it starts next week at the end of the season picnic. I know each of the six and each brings a special quality to the table. We have the facility, we have the coaching, we have the support of our Administration and we have friends and family 👪 members who support the team.
There are plenty of folks waiting in the wings, from the underclassmen to the Junior Varsity and the Middle School teams. Addie Greene, Natalie Burress, Raylee Goins and Laynie-Jo Leonard should be taking notes 📝 so when its their turn.
Somewhere during the window of team fellowship on Monday night, let’s hope that there’s one moment where one of these six players looks in the direction of her teammates and smiles, the kind of smile that translates to ” We got this.”
Now you know more about the timing of the project, in regards to Page County, Carroll County and myself. The clock ⏰ is ticking and its time to do like the old Buffalo 🐃 Bills, Circle the Wagons.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 