2025 KSHSAA Team Preview: Maize Eagles
March 14, 2025
The Kansas high school baseball season kicks off on Mar. 20, opening day for regular season action under KSHSAA regulations. Leading up to opening day, we’ll be publishing our team previews ahead of the 2025 spring season, touching on programs spanning all state classifications, counting down to the official Prep Baseball Kansas Preseason Power 25 Rankings.
Perennially, we’ve submitted a preseason questionnaire to high school head coaches across the entire state. Their responses have been flooding in and we’re using the detailed insight they’ve provided in our team-by-team preseason analysis.
Our 2025 preseason coverage continues today.
Head Coach: Rocky Helm (26 years)
Classification: 6A
2024 Record (Finish): 21-8 (Regional Champions, Lost first round of state)
2025 SEASON OUTLOOK
No. of Returning Position Players: 6
No. of Returning Pitchers: 1
Top Returners:
- C Sam Soderstrom (2025; Iowa Western CC)
- 1B Parker Meirowsky (2026)
- 2B Scotty Hadley (2026)
- SS Brodie Jarvis (2026)
- OF Gavin Short (2026)
- OF Drake Blasi (2027)
- P Luke Ethridge (2025)
Top Newcomers:
- P/INF/OF Jacob Doty (2025)
- Returns from injury
- P Quincy Koehn (2027)
- P/INF Porter Newell (2026)
- P/INF Zane Brungardt (2027)
- INF Beckett Shuette (2027)
Key Players Lost:
- Easton Roth
- Cooper Tannahill (Cloud County CC)
Coach’s Insight: “We return a majority of our position players. We lost most of our innings on the mound and will look for new guys to gain experience in the early season to help make us a very competitive baseball team. The unknown [is] on the mound for us at this time” – Rocky Helm, head coach
Find more information on the 2025 Maize HS Eagles program below:
+ Follow them on X: @MaizeBaseball
+ Visit Prep Baseball Kansas’ 2025 KSHSAA Team Previews page to learn more.
+ If you are a high school coach and didn’t receive our questionnaire, please click HERE to fill out the form