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Tennessee HS Team Preview: Cookeville Cavaliers

February 19, 2025
Prep Baseball Tennessee Staff

The 2025 Tennessee high school baseball season is quickly approaching and, as usual, excitement is abound throughout the state. Players and coaches have been working in preparation for the upcoming season and, as is the case each year, there are some very talented players and teams across Tennessee.

Teams across the state have goals and aspirations to finish their seasons in Murfreesboro at the state tournament championships – but there is plenty of work to be done before that becomes reality. We hope to familiarize our readers with many of the teams across the state as we preview individual teams across Tennessee. We will take you right up to first pitch this season with these team previews, eventually releasing our Preseason Power 25 rankings that’ll carry us into the opening week of action.

Please keep checking back throughout the season as we will be your one-stop shop for everything related to high school baseball across the state. Each week we will be releasing our Players of the Week and updating the Power 25 rankings.

Our 2025 preseason coverage continues today.

High School: Cookeville
Head Coach: Derek Bush
TSSAA Classification: AAAA
District & Region: District 7-AAAA
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 22-9-1 (District Tourney)

 

ROSTER PREVIEW

+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 7
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 4
+ Key Returners:

More Names to Know

2025s:

  • INF Evan Allen (2025)

2026s:

  • INF Cole Teeters (2026)

2025 OUTLOOK

+ The Cookeville High School baseball program comes into the spring coming off a 2024 season where they went 22-9-1 with a very young and talented team. They will return 7 starters along with 4 pitchers. Cookeville has 3 impact seniors returning in 2025’s RHP Jackson Roberts, INF David Owen and INF Evan Allen. Roberts will look to take a more prominent role in the rotation as he pitched primarily out of the bullpen last year. David Owen and Evan Allen both hit in the middle of the order and should anchor a very potent offense. 

The junior class is loaded for Cookeville on the mound and at the plate. 2026 OF Ty Harrison returns as the leadoff hitter and corner outfielder. In the Preseason All-State, Harrison posted a 95 mph exit velocity and a 7.07 60 time. 2026 1B/LHP Landen Severance is a left-handed pitcher that should be one of the main district starters for Cookeville. He recently topped out at 83 mph at the Preseason All-State where he showed tremendous pitchability. Severance will also add pop to the lineup while sharing time at first base. 2026 MIF Tyler Smith will be the starting shortstop and showed good actions at the Preseason All-State while also posting a 7.28 60 time and 86.5 exit velocity. 

Another really talented class for Cookeville will be the sophomore group. Headlining this group is 2027 C KJ Anderson, who is one of the best hitters in the state. Anderson was a big time standout at the Preseason All-State where he put up a 101.4 exit velocity, 7.08 60 time and a 1.9 pop time. Anderson is poised for another big spring as he not only anchors a strong lineup but will be tasked with being a strong presence behind the plate. Along with Anderson will be another impact sophomore in OF Jackson Jones who will return to center field. Jones is a speedy outfielder who also attended the Preseason All-State and put up a 6.95 60 time and 96 exit velocity. 

Coach Derek Bush is excited about his team and believes they can win games in many ways with a strong offense, top of the line pitching and solid defense. Cookeville will be in good position to get through a tough district.

Find more information on Cookeville’s 2025 season below:

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