It’s the end of the 2025-2026 school year for seniors at Fair Grove High School, and the softball, baseball, and soccer teams have all had their senior nights.
Addyson Nunley (12) has been playing softball for 13 years. She is planning on taking softball to college. “I am continuing my softball career after high school. I will be playing at Crowder College,” she said, “I chose this school because I loved the school, the coach, the team, and the campus truly felt like home.”
Macklen Johnson (12) will be continuing his baseball career in college. Johnson stated, “…Not only because I am playing baseball in college, but I will continue to watch professional baseball, as well as hopefully becoming a high school baseball coach in my future.”
After being on a team for years, memories are bound to be made. Nunley explained, “My favorite Fair Grove softball memory is either eating at Jose Locos after state my freshmen year or doing my daily game day fit checks with Brenna Boatwright.”
She continued, “Before every game we take a video of us and what uniform and hair we’re wearing and I can’t wait to look back on that after the season is over.”
Giuliana Kandlbinder (12) is on the soccer team, and has been playing all four years of her high school career. She added, “My favorite memory from soccer was playing in the rain at the Willard tournament and laughing so hard in the locker room, or scoring my first ever goal against Aurora.”
Kandlbinder explained how soccer has affected her, “Soccer has benefited me as a person, by showing me, you don’t need to be close friends with every single person you know, when you have an entire team that feels like sisters and family.”
She continued, “It has also taught me how to take advice from other people, it’s all about perspective out there on the field.”
Aedan Goins (12) is another senior on the baseball team and has been playing for 14 years. He said, “I think baseball has taught me a lot of life lessons that are very beneficial to making me a better person.”
These athletes have teammates that they became close with over the past few years playing. Kandlbinder said, “I would like to shout out my teammate Cheyenne Miller, she has been there in the ups and downs of soccer, and has taught me how to keep my cool on the field. She also has been a great captain to work with.”
Boatwright shouted out all of the seniors for keeping the game fun, and Johnson shouted out Dylan Azeez (9) for putting in hard work at practice. “I also want to say sorry for smoking him in the calf with a ground ball,” he mentioned.
Overall, these sports have affected all of these athletes and taught them things they will bring into their futures. Johnson explained, “In baseball, if you fail 7 times out of 10, you are considered one of the greatest to ever do it. So, I am able to approach tasks and other things in life being okay with failure because I know I can bounce back and do it right the next time.”
