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Future plans after college? “Pursue a Sports Management career in professional sports.” What is one piece of advice you’d give to an incoming freshman? “Roll with the punches. Times are going to get tough. Stay with God and he will show you the way.”

Then finally our last one for our Senior Spotlight Series… Austin Preiss! Favorite memory from your time at WLC? “Being able to continue to play the game I love while being surrounded by teammates and coaches that I love and care about, and will take that into the future.”

Up next for our Senior Spotlight Series… Lucas Oswald! Favorite memory from your time at WLC? “Watching UFC and PBR with the guys in the hotel.” Future plans? “Strength and conditioning GA.” What is one piece of advice you’d give to an incoming freshman? “Embrace the grind.”

BTT May 16: Limited pics because my @InsideWLC Admissions friends Maddison & Melanie were helping me host the Softball & Baseball LIT…and @AdamHeinzen was serving the adults! It was great seeing athletes from @fvlhs @KMLChargers @LakesideLuthHS @WLHSVikings …thanks for the fun!

You are looking live… Early (in the morning🫩) to bed and early to rise as @AdamHeinzen & I are spending the day at Neumann Family Field as @WLCSoftball & @WLC_Base host four schools for some great Lutheran Invitational action! Let’s go, all the teams! #WLCAdmissions #sleeplater

What is one piece of advice you’d give to an incoming freshman? “Live in the moment and have fun.”

Another one for our Senior Spotlight Series… Adam Meier! Favorite memory from your time at WLC? “American Idol on the way to Florida, and striking out 2 vs. CUC on Senior Day.” Future plans after college? “Going to work for Amazon as an Area Manager.” (1/2)

What is one piece of advice you’d give to an incoming freshman? “Don’t take a game or practice for granted because in the snap of a finger, it can be taken from you.”

Now for our Senior Spotlight Series… Jordan Bierdemann! Favorite memory from your time as a WLC baseball player? “Hanging out with the team in Florida, and winning American Idol.” Future plans after college? “Work for grandpas commercial cleaning company.” (1/2)

What is one piece of advice you’d give to an incoming freshman? “Be a great teammate, work hard, and good things will follow.”

Next up for our Senior Spotlight Series… Eli Michaelis! Favorite memory from your time at WLC? “Spending time with the guys on and off the field.” Future plans? “Pursuing my career in Elementary Education.” (1/2)

What is one piece of advice you’d give to an incoming freshman? “Don’t treat everything like life or death. Have fun. Remember, you won the race. You GET to have bad days.”

Next in our Sr Spotlight Series…Zach Alburg! What is your favorite memory from your time at WLC? “Being able to play on a team that feels like a family.” What are your future plans after college? “Work to conserve our beautiful planet (Environmental Science Major)” (1/2)

Starting off our Sr Spotlight Series is Oliver Lopeztello! Favorite memory? Playing the game I love with my teammates over the years. Future plans? Become a teacher. Advice for an incoming freshman? Put your head down and work, no one cares what you did before showing up.

We’re going to run a “Senior Spotlight” series over the next several days. One last goodbye…for now.

Congrats to Ian Rintelman and Colt Ratliff for receiving NACC Honorable Mention honors!!! Back-to-back seasons landing on the All-NACC team for these two.

Congrats to our newly elected Leadership Team for the 2026-27 Season! @ijrintelman @payton_edlen14 Cody Fredrick @BrettGatch4

Toughest part about the end of the season is saying goodbye to the Seniors. This group is particularly hard to say goodbye to. Incredible, selfless human beings and elite teammates. They’ve been through a lot and left this place better than they found it. We’ll miss you guys!!!

One last time together for the season

Big Hat W Interview II: I moved to the other side of Neumann Family Field to see the 7 seniors of ⁦@WLC_Base⁩ walk off the diamond one last time with a 6-5 win in Game 2 of a DH! I caught up with one of the seniors ⁦@LucasOswald22⁩ for some perspective! #ArmorUp ⚔️