There will be a new face on the softball field this season. The district hired Kevin Mosher as head coach for the season.

Mosher is not new to the sport; he has coached softball for 21 years on multiple different teams, serving as an assistant coach at Olathe South, coaching a club team, and he spent three years as the head coach at Shawnee Mission West. He plans to apply many of the lessons he learned over the years to his coaching at the school.

“We want our players to have a say in how things are going,” Mosher said. “We absolutely want their opinion and guidance on what we want to do in the framework of reaching our goals. We want to continually push to be the best softball team that we can on the field.”

After last year’s fourth-place finish state, which was the farthest into the state tournament the team has been since 2019, junior Addison Moeller was disappointed with the results, but she is hoping for more this season with Mosher as their coach.

“We worked very hard to get to where we were, and we just fell short,” Moeller said. “You can’t blame one person; it’s always a team effort. We all know that we could have done more in that semifinal game to win it and get to that championship.”

Moeller believes that Mosher is going to be a positive addition to the program this season hopes that his leadership will help the team make it to state this year.

“He’s so involved with the program, it seems like he really wants us to be exceptional this year,” Moeller said. “All the coaching staff this year is going to be great, and it’s just going to really help the team.”

Junior Olivia Peery is optimistic about Mosher’s coaching style and feels confident about the season because he is prioritizing player feedback and he has a strong track record in the sport.

“Mosher knows what he’s doing,” Peery said. “He’s been in the softball world for a very long time, and we’re all just very excited to get as far as we can and work as hard as we can.”