Brooks Kettering

Height:
5-11
Weight:
190
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Springfield, Mo.
High School:
Glendale High School

2025: Started in 54-of-55 games in 2025 for the Redhawks primarily at short stop…Finished the season with 48 hits, 18 RBIs, and scored 40 runs… Led the Redhawks for the second-straight season in walks with 46…Recorded a pair of triples and nine doubles…Finished with 13 multi-hit games, including one game with three hits (3/29)…Concluded the season with a .240 batting average over 200 at bats….Finished with three multi-RBI games recording a pair of RBIs in each of those games.

2024: Played and started in 62 games a season ago…Was selected to the Second Team All-OVC and All-OVC Freshman Team…Landed on the All-Regional team at the 2024 NCAA Baseball Regional…Totaled 247 at-bats over the season, finishing the year with a .308 batting average…Recorded 76 hits including 12 doubles, a triple, and nine home runs…Drove in 40 RBIs, totaled 117 total bases, and scored 67 runs…Slugged a.474-percentage, and finished with an on-base percentage of .435...Drew 46 walks and was hit-by-pitch 11 times…Recorded four hits in a game three separate times…Drew five walks in a game against Arkansas at the NCAA Regional tying a SEMO program record for walks in a game…Hit a career-high two home runs in the same game against USI at the OVC Tournament (5/24)…Drove in a season-high four RBIs two different times…Fielded a .968-percentage while making 98 putouts and assisting on 144 putouts at second base.

Prep: Graduated from Glendale High School in 2023…Two-time First Team Class 5 All-State selection and three-year First Team All-Conference and First Team All-District honoree…Three-year letterwinner for Coach Jim Julian…As a senior, was named Ozarks Conference Co-Position Player of the Year, First Team All-O-Zone, Springfield Lead-Off Club MVP and Glendale Baseball MVP… As a senior, hit .424 with a .520 on-base percentage, .685 slugging percentage and 1.215 OPS as a senior, recording 39 hits, eight doubles, four home runs, 31 RBI, 38 runs and 23 stolen bases…Helped lead Glendale to district championships and Class 5 state quarterfinal appearances in 2021 and 2023…Three-time Missouri Baseball Academic All-State selection and member of the National Honor Society.

Personal: Born October 7, 2004…Son of Lance and Denise Kettering…Also competed in ice hockey from the age of 4-14…Uncle, Brent Thomas was an assistant baseball coach at Missouri State from 1983-2014.