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HARTINGTON — Cedar Catholic’s “Mr. Everything,” Brady Hochstein, will hopefully get a little vacation time in this summer before reporting for football camp at Wayne State College in August where he will begin a new chapter in his life as he joins the Wildcats.
Hochstein is busy after graduating from high school last month and finishing a successful track campaign in Omaha.... and don’t forget baseball.
“I like to be busy,” said Hochstein. “So this is great.”
He traveled to Kearney last week to participate in the 68th Nebraska Shrine Bowl where he played outside linebacker.
“It didn’t go as expected, we lost the game,” said Hochstein. “But it was fun and it was great competing against the best of the best.”
For the record, the South Team won 14-7, but everyone really won.
“We visited the kids at the Shrine Hospital and that was very cool,” Hochstein said. “You realize how much work it is for them just to do anything and it really puts things into perspective and makes you realize all of the blessings you have.
“The game was really fun, they rotated us in and out a lot but the competition was really great.”
He also got more familiar with some of his future teammates.
“There were five or six guys who will be going to Wayne this fall so I got to know some of them,” he said. “I don’t remember all of their names, but at least I will recognize their faces. It’s really an exciting time for me.”
This week, he already won a baseball game on the mound for the Post 4 Senior American Legion team sending the West Point Senior Legion Bombers back to West Point with a 7-1 loss after practicing Monday for this week’s Northeast Nebraska All-Star Football game which will be played at Veterans Memorial Field in Norfolk.
Cedar Catholic will have four athletes compete in that contest. Jared Rutar, Breiton Whitmire and Sam Wielbehaus will also compete in Norfolk. Hartington-Newcastle’s Mason Krause and Carter Kelly are also listed on the roster, along with Kotner Koch from Wynot.
“That will be fun to get to play with them one last time. We’ve already had a practice and it’s going pretty well,” Hochstein said.
The game is set to kickoff at 7 p.m. Friday, June 12 then it’s back to the dugout for Whitmire, Wiebelhaus and Hochstein.
