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LSU commit Kale Fountain lives a baseball life
Kale Fountain is the top baseball recruit in Nebraska for the Class of 2024. (Courtesy: Mike Fountain)

LSU commit Kale Fountain lives a baseball life

FIRTH, Neb. (BVM) – LSU commit Kale Fountain was taking the day off from hitting. He was lifting, throwing and fielding grounders that day so he didn’t have time to make it to the batting facilities. The day off from hitting only lasted until he got home. That’s when Fountain went to the basement with his dad to hit squishy balls while the Atlanta Braves game was on in the background. 

Fountain lives a baseball life in a baseball family. 

“It’s definitely always around us and I wouldn’t trade it for the world,” Fountain said about baseball. 

Fountain’s two younger brothers, Bryce and Trace, play and Bryce played with Kale on the Norris High School varsity baseball team this season. Their parents drive all three boys to practice, games, training sessions and countless national showcases throughout the year. Meanwhile at home it’s a safe assumption that baseball is being viewed on a phone or a television by at least one Fountain family member at any given time.

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Kale Fountain now holds the NSAA state record for career home runs. (Courtesy: Mike Fountain)

Baseball has been a facet of the Fountain family’s life for a long time and the support Kale has received from them as well as others in his life is one of the main reasons he pushes himself to be the best. 

“When I step in between the two white lines, I’m representing something more than myself,” Kale said. “It’s not just me and what I’m about and my brand that got me to where I’m at. There’s a lot of people that go into it…That’s just the thing that keeps me going is just knowing that those people believe in me and no matter what, failure or success, those people are going to love me for who I am.”

What he is currently is the No. 1 third baseman in the nation for the Class of 2024, according to Prep Baseball Report, as well the No. 1 baseball recruit in the state of Nebraska. The LSU baseball commit has been a highly touted baseball player since before he was even in high school.  

Kale entered high school as a Florida State baseball commit which is quite the title for a 14-year-old. Being the “freshman with a D-I offer” brought a level of pressure to live up to but Kale says he loved it. 

“I’d say that the pressure definitely was the best thing that could have happened for me going into high school,” Kale said. “It taught me a lot about myself and it taught me a lot about self control and how to control those nerves, my breathing and also just how to deal with certain things that are thrown your way.”

One of the things that was thrown his way soon after his high school career got underway was two coaching changes at Florida State that prompted his decision to decommit. That brought on its own pressure, but the 6-foot-5 righthander was ready for it. 

He reached out and rekindled relationships with college coaches he had built from the first time he went through the recruiting process. Kale then prepared for a summer in which he would be competing against the best players in the country in summer showcases while also showing scouts why the Seminoles wanted him before he had even played an inning of high school baseball.  

“I had a lot to prove that summer,” Kale said. 

Kale proved it and last October, he announced his commitment to LSU. He went from the eighth grader with a D-I offer to the high schooler who was committed to play baseball for the Tigers and once again, the pressure never got to him.

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Kale Fountain decommitted from Florida State and then committed to LSU last October. (Courtesy: Instagram/@kalefountain)

The junior for Norris High School had one of the best seasons of his high school career. He broke both the NSAA Class B record and the NSAA record regardless of class for career home runs. Fountain reached the milestone in early May when he hit his 25th career home run and still has another season to add to his record. 

Unfortunately, the Titans fell short in the state championship but it was still a special season for Kale. 

“I’ve never been around a group of guys that bought into a culture as much as these guys,” Kale said. “The amount of support that we had for each other, love that we had for each other, so I’d say in terms of my high school career, it’s definitely my favorite year by far.” 

With most of the team returning, including Kale and his younger brother Bryce, Norris is set up for another successful year. It will be Kale’s last season before heading down to Baton Rouge, Louisiana which, of course, will put a different kind of pressure on the young baseball star’s life. 

However, Kale is prepared for any kind of pressure that might come his way. He has an amazing support group and a belief in himself which means that his senior year should be an impressive one.