Davis caps off G-E-T career by being named Coulee Player of the Year
Having already established himself as a first-team All-Coulee caliber player last year, Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau’s Calvin Davis made the next leap during his senior season to assert his place as the best in the conference.
Davis capped off his high school baseball career by being named the 2025 Coulee Conference Player of the Year to go along with his second consecutive spot on the first team. Westby senior Devin Nedland joined Davis among the conference’s top honorees by being named the Coulee Pitcher of the Year.
Davis posted a slash line of .431/.646/.552 for an OPS of 1.198 this season. He led the Red Hawks in runs (26), walks (30) and stolen bases (16) while also finishing second on the team with 22 RBIs.
Despite a shaky start to the spring after making some swing adjustments that led to timing issues, Davis eventually put everything together and fulfilled his goal of being named player of the year.
“I was just super excited for him. It was something that he had kind of set his sights on. He just felt like he had a shot this year to do that,” said G-E-T head coach Scott Hovell. “He’s confident, he feels like he is the best player in the conference, and he wanted to show that.”
A pair of Davis’s Red Hawk teammates also found their way onto the All-Coulee first team as juniors: Caiden Brady and Nathan Holthaus. As sophomores, Holthaus was a second-team selection and Brady was an honorable mention.
Coming off Tommy John surgery after tearing his UCL in the fall, Holthaus was limited to being a designated hitter. He thrived in that role, however, slashing .353/.589/.529 for an OPS of 1.119 and scoring 20 runs.
Brady was G-E-T’s ace on the mound, going 4-2 with a 2.08 ERA and a 47:16 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 43 2/3 innings pitched. He also batted .279 at the plate and drove in 21 runs.
Arcadia senior Login Scow garnered first-team honors as well in his final season with the Raiders. As a pitcher, he posted a 4-5 record with a 3.22 ERA and a 61:18 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 54 1/3 innings pitched. At the plate, Scow had a batting average of .270 and an on-base percentage of .348.
The remainder of the first team featured Onalaska Luther senior Jackson Kendall, West Salem junior Terryn Boland and Westby seniors Nedland, Beckett Brueggen, Gavin Larson and Ben Roethel.
Arcadia freshman Deklyn Grzadzielewski and G-E-T seniors Jackson Burns and Ben Filla were among those selected to the All-Coulee second team. Filla was an honorable mention last year. Other second teamers this spring were Black River Falls senior Aidan Gunderson, Luther senior Gabe Shepard, Viroqua junior Alex Klum and sophomore Jack Olson, West Salem seniors Luke Baginski and Max Diegmann and Westby junior Grady Evenstad.
G-E-T sophomore Sam De Jager earned his way onto the list of All-Coulee honorable mentions, joined by BRF juniors Cole Gearing and Gavin Bolger, Luther senior Devin Larsen, Viroqua seniors Vinny Klum and Alex Hoyum and junior Ryan Kowalczyk, and West Salem sophomore Drew McConkey.
Westby won the Coulee championship this spring with a 10-2 conference record and put together a deep playoff run that brought the Norsemen all the way to a Division Three sectional final.
