If there was one word to describe the Stanhope Elmore baseball team this year — it’d be resilience.

The Mustangs rebounded from a 10-25 record last season to 26-16 in 2025 reaching the Final Four for the second time in three seasons. For his efforts, Stanhope Elmore baseball coach DK Shuman is the 2025 Elmore County Baseball Coach of the Year.

Shuman learned a lot about his team during the early stretch where they jumped out to an 11-3 record. However, the Mustangs started to fall in a slump dropping their next six games. But it was their return to the field against Hoover where Shuman saw the true identity of his team.

“There was one game that showed, ‘Oh, these guys are that kind of resilient and capable of beating anybody when they play the right way,’” Shuman said. “We had lost like

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