Repking coaching college baseball
Raiders grad helping out Crown squad
By Casey Krautkramer
Brooks Repking, a 2015 Marathon High School graduate, has made baseball his professional job career.
Repking, the son of town of Hamburg residents Mark and Mary Repking, has come a long ways since he was Marathon’s senior starting first baseman during the team’s 2015 WIAA Division 3 state tournament appearance.
He played first base during his freshman and sophomore seasons at Division 3 Lakeland University in Sheboygan. He then transferred to Division 3 Crown College in Bonifacius, Minn., for his last two baseball seasons. Crown is a private Christian college located west of Minneapolis, Minn.
Brooks Repking started every game during his two-year playing tenure at first base for the Crown College Storm and he was a senior team captain. During his senior college baseball season, the Storm reached the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) playoffs for the first time and they haven’t missed the postseason since. His Crown College baseball uniform number 21 is retired by the school for his leadership on and off the field.
He earned his undergraduate degree in sports management from Crown College in 2019 and his Master’s Degree in organizational leadership from Crown College in 2021.
Brooks Repking served as a Crown College baseball coaching assistant the past two seasons, before becoming his new position last summer as the Storm’s associate head baseball coach. At 24 years old, he is one of the youngest associate head college baseball coaches in the country this season.
In his second year on the baseball coaching staff, the Storm broke 37 school records and finished with the best record in school history as well as the best conference finish in school history. Repking works with Crown College’s hitters and infielders, and in 2021, he helped the Storm finish top 25 in the county in home runs and stolen bases, one of only three teams in the nation to do so. Several Crown College players were on the NCAA leaderboard hitting the ball, with Kyle Schroeldle ending his season in the top five in home runs (17) and Seth Betts finishing the year in the top 10 in steals (32) and triples (9). Betts went on to win the UMAC Player of the Year, the first in the Crown College baseball program’s history.
Following the 2021 season, three Crown College baseball players were selected to all-region teams, with two of them earning roster spots on teams in the premier Northwoods League, a collegiate summer league known for producing Major League Baseball talent. Mason Brock, who was the 2021 UMAC Rookie of the Year, is a great example of how Repking excels at finding and developing talented baseball players.
Last season, Crown College was awarded the Team Academic Excellence Award from the American Baseball Coaches Association. Repking was tasked with keeping the baseball payers academically eligible, so the team winning this award was exciting for him.
Repking credits Marathon High School baseball coach Steve Warren for instructing him to focus on the at- tention to details while playing baseball on the field.
“Coach Warren runs the Marathon baseball program like it’s a college program, which is great for high school kids who love to play baseball,” Repking said. “Coach Warren showed me that small high schools like Marathon and small colleges like Crown College can still be successful in baseball.”
