Highland County commissioners Terry Britton, David Daniels and Brad Roades issued a proclamation in honor of longtime Whiteoak High School baseball coach Chris Veidt, who will be inducted into the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January.
This has been an impressive week for Whiteoak High School. Longtime baseball coach Chris Veidt was selected to the 2024 class of the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and cross-country runner Landen Eyre won the Southeast District Division III Cross Country Championships at the University of Rio Grande for the second straight year.
There was a time “back when” kids grew up not playing on pristine baseball fields or playing at top-level summer teams, as there was a time when kids – now adults of a certain age – played baseball on their neighborhood sandlots, playing because they loved baseball. Now, Whiteoak head coach Chris Veidt has gone from the small-town sandlots in the 1970s to being selected to the 2024 class of the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.