This type of brotherhood will last ‘Forever’

Canadian Noah Geekie has been playing baseball in Kansas for four years. 

Geekie, junior physical education major, transferred from Barton Community College to Emporia State for baseball. He grew up in an athletic family where he and his brothers were playing hockey in the winter and baseball in the summer. 

His hometown is in Strathclair, Manitoba Canada. Geekie’s dad is his role model, but both of his parents have been supportive of him his whole life. He has been throwing, catching, and hitting since he was around five or six.  

“Noah comes from a really athletic family, a really good family. They value hard work and on the field they just kinda know what to do,” head baseball coach Seth Wheeler said. 

His recruitment process to Kansas was easy because of technology. His high school coaches would put his film online and that is how Barton recruited him. Emporia found him while he played for the community college and “the rest is history.” 

“We were on him a long time,” Wheeler said. “With him we get two players in one.” 

Geekie’s advice to aspiring college athletes would be to give 110% and to trust the process. He grew up wanting to be a physical education teacher and thinks it’s “pretty awesome” to be at the Teachers College in Kansas. 

Geekie chose ESU because of the atmosphere. 

“The main thing that kinda separated it from everywhere else is how close the community is around the school, around athletics, just within the team,” Geekie said. “Everyone wants you to succeed here, so it was definitely an easy decision for me.” 

His favorite game was in 2017 when he was 17 years old and played in Canada’s version of the Olympics, The Canada Summer Games. His team went to the gold medal games and came out as the runner ups bringing home a silver medal.  

However, his favorite stadium is the Toronto Blue Jays’ Rogers Centre where he had the chance to play during his senior year of high school. 

Wheeler also said that Geekie is one of the best players. 

Geekie doesn’t have a whole game day ritual, but he works out for four hours before every game. He does have a hype song and preferred artist to help him prepare for every game. Justin Bieber and Post Malone’s “Forever “is his current favorite.  

“Yeah, I am a big Justin Bieber fan,” Geekie said. 

Geekie likes how everyone on the team gets along so well and likes each other. 

 “Just the brotherhood and the culture that we have in the baseball program, to me is just like nothing else out there,” Geekie said.