Kaden put together a record-setting career at the American Legion level as a member of Watertown Post 17 ... was honored as the 2024 South Dakota Legion Coaches' Player of the Year after seeing extensive action both on the mound and behind the plate ... in 2024, batted .360 with five home runs and 50 runs batted in, while adding 115 strikeouts in 67 1/3 innings pitched and holding the opposition to a .152 batting average ... repeated on South Dakota Class A All-State American Legion Baseball Team after setting program's single-season strikeouts record with 145 ... also established program career record with an average of more than 12 strikeouts per seven innings pitched ... also was a first-team selection to the 2025 South Dakota High School Baseball Association Class A All-State squad ... in addition, he posted five consecutive top-10 individual finishes at the Class AA boys' golf state tournament and was a member of back-to-back state championship teams for Watertown High School in 2023 and 2024 ... his father, Heath, played both football and baseball collegiately at Augustana and later played in the Canadian Football League as a quarterback with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Calgary Stampeders from 1995-99
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