Submitted Photo Minot North senior Brody Mueller fields a ball at Corbett Field. Mueller was selected as part of the 2025 Class A Baseball All-State Team for his performance last season. Photo courtesy of Brody Mueller

Minot North senior Brody Mueller has been playing baseball since he was three years old, and he doesn’t plan to stop any time soon.

Brody Mueller grew up in Minot and has a family history of baseball. His father, Mike Mueller, played baseball well into his teens, as well as his grandfather, Tom Mueller. Brody said that Muellers even named their new dog Judge after his favorite player. For as long as he can remember, baseball has been a major part of his life. In fact, he says that there were only three years of his life where he wasn’t playing baseball, his first three.

Like many kids whose family loves baseball, Brody started out in tee-ball, but it wasn’t long before he was playing travel ball Magic City Youth Baseball. From there, he started playing high school his freshman year at Minot High. His sophomore year, he played as a Sentinel for Minot North and will stay a Sentinel until he graduates. Now, Brody is entering his senior year of high school, and he says it still feels like a shock,

“I don’t really know how to feel,” Brody said. “I’m still trying to comprehend it, but it’s kind of weird.”

During the last season, Brody was selected for the 2025 Class A Baseball All-State Team as shortstop. He says he didn’t even know about it until after the list was posted. He said his mom was the one that broke the news to him.

“My Mom just found [the list] online after they posted it on the NDHSAA website,” Brody said. “They announced [the members] at the state tournament, but they didn’t tell anyone else whose teams didn’t make it to state. My parents were really excited.”

Brody said that it was a big accomplishment for himself. Since Brody quit playing basketball his sophomore year to focus entirely on baseball, he has been putting in a lot of work to better himself and is proud to have been able to achieve such a feat.

As his career in high school baseball nears its end, Brody has been thinking a lot about where he wants to continue his baseball path. On Sunday, August 24, Brody was able to sit down and chat with Coach Schmich and Coach Boisner from Minot State University. While he is still officially undecided as to where he will end up, he says that he was happy that Minot State was the first school to extend an offer.

“It was pretty nice to have [Minot State] be my first visit and first offer,” Brody said. “Some schools are still talking with me, but it was pretty important to me that Minot State was the first.”

No matter where he ends up, Brody says that he plans to continue playing baseball through college. And while it may be too far out into the future to know for sure, Brody says that it would be really nice to get to play long after college.

“I’ve made some of the best friendships of my life through baseball,” said Brody, “I’ve made some of the best memories that I had [playing baseball] and I never want to take it for granted because now I’m going into my senior year, it seems like it has gone by really fast.”

More than anything, Broday said that it is important to put in the hard work and never give up on being who you want to be. He is excited for his senior season and is looking forward to playing with his team that he says he has been playing with for most of his life. He is comforted knowing that his teammates will be with him and he looks forward to a great final season as a Sentinel.