Standing at 6-feet, 6-inches, Brady Chambers ‘24 has always towered over the rest of his peers. He has been tall since grade school, and his height is a major factor in how he got started in both baseball and basketball.

Chambers started playing baseball the traditional way that most kids in the U.S. start, by playing little league baseball. 

“I honestly didn’t really like baseball growing up,” Chambers said. “I started in little league, but then the more I played the more I began to like playing baseball. I started playing travel when I was about a fifth grader but it didn’t become serious until middle school. In middle school is when I realized that I was pretty good at baseball and I took it a lot more seriously.”

When Chambers got to high school he was put on varsity as a freshman. Chambers has been a pitcher for all four years on the baseball team and he has been pitching since he started playing as a kid. Head coach Kevin Diete was quick to spot Chambers’ skills both physically and mentally.

“Other than his skill set, Brady has a quiet yet confident demeanor to him which I believe makes [him] more successful,” Diete said. “Some pitchers can get very emotional which might not work well when things aren’t going well. This is why I believe it’s better to have an ‘even-keel’ approach like Brady does.”

Over these past four years Chambers has established himself as a quality pitcher at the high school level and has been able to prove himself against tough opponents. 

“The best thing about Brady so far is he is just beginning to scratch the surface of his potential,” Diete said. “Last year, he pitched a two-hit shutout against a very tough Downers Grove North team that included 2023 draft prospect George Wolkow, now a White Sox prospect. The team will miss a strong arm that can eat up a lot of innings. We always look at it from the positive side of things and that means someone will have to step up and shine in that same role for next year.”

In the summer before his junior year, Chambers started getting scouted by universities to play baseball in college. It wasn’t until a baseball camp where Chambers received an offer from Michigan State to become a pitcher, which he accepted in his junior year. 

Chambers was also recruited by some DIII teams for basketball but chose to pursue baseball instead. For LT, Chambers has been playing basketball all four years of high school and started playing regularly on varsity in his junior year. 

“Basketball was my favorite sport growing up,” Chambers said.  “I started playing basketball at about 4 years old and I played throughout middle school and it was a given that I would play at LT.”

During his time on the team Chambers has been a presence on the glass, leading the team in rebounds in a season and rebounds per game for the last two years. Rebounds were a major point in Chambers’ game while playing. 

“Brady had a goal at the start of the season that he wanted to average about 10 rebounds per game,” head coach Tom Sloan said. “There aren’t many kids who even think about how many rebounds they want to get, but he knows how important that is to the game and he is willing to be physical and block out and hustle for rebounds. That was a big part of why we were successful this season.”

Chamber’s stature is a big reason why he has been successful on the court. Since he was playing for St. John of the Cross in middle school against his future teammates, he has always been the biggest on the court. 

“Brady is a big kid. He’s not big and thin, he’s sturdy. He’s a strong 6-6 basketball player,” Sloan said. “He’s a big player who has inside-outside skill level. On the offensive end he can shoot it from the perimeter, and can put the ball down on the floor. He can pass well, and he has a variety of ways to score at the basket–and he’s willing and able and enjoys playing at the basket through contact, which is rare to find now.”

Chambers will start playing baseball in the spring of 2025 at Michigan State University.