Huge Thank You to @CoachCash1 and @esuhornetsfb for guest coaching our annual Bobcat OL camp, we always start every summer where it all starts on Fridays, upfront in the trenches! #OneVision
Our next Bobcat returner is Jordan Kramer. A state qualifier in wrestling, Jordan was a key piece to our offensive success in the trenches last year and returns to anchor the OL in 2026! #OneVision https://t.co/zOR5dpMotH
As we close out a record breaking yr; 12-1 w/ our 1st Sub-State Championship, 3rd Sectional, 7th Regional title, 5th QB to pass for 2,000+yds in the last 6, Broke the school passing TD, Single season tackle & Kicking points record, we move to 2026 #HTF#OneVision
2026 Schedule
After careful consideration I am extremely blessed to be announcing my commitment to @ButlerGrizzlyFB. I am extremely thankful to all the people who to all the people who have invested in me and supported me through this journey. @BobcatFB@RobMessinger@CoachNiccum66
🏆 Sports in Kansas 5A Coach of the Year
Rod Stallbaumer, Basehor-Linwood
A breakthrough more than a decade in the making finally arrived for Basehor-Linwood under head coach Rod Stallbaumer, who guided the Bobcats to a 12-1 season and their first ever trip to the 5A state title game. Though B-L fell to Salina Central in Emporia, the story of 2025 will be remembered not for how it ended, but for how this program finally kicked down the door it had been pounding on for years.
Stallbaumer has built one of the most consistent winners in Kansas high school football. Since taking over in 2014, Basehor-Linwood has recorded 12 straight winning seasons, posted a 95-33 overall record, and averaged nearly eight wins per year, a level of stability few programs in 4A or 5A can claim. Yet the postseason wall remained. For a decade, the Bobcats ran into the Kansas City metro private-school gauntlet, Bishop Miege, St. James Academy, and St. Thomas Aquinas, without a single postseason victory against them.
From 2014-2024, Basehor-Linwood went 0-10 against those three, getting outscored 462-122, including multiple playoff exits that felt like the same story every November. The wins, the respect, the consistency were there, but the breakthrough never came.
Until 2025.
In a program-defining moment, the Bobcats defeated St. James Academy 28-20, a victory that flipped the narrative and finally pierced the postseason ceiling. After years of trying, Basehor-Linwood broke through against one of the very teams that had kept them out. And they did it during a perfect 12-0 run to the title game.
Basehor-Linwood didn’t just win in 2025, they became the version people always believed they could be. The version the community kept waiting for. The version Stallbaumer kept building toward.
A season that changed perception. A wall shattered. A program elevated.
A decade of consistency met its defining moment and Stallbaumer delivered it.
#sportsinkansas
Last practice of the 2025 season, blessed to get to spend the morning with our Bobcat Football Family! Excited about tomorrow, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in Bobcat Nation! #HTF#OneVision
Basehor-Linwood punched their ticket to the 5A State Title game for the first time in school history after completing a perfect 12-0 season to this point. Head Coach Rod Stallbaumer has done a phenomenal job with a group that has exceeded every expectation. The Bobcats will look to bring home their first-ever state championship on Friday at 2:00 PM in Emporia. #sportsinkansas
@SJA_Gameday@BobcatFB BASEHOR LINWOOD PREVIEW:
On the home sidelines tonight, the Bobcats boast as dynamic a wideout as there is still standing in the Kansas playoffs, @NashMorrison026.
Defensively, we love the tenacity @JacobSh97794250 brings in the middle. An amped but sound tackling linebacker.
GAME DAY!! Regional Play-offs vs. DeSoto tonight at 7pm @ Basehor #HTF#OneVision
- Should be a beautiful night, parking will still be limited so please carpool and arrive early! Link if you can't attend in person: https://t.co/DgKgwXQnii