NOC instructor Chris Storm met former Mavs Landen Johnson and Kamden Edge in Ohio at a college summer league game. (photo provided)
NOC instructor meets former Mavs players at Ohio summer league game
Coincidence of all coincidences.
Northern Oklahoma College Stillwater Science Instructor Chris Storm is a huge baseball fan, specifically of college and college summer leagues.
This summer, while attending an academic conference in Cleveland, Ohio, Storm took an opportunity to drive to eastern Ohio to see the Mahoning Valley Scrappers play the State College Spikes (MLB Draft League).
Storm was hoping to meet former NOC Tonkawa Maverick pitcher Kamden Edge. Edge, who will pitch for Austin Peay University next year, was a student in an online course Storm taught.
“I mistakenly looked at the wrong roster and went to the Spikes (visiting team) dugout, hoping to meet Edge,” Storm said. “Between innings I went to the Spikes’ dugout and asked if they could let #34 (Edge) know that one of his teachers from NOC was here and would love to say hello.”
Storm, though, was in for quite a surprise.
“He came out, we gave each other a fist bump, and I asked him, “Are you Kamden Edge? I was your Earth Science teacher online,” Storm said. “He said he was not Kamden Edge, but did go to NOC Tonkawa and that Kamden Edge is on the other team (Scrappers).”
Storm accidentally met Landen Johnson, a 2024 NOC Tonkawa Maverick who is a first baseman for High Point (NC) University.
“It then started raining and they rolled out the tarp, so I asked the Scrappers if Kamden Edge was there,” Storm said. “He came to visit me from the bullpen (and was very pleasant). Turns out that #34 on both teams went to NOC. Is that crazy or what?”
Northern Oklahoma College, the state’s first public two-year community college, is a multi-campus, land-grant institution that provides high quality, accessible, and affordable educational opportunities and services.
NOC serves nearly 3,100 students through the home campus in Tonkawa, branch in Enid, and NOC/OSU Gateway Program in Stillwater. Of these students about 80% receive financial aid and/or scholarships. 75% of NOC students complete their degree with zero debt.
The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and offers associate degrees in three general areas: Arts, Science and Applied Science; the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs; and the Accreditation Commission for Education and Nursing.
For more information about Northern Oklahoma College please call (580) 628-6208 or visit the NOC website at www.noc.edu.
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