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Mark Cain

Coach Cain is honored to be the First Head Baseball Coach of the Wildcats here at Walnut Grove. He is entering his 13th year in education.Coach Cain is a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where he graduated from PIne Bluff High School and was a 4 sport letterman with multiple awards and recognitions, including the Wendy's High School Heisman and Brandon Burlsworth Awards for Arkansas. After high school, he attended Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and continued his playing career, lettering in both baseball and football. The OBU Baseball team was nationally ranked as high as #1 in 2007 and 2008 and were the National Runner-Up in the D-II World Series in 2008. He completed his undergrad at OBU in Secondary Education and Kinesiology. After college, Coach Cain began his coaching career as an assistant under Hall of Fame Coach Kirk Bock at Bryant High School in Bryant, Arkansas. The Baseball program was nationally ranked each year from 2011-2014. The Hornets won 2 State Championships and competed in another during his 4 years at Bryant. Coach Cain relocated to Texas in 2014. He joined the Prosper community by coaching and teaching in PISD. Coach Cain was a part of another State Championship team at Prosper High School in 2015 under Hall of Fame Coach Rick Carpenter. Throughout his Texas coaching career, he has coached at Prosper, Little Elm, Rock Hill and now Walnut Grove High School. 
 
Coach and his wife Shelby live in Mckinney with their 2 daughters, Saylor and Kyndal. He enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf and traveling! Go Cats!
 

Assistant Coach

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Zach Wilson

Coach Wilson is excited to be joining the Wildcats as the Varsity Assistant for the baseball program. This is Coach Wilson's 13th year in Prosper ISD, after previously working at Reynolds Middle School, Prosper High School (2015 State Champions) and Rock Hill High School. Before Prosper, Coach Wilson spent two years coaching in Gunter. Coach Wilson is excited for this school year and to see all the amazing things the Wildcats accomplish.

Coach Wilson has been married to his wife Emily for 13 years, and have two kids. Harper (9) and Hayes (3) are already the biggest Wildcat fans.

Assistant Coach

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Jamie Ball

Coach Ball comes to us from Flower Mound Marcus High School where he has spent the past two years. He has been coaching for 7 years in total, with 2 of those being in the public school realm. This is Coach Ball's first year at Prosper ISD.  

He has been married to his wife Jazmin for 7 years, and they have a 4-year-old daughter, Jada Grace. Coach Ball played college baseball at Hardin Simmons University, where he was an All Conference and All Region player.  He was also awarded "The Kelley College of Business Dean's Award" his senior year. The thing that Coach Ball enjoys most about coaching is seeing his past players go on to have success in different areas of their lives. 
 
Coach Ball's hobbies consist of doing different activities with his family.