DeMatha (Md.) Bud Coombs has drawn plenty of attention as a two-sport star through his high school career, but he’ll kick off his final season of high school baseball as a MaxPreps All-American.
Coombs was one of two Maryland signees honored on Friday alongside Georgetown Prep (Md.) pitcher Austin Weiss, who was also selected to play in the Perfect Game All-America Classic with Coombs.
Via MaxPreps
Coombs: “Coombs was All-Metro by the Washington Post in baseball last spring and in football this fall. He also played in the Perfect Game All-American Classic,” MaxPreps said of Coombs.
Weiss: “Selected to play in the Perfect Game All-American Classic, Weiss also played on the Team USA 18U squad that won the World Cup last summer. He also earned honorable mention All-Metro by the Washington Post.”
Maryland prioritized Coombs through his junior year with assistant Kevin Sumlin spearheading early efforts before Aazaar Abdul-Rahim chipped in on efforts after arriving to the program over a year ago, helping the hometown team beat out Texas A&M and Michigan among others. Coombs eventually became one of two signees at the position with Quince Orchard four-star Iverson Howard, already enrolled at Maryland, rounding out the unit with the freshmen duo expected to make an impact in the 2025 rotation.
While the shifty back proved to be a tough tackle out of the Stags’ backfield over the last two seasons, baseball head coach Matt Swope knows he has a future star coming into the program.
“I was in that early,” Swope told IBG during spring media day. “I've been talking to Bud since eighth grade. I've known his family really closely for a long time. Obviously, being a DeMatha grad myself, like we're interconnected in that way. It's more like a brotherhood. So, you know, I've been talking to Bud for it seems four or five years. Just so great to keep him in state like – he could be a better baseball player than football player. One of those things where ranked in the top-50 in the country as a baseball player and just excited to have him come in. We have a really, really elite class coming in next year with two Maryland guys, Austin Weiss as well out of Georgetown Prep, is really highly touted left-handed pitcher. So keeping those DeMatha guys in house for me is always special in that brotherhood on route one and PG County.”
“Me and Coach Swope have been really close for a long time,” football head coach Mike Locksley said back in December. “And I can remember when he came back as an assistant, and I was here as an assistant, and much like me, a guy that grew up loving the Terps and wanting to be a Terp and was a Terp. We worked together on Bud. I mean, Bud is a tremendous baseball player. He's a tremendous football player. He's a tremendous kid, man. His mom, Sadie, and his dad, Buster, both have done a tremendous job, man. I am so excited because this guy can be the face of a program, both programs and there's no doubt we're gonna give him every chance to excel in both sports here. The game of football, I've been at places where we've allowed – I can remember, you know, Daryl Whitmer, back in our Orange Bowl year, was a successful baseball-football guy. And I remember having spring practice and him leaving out of a scrimmage running, and by the time I got in there, he had his baseball uniform heading over to the turtle to go play in games. And I'm looking forward, and I know our team is of supporting Bud to be able to do both and do both very successfully. So excited for what he has done and will be able to do for both our programs, and he wouldn't here if it wasn't as well for our baseball staff and the job they did recruiting him and selling him on how they plan to use them. So we worked really well together to get that one done and we got a great player out of it.”
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