The 6-foot-5, 195-pound senior shooting guard averaged 25.4 points, 8.6 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 2.4 steals and 1.8 blocks per game this past season, leading the Cardinals (19-3) to the Class 4A-Division I Sub-State championship game. Ballock is a two-time Class 4A First Team All-State selection despite missing all but four games of his junior year with an injury. He averaged 20 points per game as a freshman, helping Eudora to the state championship in 2014.
Ballock has maintained a weighted 3.76 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball on scholarship at Creighton University beginning this fall.
Ballock has volunteered locally as a youth basketball coach and as part of multiple community-service initiatives through the Eudora High National Honor Society. "Mitchell makes everyone around him better," said Dave Cash, head coach of Paola High. "He is as well-rounded a basketball player as I have seen at the high school level. He can do a lot of different things to help his team."
