North Adams student-athlete Preston Call balances basketball, soccer, and life ahead

A senior profile that says more than a scoreboard

Preston Call’s story fits North Adams because it is about more than one standout season. The North Adams High School senior, the son of Terry and Amy Call, spent his high school years moving between basketball and soccer while thinking ahead to life after graduation, a path that feels familiar in a small-school setting where student-athletes often carry more than one role at once.

That is exactly why The People’s Defender’s weekly senior student-athlete feature matters in Adams County. It does not just list stats or honors. It shows how a local senior fits into the daily rhythm of school, sports, family and future plans, and Call’s profile does that cleanly.

The small-school reality behind two sports

Call played both basketball and soccer at North Adams, and he says soccer is his favorite. That matters because at a school like North Adams High School, in Seaman and part of the Adams County Ohio Valley School District, multi-sport participation is still part of the culture. The school’s address at 96 Green Devil Dr. is familiar to anyone who follows the Green Devils, but the real story is how much the school expects from students who wear more than one jersey.

For Call, that combination appears to have sharpened his competitive edge rather than spread him thin. When asked what he liked best about high school sports, he answered “Winning.” When asked what he liked least, he chose “Losing.” Those answers are simple, but they tell you a lot about a player who values results, preparation and the feeling of being part of a team that finishes the job.

The profile also gives the community a glimpse of the teenager behind the uniform. His favorite musical artist is Yeat, his dream travel destination is Texas, his favorite movie is Billy Madison and his favorite TV show is Family Guy. Lunch is his favorite school subject, napping is his favorite spare-time activity and Raising Cane’s is his favorite restaurant, details that make him sound less like a generic sports story and more like a real North Adams senior.

Soccer’s big run became the defining chapter

If there is one moment that best captures Call’s high school athletic career, it is his memory of going to districts in soccer. That milestone became part of a season that rewrote North Adams boys soccer history.

The Green Devils finished the 2025 regular season 14-2-1, and Call was a major part of that success with 19 regular-season goals. North Adams then won its first district championship in school history in boys soccer, a breakthrough that pushed the team all the way to the Division V Elite Eight. The season ended with an 18-3-1 record, and that 18-win total set a school record for wins in a season.

That kind of season changes how a program is seen in its own county and beyond. A district title means the team moved from strong local play into the pressure of postseason competition, and for Adams County readers it also meant North Adams was not just winning games, it was making history. In a school setting where athletic success becomes part of the broader community conversation, that is the sort of season people remember.

Call’s role in a balanced offense

Call’s rise was not sudden. In 2024, he was already one of North Adams’ junior goal scorers in a balanced offense that featured six players with at least five goals. That balance matters because it shows the Green Devils were not relying on one player to do everything, even as Call continued to develop into one of the team’s most productive attackers.

By November 2025, the Southern Hills Athletic Conference recognized that impact by naming Call to the boys all-conference team. North Adams coach Kirk Bunn was also honored as SHAC Boys Coach of the Year after leading the Green Devils to a 7-1 conference mark and a school-record 18-3-2 overall record. Those honors help place Call’s season inside a broader team rise, one that made North Adams one of the county’s most visible fall sports stories.

For local readers, that is the useful part of the profile. It shows how one senior’s consistency, paired with a strong coaching staff and a balanced roster, helped turn North Adams soccer into a program with a historic benchmark instead of just a good year.

Basketball, school life and what comes next

Call’s senior year was not limited to the soccer pitch. He also remained active in basketball, and North Adams finished the 2025-26 season 13-6 overall after a March 3, 2026 loss to Portsmouth West. Even without the same kind of historic marker that soccer produced, basketball still represents the other half of his school life, the winter stretch where another set of practices, games and expectations asks the same player to reset and compete again.

That is where his profile becomes especially useful for Adams County readers. It reflects the reality of a small-school student-athlete who has to move from one season to another while still staying on track for graduation and planning for life after school. Call’s future plan is to work in the family business, which ties his next step back to home, work and the community that watched him play.

In that sense, his story is not just about being good at two sports. It is about the kind of student-athlete North Adams still produces: someone who can help deliver a district championship, earn all-conference recognition, finish a basketball season, and then step into adulthood with roots still in Adams County. For a place that knows its schools by name and its athletes by sight, that is the kind of senior profile that lands with real local meaning.