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Fifteen minutes can’t possibly be enough time to sum up what the LSUS Pilots baseball team did in 2025, becoming college baseball’s first undefeated national champion.

But exactly a year after the Pilots dogpiled in Lewiston, Idaho, to celebrate completing a 59-0 season, a 15-minute “mini-documentary” was a fitting bow to put on the aftermath of that epic feat.

“It’s something that will never be forgotten, and these guys deserve to be honored for it forever. But that kind of puts the final piece in place, to honor them with a documentary and let them go back and relive the year with some pieces from it,” said Pilots coach Brad Neffendorf after joining some of the 2025 players, coaches, staff, families and LSUS supporters at Marilynn’s Place Saturday afternoon at the “watch party” for the debut of “Impossible Season.”

“It’s great, a great deal to honor the players,” said Neffendorf. “They have something now that they can go back to and watch forever.”

The film is available on LSUS and LSUS Athletics social media accounts on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Melissa Goslin, an LSUS alumnae who was one of the top directors at the 2025 Louisiana Film Prize competition, spearheaded production of the documentary in conjunction with PrizeFest founder Gregory Kallenberg.

“Honestly, I think we relive it a little bit every day for the entire year that’s gone by,” said Neffendorf. “It’s amazing that it’s one year to the day (of the NAIA World Series victory), how quickly it went by.”

What made the 2025 Pilots so unique and special?

“The amount of investment inside and outside the program everybody had. The biggest deal was the care for everybody else that each individual had,” said Neffendorf. “They weren’t worried about themselves, they were worried about everybody else. That’s hard to find any more. It was the main component to that team and its success.”

This year’s LSUS team had 30 new faces and still won 43 games, reaching the regional finals but falling short of another World Series berth.