SM North’s baseball team will have a new skipper next season after Grant Dreiling, the Indians’ current coach, leaves to take an assistant principal position at SM West.

SM North principal Richard Kramer announced Thursday that the school had hired Girard High School head coach Jason Day to take over the Indians program. Day has been at Girard the past three seasons. In addition to his experience at Girard and other high schools, he was an assistant coach and director of recruiting at Avila University in Kansas City, Mo.

Day graduated from Shawnee Mission schools and went on to play at the college level for Coffeyville Community College, Kansas City Kansas Community College, and Avila.