With Gratitude: Four Players Leading Seahorse Mikawa U18 to Graduate After the 2025-26 Season, Soaring Towards Their Respective Futures

Thank you for your continued support for Seahorse Mikawa.

Four players, Bingham Castle, Rikuo Sakamoto, Yuta Ochiai, and Tatsuya Ukai, will graduate from Seahorse Mikawa U18 after the 2025-26 season.

This generation, as third-year students in the current season (2025-26 season), made significant contributions to the team's leap forward, achieving the team's first-ever victory in the 'Infronia B.LEAGUE U18 REGIONAL LEAGUE 2025' (Central Division) and securing a spot in the 'Infronia B.LEAGUE U18 ELITE LEAGUE 2025'.

Thank you for your warm support for Bingham, Sakamoto, Ochiai, and Ukai so far.

We celebrate the new beginnings of these four players and look forward to their continued success in their respective future paths.

### Comments from Graduating Players

### #11 Bingham Castle

Finishing three years of activity with Seahorse Mikawa U18, I am now filled with a sense of accomplishment and a little sadness. There were not only fun times but also tough practices and frustrating experiences, but continuing until the end became a great source of confidence for me.

I was able to persevere thanks to my mother and the staff who always supported me. I am truly grateful for them driving me early in the morning and late at night, and coming to cheer me on at away games. I am also full of gratitude to the team staff who supported me for three years. There were many tough practices, but I believe they were strict with us because they cared about us, so I am very thankful. And my teammates saved me many times, and we made so many fun memories.

I will continue playing basketball in university, so I will use these three years as a foundation for my future.