Multiple draft picks - most recent 1st rounder in 2022 class Mikey Romero
3 consecutive USA Baseball HS invitational title 2017-19 (first program ever to do it)
4 conference championships
De La Sale HC from 2004 - 2008
HC at Analy HS to start his head coaching career in 1999
2000 CIF championship
Long time USA Baseball staff member. Most recently the 18U national team
Incredible person, dad, and mentor
Notes
When you hate losing you have to focus process over the outcome
Focus on the bigger picture and the daily expectations
Create men that is going to be successful as fathers and husbands
When you invest in people there is a lot more return on your investment
Retreat, bible studies, team dinners, community service to build the brotherhood
Never talked about winning! Just about winning the day
Can we rely on you? Can teammate, coaches rely on you?
Take care of the things you can on your own
Playing for a bigger cause!
Doing your part of to your best of your ability
Constantly adapting the team in high school
Sit down and reflect each year and what are we going to have to do to be successful
Establishing the things that are foundational
Adaptability is huge, USA is more on personality driven and being able to communicate
Getting that person to produce as much as possible
High school is over time and through finding out what makes them tick
USA is maximizing the hand
To truly build relationships you have to know the person beyond what they do
Open the air to build trust
We all have to be able to trust one another
Doing it for 25 guys
Fall is for evaluation period
Winter is for retreat
Goals, internal hurdles
Activities - ropes courses
Bonfire
Chapel service
Team building with parents along with players
More trust you can bring through the parents the more trust you can build more from the players
Extra innings - pizza once a month, meal with parents - halftime of a game to give a “state of the union” address of the program.
Booster committee to be the middle man for communication between staff and parents
Every setback is a setup!
Baseball is a small part of who we are based on the grand scheme of life
The most successful people are people people
The impact that we can have on young men and women are impacting them on what they become - there is so much more rewards for that
The reward is the kids no one knows outside our program
There are always outside influences on us, and if you believe there is something that is helping you then it is helping you. Be disciplined in your choices
Much more intentional with my daughter to build that relationship
Separate dad from coach
Outside of the lines you need to have both
Do you want the dad answer or the coach answer?
Be dad at home
“This is what it takes”
This has to be your drive internally
I want to have more of an influence on his mind that his physical body
Get him thinking right!!
Creating habits for life
Being a sponge and understanding people around you
The people we choose to surround ourselves with have a big impact