Coach Andy Rojo

What. A. Team. ⚾️ ❤️ ⚾️ The Braves secure the 2025 CIF-SS Division I title. The first CIF Baseball title in the 85-year history of St John Bosco High School!

Julian Garcia (‘26, CA) @SJBoscoBaseball FB 92 95 2555 RPM | CB 77 2910 RPM CH 86 2150 CB w/ 12-6 shape and big vert break. Feel to spin. Solid command early and filling up zone. Ball jumps out of hand. #NHSI26 #LongBeachSt commit. @California_PG

James Clark (‘26, CA) @SJBoscoBaseball hammers this back UTM for a 2 RBI knock. Ball jumps off barrel w/ quick hands and tons of bat speed. #NHSI26 #Duke commit. @California_PG

Thank you @CholowskyRoch for your friendship with my bro Johnny @JohnBrande2028 during his cancer fight and honoring him by wearing his initials (JB) on your cleats to start the season. He loved keeping in touch with you. My family will always remember your kindness and for bringing the team to his hospital room. He (and we) will always be cheering you on. 🕊️🎗️

High-performing teams don’t just have talent. They live by standards. You’ll always find: 1. Culture built daily 2. Ownership by all 3. A clear standard of excellence 4. Competitive habits in practice 5. Leadership beyond captains 6. Accountability to the team

As a head coach the most important thing you will do is hire good assistant coaches. It’s not talked about enough!

“This is for all young people. Anything is possible with hard work and perseverance and having some thick skin. When you live right, you do the right things, you become an everyday guy,” Byron Smith Make winning a habit not your goal.

"You have to tell the players the truth. If you tell them the truth, they're going to hate you for a day. If you lie to them, they're going to hate you forever." Comfort feeds ego. Truth builds players. Average players resist truth. Elite players demand it.

St. John Bosco baseball wins again with strong pitching against JSerra trib.al/IhuqkFb

“We all depend on each other, even the players on the bench we trust. It’s all a team.” Ohira’s early blast powers Bosco past JSerra for series win Story: westcoastpreps.com/ohiras-early-b…

SHE GONE! USC COMMIT @JhettOhira01 WITH THE 2-RUN 💣 Battles back from being down 1-2 and shows off the quick hands and power B2: Bosco 3, JSerra 0

Strong Culture is built on the things you can CONTROL: ATTITUDE EFFORT BODY LANGUAGE CONSISTENCY COMPETITIVENESS

19 years ago, a high school basketball coach put his team manager into a game for the final four minutes. The kid had never played a single minute of competitive basketball in his life. He scored 20 points. Jason McElwain was diagnosed with severe autism at age two. He didn’t speak until he was five. He couldn’t chew solid food until he was six. He wore a nappy for most of his early childhood. As a baby, he was rigid, wouldn’t make eye contact, and hid in corners away from other children. He tried out for his school basketball team every year and got cut every time. Too small. Too slight. Barely 5’6 and about 54 kilograms. But he loved the game so much that his mum called the school and asked if there was any way he could be involved. The coach created a team manager role for him. For three years, McElwain showed up to every practice and every game. He wore a shirt and tie on match days. He ran drills, handed out water, kept stats, and cheered every basket like he’d scored it himself. On 15 February 2006, the last home game of his final school year, the coach let him suit up in a proper jersey and sit on the bench. With four minutes left and a comfortable lead, the coach sent him in. His first shot missed. His second missed. Then something shifted. He hit a three-pointer. Then another. Then another. His teammates stopped shooting entirely and just kept passing him the ball. He hit six three-pointers and a two-pointer. 20 points in four minutes. The highest scorer in the game. When the final buzzer went, the entire crowd rushed the court and lifted him onto their shoulders. His mum tapped the coach on the shoulder, in tears. “This is the nicest gift you could have ever given my son.” McElwain won the ESPY Award for Best Moment in Sports that year, beating out some of the biggest names in professional sport. He’s 36 now. He works at a local supermarket, coaches basketball, has run 17 marathons including five Boston Marathons, and travels the country speaking about never giving up. When asked about that night, his coach still gets emotional. “For him to come in and seize the moment like he did was certainly more than I ever expected. I was an emotional wreck.”

Team Venezuela vs. Team USA The conclusion to an unforgettable tournament is tonight 🌎 Watch the #WorldBaseballClassic Final at 8 pm ET on @MLBONFOX and @FOXDeportes.

USA. VENEZUELA. FOR THE TITLE 🇺🇸🇻🇪

Down to the last two teams. It's Team USA and Team Venezuela in the #WorldBaseballClassic Final! 🏆

Nick Saban asked his team a simple question: “Do we have show dogs on the team, or do we have hunting dogs?” Show dogs want to be seen. Hunting dogs want to win. The answer tells you everything about your culture. 🏆

Tom Brady: “You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure.”

The weight room is biased. It only rewards those who work. And it will see right through anyone not willing to do it. It’s a truth teller. You can’t fool it. It will let you know exactly where things stand.

The standard isn’t supposed to be easy. The standard isn’t supposed to be convenient. The standard isn’t supposed to be comfortable. The standard isn’t supposed to be normal. The standard requires that we make a choice: will we live our feelings or our standard?

BACK TO THE FINAL 🇺🇸 @USABaseball defeats the Dominican Republic!