Borba notes
Bio
- HC at Orange Lutheran for 15 years
- 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
- 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
- Creating habits for life
- Being a sponge and understanding people around you
- The people we choose to surround ourselves with have a big impact
- We can learn 1 thing from everyone
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