117 Eric Borba - Orange Lutheran HS / USA Baseball

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
  • 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
• We can learn 1 thing from everyone
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