Baseball

Coach Tayson enters his 7th year as the head baseball coach for the Braves and his 10th overall in the program. In 2022 he was named a finalist for Bay Area Baseball Coach of the Year by West Coast Preps after he helped lead the team to a 20-7 record and a VVAL postseason title.  The team earned the #2 seed and a semifinals berth in the D-IV North Coast Section playoffs after a quarterfinal victory over Healdsburg.  In 2018 he helped guide the Braves to the NCS D-III quarterfinals with an opening round upset over Cardinal Newman.  He also coached in the JS program for the 2014 and 2015 Division IV section championships and the 2016 section runner up squad. The program has garnered national recognition for academic excellence from the American Baseball Coaches Association in each of the past three seasons.  Overall, Coach Tayson is in his 19th year of coaching high school baseball, having served at Sonoma Valley High from 2005-2012.  At Sonoma Valley he was also on the staff that won the 2008 NCS 3A Redwood Empire Championship.  Coach obtained his BS in Kinesiology with a Coaching Emphasis from Sonoma State University and works full-time on campus as the Director of Communications as well as serving as an advisor.  Prior to coming on to JS he worked in several departments and educational roles at Hanna Boys Center from 2015-2018. Contact Coach Tayson for more information at jtayson@justin-siena.org