Baseball

Coach Tayson is now in his 10th year as head baseball coach and 13th overall at Justin-Siena. The 2025 campaign was outstanding, with the highly ranked Braves picking up 20 wins en route to being crowned VVAL champions.  Additionally, the program was named NCS Scholastic Champions for the second consecutive season.  For their success, Coach Tayson was named the Napa County Co-Coach of the Year while also being chosen to coach the North Bay All Star Game for a second time.

In 2024, the team had a banner season that culminated with a final four appearance in the D-III CIF NorCal Championships after decisively capturing the North Coast Section D-IV title. They also earned the NCS Scholastic Championship, pulling off the rare feat of earning both pennants awarded by the section for excellence on the field and in the classroom. At the end of the season the program was ranked #3 in their division statewide by Cal-Hi Sports and #15 among all divisions and schools in the SF Chronicle's final Bay Area rankings. In doing so, Tayson earned a nod as a finalist for Bay Area Baseball Coach of the Year by West Coast Preps in addition to being chosen to the North Bay All-Star Game coaching staff.

The Braves had an impressive 2023 playoff run under Tayson, winning three playoff games en route to the North Coast Section Championship game as well as being recognized by Cal-Hi Sports with an honorable mention in their statewide divisional rankings.

In 2022, Coach was named a finalist for Bay Area Baseball Coach of the Year by West Coast Preps after guiding the team to a 20 wins, a VVAL postseason title, and the NCS semifinals. 


2018 saw the Braves advance to the NCS quarterfinals with an opening round upset over Cardinal Newman. Before becoming the head coach, Tayson was also in the program for the 2014 and 2015 NCS champion teams and the 2016 section runner-up squad. In the classroom, the program has garnered national recognition for academic excellence from the American Baseball Coaches Association in each of the past five seasons.  Overall, Coach Tayson is now in his 22nd year of coaching high school baseball, having previously served at Sonoma Valley High from 2005-2012.  At Sonoma Valley he was 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 in Admissions and Communications.  Prior to coming on to JS he worked in several departments and educational roles at Hanna Boys Center from 2015-2018.