Baseball

Coach Tayson enters his 8th year as the head baseball coach for the Braves and his 11th overall in the program. The Braves had an impressive 2023 playoff run under Tayson, winning three playoff games en route to the North Coast Section Championship game.  The program was also recognized by Cal-Hi Sports with an honorable mention in their statewide Division 4 rankings. In 2022 he was named a finalist for Bay Area Baseball Coach of the Year by West Coast Preps after helping to lead the team to a 20-7 record, a VVAL postseason title, and the NCS semifinals.  In 2018 he helped guide the Braves to the NCS quarterfinals with an opening round upset over Cardinal Newman.  He also coached in the program for the 2014 and 2015 NCS championships 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 three seasons.  Overall, Coach Tayson is now in his 20th year of coaching high school baseball, having 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 as well as serving as a student advisor.  Prior to coming on to JS he worked in several departments and educational roles at Hanna Boys Center from 2015-2018.