Damien High School offers a quality baseball program that provides opportunities for the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual development of its players and coaches.
Through athletics, student-athletes learn social skills and life lessons that come through true competition: effort, teamwork, sportsmanship, preparation, dignity, worth, and handling adversity. Athletic participation provides opportunities to exhibit sportsmanship and Christian conduct. It encourages hard work and perseverance. It allows the student-athletes to strive and fail, but provides opportunities to start again and achieve success. It also provides opportunities for handling success in a Christ-honoring way.
The goals and outcomes that are inherent in athletics provide for real-life learning that is necessary for functioning in life. Athletics is one avenue at Damien High School that maximizes the gifts and abilities of students and prepares each for the demands of college and the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
Coach AJ LaMonda began his coaching career as part of the staff at Servite High School, where he served as an assistant for four seasons. AJ then spent six seasons as the hitting coach at Orange Lutheran High School. During that time, Coach LaMonda also served as the coach with USA Baseball, developing and scouting players to represent the USA. LaMonda served as an assistant coach at St. John Bosco High School as well as the general manager of the Peninsula Oilers of the collegiate summer baseball program in Alaska.
“I am extremely excited to take over the program with the history and tradition of Damien Baseball,” said LaMonda. “This opportunity to work with the young men in this program on and off the field as they develop into student-athletes of service, scholarship, and faith is the reason I coach. I am looking forward to continuing the proud tradition of Spartan Baseball as we embark on this new era,” added LaMonda.
