Episcopal baseball coaches

Mike Jones
Varsity Head Coach
In 2008 Coach Jones starts his seventh year at Episcopal and fifth year as head coach. In 2006, he led the Episcopal varsity team to a state championship.  Coach Jones came to Episcopal from Trinity Christian High School in Jacksonville, where he was the pitching coach from 1998 through 2002. As a player, Coach Jones was selected as a pitcher in the first round of the 1977 draft by the Kansas City Royals organization. He was with the Royals organization for eight years, four of which were at the Major League level.

Tim Eusey
Junior Varsity Head Coach
Varsity Football Defensive Coordinator 
Coach Tim Eusey joined the Episcopal coaching staff in 2005. In addition to coaching the junior varsity baseball team, he has also served as the quarterback coach and offensive coordinator under Coach David Hess. Tim has been a full-time member of the athletic facility grounds staff since 2003. He was a multi-year letterman in football, basketball and baseball at Lee High School, earning first team All-Gateway Conference honors in football. Eusey has nine years of coaching experience at the youth football level, including two years as head coach at Lakeshore Athletic Association. He has an Associate of Arts degree from FCCJ, and is currently working towards his bachelor's degree in criminal justice at UNF.

Tom Stanton
Varsity Assistant Coach
Coach Stanton is entering his seventh year as a member of the Eagle coaching staff. He has experience at many levels of baseball. Stanton was a catcher for six years in the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers organizations. He has coached at the collegiate level serving as a hitting and catching instructor at Florida Community College at Jacksonville. Stanton is a graduate of Middleburg High School and has recently received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Florida in Sports Management.

Rob LaRosa
Varsity Assistant Coach
Coach Rob LaRosa has been at Episcopal since 2002. During his first season, he helped coach the Eagles to their first-ever district championship. In 2006, Coach LaRosa helped lead the varsity team to district, regional and state championships. Prior to coaching at Episcopal, he started River City Travel Baseball in 1992. Coach LaRosa has also coached two AAU national championship teams, Team Florida USA, and the first-ever youth team to achieve three state championships in three different charters within the same season.

Coach LaRosa and his wife, Dorothy, are parents to Episcopal graduate BJ LaRosa ’06, who was a member of the 2006 state championship baseball team.