Ottawa Baseball Recruiting Weekend Camp

A Surprise resident of 23 years, Coach Fallon has tremendous ties to the community, his wife, Natasha has been a teacher for more than 20 years in the Dysart School District and their three boys (Koty, Tanner and Hunter) all attended schools and participated in all city sports right here in Surprise. Each of Fallon’s sons have had the opportunity to play college baseball while earning their degrees, with Koty being selected in the MLB Amatuer Baseball Draft by the San Diego Padres in 2019. Coach Fallon has had the unique opportunity to coach and/or be involved in elementary, junior high, high school, college and professional baseball over his 30 year career in baseball. Not only with his own children, but has personally coached and guided players from age 10 to professional baseball. Motivating, teaching and developing players to succeed in the game (and life) has been a personal mission for 30 years.

• 30 years of Coaching & Scouting Experience – 25 of those years in Arizona

Professional Organizations (Associate Scout)Baltimore Orioles
– Philadelphia Phillies
– Cincinnati Reds
– Los Angeles Angels

• Coached 18 Major League Baseball Players including:
  • Aaron Altherr
  • Kole Calhoun
  • Doug Mathis
  • Brad Mills
  • Dusty Peterson
  • Eric Sogard
  • Donnie Veal & more

• Founded Fallon Sports, helping students find the perfect college. Has personally assisted more than 1,000 students through the process to all levels of college.
  Played and coached at Southern Vermont College, in 1989 was the youngest head coach in the nation at 23 years old.

Coach Cox is a native of Arizona graduating from Maryvale High School (1988), he and his wife Amy of 22 years reside in Glendale and have three kids, two sons (Brandon and Justin) and a daughter (Rileigh).  Coach Cox has been coaching baseball for 27 years in Arizona with 8 years at Mountain Ridge High School where he was able to coach future professional players, Matt Liberatore (1st round/St. Louis Cardinals), Cameron Cannon (2nd round/Boston Red Sox), Matthew Dyer (4th round/New York Mets) and Alex Roth (21st Round/Pittsburgh Pirates) as well as more than 50 players who moved on to play at the college  level.  Coach Cox will lead all of the pitchers and catchers for the Spirit, both varsity and developmental.

Coach Simonis has served 2 seasons as a Developmental Coach & Scout for the United Shore Professional Baseball League. He is the Owner of No Doubt Showcases. No Doubt runs showcase camps and tournaments across the country, helping players learn from and be seen by College Scouts.

Previously, Simonis coached at Wayne State University in 2019 and 2020, where he oversaw the infielders for the Warriors. Wayne State Baseball had it’s best defensive season ever in 2019, position a .972 fielding percentage. The Warriors won 35 games in 2019, which is the second most all-time. Wayne State finished the season ranked 25th in the nation.

Before coaching at Wayne State University, Simonis founded Michigan’s Premier in 2014, a travel baseball organization that has developed many college baseball players. He was an intern Strength and Conditioning Coach at Oakland University. He also completed a practicum where he shadowed Director of Olympic Sports Strength and Conditioning, Mike Favre, at the University of Michigan.

Simonis earned his Master’s Degree is Sports Administration from Wayne State University in 2019. He earned his Undergraduate Degree at Rochester University in 2014 where he played for the Warriors.

Coburn enters his first year at OUAZ, he comes from the University of San Francisco where he has been for the last 3
years. A Southern California native, Coburn attended Huntington Beach High School and was the starting second
baseman for the Oilers 2015 CIF Championship team. For the 2020-21 season, he returned to the program as the
assistant junior varsity coach. Coburn graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Oregon
in 2019. Additionally he graduated with a Master’s degree in Sport Management from the University of San Francisco in
December of 2022. Coburn will work with the infielders and hitters.

Rojas is entering his first season as Assistant Head Coach with the Spirit baseball program. In addition to his responsibilities of working with the hitters of the program and running the offense, he will also oversee the recruiting efforts for all levels of the OUAZ program. Coach Rojas most recently has served as college play-by-play announcer for ESPN the last two seasons working games in the SEC, ACC, Big XII as well as the Big XII tournament, Regionals, and Super Regionals.

Coach Rojas was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Stanley, Kansas and is a baseball lifer. His father, Cookie, played 16 years in MLB and garnered 5 All-Star appearances during his playing career. Coach Rojas followed in the family ‘business’ by playing both at the collegiate and professional levels. Rojas is familiar with NAIA baseball as he began his college playing
career at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. Rather than playing summer ball after his first year, Coach decided to spend the summer in Southern California where Cookie was managing the California Angels. It was while working a summer baseball camp at El Dorado High School that summer that Coach Rojas first met Coach Montez, who was at Pepperdine at the time. Coach Rojas decided to transfer to College of the Desert for his 2nd year of college ball and it proved to be fruitful, as he set the single-season and career home run mark (16) as a switch-hitting 1B/pitcher in his only season for the Roadrunners. Coach Rojas would finish his collegiate career playing for legendary coach, Ed Cheff, at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho in 1990. That Warriors team would go on to win their 6th NAIA National Championship.

Coach Rojas signed with the Angels organization the following summer and as a closer, was named as an Arizona League All-Star. After leaving the game briefly for personal reasons, he began coaching locally in South Florida and ultimately landed as a member of the Florida Marlins coaching staff during their inaugural season in 1993. The following season, he
served as a player/pitching coach under Alan Ashby for the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings in the Texas-Louisiana League.

Post-playing career, Coach Rojas succeeded in various sports front office roles in Arena Football (Anaheim Piranhas), Minor League Baseball (Rancho Cucamonga Quakes), and National Hockey League (Florida Panthers). Additionally, he served as Assistant General Manager and General Manager of the Newark Bears of the Atlantic League for two seasons. During his two seasons in Newark, the club reached the finals both years and won the Championship in 2002.

In 2003, Coach Rojas embarked on an 18-year run as a Major League Baseball broadcaster. He began his career with the Arizona Diamondbacks in the radio booth with Greg Schulte. He went on to spend time in the radio and television booths of
the Texas Rangers (2004-2008), became the first personality to appear on MLB Network when it launched on January 1, 2009, and wrapped his broadcasting career in the television booth of the Los Angeles Angels (2010-2021). Coach Rojas returned to the front office side for two seasons in 2021 as President & General Manager of the Double A affiliate of the Texas Rangers in Frisco, Texas.

Coach Rojas and his wife, Kimberly, have 3 children and one grandchild; Brianna & RJ live in Southern California, Mattingly lives in Phoenix, and Tyler is currently playing baseball at Johnson University in Knoxville, TN.