COACHES

Andrew Rafaleowski (Louisiana College, Cedar Valley CC, BRCC)

Andrew "Waffle" Rafaleowski enters his second summer as the league Senior Advisory Coach and Vice President of the RSCBL.  Andrew previously served in assistant and head coaching roles in the league in 2013 and 2014.

Coach Rafaleowski is a native of Pineville, LA but spent much of his childhood in Baton Rouge where he graduated from Robert E. Lee High School where he was a catcher on the Lee High Rebels varsity baseball team.  He went on to play catcher at Baton Rouge Community College in the 2007-2008 season.  He then transfered to Cedar Valley CC in Lancaster, TX where he was a catcher for the Suns baseball team in 2008-2009 season.  He played one more season of college baseball at Lousiana College in 2009-2010.  He later completed his under graduate education in 2013 at Southereastern Lousiana University. 

Coach Rafaleowski has been coaching and instructing in the Baton Rouge area since he finished his collegiate playing career in 2009.  He served as the pitching and catchers coach for Baton Rouge Community College in 2010-2011, he served under the apprenticeship of Bill Daily at Pitch-by-Pitch Baseball Academy from 2010-2012 where he was an assistant hitting instructor and summer baseball coordinators for various 17s and 19s teams.  He owned and operated his own Baton Rouge Thunderducks  tournament team high school and collegiate teams.  He was the assistant coach for the Baton Rouge White sox under head coach Ronnie Rantz in 2010.  Coach Rafaleowski is currently a player manager of the RSABL Dodgers in the RSABL Men's baseball league while assisting in other RSABL organizational efforts. 

Coach Rafaleowski resides in Denham Springs, LA with wife Darah Rafaleowski , daughter Gracie, and son Gunner.

Chris Geronimo (Hillsborough, University of New Orleans)

Jorge Roque (Lamar, Texas Southern, St. Louis Cardinals)

For Coach Jorge Roque developing athletes into scholar athletes is a passion. Baseball has been a part of his family for generations. Jorge’s father Jorge Roque and Uncle Otoniel Velez both played in the Major Leagues and were both inducted into the Hall of Fame in Puerto Rico. His Godfather Felix Maldonado was a part of the Boston Red Sox organization for over 50 years as a player, scout and director of player development in Latin America. Before his passing he was honored by having a baseball park named after him in the Red Sox spring training facility. He was also inducted into the Hall of Fame in Puerto Rico.

Following his baseball roots, Jorge developed a passion for the sport and was awarded collegiate scholarships to both Texas Southern University and Lamar University. After college Jorge went on to play in the National Baseball circuit in Puerto Rico (Double A). That same year he was named Rookie of the Year and was invited to play with the National Team, but was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals where he competed and eventually ended his playing career. 

Coach Roque has a similar outlook and mission in developing athletes and helping them to maximize their potential with baseball through their collegiate career.  Jorge is working actively with the RSABL and his own personally founded Rising Star Athletics Inc. to facilitate his own “Double Play” youth program to offer developmental baseball for youth to help potential prospects work through high school into possible college scholarship and to help ensure they stay on track to achieve these goals.

Contact: Jorge Roque @ Baseball Reference

Link: http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=roque-002jor  

Alex Martin (BRCC)

Carey Ourso

James Johnson

Jon Bolton (LA College, Southern University)

Jose Dupuy (BRCC)

Robert Bordelon (McNeese State)

Coach Robert Bordelon will begin his third season coaching in the RSCBL in 2016, born and raised a purebred Cajun in Marksville, La., has been living in and around Baton Rouge for the past 16 years. He has been a player/manager in RSABL and has been involved with the league for over 10 years.

Robert played 4 years of varsity baseball in Marksville. He received multiple local and district awards and was nominated to the La All State team as a pitcher. In 1997, Robert was invited to attend different showcase tryouts including an invitation from the Atlanta Braves. He also received offers to play college baseball from La College, Louisiana Tech, Southeastern Louisiana, and McNeese State. After spending some time at McNeese State University, following up on an offer to join the baseball program, Robert decided to pursue his education at Louisiana State University as a full time student.

During his schooling, Robert handled several different coaching opportunities with kids of all levels and backgrounds. He also started an interest in umpiring baseball as a career and has worked as high as NJCAA. After several voluntary positions, Robert landed a coaching position at Lee High School in 2005. Then in 2007, he finally landed a more prestigious job at Catholic High School. At CHS, he served in several different coaching roles. They all concluded with a showing at the LHSAA state tournament. In 2010, Robert was rewarded by being part of the 5A LHSAA State Championship team’s coaching staff.

Coach Bordelon currently coaches at Centreville Academy in Mississippi and resides in Norwood, La.  He has 3 children Maddox, Eden, and Kason, and continues to pursue his career in secondary education and coaching.