Without missing a workout, rising
senior Joseph Crudo lifts hand weights
during Monday's session. Crudo
plays goalie in soccer, infield
in baseball, and running back/
defensive back in football.
(Photo by Ed Piper)
By Ed Piper
"Don't duck the grind."
La Jolla head coach Tyler Roach told the assembled 20 to 25 athletes at the end of a two-hour strength and conditioning workout in the Viking weight room and on the turf triangle in front of the weight room, "From all my years playing and coaching, I know that if you duck the grind, it will come back and get you."
He implored the faithful--including aspiring freshmen fresh off the campus at Muirlands Middle School--to be diligent about the workouts, show up, and truly benefit from new Defensive Coordinator Stephen Dixon's planned-out, timed barbell and hand weight exercises.
Dixon, for his part, newly-returned after serving as an assistant under Roach from 2019-2021, then heading the football program at Escondido High School for three years, told the boys, "Prepare a taco bowl. Have a pound of ground beef, brown rice, black beans, corn," and other ingredients to the tune of 4,000 calories a day during summer workouts leading up to the fall campaign.
In re-introducing himself to a reporter Thursday, June 4, the former Country Day assistant reminded him, "I was here during the Southern California Regional championship season in 2019," when drop-back passer Jackson Stratton was quarterback, and 2021, when a shortened season under COVID restrictions resulted in Roach's squad going 5-0 in the spring and winning the league title, with no playoffs allowed.
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