Coaching Staff


 
Coach Gil. Navarro 

 

 
Gil. Navarro is presently an Asst. Varsity Baseball Coach at North Cobb Christian School in Kennesaw, Georgia.  As a coach for the Eagles of NCC since 2002, Coach Navarro helped the program Win 2 State Championships, 2 Region Championships and attained 5 playoff appearances. In addition to the success Coach Navarro has brought to the NCC Baseball program, he has help several players go on to experience success in baseball at the college level helping to place 21 of the 26 baseball players he has coached at NCC. These players have been placed in Division I, Division II, Division III, NAIA and Junior College Levels while having several scouted professionally. One of Coach Navarro’s players played in the first World Baseball Classic for South Africa where he faced Team USA, Team Canada, Cuba and others throughout the inaugural tournament.  

Coach Navarro has also been producing nationally top ranked travel teams over the last 10 years. He holds numerous sanctioned State, National, and World Championship titles bringing his career win loss record to 507-169 .750 avg at the end of the 2006 summer season.

Coach Navarro comes from New Jersey where his family lived in exile from Cuba. Coach Navarro’s heritage was surrounded by baseball where his grandfather Luis Navarro was a trainer for the Cuban National team and was inducted into the Cuban Baseball Players Hall-of-Fame. Many of Coach Navarro’s childhood memories included hanging around Cuban ball players that played in the Major Leagues. It was here where Coach Navarro found his love and passion for the game of baseball. Today he runs a successful Information Technology consulting firm were he aides small businesses reach their technological goals, and develops custom business software applications, while coaching baseball in his off time. Coach Navarro was married in August of 1987 to his wife Rosina. They are raising 3 boys (Gilberto, Luis, Daniel) where they currently reside in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Coach Navarro is also a co-founder of STaF Athletics along with partner Coach Chris Stafford. STaF stands for Sacrifice, Teamwork, and Faith.  These three words were the focus of a devotion led by Coach Stafford during the 2002 State Championship run and the name stuck. Coach Navarro and Coach Stafford have focused on a baseball ministry through STaF Athletics and presently have travel baseball teams starting at age 14. STaF Athletics has been building baseball teams since 2003. Since then, STaF has placed numerous athletes from all over Georgia and parts or Florida and Tennessee in various college athletic programs. STaF has had several athletes scouted professionally some of which were drafted by major league organizations. Although the main concentration has been in exposing student-athletes to the collegiate level, there is a process that all potential student-athletes must undergo. Coach Navarro knows how to prepare his players to become marketable and eligible to play at the next level. Through STaF Athletics players will learn what it will take to play athletics at the next level.

The theme verse the STaF Program is Proverbs 16:3 Commit what you do to the Lord and your plans will succeed.  Coach Navarro encourages the teams to commit all that they do to the Lord on and off the field.   

Coach Navarro and Coach Stafford have a vision and a passion of using athletics as a tool to minister. They plan on expanding this vision through the addition of other sports, new facilities, new Christian coaches etc.  

 


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