Joe Franco – Monarch Knights Head Coach
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span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" lang="EN">Coach Franco enters his 10th season as the head coach of the Monarch Knights baseball team. He became the head coach after graduating college in 2006 at the age of 22. Coach Franco was a 4-year varsity baseball player for Coral Springs High School from 1999-2002. He was a 2 year captain, in his junior and senior seasons. From there, he went on to play collegiate baseball at Palm Beach Community College in 2003 and 2004 earning a First Team All-Academic selection in baseball for both seasons. After playing 2 seasons at PBCC, Coach Franco received a baseball scholarship to play at Division 1 Chicago State University but instead chose to accept a baseball scholarship to play at Nova Southeastern University where he played the 2005 and 2006 seasons. While playing for NSU at the NCAA Division 2 level, Franco set the single season saves mark (12) his senior year. Coach Franco also was selected to the 2006 All-Sunshine State Conference Team as well as on the Dean's List every semester while at NSU. Coach Franco is the third head coach for the Monarch High School Baseball Program in the school's brief history. He is the longest tenured coach for the Monarch Baseball Program. In 2012 and 2015, Coach Franco was named the Sun-Sentinel 6A, 7A, 8A Broward County Coach of the Year. Coach Franco was also selected to coach the 2012 BCAA All Star game and the 2012 BHSB.com All Star game. In 2015, Coach Franco was selected to coach the 2015 BHSB.com All Star game. 2007: Regular Season: 10-14......District Tournament: 0-1......Overall: 10-15. 2008: Regular Season: 9-16.......District Tournament: 0-1......Overall: 9-17. 2009: Regular Season: 15-8.......District Tournament: 1-1.......Overall: 16-9. 2010: Regular Season: 8-12.......District Tournament: 0-1.......Overall: 8-13. 2011: Regular Season: 11-9.......District Tournament: 0-1.......Overall: 11-10. 2012: Regular Season: 16-4......District Tourn: 2-0 *1st District Title*...Regional Tourn: 1-1......Overall: 19-5 2013: Regular Season: 10-7……District Tourn: 1-1…..Regional Tourn: 0-1…..Overall: 11-9 2014: Regular Season: 14-6......District Tourn: 1-1......Regional Tourn: 0-1.....Overall: 15-8 2015: Regular Season: 18-3.....District Tourn: 2-0.....*2nd District Title*....Regional Tourn: 1-1.....Overall: 21-4 Coach Franco earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University in 2006. He holds three Florida Professional Teaching Certificates in Business Education 6-12, Marketing Education 6-12 and Social Science Education 6-12. |