{"id":467195,"date":"2025-12-23T19:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/467195\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:02:17","slug":"dominic-rocha-named-mvp-of-falcon-football-team-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/467195\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Rocha named MVP of Falcon football team \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Torrey Pines High School senior Dominic Rocha was recently named the MVP of the varsity Falcon football squad, honored by his teammates and coaching staff last month. The Falcons went 4-6 on the season and reached the CIF San Diego Section Division 1 playoffs where they lost to Poway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Dominic Rocha,Torrey Pines football team MVP and soccer team captain. (Anna Scipione)\" width=\"3600\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DMT-L-DOMINICROCHA-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9559249\" \/>Dominic Rocha,Torrey Pines football team MVP and soccer team captain. (Anna Scipione)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt very excited and honored that my teammates thought I made the biggest impact. As well as my coaches on and off the field.\u201d said Dominic, who plays on both sides of the ball as a defensive back and wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic said his hard work and dedication throughout the off-season is what made him so successful this year. He had 965 all-purpose yards and scored seven touchdowns this season \u2014a highlight was a 99-yard return against San Pasqual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDom was always full throttle,\u201d said Coach Scott Ashby. \u201cHe was always giving his best effort and encouraged his teammates to give theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Playing varsity football for the Torrey Pines Falcons was a dream of Dominic\u2019s since he was a kindergartner playing flag football.\u00a0 As a sophomore, he was named the MVP of the JV team and that year he was called up to the varsity squad for the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will never forget the locker room with the boys and bus rides back from the W\u2019s,\u201d Dominic said of what he will take away from his high school football career.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for the dual sport athlete is the Torrey Pines soccer season, where Dominic is a team captain and plays goalkeeper. After graduating high school, Dominic plans to study abroad in Spain and to get his real estate license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Torrey Pines High School senior Dominic Rocha was recently named the MVP of the varsity Falcon football squad,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":467196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7350,35928,7356,172498,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-467195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-del-mar-times","12":"tag-del-mar-times-sports","13":"tag-rancho-santa-fe-review","14":"tag-rancho-santa-fe-review-sports","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115770435574496339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}