Director Tatsuo Okada of Osaka Riseisha High School, who won the national high school baseball championship in the summer, has retired and will take command at Toyo University Himeji High School in Hyogo Prefecture from next year. I thought I'd try again in a messy place. "
Director Okada is 60 years old from Osaka.
In 1987, he became the director of Riseisha, and has led the team to Koshien 13 times in total, 9 times in the spring and 4 times in the summer. I won the national high school baseball championship for the first time.
Since I will reach retirement age as a teacher in March next year, I will retire from the director of Riseisha at the end of the autumn Kinki tournament held last month, and will be appointed as the director of Toyo University Himeji from next year.
Director Okada met on the 4th and commented on his memories at Riseisha, saying, "I started from a place with few members on a narrow ground and experienced a national victory. When I won, one game at Koshien grew my child so much. I realized that I would let him do it. "
Regarding becoming the director of Toyo University Himeji, he revealed that he had been consulted in May and said, "I couldn't give an answer right away, but I thought I'd try again at the place where I was raised. I want to make a strong batting line and make it a team that can win the national championship. I want to take him to Koshien as soon as possible. "