Baseball All-Star Chad Mottola played for St. Thomas Aquinas High School from 1985 to 1989. In his senior season with the Raiders, he led all of Broward County in average, home runs and RBIs and was named to the All-State First Team. After an excellent career at UCF, he was drafted in the first round with the fifth overall pick in the 1992 MLB Draft by the Cincinnati Reds. Mottola played five seasons in the MLB with five different teams. He currently serves as the hitting coach for the Tampa Bay Rays, a position he has held since 2016.
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