On April 6, when the MLB announced that the All-Star Game was moving to Denver, John F. Kennedy High School baseball and softball coach Ty Ilaoa never could have known what the decision meant for the Commander program. In just a matter of months, he would discover that the Colorado Rockies would be making a long-lasting change at the southwest Denver school.
After completing a successful, albeit COVID-shortened, softball season in the fall, Ilaoa was preparing for the upcoming Commander baseball season, one that had also been postponed and shortened like all Colorado high school athletics because of COVID.