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The Program.
Rowland Heights, CA · Est. 1964

Since 1964.
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One Town.   One Team.   One Standard.

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One Town. One Team.

The Only High School Football
Program In Rowland Heights.

Rowland Raiders homecoming game — player high-fiving Coach Citos and Coach Peterson with packed stands behind them

Homecoming 2025 · Rowland High School

Rowland Heights has one high school. That means there are no rival programs down the street, no alternatives, no other choice. There is Rowland Football — and there is an entire community watching.

That is a privilege.

In a world of transfers, recruiting, and programs built by pulling talent from everywhere else — Rowland Football builds with the kids who are already here. The same kids from this community. The same neighborhoods. The same streets.

Friday nights in Rowland Heights mean something. The stands fill with families who grew up here, raised kids here, and built lives here. This town doesn't split its loyalty — it pours everything into one team.

Unincorporated. Unbothered. Undivided.

The Culture

The Championship Is Built
In The Offseason.

Before any other program has thought about next year, Rowland Football is already in a room together.

Culture Meetings begin in December — the moment the season ends — because this program operates on one belief: what you do when nobody is watching determines what happens when everybody is.

These aren't film sessions. They're not chalk talks. Players learn mindset. Emotional intelligence. How to understand what they feel, how to express it, and how to use it. They learn the Four H's — their Hero, their Hopes, their Heartbreaks, their History — because you cannot build a team out of strangers.

The lessons don't stay in the room. They show up on the field, in the classroom, and in the community.

Culture Meetings
Every Monday
Starting in December
Training
Year-Round
No Offseason
(except dead period)
Required Reading
Extreme Ownership.
Good to Great.
The Philosophy
Bigger Than
Football

"We are in the business of winning football games and developing young men."

— Coach Citos Marinez, Head Coach · Rowland Raiders Football

Rowland Raiders Football year-round weight room training
Year-Round Training
The Weight
Room.
Rowland Raiders Football culture meeting with players and coaches
Every Monday
Culture
Meetings.

The Coaching Staff

Pride In Where
They Came From.

Coach Citos, Coach Rodriguez, and Coach Cooper didn't just come back to coach football. They came back to give every athlete who walks through these doors the kind of high school experience worth remembering — the kind they had, and the kind they wanted to build on.

Coach Citos Marinez — Head Coach, Rowland Raiders Football, Class of 1999
Class of '99 · Alumni
Coach Citos
Marinez
Head Coach
Coach Cooper — Rowland Raiders Football, Class of 1998
Class of '98 · Alumni
Coach Ronald
Cooper II
Running Back's Coach
Coach Paul Rodriguez — Rowland Raiders Football, Class of 1999
Class of '99 · Alumni
Coach Paul
Rodriguez
Defensive Coordinator

Joined by a staff that shares those same roots — coaches, administrators, and community members who grew up in these same halls, under these same Friday night lights.

Meet The Full Staff

Est. 1964

Six Decades Of
Rowland Football.

The records. The seasons. The championships. The players who wore this uniform before you and the ones who will wear it after. It all lives here.

Explore The History

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