{"id":500572,"date":"2026-10-19T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500572\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:28:08","slug":"community-mourns-east-high-athletic-trainer-bobby-rocha-after-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500572\/","title":{"rendered":"Community mourns East High athletic trainer Bobby Rocha after game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Tributes are pouring in across Bakersfield following the death of East Bakersfield High School athletic trainer Bobby Rocha, who was taken away by ambulance during Friday night&#8217;s football game between East Bakersfield and Foothill high schools.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened with less than two minutes remaining before halftime, with Foothill leading 17-0. The game between the Trojans and the Blades came to an abrupt end after Rocha was transported by ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>Players, coaches and cheerleaders from both teams then gathered at midfield for a prayer. The game did not continue, with officials declaring Foothill the winner.<\/p>\n<p>The Foothill High School Trojans football team posted a tribute on its Instagram page after Friday night&#8217;s incident.<br \/>&#8220;Our Trojan football family is heartbroken by the loss of East High&#8217;s athletic trainer, Bobby Rocha&#8230;Our hearts are with his family, friends, colleagues, and the student-athletes whose lives he touched through his care and dedication,&#8221; the post said in part.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792369688_489_.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-10-17 at 8.11.18\u202fPM.png\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"656\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IG: foothill_trojans_football<\/p>\n<p>Several tributes to Rocha began appearing on social media Friday night and continued into Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield College also held a moment of silence before its homecoming football game Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Tributes are pouring in across Bakersfield following the death of East Bakersfield High School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[140230,151,760,155,8783,153,152,193991,138757,193992,193993,2043],"class_list":["post-500572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-athletic-trainer","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-college","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-football","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bobby-rocha","tag-east-bakersfield-high-school","tag-east-high-blades","tag-foothill-high-school-trojans","tag-high-school-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}