lighting the way by sharing ideas ICA Winter 2019 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY’S COLUMN Hello Everyone! Hopefully your winter seasons are going well and you survived the winter deep freeze in January! As I was putting together this issue, I was reflecting on leadership. We talk about leadership all the time in ath - letics. Coaches often comment, “He’s a great leader.” “We need leaders on this team.” “How can we develop leadership with our athletes?” “She is a born leader.” But what is leadership? One of my favorite books on developing leadership is Competitive Leadership by Brian Billick, and in his book he says, “It’s not about being Drew Potthoff a perfect leader. It’s about being effective in the way you draw the best from yourself and your team.” Executive Secretary Illinois Coaches As coaches we have to be leaders. Whether you are the assistant freshman coach or the head varsity coach, you Association have a responsibility to be a positive and effective leader for your athletes and your fellow coaches. How do you become a great leader or how can you better lead your staff or team? I have not found one definitive answer to that question. What I have learned through my years as a coach and athletic administrator is that we never stop learning how to lead. We learn from our mentors, from coaches that we had as high school and collegiate play - ers and even way back when we participated in youth sports. Seeking out the people you admire as a leader and talking with them about how they lead and inspire is an ongoing process. It can be fellow coaches, school administrators, business leaders, anyone who leads young people or adults. We need to be great leaders, inspire our athletes to be great leaders, and help them build their leadership skills. The athletes we have today will be the leaders of tomorrow! I hope you enjoy this issue of the TORCH; we have tried to add more coaching content with every issue. We have some great articles this edition including an article about Sally Roberts, the author of “Wrestle like a Girl” that is especially inspirational! Another new venture we are embarking on with the Illinois Coaches Association is hosting, in conjunction with the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association and USA Football, the first Illinois Youth Football Summit in April. Good luck to everyone as we head to the finish of our winter seasons. I look forward to seeing many of you at the state tournaments, clinics and all-star events. The Illinois Coaches Association is here to help you anyway we can. If you need something please do not hesitate to contact us! Coaches, in the end, our career W/L record just won’t matter. It won’t be what we will want others to remember us by. All that will matter will be who we helped, how we went about it & the lasting impression we left on those who crossed our path. live each day with tHAt in mind. NEW FOR THE ILLINOIS COACHES ASSOCIATION We are excited to announce that the ICA website has a new look and many new features that will Benefit our membership. Please go to d www.icacoach.org d Did you know that the Illinois Coaches Association now has a Twitter account? d Follow the ICA, coaches and high schools around the state: @ICA_Illinois d “Coaches Corner” in every Torch that will include articles written by our coaches for our coaches. If you have an article, idea, new drill or special play you would like to share, please send it to me. Email your articles directly to me at [email protected] I have taken the liberty of the first “Coaches Corner” to submit my own article. This article is d for all of the coaches who have had, or will have the pleasure of coaching their own d son or daughter. Coaching your own children can be a challenge, but the rewards can be limitless. The submission is something I wrote for my son when I was coaching him in youth football. Check it out in “Coaches Corner”; I hope you enjoy it. We can’t stress the importance of our corporate partners in the operation of the ICA. Check their website and ad in this edition. Remember - Give them your support!!! They are the lifeline of our programs!!! WHEN PURCHASING, USE THEIR PRODUCTS PLEASE!! Coaches should all be aware an ICA membership includes the $2,000,000 Liability as a benefit. Inform your fellow coaches of this ben - efit and encourage them to obtain a membership. Urge your Athletic Director to take advantage of the school membership and at least purchase for the Head Coaches. At the ICA, we feel this is a benefit which all coaches can take advantage of by becoming an ICA Member. (Check the information in this publication) RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP! TAKE ADVANTAGE OF BENEFITS AVAILABLE. The ICA is constantly working to improve sports activities for young people as well as benefits for coaches. Get Involved! Be a member! Help make a difference! 1 2 Lighting the way by sharing ideas DATES TO REMEMBER INDEX Illinois Coaches Association 1 Executive Secretary’s Continued 2 Adrenaline Fundraising Advertisement Serving All Coaches in All Sports 3 Dates to Remember 1520 Senaca Court / Woodstock IL 60098 3 Sports Chairmen 4 Salley Roberts Article Phone 815-405-3821 5 ICA Scholarship Winners 6 Scholarship Website—www.icacoach.org [email protected] 7 Gatorade 8 Membership March 7-9 & 14-16 ICA conducts 3 point contest at IHSA Boys 9 Ken Jakalski Article 10 Sport Decal State Basketball Tournament 11 IBCA Hall of Fame 12 ICA MC Strong Baseball All Star Game March 28-30 IHSFCA Spring Clinic, Hilton Garden Inn, 13-17 Illinois High Footbal Coaches Association Champaign, IL 18 ICA Shrine Photos 19 Hilton Garden Inn/Homewood Suites TBA Spring Board Meeting 20 MaxPreps June 15 ICA/Shrine All State Game @ Illinois Wesleyan 21 Athletics After School 22 Good Reads, All State Softball Site University 23 Wilson, Porter, Gatorade 24,25 Loomis & Lapann, Inc June 25-26 NHSACA Awards Program - Bismark, ND 26 NHSACA Awards TBA ICA/MC Strong All Star Baseball Game 27 USA Football 28 Three Reasons Corn Crib Stadium< Bloomington, IL 29 Loomis & Lapann 30 JasonFoundation 31 ProTech Achieving Peak Performance 32 Gatorade 33 Riddell 34 WWW.ICACOACH.ORG The Illinois Coaches Association is endorsing Educational Resources as a source for Graduate Level Classes. 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Their is definitely a need for inter - Zach Keene Girls Basketball Macomb HS ested parties to become involved as a high school football official. This a great way Sara Kinney Membership [email protected] Ken Jakalski Boys Track Lisle HS [email protected] to stay involved in high school sports and work with young people. Encourage Ken Jakalski Cross Country Lisle HS [email protected] young people interested in football to pursue this avocation, or at least visit with Lucy Gilbert Softball Deer-Creek Mackinaw [email protected] some veteran official about the benefits of this involvement. Who knows where it Kevin Crandell Football Rochelle HS [email protected] could lead them!! Contact the IHSA 309-663-6377 Ed McNally Soccer Mother McAuley HS [email protected] Jim Caliendo Swimming (Retired) Open Positions Tennis, Volleyball, Lacrosse HELP NEEDED AT GIRLS STATE TRACK MEETS—Due to many conflicts and the overlapping with Boys Sectional Meets, The IHSA Girls State Track Meet has Anyone interested should contact: a need for event officials. Interested parties contact Kraig Garber at Drew Pothoff / ICA /1510 Seneca Court / Woodstock, IL 60098 309-663-6377 or 2715 McGraw Drive, Bloomington, IL 61702-2715 Phone or Fax: 815-405-3821 • [email protected] THERE WILL BE OBSTACLES. THERE WILL BE DOUBTERS. *Remember, we work daily with parents’ most THERE WILL BE MISTAKES. prized possessions, their children. *************************************************** BUT WITH HARD WORK, The ICA is constantly working to improve sports activities for young people as well as benefits for coaches. Get Involved! Be a member! THERE ARE NO LIMITS. Help make a difference! 3 Lighting the way by sharing ideas Sally Roberts ... a life saved through wrestling By Randy Kinred Wesleyan’s Shirk Center for the Midwest World Cup championship and world The goal is to help them “become lead - Laborers 15th annual Midwest Nationals bronze medals in 2003 and 2005. In her ers in life.” She will tell you that starts Wrestling Tournament, lending support sights was a spot on the 2008 Olympic with establishing more high school girls Sally Roberts has a voice and a platform. to a push for more sanctioned girls high team. She was “utterly convinced” it wrestling programs and state tourna - She has earned such things through school state wrestling tournaments would happen.