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I hope you The Skyhawk leadership, starting at the top will join me this season to cheer on these with Athletics Director, Russ Damhoff, is Greetings Skyhawks, talented athletes to many Skyhawk victories. truly representative of the best Sauk has to Welcome to another exciting season of offer. Sauk’s coaches continuously strive to Skyhawk Athletics! With the guidance and teach our student-athletes the value of hard GO SKYHAWKS! leadership of SVCC coaches and staff, our work, mental toughness, grace in defeat, and student-athletes will compete to the best of humility in victory. DR. DAVID HELLMICH - President Welcome to the 2016 fall sports season at At the end of the year, due in a large part to Sauk Valley Community College. In 2015, the strength of our fall teams, Sauk Valley our fall sport teams once again had an won the Arrowhead Conference All-Sport outstanding year. In Golf, Jarred Hippen Award for the top conference finish overall won the Region IV Golf Championships by 9 for the second straight year. In the classroom strokes and then finished 16th in the NJCAA the Skyhawks also had an outstanding National Tournament to be named 2nd Team performance with five Skyhawks named NJCAA Academic All-Americans for their All-American. outstanding work. In Men’s Cross Country, the Skyhawks Again, in 2015 Sauk Valley student-athletes qualified Scott Heath and Peter DeLaFuente performed in all three areas of collegiate for the NJCAA Nationals. On the women’s side athletic competition; the classroom, the the Skyhawks as a team finished 2nd overall scoreboard, and representing the spirt of RUSS DAMHOFF - Athletics Director in the Region IV Championships to qualify for sportsmanship and fair play. In 2016, don’t the NJCAA National Championships. miss the fun and excitement as our Skyhawk athletes and teams go for conference, And in volleyball, for a second straight year, regional, and national honors. the Skyhawks both won the Arrowhead Conference Championships and qualified for I look forward to seeing you this fall and thank the NJCAA National Tournament. you again for your continued support! SVCC.EDU/ATHLETICS | 2016 FALL SPORTS GUIDE 3 CROSS COUNTRY WOMEN’S TEAM MEN’S TEAM HEAD COACH, ASST. COACH, MIKE SULLIVAN NICK HARTZ 2016 OUTLOOK In his second season as an The 2016 Skyhawk Cross Country team Now in his 15th year as head Assistant coach for Cross will have 6 women and 10 men. Eight are coach of the Skyhawk Cross Country, Nick Hartz looks returning runners. The challenge of the Country program, Mike to add his experience and sophomores will be to show leadership Sullivan continues to build a knowledge to the very and guidance in molding the group running program with over successful Cross Country into a successful team. This should be 30 years of experience to his program. Nick was an credit. achievable since, as freshmen, they assistant cross country and worked hard and were in successful area head track coach at Bureau Valley High School and has high school programs. Coach Sullivan was nominated for the Women’s National helped guide multiple athletes to medal at the state 2015 Cross Country Coach of the Year. He also officiates meets. He is also a United States Track and Field Level I The 2016 season consists of eight meets, area IHSA track meets each spring and was named the certified coach and USATF Level II Coach in Endurance, Honorary Referee for the 2016 IHSA State Meet. including the Thirteenth Annual Skyhawk Sprints, Hurdles, and Relays. Invitational, to be held at Sauk on October 15. Last year, nine Skyhawks advanced to As head cross country coach at Sterling High School Nick is a 1996 graduate of Bureau Valley High School. (SHS) from 1972-96 and again in 2001, he led his teams He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from Nationals. This year, with larger numbers to six conference championships, two regional titles, Monmouth College in 2000 and a Master’s of Education of proven potential, we hope to have even one sectional title, an 8th place finish at State in 1984, in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois more National qualifiers. and a 10th place finish in State in 1979. in 2007. He is currently a teacher at Bureau Valley The women’s team is composed of three North Junior High School. Coach Sullivan brings athletes along at their own pace returning runners: Santana Estrada to avoid injury and discouragement. Sullivan believes ASST. COACH, and Mercedes Sanchez (Sterling), and this philosophy has worked well at Sauk where he MITCH SAAD Bailie Smith (Rock Falls). We have three has had 58 Skyhawks qualify and compete at NJCAA freshmen ladies: Jazmin Lopez (Sterling), national meets. In his fourth season as Makaley Velazquez (Rock Falls), and Skyhawk Cross Country Elizabeth McKee (Rock Falls). Sullivan, who retired from SHS in ’02 as a full-time Assistant Coach, Mitch Saad instructor, served as Athletics Director from 1996-99 looks to further strengthen The men’s team is made up of five and taught Cooperative Work Training from 1999-2002. the already successful running sophomore runners: Quincy Coomes, He was previously an instructor of Auto Mechanics program. In addition to Chase Fisher, Cody Sondgroth (Dixon), and Cooperative Work Training at the Whiteside Area competing on the collegiate Peter DeLaFuente (Sterling), and Bryson Career Center from 1968-96. level for track and field, Coach Reyes (Sterling Newman). The five Saad coached high school track for five seasons. Saad freshmen men are Breu Knox, Dave Villa Sullivan holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Occupational coached high school track and field in Peoria for three Education from SIU and currently resides in Sterling and Seth Williams (Rock Falls), Johnee years before moving to Sterling to coach for Rock Falls Schulte (Ohio), and Nathaniel Anderson with his wife, Pat. They have three children, five High School. Coach Saad looks forward to applying his grandchildren, and one great granddaughter. understanding of distance running to Sauk’s Cross (Tampico). Country program. It will be an exciting season as we train, A graduate of Prophetstown High School, Coach improve, and set and achieve high goals Damhoff earned both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree Coach Saad is a graduate of Erie High School ’04, and for the 2016 cross country year! in Physical Education (1995) from Northern Illinois Greenville College ’08 with a Bachelor of Science in University. He and his wife, Jackie, reside in the Dixon Accounting and Business Management. In 2009, Saad area where you will find them cycling and enjoying the graduated from John Brown University with a Master’s GO SKYHAWKS! outdoors. of Arts in Youth and Family Ministry. 4 SVCC.EDU/ATHLETICS | 2016 FALL SPORTS GUIDE 2016 WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY ROSTER SANTANA ESTRADA JAZMIN LOPEZ ELIZABETH MCKEE MERCEDES SANCHEZ BAILIE SMITH MAKALEY VELAZQUEZ Sterling HS Sterling HS Rock Falls HS Sterling HS Rock Falls HS Rock Falls HS Sophomore Freshman Freshman Sophomore Freshman Freshman WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY TEAM NAME YR HIGH SCHOOL Santana Estrada So. Sterling Jazmin Lopez Fr. Sterling Elizabeth McKee Fr. Rock Falls Mercedes Sanchez So. Sterling Bailie Smith So. Rock Falls Makaley Velazquez Fr. Rock Falls 2016 MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY ROSTER NATE ANDERSON QUINCY COOMES PETER DELAFUENTE CHASE FISHER BREU KNOX BRYSON REYES Tampico HS Dixon HS Sterling HS Dixon HS Rock Falls HS Sterling HS Freshman Sophomore Sophomore Freshman Freshman Freshman MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY TEAM NAME YR HIGH SCHOOL Nate Anderson Fr. Tampico Quincy Coomes So. Dixon Chase Fisher Fr. Dixon Breu Knox Fr. Rock Falls Bryson Reyes Fr. Sterling Johnee Schulte Fr. Sterling Cody Sondgeroth So. Dixon JOHNEE SCHULTE CODY SONDGEROTH DAVE VILLA SETH WILLIAMS Dave Villa Fr. Rock Falls Sterling HS Dixon HS Rock Falls HS Rock FallsHS Seth Williams Fr. Rock Falls Freshman Sophomore Freshman Freshman SVCC.EDU/ATHLETICS | 2016 FALL SPORTS GUIDE 5 MEN’S GOLF HEAD COACH, JED JOHNSON Coach Jed Johnson is entering his third 2015-16 OUTLOOK season as the Head Golf Coach at Sauk Valley Community College.