Renee Hunt said that she has always “honored and praised” the coaches she has done as an athlete and has tried to pattern her coaching style thereafter.
Some good must have been rubbed on it.
Coaching by the middle school track and field team of St. Matthew Catholic School, Hunt, recently ended another successful season. Thirty-two of 68 athletes from Champaign-based school were upgraded to the state this year, and 14 home state champions came. There were also 15 additional medalists in 14 programs.
Their youngest children in those gold-middle areas were Alexis, who were part of the school’s back-to-back 4×400 relay champion.
It is a successful track and field family. At the state meeting, the oldest daughter Noel, who recently graduated from the Centennial High School, finished 14th in a long jump in class 3A and was part of three state-use relay teams-800 meters which ended the sixth, 400-meter (10th) and 1,600 meters (22nd). She will take her talent for the next left, competing at the University of Toledo, for the next season.
Son Ty is a multi-game athlete, which is competing in the form of a pole walter, in football and as a pitcher for the century.
Renee Hunt, 44, is leaving the position as head coach after nine sessions at St. Matthew. Coaching posts are on the basis of volunteer at St. Matthew.
He also worked as a head cross-country coach.
Hunt said that the key to being a successful coach is “You know your athletes, where are they and where they are going.”
The coaching education course with the USA Track and Field has taught him that students are “very large to succeed with equipment and practices.
It is satisfactory as a coach, Hunt said, to plan and monitor students’ progress and keep them busy, “to be part of the game.”
Hunt said, “We do a lot of team building and relationship building, not only with a coach-to-athlete relationship, but also with athlete-to-athlete relationship,” Hunt said. “Children who feel connected to their coaches or colleagues do better.”
Hunt said that it is important for athletes to feel that they are in a safe place and usually perform if there is no pressure.
The phrase, “This is fine, you will fix it next time” a prey often uses.
Athletes do not need to be ridiculed by coaches or fellow athletes. “Children get enough in the outside world,” he said.
Hunt is often asked whether she believes that coaching at middle school level is more difficult than high school.
not necessarily.
“This is an interesting attempt,” he said. “Middle-schools only come to you and are eager to try new things.
“This is the one that makes the track so great. You may not be the fastest runner, but you can be a good thrower or jumper. Just children are getting to realize their ability and find things that they love”.
For example, her oldest, noel, did not begin as a long jumper, but she “fell in love with it.”
“When you put in hard work” you can feel that you are learning something that you are really good or really enjoy.
“In middle school, they don’t know now. This is their first experience with track and field.”
St. Mathew’s parents Jennifer Hendrix-Kafman are a fan, Hunt “know how to bring the best in athletes.”
Hendrix-Kaufman said, “She determines high expectations and then guides children to overcome goals. Hundreds of children have flourished under her leadership over the years because she teaches them how to strengthen.”
St. Matthew does not have its own track. It meets its home, which is held in the complex of Judah Christian School on Steel Road, “The Field of Dreams”.
It is a suitable name for many athletes.
Hunt tracked the Providence Catholic New Lenox and later at the high school at Illinois Vesleyan, Bloomington, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. He earned a master’s degree in the course instructions from the University of Concorda, Chicago.
Hunt first taught at Arbana High School and served as an assistant and later head-composition coach. In 2009, the entire girls team was named a news-gajat athlete of the year after winning the regional championship for the first time in the early 1980s and ended the top 10 in the state. Hunt also assisted in the track team, mainly in the jump.
Hunt later served as a head cross-country coach in Centennial.
He coached in Holi Cross for two years, while began working as a mathematics teacher in Centennial – the present place of his employment.
All this is in the family in St. Matthew. In addition to daughter Alexis this year, Hunt’s husband, Jeremy, who is also a Champagne Fire Department Lieutenant, granted coaching to the Jump and Herdle events.
This season was other assistant coaches Mike Junokas, Elli Broranen Sehi, Nathan Watson and Diana Griffith, who granted the thrower coaching.
Junocus will handle the cross-country program in the next season, and will coach Seh and Junokas track and field team.
Hunt said it is time to spend more time as a fan as a coach and return to more down-time such as horticulture and reading.
“A large national park enthusiast,” she likes to grow and camp. His favorite park: Voyers on the Minnesota-Kanadai border, where he had hired a house boat in the past and took the family out for a week.
Later he will have more time to work through his dissertation for PhD, “But it is running very slow.”
The 2025 High School in UNI High Atlanta finished 65th in the National National Quiz Bowl tournament.
University Laboratory High School of Urbana – One of the top 336 High School Quiz Bowl teams in the country – Atlanta Marriott Markwis and Hilton Atlanta finished 65th in the 2025 High School National Championship Tournament Quiz Bowl competition on 24 May.
The team consisted of David Black, Sophia Chen, Ben Numan, Jonathan Oyang and Jeun Yi.
Kaila Simpson and Synthia Smiser gave the team coaching.
Uni High 23 was one of the Illinois teams, which competed for the National Championship.
The team ended the initial round with 6-4 records, which made it worthy of the playoffs.
The tournament champion Livingston (NJ) was a team of high school.
Teams from 37 states, Columbia district and Guatemala competed.
Champaign Lions Club member David Lynn works in front of the Harvest Market during the Club’s Totsie Pop Funderizer.
Champaign Lions Club has completed its spring fundrizer, Totsie Pop Days.
Club members pleaded for money in front of Neemon, Harvest Market and Sam Club. Any person who contributed was offered a totti pop. The raised funds are used for local donations, in which the main effort is to buy glasses for those who cannot tolerate them.
Lions, who served a shift, were Bayran Balback, David Lynn, Susan Pencinger, Leti Gray, Donna Curtin and Marwin Paulson and Rex Hayes. In the service of two shifts, Rick Mars, Sam McGre, J Hoflinger Richard King. Fred Graf made several changes.
There were several dozen contributors who gave $ 20. The total raised was more than $ 3,400. In addition to some other activities, it is estimated that the club can buy 18 pairs of glasses with these contributions.
The National Lions Club is a common charity organization that emphasizes eye health.
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Arthur’s Charlie Kondil was recently awarded a study of $ 1,000 from the Honor Society of Fee Kappa Fee of the country for all educational subjects.
Candil is one of the 75 students across the country to receive the award.
Grants are designed to support undergraduates, both members and non -those complexes which are Fee Cupa Fee chapters because they study abroad and seek extended knowledge and experience in their educational fields.
Currently studying in art therapy and art at the University of Milicin in Decatur, Condil will use grants to study abroad in Vienna, Austria.
The selection process for a study abroad is based on the applicant’s educational achievement, campus and community service, educational preparation and travel to career goals, a personal statement, recommendation letter and acceptance in a study in a study. Each recipient receives $ 1,000 to apply to travel abroad.
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College-bound students in many fields have been awarded the $ 1,000-$ 1,000 Community Credit Union Scholarship U.
The Orange and Blue Scholarship Program is designed to benefit students who are U -Community Credit Union members and will participate in I, Parkland College and other Illinois colleges and universities.
Recipient:
Jaeden Hverland, Rantoul High School – Eureka College;
Melynie cleary, paxton-buckley-Loda high school, and Grant North, Shiloh High School-Parkland College;
Oliver Showman, Urabana High School-Illinois-Shikago University;
Valentina Kovarubius Zuniga, Mahomate-Semore High School-Ilynois University.
Jacob Fox, a student of Rentaul Exchange Club, with Club President Kimi Taylor, Left, and Fox’s parents, Jennifer and Michael Fox.
Jacob Fox, a senior Rentaul High, has been named as the student of the Rentaul Exchange Club.
Michael’s son and son of Jennifer Fox of Rantaul, the class president in the last three years of High School.
He was a member of the FFA chapter along with the track and golf teams.
In community service, Fox was a member of the Youth Group, who through junior years all of his freshman and all four years of high school of an altar server.
He served 10 hours of service and eight hours of service with FFA through the National Honor Society.
The Personal Achievement Awards include FFA chapter degree, FFA Job Interview CDE State Finalist, American Legion Americanism Essay Scholarship, Academic High Honor, Scolastic Bowl All-Konge First Team, Mathematics, Biology and Social Studies, Illinois state scholar and academic diversity letters.