Welcome Coach Long!
March 29, 2016
At last night's school board meeting Brian Long was officially hired as the new assistant cross country coach for the middle school. Coach Long brings a lot of experience to the Yorkville Middle School cross country team and his experience will certainly help the team as we work on winning another State trophy this season.
Coach Long ran cross country and track for Kaneland High School from 2000 to 2004. He went on to run cross country in college under legendary Coach Al Carius at North Central College.
Coach Long started in Yorkville at Bristol Bay Elementary as a bilingual teacher. This past school year he transferred to the middle school as a full-time ELL teacher. He coached track last season for the middle school and has coached boys basketball for the past two years, including this year's State championship team. He also coached volleyball this past season, but had to resign for next year because of the conflict with the cross country season.
Coach Long will be a great addition to our team and will be at Endurance Camp this summer along with Coach Martin and Coach Miller. Be sure to welcome him to the team when you see him!