Niko is entering his fifth season with the York Community High School where he works with sprinters and horizontal jumpers. Over his four years with York he has broken lead the Lady Dukes to eight school records, 6 all-state athletes, 24 state qualifiers and 24 all-conference athletes. He also owns Ignite Fitness & Athletics, a sports performance facility for youth athletes.
Niko competed and coached at the highest colligate level in Track and Field for over 14 years. he started his coaching career at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a Horizontal Jumps, coach where he had three NCAA championship series qualifiers.
He moved on to Roosevelt University as the sprints coach where he had multiple All-Conference athletes and has had the honor to work at the professional level as a strength and conditioning coach for multiple athletes in the horizontal jumps and sprints one of which is above mentioned Olympian Troy Doris.
David Stone is entering his sixth season with the Elmhurst coaching staff where he works with the sprinters and jumpers.
Prior to coming to Elmhurst, stoned coached sprinters at Aurora University where he was part of a top-five team finish at NCAA Indoor Championships.
Prior to coaching at Aurora, Stone spent eight years coaching cross country and six years coaching track and field at Benet Academy. He was part of eight consecutive ESCC cross country championships, and four ESCC track championships along with multiple alll-state performances, including multiple individual state championships. He also coached track and field for two seasons at Rockford Boylan High School. In his time at the IHSA level he coached nearly every event on the track with success on the state level.
Stone was a mid-distance/cross country runner at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa and earned his Masters in physiology from Benedictine University. He graduated from Rockford Boylan where he competed in the sprints and jumps.