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.
Brian O’Neill, License Massage Therapist, NPTI-CPT, USAW Coach Level 1
Coach Brian is an accomplished Strength and Conditioning Coach and Sports Massage Therapist at the youth, high school and professional level with 14 years experience. He has owned a holistic performance and recovery company, Peak Performance and Wellness for the past 8 years where he continues to empower individuals to test the limits of what they feel they are capable of.
Coach Brian has over a decade of experience and education in the field of Sports performance, Rehab/Recovery, team management and leadership. He started his career in the big box gym/corporate fitness at LifeTime Fitness, where he worked his way up from a personal trainer to an assistant manager. From there Brian transitioned from gym management to a live-in country club in Florida to bridge the gap between golf instructors and the fitness center. After 2 years working with amateur and professional golfers Brian moved back to Chicago to start Peak Performance and Wellness. Between 2014 and the present he has worked with numerous youth, high school, collegiate and professional athletes not only improving performance in the weight room, but also in the recovery room.
Coach Brian had a successful collegiate career, competing in the Decathlon; where he racked up honors such as: National Qualifier, Academic All American, All Conference honors and top 10 all time at Elmhurst University. He is a lifelong learner and competitor who still trains in the trenches with his clients, teams, and Coach Niko to test and progress his programs first hand. Coach Brian considers himself a hybrid athlete who loves to compete in track and field, but is also pursuing success in the weight room and on the BJJ mats.
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are correct”
-Henry Ford
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.