Chad Lakatos Head Track and Sprint Coach Edwardsville H.S. Illinois

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Coach Chad Lakatos earned his Bachelor’s from SIU-Carbondale and Master’s in Educational Administration from Eastern Illinois University. Chad Lakatos has been coaching track and field for 18 years; 15 of those being a head coach. He has also been an assistant football coach for the past 18 years. Chad's career started off at Herrin High School as his teams accumulated 3 state trophies in his short tenure while earning back-to-back State titles at the IHSA Class 1A State Championship in 2007 & 2008. He took over as the head boys’ track & field coach at Edwardsville High School in 2009 and quickly began adding hardware to their program. His teams at Edwardsville earned IHSA Class 3A State Team Championships in 2015 & 2017 and brought home IHSA Class 3A State Team Runner-Up trophies in 2012, 2014, and 2016. He has coached 5 relay and 15 individual State Champions. His athletes have won a grand total of 81 State medals while accumulating 495 points at the IHSA State
Finals. Chad’s teams have won 13 conference titles as well as 8 IHSA Sectionals. Chad has been named ITCCCA Coach of the Year 5 times, SICA Coach of the Year 3 times, and NFHS IL Coach of the Year 2 times. He has spoken at several clinics including ITCCCA-South, Bureau Valley, ITCCCA-North, TF Consortium, and McKendree College "Lebanon Project" Coaches Clinic. He received his Track & Field Technical Coaching Certification from USTFCCCA Track & Field Academy in 2012. Chad has conducted speed camps every summer since 2004. Chad adopted “Feed the Cats” philosophy from Hall of Fame Coach Tony Holler and has implemented his theories into his programs since 2004.
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