This is Coach Sanchez 's sixth year as an assistant track coach in charge of the distance runners.  In his short time here he has already made a dramatic impact on the Fremd distance program. He has sent a number of runners to the state meet and was Awarded the 2010 Assistant Coach of the year Award presented by the Illinois Track & Cross Country Coaches Association.  Coach Sanchez is also in his first year as the head  Fremd Boys Cross Country Coach.  He was a member of his high schools state champion 1600m relay team and is the 400m record holder at his high school.  Coach Sanchez also ran on the University of Wisconsin's Track & Field team.  Coach Sanchez coached track and cross country at a  number of high schools (Union Grove, Wisc., Monona Grove, Wisc., & McFarland H. S., Wisc.) before coming to Fremd High Schools.  This Coach Sanchez's sixth year teaching at Fremd and he teaches honors biology, freshman connected curriculum biology and biology II.

This is coach Mellado’s 7th year serving as a volunteer pole vault coach at Fremd—four with the girl’s team and the last three with the boy’s team.  During his tenure, Jim has coached three state qualifiers in the pole vault with 3rd and 4th place finishes.  Previously, Jim served as a volunteer coach at North Central College working with two-time All-American decathlete Kurt Hasenstein. Jim was a member of the 1983 NCAA Division I Indoor & Outdoor National Championship team at Southern Methodist University where he competed in the decathlon and held the school record. He went on to place 26th in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games and 4th at the 1987 Pan American Games, competing for the country of his birth, El Salvador. Jim is currently the President of the Willow Creek Association—a leadership development organization.  He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from SMU in 1985 and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1991

Coach Rochfort starts his first season with the boys program after having coached the girls hurdlers for the past 2 seasons. He has coached some 18 years in the community including football and baseball and has been the
St Thomas of Villanova Vikings track coach for 15 seasons. Over 90 girls and boys have qualified for the IESA state finals in that time earning over 30 medals including 3 state champions:( boys shot,800m,and girls 4x100). He was the boys head T&F coach at St Viator for 2 seasons (300m hurdle marks were set twice). Graduated HS an mvp with records in LJ, HH, and 2 relays, briefly held 400H mark at Harper and football walk-on earning a partial at Univ. of Tulsa. Tom bends nails over now(carpenter) and proudest of his 3 beautiful and productive Americans,all former FHS athletes: Danielle, Tommy, and Colleen.

Coach Winter has been coaching youth sports for over ten years.   He has been actively involved in Fremd running for the past four years, and last fall he was assistant coach on the Fremd Boys Cross Country team.  Coach Winter is an avid runner and has competed in many road races including the Chicago Marathon.  He holds a BS Industrial Engineering from Iowa State, an MBA from the University of Chicago. He recently became certified to teach secondary education: Physics, Earth & Space Science as well as Business, Marketing, Computer Education and Technology Education.

This is Frank's first season helping out with track team and he brings a lot of enthusiasm and knowledge to the program. Prior to joining the program, Frank was an assistant coach on a number of successful girl's cross country teams in the 90's. He also helped out with the boys cross country team this last fall. Frank competed as a high school varsity runner in cross country and track and was a very decorated runner while doing so. He continued to run at University of Illinois Chicago.

This year Frank is teaching physics and AP physics.

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