Coaches

Coach Pacione enters his 8th year at Lake Park and 4th as head coach. At Lake Park, he has coached sprinters, jumpers, and hurdlers to 3 all-state honors, 12 state qualifiers, and 32 individual conference titles. In 4 years coaching in the NCAA, he coached athletes to 11 All-American honors and 5 Olympic Trials berths. 

He was a track athlete for Lake Park ('2010) and was on the 2010 state championship team. 

Email: jpacione@lphs.org

Coach Juraska enters his 29th year at Lake Park and is in the Illinois Track Coaches Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as a pole vault and high jump coach. He has coached Lancer athletes to 7 individual state titles and 26 all-state honors. His athletes own every pole vault and high jump school record, and he was a critical member of the coaching staff for all 5 state titles in team history. 

Email: djuraska@lphs.org

Coach Kaberna enters his 21st year at Lake Park. At Lake Park, he has coached jumpers and throwers to 5 state championships and 22 all-state honors. In the past 4 years as throws coach, he's coached 13 state qualifiers, 6 all-state performances, and 1 state champion. Kaberna's jumpers broke every school record in long and triple jump and he was a critical member of the coaching staff for 4 state titles in team history. 

He was track athlete for Lake Park ('1999) and was a member of the 1997 state championship team. 

Email: tkaberna@lphs.org

Coach Rizzi enters his 3rd year at Lake Park as the sprints coach. Since his introduction, sprinters have accomplished a school record in the F/S 4x200m, 4 conference titles,  and 48 school all-time top ten performance. 

Prior to coaching at LP, he trained athletes at Get Fast for 4 years.  

Email: prizzi@lphs.org 

Coach Vallone returns to Lake Park this year, and coached sprints, relays, and distance in 2022 and 2023. 

 He was track athlete for Lake Park ('2020). 

Email: cvallone@lphs.org 

Coach Ivory returns for Lake Park after being a staff member for our sectional title in 2022. In the hurdles, she has coached 4 all-state, 7 state qualifiers, and 5 conference champions. 

She is a former track athlete for Lake Park ('04) and holds the school records in all hurdle events. 

Email: eivory@lphs.org

Coach Probst enters his 6th year coaching the hurdles at Lake Park. He has coached athletes to 2 conference titles and helped use his experience as a college hurdler to mentor the athletes. Probst's 3 sons were all members of the LP track team and his son Nathan is our school record holder in the 300 hurdles. 

Coach Villa enters his 2nd year coaching at Lake Park. He was an All-GLVC runner at Lewis University. In his first year, the distance squad accomplished its first individual DuKane conference champion, qualified a 4x800m relay and two 3200m runners to indoor state, and added 15 entries to the school all time top 10 list. 

Email: avilla@lphs.org

Coach Oldenburg enters his 3rd year coaching distance at Lake Park. 

He is former track athlete for Lake Park ('11) and was on the 2010 and 2011 state championship teams.