Coaches

Coach Pacione enters his 9th year at Lake Park and 5th as head coach. At Lake Park, he has individuals to 3 all-state honors, 14 state qualifiers, and 38 individual conference titles. In 4 years coaching in the NCAA before Lake Park, he coached athletes to 11 All-American honors and 5 Olympic Trials berths. 

Coach Pacione led the team to its first ever indoor and outdoor DuKane Conference titles in 2026

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

Email: jpacione@lphs.org

Coach Mr. Juraska enters his 30th 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 27 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 Mrs. Juraska enters her 4th year at Lake Park. She began as a volunteer helping Doug and grew into a much larger role over the years. Under her guidance, LP vaulters have won 4 conference titles and 2 sectional titles. In addition, athletes have qualified for state 5 times and earned 1 all-state medal.  

Email: djuraska@lphs.org

Coach Kaberna enters his 22nd year at Lake Park. At Lake Park, he has coached jumpers and throwers to 5 state championships and 23 all-state honors. In the past 5 years as throws coach, he's coached 16 state qualifiers, 7 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 Vallone enters his 4th year at Lake Park as the sprints coach. Since he began, sprinters have accomplished a school record in the Varsity 400m, Varsity 4x400m, F/S 4x200m, 8 conference titles,  and 75 school all-time top ten performances. 

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

Email: cvallone@lphs.org 

Coach Probst enters his 7th year coaching the hurdles at Lake Park. He has coached athletes to 4 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 3rd year coaching at Lake Park. In 2 years, the distance squad accomplished 2 individual conference title, 5 indoor state qualifiers, and added 35 entries to the school all time top 10 list. He was an All-GLVC runner at Lewis University. 

Email: avilla@lphs.org