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Yorkville Christian names former NIU basketball player Ryan Paradise new athletic director · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Christian names former NIU basketball player Ryan Paradise new
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  Speaker 1: athletic director. Written by Joshua Welge, This article is being
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  Speaker 1: read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Paradise reached out to Yorkville Christian about one job
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  Speaker 1: opportunity and landed another. He believes it to be an
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  Speaker 1: ideal fit. The Northern Illinois graduate, who played basketball there
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  Speaker 1: and was Marmion basketball coach before running his basketball Paradise
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  Speaker 1: program in the Fox Valley area, has been hired as
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Christian's athletic director. Paradise, who lives in Yorkville with
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  Speaker 1: his wife and two kids, a ten year old son
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  Speaker 1: and six year old daughter, replaces Aaron Severn, Yorkville Christian's
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  Speaker 1: ADS twenty thirteen. Severn also was the school's boys basketball coach,
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  Speaker 1: but Paradise is hiring another person for that position. That
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  Speaker 1: is what a lot of people had asked me, Are
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  Speaker 1: you coaching the team? Paradise said. When I reached out,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know about the ad position. I knew Severeign
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  Speaker 1: had done such a good job building the program. I
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  Speaker 1: reached out about the basketball program, and they said, are
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  Speaker 1: you interested? In ad or basketball, and I was like, huh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that is more the challenge that I am looking for. Paradise,
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  Speaker 1: who coached at Marmion from twenty to twenty fourteen, had
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  Speaker 1: been running his Basketball Paradise program full time since twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: As his own kids have grown older, Paradise has looked
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  Speaker 1: for new challenges with the business under new ownership. He
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  Speaker 1: was still around, but not as involved. It has freed
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  Speaker 1: me up. Been preying on what the next chapter of
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  Speaker 1: my life is. How can I make another impact in
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  Speaker 1: young people's lives. Paradise said, I'm big on challenges. It
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  Speaker 1: seemed a perfect fit with coach Severeign resigning, having to
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  Speaker 1: build multiple programs upon the success they've had. Paradise's background
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  Speaker 1: has been working with kids since he was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: He was already a skills trainer in fourth grade, a
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  Speaker 1: shooting coach in middle school all the way through high
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  Speaker 1: school at Naperville Central. When he got done playing in college,
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  Speaker 1: he picked up doing that again. My main goal there
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  Speaker 1: was to teach the kid's stuff I knew when I
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  Speaker 1: was ten or twelve, Paradise said. Time came I was
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  Speaker 1: looking for a new thing. My wife and I were
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  Speaker 1: excited for it, went for it. After his time at NIU,
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  Speaker 1: Paradise paid his way to go back to school at
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  Speaker 1: North Central to get his teaching degree while he was
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  Speaker 1: the freshman coach at Marmion. The very next year, he
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  Speaker 1: became varsity coach and eventually transitioned to also teaching there
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  Speaker 1: and did that for five years. One of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: things about building my own business was building the program,
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  Speaker 1: he said. I knew the basketball part. It came naturally.
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  Speaker 1: Building relationship setting the culture. With relationships, it comes from
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  Speaker 1: the top down. The culture that gets set bleeds into
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  Speaker 1: other programs. Paradise admitted that it's not the easiest transition
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  Speaker 1: this time of year, but things are going well all
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  Speaker 1: things considered. He's reviewed schedules with every sport, met with coaches,
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  Speaker 1: figured out what their needs were. I have some ideas
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  Speaker 1: of things I would like to implement, he said. This
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  Speaker 1: athletic program is something all Yorkville Christian families can be
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  Speaker 1: proud of. I'm not going to do a one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty degree turn. We want to continue the success
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  Speaker 1: and add new energy