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Yorkville Christian hires Mike Rembert, Benet assistant who played at Bradley and SEMO, as basketball coach · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Christian hires Mike Rembert, Benet assistant who played at
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  Speaker 1: Bradley and Simo as basketball coach. Written by Joshua Welge,
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. Mike Rembert's basketball experience has taken
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  Speaker 1: him from five years at two Division I programs overseas
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  Speaker 1: to working alongside three Hall of Fame coaches for a
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  Speaker 1: state champion and now Yorkville Christian. The two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: three Saint Rita graduate, an Aurora resident who was an
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  Speaker 1: assistant coach at Benet for the past two seasons, has
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  Speaker 1: been named the head boys basketball coach at Yorkville Christian.
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  Speaker 1: Rembert takes over for Aaron Severn, who started the basketball
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  Speaker 1: program and led the Mustangs to won four regional championships,
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  Speaker 1: two sectional titles, and the twenty twenty two class won
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  Speaker 1: a state title in twelve seasons. Coach Sovereign did an
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  Speaker 1: excellent job building a foundation, Rembert said, I'm taking a
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  Speaker 1: baton and finishing the race. Rembert, forty one, played for
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  Speaker 1: two seasons at Bradley before finishing his collegiate career at
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  Speaker 1: Southeast Missouri State while earning a degree in criminal justice
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  Speaker 1: with a minor in social work. He played overseas in Austria,
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  Speaker 1: but after an injury, returned to the US, where he
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  Speaker 1: did corporate and healthcare security work. He had help with
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  Speaker 1: basketball programs here and there, but after moving to the
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  Speaker 1: Aurora Naperville Oswego area, had a sit down with family
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  Speaker 1: that now was the time to pursue coaching full time.
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  Speaker 1: Rembert started working at the Naperville based Basketball Paradise with
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  Speaker 1: just hired Yorkville Christian Athletic director Ryan Paradise small world
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  Speaker 1: me and coach Ryan. We played aau way back in
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  Speaker 1: high school for Chicago Ferrari, which grew into Illinois Mean Streets,
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  Speaker 1: Rembert said. Rembert coached three teams in both the fall
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  Speaker 1: and winter at Basketball Paradise. You could imagine six games
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  Speaker 1: a week, weekend, eight practices a week, seven years straight.
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  Speaker 1: The reps were there to develop my system, Rembert said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm big on player development. My style is catered toward
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  Speaker 1: teaching you how to play and how not to play.
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  Speaker 1: You can walk into any gym in America and play
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  Speaker 1: the style I teach. Through his work with some Bene
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  Speaker 1: players and relationship with Red Wings assistant John Bonk, who
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  Speaker 1: coached Rembert at Saint Rita remember, came aboard as an
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  Speaker 1: assistant at Bene in twenty twenty four. In his two
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  Speaker 1: seasons at Bene, the Red Wings won the Class four
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  Speaker 1: A state championship in twenty twenty five and were Class
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  Speaker 1: for A runner up in twenty twenty six. He also
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  Speaker 1: got to coach alongside Bonk, Bene coach Jean Hidekamp and
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  Speaker 1: Bill Riley, a longtime coach at Saint Joseph now at Bene.
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  Speaker 1: I can't put into words what a blessing it was
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  Speaker 1: to sit and assist and learn from three Hall of
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  Speaker 1: fame coaches, Redbert said. Got to sit there with notepad
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  Speaker 1: and pen and really learn when time was called to
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  Speaker 1: assist with scouting reports, player matchups, film study, player development,
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  Speaker 1: within practice. Some of the experiences we had. I can't
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  Speaker 1: put into words how grateful I am. As expected for
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  Speaker 1: a new coach, Rembert said, it's been a chaotic ride
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  Speaker 1: since he finalized things at Yorkville Christian, but is now
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  Speaker 1: introducing his system, the style they want to play and
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  Speaker 1: the pace they want to play At Yorkville Christian, which
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  Speaker 1: is coming off a twenty three to eleven season that
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  Speaker 1: culminated in a sectional final appearance, graduated two time Record
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  Speaker 1: Newspapers Player of the Year Jade and Riley. Trey Alfred
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  Speaker 1: and Jaden Alfred have transferred to Oswego. Since season's end,
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Christian will be playing in Glenbrook North Summer League
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  Speaker 1: and heading down to Normal West for the live period.
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  Speaker 1: There is such a foundation set here that I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say it's been seamless, but it's been fun
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  Speaker 1: seeing the buy in and energy and effort and attitude,
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  Speaker 1: Rembert said. The parents, players, everybody have been really accepting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed, honored and excited.