{"id":296947,"date":"2023-05-15T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=296947"},"modified":"2023-05-15T18:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T18:57:28","slug":"high-school-baseball-new-trier-coach-sets-new-record-for-wins-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=296947","title":{"rendered":"High School Baseball: New Trier coach sets new record for wins in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head varsity baseball coach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/il\/winnetka\/new-trier-trevians\/baseball\/\">New Trier (Ill.) Trevians<\/a> has broken a long-standing record for the most wins in Illinois state history.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Napoleon began his career at New Trier in 1997 and has only suffered one losing season ever since. That adds up to a whole lot of wins. A couple weeks ago, he earned his 951st career victory with friends, family and former players gathered to watch, per an account <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2023\/5\/14\/23723592\/new-trier-baseball-mike-napoleon-state-record\">by the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On April 27, with Napoleon\u2019s family, former players and friends on hand, New Trier shut out Glenbrook North 5-0 for Napoleon\u2019s 951st victory in his 39th season as a head coach. Through Wednesday, he was at 954 and counting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The previous record-holder in the state was Dave Swisegood, who began his run way back in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having coached for nearly 40 years now, Napoleon told the Sun-Times that he still enjoys what he does and doesn&#8217;t have plans to retire.<\/p>\n<p>The Trevians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/games\/5-13-2023\/baseball-23\/maine-west-vs-new-trier.htm?c=lJYTVUviK0qVTAQLICFwCA#tab=box-score&amp;schoolid=\">crushed Maine West (Ill.) 14-1<\/a> on Saturday, bringing their record this season to 22-4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More baseball stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/watch-texas-hs-catcher-under-investigation-for-throwing-at-batters-heads\">Watch: Texas catcher under investigation for throwing at batters&#8217; heads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/california-hs-baseball-team-gets-humbling-gesture-from-opponents-after-break-in\">California team gets humbling gesture from their last two opponents<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The head varsity baseball coach of the New Trier (Ill.) Trevians has broken a long-standing record for the most wins in Illinois state (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296948,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296947\/revisions\/296948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}