{"id":19771,"date":"2025-10-02T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=19771"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:52:03","slug":"ihsa-elections-sandburgs-steve-schanz-edwardsvilles-amy-boscolo-elected-to-ihsa-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/more-sports\/19771-ihsa-elections-sandburgs-steve-schanz-edwardsvilles-amy-boscolo-elected-to-ihsa-board\/","title":{"rendered":"IHSA Elections: Sandburg&#8217;s Steve Schanz &#038; Edwardsville&#8217;s Amy Boscolo Elected to IHSA Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Voting for seats on the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors and Legislative Commission closed at midnight on Wednesday, October 1, with the results being tallied and certified on Thursday morning, October 2.<\/p>\n<p>Two new members were elected to the Board in Carl Sandburg High School Athletic Director and Official Representative Steve Schanz, and Edwardsville High School Athletic Director and Official Representative Amy Boscolo. Additionally, Whitney Young High School Principal Rickey Harris won reelection to his Board seat to represent IHSA Division 1. Schanz represents IHSA Division 3 on the Board, while Boscolo fills an At-Large seat for the underrepresented gender.<\/p>\n<p>The Board will elect its officers for the 2025-26 school term at its regular meeting on Wednesday, October 15.<\/p>\n<p>IHSA member schools nominated candidates for the Board of Directors and Legislative Commission beginning on August 15. The nominations were tallied on September 16 and votes were cast from September 20 through October 1.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the elections are listed below. The names of the candidates are indicated in the following list, with an asterisk preceding the name of the person elected to each seat.<b><\/p>\n<p><u>BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION RESULTS<\/u><br \/>\n<i>Board Division 1<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>* Rickey Harris, Chicago (Whitney Young)<br \/>\nRobert Alberts, Chicago (Brother Rice)<b><\/p>\n<p><i>Board Division 3<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>* Steve Schanz, Orland Park (Sandburg)<br \/>\nFil Torres, Riverside (R.-Brookfield)<b><\/p>\n<p><i>Board At-Large | Underrepresented Gender<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>*Amy Boscolo, Edwardsville<br \/>\nDoreatha Butler, Chicago (Dyett)<b><\/p>\n<p><u>LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION ELECTION RESULTS<\/u><br \/>\n<i>Commission District 2<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>*Mike Hurley, Chicago (St. Ignatius)<br \/>\nUnopposed<b><\/p>\n<p><i>Commission District 8<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>*Steve Diversey, Richton Park (Rich Township)<br \/>\nKevin McKeown, Tinley Park (Andrew)<b><\/p>\n<p><i>Commission District 12<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>*Kenton Bergman, Chillicothe (Illinois Valley Central)<br \/>\nUnopposed<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\n<i>Commission District 15<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>*Frank Arnolts, Downs (Tri-Valley)<br \/>\nBrian Easter, Farmer City (Blue Ridge)<b><\/p>\n<p><i>Commission District 20<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>*Jason Rakers, Okawville<br \/>\nDr. Adam Cross, Webber (Bluford)<b><\/p>\n<p><i>Commission Athletic Administrator Division 1<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>*Carlos Enriquez, Chicago (Prosser)<br \/>\nJim Prunty, Chicago (Leo)<b><\/p>\n<p><i>Commission Athletic Administrator Division 4<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>*Jared Hart, Metamora<br \/>\nPaul Heitkamp, Rockford (Boylan Catholic)<b><\/p>\n<p><i>Commission Athletic Administrator Division 7<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>*Ryan Goodisky, Marion (H.S.)<br \/>\nAustin Frazier, Belleville (Althoff)<b><\/p>\n<p><i>Commission At-Large Minority or Underrepresented Gender Division 2<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>*Dr. Whitney Martino, Aurora (West)<br \/>\nAmy McMahon, Aurora (Rosary)<b><\/p>\n<p><i>Commission At-Large Minority or Underrepresented Gender Division 5<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b>* Angie Codron, Normal (Community West)<br \/>\nUnopposed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for seats on the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors and Legislative Commission closed at midnight on Wednesday, October 1, with the results being tallied and certified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IHSA Elections: Sandburg&#039;s Steve Schanz &amp; 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