Crandall named IADA athletic director of the year

Rochelle Township High School adminstrator earns Class 3A/4A honor

Russell Hodges
Posted 4/3/18

Kevin Crandall will have one more accolade added to his resume before retiring as athletic director and head football coach at Rochelle Township High School.

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Crandall named IADA athletic director of the year

Rochelle Township High School adminstrator earns Class 3A/4A honor

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ROCHELLE — Kevin Crandall will have one more accolade added to his resume before retiring as athletic director and head football coach at Rochelle Township High School.

Crandall was nominated by the Illinois Athletic Directors Association earlier this year for its Athletic Director of the Year Award for Class 3A/4A, and the Rochelle administrator has been selected as the recipient of this year’s award. Crandall has spent the last 24 years as the athletic director of RTHS, and he will be stepping down when the 2017-18 school year ends.

“It’s humbling,” Crandall said. “There are so many guys across the state who do a wonderful job every year… I’ve always thoroughly enjoyed the athletic director’s role and I think it’s let me have a little bit of a hand in all of our programs. It’s given me an opportunity to mentor a lot of coaches along the way.”

The past few years have been monumental for Crandall, who was inducted into the Millikin University Athletic Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017 before being enshrined in the RTHS Athletic Hall of Fame this past fall. Crandall also recorded his 200th career coaching victory with the Hubs this past season, and with one of the state’s highest awards for athletic directors soon to be in his grasp, Crandall will be ending both his athletic and administrative careers on high notes.

“I’ve tried to help our coaches develop a good foundation moving forward similar to how I was developed as a young coach,” Crandall said. “I was very fortunate to have very good administrators to work with in the first 6 or 7 years of my career who really helped shape a vision of how to treat people and hold people accountable.”