Tom Arlis - Head Coach
Head Coach Tom Arlis is in his 7th year as the
Bulldogs' head coach. He has a record at Batavia of 106-48, and over 300
career wins as a head coach, placing him on elite company in the state of
Illinois. Prior to coaching at Batavia, he was the head coach at
Naperville North where his teams won numerous conference and regional titles
and had four state tournament appearances including a 2nd place finish in
1992. He has coached 12 individual state champions and 15 state place
winners in his 16 years as a head coach. In 2007, Coach Arlis was elected
into the Illinois High School Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame. Coach Arlis
graduated from Montini High School where he was a two-time state place
winner. He attended Western Illinois University where he was a two-time
captain and three-time national qualifier. Coach Arlis lives in Batavia
with his wife Jamie. His oldest son Clint, who holds the career record
for wins at Batavia, is wrestling at the University of Illinois, and his
younger son Logan, a senior, is one of the top returning wrestlers at Batavia
this year. His daughter Taylor is a sophomore at the University of
Illinois.
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Scott Bayer - Assistant Head Coach
Assistant Head Coach Scott Bayer is now in his 5th
year as an assistant coach following coaching stints at Lane Tech and
collegiately at North Central College in Naperville. Competitively, Coach
Bayer was a state qualifier at Hoffman Estates High School, and was a two-time
NCAA Division III national qualifier and achieved All-American status in 1998
while attending Monmouth College. He currently teaches History at Batavia
High School and lives in Naperville with his wife Julie.
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John Canfield - Assistant Coach
Assistant Coach John Canfield has 28 years of
coaching experience, the last 12 at Batavia High School. Prior to this he
coached the Rotolo Middle School team for 14 years and spent a year each at
Yorkville and Oswego High Schools. Coach Canfield wrestled at Richards
High School and also at Illinois State University. Coach Canfield is a
Physical Education teacher at Rotolo Middle School. He and his wife Rose
reside in Geneva and have two children Katie and Sean.
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Mark Jayne - Assistant Coach
Assistant Coach Mark Jayne joins the coaching
staff with an impressive competitive resume. In high school, he was a
three-time state champion for St. Edward (OH), while his team won the Division
I state title all four years he was there as well as the national team title in
1998, 1999 and 2000. At the end of his high school career, Mark had accumulated
the most all-time wins in school history. He followed this up by being
named to the USA Dream Team as a senior in 2000. He also found success in
Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, earning seven All-American awards at the
USA Nationals in Fargo, ND. This includes a national title, a runner-up, and
two thirds in the Junior division. His junior year he won the Ultimate Belt
series for the high school division in Greco-Roman in both Ohio and the
country.
Following high school, Jayne took his talents to
the University of Illinois. During his time there he became a multiple
All-American, Big Ten Champion, Las Vegas Invite Champion, Midlands champion,
and two-time NWCA All-Star Member. Jayne was also a two-time captain on the
team during the team's regular season Big Ten championship as well as their
historic Big Ten tournament championship in 2005, the team's first since 1952.
He earned three Academic All-American awards and graduated from University of
Illinois with Honors.
Mark comes to Batavia from Marmion Academy where he taught and coached
for three years. He currently teaches health education at BHS and lives in
Batavia.
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