January 20, 2006

Huskie Radio Network's Mark Lindo To Be Inducted Into Prep Baseball Coaches Hall Of Fame

DeKalb, IL - Most long-time Northern Illinois University football fans know Mark Lindo as the incisive color anaylst on the Huskie Radio Network during the fall. Other people recognize Lindo as the veteran head boys basketball coach at Naperville North High School since 1991-92.

In two weeks, the 47-year-old coach-broadcaster can be known by another sobriquet: Hall of Famer in prep baseball.

On Saturday (February 4), Lindo will be one of six individuals inducted into the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in ceremonies at the Hickory Ridge Marriott in Lisle.

Prior to his tenure at Naperville North where he doubles as pitching coach in baseball, Lindo was the athletics director, head basketball coach, and head baseball coach at Aurora Central Catholic High School during 1983-1991. He led the Chargers to the Illinois High School Association Class A state baseball crown in 1983 and the IHSA runner-up spot in 1984.

At the IHSBCA Hall of Fame Banquet, he will be presented for induction by former sideline colleague Jim Schmid, currently the principal at Waubonsie Valley High School and, ironically, the play-by-play voice of NIU’s Huskie Radio Network in the mid-1970s.

An Aurora product and graduate of Aurora East High School and Aurora University, Lindo joined broadcast partners Bill Baker and Sid Simmons on the Huskie Radio Network in 1985. During the Northern Illinois football season, Lindo also handles the pregame show with NIU head football coach Joe Novak and conducts the halftime interviews. During 2003-05, he did the color on the IHSA television network’s broadcast of the Class AA boys’ state basketball tournament.

(For further information, please contact Mike Korcek) -NIU-

Northern Illinois University Football

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