When COVID shut down high school sports in Illinois for much of the 2020-21 school year, Mike Napoleon and the other coaches at New Trier were given the task of updating their career records in the IHSA database.
That’s when Napoleon realized he was on the verge of something special. A head baseball coach for nearly four decades, Napoleon was closing in on what had seemed an unapproachable milestone: Dave Swisegood’s state-record 950 victories over 50 seasons at Plymouth and Augusta Southeastern in a career that started in 1956.
