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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 1010 - Petros Kyprianou on Illini track's rise; Brad Dancer on his top-tier recruiting class

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werenr chats with Illini director of track & field and cross country Petros Kyprianou about building Illinois track back into relevancy, his Moneyball approach, his international influence and the next steps for the program. Then Illini men's tennis coach Brad Dancer joins Werner to chat about his contract extension and a star-studded recruiting class, which is among the top few in the nation, and its potential impact on the program.

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0:27.3

Thank you. Today on the Al-I Choir podcast, I'm going to continue this summer kind of series.

0:47.1

Catching up with the line-eye coaches, we probably don't catch up with enough during the year

0:51.3

because we're so focused on basketball and football. But it's been a lot of fun. And I hope you guys are enjoying some of these. Caught up a Shauna Green, Alana Women's Basketball coach. He was great earlier this month. Also, I had the chance to catch up with Alina soccer coach, first year coach, Katie Holton, but what she's bringing. And that was a fun conversation with her. And we caught up a Mike Smallline, a golf coach.

1:12.9

Obviously, all the successes guys are having on the PGA tour and adding a few huge

1:17.8

transfers to the 2025-26 team.

1:21.1

It's been fun, so I wanted to keep doing this and highlight a few other coaches who are

1:26.2

doing some interesting things.

1:27.2

And the first you will hear from is Petros Capriano, the Yonai director of tracking cross-country.

1:34.1

I haven't had the chance to catch up with Petros.

1:36.8

Joey has talked to him a few times and done some really good stories on him.

1:40.9

And some of what Joey has written about Petros' kind of moneyball approach that you'll

1:44.8

hear about later on in this podcast, his overseas recruiting.

1:48.2

We hit on some of that, but we also hit on the success that he has had in his first year.

1:53.1

Two top five finishes for the women's track team in the NCAA indoors and outdoors this

1:58.1

past year.

1:59.2

They're becoming relevant.

2:00.0

They're becoming interesting and the way he's

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