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Mark Grounds
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Since 2001, Coach Grounds has been the head football coach at Jacksonville High School, leading the Crimsons to 14 playoff appearances and compiling an overall record of 130–115. In 2024, he was inducted into the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame. In 2025, he returned to his alma mater to serve as Head Women’s Flag Football Coach at Illinois College.
An alumnus of Illinois College (Class of ’91), Grounds was a four-year letterwinner, an All-Midwest Conference performer, and a team captain as a senior. He began his coaching career in 1993 as an assistant at Jacksonville High School before moving to the collegiate level at North Park University from 1995 to 2000, where he served as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach.