Former UIC Coach Will Lead Lincoln-Way East Basketball

FRANKFORT, IL — Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 has announced two new head coaches who have been hired for the 2025-2026 school year at Lincoln-Way East.

Luke Yaklich will lead the boys varsity basketball team next year, as well as teach social science; and Jared Bruni will take over as the head boys water polo coach, the District said.

Bruni is a 2018 graduate of Lincoln-Way East. The District said he was a standout water polo athlete when he was a student, and has also served as an assistant coach for the past two years.

Yaklich joins Lincoln-Way East after several years coaching basketball at the collegiate level. The District said he was the assistant coach at Illinois State, Michigan and Texas, and the head coach at the University of Illinois-Chicago from 2020 to 2024. He has also taught and coached at LaSalle-Peru High, Sterling and Joliet West.