Growing Youth Leadership Through Baseball, sports, and youth groups!

We are NAFBF: Region 1

We are the State of Illinois NAFBF Chapter. We have Territory Directors that operate out of 1 - 4 counties across the state under the direction of the State President. We are a close knit team that is conscious of our mission and we are in this for the right reason -- to support the youth of our state.

Our core values surround our prized curriculum, the Complete Athlete Program. The CAP is a program to provide and foster a stable culture for our amateur athletes. We understand that the leadership and life component to both the Complete Athlete and the Complete Student will help prepare the youth of Illinois for their futures. We offer sports programs but are not just athlete centric. Our program is also available to all students and student groups, and is also known as the Complete Student. The program is online, and is available to all adolescents from 13 - 21. The program is supported by the American Council on Education, and once complete a proctored exam through the ACE will provide college credit from 8 - 16 credits depending on the institution. Our goal is to provide the youth of Illinois with the skills to succeed not just in sports and the classroom -- but also in life. Once the first year is complete, we offer additional courses for college credit, and also offer coursework through our partner Saylor Academy. Saylor is a separate non-profit that offers free college courses that support the most common college majors in the country.

Featured in illinois: ; Character Growth, Intellectual & Mental Growth, Baseball and other athlete skills development, State Tournaments, Regional Tournaments, Camps & Clinics, Fundraisers, Awards, Prizes and more. We also offer scholarship opportunities for high achievers that can be applied to the college of the awardees choice.

We look forward to partnering with affiliates with Illinois to help positively impact our communities. Our target in Illinois is to educate 10,000 adolescents over the next 6 years, and use these educational opportunities to boost the growth of our youth and strengthen our communities across the state.

Thank you for trusting NAFBF with your students and athletes!

John Schuster is the State President of the NAFBF for the State of Illinois. John is a manufacturing executive who is actively involved in youth sports and youth leadership programs in the state of Illinois primarily around the Western Suburbs of Chicago. He has coached or helped coach 21 teams in the last nine years in the area primarily in baseball and basketball. He is active with the Valley Industrial Association and helps support and promote Continuous Improvement for his company and all manufacturing companies in the state of Illinois.

John Graduated with an engineering degree from Iowa State University, and has started up six manufacturing plants and led plant expansions in six states including Illinois.

John leads a team of Territory Directors who manage one to four contiguous counties promoting the leadership and life skills online content of the NAFBF programs the Complete Athlete and the Complete Student. Included in these offerings is financial literacy, study skills and educational content for high school students, content from Abilene Christian University focusing on life skills, and Vector solutions that focuses on health and wellness. In addition, we have additional partners for mental health, and future college credit beyond the first year of our online educational program.