The County Pulse

Listen to Zach Freeman his career and to Join us in our first Player spotlight to discuss Owen Freeman, the 6' 8" Sophomore at BBCHS. In addition during the episode we discuss Zach's basketball career from High School to All American at Olivet University.  Zach discusses his son, Owen Freeman, who is 6’ 8” Sophomore who played on varsity last year as a Freshman where he averaged 11....

Kurt Weigt, Kankakee Girls Varsity Basketball Coach joins the show.  Coach Weigt has been named the new Head Coach for the Lady Kays and will help lead the Kays to try and achieve an even better record and go farther this year than last year.  Improving on a great record will be hard to do, but Coach Weigt thinks with some adjustments and toughing up the Lady Lays schedule with some top-notch larg...

On This County Pulse Podcast episode, Matt Lemming of Lemming Insider Prep offers FREE recruiting assistance and works with college Coaches to get High School Football players recruited to play at the College level joins the show.  Matt shares what he offers to Student Athletes as well as how to go about the recruiting process.  How does Matt do this without being paid?  Matt gets paid by Colleges...

On This County Pulse Podcast episode, Jason Thiele Head Varsity Coach for Iroquois West Football joins the show.  Coach Thiele shares with us his thoughts on where Iroquois West Football is at and what he expects from his Raiders this year as well as the Raiders upcoming schedule Coach Thiele also talks about his time helping to lead the Raider to a State Championship in 2003.  Jason also speaks o...

This County Pulse Podcast episode Jim Byrne –a Kankakee County Board member, Kankakee County Libertarian Party Chairman and Morning Co-Host on WKAN 1320 joins us.  Jim talks about how he ended up here in Kankakee County, his constituents he represents in Board District 23 .  Jim speaks about what he has done on the Board and how he looks at politics today and how we could change the way we speak a...

This County Pulse Podcast episode Andy Wheeler – Kankakee County Board Chairman will join us.  Andy discusses his history of growing up here in Kankakee, his previous work that brought him to his current position which is County Board member in District 15 and County Board Chairman .  Andy also speaks about not just changing the County fiscally which has been very impressive but working to changin...

This County Pulse Podcast episode is 𝘾𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝 "𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙚" 𝙇𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙬𝙚𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙡.   Coach "Big Pete" is the publisher 6 of Deep Dish Footbal l which highlights, interviews and promotes Illinois High School Student Athletes and creates Watch-lists, coverage of all Illinois Football and talks about various awards given during the High school season. Listen in as Big Pete giv...

Listen to Part 1 of a 2 Part Interview with Devin Johnson who is the Founder of All Love Basketball and Assistant Basketball coach at Kankakee Community College (KCC).  Coach Johnson discusses Travel Basketball and building student athletes to be competitors on the basketball court both during AAU/Travel Basketball and then about those student athletes take those skills to their High school Teams....

Zack Myers is the Varsity Head Coach at Manteno High School.  Coach Myers talks about his days of being a 3 sport athlete at Dwight as well as the coaches he worked under while working his way to be a Manteno Panther.   Coach Myers speaks about how his team is preparing for the 2020-2021 season without recent graduates and how he expects that to be a change in the Panthers approach as they compete...

This is Part 1 of a 2 Part Interview with Brandon Woods who is the Assistant Program Director for All Love Basketball located in Kankakee County and Coaches various Travel basketball Teams for All Love.  Coach Woods will be The County Pulse Podcast's Travel and High School go-to person this year.  Coach  gives his thoughts on the recent ESPN, 10 part series " The Last Dance " and th...

This County Pulse Podcast episode is Mike Kohl - BBCHS Varsity Football Coach . Coach Kohl discusses the recent decision of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) allowing schools to begin reopening as it relates to BBCHS Football Program.  Coach Kohl also talks about where he's from, how the recent pandemic has impacted his life and how is preparing for the upcoming season both on and o...

This County Pulse Podcast episode is Marie P. Anderson who discovered many models who have and are advancing their carriers including Cindy Crawford . Our discussion revolved around the her start in the industry including discussion Cindy and her signing of her we well as her push for and advocacy for models today in the industry as well as how to become a model and education men and women who wan...

Jim Rowe is in his second term as Kankakee County County States Attorney and a friend of the host, Jeff Dexter.  Jim speaks of his life as a young man and how it was molded into the man he is today.  Jim speaks straight forward about how his life as a young person growing up in a diverse community and higher education at DePaul University, made him into the person he is now and how he uses those e...