Nazareth Academy head football coach Tim Racki has won 249 games over his career. That's enough to make him the 9th winningest active head coach in all of Illinois high school football, according to Shaw Local's Friday Night Drive rankings published this week.

At Nazareth, Racki is 173-71 entering the 2026 season. Six state championships. Eight trips to the state finals. A three-peat from 2022 to 2024 that no other Class 5A program has matched.

And that's just his Nazareth run.

Before arriving in La Grange Park in 2005, Racki coached at now-closed Driscoll Catholic in Addison from 1998 to 2004, going 76-13 with four more state titles. That gives him 10 state championships across two programs. Racki is the first coach in state history to win titles at two different schools and was inducted into the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association's Hall of Fame in 2024.

The Roadrunners have produced NFL talent along the way. Julian Love, a two-time state champion under Racki who graduated in 2016, won Super Bowl LX with the Seattle Seahawks in February. Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy helped Nazareth win the 2018 Class 7A title as a sophomore, compiling a 26-2 record as a starter with 39 touchdowns and four interceptions, per Fox Sports.

Racki told Fox Sports he remembered McCarthy showing up to Friday morning open gym sessions as a sixth-grader, years before enrolling. "I figured a kid that age, you're not going to come out every Friday and get your tail up at 6 a.m.," Racki said. "Sure enough, all through sixth, seventh, eighth grade, every spring, he'd be at open gym, throwing a high school ball he could barely palm with all these big high school guys."

Racki also serves as Dean of Students at Nazareth. He has never lost a first-round playoff game in 20 postseason appearances.

Racki and the Roadrunners open the 2026 season with practice beginning August 5.