Jim Stoll, candidate for active seat on the STRS Board

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James A. Stoll has been Director of Athletics at Sycamore High School for the past 12 years. Prior to that Mr. Stoll was an assistant college basketball coach at the University of Wyoming and Miami University where he also served as adjunct professor of Sports Marketing.

In addition to being a Teacher/Coach/Administrator for 22 years, Jim also Co-Founded a successful summer business called ProCamps where he puts on youth sports camps for NBA/NFL players in their communities throughout the United States. Among Jim’s clients are five NBA superstars who played for Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s Olympic Gold Medal Team, Chris Paul, Dwayne Wade, Dwight Howard, Tayshaun Prince and Carmelo Anthony.

Mr. Stoll feels his business acumen will greatly assist in helping to protect the assets of our pension fund. First and foremost the role of a State Teachers Retirement Board Member is to be a “Fiduciary” of the pension fund that active and retired teachers have paid into throughout their careers.

"As you know, our pension fund has lost 33 billion dollars from June 2007 – February 2009, I want to put mechanisms in place to be sure losses like this will never occur in the future."

Other key issues include elimination of bonuses for investment staff, Health Care for retirees and protection of our assets so pension benefits will be ensured when active teachers are ready to retire.
3.16.09