The following story was reported by WICS-TV 20 on July 19, 2023.
"The University of Illinois Springfield has hired their new head baseball coach. The Prairie Stars have their guy in Trevor Forde.
Ryan Copeland recently took the head coaching position at Northern Illinois University, opening up the coaching vacancy at Illinois Springfield.
Forde is a native of Evanston, Illinois, and played college baseball at Heartland Community College, making multiple World Series appearances and then moving on to finish his college playing career at the University of Indianapolis."