2011 John Williams 
2011 Letterman

Most Improved over a Career #21 with 4:19 improvement.

2009 Personal Best Time 21:55

2010 Personal Best Time 20:05

2011 Personal Best Time  19:25

2010 Most Improved Runner Award

2011 Scholar/Athlete
Fastest Top 10 Freshman List for the Metamora Invitational.

 Fastest Top 10 Sophomore List for the Metamora Invitational.

2009 News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September & October.

2010 News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in November.
 
John Williams - Junior
John is a third year high school cross country runner and letterman.  Son of John and Carolyn Williams.
    As a freshman, John comes to our team with three years of jr. high cross country experience under his belt.  His experience shows as his teammates often look to him as a good pacing partner.  John quickly adjusted to the 3 mile high school race and improved 1:33 between his first and second high school race.  He earned his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September and October.  He also earned his way onto our team's top 10 fastest freshman times at the Metamora Invitational.  He ran a personal best at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational with a time of 21:55.
   As a sophomore, John opened up the season with a major lifetime personal best of 20:45.  This was a 1:10 improvement from his season best as a freshman.  This was the largest improvement of anyone on our entire team.  John bumped onto our team's most improved career list by improving over 3 minutes from his first race of his career to his fastest 3 mile time.  John had another big drop in time at the U-High Invitational where he ran a lifetime best of 20:05.  John earned the #23 spot on our most improved over a career with with a 3:49 career improvement.  John ran fast enough to earn a spot on our fastest top 10 sophomore list for the Metamora Invitational.   John won our 2010 most improved runner award.  He earned his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in November.
   As a junior, john opened the season with a time of 21:58 in the extreme heat.  From the first practices of his junior year, John stepped up as one of the vocal leaders of the team.  He often could quickly inspire his teammates to run better by a few encouraging words.  John earned high enough grades last year to earn an academic letter.  This helped him earn the team award of scholar/athlete.  At the Peoria Notre Dame meet, John cut off major time to run 20:27.  At the East Peoria Invitational, John ran a lifetime best of 20:03 just narrowly missing the 19s.  John ran a major personal best at the U-High invitational with a 19:25.  He went on to run another 19's at the Metamora invitational where he earned enough letter points to earn his varsity letter.  John ended his junior year with another solid effort at Conference where he ran in the 19's again despite the fierce wind.  John ended the year as #21 on the team's most improved over a career list with an improvement of 4:19.
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