2012 Jonathan Schaap    
2009, 2010, 2011, & 2012  Letterman
2010 & 2012 Captain
2010, 2011, & 2012 All-Conference
2010 & 2011 News Gazette All Area
2011 & 2012 News Gazette Athlete of the Week
2012 Mahomet Citizen Athlete of the Week
2011 and 2012 Bulldog Award
2011 and 2012 Most Valuable Runner
2012 Scholar/Athlete
Most improved over a career list 3:17
400 Mile Club in 2009, 500 Mile Club in 2010, 500 Mile Club in 2011, 600 Mile Club in 2012
2009 Fastest Freshman, 2010 Fastest Sophomore, 2011 Fastest Junior, 2012 Fastest Senior
2010 Most Improved Fresh/Soph Runner, 2010 Most Valuable Fresh/Soph Runner
2010, 2011, & 2012 Old Dog 5 Minute Mile Club
Fastest Top 10 Freshman Times List for our 1st home meet, the Charleston, Springfield, Eureka F/S,
Peoria ND
, East Peoria, U-High, and Metamora Invitational.
Fastest Top 10 Sophomore Times List for the 1st home meet of the year, the Charleston, Springfield,
Eureka F/S, Peoria ND, East Peoria, U-High, and Metamora Invitational.
Fastest Top 10 Junior Times list for the Charleston, Springfield, PND, East Peoria, U-High, Metamora Invitational, and State.
Fastest Top 15 Senior Times list for the Charleston, Springfield, Peoria ND, East Peoria, Metamora Invitationals, & State.
2009, 2010, 2011, & 2012 News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September, October, & November.
2011 & 2012 All-Regional Team and 2011 & 2012 All-Sectional Team
2011 All-State - 25th place
2012 All-State - 10th place
2009 Personal Best Time 16:58 (16:54*), 2010 Personal Best Time 16:03
2011 Personal Best Time 15:18, 2012 Personal Best Time 14:47.2
2009 Springfield Invitational Freshman Race Meet Champion
2010 Eureka F/S Invitational Meet Champion
2012 Springfield Invitational Meet Champion
2012 East Peoria Invitational Meet Champion
Jonathan Schaap - Senior

Jonathan is a forth year high school cross country runner and 4 year letterman.  Son of Paul and Lori Schaap.
   As a freshman, Jonathan brings many years of running experience under his belt.   Jonathan earned a medal at the Charleston Invitational by placing 14th.    He made his way onto our team's top ten fastest freshman ever list at our 1st home meet, the Charleston Invitational, the Springfiled Invitational, the Eureka Fresh/Soph Invitational, the Peoria ND Invitational, the East Peoria Invitational, the U-High Invitational, and the Metamora Invitational. He earned his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September and October.   He earned a medal at the Springfield 2 mile race by placing 1st as our 1st ever meet Champion at that meet.  He earned a medal at the Eureka Fresh/Soph Invitational by placing 6th.  Jonathan respresented his team by running the Regional and Sectional meets as a freshman.  He finished his freshman year by winning the fastest freshman award.
   As a sophomore, Jonathan came in very strong with running 500 miles in the summer.  Jonathan earned the honors of being a captain for his sophomore year.  The News Gazette selected Jonathan as one of the nifty fifty in their preseason polls.  He made his way onto our team's top ten fastest sophomore ever list at our 1st home meet, the Charleston Invitational, the Springfield Invitational, the Eureka FS Invitational, the PND Invitational,  the East Peoria Invitational, the U-High Invitational, and the Metamora Invitational.  Jonathan earned a medal at the Charleston Invitional by posting our team's fastest sophomore time ever of a 16:32. 
He went on to win the Eureka F/S Invitational with a time of 16:26.  He was part of the Eureka F/S Invitational meet championship team.  Jonathan ran a personal best at the East Peoria Invitational where he ran 2nd for our team with a time of 16:16.  Jonathan had a break through in his time at the U-High Invitational where he ran a 16:03.  He ran well enough at the Metamora Invitational to get onto our fastest sophomore list.  Jonathan had an excellent race at the Conference meet where he earned all-conference status by placing 10th.  Jonathan ran in the top 5 for our team at the Regional and Sectional meet.  Jonathan won our fastest sophomore award, our most improved fresh/soph award, our old dog 5 minute mile club, and most valuable fresh/soph runner award.  He earned his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September, October, and November.  Jonathan earned 2010 News Gazette All Area honors.
   As a junior, Jonathan ran 500 miles in the summer.  The News-Gazette selected him as one of their pre-season nifty fifty runners.  Jonathan opened the season by earning a medal at the Charleston Invitational by placing 10th with a time of 16:38.  Jonathan helped his team win the team championship at the Charleston Invitatinal by placing 3rd for the team.  Jonathan earned a spot on the top 10 fastest junior list at the Charleston Invitational.  Jonathan led our team at the Springfield invitational.  He ran the fastest time for our school in the history of running at the Springfield invitational with a 15:47.  This was the highest place (3rd) that we have ever had at this invitational.  Jonathan earned a spot on the top 10 fastest junior times at the Springfield Inviational by having the fastest junior time ever at this meet.  Jonathan earned his 3rd cross country letter in his 3 year high school career.  Jonathan ran a lifetime best at the Peoria Notre Dame invitational with a time of 15:38.  This earned him the fastest junior time at the PND invite.  Jonathan led our team to a victory at the East Peoria Invitational with a 15:18.  He earned a medal with the fastest time our team has ever had at this invitational where he placed 5th.  Jonathan
made his way onto the News-Gazette prep cross country leaders in September.  Jonathan ran the fastest time we have ever had run at the U-High invitational with a 15:24.  He earned his way onto our fastest time at the the U-High invitational.  He earned a medal at the U-High invite by placing 2nd.  He went on to have the fastest junior time ever at the Metamora invitational for our team.  He earned a medal by placing 11th.  He worked his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders list for October.  Jonathan ran a sub 5 minute mile to become a member of the Old dog club in 2011.  Jonathan really went after it at the Conference meet and placed 4th.  He lead our team at the conference meet and earned the all-conference status for the 2nd year in a row.  Jonathan ran a solid race at our Regional meet.  He earned all-Regional status and a medal by placing 5th.  He helped to lead his team to a 1st place finish.  Jonathan won our team's fastest junior award for the 2011 season.  Jonathan led his team to a 2nd place finish at the Sectional meet.  He helped pull his team to qualifying or state for the first time in the history of our school as a AA team.  He earned the honor of being on the all-sectional team by placing 9th.  He worked his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders list for November.  Jonathan ended his junior season by earning All-State status by placing 25th and leading his team to a 5th place team finish.  Jonathan ran the fastest time MS has ever had at State for a junior and the 2nd fastest time ever at State for all grades.  Jonathan won most valuable runner and the Bulldog award.
   As a senior, Jonathan ran over 600 miles in the summer.  He joined our 600 mile club and just missed our 1000 mile York club for his miles in June, July, & Aug.  Jonathan earned the title of being team captain his senior year.  Jonathan got selected by the News-Gazette as one of the 50 nifty in the pre-season.  He open up the season by running in the high 15's and placing 3rd at the Charleston Invitational.  He eraned a medal and helped lead his team to winning the team trophy.  Jonathan ran the fastest senior time we have ever had on this course and the fastest time that any MS runner has ever run on this course.  Jonathan earned his way onto the News Gazette prep leaders list for September.  He went on to win the Springfield Invitational with a time of 15:24.  This was the fastest senior time and fastest MS time we have ever had on this course.  He earned a top 100 national ranking for this time on a challenging course.  Jonathan got selected as the News Gazette athlete of the week after that great run.  He earned his forth varsity letter in XC.  He also earned a spot on our scholar/athlete list based off his very strong junior grades.  Jonathan ran our team's fastest senior time ever at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational with a 15:15.  Jonathan placed 38th to earn a medal at this prestigious meet.  He is one of only 5 runners in the history of MS to medal at this meet in the varsity race.  He earned Illinois elite status for his impressive time.  Jonathan won his second invitational of his senior year at the East Peoria Invitational.  He helped lead his team to a first place finish in this 19 team invite.  He ran the fastest time any MS runner has ever run on this course with a 14:58.  He joined the elite of our program as we have only had 3 other runners break into the 14s in the 43 year history of our program.  He earned elite IL status with his performance at the East Peoria Invitational.  Jonathan earned athlete of the week for the Citizen for the week of October 4.  Jonathan ran the fastest senior time ever on our course with a 15:41.  Jonathan
made his way onto the News Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in October.  Jonathan won Athlete of the Week honors from the Mahomet Citizen paper for the week of October 4.  Jonathan was runner up at the Metamora Invitational.  He ran in the 14s for the second time with a 14:51.  This was the fastest time any MS runner has ever run at this meet.  It also broke into the top 25 times of any runner from any school at this invitational.  He earned a medal and led his team to winning the invite for first time.  Jonathan ran a great race at our Conference meet.  He earned a medal and all-conference status by placing 2nd.  He had the 2nd fastest time of any runner from any team at the conference meet in the past decade.  He earned all-conference status for three years in a row.  He ran a 15:13 on a slow course.  Jonathan earned top 100 US ranking based off his performance at the Conference meet.  Jonathan came back that week to earn all-regional status by placing 4th in the regional meet and helping his team win the regional title for the second year in a row.   Jonathan's effort earned him IL elite status by dyestat.com.  Jonathan led our team at the Sectional race where he placed 2nd.  He earned All-Sectional status by placing in the top 10.  He was runner-up with a lifetime 3 mile best of 15:01.  He became a State Qualifier for the second year in a row.  He earned elite IL status with his performance at the Sectional meet.  Jonathan ended his senior season with a 14 second lifetime 3 mile best of 14:47.2.  This earned him All-State status by placing 10th.  He also earned top 100 US elite status by dyestat.com.  He became the Pantagraph area's 5th fastest ever at the State meet course since 1971.  He became MS's 4th runner ever to be a two time All-State XC runner.  Jonathan was our most valuable runner and Bulldog award winner his senior year.  He also earned the fastest senior award with the 2nd fastest time ever in the history of our program.  Jonathan made it onto our most improved over a career list by improving over 3 minutes in his career.  He improved 3:17.