2014 Meet The Team Mahomet-Seymour Boys Cross Country

As a Freshman, Brian joins us with junior high cross country and track experience. Brian ran 6th, 7th, and 8th grade cross country. Brian had a great base coming into his freshman year as he ran an impressive 400 miles. He started off his first week of practice by running a 5 mile trial faster than his older brother had as a freshman. Brian showed he is a tough runner from the start. He earned his way onto our 400 mile club in 2013. Brian earned a medal in his first high school race. He placed 32nd out of 187 runners. Brian's time was also fast enough to earn him a spot on our team's fastest top 15 freshman times list for the Charleston Invitational. His time placed him 11th on the team. Brian became one of the runners that the coaches most relied on in workouts to push the pace in workouts. Despite being younger, he would lead the pack. In his second race, Brian placed 3rd in the Springfield Invitational freshman race. He ran a lifetime best of 11:17. His time placed him 10th on our fastest freshman list at the Springfield invitational. Brian earned a medal for his high place. He helped his team win the Springfield Invitational freshman race team title. Brian also earned enough letter points to earn his first varsity letter. Brian made the News-Gazette prep cross country leaders list in September. Brian ran a lifetime best by 26 seconds at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational. He helped his fresh/soph team place higher than any Mahomet team ever had in this invite before. His time was fast enough to earn him the 14th fastest freshman time ever at this invite. Brian ran a personal best at the East Peoria Invitational with a 17:01. He narrowly missed the 16s. His time earned him the 11th spot on our team's fastest freshmen list for this invite. He ran 10th for his team which is quite impressive since they were ranked #2 in the State that week. Brian placed 37th. This is one of the top 30 varsity places our team has had in 9 years. Brian made his way onto the News-Gazette's prep cross country leaders list in October. Brian had another great race at the Metamora Invitational where he broke into the 16s for the first time. He ran a 16:41 which earned him the 6th fastest freshmen spot on our fastest times list for the Metamora Invitational. His time was the 12th fastest freshman time our program has had in 44 years. Brian ran an amazing race at the conference meet. He ran 3rd for the team and helped our team win the open race for the first time in 28 years. Brian had such a strong freshman season that he earned a spot on our top 12 State meet series roster. Brian ran an amazing race at the conference meet. The course was slow, but Brian managed to run a 17:12. Brian placed 3rd in the open race and helped pull his team to win the open for the first time. They had a team score of 16 thanks to the help of Brian. Brian earned his way onto our team's sub 30 South Mahomet loop club with a 28:58. Brian earned his way onto the News-Gazette's prep cross country leaders list in November.
As a sophomore, Brian joined us after a solid track season. Brian took his summer training very seriously. He helped lead the team as well as he ran over 600 miles in the summer. This earned Brian onto our 600 mile club in 2014. Brian stepped in to the top 5 in almost every run early in the season. He opened up his sophomore year by placing 5th for the team at the Charleston Invitational. He broke the 16:00 barrier to earn a spot on our team's 15 minute mile club with a time of 15:59. Brian placed 8th in the meet to earn a medal. Brian helped his team win the invitational as well as run the fastest Mahomet team time for the top 5 and top 7 runners. Brian earned Illinois Elite status by dyestat for his performance at the Charleston Invitational. He also earned the 3rd fastest sophomore time ever run by a Mahomet runner at the Charleston Invitational. He improved 1:44 from his last year's Charleston time to run his lifetime personal best. Brian made his way onto the News Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September. Brian went on to help his team win the Springfield Invitational. Brian ran a 16:06 on a sluggish course. Brian helped his team run the fastest top 7 team average at this Invitational and score the lowest points ever run at this invitational. Brian's time earned him the 4th fastest time on our team's fastest top sophomore times list at the Springfield Invitational. Brian earned his varsity letter after earning enough varsity letter points by the end of the Springfield Invitational. Brian earned his way onto the Old Dog club by breaking 5 minutes in the mile. Brian ran another lifetime best at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational. He ran a 15:55 to earn Illinois Elite status by dyestatil.com. Brian improved 1 minute and 15 seconds from his last year's PND time. Brian ran #5 for our team beating 60 team's #5 runners. He was our fastest #5 runner Mahomet has ever had at this invitational. Brian helped his team beat 19 state ranked teams and 3 nationally ranked teams to place 2nd in the PND invitational. This is the highest our team has ever placed. He helped our team run the fastest top 5 and top 7 team average we have ever run at this invitational. Brian earned the 3rd highest spot on our team's fastest top times list at the PND invite for sophomores. Brian helped his team earn the 45th spot as a nationally ranked team this week. Brian ran another best at the East Peoria Invitational. He ran a 15:42 to place 4th for his team and 9th overall. Brian earned a medal for his 9th place finish. His time was a 1 minute and 19 second improvement from just one year earlier at this same invite. He helped his team win the invitational in the lowest team score we have scored at this invitational and the lowest top 5 runner average time we have ever had. Brian earned Illinois elite status by dyestat for his great time at the East Peoria race. He also ran the 2nd fastest time ever run by a Mahomet sophomore at this invitational. Brian helped his team earn a national ranking of 36 for the week. Brian earned our team's scholar/athlete award for his strong academic success. Brian made his way onto the News Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in October. Brian ran a solid race at the Metamora Invitational where he ran in the 15s again with a 15:51. Brian's time was the 3rd fastest sophomore time we have ever had at the Metamora Invitational. Brian earned a medal by placing 29th. Brian improved 50 seconds from his time at this invite just one year earlier. He helped his team run the fastest top 7 runner average ever run at this invite. Brian has been in the top 7 of his team all season. He has been an essential part of driving his team to continuing to be ranked 2nd in the State and 35th in the Nation the week following the Metamora Invite. Brian ran another great race at the Conference meet. He broke into the 15s again despite it being a slow course. He ran a 15:56. Brian earned a medal and all-conference status by placing in the top 10. He placed 8th overall and 5th for his team. He helped his team win in a big way as they had 7 of the top 10 spots. He helped his team run the lowest top 5 runner and top 7 runner average we have had in 45 years. They also scored our lowest team average at the Conference meet with a score of 22. He helped his team win the Conference meet. Brian earned the 4th spot on our team's fastest times list for the conference meet. He also earned Illinois Elite Status by dyestat. Brian had such a strong season that he earned a spot on our team's State meet roster. Brian ran a solid race at the Sectional meet with a 16:13. He ran 6th for his team and helped his team qualify for State. Brian ran the 9th fastest sophomore Mahomet time we have had in 45 years at the Sectional meet. He helped his team run the fastest top 7 runner average we have had in those 45 years by a Mahomet team at the Sectional meet. Brian made his way onto the News Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in November. Brian ran a 3 mile lifetime best at the State meet. He ran a 15:42 which placed him 69th. This was a 13 second improvement from his previous lifetime 3 mile best time. Brian helped his team run the fastest top 7 time not only run at the State meet, but in any meet ever run by a Mahomet-Seymour time in any meet. Brian earned Illinois Elite Status for his great time. Brian ran the 5th fastest time ever run by a Mahomet sophomore at the State meet. Brian ended his season by earning a State medal around his neck by helping his team win the 2nd place team trophy. Brian earned the 2nd amount of letter points ever earned by a Mahomet sophomore since 2002. He earned the most valuable fresh/soph runner for our team his sophomore year.