2021 Meet The Team Mahomet-Seymour Boys Cross Country

   As a freshman, Ben joined us with running experience at the junior high level. Ben worked very hard for months before joining our team showing great determination. He ran enough miles to earn a spot on our 400 mile club. He ran well in his first high school invite. He ran a 19:19. This was fast enough to earn him a spot on our team's fastest top freshman times list for the Charleston Invitational. Ben earned a spot on the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September. en ran a very tough mentally intense race at the Springfield Invitational. He fought hard for the second half of the race to hold off a large pack of runners. In the process he broke the other runners' spirits. He won a medal with his effort by placing 9th. He ran a time of 12:28 which was his lifetime best. Ben is constantly one of the hardest workers in practice each day. Ben's time was was enough to earn him a spot on our team's fastest top freshman times list of the Springfield Invitational. Ben had a personal best at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational. He cut off 40 seconds from his season best to run in the 18s for the first time. He ran a 18:39. Ben was the first runner on our team in the open race which is quite impressive for a freshman. Ben's time earned him the 39th spot on our team's fastest top times list at the Peoria Notre Dame Meet for freshman. Ben's place was the 15th best place our team has had since 2000 in the open race. Ben had a 32 second improvement at the U-High Invitational. He ran 18:07 which was fast enough to earn him the 13th spot on our fastest freshman top times list at the U-High Invitational. Ben cut another 5 seconds off his time at the Metamora Invitational to ran a 18:02. This was fast enough to earn him the 30th spot on our team's fastest freshman top times list at the Metamora Invitational. Ben earned a spot on the News-Gazette leaders list in October. Ben ran a very solid time at the Conference meet. He ran a 18:43 on a very challenging course. His time earned him the 43rd spot on our team's fastest freshman top times list for the conference meet. He earned a spot on our State series roster his freshman year. Ben earned our team's 3 month most consecutive days in a row award.

   As a sophomore, Ben really grew as a runner. He set the pace in the summer running for the team and ran over 1000 miles. He earned our team's 1000 mile club award and 1000 York mile club award. Ben earned the title of captain his sophomore year. He opened up his season with a lifetime best of 17:36. This was a 31 second improvement off his best true 3 mile time. He earned a medal by placing 23rd in the 13 team invitational. Ben helped our varsity team win the invitational. He earned the 26th spot on our team's fastest top sophomore times list for the Charleston invitational. Ben improved 1:43 seconds from his time at the Charleston Invitational last year. Ben earned our team's most consecutive days in a row award for 1 year. Ben had another lifetime best at the SJO Spartan Classic where he ran a 17:04. His time was our fastest sophomore time for our team at this time of the season. Ben helped our varsity team win the meet. Ben ran a 17:46 at the Urbana meet. It was another solid race for him as he ran in the 17s for the 3rd time this season. Ben ran a 17:24 at the Conference meet. He helped his team win the Conference meet by placing 6th on the team. Ben earned a spot on our team's fastest sophomore times list at the Conference meet. He ran a 18:34 at the Monticello Invitational.   Ben earned his second varsity cross country letter.   Ben also earned a spot on our team's State series roster. Ben won our team's scholar athlete award. Ben ran well for us at the Sectional meet. He earned a spot on our team's fastest sophomore times at the Sectional meet list. He helped our team place 4th at the Sectional meet and qualify for the unofficial State meet. Ben was an essential part in our team placing 2nd in State.

    As a junior,