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 2014-15 TEAM NEWS The 2014 season starts Wednesday, August 13. We will have a pizza party in late May for the runners. We will have a parent meeting in late May for our XC parents. If you are interested in joining the team, please email Coach Neal Garrison. He can be reached at ngarrison@ms.k12.il.us 2014-15
TEAM HIGHLIGHTS
PRE-SEASON Picked for the #6 team in the pre-season poll by www.Il.MileSplit.com. Alex Keeble was named to the top returning runners list by www.Il.MileSplit.com Picked for the #3 team in the pre-season poll by www.dyestatil.com. Alex Keeble was named to the top returning runners list by dyestatil.com. Picked for the #4 team in the pre-season poll by ITCCCA. CHARLESTON INVITATIONAL 1st place at the Charleston Invitational.** Alex Keeble ran our fastest Mahomet time for a junior at this invitational with a 14:58** Alex Keeble ran the fastest Mahomet time for any Mahomet runners at this invitational with a 14:58** Andrew Walmer, William Wolf, Jack Hyde, and Brian Butcher earned Illinois Elite status by dyestat for their performances at Charleston. Alex Keeble earned US top 100 status by dyestat for his performance at Charleston. Our team scored the lowest points ever scored by a team at this invitational with 22 points.** Our top 5 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 15:43 average.** Our top 7 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 15:51 average.** Our overall team ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 18:25 average.**  2014 Charleston Invite Champions SPRINGFIELD INVITATIONAL
1st place at the Springfield Invitational Varsity race.** 1st place at the Springfield Invitational Freshman race.** 1st place at the Springfield Invitational Open race.** Alex Keeble was meet champion in the Varsity race. Riley Fortune was meet champion in the freshman race. Jackson Powell was meet champion in the open race. Alex Keeble ran our fastest Mahomet time for a junior at this invitational with a 15:07** Alex Keeble ran the fastest Mahomet time for any Mahomet runners at this invitational with a 15:07** Andrew Walmer, William Wolf, Jack Hyde, and Ben Craw earned Illinois Elite status by dyestat for their performances at Springfield. Alex Keeble earned US top 100 status by dyestat for his performance at Springfield. Our team scored the lowest points ever scored by a team at this invitational with 24 points.** Our top 5 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 15:42.2 average.** Our top 7 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 15:57.1 average.**  2014 Springfield Invite Varsity Race Champions  2014 Springfield Invite Freshman Race Champions  2014 Springfield Invite Open Race Champions PEORIA NOTRE DAME INVITATIONAL 2nd place at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational Varsity race.** Alex Keeble ran our fastest Mahomet time for a junior at this invitational with a 14:41** Alex Keeble ran the fastest Mahomet time for any Mahomet runners at this invitational with a 14:41** Alex Keeble tied our school record set by Mark Johnson in the 1974 State meet on this same course with a 14:41** William Wolf and Brian Butcher earned Illinois Elite status by dyestat for their performances at Peoria. Alex Keeble, Jack Hyde, Andrew Walmer earned US top 100 status by dyestat for their performance at Peoria. Our team scored the lowest points ever scored by a Mahomet team at this invitational with 24 points.** Our top 5 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 15:25.4 average.** Our top 7 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 15:42.4 average.**  2014 Peoria Notre Dame Invite Runner Up Team EAST PEORIA INVITATIONAL 1st place at the East Peoria Invitational Varsity race.** Alex Keeble was meet champion in the Varsity race. Alex Keeble ran our fastest Mahomet time for a junior at this invitational with a 14:51** Alex Keeble ran the fastest Mahomet time for any Mahomet runners at this invitational with a 14:51** Brian Butcher, Jack Hyde, & William Wolf all earned Illinois Elite status by dyestat for their performances at East Peoria. Alex Keeble earned US top 100 status by dyestat for his performance at East Peoria. Our team scored the lowest points ever scored by a Mahomet team at this invitational with 44 points.** Our top 5 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 15:37.0 average.**  2014 East Peoria Invitational Champions METAMORA INVITATIONAL 1st place at the Metamora Invitational Varisty race.** Alex Keeble was meet champion in the Varsity race. Alex Keeble ran our fastest Mahomet time for a junior at this invitational with a 14:51** Our team scored the lowest points ever scored by a Mahomet team at this invitational with 50 points.** Our top 5 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 15:15.1 average.** Our top 7 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 15:27.4 average.** Our entire team ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this invite with a 17:15.9 average.**  2014 Metamora Invitational Champions CONFERENCE MEET 1st place at the Conference Meet Varsity race.** 1st place at the Conference Meet Open race.** Alex Keeble was meet champion in the Varsity race. Riley Fortune was meet champion in the Open race. Alex Keeble, William Wolf, Jack Hyde, Ben Craw, Brian Butcher, Andrew Walmer, & Trevor Hanlon earned All-Conference status Ben Craw ran our fastest Mahomet time for a sophomore at this meet with a 15:37** Brian Butcher, Ben Craw, and Jack Hyde earned Illinois Elite status by dyestat for their performances at the Conference meet. Alex Keeble and William Wolf earned US top 100 status by dyestat for their performance at Peoria. Our team scored the lowest points ever scored by a Mahomet team at this meet with 21 points.** Our top 5 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this meet with a 15:32.6 average.** Our top 7 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this meet with a 15:40.8 average.** Our entire team ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this meet with a 17:44.3 average.**  Conference Meet Champions REGIONAL MEET 1st place at the Regional Meet.** Alex Keeble was meet champion. Alex Keeble, William Wolf, & Jack Hyde earned All-Regional Status Alex Keeble ran our fastest Mahomet time for a junior at this meet with a 15:05** Alex Keeble, William Wolf, & Jack Hyde earned US top 100 status by dyestat for their performance at the Regional meet. Our top 5 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this meet with a 15:35.3 average.** Our top 7 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this meet with a 15:53.4 average.**  2014 Regional Meet Champions SECTIONAL MEET 1st place at the Sectional Meet.** Alex Keeble was meet champion. Alex Keeble & William Wolf earned All-Sectional Status Alex Keeble ran our fastest Mahomet time for a junior at this meet with a 15:01** Jack Hyde & Andrew Walmer earned Illinois Elite status by dyestat for their performance at the Sectional meet. Alex Keeble & William Wolf earned US top 100 status by dyestat for their performance at the Sectional meet. Our top 5 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this meet with a 15:32.4 average.** Our top 7 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this meet with a 15:47.4 average.**  2014 Sectional Meet Champions STATE MEET 2nd place at the State Meet.** Alex Keeble & William Wolf earned All-State Status Riley Fortune ran our fastest Mahomet time for a freshman at this invitational with a 15:48** Jack Hyde, Ben Craw, Brian Butcher & Riley Fortune earned Illinois Elite status by dyestat for their performance at the State meet. Alex Keeble, William Wolf, & Andrew Walmer earned US top 100 status by dyestat for their performance at the State meet. Our top 5 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this meet with a 15:18.5 average.** Our top 7 runners ran the lowest team average we have ever run at this meet with a 15:26.5 average.** **highest team finish/time at this invite in our school team's history.**
 2014-15 All-Regional Team Alex Keeble - 1st William Wolf - 2nd Jack Hyde - 5th 2014-15 All-Sectional Team Alex Keeble - 1st William Wolf - 4th 2014-15 All-State Team Alex Keeble - 4th William Wolf - 18th 2014-15 INDIVIDUAL MEET CHAMPIONS Alex Keeble
at the Springfield varisty race.
Riley Fortune at the Springfield freshman race. Jackson Powell at the Springfield open race. Alex Keeble at the East Peoria Invitational. Alex Keeble at the Metamora Invitational. Alex Keeble at the Conference meet. Riley Fortune at the Conference open race. Alex Keeble at the Regional meet. TEAM MEET CHAMPIONS 2014-15
INDIVIDUAL MEET RUNNER UPS
Alex Keeble
at the Charleston Invite.
Evan Burge at the Springfield freshman race. Trevor Hanlon at the Springfield open race. Jackson Powell at the Conference open race. William Wolf at the Regional meet. William Wolf
15:01
Jack Hyde 15:12 Andrew Walmer 15:28 Ben Craw 15:29 Brian Butcher 15:42 Trevor Hanlon 15:44 Riley Fortune 15:48 Jackson
Powell 16:09
Gabe Pommier 16:19 Joey Magyar 16:31 Ryan Hodge 16:50 Mason McAnally 16:57 Callan Whitehouse 16:58 |
 2014-15 XC SEASON NEWS  Our team's shutterfly picture site 8-13-14 First day of XC practice at 2:15 pm 8-22-14 Fall Kickoff 6:00 pm 8-29-14 XC Picture day before school 7:25 am 9-1-14 Labor Day practice on your own 9-6-14 CHARLESTON INVITATIONAL 9-13-14 SPRINGFIELD INVITATIONAL 9-19-14 Homecoming Parade 2:00 pm 9-20-14 PEORIA NOTRE DAME INVITATIONAL 9-27-14 EAST PEORIA INVITATIONAL 10-3-14 1 Team Invite 10-11-14 METAMORA INVITATIONAL 10-13-14 Columbus Day practice on your own 10-18-14 CONFERENCE MEET & Senior Meet & Fifty Fifty Raffle Drawing 10-25-14 REGIONAL MEET 11-1-14 SECTIONAL MEET 11-8-14 STATE MEET 11-11-14 Fall Awards Night & Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 11-19-14 State Recognition Ceremony 6:00 pm  12-6 -14 Nike NXN Nationals - Portland, Oregon 12-13-14 Foot Locker Nationals - San Diego, CA
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
 MAHOMET CITIZEN ARTICLES  MAHOMET DAILY ARTICLES  PANTAGRAPH ARTICLES  MileSplit.IL.com ARTICLES  DyeStatIl.com ARTICLES TEAM HONORS Old Dogs
Brian Butcher, Ben Craw, Riley Fortune, Trevor Hanlon, Jack Hyde, Alex Keeble, Joey Magyar, Mason McAnally, Gabe Pommier, Jackson Powell, Andrew Walmer, William Wolf Sub 5 for 5 Runners Alex Keeble South Mahomet Loop Sub 30 Runners Trevor Hanlon, Ryan Hodge, Jack Hyde, Alex Keeble, Joey Magyar, Mason McAnally, Gabe Pommier, Jackson Powell, Andrew Walmer, William Wolf Buffalo Trail Loop Sub 30 Runners Alex Keeble, Brian Butcher, Andrew Walmer, Jack Hyde Brian
Butcher, Ben Craw, Andrew Walmer,
Jack Hyde, Alex Keeble, Joey Magyar, Mason McAnally, Trevor Hanlon, Jackson Powell, Christopher Williams, William Wolf Cody
Jesswein #6 with 7:06
Most
consecutive days in a row.Tristan Ray #12 with 5:48 Kenny Pauley #13 with 5:40 William Wolf #38 with 3:28 Ben Craw #50 with 3:05 Gabe Pommier #3 with 513+ days Brian Butcher #4 with 497+ days Jackson Powell #5 with 477 days Alex Keeble #6 with 318 days Andrew Walmer #11 with 182+ days  |
SPECIAL THANKS
Coach
Garrison and the team would like to thank the following people
for their support of our team throughout the year. OUR
SPONSORS
We are
extremely grateful to our corporate sponsors.
 DONATIONS
We
appreciate any donation we get given to our program. If you would
like to donate, please send a check written to MSHS Boys Cross
Country. If you have any questions about donating, please contact
Neal Garrison. Thank you for your support of the runners and the
program. It means a great deal to us.45 Years Strong
 Thanks to all our alumni and their parents that gave our current team great support at the State meet. We could not have done it without you setting high standards each year to pave the way for our current team. Thank you very much! ALUMNI NEWS Mahomet-Seymour Boys
XC Hall of Fame
A tribute to
the cornerstones of our program.
Our 3rd annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held at the fall sports award night on Tuesday, November 11th at 6:30 pm in the high school auditorium Kyle Emkes and Jordan Johnson were inducted.  2014 Hall of Fame Ceremony I
am in search of old meet records and awards programs. If you have
any that you would be willing to let me copy, please call or email me.
  Andrew Kumler (2008) is competing for
the
Fighting Illini Triathlon Club at the University of Illinois.
Andrew
ran for our team in the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 seasons. He
was
All-Regional as a senior. Andrew competed at the National
triathlon.
 John earned a spot in the elite tent at the 2014 Chicago Marathon with the American Development group. He will be running in the 2015 Boston Marathon. John is helping coach the MSHS distance crew in track again during the 2015 season.  Cale
McCormick (2012) is running for his second year on the Augustana
College's Cross Country and Track Team for the 2013-14
season. He signed with Augustana College in the spring of his
senior year. Cale ran strong in his first college race. His
school even mentioned that he has the ability to get into their top 7
varsity runners this season. He had an impressive track
season. He got the chance to be the only freshman on their
traveling team to some meets. He even ran in the prestigious
Drake Relays.
 Lucas Prather (2012) is running for
his second year on the Murray State
University's Cross Country Team for the 2013-14 season. He
signed with Murray State in the spring of his senior year. Lucas
placed #1 on his team for his first three college XC
races and is now running in the 26's for 5 miles. His freshman
season personal best was a 26:40. He led his team in 4 of his 5
races his freshman year. He was the
only runner from his team to run in the NCAA Regional Meet. Lucas
struggled with an injury his sophomore year. He ran a 28:59 at
the Greater Louisville Classic. Lucas came on strong at the
Bradley University Cross Country Classic where he ran a 26:59.
Lucas ran a season best at the OVC Championships with a 26:49. He
helped his team improve to 8th.
Lucas ran his lifetime best of 26:32 as a junior at Notre Dame. He ran right at his best at the Bradley Pink Classic with a 26:42. At the Ohio Valley Conference meet he ran a lifetime best of 26:18. He ended his junior season with a lifetime 10K best at the NCAA Southeast Regional meet with a time of 33:22.  Matthew
Schaap (2012) is running for Trinity
Christian College's Track Team. He started in the 2012-2013
season. He
signed
with Trinity Christian College his senior year. Matthew had a
great freshman season. Matthew is running as a hurdler and
sprinter. He placed in 3 races in their conference
meet. He placed in the 110 hurdles, 400 meter hurdles, and
mile relay. He holds the school record in two events. He is
the 55 meter hurdle and 400 meter hurdle record holder. He ranks
second in their school history in the 800 meter relay and 110 meter
hurdles.
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