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2008 Letteman


Fastest Top 10 Freshman Times List for the Charleston Invitational, Springfield Invitational,
Peoria ND Invitational, East Peoria Invitational, Olympia Invitational,
U-High Invitational, and Metamora Invitational.



2008 News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September, October, & November.


2008 Personal Best Time 16:49



Matthew Schaap - Freshman

Matthew is a first year high school cross country runner. Son of Paul and Lori Schaap.
    As a freshman, Matthew brings many years of running experience including many years of road racing and summer track.  He may have run in the most amount of high pressure and demanding races of anyone on the team.  His previous race experience and his determination will help him to have a great year this year.  In Matthew's season opener he ran 6th for our team with a time of 18:21.  Matthew continued to have major break throughs in his second race where he cut off over one minute.  Matthew earned a medal at the Charleston Invitational by placing 11th with a time of 17:18 in the Varsity race.  He placed 3rd for team at this meet.  He ran in the 17s again and placed 3rd overall at the Pontiac quad.  Matthew medaled at the Springfield Invitational in the freshman race by placing 4th.  He made his way into our team's top ten fastest freshman ever list at the Charleston Invitational, the Springfield Invitational, the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational, the East Peoria Invitational, Olympia FS Invitational, U-High Inviational, and Metamora Invitational.  Matthew worked his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leader list in September and October.  Matthew ran a 16:58 at the Prairie Central meet.  Matthew went on to run 2nd for the team and run a personal best of 16:49 at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational.  Matthew earned a medal at the Olympia FS Invitational by placing 3rd.  Matthew ran in the 16's again at conference with a time of 16:54.  Matthew represented the team well at both the Regional and Sectional meet.  He helped push the team to its highest finish as a team since becoming double A.
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