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2008, 2009 & 2010 Letterman 2008, 2009, & 2010 Scholar/Athlete 2008 Personal Best Time 18:50 2009 Personal Best Time 18:05 (17:39*) 2010 Personal Best Time 16:57 Fastest Top 10 Sophomore Times List for the East Peoria, Olympia, U-High, and Metamora Invitational. Fastest Top 10 Junior Times List for our 1st home meet, Charleston, East Peoria, and the Metamora Invitational. Fastest Top 10 Senior Times List for the 1st home meet of the year, Charleston, Springfield, East Peoria, U-High, and the Metamora Invitational. 2008 News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September 2009 News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September, October, & November. 2010 News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September, October, & November. #11 Most Improved over a Career List with a 5:14 improvement. 2008 Olympia Invitational medal winner 2009 Charleston Invitational open race Runner Up |
Evan Forbes - Senior Evan is a third year
high school cross country runner. Son of Bryan and Patti Forbes.
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As a sophomore,
Evan came into the season with jr. high running experience under his belt.
Sidelined his freshman year, Evan stepped right in after a year off
to show he is a good runner. His early workouts showed his determination
and work ethic. I look for good things in the next three years from
Evan. In Evan's season opener he ran a solid first run with a time of
22:11. Evan had a major break through at the Charleston Inviational
where he cut off nearly 2 minutes from his personal best and ran a 20:20.
Evan ran a personal best at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational by running
a 20:11. He made his way into our team's top
ten fastest sophomore ever list at the East Peoria Invitational, Olympia Invitational, U-High Invitational,
and Metamora Invitational. Evan earned a medal
at the Olympia Invitational by placing 27th wih a personal best time of 19:00.
Evan came back with another personal best in the ran at the U-High
Invitational where he placed 9th in the open race. Evan ran a solid time
at the Metamora Invitational of 19:16. Evan ran a personal best at
conference with a 18:50 even though it was a long course. Evan was
a first year letter winner as a sophomore. As a junior, Evan came into the season more determined than ever. He went from the back of the back during his first season to the top group on our team. He earned a spot on our team's top 10 junior list at our 1st home meet of the year, the Charleston Invitational, the East Peoria Invitational, and the Metamora Invitational. He earned a medal at the Charleston Invitational open race where he was runner up with a time of 18:29. He earned his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September and October. He earned his way onto our most improved over a career list with an improvement of 4:06. He ran a personal best in his final race at conference with a time of 18:05. He earned his way onto our teams Regional roster. As a senior, Evan opened up the season with a lifetime personal best of a 17:56 at the Charleston Invitational. Evan ran in our top 7 runners at the Charleston invitational. Evan earned a spot on our team's top 10 senior list at our 1st home meet, the Charleston Invitational, and the Springfield Inviational, the East Peoria Invitational, the U-High Invitational, and the Metamora Inviational. Evan continues to improve on the most improved over a career list with over a 4 minute improvement. Evan was our 5th fastest runner at the Sprinfield inviational. He helped lead our team to the highest team finish we have ever had at that invitational (3rd). Evan was a scholar/athlete for our team again in 2010 for the 3rd straight year. Evan went on to run a personal best by 33 seconds with a time of 17:23 at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational. This moved him up to #13 on the most improved over a career list with a 4:48 improvement. He continued to improve at the East Peoria Invitational where he ran a time of 17:17. Evan had yet another break through at the U-High inviational where he ran in the 16's for the first time with a 16:57. Evan ran well enough at the Metamora Invitational to earn a spot in our top ten fastest seniors at this invitational. Evan led the team at the Conference meet in the open race. He earned his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September, October, and November. |