2013 Meet The Team Mahomet-Seymour Boys Cross Country

   As a freshman, Kyle comes to our team with jr. high cross country experience under his belt. Kyle ran at State his 7th and 8th grade year. He earned a medal in his first high school race at the Charleston Invitational by placing 4th in the open race with a time of 18:37. He earned his way onto our highest open finishes at the Charleston Invitational by placing 4th. He was a member of the freshman meet championship team at the Springfield Invitational freshmen race. He earned his way onto our team's 10 fastest freshman lists for the Charleston, Eureka FS Invitational, East Peoria Invitational, and Metamora Invitational. He earned a medal at the Eureka FS Invitational by placing 15th. He was part of the Eureka FS meet champion team. Kyle went on to run a 3 mile personal best at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational with a time of 18:10. Kyle ran a season best at the East Peoria Invitational with a 17:55. Kyle ran 18:10 at the Metamora Invitational placing him into our top ten fastest freshmen times at this meet. Kyle made it onto our team's Regional roster his freshman year. He earned his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September, October, & November.
   As a sophomore, Kyle returns to the team as a letterman with one strong year of high school cross country and track under his belt. Kyle put in over 600 miles in the summer before his sophomore year. He earned the honor of being a captain his sophomore year. Kyle opened up his sophomore year by earning a medal at the Charleston Invitational by placing 12th in the open race. Kyle's second race he led our open team to a team championship. Kyle finished 3rd which is our highest open finish ever at the Springfield Invitational. Kyle earned a medal and ran a lifetime personal best of 17:29 on a very challenging course. He earned a spot on our fastest top 10 sophomore runners at the Springfield Invitational. Kyle earned high enough grades during his freshman year to earn an academic letter at the beginning of his sophomore year. This earned him our team's scholar/athlete award. He earned his athletic letter for cross country for the second year in a row. After a hard week of practice, Kyle just missed his lifetime best at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational with another solid time of 17:37. Kyle had a major break through at the East Peoria Invitational where he really went after the top seven runners on our team. He ended up breaking into the 16s for the first time with a 16:40. This would have been fast enough to win the fresh/soph race. He earned a spot on our fastest sophomore times list for the East Peoria Invite. Kyle made his way onto the News-Gazette prep cross country leaders in September. Kyle ran a 3 mile personal best at the U-High Invitational where he ran a 16:52 to run 8th for the team. Kyle earned his way onto the fastest U-High invitational times for sophomores. Kyle ran another solid race at the Metamora invitational with a time of 17:28. He earned his way onto our fastest top 10 sophomore times at the Metamora Invitational. He worked his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders list for October. Kyle finished his season by placing a very high 6th place in the open race at Conference. Kyle improved an impressive 1:18 from his last year's best time. Kyle's great times over the year earned him a spot on our team's state series roster for his sophomore year. He worked his way onto the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders list for November.
As a junior, Kyle increased his summer miles again to an impressive 700 miles in 68 days. He continued to work on his miles through the end of August. He was able to run 1000 York miles (June 1 - August 31). Kyle earned the title of being a captain for his junior year. Despite being injured he opened up his season by earning a medal at the Charleston Invite. Kyle placed 8th in the open race with a time of 17:51. This was a 1 minute and 59 second improvement from his time just one year earlier at the Charleston Invite. Kyle made his way onto the News-Gazette prep cross country leaders in September. Kyle took on a lot of leadership roles as a junior. He took the younger runners under his wing and really looked out for them. Despite being injured, Kyle came back to run the East Peoria Invitational. He showed a lot of guts in running and finishing the race. Kyle made his way onto the News-Gazette prep cross country leaders in October. Kyle made an improvement at the Metamora Invitational despite still being injured. He ran with a lot of heart to run a time of 18:41. His time was the 16th fastest time we have had for a junior on that course. Kyle improved 41 seconds from his last meet to run a 18:00 at the Conference meet. He placed 11th in the open race. Kyle earned enough varsity letter points after the conference meet in order to earn his third cross country letter in high school. Kyle won the team's team spirit award his junior year.
   As a senior, Kyle ran over 850 miles in the summer in 74 days. He earned his spot on our 800 mile club. Kyle also went on to join our team's 1000 York mile club again his senior year. Kyle also became a three year captain for our team to help lead his teammates. Kyle started his senior off by earning a medal at the Charleston Invitational. He placed 27th out of 187 runners. Kyle ran a season personal best of 17:23. His time was fast enough to earn him a spot on our team's fastest top 15 senior times. It was the 11th fastest time for seniors since we started this invitational. Kyle improved 28 seconds from his 2012 Charleston Invitational time to his 2013 time. Kyle ran on the winning Springfield Invitational varsity team. They beat the #2 state ranked team to earn the championship trophy. Kyle earned his way onto our top times list for the Springfield Invitational. He earned his 4th varsity cross country letter early in the season. Kyle made his way onto the News-Gazette's prep cross country leaders list in September. Kyle had a major break through at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational where he ran a 16:46. He helped his team place the highest we have ever had a team place at this invitational. He also helped our team run the fastest top 7 team average that any Mahomet team has had at this invitational. His 37 second improvement on his season best was a great effort. He earned the 14th fastest time ever by a Mahomet senior at this invitational. His time was also his lifetime 3 mile personal best. Kyle ran a 17:36 at the East Peoria Invitational. His time was fast enough to earn him the 19th fastest senior time we have ever had at this invitational. Kyle made his way onto the News-Gazette's prep cross country leaders list in October. Kyle broke 30 again on our South Mahomet Loop with a 28:45. Kyle had an outstanding race at the Metamora Invitational. He ran 9th for the team and ran a lifetime best of 16:10. He earned the 7th fastest time on the fastest senior times list for the Metamora Invitational. He earned a spot on our 16 Minute 3 Mile club for the 2nd year. Kyle helped his team win the open race at the Conference meet for the first time in 28 years. Kyle had such an amazing season that he earned a spot once again on our top 12 State series roster. At Conference, Kyle helped his team win the open race for the first time in our school history. They placed 8 runners in the top 9 spots for a low score of 16. Kyle earned his way onto the News-Gazette's prep cross country leaders list in November. Kyle was voted by his teammates as having the most team spirit for the second year in a row.