2013 Meet Summaries

Charleston Invitational:
Mahomet-Seymour won the 13 team Charleston Invitational.  They scored 33 points which is the lowest team score our team has had since joining this invitational in 2005.  Our team also had the lowest top 7 team time average that any of our Mahomet team's has had since joining the meet with an average time of 16:27.  Sophomore Alex Keeble, Junior Jackson Powell, Junior William Wolf, Senior Ethan Russell, Senior James Williams, Freshman Gabe Pommier, and Freshman Andrew Walmer were our top 7 finishers.  James Williams was our team's fastest number five runner ever at this invitational.  This is extremely important as your team score isn't stopped until the #5 runner from your team finishes.  James also was the lowest place ever for a #5 runner at this invitational.  James placed 11th. 

Our runners did an excellent job adjusting to a last minute change to the meet.  The host of the meet switched from having a varsity race at 9:00 am and an open race at 10:45 am to a combined boys race at 9:00 am.  This didn't give the majority of our team time to mentally adjust to running earlier.  The runners did amazingly well warming up quickly and racing well.  Had they run the open our runners would have won the open race as they have in years past.  They were planning to give 25 medals in the varsity race and 15 medals in the open race until the last minute change.  I figured out the top open results since I know many of our runners would have been curious as to how they would have placed.  The top 16 open race places would have been 1st - Andrew Walmer, 2nd - Kyle Appelquist, 3rd - Brian Butcher, 4th - Jake Keller, 5th - Mason McAnally, 6th - Daniel Middendorf, 7th - Curt Kupferschmid, 8th - a runner from Central, 9th - Ben Craw, 10th - a second Central runner, 11th - a Shelbyville runner, 12th - a Mattoon runner, 13th - Joey Magyar, 14th - a second Mattoon runner, 15th - Chris Carlton, 16th - Nathaniel Cebulski.  A perfect score is the top 5 places which our runners would have scored.  This shows the great depth of the middle of our team.  They work hard in practice and it showed in the meet.

In the end, the hosts decided to award 40 medals for the combined race since they didn't run the open.  Our team had 10 medalists.  Alex Keeble 2nd, Jackson Powell 4th, William Wolf 9th, Ethan Russell 10th, James Williams 11th, Gabe Pommier 19th, Andrew Walmer 26th, Kyle Appelquist 27th (Senior), Brian Butcher 32nd (Freshman), and Jake Keller 38th (Sophomore) all earned a medal.

Two runners from our team earned a place on our team's most improved over a career list.  We look at a runner's first high school 3 mile race compared to their best overall 3 mile time in their high school career.  Nathaniel Cebulski ran a lifetime personal best of 19:09 which gave him a 5:50 career improvement for 10th on the list.  Daniel Middendorf also ran a lifetime personal best of 18:33 which gave him a 6:28 career improvement.  This moved him up to 7th on the all-time list.

Alex Keeble ran the fastest sophomore time ever by a Mahomet-Seymour runner at this meet.  Alex also ran the fastest time for any Mahomet runner at this invite (all grades included) with a time of 15:36. 

Jackson Powell broke into the 15's for the first time with a 15:55.  This was the 2nd fastest time for a junior from Mahomet at the Charleston Invite. 

Alex Keeble and Jackson Powell were given IL elite status by dyestatil.com for their performance at the Charleston Invitational.

We have only had 5 runners ever run in the 15s on this course.  Alex and Jackson are 2 of the runners from the past 9 years that have been able to accomplish this feat.

The following runners showed great improvement from their 2012 Charleston Invitational times to their 2013 Charleston Invitational times.  James Williams improved 13 seconds, Kyle Appelquist improved 28 seconds, Mason McAnally improved 35 seconds, Nathaniel Cebulski improved 48 seconds, Curt Kupferschmid improved 48 seconds, Alex Keeble improved 54 seconds, William Wolf improved 59 seconds, Daniel Middendorf improved 1 minute and 2 seconds, Jackson Powell improved 1 minute and 15 seconds, and Ryan Huff improved 1 minute and 52 seconds.

4 Freshmen (Gabe Pommier 3rd, Andrew Walmer 6th, Brian Butcher 11th, and Ben Craw 18th), 4 sophomores (Alex Keeble 1st, Jake Keller 12th, Mason McAnally 15th, and Joey Magyar 16th), 2 juniors (Jackson Powell 2nd and William Wolf 6th), and 3 seniors (Ethan Russell 5th, James Williams 6th, and Kyle Appelquist 11th) earned a spot in our top 18 Fastest Times at the Charleston Invitational list.
2013 Charleston results.
 
Springfield Invitational:
Mahomet set a new record for our team.  They won all three races at the 20 plus team Springfield Invitational.  We also had 2 meet champions in these races.  This showed the depth of our team at all age levels and how hard each of our runners work during the season and throughout the year. 

Our varsity had the lowest team score we have ever had at 42 points.  They had our first 5 places in the top 10 of the invitational.  They also ran the fastest top 5 runner average that we have ever had at this invitational by over 5 seconds with an average of 15:54.  They also set our team record for the fastest top 7 average at this invite with a 16:12.  We had 6 medalist in the varsity race out of the 25 total medals given away.  Alex Keeble placed 2nd with a season best of 15:33.  Jackson Powell ran in the 15's again with a lifetime best of 15:49 to place 4th.  William Wolf ran a lifetime personal best of 16:00 to place 7th.  Ethan Russell ran a season best of 16:02 to place 8th.  Trevor Hanlon ran a lifetime best of 16:06 to place 10th.  James Williams ran a season best of 16:23 to place 21st.  Kyle Appelquist ran a solid time of 17:30 to place 59th.  The varsity team had to beat 4 State ranked teams to win the invite.  They beat Springfield High School (ranked #2), Chatham Glenwood (ranked 20th), Taylorville (ranked 21st), and Springfield SHG (ranked 24th).

Our freshman won with a low team score as they had the first three individual spots.  Gabe Pommier was meet champion with a blazing 10:38.  Andrew Walmer close behind ran a 10:56 for runner up in the invite.  Brian Butcher ran a 11:17 to come in a strong 3rd.  Ben Craw placed 7th with a 11:28.  Zack Przytulski came in 23rd with a time of 12:17.  Tristan Ray came in 54th with a time of 14:58.  Aaron Tandy ran a 16:21 to place 65th.  The freshman team beat some pretty tough teams to come away with 4 medals and the team trophy.

Our open runners completed the day by winning as well.  They took the top two spots.  Jake Keller was meet champion with a lifetime best 3 mile time of 17:07 on a challenging course.  Jack Hyde was runner up with a season best of 17:16.  Mason McAnally earned a medal by placing 9th with a lifetime best of 17:32.  Daniel Middendorf and Curt Kupferschmid pushed each other the entire race to place 17th and 19th.  Daniel ran a lifetime best of 17:48 and Curt ran a 17:52.  Chris Carlton and Nathaniel Cebulski were our teams 6th and 7th runners for the day.  Chris ran a season best of 17:54 and Nathaniel ran a lifetime best of 18:58. Ryan Huff and Cody Jesswein ran 8th and 9th for our team.  Ryan ran a season best of 20:21 to place 76th and Cody ran a lifetime best of 22:43 to place 112th.

Mahomet had 14 runners earn letters with their combined efforts so far this year.  Kyle Appelquist, Curt Kupferschmid, Daniel Middendorf, Ethan Russell, James Williams, Trevor Hanlon, Jackson Powell, William Wolf, Alex Keeble, Jake Keller, Mason McAnally, Brian Butcher, Gabe Pommier, and Andrew Walmer. 

Alex Keeble ran the fastest sophomore time ever by a Mahomet-Seymour runner at this meet with a time of 15:33. 

Alex Keeble earned his way onto Springfield's all-time fastest sophomore list for their course.  This list has recorded all times from any school to have ever run on that course since the 1970s.  Alex is now #10 on the sophomore list. 

Alex Keeble, Jackson Powell, and William Wolf were given IL elite status by dyestatil.com for their performance at the Springfield Invitational.

Three runners from our team earned a place on our team's most improved over a career list.  We look at a runner's first high school 3 mile race compared to their best overall 3 mile time in their high school career.  Nathaniel Cebulski ran a lifetime personal best of 18:58 which gave him a 6:01 career improvement for 11th on the list.  Cody Jesswein ran a lifetime personal best of 22:43 which gave him a 6:05 career improvement for 10th on the list.  Daniel Middendorf also ran a lifetime personal best of 17:48 which gave him a 7:13 career improvement.  This moved him up to 5th on the all-time list.

The following runners showed great improvement from their 2012 Springfield Invitational times to their 2013 Springfield Invitational times.  Ryan Huff improved 4 seconds, Trevor Hanlon improved 17 seconds, James Williams improved 17 seconds, Kyle Appelquist improved 21 seconds, Jackson Powell improved 56 seconds, Nathaniel Cebulski improved 59 seconds, William Wolf improved 1 minute and 23 seconds, Curt Kupferschmid improved 1 minute and 30 seconds, and Daniel Middendorf improved 1 minute and 47 seconds. 

The following runners showed great improvement from their 2013 Charleston Invitational times last weekend to their 2013 Springfield Invitational times this weekend.   Alex Keeble improved 3 seconds in a week.  Jackson Powell improved 6 seconds in a week.  James Williams improved 9 seconds in a week.  Nathaniel Cebulski improved 11 seconds in a week. William Wolf improved 20 seconds in a week.   Ethan Russell improved 27 seconds in a week.  Jake Keller improved 37 seconds in a week.  Curt Kupferschmid improved 42 seconds in a week.  Mason McAnally improved 42 seconds in a week.  Daniel Middendorf improved 45 seconds in a week.  Ryan Huff improved 54 seconds in a week.  Chris Carlton improved 1 minute and 13 seconds in a week.  Cody Jesswein improved an amazing 6 minutes and 5 seconds in a week. 

Our freshman runners didn't get a chance to improve their 3 mile time from last week since they ran a 2 mile race this weekend.  However, 6 out of 7 ran lifetime bests in the 2 mile race.  Gabe Pommier, Andrew Walmer, Brian Butcher, Ben Craw, Zack Przytulski, and Tristan Ray ran lifetime bests.  Andrew ran in the 10s for the first time in his life which is a big barrier.  Tristan really impressed us all as he skipped the 15s entirely and improved from the 16s to the 14s. 

4 Freshmen (Gabe Pommier 2nd, Andrew Walmer 3rd, Brian Butcher 10th, and Ben Craw 12th), 4 sophomores (Alex Keeble 1st, Jake Keller 9th, Jack Hyde 11th, and Mason McAnally 16th), 3 juniors (Jackson Powell 3rd, William Wolf 5th, and Trevor Hanlon 6th), and 6 seniors (Ethan Russell 3rd, James Williams 8th, Kyle Appelquist 12th, Daniel Middendorf 16th, Curt Kupferschmid 17th, and Chris Carlton 18th) earn a spot in our top 20 fastest times and/or places at the Springfield Invitational.   Fastest times at the Springfield Invitational list.  
2013 Springfield results.
Peoria Notre Dame Invitational:
The Peoria Notre Dame meet had 63 full teams.  This invitational is our largest and toughest meet of the season.  It is tougher than our State meet as we compete with schools that are in a larger class than we have to compete against at the State meet.  Our boys weren't intimidated by the great competition, but came out as one of the stronger teams.  There were 15 AAA State ranked teams, 6 AA State ranked teams, and 6 A State ranked teams.  Both our varsity and fresh/soph teams set a new school record by placing higher than they ever had in this invitational before.  Our varsity team placed 10th (our previous best was 13th).  They managed to beat all the AA and A State ranked teams (our team is a AA team).  The boys even managed to beat six of the AAA State ranked teams as well.  The varsity runners also set a new top 5 best average for any Mahomet team at this invitational with a 15:33.6.  They also ran the fastest top 7 times we have had at this invitational with a 17:48.4.  (Alex Keeble 15:05, Jackson Powell 15:24, William Wolf 15:35, James Williams 15:50, Gabe Pommier 15:56, Ethan Russell 16:03, and Kyle Appelquist 16:46)  Each team was able to run a total of 10 runners in the varsity race.  Chris Carlton 17:15, Daniel Middendorf 17:35, and Curt Kupferschmid 17:59 also ran very well in this race.   

Our team has run in this invitational for 14 years.  In that time we have only had 15 runners ever place in the top 103 of this invite.  This year we had 4 runners.  James Williams 101st, William Wolf 63rd, Jackson Powell 47th, and Alex Keeble with our 2nd highest finish ever at 19th.

Alex Keeble, Jackson Powell, William Wolf, James Williams, and Gabe Pommier earned Illinois Elite status by dyestatil.com for their strong performance at this invitational.  Alex currently has the 35th fastest Illinois time of the year by any Illinois runner at any race this year.  Jackson Powell just missed the 96th spot by 1 second.

The fresh/soph team also set a new team record by placing 9th out of 48 full teams.  This is the highest we have ever placed in this race.  Our previous best was 12th.  Jack Hyde 16:33, Andrew Walmer 16:34, Jake Keller 16:56, Ben Craw 17:06, Brian Butcher 17:10, Mason McAnally 17:18, Joey Magyar 18:14, Zack Pryztulski 18:54, Tristan Ray 22:37, and Cody Jesswein 23:20. 

Our fresh/soph team has only had 15 runners since 2000 ever place in the top 70.  This year we had 3.  Jake Keller 67th, Andrew Walmer 40th, and Jack Hyde 39th.

Our varsity and fresh/soph teams earned more medals than we ever had at this invitational before.  Alex Keeble 19th, Jackson Powell 47th, Jack Hyde 39th, and Andrew Walmer 40th all earned a medal.

In the open our boys ran very well.  Our highest open place ever was 103rd.  The meet hosts no longer keep score of the open, but it was apparent that Dhairav Vakil had the highest open finish we have ever had.  He ran a 17:49 to easily place in the top 40s.  Nathaniel Cebulski 18:19 would have also been in the top 100.  Collin Hasken 20:14, Niko Householder 22:14, Kenny Pauley 22:30, Aaron Tandy 22:48, and Christopher Williams 22:55 had great races in the open.

Of the 27 runners that ran they had 23 season bests and 20 lifetime personal best 3 mile times.  Running is very mentally and physically challenging.  It takes a lot of inner strength and determination to run faster than your previous limits from an earlier race where you had already dug down to run your best.  I really admire our runners for being able to continually improve as individuals.  Their individual efforts really help push each other and have driven our team to be very competitive on the State level. 

The boys team earned a #3 State ranking for AA last week by dyestatil.com.

Dhairav Vakil - ran a season best
Niko Householder - ran a season best
Chris Carlton - ran a season best
Jake Keller - lifetime best by 11 seconds
Daniel Middendorf - lifetime best by 13 seconds
Mason McAnally - lifetime best by 14 seconds
Zack Przytulski - lifetime best by 20 seconds
Jack Hyde - lifetime best by 22 seconds
William Wolf - lifetime best by 25 seconds
Brian Butcher - lifetime best by 26 seconds
Alex Keeble - lifetime best by 28 seconds
James Williams - lifetime best by 33 seconds
Christopher Williams - lifetime best by 34 seconds
Jackson Powell - lifetime best by 35 seconds
Kyle Appelquist - lifetime best by 37 seconds
Nathaniel Cebulski - lifetime best by 39 seconds
Joey Magyar - lifetime best by 46 seconds
Kenny Pauley - lifetime best by 49 seconds
Gabe Pommier - lifetime best by 1 minute and 2 seconds
Ben Craw - lifetime best by 1 minute and 37 seconds
Tristan Ray - lifetime best by an amazing 3 minutes and 51 seconds
Aaron Tandy - lifetime best by an amazing 4 minutes and 39 seconds

We had 5 runners move up or earn their way onto our most improved over a career list.
Moving up 1 spot to #4 Daniel Middendorf with a 7:26 career improvement
Moving up 3 spots to #8 Nathaniel Cebulski with a 6:40 career improvement
Earning his way onto our list to #19 Aaron Tandy with a 4:39 career improvement
Earning his way onto our list to #29 Tristan Ray with a 3:51 career improvement
Moving up 2 spots, but being dropped back 2 spots by his teammates #34 James Williams with a 3:40 career improvement

Alex Keeble ran the fastest sophomore time of any Mahomet-Seymour high school runner ever in over 40 years in any meet or invitational.
We have only had 3 freshmen runners ever run in the 15's in over 40 years.  Gabe Pommier earned his way onto that prestigious freshman list. 
Our school has only had 23 juniors ever run in the 15's.  Jackson Powell and William Wolf  now rank 5th and 11th on our team's list cover 40 plus years.
James Williams is one of 27 seniors ever to run in the 15's.  He currently ranks 20th.

Alex Keeble earned Athlete of the Week honors by mahometdaily.com earlier this week.  He continued to show he deserved the honor.

We had 4 freshmen (Gabe Pommier #2, Andrew Walmer #3, Ben Craw #12, and Brian Butcher #14), 4 sophomores (Alex Keeble #1, Jack Hyde #8, Jake Keller #14, and Mason McAnally #17), 2 juniors (Jackson Powell #3 and William Wolf #4), and 5 seniors (James Williams #6, Ethan Russell #8, Kyle Appelquist #14, Chris Carlton #19, and Daniel Middendorf #20)  earn a spot in our top 20 fastest times list at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational.  Fastest times at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational list.  
2013 Peoria Notre Dame Results.
  
East Peoria Invitational:
Our team won the East Peoria Invitational for the third year in a row.  There were 22 teams represented in the race and 16 full teams.  Our team ran a solid race and set some team records.  They scored the lowest amount of points that any Mahomet-Seymour team had in this invitational before.  Our first 5 runners placed in the top 17 of the invitational and our top 7 were in the top 25.  Alex Keeble 2nd, Jackson Powell 7th, William Wolf 10th, James Williams15th, Gabe Pommier 17th, Ethan Russell 18th, and Andrew Walmer 25th.  The boys represented their school well by winning their 3rd invitational this year out of the 4 they have raced in. 

This past week dyestatil.com ranked our team 2nd in the State for this week.  They mentioned that they believe we are equal with the #1 ranked team.

Our team earned more medals in this invite than we ever have before with 6 medals this year.  In the previous 8 years we had earned a grand total of 11 medals.
Alex Keeble, Jackson Powell, William Wolf, James Williams, Gabe Pommier, Ethan Russell all earned a medal by placing in the top 20.

In the 8 previous years our team raced at this invitational we only had a total of 19 runners ever place in the top 40.  This year we had 10. Our medal winners, Andrew Walmer 25th, Jack Hyde 30th, Ben Craw 36th, and Brian Butcher 37th.  This really shows how strong the middle of our team is compared to other teams.  I believe that the middle pack of our team is one of the strongest in the State and has been a big reason for the success of our team this season.

The fastest sophomore from any team in the entire invitational was Alex Keeble.
The fastest freshman from any team in the invitational was Gabe Pommier.

Jack Hyde was the fastest #8 runner from any team.  Ben Craw was the fastest #9 runner from any team.  Brian Butcher was the fastest #10 runner from any team.

I was especially proud of our new runners as five of them had lifetime personal bests.

The following runners ran their lifetime or season best time.
Collin Hasken - season best by 1 second
Niko Householder - season best by 1 second
Andrew Walmer - lifetime best by 2 seconds
Ben Craw - lifetime best by 6 seconds
Tristan Ray - lifetime best by 4 seconds
Brian Butcher - lifetime best by 9 seconds
Christopher Williams - season best by 22 seconds
Kenny Pauley - season best by 1 minute and 45 seconds

The following runners showed great improvement from last year's East Peoria Invitational.

James Williams - improved 11 seconds
Jack Hyde - improved 18 seconds
Daniel Middendorf - improved 35 seconds
Alex Keeble - improved 49 seconds
William Wolf - improved 49 seconds
Mason McAnally - improved 52 seconds
Kenny Pauley - improved 1 minute and 11 seconds
Kyle Appelquist - improved 2 minutes and 35 seconds

Jackson Powell and William Wolf earned Illinois elite status by dyestatil.com for their performance.
Alex Keeble earned top US 100 elite status by dyestatil.com for his performance.

4 freshmen (Gabe Pommier #2, Andrew Walmer #4, Ben Craw #10, and Brian Butcher #11), 4 sophomores (Alex Keeble #1, Jack Hyde #10, Jake Keller #15, and Mason McAnally #16), 2 juniors (Jackson Powell #4 and William Wolf #7), and 3 seniors (James Williams #7, Ethan Russell #9, and Kyle Appelquist #19) earned a spot in our team's top fastest times list at the East Peoria Invitational. Fastest times at the East Peoria Invitational list.  
2013 East Peoria Results.

Metamora Invitational:
Our team won the invitational by beating 22 total teams and 6 other state ranked teams (U-high #5, Metamora #9, Springfield #11, Glenbard South #15, Champaign Central #17, and SHG #21).  Our team has been ranked #2 in the State for the past three weeks.  We hope our runner's strong performance at this invitational will help keep our ranking high again this week. 

We had 6 medal winners in the invitational.  Alex Keeble 2nd, Jackson Powell 7th, William Wolf 8th, Ethan Russell 26th, James Williams 28th, and Gabe Pommier 38th.

Alex Keeble placed the highest we have ever had an individual place in this invite.  He placed 2nd only 6 second behind the returning XC state champion and 800 meter state champion.  This showed a lot of courage on Alex's part.  Alex broke our sophomore record for the fastest Mahomet sophomore runner on this course.  He also ran the fastest time ever by a Mahomet runner in the 44 year history of Mahomet's XC program with a 14:54.  Alex is only the 6th runner in the history of our school to ever break the 15:00 mark.

Gabe Pommier and Andrew Walmer ran in the 15's (15:47 and 15:48).  We have only had 4 freshmen in the 44 year history of our program run faster than 16:00.  Gabe and Andrew are the 3rd and 4th fastest freshmen in the history of our program.  Ben Craw and Brian Butcher are our program's 7th and 13th fastest freshmen we have had in those 44 years.

Jack Hyde is our 17th fastest sophomore in 44 years.

Jackson Powell, William Wolf, and Trevor Hanlon are three of only 27 Mahomet juniors that have ever broke 16:00.  Jackson is the 6th fastest junior we have had in 44 years.  William is the 9th fastest junior we have ever had.  Trevor is the 25th fastest junior in 44 years. 

Ethan Russell and James Williams became the 17th and 19th fastest seniors we have ever had in the history of our program.

Our team had more runners run in the 15's than we ever have in the history of our program.  Jackson Powell 15:16, William Wolf 15:19, Ethan Russell 15:38, James Williams 15:39, Gabe Pommier 15:47, Andrew Walmer 15:48, and Trevor Hanlon 15:55.

Our team also had 14 runners in all break the 17:00 mark in the same race which is team record.  Kyle Appelquist 16:10, Ben Craw 16:19, Brian Butcher 16:41, and Chris Carlton 16:58 all broke into the 16s.  Daniel Middendorf just missed the 16's with a 17:02.

Collin Hasken broke into the 19's for the first time in his life.
Tristan Ray, Cody Jesswein, and Christopher Williams broke into the 20's for the first time in their lives.

Our team had 19 runners run lifetime bests and 3 runners run season best times.

The following runners ran their lifetime or season best time.
Alex Keeble 14:54 - lifetime best
Jackson Powell 15:16 - lifetime best
William Wolf - 15:19 - lifetime best
Ethan Russell 15:38 - season best
James Williams 15:39 - lifetime best
Gabe Pommier 15:47 - lifetime best
Andrew Walmer 15:48 - lifetime best
Trevor Hanlon 15:55 - lifetime best
Kyle Appelquist 16:10 - lifetime best
Jack Hyde 16:15 - lifetime best
Ben Craw 16:19 - lifetime best
Brian Butcher 16:41 - lifetime best
Chris Carlton 16:58 - season best
Daniel Middendorf 17:02 - lifetime best
Curt Kupferschmid 17:22 - lifetime best
Nathaniel Cebulski 18:02 - lifetime best
Jeff Coburn 18:55 - season best
Collin Hasken 19:13 - lifetime best
Cody Jesswein 20:27 - lifetime best
Tristan Ray 20:45 - lifetime best
Christopher Williams 20:54 - lifetime best
Aaron Tandy 22:45 - lifetime best

The following runners showed great improvement from last year's Metamora Invitational.

James Williams improved 20 seconds
Nathaniel Cebulski improved 31 seconds
Alex Keeble improved 42 seconds
Daniel Middendorf improved 42 seconds
Jack Hyde improved 51 seconds
William Wolf improved 53 seconds
Jackson Powell improved 1 minute and 17 seconds
Christopher Williams improved 1 minute and 23 seconds
Kyle Appelquist improved 2 minutes and 31 seconds

4 freshmen (Gabe Pommier #2, Andrew Walmer #3, Ben Craw #4, and Brian Butcher #6), 4 sophomores (Alex Keeble #1, Joey Magyar #15, and Cody Jesswein #20), 3 juniors (Jackson Powell #2, William Wolf #3, and Trevor Hanlon #7), and 8 seniors (Ethan Russell #4, James Williams #5, Kyle Appelquist #7, Chris Carlton #14, Daniel Middendorf #15, Curt Kupferschmid #17, Nathaniel Cebulski #21, and Dhairav Vakil #22) earned a spot in our team's top fastest times list at the Metamora Invitational.

Fastest times at the Metamora Invitational list.  
2013 Metamora Invitational results.

Conference:
The team won both the Varsity and open races.  Our team set our school history by winning the conference meet for the first time in the 28 year history of our team being in the Cornbelt conference.  Our varsity runners had to beat #5 State ranked Normal U-High in order to accomplish this feat.  U-High is especially competitive in the conference meet.  Our seven runners all placed in the top 15 of the meet to secure the win. 

Alex Keeble 2nd, Jackson Powell 4th, William Wolf 5th, Andrew Walmer 8th, James Williams 12th, Gabe Pommier 14th, and Ethan Russell 15th.

Our team has been ranked #2 in the State for the past 4 weeks. 

We had four runners earn all-conference status by placing in the top 10 in the conference meet.  This isn't an easy feat since so many of the top 10 runners in our conference are currently some of the top runners in the State.  Alex Keeble, Jackson Powell, William Wolf, and Andrew Walmer are 2013 all-conference runners.  This ties the most amount of all-conference runners we have had in the history of our program in one year.

Alex Keeble was given IL elite status by dyestatil.com for his conference performance.

Alex Keeble ran the fastest time ever run by a Mahomet sophomore in the conference meet at 15:38.

Our runners in the open race really showed just how strong the middle and back of the pack of our team is by winning the open race in a big way.  Jack Hyde and Trevor Hanlon battled for the top spot.  Jack Hyde won the open race and Trevor took the runner-up position.  Brian Butcher, Ben Craw, and Daniel Middendorf took the next 3 spots in the race.  Unfortunately we have not been given meet results for our open race as the hosts had some struggles with the results.

Tristan Ray ran a lifetime personal best despite the course being a very slow course.  He ran a 22:08 which moved him to the #23 spot on the most improved over a career list with a 4 minute and 18 second overall improvement.

Aaron Tandy ran a lifetime personal best.  He ran a 22:08 which moved him to the #15 spot on the most improved over a career list with a 5 minutes and 13 second overall improvement.

Cody Jesswein also ran a lifetime personal best.  He ran a 21:42 which moved him to the #6 spot on the most improved over a career list with a 7 minute and 6 second overall improvement.

2013 Conference Results
The history of the cornbelt conference meet since 1986.
Conference Highest individual finishes. 

Regional:
The team won the Regional meet.  They won the meet for the 3rd year in a row and the 5th time in the last 8 years.  This is only the 2nd time in our program's history where our team has won the Regional meet three consecutive years in a row.  The last time was 1987-1989 with a team that made it to State those three years. 

Our boys had to out run two State ranked team to win the meet.  Our team won with a score of 25.  This is the lowest score for any Mahomet team in the 44 year history of our program. 

1st Mahomet 25 points
2nd Central 83
3rd Charleston 101
4th Danville 115
5th Taylorville 117
6th Centennial 133
7th Mattoon 137
8th Urbana 258
9th Effingham 263
10th Rantoul 268

Jack Hyde placed 17th.  Jack placed in front of all the other team's #4 runners and 8 of the team's #3 runners.  Trevor Hanlon placed 26th.  Trevor placed in front of 8 of the team's #4 runners and 5 of the team's #3 runners.  Both of their efforts really helped our margin of victory.  They also helped our 2013 team tie the fastest top 7 runner average of any Mahomet team at the Regional meet at 16:07.

Mahomet had 5 runners finish in the top 10 runners of this 10 team Regional meet.  This ties our program's record for having the most amount of runners finish in the top 10.  We had 5 top 10 Regional finishers in 2011 and 2006.
Ethan Russell placed 10th, Jackson Powell placed 6th, William Wolf placed 4th, James Williams placed 3rd, and Alex Keeble placed 2nd. 

Alex Keeble, James Williams, and William Wolf earned All-Regional honors by placing in the top 5.  This ties our program's record for the most amount of All-Regional runners in a season.  We had 3 All-Regional runners in 2012 and 1987.

James Williams, William Wolf, & Jackson Powell were given IL elite status by dyestatil.com for his conference performance.
Alex Keeble earned top US 100 elite status by dyestatil.com for his performance.

 Alex Keeble ran the fastest time ever run by a Mahomet sophomore in the Regional meet with a 15:29.

Alex Keeble improved 33 seconds from last year's Regional meet.
James Williams improved 40 seconds from last year's Regional meet.
Jackson Powell improved 1 minute and 12 seconds from last year's Regional meet.

Our team is still ranked 2nd in State for the 5th week in a row. 

Regional top 10 individual finishers list.
The history of our team at the Regional.
2013 Regional Results.

Sectional
The team won the Sectional meet for the 2nd year in a row.  This is only the 3rd time in our school history that they won the Sectional meet (1979, 2012, and 2013).  They had to beat 6 state ranked teams in order to accomplish this feat.

Our team set 3 team records in this meet.  They scored the lowest amount of points of any team in our 44 year history with 60 points.  They ran the fastest top 5 runner average of any team in our history on a 3 mile course with a 15:45.  They ran the fastest 7 runner average of any team in our history on a 3 mile course with 15:57.1.


In winning the Sectional meet our team qualified to run in the State meet.  Our State qualifiers are Alex Keeble (sophomore), James Williams (senior), William Wolf (junior), Gabe Pommier (freshman), Andrew Walmer (freshman), Jackson Powell (junior), and Ethan Russell (senior).  Our alternates are Kyle Appelquist (senior), Trevor Hanlon (junior), Jack Hyde (sophomore), Ben Craw (freshman), and Brian Butcher (freshman).

Alex Keeble earned All-Sectional status by placing in the top 10.  Alex placed 4th.  Alex is one of only 11 runners in our school history to earn this honor.  He is the highest placing sophomore we have had.  Alex also ran the fastest sophomore time in the history of our program in the Sectional meet with a 15:24.  Alex was given top US 100 elite ranking for his Sectional performance.  Alex qualified for state for the second year.

James Williams ran a lifetime 3 mile best to run second for our team.  He ran a 15:44.  This is the 8th fastest senior we have had at the Sectional meet.  He placed 11th just missing All-Sectional status.  James was given Il elite status by dyestatil.com for his Sectional performance.  James qualified for state for the second year.

William Wolf ran a solid time of 15:49 to place 13th.  His time is the 7th fastest junior time for a Mahomet junior at the Sectional meet.  William was given Il elite status by dyestatil.com for his Sectional performance.  William qualified for state for the first time.

Gabe Pommier ran a lifetime 3 mile best of 15:53.  He ran the 2nd fastest time in our school history for a freshman at the Sectional meet.  Gabe placed 15th.  Gabe was given Il elite status by dyestatil.com for his Sectional performance.  Gabe qualified for state for the first time.

Andrew Walmer ran a lifetime 3 mile best of 15:55.  He ran the 3rd fastest time in our school history for a freshman at the Sectional meet.  Andrew placed 17th.  Andrew was given Il elite status by dyestatil.com for his Sectional performance.  Andrew qualified for state for the first time. 

Gabe and Andrew ran the fastest 3 mile time at the Sectional meet for a Mahomet freshman as Dan Nielsen ran his 15:43 on a 2.9 course which would convert into a slightly slower time than Gabe and Andrew's time.  Gabe and Andrew are only the 6th and 7th freshmen from Mahomet ever to qualify for state. 

Jackson Powell coming off being sick still managed to run a 16:19 to place 32nd.  His time is the 13th fastest Mahomet junior time at the Sectional meet.  Jackson qualified for state for the second time. 

Ethan Russell ran a 16:36 to place 51st.  Ethan qualified for state for the 3rd year in a row.  Ethan is one of only 10 runners in our school history to qualify for state for 3 years. 

Our team is still ranked 2nd in State for the 6th week in a row.

 The history of our team at the Sectional.
Our team's highest individual places 
Past State qualifiers. 
2013 Sectional Results.

State
The team placed 15th.  Our team had an incredible season, but sickness got the best of us in the State meet.  Alex Keeble with a fever made an attempt to race, but had to pull out of the race just after a mile.  In a meet with the State's best teams it is hard to place well when your top runner is no longer in the team score.  The field seemed to be about 20 seconds slower than normal due to the recent rains on the course.  However, freshman Andrew Walmer still managed to run a lifetime 3 mile best.  He ran a 15:52.  This is the fastest freshman time we have ever had at the State meet.  He placed 62nd.  He was the 5th fastest freshman in the State meet.   His time earned him Illinois Elite Status by dyestatil.com.  James Williams came in 2nd for the team with a 16:02.  This was a solid effort by James with the slower course.  James placed 90th.  He ended his high school season well and earned the 16th fastest time ever run by a Mahomet senior at the State meet.  Junior, William Wolf ran 3rd for the team with a 16:16.  He placed 113th.  William ran the 10th fastest time for a Mahomet junior at the State meet.  Freshman, Gabe Pommier ran a 16:26.  He placed 129th.  Gabe's time was the 3rd fastest time for a Mahomet freshman at the State meet.  Senior, Ethan Russell placed 5th for the team.  Ethan ran a 16:29 and was just a few strides behind Gabe.  Ethan placed 137th.  Ethan ran the 26th fastest senior time for a Mahomet runner at the State meet.  Junior, Jackson Powell ran a 16:43.  He placed 167th.  Jackson's time was 16th fastest time for a Mahomet junior at the State meet. 

Our team had incredible support throughout the year from our parents, the alumni, the alumni parents, administration, and their teammates.  The State meet brought out the most amount of fan support we have had in years.  Thank you for your support throughout the season.

I owe a great deal of thanks to Todd Lafond who has volunteered for our program for the 5th season.  Despite not getting paid, he is at every practice and meet throughout the season.  Our team is much better because of his help.

MS State Qualifiers list.
Fastest Times at the State meet.
2013 State Meet Results