2019 Josh Wilcoski 
  Josh Wilcoski - Sophomore
Josh is a second year high school cross country and two year Letterman. 

Son of  Jim and Tessa Wilcoski.



  2018 & 2019 Letterman



500 Mile Club in 2018
400 Mile Club in 2019
2019 Most Improved Fresh/Soph Runner Award Winner


Most consecutive days in a row 3 month award
Most consecutive days in a row 6 month award


2018 Personal Best Time 18:41
2019 Personal Best Time 17:19 (17:15*)


2019 Medalist at the Charleston Invitational


Fastest Top Freshmen Times List for the East Peoria & Metamora Invitationals & Regional & Sectional Meets
Fastest Top Sophomore Times List for the Charleston, Springfield, PND, U-High, & Metamora Invitationals
& Regional, Sectional, & State Meets


2018 News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in October
2019 News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September and October

2019 State Qualifier - 215th

   As a freshman, Josh joins our team with junior high cross country and track experience.  Josh ran the most miles of anyone on his team the summer before his freshmen year.  He ran over 500 miles to earn our team's 500 mile club award.  He set our freshman record for the most amount of summer miles.  Josh opened up his high school career by running a 19:46 at the Charleston Invitational.  He placed 57th in the varsity race.  He ran the 41st fastest time any freshmen from Mahomet has run at this race in 13 years.  Josh ran a 20:03 at the Monticello triangular meet.  He placed 33rd in the meet. Josh had a big improvement at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational.  He improved 24 seconds to run a 19:22.  He ran 5th on his fresh/soph team to help them place 15th in the meet.  He showed a lot of courage to break ahead of runners that beat him last year.  Josh had a 30 second season best at the East Peoria Invitational.  He ran 4th for his fresh/soph team helping lead them to a 4th place team finish.  Josh broke into the 18s with an 18:52.  He earned enough varsity letter points after this meet to earn his first high school varsity letter.  Josh ran strong enough to earn the 38th spot on our team's fastest freshmen top times list for the East Peoria Invitational. Josh earned a spot on the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in October.  Josh ran a 19:13 on a very muddy course at the Metamora Invitational.  He earned the 35th spot on our team's fastest freshmen times list at the Metamora Invitational.  Josh ran a 20:42 on the very hilly Conference meet course.  He sprinted in with his teammate Gabe.  Josh earned a spot on our team's State meet roster for his freshman year. Josh ran in the Regional meet.  He became one of the few freshmen in the 49 year history of our program to run in the Regional meet.  He ran a lifetime best of 18:49 in a 20 plus mph wind.  He helped our team become Sectional qualifiers.  He earned the 29th spot on our team's fastest freshmen at the Regional meet.  Josh ran his lifetime best at the Sectional meet.  He ran a 18:41 to earn a spot on our fastest freshmen times list for the Sectional meet.  He ran 6th for our team at the Sectional meet.  Josh earned our team's most consecutive days in a row 90 day award.

   As a sophomore, Josh ran enough miles in the summer to earn our 400 mile club award.  He showed great improvement from the previous year.  He improved 1 minute and 21 seconds from the 2018 Charleston Invite to the 2019 race.  He ran a 18:25 for a lifetime personal best.  Josh ran in our team's top 7 at the Invite.  He earned a medal for his high finish.  He also earned a spot on our team's fastest sophomore times list for the Charleston Invitational.  He placed so high that he earned a medal.  He earned a spot on the News Gazette's prep cross country leaders list in September.  Josh ran another strong race for our varsity team at the Springfield Invitational.  He ran right at his best time despite it being a challenging course.  He ran a 18:32.  This earned him the 40th spot on our team's fastest top sophomore times list at the Springfield Invitational.  He earned enough points after this meet to earn his 2nd Varsity XC letter.  Josh had a major breakthrough at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational.  He broke into the 17s for the first time.  He ran a 17:40.  This earned him the 38th spot on our team's fastest top sophomore times list at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational.  He helped our fresh/soph team place 16th out of 79 teams represented.  He improved 1 minute and 42 seconds from his time at this meet last year.  Josh ran a lifetime best at the U-High Invitational.  He ran a 17:19 to run 5th for. our team.  He helped our team place 2nd in the 13 team invitational.   Josh ran a 21 second improvement.  He earned the 13th spot on our team's fastest sophomore top times list at the U-High Invitational.  Josh ran in the 17s again at the Metamora Invitational.  He ran a 17:28.  This was a 1 minute and 45 second improvement from his last year's time at this invitational.  His time was fast enough to earn him the 29th spot on our team's fastest sophomore top times list at the Metamora Invitational.  Josh ran a 18:23 on our very challenging home course at the Conference meet.   He improved 2 minutes and 19 seconds from his last year's time at the Conference meet.  Josh earned a spot on our. team's State series roster.  Josh ran a lifetime best at the Regional meet when the team needed him most.   He ran a 17:15 to place 5th for the team.  He helped our team qualify for the Sectional meet.  He improved 1 minute and 34 seconds from his time last year at the Regional meet.  He earned the 30th spot on our team's fastest sophomore time's list at the Regional meet.  Josh earned our team's 6 month most consecutive days in a row award.  Josh ran a solid time of 17:41 on a very wet Sectional course.  His time was fast enough to earn him the 30th spot on our team's fastest sophomore times list at the Sectional meet.  He helped his team qualify for State.  Josh ran well at State.  He helped his team place 11th in the meet.  He earned a spot on our team's fastest sophomore top times list at the State meet.  He earned our team's most improved fresh/soph runner award at our team's award ceremony.