2021 Karsten Waisath
  Karsten Waisath - Senior
Karsten is a forth year high school cross country and letterman. 

Son of Theron and Kari Waisath.


  2018, 2019, & 2020 Letterman


300 Mile Club in 2018
300 Mile Club in 2019
300 Mile Club in 2020
2019 Team Spirit Award Winner
2020 Brent Johnson True Grit Award Winner
2019 & 2020 Scholar Athlete Award Winner


2018 Personal Best Time 19:26 (19:06*)
2019 Personal Best Time 18:44 (17:49*)
2020 Personal Best Time 17:19

#41 Most Improved over a Career List with a 3:32 improvement

2020 Urbana Meet Flight #4 Meet Champion

Fastest Freshmen Top Times List for the East Peoria & Metamora Invitationals
Fastest Sophomore Top Times List for the Charleston, U-High, & Metamora Invitationals
Fastest Junior Top Times for the Charleston Invitational


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


2019 State Qualifier - alternate
2020 State Series roster
   As a freshman, Karsten joins our team with junior high cross country and track experience.  Karsten put in a solid amount of training this summer.  He ran 300 miles and earned our team's 300 mile club award.  Karsten opened up his high school career at the Charleston Invitational.  He ran a 20:51 to place 76th in this varsity meet.  Karsten is known by his teammates for being resilient.  Karsten had a huge improvement at the Monticello triangular meet.  He ran a 20:07 to place 34th in the meet.  This was a 44 second improvement.  Karsten did a great job running in the varsity race at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational.  He had a 41 second improvement to run a 19:26.  He placed 392nd overall and helped his team place 35th in the meet.  Karsten had a 20 second season best improvement at the East Peoria Invitational.  He ran a 19:06.  He ran 5th for his team helping them place 4th as a team in the fresh/soph race.  Karsten earned enough varsity letter points after his 4th race to earn his first high school varsity letter.  He also ran strong enough to earn the 40th spot on our team's fastest freshmen times list for the East Peoria Invitational.  Karsten earned a spot on the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in October.  Karsten ran a 19:29 on a horribly muddy course at the Metamora Invitational.  His time earned him the 37th spot on our team's fastest freshmen times list at the Metamora Invitational.  Karsten ran a 21:29 at the Conference meet on a very hilly course.  He earned a spot on our team's State meet roster as a freshman.

   As a sophomore, Karsten had a great year of training.  He ran enough miles in the summer to earn our 300 mile club award.  He opened up the season by placing 8th for the team at the Charleston Invitational.  He ran a lifetime best time of 18:55.  This earned him a spot on our team's fastest sophomore times list for the Charleston Invitational.  Karsten earned a spot on the News Gazette's prep cross country leaders list in September.  Karsten ran right at his lifetime best at the Springfield Invitational despite it being a much more challenging course.  He helped our varsity team place 6th in the meet with over 20 teams.  Karsten had another lifetime best performance at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational.  He ran a 18:44.  Karsten led 95% of the open race for his team.  He helped pull his teammate to a lifetime best.  His place was the 16th highest finish we have had in 20 years at this invitational in the open race.  Karsten earned enough points after this meet to earn his 2nd Varsity letter in XC.  Karsten ran right at his season best at the U-High Invitational with a 18:47.  His time was fast enough to earn the 25th spot on our team's fastest sophomore top times list at the U-High Invitational.  Karsten had a big breakthrough at the Metamora Invitational.  He cut off 55 seconds from his best to run in the 17s with a 17:49.  His time was a 1 minute and 41 second improvement from his time at this meet last year.  His time earned him the 33rd spot on our team's fastest sophomore top times list at this invitational.    Karsten ran a 18:54 at the Conference meet on our very challenging course.  This was a 2 minute and 35 second improvement from last year's conference meet.  He improved more than anyone on our returning team at the Conference meet.  Karsten earned a spot on the News-Gazette's area leaders list in October.  He earned a spot on our team's State series roster.  Karsten won our team's team spirit award. Karsten won our team's scholar athlete award as a sophomore.

   As a junior, Karsten ran 300 miles in the summer to earn our 300 mile club award.  He opened the season with a lifetime 3 mile best of 18:17.  He was runner up in the #7-8 runner race at the Charleston Invitational.  Karsten and his teammate Joe Taylor led the 13 team field.  Karsten improved 38 seconds from his last year's race.  Karsten earned a spot on our team's fastest junior top times list at the Charleston Invitational with his great time.  Karsten has really showed a lot of leadership this season.  He has shown that he is a strong young man in his physical strength and his character.   Karsten improved another 52 seconds from his lifetime best at the SJO Spartan Classic.  He ran a 17:25.  This was a 3 minute and 26 minute improvement from his first high school race.  This earned him the #43 spot on our team's most improved over a career list.  Karsten helped his team win the varsity race in the Spartan Classic.  Karsten had another lifetime best at the Urbana meet.  He cut off 6 seconds to run a 17:19.  He moved up to #41 in the most improved over a career list with a 3 minute and 32 second improvement.  He ran away from the field in his flight and won it.  Karsten had the 7th fastest time for the team and helped them win the team title.  Karsten ran a 17:50 at the Conference meet.  He helped his team win the Conference meet.  Karsten ran a 17:33 at the Monticello Invitational.  He and his teammates ran in a pack of three to lead the open race.  They won the open race.  Karsten earned a varsity letter in cross country his junior year.  Karsten won the Brent Johnson True Grit award his junior year.  He earned a spot on our team's State series roster.  Karsten represented our team well at the Regional meet.  He always runs with such determination.  When others naturally fade and settle in the middle of the race,  Karsten is the most determined at that point.  He helped our team win the Regional meet and advance to the Sectional meet.
Karsten won our team's scholar athlete award as a junior.

   As a senior,