2021 Meet The Team Mahomet-Seymour Boys Cross Country

   As a freshman, Kyle joins our team with junior high cross country and track experience. Kyle had a great summer of running. Despite a summer injury, he still ran over 300 miles to earn our team's 300 mile club award. Kyle ran in a nice pack in his first high school meet. He ran a 17:20 to place in the top 10. He placed 8th in the invitational earning himself a medal. He helped his team win the 12 team invitational. His time earned him the 10th fastest spot on our team's fastest freshmen times list for the Charleston Invitational. Kyle earned a spot on the New Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in September. Kyle had a great effort at the Monticello triangular meet. He ran a smart race and packed it up with his teammates where they finished 1st through 3rd. Kyle took 3rd overall in the meet. He helped his team beat the #2 state ranked A team. He ran a 17:36 at this meet. Kyle had a 54 second improvement at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational. He ran in the 16's for the first time with a 16:26. He earned a spot on our team's 16 minute 3 mile club. He earned a medal by placing 28th in the meet. He helped his team place 15th in the fresh/soph race. Kyle had the 4th fastest time and 5th highest place by any Mahomet freshmen runner in 19 years at the invite showing he is a tremendous runner. Kyle earned his first high school varsity letter after the PND meet. Kyle ran 3rd for his team in the varsity race at the East Peoria Invitational. He helped them place 3rd as a team. He ran a 16:32 to place 21st. His time earned him the 6th fastest freshmen spot on our team's fastest times list for the East Peoria Invitational. Kyle earned a spot on the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in October. Kyle ran a super race at the Metamora Invitational where he ran a 16:08 on a very muddy course. He placed 14th overall in the 28 team invitational earning himself a medal and the 4th place trophy for his team. He earned the 6th spot on our team's fastest freshmen times list at the Metamora Invitational. Kyle placed 8th in the Conference meet earning himself a medal and All-Conference honors. He is one of the few freshmen we have had earn All-Conference honors in 49 years. He placed 8th. He earned a spot on our team's fastest conference times list. He earned a spot on our team's State meet roster. Kyle ran a lifetime 3 mile best at the Regional meet where he ran a 16:16 in a 20 plus mph wind. He placed 11th overall helping his team qualify for the Sectional meet. He earned the 4th spot on our team's fastest freshmen times list for the Regional meet. Kyle had another strong race at the Sectional meet. He ran a 16:11 to place 21st. He missed qualifying for state by only 6 seconds. This was one of the greatest performances ever by a Mahomet freshman. He earned the 5th spot on our fastest freshmen times list at the Sectional meet in nearly 50 years of our team running in the Sectional meet. Kyle earned our team's fastest freshman award for his freshman year. He won our team's most valuable fresh/soph runner award his freshman year. Kyle won our team's Brent Johnson True Grit award his freshman year. Kyle earned our team's most consecutive days in a row 3 month award. Kyle earned the News-Gazette All-Area Special Mention honors in 2018.

   As a sophomore, Kyle ran enough miles in the summer to earn a spot on our team's 500 mile club. He ran a fastest enough in our first meet to earn a spot on our team's fastest sophomore times list for the Charleston Invitational. He earned a medal for his high place. He earned a spot on the News-Gazette's prep cross country leaders list in September. Kyle ran with his teammate to a 15th place finish at the Springfield Invitational. This earned him a medal in the varsity race. Kyle's time of 17:04 earned him the 16th spot on our team's fastest sophomore times list at the Springfield Invitational. He earned enough letter points after this meet to earn his 2nd varsity XC letter. Kyle had a nice breakthrough at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational. He broke into the 15s for the first time and ran a lifetime best of 15:51. This was over a half minute improvement from last year. Kyle earned a medal in the fresh/soph race by placing 3rd. This was the highest finish in the fresh/soph race we have had at that invitational in 20 years. He earned the 7th spot on our team's fastest sophomore time at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational. Kyle earned a spot on the News-Gazette Prep Cross Country Leaders List in October. Kyle ran in the 15s again at the Normal U-High Invitational with a 15:50. His season best time earned him the fastest sophomore spot for our team's top times list at this invitational. He earned a medal for being runner up in the 13 team meet. He ran the 14th fastest time of any Mahomet sophomore in our 50 year history with his 15:50. Kyle earned another medal at the Metamora Invitational by placing 9th. He ran an impressive 15:16. His time was the 3rd fastest sophomore time we have had at this invitational. It is also the 3rd fastest time by any Mahomet sophomore in any race in our 50 year history. He cut off 35 seconds from his season best and 53 seconds from his time last year at this invitational. Kyle earned our team's 3 month most consecutive days in a row award. Kyle ran a solid race at the Conference meet. He placed 2nd which earned him a medal and All-Conference honors. He ran a 16:19 which was a 33 second improvement from last year. He earned the 14th spot on our team's fastest sophomore list at the conference meet.   Kyle earned a spot on our team's State series roster. Kyle ran right at his best at the Regional meet. He ran a 15:19. This earned him the fastest sophomore spot on our team's fastest times list at the Regional meet. He led the team and helped them qualify for the Sectional meet. He placed 4th earning a medal and All-Regional honors. His time was 57 seconds faster than last year's Regional meet. Kyle ran a 16:03 on a very wet Sectional course. He placed 10th which earned him All-Sectional honors and a medal. His time was fast enough to earn him the 11th spot on our team's fastest Sophomore times list at the Sectional meet. He helped his team qualify for State. Kyle proved himself to be one of the fastest sophomores in the State by placing 53rd. He helped his team finish 11th. He ran a 15:54 which was within seconds of his best true 3 mile time. He earned a spot on our team's fastest sophomore times list at the State meet. He earned our team's most valuable runner and bulldog award at our team's awards ceremony. Kyle earned the News-Gazette All-Area 2nd Team honors in 2019. Kyle won our team's scholar athlete award as a sophomore.

   As a junior, Kyle dedicated himself with all his heart in the off-season. He earned our team's 1000 mile club award. He earned our team's 1000 York mile club award. He earned the title of captain. He earned our most consecutive days in a row 6 month award. In his first race he earned a medal at the Charleston Invitational. He helped our team win the meet. Kyle earned a spot on our team's fastest junior times list at the Charleston invitational. He broke into the 15s and earned our team's 15 minute 3 mile runner award. He earned our team's old dog award again in 2020. He had his lifetime best 3 mile time at the SJO Spartan classic. He won the invitational in a 15:32. He helped his team win the meet. He earned our team's sub 5 for 5 award. Kyle had a very competitive race at the Urbana meet. He went back and forth with a strong runner from Clinton. While the Clinton runner ran well, Kyle showed great determination in winning the meet. Kyle ran a lifetime 3 mile best of 15:31. He helped our team win the meet. Kyle ran a 15:51 in the Conference meet. He was runner-up which earned him a medal and All-Conference honors. He earned a spot on our team's fastest junior times list at the Conference meet. He led his team to winning the team title. Kyle ran a 15:45 at the Monticello Invitational. He was runner-up. He earned our team's most valuable runner award.   He earned our team's Bulldog award. He earned a varsity letter again as a junior. Kyle earned a spot on our team's State series roster. Kyle was a fierce competitor at the Regional meet. He finished runner-up and earn both a medal and All-Regional honors for his top 5 finish. Kyle earned a spot on our team's fastest junior times list at the Regional meet. His time was in the top 10 fastest juniors we have had in over 50 years at the Regional meet. He helped his team win the meet and advance to the Sectional meet. Kyle won our team's scholar athlete award as a junior. Kyle earned a medal and All-Sectional honors by placing 7th in the meet. He earned a spot on our team's fastest junior times list at the Sectional meet. He helped our team place 4th in the Sectional meet and qualify for the unofficial State meet. Kyle had a great run at the State meet. He ran a bold ran of running with the lead pack from the start. He fought through the tough parts in the middle of the race and placed 18th. This earned him All-State honors. He earned a spot on our team's fastest junior times list at the State meet. He led his team to a 2nd place finish at State.

   As a senior,