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Welcome to Mahomet-Seymour Boys' Track and Field!
May 31, 2004 The Great Season Ends Despite not placing in the state finals, 2004 will go down as one of the finest in the history of Mahomet-Seymour mens' track & field. Accomplishments include four new Cornbelt Conference records, five new school records, and a bucketful of invitational championships! Further, this is the most AA events and qualifiers in the programs history. Congratulations men! The following pics are all thumbs that link to much larger pictures. 
4 x 400 meter Relay Joe Zhu, Grant Brewer, Brandon Smith, Wade Rippy Grant Brewer also competed in the 300 meter hurdles. 
Discus - Travis Leonard and Craig Lindsey 
800 meter run - Taylor Sebestik 
High Jump - Jared Bosch May 31, 2004 Curtin Picked Honorable Mention All-State The accolades continue for the finest manager in the cornbelt: Kyle Curtin chosen All-Conference last year, received word of his selection as the all-area manager of the year. Kyle has also been named honorable mention all-state. Kyle Curtin is the finest manager around for putting up with the goofiest team in school. Thanks for a great year Kyle.  May 28, 2004 Two to Finals! Senior Travis Leonard and Sophomore Jared Bosch made the cut to go to finals tomorrow. Leonard will compete in the Discus tomorrow after throwing an 11th place toss of 159' 7". Bosch will compete with 14 other jumpers as they start all over again in the high jump. See you tomorrow in Charleston! You can view all of Friday's results on this ihsa web page. May 24, 2004 Top Efforts Page Updated Top Efforts as of May 22nd has been updated - Top Efforts Page May 24, 2004 Sectional Results Posted Most of the sectional results are posted - go to the schedule and follow the link from there. May 21, 2004 Bulldogs with Highest AA Sectional Finish Ever! What a great meet! Despite some timing errors at the finish line our team did a great job in finishing second to a strong Decatur Eisenhower team. Here's a look at our state qualifiers: Travis Leonard - Discus 166'11" Craig Lindsey - Discus 154'11" Jared Bosch - High Jump 6'5" Taylor Sebestik - 800 M Run 1:57.0 Grant "the cripple" Brewer - 300 M Hurdles 39.8 4 x 400 M Relay (Brewer, Zhu, Smith, Rippy) 3:25.5 Urbana is supposed to fax me the official results and I will post them as soon as I get them. May 17, 2004 Another One Bites the Dust! Wow! Wade Rippy scorched a 22.3 second 200 meter dash to set a new school record! MSHS boys' competed in very few events - saving our best for sectional. Travis Leonard and Craig Lindsey went one-two in the discus. Grant Risley won the Pole Vault with a vault of 13' 6"! Kevin Koenig hurdled an impressive 41.0 in the 300 M hurdles! Great efforts to launch us into the sectional at Urbana on Friday! May 16, 2004 Records Updated Four new conference records and three new school records have been set - time for an update to the records page! Let's hope I have to do it a few more times this year... May 15, 2004 Mahomet-Seymour Dominates Invitational Mahomet-Seymour Bulldogs won their own 22-team invitational scoring in every event but one! MSHS 139 Monticello 53 Kankakee 52 Pontiac 51 SJO, Eureka, Normal U-High 50 Adam Kesler blazed to a new P.R. in winning the 100 M dash at 10.9! Grant Brewer set a new meet and school record in the 300 hurdles running 39.3! Jared Bosch set a new meet record in the triple jump going 43' 6.25"! Montana Martin set a new P.R. in the long jump going 21' 1"! Craig Lindsey set a new P.R. in the shot put throwing 50' 7.5"! Do you get the idea we had a great meet? We did! Check out the entire meet results! May 14, 2004 Meet Shortened by Lightning The meet at Monticello was shortened due to Lightning strikes. We did have some Personal Records worth mentioning, including: Craig Lindsey 49' 4" in shot put Brandon Tarter 133' 1" in Discus Grant Risley 19' 3" in Long Jump Tyler Fults 18' 1" in Long Jump TJ Wirth 110' 6" in Discus Jonah Keigley 105' 8" in Discus May 11, 2004 Mahomet-Seymour Cornbelt Conference Champions! The Mahomet-Seymour Boys' Track & Field team dominated conference by 65 points tonight over runner-up Pontiac. The Bulldogs set 4 Conference records and 2 school records in the process. Travis Leonard crushed the Discus record throwing an amazing 177'7". Jared Bosch was a one man wrecking crew setting new school and conference records in the high jump (6'6") and triple jump (44' 6.5")! The 4 x 100 M Relay of Grant Brewer, Joe Zhu, Adam Kesler, and Wade Rippy set a new conference standard with a time of 43.7. Check out the the Champs' results. May 11, 2004 Pantagraph Cornbelt Conference Preview The Pantagraph has a super article this morning about tonight's Cornbelt Conference meet over on their site. It's very exciting to see both of our teams favored to win the title. The story will expire eventually so I archived a copy over here. May 6, 2004 Fresh/Soph Squeaks out Conference Championship It could not have been much closer! According to my score we won the meet by 4, according to the official score we won by 2.5 points. Anyway you slice it, it was a close call. A lot of tremendous efforts tonight including Personal Bests in the Pole Vault (Robberstad 12'0"), Discus (Seaman 133'7" and Tarter 131'4"), SHot Put (Graham (38'6"), Triple Jump (Davis 38'11"), High Jump (Davis 5'8"), Fitzsimmons and P. Brewer in the hurdles; Zientek and Whitsitt in the 100 meters, Bosch and Rose in the 200 M dash. We had a great night, and we needed every bit of it to overcome a powerful sophomore group from Pontiac. Check out the Fresh-Soph Champs' efforts. May 4, 2004 Mahomet-Seymour Rules Gene Ward Invitational What a great night! Here are the scores: MSHS 141 Decatur Eisenhower 109 Champaign Centennial 91 Chatham Glenwood 82.5 Champaign Central 71 8 other AA schools There are so many PRs tonight it is hard to know where to start. Wade Rippy tied his own school record in the highs running 14.7. Grant Brewer ran the intermediate hurdles in a personal best of 39.7 and tied the school record. Travis Leonard dominated the discus by 20 feet, throwing 170'11". Adam Kesler set a new mark in the 100 M dash running 11.0 and followed that with a PR in the 200 M dash of 22.9! Jared Bosch skied in the high jump to 6'4" and set a new mark in the triple jump at 42'11". The 4 x 400 M crew set a new season mark running under 3:28. Check out all of the great results. May 3, 2004 Underclassmen Shine in Dual Meet Adam Kesler only had one race against Fisher high school on this cool evening, but he made it count! The junior speedster clocked an 11.1 in the 100 M dash smashing his previous best. Team mate Grant Brewer took advantage of his one race cruising to a quick 22.8 in the 200 M dash. Fellow Junior Kevin Koenig had a great night in the hurdles winning the highs and clocking a personal best 42.5 in the 300 M intermediates! Check out all of the results. Pontiac Results Posted & 2 New Meets Added I have posted the meet results from last night. Splits will be added later today or early tomorrow. We have added two meets to our schedule. A small meet is scheduled for Monday May 3, 2004 at 4:30 PM at Mahomet (teams TBA). We are traveling to Monticello for a meet on May 13, 2004. Both of these meets will be open entry, so all of our athletes will participate. April 27, 2004 Mahomet Wins Pontiac Relays for the 1st Time! It was close, but Mahomet Boys Track & Field team managed to win the Pontiac Relays for the first time. Check out all of the great performances. Mahomet-Seymour 120 Providence Catholic 100 Herscher 75 Ottawa 72 Pontiac 66 Olympia 51 Bradley Bourbonais 46 Prairie Central 12 April 25, 2004 Mahomet-Seymour Boys Win Monticello Fresh/Soph Invite Rolling up 202 points the Mahomet-Seymour Fresh/Soph squad beat host Monticello by 39 points. St. Joseph-Ogden was a distant third with under 100 points. Results are posted here. April 23, 2004 Bulldogs Dominate Normal Community Invite! MSHS 190 Normal Community 130 Normal U-High 72 East Peoria 58 Normal West 44 Olympia 40 Lots of great efforts and some awesome relays check it out. April 21, 2004 Conference Sweep Complete Mahomet-Seymour managed to complete the sweep during the small meet season defeating Normal U-High and non-conference foe S.J.O. Now, the Bulldogs just need to put it together at the conference meet. There were many impressive performances with 7 Bulldogs running under 5 minutes in the mile and a great night of jumping by Jared Bosch. Wade Rippy with an ailing leg managed to win three sprint events. Normal U-High 94.5 S.J.O. 72.5 Ridgeview 12 Leroy 5 Check out all of the great efforts. April 19, 2004 Pantagraph and Citizen Track & Field Coverage This weekend an article appeared in the Sunday Pantagraph that reminded me why the Pantagraph and the Mahomet Citizen are your two best sources of high school track & field information. The Mahomet Citizen's Bruce Yentes has met with me personally every week this season to discuss our team. I really appreciate his attention to detail and excellent writing. Randy Sharer is a long time track & field advocate for downstate Illinois. He is by far the most knowledgeable track & field reporter in the area and endeavors to highlight the sport on a regular basis. These two newspapers deserve your support for their outstanding track coverage. I have archived the the Pantagraph article as it will expire from their site eventually. Please note the article was based on an interview during the first week of outdoor season. April 15, 2004 MS Grabs Quality Win Pontiac has won the Cornbelt Conference 9 out of the last 10 years, but tonight the Indians did not have enough for the victory. The Bulldogs came out strong with a convincing victory over Pontiac, Eureka, and Prairie Central. Pontiac 60 Eureka 50 Prairie Central 24 The distance and hurdle crews led the way with dominant performance. Mahomet-Seymour also won every single relay. Travis Leonard heaved the discus 166'0" to win and Craig Lindsey set a new standard for himself, throwing 48'8.5" in the shot. Kevin Koenig helped pace the hurdle crew with two important third place finishes and two new Personal Records. It was a great night for Bulldog track & field! Check out all of the efforts on the results page. Next up, a showdown with powerhouse St. Joseph-Ogden on Tuesday! April 12, 2004 BRRRR! An Ice Cold Bulldog Victory The Bulldogs competed hard despite temperatures in the 30's and a hard North wind. Senior Wade Rippy led the way with victories in three events 110 Highs, 300 Hurdles, and the 200 meter dash. Other outstanding efforts included the 4 x 100 M Relay tying their best time in the terrible conditions and Joe Zhu running a 52.9 split in the 4 x 400 M relay. Check out all of the performances on the results page. The Bulldogs have two hard practices before a showdown with conference favorite Pontiac and track power Eureka Thursday! April 6, 2004 Bulldogs Defeat Future Conference Foe The Bulldogs hosted future Cornbelt member Rantoul High School and distance powerhouse Danville Schlarman. Mahomet-Seymour proved to be too much for these squads with another overwhelming victory: Danville Schlarman 32 Rantoul HS 24 April 1, 2004 Bulldogs' Victory No Joke Dominating the competition with quality and depth the Mahomet-Seymour Track & Field team won tonight's quad meet at Olympia by over 100 points. MSHS scored 169, defending conference champion Olympia scored 67.5, BCC bagged 24, and PC was last with 17.5. Mahomet-Seymour scored 1st place in 16 out of the 18 events! Check out all of the great results over here! March 29, 2004 Records Updated The Cornbelt Conference Records have been added to the records page. I used a dated records sheet and so a couple of updates to that page may occur - I have invited conference coaches to have a look at the page and send me any corrections. March 27, 2004 Bulldogs Dominate Danville Invite Mahomet-Seymour won the Danville Indoor Invitational by over 60 points in route to a solid victory. Mahomet won 9 of the 17 events and scored in every one. Jared Bosch led the way winning the high jump at 6'2" and the triple jump going 40'5". You can see all of the great performance marks here! Sebestik and Rippy Compete at Top Times Taylor Sebestik beat his previous best in the 1600 Meters by 2 seconds running a 4:29.0. This was good enough for an eighth place award. Rippy ran 8.0 in the 55 M High Hurdles and failed to advance to the finals. Congratulations to both of these young men on making it to indoor state! March 26, 2004 Top MSHS Efforts Updated Please notice the new button for 2004 Top Efforts to the left: Coach Gary Garrison has been updating the top performances for each event on a weekly basis. The button  leads to a new page with our top Varsity and Fresh/Soph efforts each week. With over 70 young men on the team this year, there is fierce competition for the top spots. If you enjoy checking this page be sure to let Coach G. know!
March 25, 2004 Sebestik and Rippy Invited to Prep Top Times Meet Taylor Sebestik and Wade Rippy have been invited to the State AA Top Times Meet at the University of Illinois. Sebestik will compete in the 1600 M and Rippy will compete in the 55 M High Hurdles. The AA Prep Top Times Meet is this Saturday. Rippy will start in the 55M High Hurdle prelims at 11:50 AM and Sebestik will run the 1600 M at 1:55 PM. March 20, 2004 Charleston Invite Results Spring break, illness, and injuries all played a role in a less than stellar performance for the Bulldogs this Saturday. Despite the adversity there were several excellent efforts. Taylor Sebestik continued to improve his 1600 time (4:31) and placed in three distance events. Jared Bosch placed in the high jump, triple jump, and 800 meter relay. Brandon Smith ran three hard races in 800 meter relay, 400 meter dash, and the 1600 meter relay. Grant Risley cleared an impressive 13'0" in the pole vault. The rest of the results are over here. March 12, 2004 A Picture of the Champions and More! The 2004 Mahomet-Seymour Indoor Invitational Champs!  A very nice article in today's Pantagraph about the Invitational. I really appreciate the way the Pantagraph sports staff covers high school track & field. The story will expire eventually so I archived a copy over here. March 11, 2004 Bulldogs Win Invite BIG! This may be a year of a lot of firsts for Bulldog Track starting with winning their own indoor invitational for the first time! The score of the meet: MSHS 155.5 Bloomington 111 Normal Community 104.5 Herscher 42.5 Mattoon 30 Lincoln 18.5 Grant Risley set a new meet record in the pole vault with a jump of 12'7" and Wade Rippy blazed to a new High Hurdle mark of 7.6 seconds! There were a number of awesome results that you should check out! Meet Champions also included Travis Leonard in the shot put, Jared Bosch in the high jump, the 3200 M Relay, Taylor Sebestik in the 1600 M Run, and the 1600 M Relay! March 6, 2004 Bulldogs Compete Well at Lincoln Way Wade Rippy tied the meet record at the Lincoln Way Central Indoor Invitational in the 55 M High Hurdles. Taylor Sebestik continued to improve his 1600 M time running a 4:32.0. The 4 by 400 M relay team dominated the meet, winning by over 40 meters on their way to the championship. Check out all of the excellent efforts on this page! February 25, 2004 Second Mini-Meet Completed Check out the results from the meet last night. Some highlights include Wade Rippy running a fast 7.87 in the 55M High Hurdles and Taylor Sebestik with a new all-time Personal Record of 4:33.0 in the 1600! February 9, 2004 First Mini-Meet Completed Check out the results from the meet this evening. Some highlights include Taylor Sebestik running a blazing 4:37 on the tight indoor track and Kiel Castor crushing his Personal best in the shot by 4 feet! December 2, 2003 New Track Season A new exciting season of Mahomet-Seymour Men's Track is almost ready to start. A mere seven weeks until the first track practice and there is a lot of exciting news to share. Wade Rippy Signs Letter of Intent for I.S.U.
Travis Leonard Signs Letter of Intent for UCSB
Coach Gary Garrison Joins Staff Coach Gary Garrison will be coaching Bulldogs this season. What happens when you combine the best hurdles coach in the state with the top two hurdlers in school history? I don't know, but I am super excited to find out! Coach Garrison was head men's track coach at St. Joseph-Ogden for 30+ years. There Coach Garrison guided the Spartans to two state championships. Coach Garrison has coached more all-state hurdlers than nearly any other downstate coach. Add that to his amazing wealth of track and field knowledge and it is clear this is a huge pick up for Bulldog Track! |
