The Mahomet-Seymour Winter Guard kicked off the 2022 season, taking first place in the Winter Guard category at Clinton High School on Saturday. Seniors Mallory Fonte and Audrey Boateng tied for second place with their Flag Solo. Both solos and the winter guard routine qualified for the IDTA State competition […]
Month: January 2022
Mahomet-Seymour Speech team places third in Eureka
The Mahomet-Seymour Speech Team finished in third place out of 15 schools at the Eureka High School speech tournament on Jan. 15. Most speech contests this season have been in-person, with students performing while wearing masks. Several MSHS students advanced to the final round of competition and were recognized in […]
Upcoming in Mahomet 2022: #7 Mahomet Police Department cameras
The Village of Mahomet Board of Trustees approved funds for eight in-car cameras and 11 body-worn cameras (BWC) for the Mahomet Police Department in December. The cameras were part of the FY 2023 budget projections, but Chief Mike Metzler came to the Trustees early to secure funding in FY 2022 […]
Upcoming in Mahomet 2022: #8 Plans for Mahomet Public Library
The Mahomet Public Library knows that its facility is too small to accommodate its constituency. It was apparent in 2007 when they built a 13,000 square-foot building, needing a 24,000 square-foot building. Today library staff estimates that the facility needs to be about 27,000 square feet. At this time, the […]
Commentary: Why we are still talking about voting rights in 2022
Like many white children in the 1980’s and 1990’s, I knew Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for calling on this nation to move towards a society where his children would “one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but […]
Mattoon tops Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s short-handed Bulldogs (minus three players who have started or played significant minutes) suffered a 55-45 Apollo Conference boys’ basketball loss at Mattoon on Thursday (Jan. 13). Blake Wolters made a team-high 13 points and grabbed six rebounds. He also had three assists. Jake Waldinger tallied a […]
M-S snaps two-game losing streak with win over Sacred Heart
By Fred Kroner Ivie Juarez and Cayla Koerner each scored 14 points on Thursday (Jan. 13) as the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team snapped a two-game losing streak with a 53-37 non-conference victory at home over Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin. Juarez also pulled down a team-high eight rebounds. M-S jumped into a […]
Bulldogs win every event at Olympia meet
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour won every event on Thursday (Jan. 13) at Stanford Olympia and swept a meet against two opponents. M-S amassed 167 points. Olympia had 47 points and Lincoln finished with 16 points. Three Bulldogs captured wins in two individual events: Aron Varga (200-yard individual medley and 500-yard […]
Mahomet-Seymour places second at Marty Williams Invitational
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s wrestling team placed second on Saturday (Jan. 15) in its own 24-school Marty Williams Invitational. The Bulldogs totaled 450 ½ points and were exactly one point behind meet champion Naperville Central. Three M-S grapplers won their individual weight classes. Junior Caden Hatton won three of his […]
Christie Clinic Photos: Mahomet-Seymour Boys’ Basketball vs. Lincoln
This photo album of the Mahomet-Seymour Boys’ Basketball team is brought to you by Christie Clinic. Photos were taken by Brogan Hennesy. To view the entire album visit https://mahometdaily.smugmug.com/Mahomet-Varsity-Basketball-Home-vs-Lincoln/.