By Fred Kroner Cecily Smith placed third in the seventh-grade pole vault for Mahomet-Seymour in the girls’ Class 4A IESA state track and field meet, which ended on Saturday (May 20) at the Eastside Centre, in East Peoria. Smith cleared a personal-best 7 feet, 6 inches. She was the lone […]
By Fred Kroner Seventh-grader Jayvon Tompkins was a two-event placer on Saturday (May 20) for Mahomet-Seymour in the IESA boys’ Class 4A junior state track and field meet at Eastside Centre, in East Peoria. Tompkins finished third in the discus with a toss of 121 feet. He notched a fourth-place […]
By Brett McMahon Growing up in Vermilion County, Roxy Reed never imagined she would own and operate a therapy ranch. After high school and earning both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Northern Illinois University, Reed moved to Nashville to work at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in the traumatic brain injury […]
By Dani Tietz As the 2022-2023 school year comes to an end, Mahomet-Seymour football players and fans have their sights set on next season. Athletes have been in the weight room, working on their speed, gearing up for summer camp and that late August evening when they travel to Morton […]
By Dani Tietz The Mahomet-Seymour School Board will go on a summer listening tour beginning May 22. The suggestion came from Board President Sunny McMurry after a May 4 discussion where the board members listened to a plan to develop a district strategic plan by Richard Voltz from Educational Leadership […]
By Fred Kroner For the fourth consecutive year and for the fifth time in the six years that Mahomet-Seymour has been a member of the Apollo Conference, the school has earned the league’s 2022-23 All-Sports Championship. A point total is determined for each school’s finish in conference play. M-S finished […]
By Fred Kroner Paislee Welge and Emma Dallas each scored two goals on Saturday (May 20) as Mahomet-Seymour won an IHSA girls’ Class 2A soccer regional championship for the second year in a row and for the sixth time in the past eight years. Abby Bunting, who also had an […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s baseball team tied its school record for wins in a season on Thursday (May 18) in its regular-season home-finale, an 11-5 triumph over Bloomington. M-S led, 10-0, after four innings. Mason Orton (6-0) pitched five innings, scattering three hits, while walking four and striking out nine […]
By Fred Kroner Madalyn Marx and Ava Boyd each put their best foot forward during weekend competition in the IHSA girls’ Class 2A track and field state meet and both Mahomet-Seymour athletes came away with an impressive individual feat. One day after shattering the Mahomet-Seymour school record in the 400 […]
Mahomet-Seymour Senior Cole Marshall secured a spot in the 2023 IHSA Class 2A boys’ track and field state meet by winning the triple jump at the Mattoon Sectional. Marshall recorded a personal best of 42 feet, 11 inches, defeating the second-place finisher by three inches. The jump places sixth place […]
