By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It’s safe to say that Mahomet teen-ager Austin Ater knows what he is doing. In less than eight weeks during his recent summer vacation, he started a project, made it show-worthy and then showed the Grand Champion in his division at the Illinois State Fair. As […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Records are made to be broken, and there will be a day when Mary Kelly is no longer the girls’ wrestling all-time leader for career and season wins at Mahomet-Seymour. But maybe her marks should remain with an asterisk by her name. By the time she […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com For more than two decades, The News-Gazette sports staff has selected one overall area high school Athlete of the Year for boys and another for girls when the school year ends. In my opinion, this is the most intriguing pick of any made on an annual […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Changes are frequently slow in taking place. When The News-Gazette first selected an All-Area team for volleyball (in 1978), the elite team consisted of six players, just as if those athletes were going to take the court together for a match. This was a pre-libero period […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Here’s a little secret that many folks don’t realize: Scanning a list of a school’s all-time leaders doesn’t always reveal what you might think. The best way to illustrate the point is by examples. A glance at Mahomet-Seymour’s all-time season boys’ basketball leaders in scoring shows […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Sometimes, the only reaction is “what if?” That phrase is often muttered when a particular player or a certain team didn’t live up to expectations or the preseason hype. I remember one year a school was booted out of an IHSA girls’ basketball regional – thus […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Startup programs generally face growing pains. The girls’ tennis program at Mahomet-Seymour is no exception. It’s easy to look at the flourishing program now and see the documented successes: two consecutive sectional championships, an Apollo Conference team title in the fall of 2024, state-qualifiers for three […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It didn’t take long for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ tennis program to make an impact in the area. The team made its debut in the spring of 2022 with a 20-player roster and an abbreviated schedule consisting of five dual meets prior to the Apollo Conference tournament. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s Talynn O’Donnell is fast separating herself from other area swimmers. With still her senior season ahead of her, O’Donnell has already demonstrated that she is one of the area’s most versatile swimmers. Thus far in her prep career, she has qualified for state in seven […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour has had boys participating in the swimming postseason since 2003. The Bulldogs have fielded a full team since 2014. It has only been in the last four years, however, that the program has started to truly flourish. M-S has produced state-qualifiers four consecutive years. To […]
