By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Which of Mahomet-Seymour’s 20 athletic teams was the most successful during the first 25 years of this century? Surprisingly, there is not just one correct answer. It depends on point of view and how success is defined. If the determining factor is state championships in team […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com For the past seven years, Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ soccer team has been the dominant one in the Apollo Conference. In that span, the Bulldogs have a cumulative record in league play of 65-6-11, which averages out to less than one conference loss per season. The key to […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The sport is girls’ golf, but talk about apples and oranges. Mahomet-Seymour athletes who participated in the sport in high school were under three different and distinct state tournament formats during the past 25 years. Those who played through the fall of 2005 did so while […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Folks who carefully read the blurbs on the athletes chosen for the various Mahomet-Seymour Quarter-Century teams may notice what they believe to be inconsistencies. Some athletes are listed as News-Gazette All-Area first-teamers while others, who were equally deserving, have no such designation. Here’s the explanation. In […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com I usually don’t speak in hyperbole. Philosophically, I simply don’t believe there is a performance in sports or a record set during an athletic competition that can not eventually be bettered. Logically, this statement has to be true: whatever the current record is exists because someone […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Girls’ cross-country is the one sport that has undergone the most change since the IHSA introduced it into the fall lineup in 1979 as a one-class state tournament. The sport has evolved into three classes, but that is not even the biggest change. Girls’ races were […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mathias Powell was at his best throughout his entire senior season during the 2018-19 school year. The Mahomet-Seymour distance runner won state championships in three meets in different months in his final year in high school. Coaches establish training schedules so that their athletes are in […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com When the decision was made not to choose one top player to headline the Mahomet-Seymour Quarter-Century teams, it was intentional. The multiple athletes named to these elite teams are, in fact, already the best of the best. They don’t need to be ranked further. Throughout this […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com I started writing about Mahomet-Seymour athletics in November, 1968, for Mahomet’s weekly newspaper and at the beginning regularly reported on the exploits of the junior high school boys’ basketball team that season. I can’t begin to estimate how many Bulldog contests I have seen over the […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Sports fans rarely need a reason to reminisce and regale, or to recall and rejoice about memories and highlights from the past. That is never truer than now as we pass the 25-year mark of a new century. With that thought in mind, the Mahomet Daily […]
