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 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The numbers are what they are, and the players’ rankings in softball are based on what they achieved throughout their prep careers. Perhaps some of Mahomet-Seymour’s athletes deserve to have an asterisk by their names. Aubrie Shores and Karley Yergler, for example, compiled impressive totals. Their […]
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 […]
