By Fred Kroner Senior Savannah Orgeron, the scoring leader for the 24-10 Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team was voted as one of the top 35 players in the state in Class 3A on Friday (March 3). Members of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association selected All-State teams for each of the four […]
By Fred Kroner Freshman Madalyn Marx and sophomore Kara Carney were the only Mahomet-Seymour athletes to place among the top 10 in their individual events on Saturday (March 4) in the First to Finish Charger Indoor Girls’ Track and Field Invitational at the University of Illinois Armory. Marx won the […]
The Mahomet-Seymour Junior High wrestling team will travel to Jacksonville Saturday to compete in the IESA Sectional match after winning a Regional Title at home last weekend. The Bulldogs wrestlers combined for 32 pins at the regional and finished with 26 of their 32 entries placing among the top four. Individually, Gideon […]
By: Laura Jacob, MS, RDN, CDCES, Christie Clinic Healthy nutrition plays a crucial role in our overall health and well-being, and can have significant impacts on our physical, mental, and emotional health. Here are some of the ways that healthy nutrition can impact our lives: Provides essential nutrients: A diet […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It’s not about money. It’s not even about finding something to do. It’s about people. It’s about community. It’s about doing what feels right in your heart. It’s really about Chuck Thompson coming out of retirement and getting back into a business where he devoted more […]
By Fred Kroner Distance runners and triple-jumper Meah Beacham were the headliners on Wednesday (March 1) as the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ track and field team placed second in a 14-school indoor meet at Mount Zion. Beacham, a junior, won the triple jump with a leap of 32 feet, 6 inches. Sophomore […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ basketball team didn’t have history on its side during the postseason journey. The 2022-23 season ended in a virtual repeat of the program’s 2021-22 season. One year ago, M-S defeated Lincoln in the regional championship game after losing all regular-season games to the Railsplitters, and […]
By Fred Kroner Six Mahomet-Seymour Junior High wrestlers captured regional championships on Saturday (Feb. 25) in a meet that M-S hosted. Gideon Hayter (eighth-grader at 80 pounds), Beau Back (eighth-grader at 119 pounds), Talon Decker (eighth-grader at 126 pounds), Marco Casillas (seventh-grader at 145 pounds), Gabe Maya (eighth-grader at 185 […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade volleyball team avenged a previous loss and reached the 20-win mark on Tuesday (Feb. 28), which enabled the Bulldogs to advance into the championship match of the IESA Class 4A Regional Tournament that M-S is hosting. The Bulldogs, who dropped a three-set decision to Champaign […]
By Isabella Zarate The Pinewood Derby has been a Scout tradition for nearly 70 years. What usually starts as a block of wood, plastic wheels, and metal axles often transforms into screaming kids, cheering families, and a bunch of miniature cars racing to the finish line. For Mahomet’s Cub Scout […]
