Health & Fitness
The Regular Season Ends...The Post-Season Begins
Yorkville Middle School's cross country team ended their regular season with their conference meet on Tuesday and their home Fox Trot Invite on Saturday.
Conference Results
This year is a year of transition for Yorkville Middle School. The old Prairie Conference was, for the most part, disbanded because the five Oswego schools decided to form their own conference. The cast-aways, Kaneland, Plano, Sandwich, and Yorkville, held a mini-conference meet at Lyon Farm in Yorkville. Next year Yorkville Middle School will join the 2 Rivers Conference with schools from Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, West Chicago, and Wheaton. The top boys team and top girls team at conference received a trophy and the two individuals at each grade/gender level received individual medals. Yorkville took home every award they qualified for. Olivia Borowiak and Colleen O'Connor took the 7th grade girls medals, Alex Loos and Zack Nauman earned the 7th grade boys medals, Maggie Klemm and Kimberly Batdorf took medals for the 8th grade girls, and Patrick Black and Zack Price earned the final medals for the 8th grade boys. Both teams also took home the team trophies with the girls earned a perfect score of 15 and the boys beating Kaneland by a score of 25 to 32.The team also performed well at the Fox Trot Invite, taking home a trophy in all four team races.
Girls JV Race
Ashley Rossolillo led the way for the JV girls who finished 2nd as a team to Batavia Rotolo. Ashley ran a great race, starting towards the end of the top ten and eventually working her way up to the front where she out-kicked a Batavia runner to take first place in 13:14. Roni Bruck (5th, 13:40), Dani Evans (9th, 13:44), Victoria Crawford (10th, 13:48), Hanna Zeinstra (12th, 14:19), and Emily Schmidt (13th, 14:26) all finished in the top 15 to earn individual medals. Nicole Rees rounded out the top 7 with her time of 14:27 to finish in 17th place.
Boys JV Race
Justin Herron fought with Cross Lutheran's Zach Rice for the entire race, but took off with about 200 meters left to take the victory with a 2-mile time of 12:20. The team won Yorkville's only 1st place trophy of the day with 32 points to beat Batavia Rotolo's 43 points. Justin was followed by medal winners Jake Carlson (3rd, 11:27), Zack Nauman (7th, 12:41), and Cole Bruck (8th, 12:41). Hunter Benesh (17th, 13:03), Bryan Corrigan (18th, 13:08), and Luke DeVol (22nd, 13:16) were the remainder of the team's top 7 runners.
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Girls Varsity Race
Olivia Borowiak and Colleen O'Connor took over for Yorkville after the first mile to lead the team to a 2nd-place finish behind Batavia. Olivia's kick gave her the edge over Colleen and Olivia finished in 6th place with a P.R. of 12:23. Colleen finished 9th with a P.R. of 12:27. Kimberly Batdorf (13th, 12:33) and Maggie Klemm (14th, 12:35) also earned medals for the team. Kaylee Deutsch (18th, 13:04), Tayla Van Leeve (21st, 13:17), and Emily Berge (22nd, 13:17) rounded out the team's top 7.
Boys Varsity Race
Zack Price led the way for the boys in the last trophy race of the day with a 4th-place finish in 11:17 behind strong runners from Kaneland and Batavia. The boys varsity team made sure Yorkville took home a trophy in every race by finishing 2nd to Batavia Rotolo. Patrick Black (10th, 11:37) and Rio Lara (15th, 11:54) also earned individual medals. The team's top 7 also included Chase Dexter (17th, 12:03), Alex Loos (19th, 12:04), Matt Cox (20th, 12:05), and Ben Summers (35th, 12:36).
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Open Race
The last race of the day didn't include any trophies, but the top 10 boys and top 10 girls in the open race earned individual medals. Adam Bello (2nd, 13:03), Jake Holter (6th, 13:41), and Eric Naumann (7th, 13:47) earned individual medals for the boys. On the girls side Autumn Vest was the top finisher on the girls side with a time of 13:59. The other medal winners for the girls were Alyssa Edwards (3rd, 14:06) and Ann Doty (4th, 14:07).
P.R. List
- Adam Bello - 13:03 (Fox Trot)
- Alex Loos (7th Grade Boys Record of 12:20 at Conference)
- Ben Summers - 12:31 (Conference)
- Ben Tholen - 13:23 (Conference)
- Breanna Delgado - 16:57 (Conference) and 16:45 (Fox Trot)
- Bryan Corrigan - 12:56 (Conference)
- Catelyn Peterson - 15:35 (Conference) and 15:17 (Fox Trot)
- Cole Bruck - 12:41 (Fox Trot)
- Colleen O'Connor - 12:27 (Fox Trot)
- Dani Evans - 13:44 (Fox Trot)
- Ellie Kingsmill - 18:37 (Fox Trot)
- Emily Berge - 13:17 (Fox Trot)
- Emily Schmidt - 14:26 (Fox Trot)
- Eric Naumann - 13:47 (Fox Trot)
- Evan Bender - 13:34 (Conference) and 13:28 (Fox Trot)
- Grace Leslie - 16:07 (Conference) and 15:10 (Fox Trot)
- Hannah Letellier - 19:08 (Fox Trot)
- Ilissa DeLange - 22:32 (Conference) and 21:01 (Fox Trot)
- Jackson Nance - 15:19 (Fox Trot)
- Jacob Rawle - 17:43 (Fox Trot)
- Jake Holter - 13:35 (Conference)
- Josie Schultz - 15:42 (Conference) and 14:58 (Fox Trot)
- Julia Babel - 15:45 (Conference) and 15:32 (Fox Trot)
- Justin Herron - 12:20 (Fox Trot)
- Katie Straznickas - 14:30 (Fox Trot)
- Kaylee Deutsch - 13:04 (Fox Trot)
- Kennedy McCue - 16:46 (Conference) and 16:40 (Fox Trot)
- Liam Hurst - 17:38 (Conference)
- Lora Fletcher - 19:59 (Fox Trot)
- Maggie Klemm (8th Grade Girls Record of 12:54 at Conference)
- Nicole Rees - 14:31 (Conference) and 14:27 (Fox Trot)
- Olivia Borowiak - 7th Grade Girls Record of 12:56 at Conference and PR of 12:23 (7th Grade Girls Record, Fox Trot)
- Patrick Black (8th Grade Boys Record of 11:20 at Conference)
- Paxton Shields - 16:24 (Conference) and 16:23 (Fox Trot)
- Rio Lara - 11:54 (Fox Trot)
- Roni Bruck - 13:40 (Fox Trot)
- Victoria Crawford - 13:48 (Fox Trot)
- Zack Price (8th Grade Boys Record of 11:20 at Conference)
