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YMS Cross Country's Post-Season Roster

At the end of the regular season the cross country team must whittle down a team of over 70 runners to 7 from each gender. These 14 runners make up the post-season roster for the team that will compete at IESA Sectionals and State.

Yorkville is hosting Sectionals for the second year in a row at Yorkville High School. The team will race this Saturday with the girls running at 10am and the boys running at 10:45am. The top three teams of each gender move on to IESA State. Below is some information about our Sectional/State runners:

  • Kimberly Batdorf: Kimberly made State for track during her 7th grade year as a member of the girl's 4x100m relay. After encouragement from Coach Martin she joined cross country as an 8th grader and is now one of the team's top runners with a P.R. of 12:30 for two miles.
  • Emily Berge: Emily ran cross country during 7th grade and had a P.R. of 15:36. This season she beat that time during the second time trial in early August and set her season P.R. last Saturday at the Fox Trot Invite with a time of 13:17. She has shown steady improvement and earned a P.R. in every race except one during the season.
  • Patrick Black: Patrick ran a time of 11:46 at the IESA State meet as a 7th grader, and so far has a P.R. of 11:00 this season. He has consistently been the team's #1 or #2 runner the entire season and has set three team records along the way at the New Lenox Invite, the Red/White Run, and at our home course of Lyon Farm.
  • Olivia Borowiak: Olivia is in the rare position of making our Sectional/State roster as a 7th grader. She has a P.R. of 12:23 and has set five team records during her 7th grade year and currently has the fastest time of the team for a 7th grader. Her P.R. of 12:23 is tied for the fastest time ever run by a 7th grade girl for YMS cross country.
  • Matt Cox: This is Matt's first season running cross country, and he has shown a lot of determination competing with the other 8th graders on the team. He ran Yorkville's summer Endurance Camp and came out of the camp as one of the top 8th grade runners. He ran a P.R. of 11:46 at the Marmion/Rosary Invite and could be one of the team's top five runners in the post-season.
  • Kaylee Deutsch: Kaylee is also a new 8th grader to the cross country team, and showed dramatic improvements the last few weeks. She dropped her P.R. by nearly one minute the last two weeks of the season and is currently sitting on a 13:04 P.R. that she ran at the Fox Trot Invite. She could be a surprise member of the team's top five runners at Sectionals and State.
  • Chase Dexter: Chase made a last-minute decision to run cross country instead of play soccer, and it turned out fairly well for the 8th-grader as he has consistently been one of the team's top 5 runners this season. He ran a season-best 11:49 at the Tiger Trails Invite in Oswego last week, and he seems to be peaking at the right time of the season so that time should get even further into the 11-minute range.
  • Lindsay Harrison: Lindsay ran a time of 13:34 at IESA State last year as a 7th grader and has seen her times this year in the low 13-minute range even as she has battled through injury. Lindsay is also an accomplished softball and basketball player who has proven she has the toughness to compete in multiple sports, sometimes in the same season.
  • Maggie Klemm: Maggie is a multi-sport athlete who is on many of the same teams as Lindsay, and she also ran at IESA State as a 7th grader. Her time of 12:54 at State was eclipsed early in September this season, and she went on to run the team's fastest 8th grade girl time of 12:10 at the team's Red/White Run at Silver Springs. Maggie set five team records this season, which, combined with her 7th grade records, gives her a total of an incredible eight team records.
  • Rio Lara: Rio was awarded the "Future Potential" award as a 7th grader, and he lived up to that honor. During the track season he was selected to run the 400m dash and 4x400m relay at Sectionals, and he has been one of the cross country team's top five runners for most of the season. He just set a P.R. of 11:54 this past Saturday at the Fox Trot Invite.
  • Alex Loos: Alex has the honor of being the only 7th grade boy to make our post-season roster. His P.R. of 11:51 is the fastest time for a 7th grade boy this year, and he was the only 7th grade boy to run under 12 minutes. He currently holds four team records and could push to be one of the team's top five runners at Sectionals and State.
  • Colleen O'Connor: Colleen stunned everyone at the beginning of the season when she ran a 12:28 in the team's first time trial. She beat the entire team, boys included, and bested the team's record by over a minute and a half. It was the first of four records she set this season and she currently has three of the top ten 7th grade girls times of all time for the YMS team.
  • Zack Price: As a 7th grader, Zack ran a time of 11:35 at IESA State, and he currently has a P.R. of 11:01. He and Patrick have consistently been the team's top two runners and Zack set two new team records to go along with the three he set as a 7th grader. Zack and Patrick should compete for All-State honors when the time comes for them to run again on the course at Maxwell Park in Normal.
  • Ben Summers: Ben ran a 13:09 season best as a 7th grader last season, a time he bested in the second meet of the year this season. Ben had a promising track season cut short by injury, and it looked like that injury was coming back to haunt him in the middle of the cross country season. He fought back, though, and ended the season with a P.R. of 12:31 at the conference meet at Lyon Farm. A healthy Ben Summers can be a dangerous runner for other teams, and if he's 100% he can compete to be one of the team's top five runners.
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