On Saturday, October 19th, Glenbrook South hosted the 2019 CSL Conference Championship. At the end of the day, 1,162 runners crossed our finish line from all 12 CSL Schools. 47 of the 52 non-varsity GBS runners that crossed the finish line met or broke their season records. The GBS course is not known for its fast times, so this is an amazing accomplishment. All year, Conference has been the goal of the time to peak and it was accomplished by the runners.

Our Varsity team finished 3rd behind the perennial powers of New Trier (#6) and Maine South (#9). Will Kelly (Sr) led the team finishing in 6th with a time of 15:22.12 (3th fastest GBS Performance at Home). Behind him were Brian Hiltebrand (So) and Will Houser (Sr) finishing at 15:48.70 and 15:50.59 respectively. All three of the aforementioned athletes made the CSL South All-Conference Team. James Kurtzweil (Sr) and Jayson Stamm (So) finished the five after challenging races. The Varsity team is ready for State Series after a great performance at Peoria on October 5th.

At the JV Level, 20 Season Records were set by the athletes! The scoring runners were Wade Herrera (17:22.83), James Scott (17:23.27), John Bresnahan (17:24.52), Cody Slutzky (17:25.55), and Preston Davidson (17:26.61). Those who set Season Records at the meet were Wade Hererra (-5), James Scott (-5), John Bresnahan (-14), Cody Slutzky (-9), Preston Davidson (-18), Harrison Wollney (-21), Sam Westfall (-5), Theo Gikas (-40), Gabriel Cole (-10), Justin Wrona (-39), Danny Donnelly (-31), Addy Otgontseren (-42), Charlie Kuhn (-78), Cole Brady (-6), Danny O’Brien (-35), George Papagiannopolous (-80), Luke Gregory (-25), Billy Nestos (-28), Ricky Egen (-68), and Gerry Bermudez (-42).

At the Sophomore Level, all of the runners met or set their season personal records. Runners scoring were Elie Nassif (17:12.86), Michael Westfall (17:49.23), Sebastian Zimmer (17:52.28), Brett Wittenstein (17:55.65), and Lucas Houser (18:20.62). Season Records were set by Elie Nassif (-29), Michael Westfall (-14), Sebastain Zimmer (-24), Brett Wittenstein (-28), Lucas Houser (-23), John Paul Philbrick (-42), Matthew Penne (-43), Isaac Abraham (-99), Ethan Hernandez (-1), Matthew Klonecki (-61), Jacob Baim (-34), Jack Cleary (-16), Mason Adams (-116), Carson Walters (-60), Jonathan Joseph (-58), Matthew Burke (-16), and Ossey Paul (-0).

With the Freshmen, ten of the eleven set their season records. Ryan Schaefer and Ryan Jack both made the “Freshmen All-Conference Teams”. Scorers were Ryan Schaefer (11:09.18), Ryan Jack (11:20.92), Sully Richards (11:53.47), Ben Freidinger (12:06.51), and James Hiltebrand (12:37.17). Breaking their season records were Ryan Schaefer (-6), Ryan Jack (-16), Sully Richards (-26), Ben Freidinger (-7), James Hiltebrand (-9), Matthew Nugent (-37), John Tirpak (-11), Sanjeev Gorla (-21), Brogan O’Grady (-29), and Andrew Yoon (-68).