Kid ran a 1:55 as a frosh didn't improve as a soph as he took a backseat to Chuck Finley (Illinois State XC champ) His coach was almost moved to tears by his amazing runs at the Palatine Relays. He has PR'ed at 1:51.xx and 4.13.xx(kicking by 9:00 3200 runner Kevin Havel for a 3 second win) over the last two weeks and ran a sub 50 4X400 anchor for a come from behind win over the Illinois big school 5th place finisher in the open 400. He really has it all and his coach described his recent performances in glowing terms on their website. I think Finley reads this site so he can comment on the future of his talented runner from the Chicago suburbs.
I don't know why his parents couldn't spell Matt, but the boy can shore run good.
Go Smoo! I like the sound of that.