11/1/03 - The wildcats season came to a conclussion on saturday when the boys finished 9th at the Schaumburg Sectional. The boys finished with 233 points 56 pts short of qualifying. The boys were lead by Derrick Moy 26th, and Bernard Gajos 33rd .Jose Lopez 61st, Cesar Del Rio 64th, and Julio Perez 67th, Nick Rotizza 94th and Bobby Horcher 125th. We lose many seniors this season. Their contributions will be missed. To the underclassmen the challenge goes out, who is going to step up and contribute to the 2004 Wheeling Cross Country Team.

10/25/03 - Wheeling hosted their 3rd invitational in three weeks. We hosted the IHSA regional. The conditions where great, and the times great too, all 7 runners ran personal bests on our course and their best times of the season. Unfortunately, so did several other teams, Wheeling finished 4th in the regional but advanced to next saturday's Schaumburg sectional. Go to the IHSA site to see complete results.

10/18/03 - Wheeling hosted the MSL Conference meet at Heritage Park this past weekend. Everything went great thanks to the help and support of our parents, alumni and staff. The boys didn't run as well as we had last week against the tougher competition and finished 6th in the conference. Bernard Gajos was our only all conference runner in 21st. Jose Lopez was close in 28th place. We plan on bouncing back stronger next week as we host the Regional meet back at Heritage on Saturday. Hope to see plenty of Wildcat Supporters there!!

10/11/03 - Our best team race of the season!! We gave #12 ranked Maine West a good scare, but came up short 58-67. Bernard Gajos PR by over 25 seconds to run 16:07. He was followed by teammates Derrick Moy 16:10, Julio Perez 16:20, Cesar Del Rio 16:21, Jose Lopez 16:24. Yes, our team split is down to 17 seconds.

10/9/03 - The cats defeated Buffalo Grove by the slim margin of 27-28. The bison came after us on Thursday, but Perez, Lopez, and Del Rio came through to hold on for the win.

10/4/03 - The wildcats finished 15th at the Crete Monee Pow Wow, this season. There were 48 teams at the Pow Wow this season. We were lead by Derrick Moy and Cesar Del Rio who both ran in the mid 16:00's on the new longer 3 mile course.

10/2/03 - Hersey defeated our Cats 22-33, but the race was much closer then the score indicated. 4th through 10th were seperated by only 12 seconds. We are continuing to make improvements.

9/26/03 - After a long emotional week, we faced Prospect on our course and came up a little short. We ran out best times of the season on our course and continue to make significant improvements. We has a 30 second split which is the best of the season.

9/21/03 - The wildcats ran very well on Saturday @ the Rockford Inv.. We captured the title without running two of our top 5 runners because of injury. The younger team members did an outstanding job of stepping up and helping the team. Our top six were Derrick Moy, Julio Perez, Bernard Gajos, Nick Rotizza, Brian Nguyen and Bobby Horcher.

9/18/03 - We escaped Elk Grove with a victory 26-29. Thanks to a strong effort from Bernard Gajos who moved up two places in the last 400 meters. We get a couple of well earned days of rest in preparation for Rockford this weekend.

9/14/03 - Lake Park Inv. - Our first big test of the season demonstrated that we are making good progress towards are ultimate goals. We finished 5th with 122 points. Maine West and Schaumburg were just in front of us at 97 and 101 respectively. We had many personal best on the fast course at Lake Park. Freshman Derek Moy (14th) and Jose Lopez (17th) both broke 16:00 for the first time. Julio Perez (25th) continues his return from injury running 16:12, followed by Cesar Del Rio (31st), Nick Rotizza (35th) and Bernard Gajos (36th). Both Nick and Bernard ran personal records, Bernard lowering his best by 20 seconds.

The Cats head to Elk Grove on Wednesday, and Rockford on Saturday.

9/12/03 - The wildcats bounced back well yesterday defeating Rolling Meadows 21-38. The race marked the return of Julio Perez. Julio was our top returnee from last years team, and has been fighting the injury bug. Julio was our 3rd man yesterday in a time of 16:53. The rest of the wildcats finished 2-3-4-5-7 for an easy victory. Derrick Moy continues to impress as our number 1 runner, followed by Jose Lopez, Cesar Del Rio, and Nick Rotizza

The frosh-soph also won, they were lead by Jorge Samano, and Elio Albavera who went 1-2. The cats head to Lake Park on Saturday to get a test against some of the state's best teams. The racing begins at 9:30 am.

9/2/03 - Well the season has gotten off to a bumpy start. Our first dual meet was against a very strong Palatine team. Our kids did run well, freshman Derrick Moy lead the team with a 16:12. He was followed by Cesar Del Rio 16:20, Jose Lopez 16:22, Nick Rotizza 16:57 and Bernard Gajos in 17:01. Three of the 5 ran personal best times for a 3 mile course.