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Heavy medal! Lily Bosnich is St. Bede’s most decorated athlete: 2026 BCR Girls Track & Field Athlete · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Heavy metal. Lily Bosnik is Saint Bede's most decorated athlete
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  twenty twenty six PCR Girls Track and Field Athlete Written
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  by Kevin Hieronymous. This article is being read by an
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  automated voice brought to you by Everlet. Lily Bosnick has
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  won so many medals over her track and field career
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  at Saint Bede Academy she needs a couple of hangars
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  to transport them all when asked for a photoshoot. It's
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  a collection of approximately forty medals, and she would have
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  never dreamed she'd win so many coming in as a freshman.
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  I thought for sure high school would be a very
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  humbling experience for me. Just kind of getting smoked, I figured,
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  she said, getting older, my mentality got better, my training
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  got better. It all fell into place, and so did
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  the state medals. She added two more state medals to
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  her collection this spring, graduating as the most decorated Saint
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  Bede Girls track and field athlete with nine medals. She
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  placed second at state in the one hundred hurdles and
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  third in three hundred, and was sectional champ in both hurdles.
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  She was the Tri County Conference champ in the one
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  hundred hurdles and runner up in the three hundred hurdles,
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  and was the BCR Honor Role leader in both hurdles
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  events with times of fourteen point eight eight seconds and
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  forty five point three. She also qualified for state in
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  the one hundred dash, pacing the honor roll with a
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  time of twelve point sixty three. For all of her accomplishments,
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  Bosnik repeats as the BCR Girls Track and Field Athlete
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  for twenty twenty six. It's hard to put into perspective
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  how Lily has impacted Saint Bede and our track program.
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  Saint Bede coach Marty mccransky said she will be remembered,
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  hands down as the greatest Saint Bede athlete ever. Everyone
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  says that there will never be another Lily Bosnich, and
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  I say, I agree, but that's okay because I got
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  to coach this one. Bosnik lost out on a state
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  title in the one hundred hurdles by three hundreds of
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  a second, running a fourteen point sixty three behind Wilmington
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  sophomore McKenna van Tilberg's fourteen point six zero. Bosnick came
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  in third in the three hundred hurdles in four to
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  three dot eight six COMMA, with Oregon sophomore Gillian Hammer
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  taking first in forty two point eight four in Low
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  Point Washburn senior Brianna Harms second in forty three point
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  seventy four. These girls came out of nowhere. They are amazing,
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  and I'm so happy for them. I can't even be
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  upset about it, Bosnick said. While a state championship eluded her,
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  Bosnick concentrated on making lasting memories for her senior year.
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  This year, I definitely prioritized being a senior more than
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  anything in making memories with my friends, she said. I
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  don't regret that. I know I could have done more
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  to push myself and get better times than I did,
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  but I still got my senior records. That was a
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  good feeling. I'm glad I made the memories and got
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  closer with my classmates while I still had time to
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  do that. When bosnisk was a freshman, mccransky said, we
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  had a really fast group of girls, including senior Anna Lopez,
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  a two time BCR Track Athlete of the Year and
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  very accomplished sprinter. Mccransky knew immediately Bosnich would anchor their relays.
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  Anna was actually faster in the open one hundred, but
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  it wasn't that it was Lily wanted to be the anchor,
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  he said. The Bruins coach found that bosnisk was not
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  only fast after winning state medals in the four x
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  one hundred and four to two hundred relays and the
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  three hundred hurdles, but tough. She left the track that
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  Saturday with three medals and a double ear infection. We
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  didn't know she wouldn't take herself out or complain. Macrasnanke
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  said of Bosnik's freshman year, she got to a doctor
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  and that Tuesday she's the starting shortstop for the softball
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  team in the super sectional at Sterling. So they win
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  super Sectionals and then go on to win the state title.
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  Mccransky said Bosnik made a play in the state championshi
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  game that exemplified Bosnicksh's desire to win in any sport.
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  The Bruins were leading by one with two outs in
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  the bottom of the seventh and runners on first and third,
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  He said, Lily Field's a seeing eyegrounder heading for center field,
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  gets up and dives with the ball in her bare
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  hand and touches second base for the force. Out and
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  they win the game. She doesn't know how to lose.
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  Bosnik will continue her track career running for Division one
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  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She's already started workouts and is
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  excited for her next chapter. My coach is amazing. I
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  can already tell that this is going to be a
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  great year, and I'm going to learn so many new things,
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  and I'm just excited to see where this takes me,
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  Bosnik said. A lot of people ask me why I
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  didn't choose softball. I've played softball my whole life. I
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  know how good I was track I ran during school,
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  but I don't believe I've reached my peak yet. So
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  I'd love to see where my peak really is and
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  how good I can be.