{"id":263183,"date":"2026-01-29T06:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263183\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:16:08","slug":"hilby-named-big-ten-track-athlete-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263183\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilby Named Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON, Wis. &#8212; Wisconsin men&#8217;s track and field sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/uwbadgers.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/patrick-hilby\/15129\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15129\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Hilby<\/a> was named the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week following an 800-meter meet record at the Penn Elite, the conference announced on Wednesday. It&#8217;s the sophomore&#8217;s first Big Ten honor of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Hilby&#8217;s historic showing saw him win the\u00a0the event in 1 minute, 47.36 seconds, to break the Penn Elite meet record. The time\u00a0ranks No. 2 on Wisconsin&#8217;s indoor all-time list in the event. The Illinois native also had a strong relay performance, finishing fourth in the 4&#215;400 relay with a time of 3:10.83.<\/p>\n<p>The honor caps a productive early indoor season for Hilby. Earlier this year, he helped Wisconsin win the distance medley relay at the Indiana Invitational, clocking 9:38.97, and placed third in the 4x400m relay with a time of 3:11.57. He opened the season with a sixth-place finish in the mile at 4:01.53 during the BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. &#8212; Wisconsin men&#8217;s track and field sophomore Patrick Hilby was named the Big Ten Track Athlete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-263183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}