Week 7 Class 1A Boys Team Top 10: Florida Cross Country Rankings

Florida Class 1A boys cross country team rankings through seven weeks: August 21-October 3, 2026

Pensacola Christian stays first. It won the Daphne Invitational in Alabama on September 19 with 43, and Isaiah Manderson leads a five that is a minute apart on the season. Maclay is second after racing the Alexander Invitational in Georgia, where David Barton ran 15:29.0 for tenth of 341, and Cornerstone Classical is third, two points behind.

St. Johns Country Day won the Indian Invite with 52 over Oakleaf. South Florida HEAT was fourth of 27 teams at South Fork and comes into the ten. Seacoast Collegiate drops out on a few points of figure.

A team is ranked on its whole season, with the most recent race counting most, and a meet it won never counts against it. A team that sat out the weekend is not marked down for it. The virtual race behind these scores contains only Class 1A teams, so a team's place here and on the statewide list can differ. As always, this is data plus judgment, and we will miss somebody along the way. A (P) beside a team means it has not put its returning five on a starting line and is entered on what they ran last November. How we sorted it out is at the bottom.

About the times. The average on each line is the converted season figure the scoring uses, in Cecil Field terms, and so are the times beside each runner's name. Times in the write-ups are what the kids actually ran that day; the race log for every runner is on the rankings page.

The statewide lists: Week 7 boys team top 10 and Week 7 girls team top 10. The 1A boys individuals are here, and last week’s edition of this list is here. The other classes this week: 1A girls, 2A boys, 3A boys, 4A boys.

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1. Pensacola Christian: 117 points

Converted average 17:23.0 · 1-5 spread 1:04.8 · finished 9-17-23-32-36 in the class

Isaiah Manderson 16:41.0; Carson Ohman 17:18.5; Jed Fears 17:26.7; Moses Peterlevitz 17:43.1; Walter Goncalves 17:45.7.

Won the Daphne Invitational in Alabama on September 19 with 43 against 25 teams. Isaiah Manderson, Carson Ohman, Jed Fears, Moses Peterlevitz and Walter Goncalves are its five. First.

2. Maclay (Tallahassee): 182 points

Converted average 17:36.5 · 1-5 spread 1:50.6 · finished 3-38-39-44-58 in the class · This week: 28th of 39 at the Alexander Invitational (Georgia) (615).

David Barton 16:19.0; Gavin McVay 17:48.3; Logan Phipps 17:48.3; Will Cintron 17:57.6; Beau May 18:09.6.

Twenty-eighth of 39 at the Alexander Invitational in Georgia on Saturday with 615, among teams from five states. David Barton was tenth of 341 in 15:29.0. Fourth at the St. John Paul II Panther Invite on September 26. Second.

3. Cornerstone Classical (Jacksonville): 184 points

Converted average 17:33.5 · 1-5 spread 1:49.5 · finished 5-14-41-55-69 in the class

Jack Kline 16:27.8; Broderick Olson 17:04.6; Finley Smith 17:50.1; Liam Rios 18:07.9; Boone Bishop 18:17.3.

Eighth of 14 at Bale-N-Trail on September 26, with Jack Kline sixth in the Elite race in 16:06.1. Kline and Broderick Olson lead. Third, two points behind Maclay.

4. Southwest Florida Christian (Fort Myers): 250 points

Converted average 17:58.3 · 1-5 spread 0:54.0 · finished 19-42-57-65-67 in the class · This week: 10th of 17 at the flrunners.com Invitational (256).

Nash Akers 17:21.3; Ty Piper 17:53.8; Mason Weston 18:08.9; Liam Piper 18:12.6; Shepard Anderson 18:15.2.

Tenth of 17 in the flrunners.com Race of Champions on Saturday with 256, and fourth at the AVE Invite on September 26. Nash Akers leads; the five are 54 seconds apart, the tightest in the ten. Fourth.

5. Holy Trinity (Melbourne): 256 points

Converted average 18:01.1 · 1-5 spread 1:18.1 · finished 22-31-52-54-97 in the class

Zamari Blumenberg 17:26.7; Jesus Martinez 17:41.5; Daniel Penny 18:06.0; Roman La Starza 18:06.6; Cormac Schutte 18:44.8.

Twenty-ninth in the Blue Invitational at the Great American XC Festival in North Carolina. Zamari Blumenberg, an eighth grader, and Jesus Martinez finished 1.5 seconds apart, Martinez with a 13-second personal best. Fifth.

6. Circle Christian (Winter Park): 294 points

Converted average 17:56.9 · 1-5 spread 2:32.7 · finished 7-16-37-116-118 in the class

Matteo Kirwan 16:34.0; Jonah Lehman-Saba 17:12.1; Aschalew Parker 17:46.0; Corban Houdashelt 19:05.7; Kade Copeland 19:06.7.

Eighth of 21 at the Hagerty Invitational on September 26. Matteo Kirwan, the No. 10 1A runner, and Jonah Lehman-Saba lead. Sixth.

7. Oak Hall (Gainesville): 355 points

Converted average 18:17.0 · 1-5 spread 1:40.5 · finished 18-25-90-109-113 in the class

Dylan Kirk 17:20.1; Henri Pelletier 17:31.0; James McDonald 18:36.5; Alexander Braithwaite 18:56.7; Tom Gilor 19:00.6.

Did not race. Dylan Kirk and Henri Pelletier lead. Seventh, where it was; a missed week never counts against anyone.

8. St. Johns Country Day (Orange Park): 403 points

Converted average 18:27.3 · 1-5 spread 1:35.2 · finished 33-64-72-92-142 in the class · This week: 1st of 11 at the Indian Invite (52).

Arlo Kistner 17:44.1; Judson Myers 18:12.6; Thomas Nichols 18:19.4; Nathan Kipnis 18:41.1; Elijah Larsen 19:19.3.

Won the Indian Invite on Saturday with 52, ahead of Oakleaf with 61. Arlo Kistner and Judson Myers lead. Eighth.

9. Rocky Bayou Christian (Niceville): 504 points

Converted average 18:23.6 · 1-5 spread 4:35.0 · finished 1-80-87-102-234 in the class

Dominic Ferguson 15:45.8; Coda Barnes 18:28.7; Daniel Boswell 18:34.4; Jack Carlin 18:48.2; David Stueckle 20:20.8.

Fifth of 17 at the Argonaut Invitational on September 26, where Dominic Ferguson won. Ferguson is the best runner in the class on figure; the next four are a long way behind him. Ninth.

10. South Florida HEAT (Sunrise): 543 points

Converted average 18:51.1 · 1-5 spread 1:42.9 · finished 51-83-88-134-187 in the class · This week: 4th of 27 at the South Fork Invitational (160).

David Dorn 18:05.2; Jacob Ryle 18:30.6; Carlos Broderick 18:35.0; Zeb Dorn 19:16.5; Zach Dorn 19:48.1.

Fourth of 27 teams at the South Fork Invitational on Saturday with 160, and fifth at STU on September 26. David Dorn and his brothers Zeb and Zach are three of the five. New to the ten.

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Just missed

Seacoast Collegiate (Santa Rosa Beach) did not race and is 11th, level on points with South Florida HEAT. Out-of-Door Academy (Sarasota) was ninth of 15 at Venice. Lakeland Christian won the Raider Open on September 19 with 42.

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How we ranked them

• Every mark is converted to a Cecil Field equivalent through the runners who ran both that course and last year's state meet.
• Each runner is scored on his whole season, weighted toward the most recent race: this week counts seven times, last week six, and so on back to opening weekend, which counts once. A race he won never lowers that figure, and a meet a team won never lowers the team's. A school's five best runners on that basis are its team.
• Those five, with a sixth and seventh where they exist, go into one virtual race against every other Class 1A team, scored the way cross country is scored. 105 1A boys teams cleared the bar; 0 of them are projections. Points climb as more teams enter and are not comparable to last week's; compare the order.
• Where two teams in this class have raced each other with at least three of their scoring seven, the team that won ranks ahead of the team it beat until they meet again. Where results go round in a circle, the newest meeting decides. A race run without a team's No. 1 or without two of its scoring five is not held against it.
• New this week: results from September 12 and earlier no longer order teams. The times still count in the figures.
• A team whose returning five have not raced is entered on last November's state times and marked (P).
• Classes are 2026-27, resolved against the FHSAA classification documents.

Every result behind this list is in the rankings section, and the full weekend is in the weekend recap.

Logos: Pensacola Christian Academy; Maclay School; Cornerstone Classical School. Card art: Run Florida Run.

The week 7 class team lists for boys: 1A · 2A · 3A · 4A.