Pensacola Christian holds first in the Class 1A boys team rankings, and Circle Christian jumps to second after beating Cornerstone Classical and Maclay at New World.
Florida Class 1A boys cross country team rankings through nine weeks: August 21-October 17, 2026
Most of the state's best teams met at the New World Fall Spectacular in Jacksonville on Saturday, the deepest meet of the Florida season so far. Where two teams met there, that result orders them. Some teams were missing a top runner, so we also scored the race as if every team had its full top five, the same way our statewide lists did, and that full-strength result is the one we use. How we placed the missing runners is at the bottom.
Pensacola Christian did not race and holds first. Three 1A teams ran the Boys Elite race at New World, and they finished close. Circle Christian was 27th with 737 and Cornerstone Classical 28th with 745, eight points apart, with Maclay 37th. Circle Christian moves up from sixth to second, and Cornerstone and Maclay are third and fourth.
This one is close. Cornerstone's season figures are better than Circle Christian's, and Jack Kline was 32nd in 15:38, but Circle Christian had two runners in before Cornerstone's second and beat it head to head, on the day and at full strength.
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 9 boys team top 10 and Week 9 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.
1. Pensacola Christian: 114 points
Converted average 17:23.0 · 1-5 spread 1:04.8 · finished 8-17-20-33-36 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.
Did not race. Won the Mako meet on October 3 with 18 and the Daphne Invitational in Alabama on September 19 with 43. Holds first.
2. Circle Christian (Winter Park): 278 points
Converted average 17:56.3 · 1-5 spread 2:23.1 · finished 9-14-32-102-121 in the class · This week: 27th of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (737).
Matteo Kirwan 16:47.1; Jonah Lehman-Saba 17:12.8; Aschalew Parker 17:42.6; Kade Copeland 18:48.8; Joshua Chegwin 19:10.2.
Twenty-seventh at New World with 737: Matteo Kirwan 63rd in 15:59, Jonah Lehman-Saba 102nd, Aschalew Parker 158th, Kade Copeland 238th, Joshua Chegwin 332nd. Won the Merritt Island Christian meet on October 10 with 28. Beat Cornerstone and Maclay at New World. Up from sixth to second.
3. Cornerstone Classical (Jacksonville): 160 points
Converted average 17:26.4 · 1-5 spread 2:15.8 · finished 3-10-25-43-79 in the class · This week: 28th of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (745).
Jack Kline 16:15.4; Broderick Olson 16:49.8; Finley Smith 17:37.9; Boone Bishop 17:57.5; Liam Rios 18:31.2.
Twenty-eighth at New World with 745, eight points behind Circle Christian: Jack Kline 32nd in 15:38, Broderick Olson 116th, Finley Smith 214th, Boone Bishop 217th, Benjamin Bishop 313th. Third at JAC on October 10, where Kline won. Third.
4. Maclay (Tallahassee): 195 points
Converted average 17:41.4 · 1-5 spread 1:49.3 · finished 5-37-39-45-69 in the class · This week: 37th of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (906).
David Barton 16:29.4; Gavin McVay 17:48.3; Logan Phipps 17:48.9; Will Cintron 18:01.7; Beau May 18:18.7.
Thirty-seventh at New World with 906, without Gavin McVay, one of its top five: David Barton 52nd in 15:54, Logan Phipps 192nd, Will Cintron 234th, Beau May 291st, Ben Lawson 327th. With McVay placed at 17:13 it scores 864, still behind Cornerstone. Fourth.
5. Southwest Florida Christian (Fort Myers): 245 points
Converted average 17:59.9 · 1-5 spread 1:00.4 · finished 16-51-53-60-65 in the class · This week: 8th of 24 at the Lee County Under The Lights (221).
Nash Akers 17:14.9; Ty Piper 18:08.1; Mason Weston 18:08.9; Liam Piper 18:12.6; Shepard Anderson 18:15.2.
Eighth at Lee County Under The Lights on Friday with 221, Nash Akers ninth in 17:02.8. Tenth at the flrunners.com Invitational on October 3. Holds fifth.
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6. Holy Trinity (Melbourne): 285 points
Converted average 18:07.0 · 1-5 spread 1:27.7 · finished 23-35-48-67-112 in the class · This week: 43rd of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (1026).
Zamari Blumenberg 17:31.3; Jesus Martinez 17:45.1; Daniel Penny 18:03.7; Roman La Starza 18:16.1; Cormac Schutte 18:59.0.
Forty-third at New World with 1026: Zamari Blumenberg 171st in 16:47, Jesus Martinez 197th, Daniel Penny 213th, Roman La Starza 292nd, Cormac Schutte 363rd. Sixth.
7. Oak Hall (Gainesville): 336 points
Converted average 18:13.9 · 1-5 spread 1:49.4 · finished 15-21-80-106-114 in the class
Dylan Kirk 17:13.9; Henri Pelletier 17:28.9; James McDonald 18:32.8; Alexander Braithwaite 18:50.5; Tom Gilor 19:03.3.
Ran the HS Boys B race at New World, Henri Pelletier tenth in 16:34 and Dylan Kirk 13th. Fifth at HMT on October 10. Holds seventh.
8. St. Johns Country Day (Orange Park): 387 points
Converted average 18:25.8 · 1-5 spread 1:39.5 · finished 28-61-68-91-139 in the class
Arlo Kistner 17:39.8; Thomas Nichols 18:12.8; Judson Myers 18:16.2; Nathan Kipnis 18:41.1; Elijah Larsen 19:19.3.
Ran the HS Boys B race at New World, Arlo Kistner 14th in 16:40. Won the Indian Invite on October 3 with 52. Holds eighth.
9. Rocky Bayou Christian (Niceville): 499 points
Converted average 18:23.6 · 1-5 spread 4:35.0 · finished 1-77-85-101-235 in the class · This week: 1st of 6 at the Walton County Home Meet 1 (21).
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.
Won Walton County Home Meet 1 on Tuesday with 21, Dominic Ferguson first in 17:13.3, ahead of Seacoast Collegiate. Ninth.
10. South Florida HEAT (Sunrise): 562 points
Converted average 18:55.8 · 1-5 spread 1:34.5 · finished 57-84-95-144-182 in the class
David Dorn 18:11.3; Jacob Ryle 18:34.1; Carlos Broderick 18:42.3; Zeb Dorn 19:25.3; Treyton Seeman 19:45.9.
Ran the HS Boys B race at New World, David Dorn 76th in 17:33. Fourth at the South Fork Invitational on October 3. Holds tenth.
Just missed
Seacoast Collegiate (Santa Rosa Beach) was 45th in the Boys Elite race at New World and second to Rocky Bayou at Walton County on Tuesday, and is 11th. Out-of-Door (Sarasota) was second at its own ODA Thunder meet on Saturday and is 12th. Lakeland Christian won the ROC Weekend Run on Saturday and is 13th.
Where the virtual race disagrees with this list
- Circle Christian over Cornerstone Classical: 765 to 774 at the New World Fall Spectacular, scored at full strength.
- Rocky Bayou Christian over Seacoast Collegiate: 1st and 2nd at the Walton County Home Meet 1, and they have not met since.
- South Florida HEAT over Seacoast Collegiate: HEAT ran the B race at New World and Seacoast the Elite race, so they did not meet, and Seacoast's edge in the figure is drift from other teams' results.
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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 nine times, last week eight, 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. 107 1A boys teams cleared the bar; none of them is a projection. 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.
- Results from September 12 and earlier no longer order teams. The times still count in the figures.
- New World is read at full strength, the same way as on the statewide list: for every Florida team there missing one of its season top five, we put the missing runner back at his season figure converted to the New World course, added 19 seconds to be conservative, and re-scored the whole race. Those added times are estimates, not results.
- These lists follow the statewide team list: a team ranked on it is ahead of every team in its class that is not, and teams on both lists are in the same order. A team that did not race this weekend holds its place.
- 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.
- Maclay is ranked on its full-strength New World score: Gavin McVay went in at 17:13.
- Oak Hall, St. Johns Country Day and South Florida HEAT ran the B race at New World, not the Elite race, so they did not meet the Elite teams there. Walton County Home Meet 1 is not rated this week; Rocky Bayou's win over Seacoast there still orders the two.
Every result behind this list is in the rankings section, and the full weekend is in the weekend recap.
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