Bolles holds first in the Class 2A boys team rankings after the Manhattan Invitational in New York, Gulliver Prep is second after Snake Bite, and Berkeley Prep comes into the ten.
Florida Class 2A boys cross country team rankings through eight weeks: August 21-October 10, 2026
The FSU Pre-State Invitational, the biggest meet of the fall, was canceled for Hurricane Isaias, and most of the state's best teams did not race. A team that sat out the weekend holds its place.
Bolles went to the Manhattan University Invitational in the Bronx and was eighth of 32 teams in the Eastern States Championship with 285, against the best programs in the Northeast. Aidan Chandler led in 13:05.9 for 2.5 miles, with Aaron Ches, Wyatt Cleek, Armaan Sharma and Vincent Barragan next. The Manhattan course is 2.5 miles, so we convert those times to a 5K before we price the course. Gulliver Prep was fifth of 15 at the Snake Bite Invite in Boca Raton with 87, Kayaan Ghaffar second individually. Eastside was third at HMT and drops from fourth to sixth. Pine Crest was eighth at Snake Bite, behind FAU, and drops out; Berkeley Prep comes in at tenth.
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 2A 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 8 boys team top 10 and Week 8 girls team top 10. The 2A boys individuals are here, and last week’s edition of this list is here. The other classes this week: 2A girls, 1A boys, 3A boys, 4A boys.
1. Bolles (Jacksonville): 41 points
Converted average 16:32.5 · 1-5 spread 0:38.7 · finished 3-4-8-10-16 in the class · This week: 8th of 32 at the Manhattan University XC Invitational (285).
Aidan Chandler 16:14.9; Aaron Ches 16:22.0; Armaan Sharma 16:30.4; Wyatt Cleek 16:41.8; Vincent Barragan 16:53.6.
Eighth of 32 in the Eastern States Championship at Manhattan on Saturday with 285. Chandler 36th, Ches 46th, Cleek 60th, Sharma 71st, Barragan 96th of 223. Won Bale-N-Trail on September 26 with 41. First by about 100 points in the class-only race.
2. Gulliver Prep (Pinecrest): 144 points
Converted average 17:13.9 · 1-5 spread 1:26.3 · finished 6-17-19-43-59 in the class · This week: 5th of 15 at the Snake Bite Invite (87).
Kayaan Ghaffar 16:25.9; Emilio Perez-Garcia 16:59.8; Adrian Iziliaev 17:09.0; Aston Conrad 17:42.8; Christopher Arana 17:52.1.
Fifth of 15 at Snake Bite on Saturday with 87: Ghaffar second in 15:33.8, Emilio Perez-Garcia eighth, Adrian Iziliaev 24th. Second to Belen's second group at STU on September 26.
3. Calvary Christian (Clearwater): 234 points
Converted average 17:40.1 · 1-5 spread 1:04.6 · finished 20-31-44-51-88 in the class
Luke Lahaye 17:09.4; Eden Seagraves 17:27.3; Logan Milo 17:43.2; Maximus Brown 17:46.7; Nathan Sauer 18:14.0.
Did not race. Third of 17 in the flrunners.com Race of Champions on October 3 with 141, ahead of Chiles and Naples of 3A. Luke Lahaye and Eden Seagraves lead.
4. Lake Highland Prep (Orlando): 252 points
Converted average 17:44.7 · 1-5 spread 0:43.4 · finished 25-45-48-63-71 in the class
Santiago Salazar 17:17.2; Colten Scheuplein 17:43.3; Evan Okaty 17:45.8; Zachary Chaet 17:56.5; Alexander Betancourt 18:00.7.
Did not race. Second at the Hagerty Invitational on September 26 with 97, two points behind Hagerty, and second at Hawks on the Hill.
5. Wolfson (Jacksonville): 293 points
Converted average 17:51.1 · 1-5 spread 0:53.2 · finished 28-38-65-68-94 in the class
Beckett Nelson 17:24.1; Joseph Barry 17:37.0; Nathan Kilgore 17:58.1; Ryan Robinson 17:58.9; Rian Naik 18:17.2.
Ran its own Wolfson 9.2 Meet on Monday as a group, the top five together in 22:30, which we do not count as a race. Seventh at Bale-N-Trail on September 26. Beckett Nelson and Joseph Barry lead.
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6. Eastside (Gainesville): 328 points
Converted average 17:49.1 · 1-5 spread 1:48.5 · finished 12-32-49-114-121 in the class · This week: 3rd of 15 at the Half-Mile Timing XC Invitational (106).
Luke Engels 16:44.9; Elijah Stringer 17:31.0; Chesley McDonald 17:45.9; Benjamin White 18:30.6; Griffin Morris 18:33.4.
Third of 15 at HMT in Gainesville on Saturday with 106. Luke Engels was sixth individually in 17:41.2 and Elijah Stringer 17th. Down from fourth.
7. Dunedin: 409 points
Converted average 18:09.5 · 1-5 spread 0:23.9 · finished 62-74-80-95-98 in the class
Braden Workman 17:56.3; Carson Bews 18:03.3; Jeffery Tanner Turley 18:09.3; Owen Kalshoven 18:18.5; Jack Greene 18:20.2.
Did not race. Second at the Todd Howsare Memorial on September 26 with 71, and beat McKeel at Mitchell on September 19, 78 to 111, which keeps it above McKeel.
8. McKeel (Lakeland): 373 points
Converted average 17:46.4 · 1-5 spread 2:19.4 · finished 7-13-97-122-134 in the class · This week: 2nd of 7 at the All Saints Invite (53).
Aidan Alam 16:26.1; Cal Howard 16:47.0; Nolan O'Steen 18:19.9; Lucas Caram-Andruet 18:33.5; Michael Danner 18:45.5.
Second of seven at the All Saints' Invitational on Saturday with 53, with Aidan Alam and Cal Howard first and second individually. Behind Dunedin on the Mitchell result.
9. Episcopal (Jacksonville): 384 points
Converted average 18:01.5 · 1-5 spread 1:23.8 · finished 21-55-81-103-124 in the class
Grayson Smith 17:10.3; Rick Schultz 17:48.8; Will Bunch 18:09.9; Dylan Patterson 18:24.4; Chase Fallucco 18:34.2.
Did not race. Twenty-first of 39 at the Alexander Invitational in Georgia on October 3. Grayson Smith leads.
10. Berkeley Prep (Tampa): 403 points
Converted average 18:01.8 · 1-5 spread 1:56.5 · finished 15-72-73-106-137 in the class
Cole Galuski 16:51.0; Adrian Nel 18:01.7; Rai Mehta 18:01.8; Colin Maloney 18:27.2; Tim Paige 18:47.5.
Did not race. Sixteenth of 17 in the flrunners.com Race of Champions on October 3, with Cole Galuski seventh individually. New to the ten after Pine Crest's day at Snake Bite.
Just missed
FAU (Boca Raton) was sixth at Snake Bite with 190, Michael Gomez fifth individually, and beat Pine Crest (Fort Lauderdale), eighth with 266. Cocoa Beach did not race.
Where the virtual race disagrees with this list
- Dunedin over McKeel: 3rd and 4th at the Mitchell Mustang Invite, and they have not met since.
- FAU over Pine Crest: 6th and 8th at the Snake Bite Invite, and they have not met since.
Up next
Most of the state's top teams race this weekend at the New World Fall Spectacular, October 16-17 at Cecil Field in Jacksonville. Next week's lists will lean heavily on it.
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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 eight times, last week seven, 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 2A team, scored the way cross country is scored. 117 2A 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.
- Results from September 12 and earlier no longer order teams. The times still count in the figures.
- The FSU Pre-State Invitational, the biggest meet of the fall, was canceled for Hurricane Isaias. 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.
- Manhattan is counted: times are converted from 2.5 miles to a 5K, and the course is priced from the Florida runners who also ran last year's state meet.
- Wolfson's own meet on October 5 was a group run, not a race, and is not counted.
Every result behind this list is in the rankings section, and the full weekend is in the weekend recap.
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