Week 1 Class 2A Girls Team Top 10: Florida Cross Country Rankings

Florida Class 2A girls cross country team rankings, after opening weekend: August 21-22, 2026

Seven of the ten teams below did not race. Episcopal, the best team in the class, kept its entire girls squad home while sixteen of its boys ran at Cecil Field. So did Carrollton, Berkeley Prep, Montverde, Cardinal Gibbons, Ransom Everglades and Gulliver Prep. Only three teams in this top ten pinned on a number.

And the fastest girl in Class 2A runs for the eleventh team. Selah Vignier of West Shore went 18:55 at Cecil Field, first outright in this class ahead of every projected returner in it, and her team is one point out of the top ten.

That is the shape of 2A girls in week one: a class ranked mostly on November, with the one runner who proved something in August attached to a squad that cannot score around her yet.

As always this is data plus judgment, and we will miss somebody along the way. A (P) beside a team means it did not put five runners on a line this weekend and is entered on what its returners ran last November. How we sorted it all out is at the bottom for anyone who wants it. Races are not won until the kids have run. Enjoy.

The statewide lists: Week 1 girls team top 10 and Week 1 girls top 10. The 2A individuals are here. The other class team lists: 1A girls, 3A girls, 4A girls and 2A boys.

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1. Episcopal (Jacksonville) — 70 points — (P)

Kate Brice 19:05.6, Graziana Gowdy 19:37.7, Holland McKinney 19:56.0, Stella Krueger 20:13.2, Audrey Brice 20:41.4, with Eve Sauvageau 20:55.1 as a sixth. Projected average 19:54.8, spread 1:35.8, finishing 2-5-10-20-33.

Seventy points. In a thirty-nine-team class a perfect score is fifteen, and Episcopal's projected five would finish second, fifth, tenth, twentieth and thirty-third against everybody else's best. Three of our top ten individuals in 2A are on this one roster and none of them has raced.

That last part is the strange one. Episcopal's boys ran at Cecil Field — sixteen of them, across the Elite and C races, and they are ninth in 2A on what they ran. The girls did not enter. Whatever the reason, the program was at the meet.

Episcopal is fifth in Florida across all classes on this projection, and entirely untested. The gap to second here is forty-two points, which is not the kind of margin that survives a bad fifth runner.

2. Carrollton (Miami) — 112 points — (P)

Daniela Hernandez 19:14.0, Gabriella Socarras 19:46.1, Emma Filippi 20:39.5, Antonia Beltran 20:45.5, Paola De La Iglesia 20:50.1. Projected average 20:15.0, spread 1:36.1, finishing 3-7-31-35-36.

Hernandez and Socarras are third and seventh in the class, and then Carrollton does something unusual: three runners finishing 31st, 35th and 36th, inside eleven seconds of each other.

Ninth in Florida on projection. The sixth is Gabriella Bodoh at 22:41.7, a 1:51 drop, so the margin for error is the same as everyone else's on this list. There is none.

3. Bolles — 146 points

Cecil Field. Average 20:34.0, spread 2:06.0, finishing 4-27-28-38-49. Sofie Stam 19:20 in the Elite race, fourth in the class and our No. 4 individual in 2A. Then Kavya Patel 20:30 and Palmer Edwards 20:31 together, Valentina Bouras 21:03, Eliana Bruneau 21:26 — and behind them Lila McGowan and Peyton Hoover tied at 21:31.

The best 2A girls team that actually ran, and it is not close. Bolles put eighteen girls on the Cecil Field course across two races and seven of them are inside the first fifty-four of this class. That is the deepest verified squad in 2A and the only top-three team here carrying no projection risk at all.

They are sixteenth in Florida, behind eight teams that also raced and seven that did not. Whether 146 beats Episcopal's 70 in November is the season's question in this class, and arithmetic is not going to answer it.

4. Berkeley Prep (Tampa) — 206 points — (P)

Molly Taylor 19:49.7, Lily Ghavami 20:22.4, Alex Louie 20:38.5, Evelyn Liever 22:08.3, Hayden Tingue 22:29.5. Projected average 21:05.7, spread 2:39.8, finishing 8-25-29-65-79.

Taylor is eighth in the class and our No. 8 individual, Ghavami and Louie follow, and then it opens up badly. A 2:39 spread on the friendliest possible version of the roster.

Berkeley's front three is worth sixty-two points against Bolles's fifty-nine for a slower trio that simply did not have a hole behind it. Berkeley's four and five give back all of it and sixty more.

5. Montverde Academy — 233 points — (P)

Lyla McMillen 19:44.1, Alafair Scelfo 20:09.1, Federica Perez 21:13.2, Amaris Munya 22:34.6, Alon Scelfo 22:43.7. Projected average 21:16.9, spread 2:59.6.

McMillen is sixth in the class and Alafair Scelfo sixteenth, both top-ten-caliber returners, and then a 1:04 gap to Perez and a further 1:21 to the four and five.

Montverde entered nobody this weekend — not the girls, not the boys, not a JV squad. On the boys' side that absence cost them a ranking entirely, because only two Montverde boys have 2025 state times and five are required. The girls have seven, so they are here, on a spread that one summer could fix or confirm.

6. Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale) — 239 points — (P)

Claire Chanon 19:58.5, Molly Murphy 20:02.2, Allison Albrect 20:17.7, Giuliana Serra, Sofia Licata. Projected average 21:14.7, spread 3:53.3, finishing 11-12-22-63-131.

The most extreme roster shape in the top ten. Chanon, Murphy and Albrect are a genuine top-three pack, all within nineteen seconds of each other — and then their fourth finishes 63rd and their fifth finishes 131st.

A fifth runner at 131 in a thirty-nine-team class is not a scoring position, it is a penalty. Cardinal Gibbons has the third-best one-two-three in the class, forty-five points across three runners, behind only Episcopal's seventeen and Carrollton's forty-one — and the worst fifth runner in the top ten, thirteen places behind the next worst. Six points behind Montverde with a demonstrably stronger front is what that costs.

7. Ransom Everglades (Miami) — 247 points — (P)

Gillian Carvalho 20:19.9, Anna Block 20:42.1, London Ross 21:32.1, Ella Griffin 21:46.9, Amelia Gonzales 22:23.3. Projected average 21:20.9, spread 2:03.4, finishing 23-34-55-60-75.

No runner in the class top twenty and no runner outside the top seventy-five — the balanced version of what Cardinal Gibbons is doing, and it lands eight points behind them.

Ransom Everglades has exactly five returners with state times. No sixth, no seventh, nothing in reserve. Every other team in this top ten has at least one spare. If Ransom loses anybody, it does not score.

8. Cardinal Newman (West Palm Beach) — 274 points

Cecil Field. Average 21:37.2, spread 2:39.0, finishing 13-43-47-84-87. Tessa Brown 20:04 in the Elite race, thirteenth in the class, then Vicki Burkly 21:16 and Lucy Burkly 21:24 together, Elisa Kate Stroup 22:39 and Lily Kissel 22:43.

274 points, run and verified, against four projections above it that have run nothing. The Crusaders are the second-best evidence-backed team in 2A and they are ranked eighth. Stroup and Kissel are freshmen who walked into the fourth and fifth slots.

9. Calvary Christian (Fort Lauderdale) — 292 points

Jim Ryun, at Holloway Park. Converted average 21:41.3, spread 2:59.2, finishing 24-39-57-62-110. Harper Thomerson came back at 20:21.0, Reese Burnham 21:04.3, Victoria Lima 21:41.4, Lois Johnson 21:59.7, Victoria Clark 23:20.2.

The only top-ten team that raced away from Cecil Field. Worth checking against last November: Thomerson's state time projects to 20:14.2 and she came back at 20:21.0, seven seconds off, which is to say she opened exactly on form. The Holloway correction is doing what it is supposed to do here.

This team was ranked twice in the first pass of this list — once as a raced squad and once as a projection — because the ranker was collapsing three different Calvary Christians into one school. See the notes.

10. Gulliver Prep (Pinecrest) — 312 points — (P)

Aleah Sawyer 20:04.4, Camille Maury 21:13.3, Andrea Cavallaro 22:06.5, Isabella Rodriguez 22:23.2, Carolina Aizemberg 23:31.9. Projected average 21:51.9, spread 3:27.5, finishing 14-42-64-74-118.

A 3:27 spread, no race, and a sixth runner at 25:25.4. Gulliver holds tenth by a single point over a team that ran.

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The one-point argument, and why West Shore is eleventh

11. West Shore (Melbourne), 313 points — Cecil Field, average 21:42.8, spread 4:11.0.

Selah Vignier ran 18:55.0 at Cecil Field. She is the fastest girl in Class 2A, by ten seconds over a projection and by twenty-five seconds over anyone else who actually raced, and she finished first in this virtual race outright.

Her team is eleventh, one point out, because Elliana Falls is 44th and then Emma Mika, Makayla Horst and Anisha Chityal come in at 80th, 89th and 99th. That is a 4:11 spread, the widest in the top fifteen. Vignier's first place is worth thirteen points against Gulliver's Sawyer at fourteenth, and West Shore hands all of it back and one more between runners two and five.

There is no dispute in the numbers here and the ordering is honest: a raced 313 and a projected 312 are not distinguishable, and Gulliver is listed ahead only because 312 is the smaller number. If West Shore's third through fifth move ninety seconds between them this season, this is a top-five team. If they do not, the best runner in 2A spends the fall on a team that cannot score around her.

Also just missed

12. Coral Springs Charter, 337 — Cecil Field, 22:05.4, a 2:08 spread and a best runner at 40th. 13. Cocoa Beach, 344 (P). 14. Wolfson, 368 — Cecil Field, with Elli Kane 20:41 at 32nd. 15. Fernandina Beach, 416 — Cecil Field. 16. Edgewood (Merritt Island), 433 — Cecil Field, carrying Rebecca Lee at 19:54, ninth in the class and our No. 9 individual, and a 4:12 spread behind her. The same problem West Shore has, five ranks worse.

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How we ranked them

• Courses do not all run the same speed, so we do not compare raw times. Cecil Field is the yardstick. For the other meets we look at girls who raced both that course and last year's state meet, and use the gap to work out what a time was worth. Two of the three raced teams here ran Cecil; the third ran Holloway Park, the course outside Cecil we trust most.
• Then every 2A team in Florida goes into one virtual race, scored the normal way: five count, six and seven displace, five finishers required, low score wins. This is a 2A-only field, so the point totals do not compare to the statewide list — only the order does.
• Thirty-nine 2A girls teams cleared the bar. Twelve are entered on projection and marked (P), and seven of those twelve are in this top ten.
• The girls' side needs one more adjustment than the boys' does. The girls' field came home about half a minute slower in August than it did at the state meet in November; the boys ran level. So a projected girls team gets half a minute a runner of built-in slack and still gets credited with no summer of training at all. It is a deliberately unkind number that is nonetheless kinder than the boys' version, and this is the class where that shows up hardest.
• Three schools were sharing one roster. The ranker keys schools by name, which turned Calvary Christian of Clearwater, Fort Walton and Fort Lauderdale into a single team — and on the girls' side that put Calvary Christian of Fort Lauderdale on the board twice, ninth as a raced squad and twelfth as a projection off the same athletes. The same bug merged the two American Heritages across a class boundary. Fixed with a curated list of the schools that collide, never a fuzzy match.
• Aliased schools were falling out of their own class. A school's class is stored under its returner-file name and its results arrive under a different one, so the alias linked the results but not the class and every aliased school was silently dropped from its class ranking. Fixed.
• Class is the 2026-27 FHSAA classification. A school only appears in our returner data if it has a returning runner from the 2025 state meet, so a program that missed state or whose one qualifier graduated is invisible to us until we place it by hand from the FHSAA document.
• Apex (22:13.2) and Geneva Classical Academy (22:36.6) both put full squads on the course and neither appears in the FHSAA classification documents, so neither can be placed in a class. Apex would sit in the just-missed group if it belonged.
• Georgia and Tennessee runners at Cecil Field are left out.

Week 2 is when Episcopal, Carrollton and the rest of the waiting room have to answer for themselves. Check back for the updated top ten, and the full opening weekend recap with all eleven meets is right here.