Belen Jesuit won New World and leads the Class 3A boys team rankings, Fort Myers is second, and Bishop Kenny jumps to third after beating Vanguard, Fleming Island, Leon and Ponte Vedra.
Florida Class 3A 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.
Belen Jesuit won the Boys Elite race with 55. Marcelo Mantecon ran 14:24, a course record, with Armando Cruz and Jack Michalak second and third. Fort Myers did not go to New World and won Lee County Under The Lights on Friday with 26. They are first and second, the same order as our statewide list.
Behind them, five 3A teams finished inside 57 points of each other at New World. Bishop Kenny was the first of them, 14th with 475, five points ahead of Vanguard, then Fleming Island, Leon and Ponte Vedra. That moves Bishop Kenny from eighth to third and Ponte Vedra from second to seventh. Luke Ross was eighth in the race in 15:10, but Ponte Vedra's next four were all past 115th.
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 3A 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 3A boys individuals are here, and last week’s edition of this list is here. The other classes this week: 3A girls, 1A boys, 2A boys, 4A boys.
1. Belen Jesuit (Miami): 45 points
Converted average 15:47.6 · 1-5 spread 1:27.6 · finished 1-2-4-12-26 in the class · This week: 1st of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (55).
Marcelo Mantecon 15:06.4; Armando Cruz 15:21.1; Jack Michalak 15:38.8; Nicholas Veloso 16:17.9; Dominic De Armas 16:34.0.
Won New World with 55: Marcelo Mantecon first in 14:24, a course record, Armando Cruz second in 14:50, Jack Michalak third in 14:55, Nicholas Veloso 25th, David Jaramillo 41st. Second of 40 in the Great American Race of Champions on October 3. First.
2. Fort Myers: 188 points
Converted average 16:38.5 · 1-5 spread 1:58.3 · finished 3-13-21-70-81 in the class · This week: 1st of 24 at the Lee County Under The Lights (26).
Reed Hagen 15:33.9; Trae Britton 16:20.0; Noah Lefko 16:27.9; Elijah Brown 17:18.5; Brock Jackson 17:32.2.
Did not run New World. Won Lee County Under The Lights on Friday with 26, 43 points ahead of Naples: Noah Lefko third in 16:24.6, Trae Britton fifth, Reed Hagen seventh, Ben Moss eighth, Elijah Brown 11th. Won the Race of Champions at the flrunners.com Invitational on October 3. Second, fifth on our statewide list.
3. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville): 354 points
Converted average 17:19.0 · 1-5 spread 0:37.8 · finished 54-61-64-76-99 in the class · This week: 14th of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (475).
Dayne Kimball 17:03.2; Quinn Mullaney 17:11.8; Brian Martinez 17:14.1; Ethan Reid 17:25.2; Thomas Milton 17:41.0.
Fourteenth at New World with 475, the first 3A team behind Belen: Quinn Mullaney 82nd in 16:12, Ethan Reid 92nd, Brian Martinez 94th, Dayne Kimball 141st, Thomas Milton 163rd, five runners inside 32 seconds. St. Augustine beat it by one point at JAC on October 10, but New World is the newer meeting. Up from eighth.
4. Vanguard (Ocala): 201 points
Converted average 16:51.7 · 1-5 spread 0:49.8 · finished 27-29-30-38-77 in the class · This week: 15th of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (480).
Trevor Berquist 16:37.6; Christopher Taylor 16:38.5; Lachlan Bryniarski 16:42.2; Jacob Rogers 16:52.5; Cooper Gumpert 17:27.4.
Fifteenth at New World with 480, five points behind Bishop Kenny: Christopher Taylor 56th in 15:56, Lachlan Bryniarski 93rd, Trevor Berquist 106th, Jacob Rogers 162nd, Cooper Gumpert 164th. Second to Ponte Vedra at the Speziale Invitational on October 3; New World is the newer meeting. Fourth.
5. Fleming Island: 391 points
Converted average 17:14.2 · 1-5 spread 1:52.2 · finished 16-22-63-117-173 in the class · This week: 17th of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (509).
JP Strombeck 16:22.8; Luke Janke 16:30.1; Ryder Muyres 17:13.8; Andrew Lou 17:49.5; Jack Loehr 18:14.9.
Seventeenth at New World with 509, without Jack Loehr, its No. 5: JP Strombeck 18th in 15:24, Luke Janke 30th, Ryder Muyres 84th, Andrew Lou 180th, Isaac Garrison 304th. Ahead of Leon and Ponte Vedra on the day and at full strength. Up from ninth to fifth.
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6. Leon (Tallahassee): 348 points
Converted average 17:18.0 · 1-5 spread 0:54.2 · finished 34-58-71-88-97 in the class · This week: 18th of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (512).
Isaiah Renn 16:46.3; Carson Weiss 17:07.3; Asher McGrew 17:18.7; Fife Duncan 17:37.0; Andrew Barnes 17:40.6.
Eighteenth at New World with 512, three points behind Fleming Island: Isaiah Renn 57th in 15:56, Carson Weiss 97th, Asher McGrew 130th, Fife Duncan 160th, Andrew Barnes 173rd. Beat Ponte Vedra by 20. Sixth.
7. Ponte Vedra: 281 points
Converted average 16:59.2 · 1-5 spread 1:50.1 · finished 7-47-55-57-115 in the class · This week: 19th of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (532).
Luke Ross 15:57.9; Colin Bovee 16:58.6; Logan Hunt 17:04.1; Aiden Killoran 17:07.2; Jack Feather 17:48.0.
Nineteenth at New World with 532: Luke Ross eighth in 15:10, then Logan Hunt 118th, Colin Bovee 125th, Aiden Killoran 182nd and Jack Feather 200th. Won its own Speziale Invitational on October 3 with 26, ahead of Vanguard. Down from second to seventh.
8. Tavares: 289 points
Converted average 16:59.7 · 1-5 spread 2:00.1 · finished 8-37-43-48-153 in the class
Liam Ilea 16:04.9; Navid Lozano 16:52.4; Nicholas Alvarez 16:56.3; Emiliano Lozano 16:59.9; Eric Chen 18:05.0.
Did not race. Second at the flrunners.com Invitational on October 3 with 111, Liam Ilea leading. Eighth: it sits just behind Ponte Vedra on the figures, and the four teams that beat Ponte Vedra at New World move past both.
9. St. Augustine: 406 points
Converted average 17:17.8 · 1-5 spread 1:36.4 · finished 24-41-46-134-161 in the class · This week: 20th of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (629).
Elijah Parkinson 16:32.4; Keanan DiPrimo 16:54.5; Micah Parkinson 16:57.6; Thorian Olson-Buks 17:55.9; Bryce Wilkerson 18:08.8.
Twentieth at New World with 629: Elijah Parkinson 60th in 15:57, Micah Parkinson 121st, Keanan DiPrimo 123rd, Thorian Olson-Buks 210th, Bryce Wilkerson 236th. Won JAC on October 10 with 49. Ninth.
10. Rockledge: 519 points
Converted average 17:26.7 · 1-5 spread 2:08.9 · finished 18-19-68-206-208 in the class · This week: 23rd of 46 at the New World Fall Spectacular (680).
Noah Childrey 16:24.3; Brody Johnson 16:27.0; Jaxon Carter 17:16.7; Declan Westover 18:32.6; Logan Schooley 18:33.1.
Twenty-third at New World with 680: Noah Childrey 35th in 15:39, Brody Johnson 87th, Jaxon Carter 148th, Logan Schooley 262nd, Declan Westover 284th. Beat Chiles there at full strength. New to the ten.
Just missed
Chiles (Tallahassee), tenth last week, ran New World without Jack Nottingham, its No. 2, and was 34th with 887, Jonathan Kiros 17th in 15:24. With Nottingham placed at 16:18 it scores 738, still behind Rockledge, and it is 11th. Naples was second to Fort Myers at Lee County Under The Lights with 69, Jeb Bremerman fourth in 16:24.9, and is 12th. Osceola (Seminole) did not race at New World and is 13th.
Where the virtual race disagrees with this list
- Leon over Ponte Vedra: 525 to 547 at the New World Fall Spectacular, scored at full strength.
- Bishop Kenny over Vanguard: 486 to 493 at the New World Fall Spectacular, scored at full strength.
- Fleming Island over Leon: 511 to 525 at the New World Fall Spectacular, scored at full strength.
- Rockledge over Chiles: 704 to 739 at the New World Fall Spectacular, scored at full strength.
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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 3A team, scored the way cross country is scored. 121 3A 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.
- Fleming Island and Chiles are ranked on their full-strength New World scores: Jack Loehr went in at 17:40 and Jack Nottingham at 16:18.
- Fort Myers and Tavares did not race at New World and hold their places against the teams they have not met.
Every result behind this list is in the rankings section, and the full weekend is in the weekend recap.
Logos: Belen Jesuit Preparatory School; Fort Myers High School; Bishop Kenny High School. Card art: Run Florida Run.