Nease leads the Class 4A boys team rankings after seventh place at the Great American XC Festival, Niceville swept the Wildcat Invitational, Braddock and Columbus hold over Doral, and Newsome won Don Bishop.
Florida Class 4A boys cross country team rankings through seven weeks: August 21-October 3, 2026
Nease was seventh of 40 teams in the COROS Race of Champions at the Great American XC Festival in North Carolina with 291, two weeks after third at Roy Griak in Minnesota. It stays first. The class-only virtual race has Niceville ahead; Nease is first by our call, the same one that has it second statewide.
Niceville swept the Wildcat Invitational in Pensacola with 22. Braddock and Columbus hold third and fourth ahead of Doral on their Race of Champions result from September 18, and Hagerty, which won its own invitational on September 26, is sixth. Newsome won the Don Bishop Invitational and holds 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 4A 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 4A boys individuals are here, and last week’s edition of this list is here. The other classes this week: 4A girls, 1A boys, 2A boys, 3A boys.
1. Nease (Ponte Vedra): 181 points
Converted average 16:37.1 · 1-5 spread 0:55.7 · finished 11-15-45-46-64 in the class · This week: 7th of 40 at the Great American XC Festival (291).
Matthew Ishee 16:05.8; Rishi Chopra 16:17.6; Joseph Morley 16:50.0; Charles Carlson 16:50.4; Austin Courson 17:01.6.
Seventh of 40 in the Great American Race of Champions with 291: Matthew Ishee 37th in 15:35.4, Rishi Chopra 62nd, then Charles Carlson, Austin Courson and Joseph Morley. Third at Roy Griak on September 19. First on our call.
2. Niceville: 151 points
Converted average 16:30.8 · 1-5 spread 1:00.2 · finished 7-19-35-42-48 in the class · This week: 1st of 11 at the Wildcat Invitational (22).
Bryant Olson 15:51.6; Brody Mathis 16:22.3; Sebastian Riemer 16:40.9; Carson Jackson 16:47.2; Reid Sadowski 16:51.8.
Won the Wildcat Invitational on Saturday with 22, going one-two-three behind Brody Mathis. Sixth at the Southern Showcase on September 19. Best in the class-only virtual race; second here.
3. Braddock (Miami): 319 points
Converted average 16:57.5 · 1-5 spread 0:51.0 · finished 27-51-67-68-106 in the class
Yanliet Gomezdelafe 16:29.4; Ian Vicente 16:54.0; Liano Lacayo 17:01.7; Jacob Castanedo 17:01.8; Lucas Knight 17:20.3.
Did not race. Won the Larry Wooten Invitational on September 25 with 23, and won the Class 4A scoring of the Spanish River Race of Champions on September 18 with 78, ahead of Columbus and Doral. Third.
4. Columbus (Miami): 305 points
Converted average 16:56.0 · 1-5 spread 0:52.2 · finished 17-44-73-84-87 in the class
Nicholas Garcia 16:20.3; Lundin Steven 16:49.4; Lucas Saenz 17:07.5; Valerio Rodriguez 17:10.2; Bryce Barger 17:12.5.
Did not race. Second to Braddock in the 4A scoring of the Race of Champions, two points ahead of Doral. Nicholas Garcia leads. Fourth.
5. Doral Academy: 287 points
Converted average 16:53.1 · 1-5 spread 0:57.6 · finished 12-40-75-78-82 in the class
Martin Fernandez 16:12.2; Rafaele D'Agostino 16:46.8; Javier Parker 17:07.9; Joaquin Cogo 17:08.5; Pedro Rodriguez 17:09.9.
Did not race. Third in the 4A scoring of the Race of Champions behind Braddock and Columbus. Martin Fernandez leads. Fifth.
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6. Hagerty (Oviedo): 290 points
Converted average 16:51.0 · 1-5 spread 1:07.3 · finished 20-24-52-61-133 in the class
Camden Thompson 16:23.8; Nate Winslow 16:26.7; Wesley Lizon 16:55.1; Reid Henson 16:58.3; Elijah Lizon 17:31.1.
Did not race. Won its own Hagerty Invitational on September 26 with 95, two points ahead of Lake Highland Prep, and won the McKinney Classic on September 19. Camden Thompson and Nate Winslow lead. Sixth.
7. Flagler Palm Coast: 323 points
Converted average 16:48.3 · 1-5 spread 1:47.3 · finished 6-31-65-71-150 in the class
Douglas Seth 15:48.5; Dylan Ciardi 16:32.7; Enzo McGovern 17:01.6; Mateo Almeida 17:02.9; Owen Stackpole 17:35.8.
Did not race. Fifteenth at the Southern Showcase on September 19. Douglas Seth leads. Seventh.
8. Lake Minneola: 376 points
Converted average 16:44.6 · 1-5 spread 2:50.5 · finished 3-16-28-38-291 in the class
Quentin Thompson 15:39.3; Jacob Kelly 16:19.1; Drew Sasson 16:29.8; Matthew Lydiard 16:44.9; Noah Perez 18:29.8.
Did not race. Third of 37 at PR'ville in Huntsville on September 26 with 210, Quentin Thompson 13th, and won Hawks on the Hill on September 19. The front four are as good as anyone's in the class; the fifth is the question. Eighth.
9. Wiregrass Ranch (Wesley Chapel): 442 points
Converted average 17:08.1 · 1-5 spread 1:23.7 · finished 26-39-83-113-181 in the class
Avi Bhatia 16:29.1; Bogdan Anghel 16:45.2; Wade Pheffer 17:10.1; Dominic Martin 17:23.5; Christian Gonzalez 17:52.8.
Sixth of 19 at the Wild Bulldog Invitational on Saturday with 170. Won the Stampede Sprint on September 26 with 49. Ninth.
10. Newsome (Lithia): 454 points
Converted average 17:03.7 · 1-5 spread 1:48.4 · finished 8-50-118-119-159 in the class · This week: 1st of 22 at the Don Bishop Invitational (47).
Jonas Williams 15:52.8; Johnathan Robison 16:53.5; Drake Jones 17:25.1; Ronald Ramos 17:25.7; Caden King 17:41.2.
Won the Don Bishop Invitational on Saturday with 47 over Wharton, Jonas Williams second to Jaxon Kiper. Also won the Spartan XC Invite on September 26 and the Raider Open on September 19. Tenth.
Just missed
Buchholz (Gainesville) was 18th of 40 in the Great American Race of Champions, nine places ahead of Spanish River (Boca Raton), and sits above it. Andrew Sides ran a personal best there. St. Cloud won the Harmony Longhorn Invitational on Saturday with 58.
Where the virtual race disagrees with this list
- Buchholz over Spanish River: 18th and 27th at the Great American XC Festival, and neither has raced its top runners since.
- Nease over Niceville: Nease over Niceville is the statewide call: Nease was seventh of 40 in the Great American Race of Champions and third at Roy Griak, and no Florida team but Belen has beaten its full varsity (Darrin, 2026-10-04).
- Braddock over Doral Academy: Braddock 78, Columbus 103, Doral 105, Spanish River 127 in the Class 4A scoring of the Spanish River Race of Champions on Sept. 18; the timer scored it by class, so the engine cannot see the meeting, and none of the four has met another since.
- Columbus over Doral Academy: Columbus beat Doral by two points in the Class 4A scoring of the Race of Champions on Sept. 18.
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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 4A team, scored the way cross country is scored. 133 4A 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.
- Nease over Niceville is our call, matching the statewide list.
- Braddock, Columbus and Doral are ordered by the Class 4A scoring of the Spanish River Race of Champions on September 18 (78, 103, 105). The timer scored that race by class, so the engine cannot see the meeting; none of the three has met another since.
Every result behind this list is in the rankings section, and the full weekend is in the weekend recap.
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