Niceville swept the Wildcat Invitational and leads the Class 4A girls team rankings, Creekside is second, Spanish River raced in North Carolina, and Boone won Metro East.
Florida Class 4A girls cross country team rankings through seven weeks: August 21-October 3, 2026
Niceville swept the Wildcat Invitational in Pensacola with 18 and stays first. Its top five are 20.5 seconds apart on the season. Creekside is second on figure: its varsity won Bale-N-Trail on September 26, and its girls at Speziale on Saturday were a second group. Spanish River was 18th of 41 in the COROS Race of Champions at the Great American XC Festival in North Carolina and is third.
Boone won the Metro East Championship with 32, its third straight team win after the McKinney Classic and West Orange. Sunlake was fourth in the flrunners.com Race of Champions. Lake Mary was sixth there and is first out.
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 girls team top 10 and Week 7 boys team top 10. The 4A girls individuals are here, and last week’s edition of this list is here. The other classes this week: 4A boys, 1A girls, 2A girls, 3A girls.
1. Niceville: 124 points
Converted average 19:44.2 · 1-5 spread 0:20.5 · finished 21-22-24-25-32 in the class · This week: 1st of 7 at the Wildcat Invitational (18).
Harmony Holland 19:33.5; Lola Jackson 19:36.8; Sophie Clapp 19:47.7; Anais Almonte 19:49.2; Riley Marise 19:54.0.
Won the Wildcat Invitational on Saturday with 18; Anais Almonte and Lola Jackson crossed together in 20:34.0. Second at the Southern Showcase on September 19. First.
2. Creekside (St. Johns): 200 points
Converted average 19:58.7 · 1-5 spread 2:15.5 · finished 8-16-26-40-110 in the class
Eva Delaney 19:05.5; Emma Godfrey 19:27.7; Ivey Edgell 19:51.0; Hadleigh Roberts 20:08.2; Elena Schultz 21:21.0.
Won Bale-N-Trail on September 26 with 59, ahead of Buchholz and Beachside; Eva Delaney was second individually to Avery Hartley. The Creekside girls fourth at Speziale on Saturday were a second group. Second.
3. Spanish River (Boca Raton): 217 points
Converted average 19:55.9 · 1-5 spread 2:15.9 · finished 5-34-51-63-64 in the class · This week: 18th of 41 at the Great American XC Festival (561).
Alba Antunez-Perez 18:17.0; Makaela Morilla 19:56.8; Adriana Perrette 20:22.2; Brooke Thunberg 20:30.9; Julia D'Emic 20:32.9.
Eighteenth of 41 in the Great American Race of Champions with 561, eight points behind Episcopal of 2A. Alba Antunez-Perez was 32nd in 18:05.0, the second Florida girl across. Third.
4. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale): 293 points
Converted average 20:13.8 · 1-5 spread 2:35.0 · finished 7-12-48-109-117 in the class · This week: 1st of 3 at the Week 5 at Markham (19).
Elise Brown 18:50.0; Kendall Parrott 19:16.0; Charlotte Lee 20:17.0; Caoimhe McConville 21:21.0; Taylor Gold 21:25.0.
Won the Week 5 meet at Markham Park on Wednesday with 19 against two other teams. Elise Brown and Kendall Parrott lead. Fourth.
5. Sunlake (Land O'Lakes): 315 points
Converted average 20:22.8 · 1-5 spread 2:23.9 · finished 14-17-44-90-150 in the class · This week: 4th of 21 at the flrunners.com Invitational (184).
Ana Cecilia Maia Menard 19:22.5; Ella Pope 19:30.2; Anna Connett 20:12.9; Jolynn Chen 21:02.1; Harshita Anne 21:46.4.
Fourth in the flrunners.com Race of Champions on Saturday with 184, and fourth in Friday's open varsity race. Ana Cecilia Maia Menard and Ella Pope were fourth and fifth individually in the Race of Champions. Fifth.
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6. Doral Academy: 321 points
Converted average 20:25.7 · 1-5 spread 2:31.1 · finished 11-31-53-83-143 in the class
Nicole Lewis 19:10.6; Madison Chin 19:53.7; Estefania Capriles 20:24.9; Lauren Avila 20:57.6; Emily Castellanos 21:41.7.
Did not race. Nicole Lewis, second in the Spanish River Race of Champions, leads. Sixth.
7. Nease (Ponte Vedra): 340 points
Converted average 20:35.9 · 1-5 spread 1:26.8 · finished 33-42-45-107-113 in the class
Katherine Healey 19:55.0; Olivia Dhas 20:10.2; Lucia Misasi 20:13.7; Emma Rodenkirch 21:18.8; Ava Campbell 21:21.8.
Did not race. Sixth at Katie Caples on September 19. Katherine Healey leads. Seventh.
8. Boone (Orlando): 370 points
Converted average 20:37.6 · 1-5 spread 2:16.3 · finished 20-56-59-82-153 in the class · This week: 1st of 7 at the Metro East Championship (32).
Anne Vanos 19:33.1; Bethany Foley 20:25.1; Taylor Revels 20:28.5; Breanna White 20:51.9; Kaitlyn Demarco 21:49.4.
Won the Metro East Championship on Saturday with 32, after wins at West Orange on September 26 and the McKinney Classic on September 19. Anne Vanos won Metro East individually. Eighth.
9. Hagerty (Oviedo): 467 points
Converted average 21:02.0 · 1-5 spread 1:14.0 · finished 57-76-87-108-139 in the class
Madison Thompson 20:25.3; Jessica Leon 20:46.1; Briella Daly 21:00.1; Samantha Gartner 21:19.4; Natalia Monsanto 21:39.3.
Did not race. Second at its own Hagerty Invitational on September 26 with 66, behind Bishop Moore, and second to Boone at McKinney. Ninth.
10. Buchholz (Gainesville): 470 points
Converted average 21:01.3 · 1-5 spread 1:19.8 · finished 62-68-79-106-155 in the class
Valeria Beaver 20:30.9; Morgan Outcalt 20:36.6; Alanna Doyle 20:50.1; Phoebe Verschage 21:18.0; Dylan Dublin 21:50.6.
Did not race. Second at Bale-N-Trail on September 26 with 102, behind Creekside. Tenth.
Just missed
Lake Mary was sixth in the flrunners.com Race of Champions and third at Hagerty. Beachside (St. Johns) was fourth at Bale-N-Trail. Sarasota won Friday's open varsity race at flrunners.com with 89.
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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 her 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 she 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. 119 4A girls 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.
- Creekside's and Bishop Kenny's girls at Speziale were second groups and do not count as varsity meetings.
Every result behind this list is in the rankings section, and the full weekend is in the weekend recap.
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