Niceville holds first in the Class 4A girls team rankings, Creekside won HMT, Spanish River won Snake Bite, and Nease moves up to fifth after JAC.
Florida Class 4A girls 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.
Creekside won HMT in Gainesville with 42, Eva Delaney second individually. Spanish River won the Snake Bite Invite with 45, Alba Antunez-Perez first, ahead of Doral with 56. St. Thomas Aquinas won the BCAA/MSAA Championship on Friday with 47, Kendall Parrott first. Nease was third at JAC with 65, Lucia Misasi fifth individually, and moves from seventh to fifth past Sunlake and Doral, which both raced. Niceville did not race and stays first.
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 8 girls team top 10 and Week 8 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: 134 points
Converted average 19:44.2 · 1-5 spread 0:20.5 · finished 23-24-26-28-33 in the class
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.
Did not race. Won the Wildcat Invitational on October 3 with 18, and was second at the Southern Showcase on September 19. First.
2. Creekside (St. Johns): 210 points
Converted average 19:58.7 · 1-5 spread 2:15.5 · finished 8-17-29-42-114 in the class · This week: 1st of 13 at the Half-Mile Timing XC Invitational (42).
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 HMT on Saturday with 42 against 13 teams: Delaney second in 19:15.6, Emma Godfrey fourth, Hadleigh Roberts 11th. Won Bale-N-Trail on September 26.
3. Spanish River (Boca Raton): 218 points
Converted average 19:55.9 · 1-5 spread 2:15.9 · finished 5-34-51-63-65 in the class · This week: 1st of 16 at the Snake Bite Invite (45).
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.
Won Snake Bite on Saturday with 45: Antunez-Perez first in 18:29.9, Makaela Morilla seventh, Brooke Thunberg tenth, Adriana Perrette 11th. Eighteenth of 41 in the Great American Race of Champions on October 3.
4. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale): 234 points
Converted average 20:01.8 · 1-5 spread 2:33.6 · finished 7-13-48-49-117 in the class · This week: 1st of 15 at the BCAA/MSAA Championship (47).
Elise Brown 18:50.0; Kendall Parrott 19:17.2; Taylor Gold 20:18.0; Charlotte Lee 20:20.5; Angelica Cardenas 21:23.6.
Won the BCAA/MSAA Championship on Friday with 47 against 15 teams: Kendall Parrott first in 20:08.2, Taylor Gold sixth, Charlotte Lee eighth. Elise Brown leads on the season.
5. Nease (Ponte Vedra): 279 points
Converted average 20:17.3 · 1-5 spread 1:47.2 · finished 18-25-27-102-107 in the class · This week: 3rd of 9 at the 2026 JAC Cross Country Invitational (65).
Katherine Healey 19:29.8; Lucia Misasi 19:38.1; Olivia Dhas 19:47.8; Emma Rodenkirch 21:13.8; Ava Campbell 21:17.0.
Third of nine at JAC on Saturday with 65, behind Episcopal and Bishop Kenny: Misasi fifth in 19:48.0, Katherine Healey ninth, Olivia Dhas tenth. Up from seventh.
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6. Sunlake (Land O'Lakes): 322 points
Converted average 20:22.8 · 1-5 spread 2:23.9 · finished 14-19-46-91-152 in the class · This week: 1st of 6 at the First Annual South Marion Bears Cross Country Invitational (33).
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.
Won the South Marion Invitational on Saturday with 33: Ana Cecilia Maia Menard first in 19:43.4, Ella Pope second. Fourth in the flrunners.com Race of Champions on October 3.
7. Doral Academy: 357 points
Converted average 20:31.9 · 1-5 spread 2:17.8 · finished 10-37-59-123-128 in the class · This week: 2nd of 16 at the Snake Bite Invite (56).
Nicole Lewis 19:12.1; Madison Chin 20:02.4; Estefania Capriles 20:29.2; Emily Castellanos 21:26.1; Lauren Avila 21:29.9.
Second at Snake Bite on Saturday with 56, behind Spanish River: Nicole Lewis second in 18:51.5, Madison Chin sixth, Estefania Capriles ninth.
8. Boone (Orlando): 373 points
Converted average 20:37.6 · 1-5 spread 2:16.3 · finished 22-55-58-82-156 in the class
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.
Did not race. Won the Metro East Championship on October 3 with 32, Anne Vanos first.
9. Hagerty (Oviedo): 473 points
Converted average 21:02.0 · 1-5 spread 1:14.0 · finished 56-77-88-110-142 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.
10. Buchholz (Gainesville): 478 points
Converted average 21:01.3 · 1-5 spread 1:19.8 · finished 62-69-80-109-158 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.
Fourth at HMT on Saturday, a day we are treating as a workout. Second at Bale-N-Trail on September 26 with 102, behind Creekside.
Just missed
Lake Mary did not race. Plant (Tampa) beat Sarasota at the North Port Invite on September 19 and sits above it.
Where the virtual race disagrees with this list
- Plant over Sarasota: 3rd and 5th at the North Port 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 her 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 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. 122 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.
- 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.
- Buchholz's runs at HMT on October 10 are treated as a workout, not a race.
Every result behind this list is in the rankings section, and the full weekend is in the weekend recap.
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