Niceville is first in the Class 4A girls team rankings after New World, Creekside second, and Doral moves past Nease, which ran without its No. 4. Beachside joins the ten.
Florida Class 4A girls 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.
Niceville was third in the Girls Elite race with 227, behind IMG Academy and Bolles of 2A, and the first 4A team across by 88 points. Harmony Holland was 19th in 18:27, and freshmen Anais Almonte and Lola Jackson finished side by side, 42nd and 43rd. Creekside was the next 4A team, sixth with 315, and stays second. Spanish River and St. Thomas Aquinas were ninth and tenth, and hold third and fourth.
Doral Academy beat Nease by six points, 368 to 374, and moves past it. Nease ran without Ava Campbell, its No. 4; with her placed at 20:34 Nease scores 391, still behind Doral at full strength. Beachside was 15th with 427, the next 4A team behind Nease, and comes into the ten.
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 9 girls team top 10 and Week 9 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: 157 points
Converted average 19:57.4 · 1-5 spread 0:48.3 · finished 16-25-30-42-44 in the class · This week: 3rd of 45 at the New World Fall Spectacular (227).
Harmony Holland 19:31.1; Lola Jackson 19:48.5; Anais Almonte 19:53.9; Riley Marise 20:14.1; Carolina Ramos 20:19.4.
Third at New World with 227, the first 4A team: Harmony Holland 19th in 18:27, Anais Almonte 42nd, Lola Jackson 43rd, Riley Marise 81st, Carolina Ramos 84th, a 64-second spread from one to five. Won the Wildcat Invitational on October 3 with 18. First.
2. Creekside (St. Johns): 239 points
Converted average 20:08.2 · 1-5 spread 2:11.0 · finished 6-21-37-74-101 in the class · This week: 6th of 45 at the New World Fall Spectacular (315).
Eva Delaney 19:01.1; Emma Godfrey 19:36.9; Ivey Edgell 20:04.9; Hadleigh Roberts 20:45.9; Elena Schultz 21:12.2.
Sixth at New World with 315: Eva Delaney 18th in 18:24, Emma Godfrey 34th, Ivey Edgell 77th, Elena Schultz 117th and Hadleigh Roberts 119th. Won HMT the week before with 42. Second.
3. Spanish River (Boca Raton): 234 points
Converted average 20:08.8 · 1-5 spread 2:17.3 · finished 5-43-47-60-79 in the class · This week: 9th of 45 at the New World Fall Spectacular (344).
Alba Antunez-Perez 18:36.6; Adriana Perrette 20:17.3; Makaela Morilla 20:23.8; Brooke Thunberg 20:32.3; Julia D'Emic 20:53.9.
Ninth at New World with 344: Alba Antunez-Perez sixth in 17:50, Adriana Perrette 53rd, Brooke Thunberg 87th, Makaela Morilla 110th, Julia D'Emic 139th. Won Snake Bite on October 10 with 45. Third; our statewide list has it first out.
4. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale): 265 points
Converted average 20:20.1 · 1-5 spread 1:56.3 · finished 20-24-45-51-125 in the class · This week: 10th of 45 at the New World Fall Spectacular (360).
Elise Brown 19:35.0; Kendall Parrott 19:47.6; Charlotte Lee 20:21.2; Taylor Gold 20:25.5; Angelica Cardenas 21:31.3.
Tenth at New World with 360, 16 points behind Spanish River: Elise Brown 27th in 18:38, Kendall Parrott 68th, Charlotte Lee 72nd, Taylor Gold 83rd, Angelica Cardenas 166th. Won the BCAA/MSAA Championship on October 9 with 47. Fourth.
5. Doral Academy: 366 points
Converted average 20:33.6 · 1-5 spread 2:34.6 · finished 9-33-53-119-152 in the class · This week: 12th of 45 at the New World Fall Spectacular (368).
Nicole Lewis 19:12.1; Madison Chin 19:56.6; Estefania Capriles 20:26.1; Lauren Avila 21:26.6; Emily Castellanos 21:46.7.
Twelfth at New World with 368: Nicole Lewis 13th in 18:10, Madison Chin 32nd, Estefania Capriles 69th, Lauren Avila 136th, Stephanie Noguera 173rd. Second to Spanish River at Snake Bite the week before. Beat Nease on the day and at full strength. Up from seventh to fifth.
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6. Nease (Ponte Vedra): 295 points
Converted average 20:25.1 · 1-5 spread 1:37.6 · finished 22-23-31-107-112 in the class · This week: 13th of 45 at the New World Fall Spectacular (374).
Lucia Misasi 19:43.9; Katherine Healey 19:47.4; Olivia Dhas 19:55.7; Ava Campbell 21:17.0; Natalia Lotinsky 21:21.5.
Thirteenth at New World with 374, without Ava Campbell, its No. 4: Lucia Misasi 39th in 18:51, Katherine Healey 52nd, Olivia Dhas 54th, Natalia Lotinsky 133rd, Scarlett Daniels 155th. With Campbell placed at 20:34 it scores 391, behind Doral. Third at JAC on October 10. Sixth.
7. Sunlake (Land O'Lakes): 306 points
Converted average 20:22.8 · 1-5 spread 2:23.9 · finished 12-15-40-88-151 in the class
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.
Did not race. Won the South Marion meet on October 10 with 33 and was fourth at the flrunners.com Invitational on October 3, with Ana Cecilia Maia Menard and Ella Pope leading. Seventh: it sits behind Nease on the figures, and Doral moves past both by beating Nease.
8. Boone (Orlando): 356 points
Converted average 20:37.6 · 1-5 spread 2:16.3 · finished 19-49-54-78-156 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 and the West Orange Invitational on September 26 with 41, Anne Vanos leading. Holds eighth.
9. Hagerty (Oviedo): 457 points
Converted average 21:02.0 · 1-5 spread 1:14.0 · finished 50-75-84-108-140 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, with Madison Thompson leading. Holds ninth.
10. Beachside (St. Johns): 478 points
Converted average 20:57.4 · 1-5 spread 2:07.5 · finished 32-34-98-135-179 in the class · This week: 15th of 45 at the New World Fall Spectacular (427).
Amelia Sipkovsky 19:56.5; Lilly Potts 19:58.6; Meghana Reddy 21:10.8; Hanna Antonelli 21:36.9; Christina Haven 22:04.0.
Fifteenth at New World with 427: Amelia Sipkovsky 30th in 18:40, Lilly Potts 40th, Meghana Reddy 90th, Hanna Antonelli 143rd, Madison Dubsky 182nd. Fourth at Bale-N-Trail on September 26. New to the ten.
Just missed
Lake Mary did not race and is 11th; it was sixth at the flrunners.com Invitational on October 3. Buchholz (Gainesville), tenth last week, was 22nd at New World with 677 without Valeria Beaver, its No. 1; with Beaver placed at 19:48 it scores 636, still well behind Beachside, and it is 12th. Plant (Tampa), with Katherine Eudaly, has not raced its varsity since September 19 and is 13th.
Where the virtual race disagrees with this list
- Creekside over Spanish River: 329 to 359 at the New World Fall Spectacular, scored at full strength.
- Doral Academy over Nease: 387 to 391 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 her 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 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; 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 her 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.
- Nease and Buchholz are ranked on their full-strength New World scores: Ava Campbell went in at 20:34 and Valeria Beaver at 19:48.
- Sunlake, Boone, Hagerty and Lake Mary 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.
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