Madison Muller won Venice for five wins in five starts, Alba Antunez-Perez was the second Floridian in the Great American Race of Champions, and Avery Hartley stays in the Class 4A top ten after an off day at Speziale.
Florida Class 4A girls cross country through seven weeks: August 21-October 3, 2026
Madison Muller of Riverview won the Venice Invitational by 96 seconds in 18:41.8: five starts, five wins. Alba Antunez-Perez of Spanish River was the second Florida girl across in the COROS Race of Champions at the Great American XC Festival in North Carolina, 32nd in 18:05.0. Eva McMenemy-Hoang of Viera won the Race of Champions at the flrunners.com Invitational.
Avery Hartley of Bartram Trail won Bale-N-Trail a week ago, then ran 21:17.4 at Speziale on Saturday without a teammate near her. We are calling it an off day and keeping her sixth, the same call as on the statewide list. Lola Jackson and Harmony Holland of Niceville beat her at the Southern Showcase on September 19, and they sit right behind her.
A runner is ranked on her whole season, with the most recent race counting most, and a race she won never counts against her. This is data plus judgment, and we will miss somebody along the way. How we sorted everybody out is at the bottom.
The statewide lists: week 7 girls top 10 and week 7 boys top 10. Last week's version of this list is here. The other class lists this week: 4A boys, 1A girls, 2A girls, 3A girls.
1. Madison Muller, Riverview (Sarasota), Jr.
Won the Venice Invitational on Saturday in 18:41.8, 96 seconds ahead of Kayla Hawk of Parrish. Five starts, five wins. First statewide.
2. Natalia Gaona-Zelaya, Wiregrass Ranch, Sr.
Did not race. Won the Stampede Sprint on September 26 in 17:34.6, five starts and five wins. Third statewide.
3. Arabella Duffell, Lake Nona, Jr.
Did not race. Second of 271 at PR'ville in Huntsville on September 26 in 17:33.5. Fourth statewide.
4. Katherine Eudaly, Plant, Jr.
Did not race. Won the North Port Invite on September 19 in 17:37.3 by 46 seconds. Fifth statewide.
5. Alba Antunez-Perez, Spanish River, Sr.
Thirty-second of 324 in the Great American Race of Champions in 18:05.0, within two seconds of her best and the second Florida girl across. Won the Spanish River Race of Champions on September 18. Eighth statewide.
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6. Avery Hartley, Bartram Trail, So.
Won the Bale-N-Trail Elite race on September 26 in 18:17.5, ahead of Eva Delaney. Eleventh at Speziale on Saturday in 21:17.4, almost three minutes slower. Jackson and Holland beat her at the Showcase; keeping her above them is our call, the same one as on the statewide list, where she is tenth.
7. Lola Jackson, Niceville, Fr.
Second at the Wildcat Invitational on Saturday in 20:34.0, crossing the line with her teammate Anais Almonte as Niceville swept the top three. Eleventh at the Southern Showcase on September 19 in 18:56.9, ahead of Holland and Hartley. A freshman.
8. Harmony Holland, Niceville, Jr.
Did not race. Twelfth at the Showcase on September 19 in 18:58.2, behind Jackson and ahead of Hartley.
9. Eva McMenemy-Hoang, Viera, Sr.
Won the flrunners.com Race of Champions on Saturday in 18:53.3, ahead of Emma Wilkinson and Emma-Claire Tanenbaum. Second at Astronaut and fourth at Rockledge in September.
10. Elise Brown, St. Thomas Aquinas, So.
Did not race. Won King of the Hill on September 10 in 19:15.7. A sophomore.
Just missed
Eva Delaney (Creekside, So.) was second at Bale-N-Trail on September 26 in 18:19.0, behind Hartley. Peyton Cerasi (Matanzas, Jr.) won DeLand in September. Avalyn Thompson (Lake Brantley, Sr.) has won all three of her races. Nicole Lewis (Doral Academy, Jr.) was second to Antunez-Perez in the Spanish River Race of Champions. Analyse St John (Lennard, Fr.) won the Don Bishop Invitational on Saturday in 19:23.0.
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How we ranked them
- Courses do not all run the same speed, so we do not compare raw times. Cecil Field is the yardstick; for other meets we use runners who raced both that course and last year's state meet to work out what a time was worth.
- A runner is ranked 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 is never allowed to lower that figure.
- A head-to-head loss stands until the two runners meet again, whatever either has run elsewhere since. Where results form a loop, the most recent meeting decides. A runner who beat someone ranked above her moves up to that runner's spot.
- New this week: head-to-heads from September 12 and earlier no longer order runners. Those races are three weeks and more old, and kids have changed since. The times still count in the season figure.
- A missed week is never held against anyone.
- Grades and classes are 2026-27, resolved against the FHSAA classification documents.
- Hartley sixth, above Jackson and Holland, who beat her at the Showcase, is a call, the same as on the statewide list.
- Jackson and her teammate Anais Almonte crossed the line together at the Wildcat Invitational; that is not a race between them.
Every result behind this list is in the rankings section, and the full weekend is in the weekend recap.
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