The girls ten holds through conference week: Niceville and Chiles won titles, Creekside lost to Beachside with four of its top five sitting out, and Bishop Kenny's Middleburg race is scored as a workout.
Florida girls cross country team rankings through ten weeks: August 21-October 24, 2026
This was conference and county championship week. No two teams in the ten met at full strength, so New World, on October 17, is still the newest meeting for nearly every pair, and the order holds. Below is what each team did this week.
Bolles (2A), Carrollton (2A), Bishop Moore (3A), Episcopal (2A), Lourdes (3A) and Ponte Vedra (3A) did not race. Niceville (4A) won Okaloosa County with 19 and Chiles (3A) won the Suwannee Invitational with 28, ahead of Buchholz.
Two results needed a call, both at the Middleburg Bronco Classic on Saturday. Creekside (4A) was second to Beachside, 44 to 70, but ran without Eva Delaney, Emma Godfrey, Ivey Edgell and Hadleigh Roberts, four of its top five; its next group won the JV race. With them in, it beats Beachside easily, so Creekside holds sixth. Bishop Kenny (3A) was fifth with 170. Camila Giles won the race, but the rest of its varsity ran more than three minutes slower than at New World a week earlier, and two of its New World scorers, Emily and Grace McEnany, ran the JV race. That was a training day, not a race, and we have not scored it. Bishop Kenny holds tenth.
How this works, briefly. Every runner is scored on her whole season, with the most recent race counting most. A school's five best runners on that basis go into one virtual race with every other school's, scored the way cross country is scored. Times are leveled to Cecil Field through the runners who ran both the 2025 state meet and the course in question. A meet a team won is never allowed to lower its figure. Where two teams have raced each other and neither has raced its top runners since, the result on the grass orders them. A team that has not raced at all is projected from its returning five.
Points climb as more teams enter and are not comparable to last week's; compare the order and the averages. The averages below are converted season figures; the times next to each runner are her season figures in Cecil Field terms. Out-of-state entries are excluded, and IMG Academy competes as an FHSAA Independent outside the state series. The individual list is here, the boys' team list is here.
1. Bolles (Jacksonville), 2A: 448 points
Season average 19:56.4 · 1-5 spread 1:42.1
Sofie Stam 18:49.8; Palmer Edwards 19:42.1; Kavya Patel 20:08.5; Peyton Hoover 20:29.7; Valentina Bouras 20:31.9.
Did not race. Second at New World with 208, the first Florida team in the series: Sofie Stam ninth in 17:56, Palmer Edwards 28th, Kavya Patel 47th. At full strength it is 218 to Carrollton's 223. First.
2. Carrollton (Miami), 2A: 431 points
Season average 19:59.8 · 1-5 spread 1:12.6
Daniela Hernandez 19:12.9; Gabriella Socarras 19:51.0; Eva Martinez-Lejarza 20:05.3; Paola De La Iglesia 20:24.5; Antonia Beltran 20:25.5.
Did not race. Fifth at New World with 311 without Daniela Hernandez, its No. 1; with her placed at 18:30, it scores 223 at full strength. Second.
3. Niceville, 4A: 395 points
Season average 19:57.4 · 1-5 spread 0:48.3
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.
Won the Okaloosa County Championship on October 20 with 19: Harmony Holland first in 18:58.2, Sophie Clapp third, Lola Jackson fourth, Carolina Ramos fifth, Riley Marise sixth. Third at New World with 227. Third.
4. Chiles (Tallahassee), 3A: 423 points
Season average 19:56.8 · 1-5 spread 1:39.2
Emma-Claire Tanenbaum 19:04.2; Kaia Ables 19:39.4; Charlotte Sikes 20:05.7; Chloe Molen 20:11.5; Madeline Brockmeier 20:43.3.
Won the Suwannee Invitational on October 24 with 28, 12 points ahead of Buchholz, without Emma-Claire Tanenbaum, its No. 1: Kaia Ables won in 18:52.1, Chloe Molen was second, Madeline Brockmeier fourth, Katherine Baker 10th and Savannah Stanley 11th. Fourth at New World with 267. Fourth.
5. Bishop Moore (Orlando), 3A: 457 points
Season average 19:45.4 · 1-5 spread 2:58.6
Annabella Tomasic 17:56.2; Ella Valentina Valenzuela 19:29.3; Caroline Byrnes 20:12.8; Lauren Susnis 20:14.0; Carolyn Susnis 20:54.8.
Did not race. Eleventh at New World with 360 and six finishers, without Carolyn Susnis; at full strength it scores 288. Annabella Tomasic was second in 17:04. Fifth.
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6. Creekside (St. Johns), 4A: 566 points
Season average 20:07.0 · 1-5 spread 2:05.2
Eva Delaney 19:01.1; Emma Godfrey 19:36.9; Ivey Edgell 20:04.9; Hadleigh Roberts 20:45.9; Elena Schultz 21:06.3.
Second at the Middleburg Bronco Classic on October 24 with 70, behind Beachside's 44, without Eva Delaney, Emma Godfrey, Ivey Edgell and Hadleigh Roberts: Elena Schultz 10th in 20:15.9, Grace Dashiell 11th, Kaitlyn Chapman 14th, Emily Rice 15th, Abigail Clark 23rd. Its next group took the first four places in the JV race. At full strength it is well clear of Beachside, which is 23rd on the season figures. Sixth at New World with 315. Sixth.
7. Episcopal (Jacksonville), 2A: 365 points
Season average 19:51.3 · 1-5 spread 1:24.0
Stella Krueger 19:27.9; Holland McKinney 19:29.4; Whitney Morgan 19:38.6; Kate Brice 19:48.5; Graziana Gowdy 20:51.9.
Did not race. Won the JAC Invitational on October 10 with 43, ahead of Bishop Kenny and Nease. Holds seventh, behind Creekside, which beat it by one point at Katie Caples on September 19, and ahead of Bishop Kenny.
8. Lourdes (Miami), 3A: 828 points
Season average 20:33.7 · 1-5 spread 1:27.8
Sofia Jimenez 19:51.2; Alessandra Perez 20:09.0; Marisa Mantecon 20:12.5; Ava Barrera 21:16.6; Emilia Volz 21:19.0.
Did not race. Seventh at New World with 322: Alessandra Perez 35th in 18:47, Sofia Jimenez 45th, Marisa Mantecon 57th. Won the 305 Classic on October 9. Eighth.
9. Ponte Vedra, 3A: 683 points
Season average 20:22.6 · 1-5 spread 1:40.9
Piper Ross 19:23.9; Olivia Kaminsky 20:08.5; Savannah LaVasser 20:24.5; Rio Ossi 20:51.6; Cailyn Douglas 21:04.8.
Did not race. Eighth at New World with 326, four points behind Lourdes: Piper Ross 25th in 18:36, Olivia Kaminsky 58th, Savannah LaVasser 73rd. Ninth.
10. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville), 3A: 907 points
Season average 20:29.6 · 1-5 spread 2:43.5
Camila Giles 18:52.9; Jillian Jakab 20:13.6; Taylor Lawhon 20:30.0; Rebecca McEnany 21:15.1; Alexandra Lumpkin 21:36.4.
Fifth at the Middleburg Bronco Classic on October 24 with 170. Camila Giles won in 19:07.2, but Jillian Jakab (22:33.5), Rebecca McEnany (23:06.7) and Alexandra Lumpkin (23:46.4) each ran more than three minutes slower than at New World a week earlier, and Emily and Grace McEnany, who scored for it at New World, ran the JV race. We have scored it as a workout. At full strength on New World, with Giles placed at 18:10, it is 343. Tenth.
Just missed
Spanish River (4A) won the Boca City Championship with a perfect 15, Alba Antunez-Perez leading a one-to-five sweep, and is first out. St. Thomas Aquinas (4A) won its BCAA meet at Quiet Waters with 15, Elise Brown first in 19:10.4. Vanguard (3A) took the first six places at the Marion Athletic Conference Championships for its 24th straight title (MAC recap). Beachside (4A) won Middleburg with 44, with Lilly Potts and Amelia Sipkovsky second and third. Doral Academy (4A) and Nease (4A) did not race. IMG Academy is an FHSAA Independent and is not part of this list.
Where the virtual race disagrees with this list
- Creekside is ranked on its full lineup. It lost to Beachside at Middleburg with four of its top five out; with them in, it wins.
- Bishop Kenny's Middleburg race is scored as a workout. Six of its top seven ran, but everyone except Giles was more than three minutes off their New World times. Bishop Kenny stays on its full-strength New World score.
- Carrollton, Bishop Moore and Bishop Kenny are still ranked on last week's full-strength New World scores, with their missing runners placed conservatively.
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Method notes
- Where two teams have met at full strength, the newest meeting orders them. New World on October 17 is still that meeting for every pair in the ten.
- Full-strength scoring from last week stands: for each team missing one of its season top five at New World, the missing runner went back in at her season figure on that course plus 19 seconds. Those are estimates, not results, and a team moves the next time it races at full strength.
- A race where a team's runners are clearly running together well off their times is scored as a workout, as Buchholz's HMT race was in week 8. That applies to Bishop Kenny this week.
- A team only counts as having raced when at least three of its season top seven ran. Teams that did not race hold their places.
- Head-to-head results from September 12 and earlier no longer order teams. The times still count in the figures.
- 40 meets from October 18 to 24 are new in the numbers, most of them conference and county championships. Middle school and elementary races and races shorter than 5K are left out.
- Out-of-state teams are left out of the course readings and the virtual race. IMG Academy is an FHSAA Independent.
- Points are a virtual-race sum and move every time a new file enters the pool; compare order and averages, not points, week to week.
The individual list is here; last week's team list is here.
Featured image: a Bolles runner in the Girls Elite race at New World, October 17, 2026. Photo by Darrin DeTorres.