Niceville swept the Wildcat Invitational and stays first, Bishop Moore holds second over Bishop Kenny, Chiles won the flrunners.com Race of Champions by 56 points, and Ponte Vedra comes into the ten after winning Speziale.
Florida girls cross country team rankings through seven weeks: August 21-October 3, 2026
Chiles (3A) won the Race of Champions at the flrunners.com Invitational in Lakeland with 48, 56 points ahead of Lourdes. Emma-Claire Tanenbaum was third, Kaia Ables ninth, and Charlotte Sikes and Chloe Molen were inside the top 14. Chiles stays fourth: it has not raced Niceville or the varsities of Bishop Moore and Bishop Kenny since early September.
Niceville (4A) swept the Wildcat Invitational in Pensacola and stays first. Bishop Moore (3A) holds second over Bishop Kenny (3A), which is ahead of Moore in the virtual race but lost to it 62 to 63 at Katie Caples on September 19. Kenny's top seven have not raced since.
Episcopal (2A) finished 17th of 41 in the Great American Race of Champions with 553, eight points ahead of Spanish River (4A), and Episcopal stays above Spanish River. Ponte Vedra (3A) won its own Speziale meet with 30, 16 points ahead of Vanguard (3A), and comes in at ninth. Vanguard ran without its No. 2, Cierra Mills, and with her the front of the race would have been close. We are keeping Ponte Vedra ahead as our call, and the reason is the fifth runner. Ponte Vedra's No. 5, Layann Issa, ran 21:11.5; Vanguard's No. 5, Anya Bryniarski, ran 22:20.0, 69 seconds back, and all seven Ponte Vedra runners finished ahead of her. As the fields get bigger in October, the fifth spot decides more team races, and that is too much daylight to rank Vanguard ahead. Bolles and St. Thomas Aquinas drop out.
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. Niceville, 4A: 288 points
Season average 19:44.2 · 1-5 spread 0:20.5
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 at the University of West Florida with 18. Anais Almonte and Lola Jackson, both freshmen, crossed together in 20:34.0, and Sophie Clapp was third. The tightest top five in the ten on the season: 20.5 seconds from first to fifth.
2. Bishop Moore (Orlando), 3A: 404 points
Season average 19:34.8 · 1-5 spread 3:10.3
Annabella Tomasic 17:43.6; Ella Valentina Valenzuela 19:20.0; Lauren Susnis 19:42.3; Caroline Byrnes 20:14.3; Carolyn Susnis 20:53.9.
Did not race. Won the Hagerty Invitational on September 26 with 24, Annabella Tomasic first by 96 seconds in 17:24.8 and Ella Valentina Valenzuela second. Beat Bishop Kenny 62 to 63 at Katie Caples on September 19, and that is why Moore is second.
3. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville), 3A: 346 points
Season average 19:44.4 · 1-5 spread 1:27.4
Camila Giles 18:52.9; Jillian Jakab 19:13.8; Taylor Lawhon 20:05.9; Rebecca McEnany 20:08.9; Alexandra Lumpkin 20:20.4.
Its varsity did not race; the Kenny girls who were seventh at Speziale were a second group. Camila Giles and Jillian Jakab lead the five. Second in the virtual race, third here behind the team that beat it at Katie Caples.
4. Chiles (Tallahassee), 3A: 396 points
Season average 19:47.0 · 1-5 spread 1:41.0
Kaia Ables 18:59.0; Emma-Claire Tanenbaum 19:00.3; Chloe Molen 20:03.3; Charlotte Sikes 20:12.1; Madeline Brockmeier 20:40.0.
Won the flrunners.com Race of Champions with 48, ahead of Lourdes (104), Berkeley Prep (179) and Sunlake (184): Emma-Claire Tanenbaum third in 19:04.5, Kaia Ables ninth, Charlotte Sikes and Chloe Molen in the top 14. A win never lowers a team's figure, so this one is listed and not counted against them.
5. Carrollton (Miami), 2A: 452 points
Season average 19:59.7 · 1-5 spread 1:13.9
Daniela Hernandez 19:12.9; Gabriella Socarras 19:49.2; Eva Martinez-Lejarza 20:08.4; Paola De La Iglesia 20:21.3; Antonia Beltran 20:26.8.
Did not race. Daniela Hernandez and Gabriella Socarras lead the five. Fifth in the virtual race and fifth here.
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6. Episcopal (Jacksonville), 2A: 494 points
Season average 20:04.9 · 1-5 spread 1:18.6
Stella Krueger 19:33.3; Holland McKinney 19:40.0; Whitney Morgan 20:04.8; Kate Brice 20:14.5; Graziana Gowdy 20:51.9.
Seventeenth of 41 in the Great American Race of Champions with 553, eight points ahead of Spanish River: Stella Krueger 82nd in 19:13.9, Whitney Morgan 103rd, Holland McKinney 112th. Sixth, behind Carrollton, which it has not raced.
7. Creekside (St. Johns), 4A: 506 points
Season average 19:58.7 · 1-5 spread 2:15.5
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.
Its varsity did not race; the Creekside girls fourth at Speziale were a second group. Eva Delaney and Emma Godfrey lead the five.
8. Spanish River (Boca Raton), 4A: 518 points
Season average 19:55.9 · 1-5 spread 2:15.9
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. Alba Antunez-Perez was 32nd in 18:05.0, the second Florida girl across.
9. Ponte Vedra, 3A: 679 points
Season average 20:19.3 · 1-5 spread 1:49.9
Piper Ross 19:16.0; Olivia Kaminsky 20:09.1; Savannah Lavasser 20:24.7; Rio Ossi 20:41.2; Mary Chase Fender 21:05.8.
Won its own Craig Speziale Invitational with 30, taking places two, four, seven, eight and nine: Piper Ross second in 19:23.46, Olivia Kaminsky fourth, and all seven Ponte Vedra runners ahead of Vanguard's fifth. New to the ten, directly above Vanguard.
10. Vanguard (Ocala), 3A: 627 points
Season average 19:50.4 · 1-5 spread 3:34.4
Lyla Hallick 18:06.8; Cierra Mills 19:17.5; Reese Cartwright 19:19.2; Annalise Hallick 20:47.5; Natalie Lammens 21:41.2.
Second at Speziale with 46, without Cierra Mills, its No. 2. Lyla Hallick won by 43 seconds and Reese Cartwright was third. Tenth, behind Ponte Vedra on our call.
Just missed
Bolles (2A) did not race its varsity and is 11th. St. Thomas Aquinas (4A) won the Week 5 meet at Markham Park with 19 against two other teams; 12th. Lourdes (3A) was second to Chiles at flrunners.com with 104 and is 13th. Sunlake (4A) was fourth there. IMG Academy was 13th of 41 in the Great American Race of Champions with 468, ahead of Episcopal and Spanish River; it is an FHSAA Independent and is not part of this list.
Where the virtual race disagrees with this list
- Ponte Vedra over Vanguard: 1st and 2nd at the Craig Speziale Invitational, and neither has raced its top runners since.
- Lourdes over Sunlake: 2nd and 4th at the flrunners.com Invitational, and neither has raced its top runners since.
- Bishop Moore over Bishop Kenny: Bishop Moore beat Bishop Kenny 62 to 63 at Katie Caples on Sept. 19, and Kenny has not raced its top seven since; its girls at Speziale on Saturday were a second group.
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Method notes
- A team only counts as having raced when at least three of its season top seven ran. Bishop Kenny's and Creekside's girls at Speziale were second groups and do not count as varsity meetings.
- Ponte Vedra over Vanguard is our call: Vanguard ran Speziale without its No. 2, Cierra Mills, but Ponte Vedra's No. 5 finished 69 seconds ahead of Vanguard's, and all seven Ponte Vedra runners were ahead of Vanguard's fifth. The bigger the field, the more the fifth runner matters.
- Head-to-head results from September 12 and earlier no longer order teams. The times still count in the figures.
- Out-of-state teams at the Great American XC Festival and the Alexander Invitational are left out of the course readings and the virtual race.
- The Fletcher Nor'Eastern Classic is not rated this week: its runners finished 5 to 9 minutes slower than their usual 5K times, so it was not a standard 5K.
- Sixteen meets from September 22 to 26 that had not been in our numbers were added this week, among them the Hagerty Invitational and the NW Area Girls Championship.
- 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; every result from Saturday is in the weekend recap.
Featured image: the schools' own logos, credited to Niceville High School, Bishop Moore Catholic High School (Orlando) and Bishop Kenny High School (Jacksonville).