Spanish River Invitational Preview: A Course Gets Rick Rothman's Name, and We Ran All Eight Races on Paper

44th Spanish River XC Invitational. Burt Aaronson South County Regional Park, Boca Raton. Hosted by Spanish River High School. Friday, September 18: middle school boys 3K 4:50 p.m., middle school girls 3K 5:15, high school boys 1A/2A 5:45, high school girls 1A/2A 6:15. Saturday, September 19: Race of Champions boys 7:40 a.m., Race of Champions girls 8:05, high school boys 3A/4A 8:35, high school girls 3A/4A 9:05. The course is dedicated at 9 a.m. Saturday. Times are from the meet's information page and are subject to change.

Updated Wednesday night. Belen Jesuit's varsity is entered at the Southern Showcase in Huntsville, Alabama, the same Saturday morning, so its second seven comes to Boca. The Race of Champions boys' race below is re-scored on that group, and the nine Florida programs headed to Huntsville have their own preview.

On Saturday morning, between the Race of Champions and the 3A/4A races, Palm Beach County will pull the cover off a sign, and the course at South County Regional Park will officially be the Rick Rothman Cross Country Course.

Rothman founded this meet 44 years ago, designed and built the course in 2004, and coached Spanish River to seven girls' state championships and more than 150 major titles along the way. He has coached U.S. national teams, coached at FAU, and last year went into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame to go with the four Florida halls of fame that already had him. "This has been my dream since I came to Palm Beach County in 1981," he said when the county announced it. The kids who race Saturday will be the first to run a course that carries his name.

They will do it in front of one of the biggest fields in the state. More than a hundred high school programs are entered across the two days, and nearly fifty middle school teams and clubs, from Key West to Winter Park. Three of the ten teams in our statewide boys top ten are here, and the No. 1 team, Belen Jesuit, sends its second seven while its varsity races in Alabama. So are the top two girls teams in Class 2A, the top girls team in 1A, and the host, which is in the Class 4A top ten on both sides.

We took every program on the entry list and ran each of the meet's races through our Race Simulator, split the way the meet splits them: middle school, 1A/2A, 3A/4A, and the Race of Champions. Every runner is entered on the best thing he or she has run this fall, leveled to a common course. Top seven per team, five score, sixth and seventh displace. The Race of Champions is invitation only; the meet's invite list, 28 boys teams and 26 girls teams, is what is scored there, and the 1A/2A and 3A/4A races are scored without the invited schools, since their varsity will be in the 7:40 and 8:05 races. Holy Trinity is on the invite list marked "TBD," so it is scored in the Race of Champions and mentioned in the Friday races it could run instead. Entry lists name teams, not athletes, so every runner below is "if he runs."

About the times. Every mark below is the time the runner actually ran, and where. The last column is what that time is worth at Cecil Field, the reference course for high school, or at Jim Ryun for the middle school 3K, and that is the number the scoring uses. A team needs five runners with a 2026 mark to score; the teams without five are listed after each race. The simulator does not project, so nobody is entered on last November. A dagger marks a time from a course the simulator could not price, entered raw; that matters most for the Broward schools, whose weekday BCAA meets at Heritage Park and Tradewinds run slow and cannot yet be rated, so those teams read worse here than they are.

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Friday, 4:50 p.m. Middle school boys: Ransom or Belen, depending on the clock

This one flips with the toggle. On leveled times Ransom Everglades scores 28 with Nicolas Adler (8th) and Ruslan Lefrak (8th) first and second in the field, both on runs from last week's Palmer Trinity middle school invitational, a course the simulator reads as more than a minute slow. On best times Belen Jesuit scores 18 and puts Jake Rubiera (8th), Aiden Cruz (7th) and Diego Ferer (7th) first, second and third on their Horse Park times, 10:25.7, 10:28.1 and 10:38.4. The simulator reads the Horse Park as a fast course for middle school boys, so those marks give back time, and Ransom's Palmer Trinity marks gain it. Belen's five has two sixth graders in it; Ransom's front two are eighth graders.

Boca Warriors Track Club has the fastest leveled marks in the field after Ransom's two, Banks Stroup (7th) fourth on his 10:44.7 at Nights of Thunder and Logan Minors (7th) and Brayden Milek (7th) inside the first ten, and no fourth or fifth runner with a 3K mark, so they place and do not score. Dylan Leuck of Milers Running Club ran 10:42.7 at Nights of Thunder and is third leveled. South Florida HEAT, Miami Country Day and NSU University are the next three teams, all with five.

The name on the meet's own record board is worth a word. Willie Mckenney set the 3K course record here last year, 10:00.00, running for Genesis. He is a freshman at American Heritage Plantation now, and he is in the 3A/4A race on Saturday, not this one.

Not scored, middle school boys. AIE Charter has four boys with a 3K mark, Boca Warriors three, and Benjamin, Doral Academy and More Runners Corp one each. Most of the rest of the entry list has not run a middle school 3K that is in our database this fall, which is why 37 entered programs produce nine scoring teams: American Heritage Delray, Boca Raton Christian, Coral Springs Charter, Downtown Doral, Gulliver Prep, iMater, Key Largo, Lake Worth Christian, Miami Arts, Palm Beach Elite, Parkway Christian, Pine Crest, Rosarian, Sheridan Hills, both Somerset Academies, Southwest Florida Christian, St. Andrew's, St. Ann, St. Vincent Ferrer, Stride Stars, The Greene School and True North. Basilica School, Gulliver Prep Elementary, Pine Crest Boca Raton, Ruth K. Broad Bay Harbor, Sapps Elite, SLAM Boca Raton, Spanish River Christian, St. Mark's Episcopal and Treasure Coast Classical are not in our database at all.

Friday, 5:15 p.m. Middle school girls: Boca Warriors, and Boucher up front

Boca Warriors Track Club scores 22, placing 1-2-4-7-8, and wins by more than 40 either way. Camila Boucher (8th), the No. 8 middle school girl in Florida on our list, is first in the field on the 11:11.3 she ran at Nights of Thunder, and Arielle Gorlovetzky is second on a Jim Ryun run. This is the club's home meet, and the girls' 3K record here, 11:00.97, belongs to a Boca Warrior, Makaela Morilla, who is on Spanish River's roster now.

Valentina Sarcos (8th), No. 9 on the same list, is the one girl in the field with a real shot at Boucher, and she shows up twice in the table. She won the Palmer Trinity middle school invitational last Wednesday in 12:27.4, listed under Palmer Trinity, and ran 11:12.5 for third at the Horse Park listed under Miami Vice Project, and both are entered. She will run for one of them. Ransom Everglades is second with 63 on a five inside two minutes, Palmer Trinity third, Carrollton fourth.

Not scored, middle school girls. Milers Running Club, NSU University and South Florida HEAT have four girls with a mark, AIE Charter three, Riviera Prep two, Doral Academy and Miami Vice Project one. The rest of the entry list is in the same spot as the boys: no middle school 3K in our database this season.

Friday, 5:45 p.m. 1A/2A boys: Southwest Florida Christian, Pine Crest, and Francis up front

Six 1A/2A boys teams are in Saturday's Race of Champions instead of this race: Gulliver Prep, Atlantic Christian, Holy Trinity, King's Academy, Palmer Trinity and American Heritage Delray. Scored without them, Southwest Florida Christian 1A, fifth in the class on our list, wins with 135 on a 56-second spread, Nash Akers (So.) first for the team and then four inside eight places of each other. Pine Crest 2A, eighth in 2A, is second at 157 with freshman Emilio Tobon and two more inside the first seventeen. On best times it is the same two, Southwest Florida Christian 71 and Pine Crest 120, with Wellen Park third; leveled, Wellen Park drops to 11th because its marks come from the two North Port courses, which the simulator reads as fast and takes time away from.

Third is a coin flip: Calvary Christian 2A 244 on a 43-second spread, the tightest five in the race, and Sheridan Hills Christian 1A 245 on three boys in the first 21 and a long wait. FAU High 2A is 257, South Florida HEAT 1A, eighth in 1A and the Kings Academy winner, 268.

Benjamin Francis (Highlands Christian 1A, Sr.), the No. 8 boy in 1A, is first in the field on the 16:53.4 he ran for fourth at the Dr. Garcia Bulldog Invite, worth about 16:09 on a course the simulator reads as slow, and Highlands Christian has four boys with a mark, so he runs for himself. Lucian Burns (Marathon 1A, So.), No. 7, is second on his FNU run. Michael Gomez (FAU High 2A, Sr.), No. 7 in 2A, is fourth leveled and first on best times, 16:22.8 from Pine Crest; he won Kings Academy by 45 seconds last Saturday. John Curley (St. Edward's 1A, Sr.) and Lucas Latimore (Westminster Academy 1A, Sr.) are next.

One mark in the top five needs a flag. Lukas Arrojo (True North 1A, So.) is entered on a 19:09.5 from the Palmer Trinity high school meet in August, which the simulator reads as more than two and a half minutes slow, so it is worth 16:26 to the machine. His best actual time is 17:52.5 at King of the Hill. Palmer Trinity's course is hard, but that rating rests on a handful of runners and it is the softest number in this race.

Holy Trinity is listed for the Race of Champions as "TBD." If its boys run this race instead, they are the favorites on these numbers: the team averaged ten seconds a man faster than Southwest Florida Christian this fall.

Not scored, 1A/2A boys. Highlands Christian has four boys with a mark, Riviera Prep two, The Greene School one. Pinecrest Prep and SLAM Boca Raton are on the entry list and not in our database.

Friday, 6:15 p.m. 1A/2A girls: Ransom by a lot leveled, by a point on the clock

Nine 1A/2A girls teams go to the Race of Champions, Carrollton, Holy Trinity, Cardinal Newman, Gulliver, King's Academy, Palmer Trinity, Atlantic Christian, John Carroll and Coral Springs Charter, and the race that is left has one clear favorite and one argument. Ransom Everglades 2A, third in the class on our list, scores 42 with four girls in a row, fourth through eighth: freshman Julianna Hart on her Astronaut run, then seventh grader London Ross, Gillian Carvalho (So.) and Alessandra Dominguez (So.). Westminster Academy 1A is second at 89 with Noelle Richardson (Sr.) second in the field on 19:30.9 from Pine Crest.

The argument is the toggle. Two of Ransom's four, Ross and Dominguez, are entered on times from the Palmer Trinity high school meet, 23:21 and 23:33, which the simulator reads as more than two and a half minutes slow; leveled they are worth 20:04 and 20:16. On best times Ross is a 21:07 and Dominguez a 23:33, and the race is Ransom 79, Westminster Academy 80. One point. The Palmer Trinity rating is the softest one in this preview, and it decides how far apart these two really are.

Claire Chanon (Cardinal Gibbons 2A, Jr.) and Giuliana Serra (Cardinal Gibbons 2A, Sr.), No. 6 and No. 8 in the class, are first and third in the field on their Pine Crest runs, 19:27.6 and 19:34.8, either way you score it. Cardinal Gibbons is fourth as a team, because after those two the next three are 47th, 49th and 63rd, two of them on BCAA times from Markham Park on Tuesday that the simulator cannot price. Calvary Christian 2A, tenth in 2A, is third at 152 and Southwest Florida Christian 1A, fourth in 1A, fifth at 184; Grace Dorn (South Florida HEAT 1A, So.) is fifth in the field.

If Holy Trinity's girls run this race instead of the Race of Champions, they are the favorites here too, on Taylor Geraghty's Astronaut run and a five that averaged ten seconds better than Ransom's.

Not scored, 1A/2A girls. Pine Crest and Pine School have four girls with a mark, American Heritage Delray and Sheridan Hills three, Lake Worth Christian and North Broward Prep two, Highlands Christian, Somerset Canyons and The Greene School one, Riviera Prep none. Basilica School is on the entry list and not in our database.

Saturday, 7:40 a.m. Race of Champions boys: Columbus and the host, dead even, with Belen's varsity in Alabama

Twenty-eight teams, seven of them from the 1A/2A list, and one asterisk that changes everything. Belen Jesuit's varsity, the No. 1 team in Florida, is on the entry list for the Southern Showcase in Huntsville the same morning. What comes to Boca is its second seven, so Belen is scored here on the runners behind its first seven, and the race that was Belen by a hundred is now a tie at the top.

Columbus 4A and Spanish River 4A both score 107, and Columbus takes it on its sixth man. Columbus goes 6-15-26-28-32 on a 46-second spread; Spanish River goes 10-12-14-24-47, three inside the first fourteen and a wait to the fifth. Doral Academy 4A is 133, Jupiter 4A 135, Gulliver Prep 2A 152, and Belen's second seven sixth at 158 on a 28-second spread, the tightest of any full team in the race: Andrew Lima (So.) on 16:39.6 from the Horse Park, Nicolas Garcia (Jr.), Santiago Muniz (Jr.), freshman Gabriel Perez, Daniel Garmendia (So.). That group averages under 17:00 leveled, which would put it inside the 3A top ten on its own. On best times it is Doral 74, Belen 96, Gulliver 107, Columbus 122, Spanish River 152, because Spanish River and Jupiter are entered on the Dr. Garcia course, which the simulator reads as slow, and Doral, Gulliver and Belen on the Horse Park, which it reads as a shade fast.

The host is the story of that group. Spanish River is eighth in 4A and first out of the statewide ten, and is entered on the Dr. Garcia Bulldog Invite two weeks ago, which it won: freshman Will Irby first for the team in 17:05.0, then Erik Moss (Jr.), Spencer Singerman (Jr.) and Aiden Sandmaier (So.) inside 25 seconds of him, with Colton Langley (Jr.) on his Pine Crest time. It has not raced since. Columbus is sixth in 4A and eighth in Florida, won King of the Hill with 22 last Thursday, and Nicholas Garcia (Jr.) won that race out of 339 in 16:43.1. Doral is fifth in 4A and sixth in Florida, has not raced since Ocala, and Martin Fernandez (Sr.), first out of the 4A individual ten, is the best 4A runner in the race. Gulliver is second in 2A and ninth in Florida on Kayaan Ghaffar (Jr.), Adrian Iziliaev (Sr.) and Emilio Perez-Garcia (Sr.), all on Horse Park times, and sent a second group to King of the Hill. Columbus, Doral and Gulliver are all ranked above Spanish River, none of them has raced Spanish River this fall, and a home win over any of them moves the host. On paper it is a coin flip with Columbus.

Elijah Arterburn (Atlantic Christian 1A, Sr.), the No. 2 boy in 1A, is first in the field on leveled times, on the 16:23.9 he ran to win Dr. Garcia out of 232, worth about 15:40, and the only boy in his class with three rated races, all between 16:16 and 16:24. Willie Mckenney (American Heritage Plantation 3A, Fr.), who set the middle school 3K course record here last year, is second on the 16:42.0 he ran at Dr. Garcia, worth about 15:58. Kevin Aguilar (Mater Lakes 3A, Sr.) is third leveled and first on best times, 16:00.0 from Cecil Field. Fernandez is fourth, Dylan Stacey (Centennial 4A, Jr.) fifth on an Indian River run, Garcia sixth, and Ghaffar, the No. 4 boy in 2A, seventh leveled and third on best times, 16:10.5 to Arterburn's 16:16.9 from Pine Crest. Arterburn and Ghaffar have not raced each other this fall, and now they will. The course record, 14:57.70 by Belen's Adam Margoulas in 2021, and Ryan Pickering's 14:57.67 meet record from 2010 are safe; the two boys in Florida with a shot at either, Armando Cruz and Marcelo Mantecon, will be running in Alabama.

Not scored, Race of Champions boys. Flanagan has no 2026 mark in our database. Every other invited team has five, Belen on its second seven.

Saturday, 8:05 a.m. Race of Champions girls: five teams inside 51 points

Twenty-six teams, ten from the 1A/2A list. This is the closest team race of the weekend on paper. Carrollton 2A 61, Doral Academy 4A 87, Lourdes 3A 90, Holy Trinity 1A 95, St. Thomas Aquinas 4A 112. Five teams, four classes, 51 points. Carrollton wins it on depth, five inside 54 seconds with nobody in the first three; Doral and St. Thomas Aquinas have the front and not the back. On best times the top three is Carrollton 58, Lourdes 82, Doral 83.

Carrollton is second in 2A and ninth in Florida on our list. Daniela Hernandez (Sr.), the No. 4 girl in 2A, ran 19:16.7 for second at Pine Crest and has not raced since; Gabriella Socarras (Sr.), No. 10, ran 19:25.4 at the Horse Park; Eva Martinez-Lejarza (Fr.) is the third. Doral and St. Thomas Aquinas are sixth and fifth in 4A; Lourdes is fifth in 3A. St. Thomas Aquinas beat Lourdes at King of the Hill last Thursday, 32 to 57, with Sofia Jimenez (So.) and Marisa Mantecon (So.) second and third behind Elise Brown, so on the grass that order is the other way from the paper one, and it stands on our lists until they meet again, which is Saturday. Holy Trinity is the No. 1 team in 1A, has won Astronaut and Indian River, and is listed here as "TBD."

Nicole Lewis (Doral Academy 4A, Jr.) is first in the field on 18:43.0 from the Horse Park, and Elise Brown (St. Thomas Aquinas 4A, So.) second on 18:50.0 from Cecil Field, seven seconds apart on the leveled clock. They are seventh and eighth in 4A on our list and have not raced each other this fall; Brown won King of the Hill by 74 seconds last Thursday. Taylor Geraghty (Holy Trinity 1A, 8th grade), the No. 6 girl in 1A, is third on the 19:42.7 she ran for fifth at Astronaut on a slow day, worth about 19:02; on best times she is tenth. Hernandez is fourth, Kendall Parrott (St. Thomas Aquinas 4A, So.) fifth on 19:16.0 from Cecil Field, Madison Chin (Doral Academy 4A, Sr.) sixth, then Lourdes's three in a row at seventh, ninth and tenth with Socarras between them.

Spanish River 4A is seventh at 187, and the projection is the whole team. Spanish River is third in 4A and tenth in Florida on last November's times, because Alba Antunez-Perez (Sr.), the No. 10 girl in 4A, has started twice this fall and not finished either race, and Lailani Levy (So.), Makaela Morilla (So.) and Julia D'Emic (Jr.), the next three on the ranked five, have DNFs at Pine Crest and no finish since. Without them the team is scored on freshman Adriana Perrette, Brooke Thunberg (So.) and Olivia Downes (Jr.). With them, on last November's times, it is a top-three team in this race. Their home meet is a good place to find out. Cardinal Newman 2A, sixth in its class, is sixth here on Tessa Brown (Jr.). Doral over Carrollton is a standing head-to-head on our statewide list, seventh against eighth at the Horse Park; Saturday settles it either way.

Not scored, Race of Champions girls. Dillard has three girls with a 2026 mark, all from BCAA meets the simulator cannot price; Douglas has none. Dillard is the one that matters: sixth in 3A on a projection, with Shynah Collins (So.) at 19:08 from state last fall. Collins has a DNF and no finish this season. If Dillard runs its five, it belongs with the top five.

Saturday, 8:35 a.m. 3A/4A boys: Martin County, Vero Beach, and a wide-open front

Twenty-two of the 3A/4A boys teams are in the Race of Champions, so this race is the other thirty. Scored without the invited teams, Martin County 4A wins with 116 and Vero Beach 4A is four points back at 120, on Antario Berek (Jr.) second in the field and then a wait until 18th. West Broward 4A is 149 on BCAA times the simulator cannot price, and it is second on the clock; Winter Park 4A, down from Orlando, is 163 with sophomore Jackson Palk third in the field on 17:06.0 from Cecil Field. On best times the four are within 19 points of each other: Martin County 116, West Broward 123, Vero Beach 127, Winter Park 135.

The individual race has nobody from the ranked lists in it and one very young name. Miguel Gutierrez Guzman (Suncoast 3A, So.) is first on the 16:47.3 he ran at Dr. Garcia, worth about 16:03; Berek is first on best times, 16:19.3 from St. Cloud. Alejandro Sancerni of Somerset Academy Pembroke Pines 3A is fourth in the field on 18:11.5 from Dr. Garcia, and he is an eighth grader. David Lazo (South Plantation 4A, Sr.), who ran 16:07 at state last fall, is entered on a 17:44 from Heritage Park that the simulator cannot price and sits seventh; on Saturday's grass he is a contender for the win. Miguel Casiano (West Broward 4A, Jr.) is in the same spot on a Markham Park time.

Not scored, 3A/4A boys. Dillard and West Boca Raton have four boys with a mark, Oak Ridge and Port St. Lucie two; Douglas and Miami Southridge have no 2026 mark in our database. The Broward public schools in this race, West Broward, South Plantation, Cooper City, Coral Glades and the rest, are entered largely on BCAA weekday times that the simulator cannot price, so they sit lower here than they will on Saturday.

Saturday, 9:05 a.m. 3A/4A girls: Winter Park, and Helfant on her own

Seventeen 3A/4A girls teams are in the Race of Champions, and the race that is left is Winter Park 4A's by a distance: 37 points on 2-3-6-10-16, with Bella Sacks (Sr.) and Kathryn Ryan (So.) second and third in the field on 19:37.0 from Cecil Field and 19:37.9 from the Horse Park. Dwyer 4A is second at 119 on Audra Quinn (So.) and Ava Peragine (Sr.) fourth and sixth, Martin County 4A third at 150 on the tightest five in the race, 1:41, and Dr. Joaquin Garcia 4A fourth at 168. The order is the same on best times.

Samantha Helfant (Palm Beach Central 4A, Sr.) is first in the field on the 19:20.9 she ran to win Kings Academy by 85 seconds last Saturday, her third straight win, worth about 18:57, and she is the class of this race by 40 seconds on the leveled clock and 12 on the raw one. Palm Beach Central has five, and is 13th. The meet record, 17:12.86 by Boca Raton's Pia Beaulieu in 2020, is safe; Boca Raton itself is in the Race of Champions.

Not scored, 3A/4A girls. Forest Hill, Homestead and Vero Beach have four girls with a mark; Mourning and Pembroke Pines Charter three; Oak Ridge, Port St. Lucie and South Plantation two; Olympic Heights one.

What the weekend can do to the rankings

• Three of the statewide top ten boys teams are in the Race of Champions. Doral is sixth, Columbus eighth, Gulliver ninth, and Spanish River is first out. A team never ranks behind a team that beat it that week, so whichever of the four finishes first holds that place over the others until they meet again. Belen, the No. 1 team, is scored on its second seven, and that result is not held for or against the ranked team, the same rule we used for Nease's group at Buchholz.
• Doral over Carrollton is a head-to-head, not a figure. Eighth and ninth on the girls' statewide list, on the Horse Park finish. Both are in the 8:05 race. If Carrollton wins, they swap.
• St. Thomas Aquinas over Lourdes is the same kind of call, from King of the Hill nine days earlier. The paper has Lourdes ahead by 22; the grass had St. Thomas Aquinas ahead by 25. Saturday is the rematch.
• Arterburn against Ghaffar happens, at 7:40. The No. 2 boy in 1A and the No. 4 boy in 2A have not shared a line this fall. Neither result moves a class list, but it tells us something about both.
• Lewis against Brown. Seventh and eighth in 4A, seven seconds apart on the leveled clock, and a race between them sets the order until November.
• Spanish River's girls stop being a projection. If Antunez-Perez finishes, the team is ranked on a race for the first time. If she does not, the (P) stays and the team is judged on the five that ran.
• Holy Trinity's girls are No. 1 in 1A on wins over 1A fields. If they take the Race of Champions slot, Carrollton is the best 2A team in the state and it is on the same line. A win over Carrollton moves them into the statewide ten. Ransom, the other 2A contender, races Friday, so those two will not meet.
• Ransom or Westminster Academy on Friday is a one-point race on best times and a 47-point race leveled, and the difference is one course rating. Whichever way it goes, the 2A and 1A team lists both move.
• Geraghty, Mckenney, Sancerni, Blumenberg. An eighth grader who is sixth in 1A, a freshman with a course record on this grass, an eighth grader fourth in the 3A/4A field, and an eighth grader leading Holy Trinity's boys. The Best Young Runner awards are the meet's; the class lists are ours, and all four can move this weekend.

Notes on the ratings

• A course rating is the gap between what runners ran at that meet and what the same runners ran at last year's state final, re-anchored so that Cecil Field, the biggest sample of the season, sits at zero. Boys use the mean of that gap; girls use the median, and where the girls' sample is small the boys' figure is scaled instead. Middle school 3K times are priced against the 2025 FLYRA state meet and anchored to Jim Ryun.
• One change this week: a runner more than five minutes off his or her own state time is no longer counted in a course rating. That kind of gap is an injury or a jog, not a course, and one such runner had a Broward course rated as three and a half minutes slow.
• The ratings doing the most work here: the Dr. Garcia Bulldog Invite, read about 45 seconds slow for boys and close to even for girls, which carries Spanish River, Jupiter, Arterburn and Mckenney; the Horse Park, read a shade fast for high school and about 45 seconds fast for middle school boys, which carries Belen, Doral, Gulliver, Lourdes and Carrollton; King of the Hill, about 20 seconds slow; Kings Academy, about 20 seconds slow for boys, on a small sample; and the Palmer Trinity meets, both read well over a minute slow, on small samples.
• The BCAA weekday meets at Heritage Park, Tradewinds and Markham, the Lightning Invites series and the Jupiter Invite could not be priced from this season's data and are entered raw, marked with a dagger.
• The Rothman course has no 2026 rating because nobody has raced it this season. These are Cecil Field equivalents, not predictions of Saturday's clock.
• The simulator recomputes its own ratings from the snapshot, so it can differ from the numbers in our weekly rankings posts by a few seconds, and our lists also apply head-to-head results the simulator does not.
• Belen Jesuit is scored in the Race of Champions on the runners behind its first seven, because its varsity is entered at the Southern Showcase in Huntsville on Saturday morning. Which seven travel is Belen's call, not ours; we dropped the seven best leveled marks.
• The Race of Champions field is the meet's invite list as supplied Wednesday. Invited schools are scored only there; a school that also enters runners in its class race would be running a second group, which we cannot simulate.
• Grades and classifications are 2026-27. Middle schoolers on private-school varsity teams are eligible and scored as entered. Out-of-class entries, Miami Carol City 2A and the Independent programs in the 1A/2A races, are scored where the meet put them.

Featured image: the 44th Spanish River XC Invitational meet graphic. Image: Spanish River XC Invitational.

The same treatment for earlier meets: Nights of Thunder, the Buchholz Bobcats Classic, the Florida Horse Park, Pace, St. Cloud and Estero. Results, and what two days in Boca do to the lists, early next week. Congratulations, Coach Rothman.