Emma Wilkinson

Did not race. Second in the flrunners.com Race of Champions on October 3 in 18:58.1 out of 181, ahead of Emma-Claire Tanenbaum of 3A. Second at St. Cloud and the Raider Open in September.

Second in the flrunners.com Race of Champions on Saturday in 18:58.1 out of 181, ahead of Emma-Claire Tanenbaum of 3A. Second at St. Cloud and the Raider Open in September.

Did not race. Second at the Raider Open on September 19 in 18:29.7, behind Madison Muller of Riverview 4A; that course has no girls' reading we trust, so the time is printed and not converted. Second at St. Cloud in 18:28.3, two tenths ahead of Roy, and a win at Lake Region. Second.

Second at the Raider Open in 18:29.7 out of 105, 55 seconds behind Madison Muller of Riverview 4A and 59 seconds clear of third. The Raider Open course is not rated this week, so the run is on the record and not priced; her 18:28.3 at St. Cloud, second behind Arabella Duffell 4A, ranks her, and she beat Roy there by two tenths. Third at Ragin' Storm, the Lake Region win that is not counted, St. Cloud, Saturday: four races, the last two inside 18:30 on the clock. Second, with wins over Roy and Conboy on her card.

Did not race. Third at Ragin' Storm in 19:37.2, the Lake Region win in 18:57.7, which is not held against her, and 18:28.3 for second at St. Cloud behind Arabella Duffell, the fastest raw time by a 1A girl this fall. Three races, each better than the last, and she has not run in two weeks.

Three races, each faster than the last: 19:37.2 at Ragin' Storm, a win at Lake Region in 18:57.7, and 18:28.3 for second at the St. Cloud Invitational on Saturday, 50 seconds behind Duffell and ahead of everybody else in a 151-girl field. The season figure is six seconds behind Summers. Sixth in 1A at state in 19:00.0, and the most improved girl in the class.

Two races, two wins. Wilkinson followed her week-one run at Ragin' Storm with a win at the Lake Region Invitational in 18:57.7, and the two performances level out within a few seconds of each other, both right around 19:02. She was sixth in 1A at state in 19:00.0, she is running exactly that fit in August, and she is the closest thing Summers has to a problem in this class. It is not very close yet.

The best evidence anybody in 1A produced this weekend. Wilkinson was sixth in 1A at state in 19:00.0 and finished third at the Ragin' Storm XC Challenge in 19:37.2, behind only Natalia Gaona-Zelaya of Wiregrass Ranch and Lainee Mercer of Springstead — two runners on the fringe of the overall Florida top ten. That course took 35.2 seconds off the returners who ran it, which prices her opener at 19:02 Cecil-equivalent, or about 18:33 in November terms.

That is a 27-second improvement projected forward, against a field that gave her no help. She is ranked second over a faster returning mark because she is the only girl in this class besides Summers who has proved anything in 2026.