Girls 1A Individual Rankings — Week 1

Third in 1A at state as a freshman in 18:27.9, the fastest returning 1A mark in Florida by nineteen seconds, and she opened by winning the Lecanto Invitational in 18:32.9. Even on the most conservative reading of that course, it is the fastest 1A time of the weekend by roughly a minute, and it belongs in the conversation with the best girls in the state regardless of class — she was seventh in our overall Florida top ten.

She ran it alone, which is the permanent condition of being Mary Summers. Lydia Vincent of Zephyrhills was eight seconds back and is the only girl who has made her work since November. Seven Rivers does not rank as a team in 1A. Nobody in this class is going to force a race out of her before the regional meet, and possibly not then.

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.

Fifth in 1A at state in 18:46.6, the second-fastest returning mark in the class, and she did not open. Judy is the one runner here with a real claim on second and possibly on more, and there is no way to settle it from a blank line in the results. Masters Academy projects tenth in 1A with a 5:52 spread, so like Summers and Wilkinson she is running for herself.

The projection is what it is: 18:46.6 plus the August conversion is 19:15.4, which sorts her third. Her November time sorts her second. The first time she races, one of those two becomes the real number.

The fastest 1A time at Cecil Field, and the biggest quiet move of the weekend. Richardson ran 19:36 for 27th in the Girls Elite race, in the deepest field anybody in Florida faced, and that is five seconds faster than her state time on an evening the average returner gave back nearly half a minute. Converted, it is worth about 19:07 in November terms.

She was 13th in 1A last fall and our eighth-ranked returner in the class. She is not the eighth-best runner in 1A. Westminster Academy ranks third in 1A as a team on the strength of it.

The largest improvement by any 1A girl who opened. Akhundjanov was 28th in 1A at state in 20:18.6 as a freshman, our 21st-ranked returner in the class, and she ran 19:43 at Cecil for 29th in the Elite race, seven seconds behind Richardson. In November terms that is roughly 19:14 — a 64-second jump.

One race is one race, and Cecil in August rewards runners who trained through the summer more than it rewards runners who peaked in November. But the mark is real and it came in the hardest race available. Providence ranks seventh in 1A behind it.

Eighth in 1A at state as a freshman in 19:21.8, the third-fastest returning mark in the class, and she did not open. Indian Rocks Christian projects second in 1A as a team, so this is a program with something to lose by staying home and no apparent worry about it.

Lubke's problem is arithmetic, not ability: a 19:21.8 from November converts to 19:50.6 in August terms, and four girls who actually raced beat that mark this weekend. She may well be the second-best runner in 1A. She has not been asked to demonstrate it.

The only genuinely new name in the class. Webb won the Lehigh Senior High Invite out of a 203-runner field in 19:42.8, 15 seconds clear of Madison Easton, in her first high school race. Lehigh graded 12.3 seconds fast against Cecil off a sample of 28, which puts her at 19:55 Cecil-equivalent.

There is no state history to check her against and no second data point, which is why she is seventh instead of higher. A freshman who wins a two-hundred-girl race by fifteen seconds in August is usually not finished improving in October.

Ninth in 1A at state in 19:33.0, fourth-fastest returning mark in the class, and no opener. The same note applies as to Lubke: converted forward she sits at 20:01.8, which is behind five girls who actually ran. She is one race from being ranked considerably higher, and one bad race from being ranked lower.

The most improbable line on this board. Conboy was 21st in 1A at state as a sixth grader in 20:01.9, and she opened by running 20:07 at Cecil Field for 42nd place in the Girls Elite race — the varsity race, against the best fields in the state, at twelve or thirteen years old.

That is essentially level with her state time on a course that cost the average returner 29 seconds, which prices her opener at roughly 19:38 in November terms. She is ranked ninth in a class where the runners around her are three to five years older.

Twelfth in 1A at state in 19:40.2 and did not open. She is the last of the projected group with a mark good enough to hold a top-ten spot after the August conversion, and a senior year is the wrong time to be ranked on last November. Her ranking will be decided by her, not by us, sometime in September.