Girls Overall Individual Rankings — Week 8
#1 Madison Muller — Riverview (Sarasota) (2028)
Did not race. Won the Venice Invitational on October 3 in 18:41.8, 96 seconds ahead of Kayla Hawk of Parrish. Five starts, five wins, and her 17:52.6 at Wellen Park in September still ranks her. She and Balaban have not met; Muller has been first since week 3 and stays there until they do.
#2 Emma Balaban — IMG Academy (2028)
Did not race. Fifteenth of 324 in the Race of Champions at the Great American XC Festival in 17:42.9 on October 3, the first Florida girl across, ahead of Antunez-Perez, Krueger, Reinhardt and Johnson. Won the Southern Showcase in 17:45.2 in September, and her 17:14.1 at the IMGA Summit is the fastest time by a Florida girl this fall.
#3 Natalia Gaona-Zelaya — Wiregrass Ranch (Wesley Chapel) (2027)
Did not race. Won the Stampede Sprint in 17:34.6 on September 26, five starts and five wins. She has beaten Tomasic, Hallick and Mercer this season and has lost to nobody.
#4 Arabella Duffell — Lake Nona (Orlando) (2028)
Did not race. Second of 271 in the Championship race at PR'ville in Huntsville on September 26 in 17:33.5, the fastest race of her season. Won Cecil Field and St. Cloud. She and Gaona-Zelaya have not met.
#5 Katherine Eudaly — Plant (Tampa) (2028)
Did not race. Won the North Port Invite in 17:37.3 on September 19 by 46 seconds, four wins in five starts. It has been three weeks since she raced, and a quiet three weeks does not cost her a place.
#6 Annabella Tomasic — Bishop Moore (Orlando) (2029)
Did not race. Won her last two: the Katie Caples Invitational in 17:24.0 on September 19 and the Hagerty Invitational in 17:24.8 on September 26, by 96 seconds, with Bishop Moore scoring 24. Those are two of the three fastest times by a Florida girl this fall. Hallick beat her at the Horse Park on September 5, and that race no longer orders anybody.
#7 Lyla Hallick — Vanguard (Ocala) (2029)
Did not race. Won the Craig Speziale Invitational at Ponte Vedra on October 3 in 18:40.8, 43 seconds ahead of Piper Ross, with Hartley 11th. Won the Rockledge Raider Classic in 18:10.8 two weeks earlier. Vanguard was second to Ponte Vedra in the team race.
#8 Alba Antunez-Perez — Spanish River (Boca Raton) (2027)
Won the Snake Bite Invite in Boca Raton in 18:29.9 on Saturday, 22 seconds ahead of Nicole Lewis, with Spanish River winning the team race 45 to Doral's 56. Thirty-second of 324 in the Race of Champions in Cary in 18:05.0, the second Florida girl across, ahead of Krueger, Reinhardt and Johnson. Won her own school's Race of Champions in 18:03.2 on September 18.
#9 Sofie Stam — Bolles (Jacksonville) (2029)
Eleventh of 136 in the Eastern States Championship at the Manhattan University Invitational in the Bronx on Saturday in 15:07.2 for 2.5 miles, 18:28 when we convert it to a 5K, the first Florida girl across. Eighth in the adidas championship race in North Carolina on September 19 in 18:20.1. Second to Krueger in the Class 2A state 3200 in May. She has not met anyone near her on this list this season and comes in on her season figure, which is ahead of Giles's and Jakab's.
#10 Camila Giles — Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville) (2028)
Did not race. Second at the Katie Caples Invitational on September 19 in 18:35.0, behind Tomasic and ahead of her teammate Jakab, and they have not met since, so she sits above Jakab. Thirty-seventh of 407 in the Nike XC Town Twilight Race of Champions in Indiana on October 3 in 18:37.1, on a course we cannot price. Won the Buchholz Bobcats Classic on September 12. Bishop Kenny ran JAC without her.
Just missed
Jillian Jakab (Bishop Kenny, Sr., 3A) won the JAC Invitational in 19:22.2, 20 seconds ahead of Kate Brice, and beat Krueger and Delaney along the way this fall. She is first out, directly behind Giles, who beat her at Katie Caples on September 19. Avery Hartley (Bartram Trail, So., 4A) won HMT on Saturday in 19:01.6, 14 seconds ahead of Eva Delaney, with Peyton Cerasi third; it says her 21:17.4 at Speziale a week earlier was an off day. Stam, Giles and Jakab are ahead of her on their season figures, and five girls beat her at the Showcase on September 19. Stella Krueger (Episcopal, Jr., 2A) was sixth at JAC in 19:54.5 behind Jakab and her own teammates Kate Brice, Whitney Morgan and Holland McKinney, and comes out of the ten; the three teammates who beat her sit ahead of her in Class 2A. She is the reigning Class 2A state champion at 3200 meters. Lainee Mercer (Springstead, Jr., 3A) did not race and has not met Jakab. Eva Delaney (Creekside, So., 4A) lost to Hartley by 14 seconds at HMT and to Jakab at Katie Caples. Rashida Reinhardt (IMG Academy, Fr.) and Sydney Johnson (IMG Academy, Jr.) did not race. Eva McMenemy-Hoang (Viera, Sr., 4A) won the Merritt Island Christian Invitational in 18:46.2 by 42.5 seconds. Mary Summers (Seven Rivers Christian, So., 1A) has not raced since August 29.
Method notes
- A head-to-head loss stands until the two runners meet again. Where results form a loop, the most recent meeting decides. Every pair among the top 60 on the season board was checked.
- Head-to-heads from September 12 and earlier no longer order runners. Those races are a month old, and the kids have changed since. The times still count in the season figure. Opening weekend (Cecil Field and Jim Ryun) expired earlier. That is why Hallick's Horse Park win over Tomasic does not put her above Tomasic.
- A missed week is not scored. Eight of the ten girls did not race this weekend and hold; Eudaly last raced September 19 and Gaona-Zelaya and Duffell September 26.
- Giles above Jakab is the head-to-head rule: Giles beat her at Katie Caples on September 19 and they have not met since (updated October 11). Calls that are not rule outcomes: Stam and Giles in on their season figures, ahead of Jakab, Hartley, Mercer and Summers, whom neither has met; Krueger out after the three Episcopal teammates beat her at JAC.
- HMT Invitational: the girls' own reading is 71 seconds slow and the boys' 42, a ratio of 1.7 where our house rule is 1.21, so the course is priced at the boys' median times 1.21 (+50.5). Hartley's win converts to 18:11 on that number.
- Out-of-state runners at the Great American XC Festival and the Alexander Invitational are left out of the course readings and the rankings. Florida runners' places among the full field are printed as they finished.
- The Manhattan University Invitational is a 2.5-mile course: its times are converted to a 5K, and the course is priced from the Florida runners who also ran last year's state meet. Buchholz's runs at HMT on October 10 are treated as a workout, not a race.
- 25 meets from October 4 to 10 are new in the numbers. Not rated: Wolfson 9.2, plus Riviera Prep, Bulldog Cape Coral, Wildwood and Merritt Island Christian where the readings disagreed. JAC is rated on its median (+36.6; the mean reads +71.9).
- IMG Academy is an FHSAA Independent; its runners are ranked. A race a runner won never lowers her figure.
Every result behind this list is on the site in [the rankings section](/data/rankings). Last week: the [week 7 girls list](/blog/florida-girls-cross-country-top-10-week-7-2026).
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