Girls Elementary Individual Rankings — Week 6
#1 Aliana Alvarez — Red Sea Running Club (2034) · 8:05.1 at Jim Ryun (projects 7:17.2)
Won the Run Florida middle school girls' 3K on Saturday in 11:39.0, 23.8 seconds ahead of eighth grader Kayla Santos. Three elementary races this fall, three wins, none by less than 43 seconds, and her 7:23.8 at the Horse Park is the fastest elementary 2K in Florida this fall. In middle school races she was third at Nights of Thunder, second at Bulldog and first on Saturday. The defending 3rd-5th grade state champion runs the elementary 2K in Lakeland.
#2 Paula Webb — Donahue Academy of Ave Maria (2034) · 12:01.1 for 3K at the SAC meet
Has not raced since. She won the middle school girls' 3K at the SAC Regular Season Meet in Naples on September 12 by 45 seconds, and held a faster pace over 3K than Gracie Freeman ran to win the elementary 2K on the same course that day.
#3 Gracie Freeman — Naples Christian Academy (2034) · 8:19.2 at the SAC meet (projects 8:07.8)
Did not race. A 74-second win at SAC, and fifth at state last fall in 8:05.0. She and Rosales are 0.6 seconds apart on paper and have not met.
#4 Julieta Rosales — CPS PERFORMANCE (2035) · 8:13.3 at the Horse Park (projects 8:07.2)
Did not race. Second to Alvarez in Ocala, the fastest fourth-grade girl in Florida this fall. She beat Jessup by 10.6 seconds there, and that holds until they race again.
#5 Lainey Jessup — Hillsborough Harriers (2034) · 8:12.6 at Running on the Range (projects 8:04.4)
Did not race. Three races, three faster times, and the best projection here after Alvarez. Fifth because Rosales beat her at the Horse Park.
#6 Sophia Dolan — Hillsborough Harriers (2035) · 8:22.6 at Running on the Range (projects 8:14.4)
Did not race. Third at the Range, 4.8 seconds ahead of Biege and 16.2 ahead of Maldonado, and 24 seconds faster than her Horse Park run two weeks earlier.
#7 Ava Biege — Unattached · 8:27.4 at Running on the Range (projects 8:19.2)
Won the Stampede Sprint elementary 2K on Saturday in 8:17.5, 5.2 seconds ahead of Diana Logvinova, out of 68. That time is not priced. She was fourth at the Range, and neither result lists a grade.
#8 Avery Maldonado — Red Sea Running Club (2034) · 8:27.2 at Run Florida (projects 8:17.6)
Won the Run Florida elementary 2K on Saturday in 8:27.2, 9.6 seconds ahead of Isabelle Kay: her first elementary win this fall and her fastest 2K. Dolan and Biege beat her at the Range, and that holds. Ninth at state last fall in 8:14.9.
#9 Isabelle Kay — Team FTC Kids (2034) · 8:36.8 at Run Florida (projects 8:27.2)
Second on Saturday, 20.9 seconds faster than her Horse Park run. Below Maldonado on Saturday's result.
#10 Vivian HARTLEY — No Excuses RC (2035) · 8:30.8 at the 2025 state meet (seed)
Has not run a 2K this fall. Thirteenth at state last fall as a third grader. On Saturday she ran the middle school 3K at Bale N Trail and was 21st of 192 in 12:55.9, six places ahead of teammate Linley Dziedziejko.
Next up: Nicole Bruce (NEXT), fifth at the Horse Park in 8:42.7 (8:36.6), with no grade listed; Linley Dziedziejko (No Excuses RC, 5th grade), 15th at state last fall in 8:40.3, and 13:03.6 for 3K at Bale N Trail behind Hartley; Juliet Tropea (Providence Academy, 5th grade), ninth in the Seffner Christian middle school 3K in 13:37.6.
How these rankings were built
- Middle school: every 3K from a middle school race is matched by name to the runner's 2025 FLYRA state time. Each course's reading is the median of those differences, shrunk toward the pooled small-meet reading (17.6 seconds) so a course with two runners to go on does not get a wild number. This week: Bale N Trail -1.1 (n=66), Stampede Sprint +11.4 (n=64), Palmer Trinity HS/MS +4.0 (n=29), Volusia County Meet 2 +24.1 (n=29), East Ridge +32.5 (n=26), Run Florida +16.2 (n=22), Lakewood Ranch +10.0 (n=17), Crystal River +6.6 (n=14), MRCC +34.3 (n=7), Marathon +6.1 (n=1, Joly herself, so essentially the pooled reading). Two-mile races are converted to 3K first, and Cecil Field's 2.5K by the meet's own 3K conversion.
- Elementary: 2K races are priced the same way against last fall's 3rd-5th grade state race. A kid who has only raced up in a middle school 3K is placed by head-to-heads with other elementary kids in those races, or by whether they held a faster pace over 3K than a ranked kid's 2K is worth.
- Finish order only, times not priced: Oak Park Middle School (coaches at the meet told us the course came up a little short), Todd Howsare's middle school race (all 41 runners we can compare ran 42 seconds or more under their best 3K elsewhere) and the Stampede Sprint elementary 2K (the 12 kids we can compare ran a median 48 seconds under their state times).
- A head-to-head loss stands until the two runners meet again, and where results form a loop the most recent meeting decides. From this week, Jim Ryun's finishing order (August 22) no longer binds anyone. Jopling sits with Jobe on a common-opponent reading that is Darrin's call from week 5.
- Fifth graders are on the elementary lists only; the middle school lists are grades 6-8. A raced mark within five seconds of a seeded state time outranks the seed. A missed meet is never held against anyone. Grades come from the meet results and last fall's state file; where a grade is missing, the heading carries none.
Every result behind these lists is in [the Florida XC results database](/data/results), and the full weekend is in [the weekend recap](/blog/florida-xc-weekend-recap-september-26-2026). Last week: [Week 5 Middle School Top 10s](/blog/florida-middle-school-cross-country-rankings-week-5-2026). The high school lists: [boys](/blog/florida-boys-cross-country-top-10-week-6-2026) and [girls](/blog/florida-girls-cross-country-top-10-week-6-2026).
Featured image: the No Excuses Running Club (St. Johns) and Boca Warriors Track & XC Club logos, the clubs' own marks, credited to each club.
The team top fives, middle school and elementary: [here](/blog/florida-middle-school-elementary-cross-country-team-rankings-week-6-2026).
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