Boys Elementary Individual Rankings — Week 6
#1 Brody Milek — Boca Warriors Track Club · 7:22.9 at the 2025 state meet; 10:54.0 for 3K at Spanish River
Did not race. Fourth at state last fall as a third grader, the fastest returning elementary time in Florida. His one race this fall is the 10:54.0 for 20th against middle schoolers at Spanish River, and it beat both Destefanis and Hirakuri Lehmkuhl.
#2 Richard Destefanis — Milers Running Club & Camp (2034) · 7:40.8 at the 2025 state meet (seed)
Second in the MRCC middle school 3K on Saturday in 12:55.9. He has beaten Hirakuri Lehmkuhl twice in 3Ks, at Indian River and Spanish River. Milek beat him at Spanish River.
#3 Bodhi Teeters — Imagine Town Center (2034) · 11:29.4 for 3K at the Horse Park
Raced up again at Bale N Trail on Saturday: 23rd of 212 in 11:42.2, ahead of No Excuses' Nolan and Hudson Austin. He has not run an elementary race. He sits here because he beat Hirakuri Lehmkuhl at Indian River, and Hirakuri Lehmkuhl has not had a chance to reverse it.
#4 Gabriel Hirakuri Lehmkuhl — Boca Warriors Track Club (2034) · 7:36.8 at the Horse Park (projects 7:30.7)
Did not race. Unbeaten at 2K, with wins at Jim Ryun and the Horse Park. The three boys above him each beat him racing up in a middle school 3K. The first time he lines up in a 2K against Milek or Destefanis, this could turn around.
#5 Julian Vazquez — SV Performance Training (2034) · 7:39.2 at the Horse Park (projects 7:33.1)
Did not race. Second at the Horse Park, 2.4 seconds behind Hirakuri Lehmkuhl, the only boy who has beaten him. He is the son of Sam Vazquez, the Flagler Palm Coast miler who ran 4:03 in high school and the 1500 for Puerto Rico at the 2012 London Olympics.
#6 Holden Griggs — Team FTC Kids (2034) · 7:54.5 at the Horse Park (projects 7:48.4)
Won the Run Florida elementary 2K on Saturday in 8:01.1, 25.1 seconds ahead of Gabe Schwartz of Belmont Academy, out of 47. Third at the Horse Park behind Hirakuri Lehmkuhl and Vazquez.
#7 Graham Hymes — Hillsborough Harriers (2034) · 7:59.4 at Running on the Range (projects 7:51.2)
Did not race. Won the Range by 13.5 seconds. Griggs beat him at the Horse Park, where Hymes was 22nd, and they have not met since.
#8 Nolan AUSTIN — No Excuses RC (2035) · 11:46.3 for 3K at Bale N Trail
Raced up on Saturday and was 25th of 212 middle schoolers, 1.1 seconds ahead of teammate Hudson Austin. He held a faster pace for 3K than Molla's best 2K is worth, and a slightly slower one than Hymes's. A fourth grader.
#9 Hudson AUSTIN — No Excuses RC (2034) · 11:47.4 for 3K at Bale N Trail
Twenty-seventh at Bale N Trail on Saturday, 1.1 seconds behind Nolan, which is why he is ninth. Seventeenth at state last fall in 8:03.1, and his pace over 3K on Saturday was worth more than that seed.
#10 Oscar Molla — Hillsborough Harriers (2034) · 8:42.1 at Jim Ryun (projects 7:54.2)
Did not race. Second at the Range behind Hymes, and third at Jim Ryun.
Next up: Thomas Haughey (Naples Christian Academy, 5th grade), who won the SAC elementary 2K in 8:08.0 (7:56.6); Cana Oyer (San Juan Del Rio, 5th grade), 12th at state last fall in 7:55.1 and unraced; Zander Noal (Boca Warriors Track Club, no grade listed), who won the MRCC elementary 2K on Saturday in 8:34.0. His Jim Ryun run projects 7:45.0, but his third-grade teammate Samuel Hirakuri Lehmkuhl beat him by 3.7 seconds at Spanish River, and that holds. Evan Fredricks (Trinity School for Children, 5th grade) won the Stampede Sprint elementary 2K by 63 seconds in 7:10.1; that time is not priced, and he was 28th in the Seffner Christian middle school 3K in 12:48.1.
The kindergarten through second grade top fives are in [last week’s elementary post](/blog/florida-elementary-cross-country-top-5-k2-3rd-5th-grade-2026). The one K-2 race we can price this week was Run Florida, where first grader Allison Kay ran 9:33.4 for sixth of 27, 0.4 seconds off her Horse Park time.
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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