Girls Middle School Team Rankings — Week 6
#1 No Excuses RC · 68 points
Colette Heffernan 9:59.1, Amelia Flood 10:37.9, Madelen Finch 11:17.0, Piper Austin 11:48.1, Kenley Courson 11:49.1
Heffernan won Bale N Trail in 10:22.9, 49 seconds ahead of Flood, and No Excuses scored 18 against 15 other teams. This is also without Aubrey Motycka, who has raced for Liberty Pines Academy both times this fall but won the Club race for No Excuses last October. With or without her, this is the best five in the state by a distance: 30 points clear.
#2 Emerald Coast Middle School · 98 points
Zoie Hart 11:14.6, Mia Emhoff 11:24.9, Callie Skinner 11:25.2, Corbyn Fellers 11:26.2, Kora Murphy 12:09.6
The pack. Hart, Emhoff, Skinner and Fellers went one through four at the Panhandle pre-conference meet on Sept. 1, 15 points, and the four of them are inside 12 seconds on their season figures. They were second in the Public race at state last fall and have not met any other team on this list.
#3 Tavares Middle School · 148 points
Alice Ilea 10:28.1, Kayla Santos 11:33.6, Lilliana Gutfreind 11:40.7, Meadow Sadlemire 12:12.0, Hope Nesmith 12:22.6
Racing as Tavares or as Red Sea Running Club, which we score as one program, this team has won everything but one: Jim Ryun, the Horse Park, Nights of Thunder, Running on the Range and Run Florida among them. The loss was at Indian River on Aug. 29, 37 to 34 to the Boca Warriors. Ilea is the front; the gap from her to the second girl is what keeps Tavares behind Emerald Coast.
#4 Boca Warriors Track Club · 166 points
Camila Boucher 11:02.3, Arielle Gorlovetzky 11:28.6, Tejasvita Minnamareddy 11:56.4, Jasmarie Hernandez 12:16.7, Olivia Aaronson 12:20.3
The only team to beat Tavares this fall, at Indian River, and winners of the middle school race at the Spanish River Invitational with 29. Tavares has raced nine times since Indian River and is ahead on the figures.
#5 Cornerstone Classical Academy · 317 points
Haven Smith 11:49.1, Jayne McCarthy 11:55.9, Katelyn Milla 12:06.3, Eliza Arthur 12:50.4, Lucy Sanftner 12:58.1
Last year's Charter champion was second to No Excuses at Bale N Trail, 63 points, second to Bolles at Katie Caples, 29 to 33, and third at the Horse Park. Bale came after Katie Caples, so Bolles (eighth) no longer sits above them.
Next: Imagine Town Center (Club), the Hillsborough Harriers (Club), Bolles (Private), Ransom Everglades (Private) and Nolan Middle School (Public).
How we built this
- Each runner's season figure comes from the individual rankings: every middle school 3K is compared with last fall's FLYRA state results for the same runners, which puts every course in Holloway Park terms. Elementary 2K races are priced against last fall's 3rd-5th grade state race. The times next to each runner above are those season figures, not a time run on a particular day.
- Each team's five best go into one virtual race with every other team's; the next two can displace. A runner counts for the team they have raced for most often this fall. Red Sea Running Club and Tavares Middle School are one program, scored as Tavares. Runners listed as unattached are not scored.
- Middle school is grades 6-8; fifth graders are elementary only. The elementary team race at the state meet is third through fifth grade, so younger kids are not scored here.
- An elementary runner who has only raced up in a middle school 3K counts at the same pace over 2K. On the kids who have run both this fall, that is a conservative reading. A runner who has not raced this fall counts on last fall's state time.
- Where two teams have met and neither has raced since, the result orders them. On this page, every meeting that disagrees with the arithmetic has been raced past by both teams, so the order is the virtual race.
- Finish order only, times not priced: Oak Park Middle School, Todd Howsare's middle school race and the Stampede Sprint elementary 2K.
Every result behind these lists is in [the Florida XC results database](/data/results). The high school team lists: [boys](/blog/florida-boys-cross-country-team-rankings-week-6-2026) and [girls](/blog/florida-girls-cross-country-team-rankings-week-6-2026).
Logos: No Excuses Running Club; Emerald Coast Middle School; Hillsborough Harriers; Naples Christian Academy; Boca Warriors Track & XC Club.
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