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Boys FLYRA Individual Rankings — Week 1

#1 RJ Destremps Hillsborough Harriers · 9:25.8 state-equivalent (10:08.4 at Jim Ryun)

The best mark of the weekend by nine seconds, and it belongs to a kid with no 2025 FLYRA state result to project from. Destremps won Jim Ryun by essentially the same margin he holds here, and if the state-equivalent math is even close, he is the fastest middle school boy in Florida right now — thirty-five seconds clear of the best returning state time in the field.

#2 Luke Lomoriello Unattached (2031) · 9:34.7 state-equivalent (10:17.3 at Jim Ryun)

First of three unattached boys who went 2-3-6 at Jim Ryun. An 8th grader at 10:17 in August heat converts to a mid-9:30s state run, which would have won last year's open division comfortably.

#3 Drake Matyka Unattached (2031) · 9:36.7 state-equivalent (10:19.3 at Jim Ryun)

Two seconds behind Lomoriello and even with Schulte on the clock. The three of them ran each other to marks nobody else in the state touched this week.

#4 Tommy Schulte Naples Elite (2031) · 9:36.7 state-equivalent (10:19.3 at Jim Ryun)

Same time as Matyka, so the tiebreak is arbitrary — call them 3 and 4 in either order. Naples Elite sending a kid to Lakeland and getting this back is a statement about where the southwest coast's next class is.

#5 Maxwell Claypool WIND Runners · 9:53.9 state-equivalent (10:36.5 at Jim Ryun)

The gap from fourth to fifth is seventeen seconds — the front four are their own race. Claypool leads a WIND squad that put two boys in the top eleven of this list.

#6 Andrew LaHayne Unattached (2031) · 10:00.2 state-equivalent (10:42.8 at Jim Ryun)

The last man under the ten-minute equivalent line among those who raced.

#7 Liam Jopling Ruckel Middle School (2031) · 10:01.3 state-equivalent (P)

The fastest returning state time in Florida — 10:01.3 last October as a 7th grader — and the top-ranked boy who hasn't raced yet. The projection gives him nothing for ten months of growth. When Ruckel opens its season, expect this seed to look conservative.

#8 Elliot Macki Calvary Christian (Clearwater) (2031) · 10:06.6 state-equivalent (10:49.2 at Jim Ryun)

Four-tenths ahead of his own teammate. Calvary Christian is the only school program with two boys in the top ten.

#9 Elliot LASOTA No Excuses RC (2032) · 10:07.0 state-equivalent (10:49.1 converted at Cecil Field)

Second overall in Cecil Field's combined-gender race and the No. 1 runner on the No. 1 team on the team board — as a 7th grader. Highest-ranked kid on this list who will still be here next year.

#10 Daniel Hage Calvary Christian (Clearwater) (2032) · 10:07.0 state-equivalent (10:49.6 at Jim Ryun)

Dead even with Lasota to the tenth, and also a 7th grader. Ran stride for stride with his 8th grade teammate Macki all the way to the line.