Boys FLYRA Team Rankings — Week 1

Five-man state-equivalent average 10:34.3, spread 0:52.1, four of five raced.
Elliot Lasota 10:07.0, Cooper Finch 10:23.9, Amari Isom 10:40.9, Thomas Hurt 10:41.0 (P), Johnathon Hartley 10:59.1; Dutch Howanitz and Caleb Ramjohn displacing.

The Jacksonville club won Cecil Field's combined race with 17 points and it wins the statewide virtual race the same way: a fifty-two second spread and seven scorers before most programs have five. Their No. 1 is a 7th grader. The scary part isn't this list — it's next year's.

Five-man average 10:30.2 — the best in the state — spread 1:28.2.
RJ Destremps 9:25.8, Wesley Taylor 10:31.8, Ace Hallinan 10:49.1, Landon Healy 10:50.3, Alex Geisel 10:54.0 (P).

The faster average and the loss. Destremps wins the virtual race outright, but a front-loaded 1-2 punch gives back everything at 3-4-5 against No Excuses' wall of orange. Cut the spread in half and the order flips.

Five-man average 10:44.6, spread 0:43.7 — the tightest pack in the top five, all five raced.
Jack Ilea 10:25.3, Gabriel Garback 10:34.5, Joel Cordero 10:47.0, Alexis Hernandez 10:47.4, Alejandro Hernandez 11:09.0.

Forty-four seconds one-to-five with no projections anywhere in the squad. What they showed at Jim Ryun is real, current, and complete.

Five-man average 10:44.8, spread 1:44.2.
Maxwell Claypool 9:53.9, Parker Whittamore 10:11.8, Finn Dempsey 10:33.4, Jose Gomez 11:26.7, Bryson Whittamore 11:38.1.

Two of the six fastest boys in the state and then a fifty-second cliff to the four spot. The ceiling is second; the four-five gap is the whole problem.

Five-man average 10:51.7, spread 1:00.2.
Kaleb Jacobs 10:27.2, Alexander Grimes 10:28.1, Beckett Ribolzi 10:29.4, Declan Ashton 11:26.1, Asher Evans 11:27.5.

Won the Wolves Run in Tallahassee with a three-man front pack separated by two seconds. Two points out of fourth with a schoolyard roster against clubs — the best school-only program in the state right now.

Projected five-man average 10:58.3, spread 1:09.5 — all five on November times.
Antonio Alvarez Valdes 10:23.2, Juan Andres Dasburg 10:46.6, Ruslan Lefrak 10:51.7, Nicolas Adler 11:17.1, Sebastian Dangond 11:32.7.

Nobody has seen them since October and they still project sixth. A full-projection team with a returning 10:23 front-runner is the classic beat-the-seed setup.

Five-man average 11:04.0, spread 1:10.3.
Landon Heitmeyer 10:22.5, Warren Campbell 10:48.7, Levi Renn 11:14.9, Grayson Berry 11:22.2, Isaiah Therrien 11:32.8.

Second at the Wolves Run behind Deerlake. Heitmeyer's opener says the front end travels; the Tallahassee rivalry will decide who owns the Panhandle school scene.

Projected five-man average 11:04.8, spread 1:38.8.
Liam Jopling 10:01.3, Benson Porter 11:08.4, Cael Rusmisel 11:14.0, Gavin Gheen 11:20.2, Jackson Porter 11:40.1.

The best returning individual in the state and four teammates, all unraced. Jopling alone moves this squad three spots the day they open.

Projected five-man average 11:08.7, spread 1:40.3.
Aiden M. Cruz 10:19.3, Jake Rubiera 10:27.6, Jacob Jasinski 11:20.0, Jose Sosa 11:36.9, Vittorio Stasi 11:59.6.

The feeder system behind the state's best high school program returns a 10:19/10:27 front pair of 7th graders. The Wolverine pipeline is not slowing down.

Five-man average 11:01.4, spread 2:11.2.
Elliot Macki 10:06.6, Daniel Hage 10:07.0, Holden Byrd 10:37.4, Ian Bryce 11:58.7, Judah Daniel 12:17.8.

Three boys under 10:38 — a top-three front pack in this field — and exactly five finishers total. One kid at 11:15 instead of 11:58 and they're fifth.