Oak Hall did not race on opening weekend and were fifth on projection a week ago. At Whispering Pines they put five girls across in 79 seconds, and in the most top-heavy class in Florida, five is worth more than anything else you can bring.
Florida Class 1A girls cross country team rankings through two weeks: August 21-29, 2026
Class 1A girls is the most top-heavy classification in Florida. Seven of the ten fastest individual marks in the class belong to teams outside its top five. The widest 1-5 spread in this top ten is 5:35. The narrowest is 1:19.
The new No. 1 is Oak Hall, who did not race on opening weekend at all and were ranked fifth on projection a week ago. At Whispering Pines they put five girls across in 79 seconds and it turns out that in this class, five is worth more than anything else you can bring.
A warning about the scores. There were 36 scoreable teams in this class a week ago. There are 56 now. Bigger field, bigger place numbers, bigger scores. Compare the order and the five-girl averages, not the points.
As always this is data plus judgment, and we will miss somebody along the way. A (P) beside a team means it did not put five runners on a rateable line and is entered on what its returners ran last November. Nine of the 56 teams in this class are in that position, more than any other classification. How we sorted it all out is at the bottom. Races are not won until the kids have run. Enjoy.
About the times. Every mark below is the time the runner actually ran that day. The number in parentheses after it is what that time is worth at Cecil Field, which is what the scoring uses. On a neutral course — Cecil Field itself — there is only one number. A projected team's marks are its runners' 2025 state times.
The 1A individuals are here, and the week 1 edition of this list is here. Statewide: week 2 girls top 10 and the week 1 girls team top 10. The other class team lists this week: 2A girls, 3A girls, 4A girls and 1A boys.
1. Oak Hall — 145 points
Whispering Pines, converted average 21:20.6, spread 1:19.4, finishing 10-30-33-35-37 in Class 1A. Natalie Kay 20:16.3 (20:21.5), Reese Allen 21:21.3 (21:26.5), Madeline Kay 21:31.4 (21:36.6), Lola Murfee 21:32.5 (21:37.7), Macie Bell 21:35.8 (21:41.0).
They do not have the fastest average in the class and they do not have a single girl in the class's top nine individually. What they have is four runners between 30th and 37th — a fourteen-second block in the middle of the field — and in a class where the second-place team's fourth and fifth are 39th and 43rd, that is the whole margin. Fifth on projection a week ago, first now, and they earned it by running. They are entered at the Florida Horse Park on Saturday, where they will meet Providence, Cornerstone Classical and Maclay.
2. Holy Trinity — 150 points
Indian River Fairgrounds, converted average 21:16.0 — the best in Class 1A — spread 1:19.8, finishing 16-21-31-39-43. Taylor Geraghty 20:38.5 (20:30.7), Kelly Geraghty 20:55.9 (20:48.1), Abby Connors 21:35.6 (21:27.8), Caleigh Schmoll 21:50.8 (21:43.0), Juelle Maaser 21:58.3 (21:50.5).
First a week ago, second now, by five points, and not because anything went wrong. Their Cecil Field average was 21:19.4 and their Fairgrounds average was 21:16.0 — the same team, 3.4 seconds better, with Abby Connors moving up from fifth scorer to third. Under the week-two drift test below, they are back to No. 1. Treat first and second in this class as a coin standing on its edge.
3. Indian Rocks Christian — 169 points — (P)
Adelyn Lubke 19:21.8, Alexandra Middleton 19:58.7, Sage Bonham 21:04.1, Emma Tress 21:46.2, Makena Webb 21:50.0 on projection. Average 21:17.0, second-best in the class, on a 2:28.2 spread.
Two weeks, no meet. Second a week ago, third now, and the ranking has not moved because of anything they did — two teams raced and passed them. Lubke is the No. 9 individual in 1A on last November's mark and has not opened. The number to watch is the sixth and seventh: 154th and 265th in the class, 2:22 and nearly six minutes behind the fifth. If those are the real depth, Indian Rocks is a top-three team with no margin at all.
4. Westminster Academy — 205 points
Cecil Field, average 21:33.6, spread 3:19.0, finishing 5-29-34-60-77. Noelle Richardson 19:36.0 is the No. 6 individual in Class 1A, then Reese Richardson 21:22.0, Avery Carvell 21:37.0, Lauren Sauer 22:18.0, Isla Oles 22:55.0.
Third a week ago, fourth now, and they have not raced since August 21. They brought six girls to Cecil Field, which is one more than the minimum, and the sixth was 23:51.0. A 3:19 spread is the sixth-widest in this top ten and the reason a team with the fastest front runner in the top five is only fourth.
5. St. Johns Country Day — 265 points
Cecil Field, average 21:57.2, spread 2:43.0, finishing 14-18-70-73-90. Catherine Staten 20:30.0 and Ella Rose Hanna 20:38.0 eight seconds apart, and then a two-minute hole to Lillian Hanna, Olivia Morris and Eleanor Myers.
Fourth to fifth, unchanged and unraced. Two girls in the class's top eighteen, then two minutes of nothing. Same team as a week ago, same problem.
6. Providence — 289 points
Cecil Field, average 21:57.8, spread 3:51.0, finishing 6-24-55-95-109. Emma Akhundjanov 19:43.0 is the No. 7 individual in 1A, Sara Palmer 21:02.0, then Katie Cunningham, Leeza Loftin and Lyla Frady.
Sixth to sixth. Their No. 1 and No. 2 are worth 30 points between them and their No. 4 and No. 5 are worth 204. They are entered at the Horse Park Saturday, and a class where five of the top seven have not run since August 21 is a class where one good Saturday moves a lot.
7. Cornerstone Classical — 301 points
Cecil Field, average 21:55.4 — better than both teams ranked ahead of them — spread 3:41.0, finishing 11-20-23-112-135. Faith Dykens 20:23.0, Abigail Love 20:45.0 and Molly Kline 20:49.0 finish 11th, 20th and 23rd in the class, inside 26 seconds of each other.
Then it falls off a cliff: Elle Zimmer at 112th and Peyton Leavitt at 135th, 2:47 and 3:15 behind Kline. The best front three in Class 1A that is not projected, and the seventh-best team. Seventh a week ago, seventh now. They are at the Horse Park Saturday.
8. Community School (Naples) — 310 points
New to the top ten. At the Cape Coral Seahawk Invitational they entered exactly five girls and all five finished: Emily Del Mazo-Collado, a seventh grader, won the race outright in 20:08.7, worth 19:29.9 at Cecil and fifth in Class 1A individually. Rose O'Malley, Bri Gladstein and Lilly Stanosheck came in inside 30 seconds of each other, and Noelle Alsokary closed at 25:16.1 (24:37.3).
A 5:07 spread, second-widest in this top ten, and no sixth runner at all — if any of those five has a bad day this team does not score. It is a fragile eighth, and it is eighth because a seventh grader is beating everybody in southwest Florida.
9. All Saints' — 338 points
Kowboy Invitational, converted average 22:07.2, spread 5:35.4 — the widest in this top ten — finishing 3-19-58-92-166. Charlotte Roy, an eighth grader, ran 19:14.4 — worth 19:24.3 at Cecil — and finished third in this class field; Kylie Cook 20:30.3 (20:40.2); then Lindsey Cook, Savannah Simonds and Maggie Koch.
New to the top ten and they brought twelve girls to the Kowboy, so the depth is being built rather than borrowed. Roy and Kylie Cook are worth 22 points; the other three are worth 316.
10. Southwest Florida Christian — 343 points
Lemon Bay, converted average 22:19.2, spread 4:08.8, finishing 15-17-72-86-153. Ayla Tobias 20:31.4 (20:30.2) and Jayden Wilkins 20:36.6 (20:35.4) five seconds apart, 15th and 17th in the class, and then a 2:07 gap.
Ninth to tenth. They also raced North Port in week two and averaged 22:37.6 there, so the board still uses Lemon Bay. Four points clear of Maclay behind them.
Just missed
11. Maclay, 347. Eighth a week ago, eleventh now. Their 1:48.0 spread at Cecil Field is the sixth-tightest in Class 1A and the tightest of any team ranked fourth through fourteenth — Lilly Bell, Madison McVay and Ava Wenleder inside 26 seconds and Marguerite Miller and Abigail Stephens two seconds apart. What they do not have is a runner inside the first 37 of the class. They are at the Horse Park Saturday.
12. Master's Academy (Oviedo), 375 (P). Tenth a week ago. A correction: week one's list printed this program as Masters Academy of Vero Beach. The FHSAA returner file lists Rachel Judy and Avery Gervais at the Vero Beach campus, but Judy is on The Master's Academy of Oviedo's roster and both girls' 2026 results are recorded there. Both campuses are Class 1A, so nothing about the ranking changes.
13. Seacoast Collegiate, 396. 14. Lakeland Christian, 403 — Emma Wilkinson ran 18:57.7 at Lake Region, worth 19:05.7 at Cecil and the fastest mark by any 1A girl on a scoreable team, and her team's second runner is 40th.
One more not on this page: Mary Summers of Seven Rivers Christian is the No. 1 individual in Class 1A, and Seven Rivers cannot field a scoreable five.
How much of this is the courses?
Swing every disputed course rating to the other end of its range and the top five hold exactly; Community School moves to sixth ahead of Providence and Cornerstone, and Southwest Florida Christian and Maclay take ninth and tenth from All Saints'.
Take the week-two courses 7.2 seconds less generously — the size of the measured week-one-to-week-two drift for girls, half the boys' figure — and Holy Trinity is first and Oak Hall second. Everything from third down holds, except that Maclay takes ninth and All Saints' drops to eleventh.
So: the No. 1 team in Class 1A depends on how generously you read Whispering Pines, and the answer is coming on Saturday, when Oak Hall, Providence, Cornerstone Classical and Maclay all line up at the Florida Horse Park.
How this works
Every August mark is converted to a Cecil Field equivalent using the runners who raced both that course and the 2025 state meet, matched on name and school. Each school is entered on its five fastest converted times from its single best meet — not a mix-and-match of its best days. Those five, and the sixth and seventh where they exist, are dropped into one virtual race against every other Class 1A team and scored the way cross country is scored: top five count, sixth and seventh displace, five finishers required, low score wins.
Because the field is Class 1A only, these scores are not the ones on the statewide team board. A team's rank there and here can differ: the statewide list scores it against 273 teams, this one against 56.
A school that did not field five runners on a rateable course — or that fielded five without at least two of its returning top-five scorers — is entered on its returning five's 2025 state times plus the August constant of 28.8 seconds, which is how much slower the girls' field ran in August than at the state meet. Those teams are marked (P). Five returners with state times are required, so a program with four cannot be ranked at all. Six of the twenty-nine courses run in the first two weeks could not be rated against the state meet, and results from them are not in these numbers. Classifications are the FHSAA's finalized 2026-27 lists.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the No. 1 Class 1A girls cross country team in Florida in Week 2? expand_more
Oak Hall, on 145 points. At Whispering Pines they converted to a 21:20.6 average on a 1:19.4 spread, with four runners finishing between 28th and 35th in the class. They do not have the fastest average in 1A and they do not have a girl in the class's top nine, and they are first anyway, because nobody else stacks four runners like that.
How close are Oak Hall and Holy Trinity in Class 1A? expand_more
Five points, and it depends on a course rating. Holy Trinity has the best five-girl average in the class at 21:16.0 and Oak Hall's ranking comes from a Whispering Pines race. Read the week-two courses 7.2 seconds less generously, the size of the measured girls' drift between weeks, and Holy Trinity is first.
Why are so many Class 1A girls teams ranked on projections? expand_more
Nine of the 56 scoreable teams in this class are entered on their returners' 2025 state times, more than any other classification, because 1A programs are small and many did not put five girls on a rated course in the first two weeks. Those teams are marked (P).
Is Master's Academy in the rankings listed as Vero Beach or Oviedo? expand_more
Oviedo. Week one's list printed the program as Masters Academy of Vero Beach, following the FHSAA returner file, which lists Rachel Judy and Avery Gervais at that campus. Judy appears on The Master's Academy of Oviedo's roster and both girls' 2026 results are recorded there. Both campuses are Class 1A, so the ranking itself is unaffected.