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St. Johns Country Day (Orange Park)

1A Region 1 · District 2 · also appears as: St. Johns Country Day, St. Johns Country Day School

#9 Preseason 1A Girls#12 Preseason 1A Boys#4 Week 1 1A Girls#7 Week 1 1A Boys

Preseason returner projection (Boys): proj. rank 12 in 1A · score 253 · top-5 avg 19:06.3 · spread 0:45.3 · 6 returners from state
Arlo Kistner (SR) 18:45.5; Thomas Nichols (SR) 18:51.7; Judson Myers (FR) 19:03.2; Nathan Kipnis (SR) 19:20.3; Marcus Giles (JR) 19:30.8
Preseason returner projection (Girls): proj. rank 9 in 1A · score 279 · top-5 avg 22:39.0 · spread 3:52.0 · 7 returners from state
Kate Staten (SO) 20:04.6; Ella Rose Hanna (SO) 22:15.5; Matilda Morris (SO) 23:16.1; Hadley Price (FR) 23:42.2; Lillian Hanna (7th) 23:56.6

Current roster (24)

AthleteClassThis season (5k)Last season (5k)Races
GCatherine Staten202920:30.01
GElla Rose Hanna202920:38.022:15.52
GLillian Hanna203222:40.023:56.62
GOlivia Morris202922:45.024:21.82
GEleanor Myers202723:13.01
GGraham Morris203223:25.01
GXiaoxing Troxell203023:54.023:58.92
GMatilda Morris202924:10.023:16.12
GHadley Price203024:46.023:42.22
GLauren Nightingale203026:47.01
GCaris Morgan202826:49.01
GKate Staten202920:04.61
GNatalia CONDE2
GOlivia RACHAL2
BNathan Kipnis202718:08.019:20.32
BArlo Kistner202718:11.018:45.52
BJudson Myers203018:45.019:03.23
BThomas Nichols202718:46.018:51.72
BElijah Larsen203019:56.01
BMarcus Giles202820:57.019:30.82
BIsaiah Larsen202921:11.021:48.62
BJackson GITTINGS2
BRyan MITCHELL2
BWilliam BOOZER2

Team results

DateMeetRacePlaceScoreAvg
2026-08-21Cecil Field Summer ClassicBoys B829118:45
2026-08-21Cecil Field Summer ClassicGirls Elite2163021:57
2026-08-21Cecil Field Summer ClassicMiddle School1236613:43.40

Team ranking writeups

#4 — 1A Girls Week 1 · 203 points

Cecil Field. Five-man average 21:57.2, spread 2:43.0.
Catherine Staten 20:30, Ella Rose Hanna 20:38, Lillian Hanna 22:40, Olivia Morris 22:45, Eleanor Myers 23:13, Graham Morris 23:25, Xiaoxing Troxell 23:54.

Ninth in the preseason, fourth now, and the improvement is team-wide rather than one runner. Against the 28.8-second tax: Ella Rose Hanna took 97.5 seconds off her state time, Olivia Morris 96.8, Lillian Hanna 76.6. Three girls each improved by more than a minute and a half in real terms.

A note for anyone checking our returner files against the results: Catherine Staten in the Cecil results is the same runner as "Kate Staten" in the returner rankings, 20:04.6 at state. She raced, ran 20:30, and is correctly scored here. She was not a no-show.

Seven runners on the course, seven state returners in the program. This is the deepest 1A girls team in Florida and the one most likely to still be climbing in October.

#7 — 1A Boys Week 1 · 263 points

Cecil Field. Five-man average 18:45.2, spread 1:48.0.
Nathan Kipnis 18:08, Arlo Kistner 18:11, Judson Myers 18:45, Thomas Nichols 18:46, Elijah Larsen 19:56.

Twelfth in the preseason, seventh now, on a clean four-man front — Kipnis, Kistner, Myers and Nichols inside 38 seconds of each other. The fifth man is the whole issue: Larsen at 19:56 is 1:10 behind Nichols and turns a 1:11 four-man spread into a 1:48 five-man one.

No individual heroics here, just a team that moved up on being complete on a day several teams above it were not.