Here are the final instructions for all of the F.A.C.A. Cross Country Senior All-Stars.
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It's time for the latest round of selections for the 2014 Florida Athletic Coaches Association Cross Country Senior All Star Meet!
The final set of the FACA Official Cross Country Rankings of 2014, the Pre-State Championship Rankings! Good luck to everyone in Tallahassee this weekend. Bundle up and run fast!
With only one week to go, it's time to really start breaking down all of the top seniors from around the state in preparation for the Florida Athletic Coaches Association's Senior All-Star Meet. Some top selections have already been made by the FACA All-Star Committee, while the rest of the athletes will be selected this Sunday to start rounding out the teams.
Very similar to last year's 4A Region 4 Championship where there were many of the top individuals and teams from the State all going head-to-head with each other, this year's version of the same meet followed in the exact same suit...
The fifth installment of this year's FACA Official Cross Country Rankings of 2014, the Pre-Regional Rankings! Thers is only one meet between now and State so let's see which top teams and individuals look to be advancing to Tallahassee next week!
As the 2014 XC season starts coming to a close, here is the second Watch List for the Florida Athletic Coaches Association's Senior All-Star Meet! There are two more weeks unti the final Watch Listing comes out after the State Championship, so keep working hard seniors!
The 2014 edition of the GMAC Championship was an affair at Larry & Penny Thompson Park, featuring better weather that usual, but the same athletes and teams vying for top honors as we've seen the past few years in Miami...
The fourth set of the FACA's Official Cross Country State Rankings of 2014. Pre-State has passed, it's time for championships, let's see which teams and athletes will be bringing home the gold in the coming weeks!
Now that we're halfway through this 2014 cross country season, here's some information pertaining to one of Florida's most prestigious events of the year, the Florida Athletic Coaches Association's Senior All-Star Meet!
The third set of the FACA's Official Cross Country State Rankings of 2014. After a wet and muddy Flrunners Invitational for most schools around the state, let's see how everyone faired...
It was another typical hot and steamy day at Larry & Penny Thompson Park in Miami as the Ferguson Falcons Invitational kicked off in the morning with the middle school races, and the weather trend continued through the afternoon for the high school races until the lightning came in...
The 32nd Annual Spanish River Invitational kicked off on Saturday morning with a few changes to the usual routine, but the tradition of one of the biggest and longest standing South Florida competitions continued successfully...
The second set of the FACA's Official Cross Country State Rankings of 2014. Let's see what our pollsters have to say after the first three weeks of competitive racing...
The Miami-Dade County Fair & Expo along with the Miami-Dade Youth Sports Championship Program came together this year to help put on one of the best Dade County Youth Fair Cross Country Championships that has been seen in Miami in a long time...
The Key West XCursion meet has always been a relatively low-key meet that usually caters to a handful of teams from South Florida, but to kick off this season, there were over 100 athletes from nine different schools attending yesterday, making it one of the biggest races they've ever put together. The race is run on the Key West Golf Course, but don't let the bermuda grass fool you...
The first set of of the FACA's Official Cross Country State Rankings of 2014 have arrived!
The King of the Hill CC Opener was a highly anticipated meet coming into this new 2014 cross country season, and the meet lived up to its excitement. The coaches and administrative staff at Christopher Columbus HS and Lourdes Academy came together to host a fine cross country meet...
As Florida gets ready to kick off the 2014 cross country season, there has been much excitement being generated in South Florida as Tropical Park in Miami has been revamped by the Parks and Recreation Department, along with the helps of local cross country coaches.
The battle for the 2A Girls Cross Country State Title has seen some similar faces the last couple of years, and this year looks to be no different. Once again two top girls representing your two top teams, Mackenzie Wilson of Bolles and Julia Montgomery of Pine Crest, look to have another epic XC season after stellar year for both girls.
As we transition into the 2014-15 school year and shift from track & field back to cross country, it's fun to utilize the flrunners database to see just what teams dominated distance races on the track and what happens if you scored those events as a cross country meet. This is by far one of my favorite features. Here's what the database tells us...
As we transition into the 2014-15 school year and shift from track & field back to cross country, it's fun to utilize the flrunners database to see just what teams dominated distance races on the track and what happens if you scored those events as a cross country meet. This is by far one of my favorite features. Here's what the database tells us...
Here are the final instructions for all of the F.A.C.A. Cross Country Senior All-Stars.
An early morning fog greeted the top seniors in the state to Tallahassee for the FACA Senior All-Star Meet. The south team drove the furthest of the bunch, but that didn't stop them from taking some hardware back. Katrina Santiago of Ferguson and Manny Velasquez of St. Thomas Aquinas won individual titles, while the South girls took home the team trophy. Coach Kris Keppel's West squad won the boys team trophy.
The final listing of the top senior athletes in the state, by geographical location, in preparation for the 2013 FACA Cross Country Senior All-Star Meet.
Here is the third installment of the FACA Senior All-Star Watch List looking at all of the top senior performances from around the state over the last two weeks of racing!
Well the season is just about over as the FHSAA State Finals will be raced this weekend in Tallahassee. Here's the last set of rankings as put together by our FACA Volunteer Pollster's for the 2013 Cross Country season!
On a typical hot and humid day at Larry & Penny Thompson Park, the 4A Region 4 Championship was anything but typical as most teams, and many individuals, had what can only be described as just a very strange meet.
We are less than two weeks away from the state meet in Tallahassee. Regional competition starts Thursday with Class 2A Region 4 and will continue through Saturday morning. Over the course of the week we will take a look at the road to state for each class. Sit, back, relax, and enjoy our meet previews and virtual meet exclusively for MileSplit Insiders. If you don't have a subscription now is the time to get one!