FACA Senior All-Star Classic Info & Watch List #1

With the close to September, we're now about halfway through the 2021 cross country season. Which means it's time to start discussing one of Florida's most prestigious events of the year, the Florida Athletic Coaches Association's Senior All-Star Classic! Every year during the post season, after the FHSAA State Championship, the F-A-C-A extends official invitations to the top 64 senior athletes from around the state (32 boys and 32 girls) to be able to participate in an intimate, fun, and entertaining competition.

For the fifth consecutive year this competition will be held at Holloway Park in Lakeland. This venue has been the home to more than a dozen cross country competitions, including the flrunners.com Invitational and the FLYRA MS State Championship. This year's competition will be held on Friday, November 19th, with the festivities starting on Thursday the 18th. That weekend is one week after the FHSAA State Championship, and one week before the Foot Locker South and Nike Cross Southeast Region races.

FACA Senior All-Star Classic Meet Page: http://fl.milesplit.com/meets/438617/info

For all of those earning the honor of competing for their respective geographical locations from around the state, the selected seniors will be honored at the event in a variety of fashions. All competing seniors have received a variety of gifts over the years such as: official FACA team jerseys, FACA commemorative t-shirts, FACA drawstring shoe bags, and more! The FACA wants to ensure that all of our state's top seniors come home with many great memories and keepsakes from this great annual event!

The 2020 top ten male All-Star finishers with their award medals and championship plaque.

Even through the pandemic riddled year, last year was a great event which saw the West girls team winning for the fourth time in the last five years, while the North boys team picked up the narrow 3 point win over the West boys team preventing a three-peat. Individually, Jacquelyn Abanses picked up the narrow 1 second victory for the West girls, marking the fourth consecutive individual champion for the West, and on the boys side Aiden Arnold brought home the individual championship for the East boys!

2020 FACA Senior All-Star Results: https://fl.milesplit.com/meets/402361/results

2020 FACA Senior All-Star North Boys Champs Video: https://fl.milesplit.com/videos/452689/

Looking ahead to the 2021 edition of this event, here is a preliminary listing of all of the top male and female seniors from the geographical locations around the state: East, North, South, and West. We will continue to post watch lists throughout the remainder of the season and won't make final selections for each team (top 8 per team) until after the FHSAA State Championship. Although the selections are more heavily decided with State Series results, overall season performance does count as well. So here's a first look at which seniors have performed well this season through the end of September...


Girls FACA Senior All-Star Watch List #1:

East Girls - Initial Watch List

Rank Time Athlete/Team Grade Meet Date Place
1 16:40.20
Winter Springs HS
2022
2 18:55.00
Timber Creek HS
2022
3 19:29.62
Circle Christian School
2022
4 19:35.05
West Orange HS
2022
5 19:42.26
Harmony HS
2022
6 19:45.62
Lake Wales HS
2022
7 19:58.10
Winter Springs HS
2022
8 19:58.53
Timber Creek HS
2022
9 19:58.70
Titusville HS
2022
10 19:59.97
Olympia HS
2022
11 20:05.00
Winter Park HS
2022
12 20:08.84
Bishop Moore HS
2022
13 20:09.90
Titusville HS
2022
14 20:28.30
Timber Creek HS
2022
15 20:36.20
George Jenkins HS
2022
16 20:42.60
Lake Mary HS
2022
17 20:43.93
Dr. Phillips HS
2022
18 20:45.97
Timber Creek HS
2022
19 20:47.57
Timber Creek HS
2022
20 20:48.00
Winter Park HS
2022
21 20:50.49
Seabreeze HS
2022
22 20:51.05
Hardee HS
2022
23 20:51.50
Jensen Beach HS
2022
24 20:51.80
Fort Pierce Westwood HS
2022
25 20:55.00
Sanford Seminole HS
2022
26 21:02.00
Spruce Creek HS
2022
27 21:12.74
Satellite High School
2022
28 21:15.64
West Orange HS
2022
29 21:28.00
Satellite High School
2022
30 21:29.70
Winter Springs HS
2022


North Girls - Initial Watch List

Rank Time Athlete/Team Grade Meet Date Place
1 19:02.00
Oak Hall School
2022
2 19:03.00
St. Augustine HS
2022
3 19:18.00
Flagler Palm Coast HS
2022
4 19:22.00
Ponte Vedra HS
2022
5 19:35.00
Pedro Menendez High School
2022
6 19:43.00
University Christian School
2022
7 19:49.00
South Walton HS
2022
8 19:57.70
Bolles HS
2022
9 20:01.31
Choctawhatchee HS
2022
10 20:03.00
Bolles HS
2022
11 20:05.00
Chiles HS
2022
12 20:09.00
Chiles HS
2022
13 20:11.00
Nease HS
2022
14 20:15.00
Bishop Kenny HS
2022
15 20:18.00
Mandarin HS
2022
16 20:28.00
Mandarin HS
2022
17 20:30.00
Bartram Trail HS
2022
18 20:33.00
Fleming Island HS
2022
19 20:37.00
Mandarin HS
2022
20 20:39.80
Gainesville HS
2022
21 20:41.00
Mandarin HS
2022
22 20:44.60
Choctawhatchee HS
2022
23 20:45.50
Gulf Breeze HS
2022
24 20:47.00
Fletcher HS
2022
25 20:47.30
Pensacola Christian Academy
2022
26 20:49.90
Flagler Palm Coast HS
2022
27 21:00.00
Wakulla HS
2022
28 21:06.60
Choctawhatchee HS
2022
29 21:12.00
Bartram Trail HS
2022
30 21:12.32
Eastside HS
2022


South Girls - Initial Watch List

Rank Time Athlete/Team Grade Meet Date Place
1 19:02.00
Spanish River HS
2022
2 19:37.90
Our Lady of Lourdes Academy (Miami)
2022
3 19:46.00
Spanish River HS
2022
4 19:49.80
The King's Academy
2022
5 20:01.99
Gulliver Prep HS
2022
6 20:12.48
Miami Sunset HS
2022
7 20:13.50
Our Lady of Lourdes Academy (Miami)
2022
8 20:53.60
Our Lady of Lourdes Academy (Miami)
2022
9 21:02.96
Gulliver Prep HS
2022
10 21:04.22
Ransom Everglades School
2022
11 21:10.24
Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart
2022
12 21:11.71
Miami Southridge HS
2022
13 21:13.70
Coral Reef HS
2022
14 21:15.62
Cardinal Gibbons HS
2022
15 21:20.80
Mater Academy Charter MS/HS
2022
16 21:28.30
Dillard HS
2022
17 21:30.48
Gulliver Prep HS
2022
18 21:32.98
Benjamin School
2022
19 21:36.60
American Heritage MS/HS (Boca Delray)
2022
20 21:45.08
FAU High School
2022
21 21:54.65
Gulliver Prep HS
2022
22 21:54.80
Douglas HS
2022
23 21:55.37
Our Lady of Lourdes Academy (Miami)
2022
24 21:58.00
Boca Raton HS
2022
25 22:17.90
St. John Paul II Academy
2022
26 22:18.00
Key West HS
2022
27 22:18.15
Coral Reef HS
2022
28 22:20.93
Miami Country Day School
2022
29 22:21.80
Our Lady of Lourdes Academy (Miami)
2022
30 22:24.20
G. Holmes Braddock HS
2022


West Girls - Initial Watch List

Rank Time Athlete/Team Grade Meet Date Place
1 17:51.48
Cambridge (Christian) School
2022
2 18:04.82
Cambridge (Christian) School
2022
3 18:42.22
Wharton HS
2022
4 18:48.90
IMG Academy
2022
5 18:51.55
Lakewood Ranch HS
2022
6 18:55.63
Lake Minneola HS
2022
7 18:55.92
Newsome HS
2022
8 19:04.17
Newsome HS
2022
9 19:25.60
Venice HS
2022
10 19:38.30
Tampa Bay HEAT
2022
11 19:43.68
Berkeley Prep HS
2022
12 19:43.90
IMG Academy
2022
13 19:45.94
Newsome HS
2022
14 19:46.70
Calvary Christian (Clearwater)
2022
15 19:54.10
South Fort Myers HS
2022
16 19:56.11
Osceola HS (Seminole)
2022
17 19:59.50
Fort Myers HS
2022
18 20:01.20
Palmetto Ridge HS
2022
19 20:02.16
HB Plant HS
2022
20 20:13.95
Wharton HS
2022
21 20:18.75
HB Plant HS
2022
22 20:26.48
Lakewood Ranch HS
2022
23 20:26.68
HB Plant HS
2022
24 20:30.00
First Academy of Leesburg
2022
25 20:31.55
Cambridge (Christian) School
2022
26 20:34.07
Sunlake HS
2022
27 20:34.90
Estero HS
2022
28 20:36.70
Cape Coral HS
2022
29 20:36.90
St. Petersburg HS
2022
30 20:37.40
Robinson HS
2022


Boys FACA Senior All-Star Watch List #1:

East Boys - Initial Watch List

Rank Time Athlete/Team Grade Meet Date Place
1 15:08.70
Viera HS
2022
2 15:26.00
Trinity Prep
2022
3 15:36.71
Satellite High School
2022
4 15:52.98
Satellite High School
2022
5 15:56.00
Satellite High School
2022
6 15:59.90
Viera HS
2022
7 16:07.46
Foundation Academy
2022
8 16:11.70
Martin County HS
2022
9 16:13.90
Viera HS
2022
10 16:20.43
Celebration HS
2022
11 16:39.00
Circle Christian School
2022
12 16:41.00
Timber Creek HS
2022
13 16:47.60
Lake Highland Prep HS
2022
14 16:48.50
Winter Park HS
2022
15 16:55.50
St. Cloud HS
2022
16 16:58.30
South Fork HS
2022
17 16:59.65
St. Cloud HS
2022
18 17:00.38
The Master's Academy (Oviedo)
2022
19 17:07.50
Seabreeze HS
2022
20 17:08.00
Lake Mary HS
2022
21 17:09.90
Timber Creek HS
2022
22 17:10.32
Heritage HS - Palm Bay
2022
23 17:12.85
Satellite High School
2022
24 17:15.75
Olympia HS
2022
25 17:18.00
Sebring HS
2022
26 17:20.38
The Geneva School
2022
27 17:21.41
West Shore HS
2022
28 17:21.60
DeLand HS
2022
29 17:22.48
Lakeland Christian School
2022
30 17:24.15
West Orange HS
2022


North Boys - Initial Watch List

Rank Time Athlete/Team Grade Meet Date Place
1 15:12.00
Nease HS
2022
2 15:21.00
St. Johns Country Day School
2022
3 15:40.00
Chiles HS
2022
4 15:58.00
Bolles HS
2022
5 16:05.00
Pensacola Christian Academy
2022
6 16:07.00
Bolles HS
2022
7 16:11.30
Belleview High School
2022
8 16:15.00
Fort Walton Beach HS
2022
9 16:19.00
Bartram Trail HS
2022
10 16:29.70
Ocala Vanguard HS
2022
11 16:31.00
Chiles HS
2022
12 16:31.70
West Port HS
2022
13 16:33.00
Buchholz HS
2022
14 16:36.00
Buchholz HS
2022
15 16:38.00
Nease HS
2022
16 16:42.00
Creekside HS
2022
16 16:42.00
Niceville HS
2022
18 16:43.00
Oak Hall School
2022
19 16:45.60
Choctawhatchee HS
2022
20 16:45.90
Bartram Trail HS
2022
21 16:46.00
Bartram Trail HS
2022
22 16:47.00
Ridgeview HS
2022
23 16:48.00
Bartram Trail HS
2022
24 16:49.70
St. Francis Catholic HS
2022
25 16:51.03
North Marion HS
2022
26 16:53.00
Oak Hall School
2022
27 16:53.20
Ponte Vedra HS
2022
28 16:55.00
Bartram Trail HS
2022
29 16:55.20
Gainesville HS
2022
30 16:59.00
St. Augustine HS
2022


South Boys - Initial Watch List

Rank Time Athlete/Team Grade Meet Date Place
1 14:57.70
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
2022
2 15:57.50
Spanish River HS
2022
3 16:02.50
West Boca Raton HS
2022
4 16:07.40
G. Holmes Braddock HS
2022
5 16:10.40
Christopher Columbus HS
2022
6 16:11.40
Saint Andrew's HS
2022
7 16:12.20
Boca Raton HS
2022
8 16:30.80
Palmer Trinity School
2022
9 16:31.60
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
2022
10 16:37.90
Flanagan HS
2022
11 16:38.30
Saint Andrew's HS
2022
12 16:41.90
Miami Sunset HS
2022
13 16:44.30
Miami Palmetto HS
2022
14 16:46.30
Western HS
2022
15 16:50.80
Spanish River HS
2022
16 16:51.80
Christopher Columbus HS
2022
17 16:57.14
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
2022
18 17:06.44
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
2022
19 17:09.20
Ransom Everglades School
2022
20 17:10.40
Boca Raton HS
2022
21 17:11.60
Boca Raton HS
2022
22 17:11.90
Cypress Bay HS
2022
23 17:13.43
Spanish River HS
2022
24 17:20.50
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
2022
25 17:21.50
Christopher Columbus HS
2022
26 17:23.90
Coral Reef HS
2022
27 17:24.22
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
2022
28 17:25.00
Spanish River HS
2022
29 17:25.70
Gulliver Prep HS
2022
30 17:26.00
Palmer Trinity School
2022


West Boys - Initial Watch List

Rank Time Athlete/Team Grade Meet Date Place
1 15:29.12
Berkeley Prep HS
2022
2 15:31.80
IMG Academy
2022
3 15:54.70
HB Plant HS
2022
4 15:54.90
Fort Myers HS
2022
5 15:56.90
IMG Academy
2022
6 15:58.73
Alonso HS
2022
7 15:59.00
Newsome HS
2022
8 16:00.22
Out of Door Academy
2022
9 16:06.45
Indian Rocks Christian
2022
10 16:07.65
Seffner Christian
2022
11 16:08.70
Port Charlotte HS
2022
12 16:11.00
Sunlake HS
2022
13 16:13.00
Lehigh HS
2022
14 16:16.57
East Lake HS
2022
15 16:18.01
East Ridge HS
2022
16 16:18.60
Naples HS
2022
17 16:21.91
Palmetto Senior HS
2022
18 16:23.87
Sunlake HS
2022
19 16:25.60
Osceola HS (Seminole)
2022
20 16:29.60
Dunedin HS
2022
21 16:30.00
Naples HS
2022
22 16:31.40
IMG Academy
2022
23 16:31.94
Estero HS
2022
24 16:32.00
Newsome HS
2022
25 16:35.90
Calvary Christian (Clearwater)
2022
26 16:36.99
South Lake HS
2022
27 16:39.07
Dunbar HS
2022
28 16:39.70
Ida S. Baker HS
2022
29 16:40.53
Riverview HS
2022
30 16:40.70
North Fort Myers HS
2022


* Please note that these lists will change throughout the season and all final selections will not be until after the FHSAA State Finals. Although many athletes run great performances at the beginning of each season, we'll be looking for which seniors are performing the best at the end of the season, particularly during the state series, although performances throughout the season will be taken into consideration. Please remember that each geographical region will only have eight individuals selected to represent their team, so keep working hard to make that top-eight, seniors!

If you have any questions, please contact...

Bonnie Fleming, FACA Cross Country State Chair - bfleming@thepineschool.org

and/or Ryan Raposo, FACA All-Star Selection Coordinator - ryanraposo@gmail.com