GIRLS ELITE RACE Pre-Season 2024 Rankings
Two of the top 5 and three of the top 10 returning girls in the Pre-Season rankings are scheduled to go head-to-head in a repeat of the 2023 race. In 2023, then 7th grader Annabella Tomasic (1) of Lake Highland Prep finished 2nd to Bishop Verot's Jr. Mackenzie De Lisle. De Lisle ran 18:12.00. Tomasic 18:15.00. Jr. Alyson Johnson (4) of Creekside was 3rd in 18:45. Sr. Mackenzie Roy (9) of Spruce Creek was 16th in last year's race with a 19:29.00 but finished the season with a 4th place in the FHSAA 4A State Championship. Following the Cecil Field Summer Classic, Tomasic went undefeated the remainder of the season in XC, winning the FHSAA 2A State Championship meet. Creekside's Alyson Johnson finished her regular season, ranked FL #7 with a 17:49 and was the FHSAA State 4A Champion.
Two additional girls in the Returners Rankings are 8th Grader Mary Summers of Seven Rivers Christian School and Jr. Jazlyn Forbes of Oasis. Both girls will be running at Cecil Fields for the 1st time and are entered as individuals. Summers, as a 7th grader was 3rd in the FHSAA 1A State Championships last year with an 18:18.40. Forbes was 6th in the FHSAA 2A State Championships and is #6 in the pre-season rankings. She won last week in her season opener at the Dunbar Tiger Jamboree.
Other Top 20 returners from the 2023 Girl's Elite Race race:
So. Julia Anastasio of Richmond Hill 13th 19:23.00
So. Alessandra Perez of Lourdes 14th 19:24.00
Sr. Ava Hendrix of Fleming Island 15th 18:15.08
Sr. Eleanor Whisler of Buchholz 17th 19:37.00
Jr. Sarah Rose of Creekside 18th 19:37.00
Sr. Arianna Roy of Spruce Creek 20th 19:42.00
Fr. Sydney Johnson Creekside (She did not run varsity last year, but was 2nd in the FLYRA State XC Championships at Holloway Park with a 10:32.80 and won the NBNO Mile in 5:02.60 and was 3rd in the NBNO 3000m with a 10:07.70.)
GIRL'S TEAM RACE Florida's Top 100 Fastest Returning Girls XC Squads by Div
In the Girl's Team Race the Pre-Season Returning #3 and #4 Ranked teams in the state, The Bolles School and Buchholz, should have an interesting and competitive season opener based upon the returning girls' 5K times last season and not taking into account any new team members or Middle Schoolers that may move into the top 5 scoring positions. Bolles is the #2 ranked 2A team and Buchholz is the #1 ranked 4A team. Also in the mix may be the Creekside girls. They are the #5 returning ranked 4A squad, but with the addition of Alyson Johnson's sister Sydney, the confidence that Jr. Sarah Rose gained on the track this spring, three top ten finishers may not be out of the question.
2024 Top Returning Team Rankings
Bolles is led by 8th grader Sofie Stam and Sr. Estella Bruneau. Stam was 7th in the 4A FHSAA State Meet with an 18:39.10 and Bruneau was 9th in 18:40.30
| 3 | Bolles HS (FL) | 416 | |||
| 1) Sofie Stam | 18:35.50 | 27 | |||
| 2) Estella Bruneau | 18:40.30 | 31 | |||
| 3) Kavya Patel | 19:18.50 | 82 | |||
| 4) Charlotte Joseph | 19:41.30 | 132 | |||
| 5) Emily Loftin | 19:44.30 | 144 | |||
Average Time: 19:11.98 Total Time: 1:35:59.90 1-5 Split: 1:08.80 | |||||
| 6) Elizabeth McClure | 19:55.50 | 181 | |||
| 7) Mia Lee Chong | 20:09.70 | 229 | |||
| 4 | Buchholz HS (FL) | 502 | |||
| 1) Eleanor Whisler | 18:24.63 | 19 | |||
| 2) Ashley Hamilton | 19:08.00 | 63 | |||
| 3) Kaitlyn Goslinga | 19:22.30 | 91 | |||
| 4) Annika Caedington | 19:32.80 | 109 | |||
| 5) Karsyn Goslinga | 20:06.73 | 220 | |||
Average Time: 19:18.89 Total Time: 1:36:34.46 1-5 Split: 1:42.10 | |||||
| 6) Jayden Pritt | 20:36.00 | 318 | |||
| 7) Jamey Armstrong | 20:59.78 | 406 | |||