Carlos Miranda

The FLRUNNERS.COM Invitational: 27 Years of Florida XC Tradition. An Historical Preview.

A look at the Top 500 Florida high school boys XC 5K's of All-Time.

Check out the top 1,000 Florida boys performances all-time at the Champs (formerly Foot Locker) South Regional in Charlotte.

Check out the top 500 high school boys 5K times ever run at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Florida.

Jimmy Clark and Ryan Pickering's epic battle in 2010 produced the top two times ever in meet history, 14:53.29 and 14:55.48, one year after Matt Mizereck and Armando DelValle went 14:56.21 and 14:56.84. That quartet are the only athletes to ever break 15 minutes while 29 have gone under 15:30 in the past 17 years. We take a look at the top 500 all-time best boys times at the flrunners.com Invitational. 

Florida freshman cross country runner Carlos Miranda used a 5k victory at the FLRunners.com Invitational 14 Friday to pick up his third SEC Men's Freshman Runner of the Week accolade from the league office Tuesday. (via www.gatorzone.com)

Junior Jimmy Clark is the SEC Men's Runner of the Week after his Mountain Dew Invite title, while Carlos Miranda picked up his second SEC Men's Freshman of the Week honor. (via www.gatorzone.com)

Senior Agata Strausa was tabbed the SEC Women's Runner of the Week, while freshman Carlos Miranda picked up SEC Men's Freshman Runner of the Week accolades in the first set of SEC Cross Country Weekly Awards, released by the league office Tuesday. (via www.gatorzone.com)

Golden Gate High's Mirline Cherisme and Palmetto Ridge High's Carlos Miranda hope to finish their prep careers with state titles. (via Naples Daily News)

Palmetto Ridge hosted the talent filled 3A District 12 meet on Thursday hosting ten powerhouse teams for their first state series qualifying meet of the season. Many state standouts competed and earned their spots advancing to compete in Regionals next week. The state series is always the most anticipated part of the season where countless hours of hard work shines. A special thank you to Robert Brown who was on-site and captured over 1,700 photos of this action-packed District meet. 

The postseason is right around the corner for the outdoor track and field season. We know everyone loves some rankings. We decided to break it down by class and see who the leaders in each event were. Want to know who the one to beat is and where you stack up? Take a look. (Rankings are as of 4/10/2013)

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Maclay senior Stefanie Kurgatt and Colonial senior Andres Arroyo headline the list of returners this outdoor season in the 1600 meters.

Up and down courses are commonplace in cross country. Up and down and up and down seasons, not so much. (via Naples Daily News)

Are you the best freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior? Where do you stack up against your peers? We've tallied up the times and have found out who is at the Head of the Class for the 2012 cross country season. (Rankings are as of 12/3/2012)

Palmetto Ridge senior Carlos Miranda is a three time regional champion and one of the best runners in Southwest Florida and in the state. Recently, Miranda ended his college recruitment by selecting the in state Florida Gators.

The state championships have come and gone and now Florida's top runners will see how they fare against runners from across the southern United States. McAlpine Greenway Park in Charlotte, North Carolina the site of Foot Locker South Cross Country Championships. The Sunshine State has been well represented the past few years sending multiple runners to Foot Locker Nationals in San Diego, California. This year looks to be no different with the strongest hopefuls coming in 4A state champions Andres Arroyo and Bridget Blake.

Twenty runners have broken sixteen minutes this year and four have gone under 15:30 making 3A one of the hardest classifications of all. Can Avery Lopez follow in the footsteps of last year's champ Elliot Clemente and give Belen another individual title? Is it the year of Palmetto Ridge senior Carlos Miranda or will a member of Fort Myers or Niceville's dynamic duos take home the honors? Will nationally ranked Belen be tested? If so, is it the tight pack of Fort Walton Beach or Fort Myers led by Bennett and Brown? This will shape up to be one of the best races of the day.

Take a beautiful, cool SW Florida morning and mix in a flat, short grass field, a nine meter tall man-made hill, a soccer field, a sugar sand / gravel jeep trail, some woods, a three net sand volleyball pit, three 180º switchbacks and run it twice, hard, and you have the 3A Region 3 meet at Estero Community Park.

The 3A District 12 course is the same modified triple looper around the soccer and baseball fields of North Collier Regional Park that was the site of the inaugural Barron Collier Invite earlier this season. With its deep Bermuda grass, slightly long measure, and redundant trek it has proven to be a tough-to-PR course. That said, the weather conditions on this day were excellent to buck that notion and see some fast times.

In the two years since the last Collier County Athletic Conference cross country meet, things haven't changed much. Gulf Coast's Caroline Barlow and Palmetto Ridge's Carlos Miranda won the individual titles, while the Sharks girls and Naples boys took the team trophies. Exactly like two years ago. (via Naples Daily News)