Mark Parrish

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

The top 25 Florida boys all-time for Indoor Track & Field events!

A look at the All Time Top 500 FL Boy & Girl Times From Foot Locker South.

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.

Ani Veltcheva isn't even a teenager yet. The 12 year old from Abraham Lincoln Middle School in Gainesville has been beating competition twice her age for several years now and continued the trend this weekend at the Matanzas 5K.

After graduating this year from the University of Florida, Mark Parrish didn't stop running. The former Chamberlain High School standout who went onto make a name for himself in the orange and blue has been training on the Clermont hills while working at nearby Lockheed Martin and recently was selected as a member of Team USA (senior) at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country International Challenge in Scotland.

It’s been just two weeks since the Gators headed to the west coast for the 2015 NCAA Championships in Eugene, but the Orange and Blue have invaded Oregon and Historic Hayward Field yet again for USA Outdoors, this time ready to don the Red, White and Blue in hopes of representing Team USA at World Championships in August. (via www.gatorzone.com)

See how former Florida athletes fared in collegiate action around the country for the week of 2/23 - 3/1/2015.

Mark Parrish has been tearing up the track for the Gators. The former Chamberlain distance standout clocked a new season best and school record of 13:41.87 at the Iowa State Classic. See how Florida alumni fared in collegiate action across the country for the week of February 9 - February 15, 2015.

Former Leon standout Matt Mizereck holds the top time in the 3000m and is sixth all-time in the one mile run at the Jimmy Carnes. Mizereck posted times of 8:39.51 and 4:26.78 in 2010 as a senior. Check out the names on these lists some of the best distance runners over the last decade! See the top all-time marks in the boys distance events set at the Jimmy Carnes Indoor Meet.

Florida senior distance runner Mark Parrish crushed a 20-year-old Florida record in the men’s 5000m (13:43.15) by nearly 16 seconds at the Husky Classic at Dempsey Indoor to highlight Valentine’s Day competition for the Orange and Blue in Seattle, while in Ames, junior sprinter Hugh Graham, Jr., cranked out a career-tying 60m dash (6.64) in prelims of the event at the Iowa State Classic to solidify the top seed heading into finals of the event Saturday at the Lied Recreation Center. (via www.gatorzone.com)

National Championships were the buzz this weekend! See how Florida alumni fared on the big stage for the week of November 18-November 24, 2013. The cover photo is a blast from the past of Villanova's Stephanie Schappert (Pope John Paul II) who had the fastest time of all Florida girls at the NCAA D1 Cross Country Championships.

The second time was a charm for Gator senior Agata Strausa, who became UF's first cross country All-American since 2009 Saturday in her second-ever NCAA Championship race. Strausa clocked a 33rd-place finish (20:42.1) in the field of 253 athletes to cap off her senior cross country season on a high note. In men's NCAA Championship team action, the Gators placed 29th in the field of 31 and were paced by senior Mark Parrish's 49th-place individual finish (30:54.5), just shy of top 40 All-America accolades. (via www.gatorzone.com)

Florida cross country senior Mark Parrish was named the 2013 USTFCCCA South Region Men's Athlete of the Year Tuesday following his winning performance at the NCAA Cross Country South Region Championship Nov. 15 in Tuscaloosa. (via www.gatorzone.com)

Florida senior Mark Parrish shattered his personal best 10K mark (29.44.24) en route to being UF's second-ever NCAA South Region Cross Country Champion the first since 2004 as the Gator men's team secured a ticket to nationals for the second time in three years. (via www.gatorzone.com)

Mark Parrish highlighted the day for the Orange and Blue at the 2013 Wisconsin adidas Invitational Saturday as the Gator senior eclipsed the Florida men's 8K record at Wisconsin's Thomas Zimmer Championship Course. Parrish used a 23:34 for 11th overall in the field of 288 men's athletes, topping former Florida cross country All-American Jeremy Criscione's 23:35 8K school record set in 2008. (via www.gatorzone.com)

UF's cross country squads were off to the races Saturday in Louisville at E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park for the 2012 National Championship, where the women's team turned in a 23rd-place overall finish, its second-best performance since 2006 in its last six trips to nationals. (via www.gatorzone.com)

The 2012 SEC Champion Florida women's cross country squad was one of 13 teams across the country to pick up an at-large bid to the 2012 NCAA Championship meet Saturday morning, while sophomore Jimmy Clark (St. Johns, Fla.) and junior Mark Parrish (Tampa, Fla.) will represent the Gators. (via www.gatorzone.com)

Intimidating. That's how Circle Christian junior Bryce Seymour described the start line at the 2012 USA Cross Country Championships. Seymour  and Danielle Kissel of Plant made the trek to St. Louis, Missouri to compete against some top college competition, Foot Locker Finalists, and peers. Seymour and Kissel were entered in the Junior Women along with 37 others and finished 22nd and 29th, respectively.

Freshman runner Jimmy Clark (St. Johns, Fla.) became UF's second all-time SEC Male Freshman of the Year Friday by vote of the league's cross country coaches after crossing the finish line at the SEC Championships as the highest-placing freshman in the field. (via www.gatorzone.com)