Callen Powers

Highlighting seasonal rankings for Girls 1A in advance of Wednesday’s State Championship meet.

Highlighting seasonal rankings for Boys 1A in advance of Wednesday’s State Championship meet.

A look at the returning athletes positioned to shape this year’s outdoor season.

A look at the returning athletes positioned to shape this year’s outdoor season.

A statewide roundup of the best girls 1A Region 2 performers ahead of the 2026 Outdoor Track and Field Season.

A statewide roundup of the best boys 1A Region 2 performers ahead of the 2026 Outdoor Track and Field Season.

Here are the girls all-time rankings for 5K according to our database.

Check out the all-time performances by VA girls at McAlpine right here.

Here are the girls top 100 times from Dogwood's history.

Who makes the cut for top 1000 all-time performers at McAlpine Park?

Here are the top 1,000 girls times from the Great Meadow non-state meet course.

Check out the all-time list from Dogwood Track Classic right here.

Tallwood's Octavia Rinehardt leading the pack early at the Eastern Region Championships as the senior went onto win easily in a personal best time of 18:18. (Photo by Andy Paisley). Octavia Rinehardt was running so smooth and effortlessly Thursday afternoon that it looked like she was taking a stroll through the park. Rinehardt, a Tallwood senior, was running in Bells Mill Park, but she was far from strolling. No, she was dominating as she breezed around the course in a personal-best time of 18 minutes, 18.10 seconds to win her first Eastern Region cross country title. “I just wanted to run my race and go for a good time more than anything,” said Rinehardt, who won by 25 seconds. Read full story... Eastern Region Championships Results: Individual Results - Boys Team Scores - Girls Team Scores Eastern Region Championships Photo Gallery - By Andy Paisley. 407 photos total.

Photo by Andy Paisley Western Branch made it a complete sweep of the Southeastern District cross country meet at Bells Mill Park Wednesday. The Bruins took both the boys and girls individual titles, as well as both team titles. Callen Powers won the girls race, while Blake Theroux garnered the boys title. Both runners trailed at the one-mile mark, then took the lead two miles in and held it the rest of the way. Powers, a senior, picked up her first district cross country title in 18:54.15, besting freshman teammate Natalie Wynn. Wynn finished just six seconds back, at 19:00.75. “It feels pretty good to win, but I was more excited about the team championship,” Powers said. “I was definitely running for my team, for my girls.”Read full story... 

 The Southeastern District Meet could be a Western Branch show with the potential of Bruins coach Ryan Carroll to have both individual and team champions in the boys and girls races. The Western Branch girls have looked sharp this fall as a team that could possibly represent the Eastern Region well beyond the regional meet onto Great Meadow.

 More than 80 schools will be represented at Saturday's William & Mary Invitational as many outstanding cross country runners and teams from Virginia, Maryland, DC, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and North Carolina will be spread out among the three varsity race divisions. Leading the individuals will be newly minted stars with Foot Locker South rankings in Virginia private school runners Johns Ross (pictured above by Linda D'Amato) of The Potomac School and Barbara Strehler of Trinity. The Jamestown boys will be the overwhelming team favorites with none of their fellow NTN regionally ranked Virginia squads present to take on the NTN Southeast #3 ranked Eagles on their home course at Eastern State Hospital. Meanwhile, Eastern Region title contenders in the Western Branch and Ocean Lakes girls look to clash for the first time this season with several Northern Virginia teams looking to make things interesting.

MileStat.com's Brandon Miles takes a crack at the top 10 girls cross country teams in the state for this upcoming season. The top 5 of the 10 are revealed on Sunday with the remaining 5 to be posted on Monday. No surprise with Midlothian on top as the Lady Trojans will have one of the country's most fearsome top sevens in the nation. Midlothian pulled off the huge victory last year at Manhattan Invite and gained valuable experience with a top 10 finish at Nike Team Nationals to better prepare for a likely return trip this fall. The Lake Braddock girls, who had a group last year which would have been Virginia's best any other year if it was not for the Midlo girls, return another team with plenty of firepower with four sub 11:30 3200 meter gals including Christine Moore (pictured left by John Herzog). The defending AA state champions of Blacksburg look to firmly establish themselves as the next team after Midlothian. Maggie Walker looks to be one of the squads to move further up the totem pole than others with a very strong front two in Susannah Piersol and Clarissa Schick and possibly give the Central Region a second year in a row of two of the three podium teams in AAA. Brentsville has a solid core of five back from their tough second place finish to Blacksburg in the AA state race and will look to thrive in the new underdog role and take back their title.  Complete top 10 teams list posted Monday 7:50 PM.

The state\'s top ranked boys and girls teams from Midlothian both survived scares at the Great Meadows Invitational in their opening races. The Nike Team Nationals Southeast #1 ranked squad in Midlothian ran well as shown by their low team total of 55 points in the competitive meet, but the NTN SE #6 ranked and two-time defending AA state champions Brentsville proved to be just as good as they finished two points shy of them in second place with 57 points. Midlothian junior Jason Witt took the individual title in a time of 16:03.15. Meanwhile, the Midlothian girls had two of their seven runners drop out of the race including top returnee and 4:53 miler M.C. Miller yet their amazing depth and talent was showcased still in dominating the #2 ranked team in the state and #5 ranked team in the NTN Southeast region in Brentsville by a 65 point margin of victory. The Lady Trojans were led by the Lautzenheiser twins, Kathleen (1st, 19:20.92) and Leia (3rd, 19:46.59), as the freshmen pair finished first and third respectively. More to come from Great Meadows...