VIRGINIA CROSS COUNTRY
NovaRunners Teams
The best Virginia high-school teams of each season, ranked by a virtual cross country meet: the 30 teams with the best averages each enter their top seven runners, placed on their season-best Statistical Rating, and the lowest points win. Open a team to see its top seven and their places.
2024 historical snapshot · Statistical Rating: higher is faster
Top 10 of the 30 teams in the virtual meet (305 Virginia teams eligible) · 3,567 rated runners on their rosters
Top 10 of the 30 teams in the virtual meet (256 Virginia teams eligible) · 2,756 rated runners on their rosters
In each team’s runner list, each rating is the runner’s season best on the day, from any rated varsity race, and Place is the runner’s place in the virtual meet; the first five places score, and the sixth and seventh, in parentheses, displace.
The ranking is a virtual cross country meet. Its field is the top 30 teams by average, the mean season-best Statistical Rating of a team’s five best runners, shown to 0.1 point on 2024’s K (488.695 for boys and 492.063 for girls). Each team’s top seven runners take places by season-best rating, highest first. A team’s points are the sum of its five best places; its sixth and seventh runners take places but do not score, so they push other teams’ runners back. Lowest points rank first; a tie goes to the team whose sixth runner placed better (a team without one ranks below), then the higher average. A team needs at least five rated runners to be eligible and a top-30 average to be in the field; with fewer than seven it is marked thin (39 of 305 eligible teams for boys and 50 of 256 eligible teams for girls this season).
Rated varsity runners count, not only the verified runners on the Rankings. A runner with a verified Virginia profile counts. A runner with an unresolved profile counts only with at least one rated varsity race in Virginia that season. A runner with a verified profile from another state does not count. Each runner counts for the school they raced for most. Regional and national finals count for individuals only: NXR Southeast, the Champs, Foot Locker and Brooks South regionals, Nike Cross Nationals, Foot Locker Nationals, Brooks, RunningLane and HXN. Their races stay on the individual leaderboards, but a runner’s team value is their best race elsewhere, and a runner who ran only those meets counts for no team. 448 rated boys who raced in Virginia had no school record on any result; 373 rated girls who raced in Virginia had no school record on any result, so they count for no team and some teams’ depth is undercounted. Middle-school runners are left out. The virtual meet is scored from observed season bests; it is not a prediction of a real meet. How team rankings work