Arkansas Class 5A Boys XC: Who's Back in 2026 – State Preview

Mark Dwyer

MileSplit Team Scores: See How Returning Teams Stack Up

With cross country season in its early stages, MileSplit is giving you a new way to see how returning teams stack up heading into the fall.

Team Scores use performances from returning athletes to create a snapshot of each program entering the season, making it easy to see which teams bring back the strongest lineups and where the competition stands.

Explore The Teams

The new Team Scores experience goes beyond the final ranking. Each team is displayed with its score, average time and scoring spread, along with a visual showing how its returning runners compare.

Want to take a closer look? Click the X to show the athletes contributing to a team's score, then click the dots to see the individual returners behind the team's ranking.

Use the interactive Team Scores below to explore the returning talent, compare teams and get a closer look at the programs to watch this cross country season.


What if every Boys Class 5A team in Arkansas raced head-to-head? We scored the top 25 full squads using last season's returners' best times to see who comes out on top in our 2026 virtual meet.


Team Scores Virtual Meet
5A Boys XC: The Virtual Meet -- Returners
Every full squad raced head-to-head on 2025 season bests · 25 scoring teams · 169 runners · top 5 count, 6--7 displace · 8 incomplete excluded
Front runner Scorers 2--5 1--5 pack spread
85PTS
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Simeon Costner · 16:05 Chile Pepper Cross Country Fe… · Oct 3 Wave Simmons · 16:32 Gans Creek Classic · Sep 25 Levi Payne · 16:46 Gans Creek Classic · Sep 25 Jonah Hartman · 16:56 Gans Creek Classic · Sep 25 Sam Rodriguez · 17:40 Gans Creek Classic · Sep 25
Breakdown
Avg 16:48.08 · Spread 1:34.80
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Brice Allen · 15:15 Chile Pepper Cross Country Fe… · Oct 3 Cooper Sudduth · 16:24 NXR South Regional Champs · Nov 23 Carson Herron · 16:56 Chile Pepper Cross Country Fe… · Oct 3 Max Fraser · 17:38 Chile Pepper Cross Country Fe… · Oct 3 Jared Hooe · 19:27 Gans Creek Classic · Sep 25
Breakdown
Avg 17:08.62 · Spread 4:12.40 · Behind #1 +20.5s per runner
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Gaige Thompson · 16:35 The Southern Showcase powered… · Sep 11 Melvin Chavez · 17:38 5A West Conference · Oct 29 Myles Christians · 17:45 5A West Conference · Oct 29 Zane Ellingson · 17:56 Springdale Schools Invite · Oct 10 Truett Cunningham · 17:57 5A West Conference · Oct 29
Breakdown
Avg 17:34.66 · Spread 1:22.74 · Behind #1 +46.6s per runner
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