{"id":101242,"date":"2025-12-31T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/101242\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:57:30","slug":"top-boys-leon-county-cross-country-runners-for-the-2025-2026-season-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/101242\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Boys Leon County Cross Country Runners for the 2025-2026 Season \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2025%2F12%2F31%2Ftop-boys-leon-county-cross-country-runners-for-the-2025-2026-season%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Top+Boys+Leon+County+Cross+Country+Runners+for+the+2025-2026+Season https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2025\/12\/31\/top-boys-leon-county-cross-country-runners-for-the-2025-2026-season\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the Cross Country season coming to an end, Tallahassee Reports has ranked the top Leon County runners for the 2025-2026 season. Listed below are the boys runners ranked based on performances at notable meets. <\/p>\n<p>1. Joshua Hicks, Chiles<\/p>\n<p>Florida State signee Joshua Hicks (Sr.) places first in our Leon County rankings after capping off a very successful 2025-2026 season. Hicks had multiple first place finishes at tournaments including FHSAA 3A Regionals, FHSAA 3A Districts, HOKA Nights of Thunder and the St. JPII Panther Invite. Hicks set a personal record at the ASICS Invitational with a time of 14:49.70 while placing third at states with a time of 15.21.10. <\/p>\n<p>2. Jonathan Kiros, Chiles<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Kiros (Jr.) ranks second in our Leon County rankings while making significant contributions to the Chiles cross country team. Although Kiros did not have a first place finish this year, he placed second three times at the St. JPII Panther invite, the FHSAA 3A district tournament and the FHSAA 3A regional tournament. Kiros set a personal record of 15:21.00 at the New World Fall Spectacular while placing fourth overall at State Finals with a time of 15:46.30.<\/p>\n<p>3. David Barton, Maclay<\/p>\n<p>Maclay Junior, David Barton, ranks third in our Leon County rankings while leading the Marauders during the 2025-2026 season. Barton had a second-place finish at the Suwanee Invitational and a third-place finish at the St. JPII Panther Invite. Barton set a personal record at the New Fall Spectacular with a 15:31.00 and a 17th place finish. While at the FHSAA 1A State Finals, Barton placed fifth with a time of 16:07.20. <\/p>\n<p>4. Jackson Beener, Chiles<\/p>\n<p>Chiles\u2019 Jackson Beener (Sr.) ranks fourth in our Leon County cross country rankings, becoming the third Chiles runner to make the list. Beener\u2019s best finish of the 2025-2026 season was a fourth-place finish at the St. JPII Panther Invite with a time of 17:04.30. Beener set a personal record with a time of 16:08.87 at the Asics Invitational while placing 109th. While at states, Beener placed 68th with a time of 16:58.30.<\/p>\n<p>5. Trent Parsons, Lincoln<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln\u2019s Trent Parsons (Jr.) finishes up our rankings in fifth place, consistently competing at a high level and holding his own against a strong field of runners. Parsons had a fifth-place finish at the 24th Annual Tift Invitational and a 13th place finish at the FHSAA 3A District 1 Meet. Parsons set a personal record at the ASICS Invitational with a time of 16:13.24. While at the FHSAA 3A states meet, Parsons finished 59th with a time of 16:51.60.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2025%2F12%2F31%2Ftop-boys-leon-county-cross-country-runners-for-the-2025-2026-season%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Top+Boys+Leon+County+Cross+Country+Runners+for+the+2025-2026+Season https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2025\/12\/31\/top-boys-leon-county-cross-country-runners-for-the-2025-2026-season\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; With the Cross Country season coming to an end, Tallahassee Reports has ranked the top Leon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-101242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}