{"id":404446,"date":"2026-09-19T09:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/404446\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:20:21","slug":"devos-finishes-top-30-at-pre-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/404446\/","title":{"rendered":"DeVos Finishes Top-30 At Pre-Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 In the Florida state capital, Jacksonville cross country was at it again, this time at the NCAA Pre-Regional hosted by Florida State. And it was once again <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/isabel-devos\/8466\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8466\" target=\"_blank\">Isabel DeVos<\/a> leading the charge for the Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>DeVos finished 30th\u00a0overall with a time of 22:30.4. She was less than one minute off pace to break her personal best in the 6000m. Among JU student-athletes, she had the best finish and was the fourth highest finishing ASUN cross country runner, just three seconds behind a runner from FGCU in 29th.<\/p>\n<p>Behind DeVos was freshman Kyla Perez, racing in just her second collegiate meet. Perez finished 85th\u00a0with a time of 23:39.7. It was her first time running the 6K.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the top-100, <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/alexis-holmes\/8461\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8461\" target=\"_blank\">Alexis Holmes<\/a> earned 97th\u00a0place behind a time of 23:54.1. The junior from Jacksonville was less than 40 seconds off her personal best time in the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the Dolphin contingency was freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/kiara-rakes\/8937\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8937\" target=\"_blank\">Kiara Rakes<\/a>, too racing in the first 6K of her career. Rakes set her new career mark in the event with a time of 25:13.2, finishing in 152nd place.<\/p>\n<p>With its four runners, Jacksonville as a team finished in 16th place among 28 teams. It was the third best finish among ASUN schools.<\/p>\n<p>The next time the &#8216;Phins take to the course will be in Lakeland, Fla. on Oct. 2 for the FLRunners.com Invitational.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 In the Florida state capital, Jacksonville cross country was at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-404446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404446","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=404446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}