Meet:  		Class AAA Girls State Meet Predictions
Location:	Cabell Midland High School
Date:		To be held November 1, 2025

Predicted Class AAA Girls Results
Bridgeport should have this one well in hand. However, if one of their top 5 is sick or gets hurt this week, this becomes quite the shootout. I have Bridgeport winning this by 42 points. The next 3 spots are separated by just 5 points with Greenbrier East getting a slight edge over Elkins and Herbert Hoover. St. Albans looks pretty good for 5th, and Fairmont Senior slips past Shady Spring for 6th. It would be very surprising for anyone outside those top 4 to be in the top 3.
1.  Bridgeport             66
2.  Greenbrier East       108
3.  Elkins                112
4.  Herbert Hoover        113
5.  St. Albans            131
6.  Fairmont Senior       152
7.  Shady Spring          156
8.  John Marshall         172
9.  Grafton               211
10. Winfield              214
11. Keyser                236
12. Spring Valley         265

Predicted Class AAA Girls Top 25
There is no doubting that Maysen Fletcher is the bully in this field. She has not been remotely threatened in state this year and dropped a sub-17 at The Great American XC Festival on 10/4. The battle for 2nd is what is fun as I think there are 4...maybe 5...in the running. I went with Emilia Tenney for the spot. After a bit of a slow (for her) start, she has ascended late in the season. She runs a very disciplined race, so she's unlikely to make a mistake. I put Needa McClintic in the 3rd spot. She's ranked 2nd and had the 2nd best Regional run so moving into that 2nd spot would not be a surprise. Aria Selario gets the 4th pick. She was very close to Tenney at both the Big 10 Championships and the Regional. Julia Biola gets the nod for 5th. She's was behind Selario at those same two meets but also has several wins over Tenney earlier in the season. Zoe Zervos gets the 6th spot. She's fallen a bit behind the others but did have a win over McClintic on this course at the end of August. Abigail Torman gets the 7th spot. She's been solid all year and is fairly firmly in that ranking. Juliana von Wulffen is the wildcard pick for 8th. The Regional was her first race of the season after missing a lot of time over the spring, summer, and early fall with injury, and it wasn't a Top 10 performance, but for those that don't know her, she ran a 4:59 mile last year in Middle School. I couldn't leave her out because it would not be a shock for her to be right up there in that battle for 2nd. I put Mikeala Demoss in the 9th spot. She's ranked 8th, a fair amount ahead of the rest of the field despite a rough Regional run. I gave the final spot to Jenna Brown. That's another one that I just wasn't going to leave out with her history of big meet performances. This was really difficult because I had 13 girls that I absolutely wanted to put into the top 10. This is probably the race of the day to watch, and it really irritates me that I'm almost assuredly going to miss it due to the overlap between the AA Awards ceremony and this race.
Pick	Score	Name			Year	Team
1	1	Fletcher, Maysen	10	Herbert Hoover
2	2	Tenney, Emilia		11	Elkins     
3	3	McClintic, Neena	11	Greenbrier East
4	4	Selario, Aria		9	Bridgeport
5	5	Biola, Julia		11	Elkins     
6	6	Zervos, Zoe		11	John Marshall
7	7	Torman, Abigail		12	St. Albans    
8	8	Von Wulffen, Juliana	9	Winfield
9	9	Demoss, Mikaela		12	Bridgeport
10	10	Brown, Jenna		12	Herbert Hoover
11	11	Garrett, Baylee		10	Shady Spring
12	X	Nichols, Bailey		12	Hampshire
13	12	Sole, Addison		10	Grafton     
14	13	Reese, Kalyn		11	John Marshall
15	14	McFadden, Molly		9	Elkins     
16	15	Garcia, Lyla		10	Fairmont Senior
17	16	Dankiewicz, Bethsayed	10	Bridgeport
18	17	Lilly, Maddie		12	Greenbrier East
19	18	McBrayer, Ashley	12	Bridgeport
20	19	Tobrey, Isla		9	Bridgeport
21	20	Perilli Hancock, Caroline9	Greenbrier East
22	21	Kirkland, Sadie		10	Fairmont Senior
23	22	Baker, Chezney		12	Spring Valley
24	23	Templeton, Ava		12	St. Albans    
25	24	Born, Audree		10	Herbert Hoover