For the second straight year, Cardinal Gibbons ends the season as the No. 1 team in the HighSchoolOT girls cross country rankings.

The Crusaders were N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A state champions, placing its top five runners in the top 29 to win by a wide margin. HSOT uses championship times across all classifications and associations and combines them into one big state meet to calculate the final rankings, in which Gibbons would have placed its top five in the overall top 60.

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North Lincoln, the 3A champion, was fifth, 1A champ Swain County was 21st, and 2A champ NCSSM-Durham was 23rd.

Charlotte Country Day, the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association 4A champ, was fourth, and NCISAA 2A champ Burlington Christian was 17th. Other NCISAA champions — Calvary Day in 3A and Bradford Academy in 1A — were unranked.

Nine schools — Cardinal Gibbons, Cuthbertson, North Lincoln, Marvin Ridge, Weddington, Hoggard, Charlotte Country Day, Charlotte Latin, and Panther Creek — have finished in the top 25 in girls cross country for all five years of the annual final rankings.

HSOT Final Girls Cross Country Rankings — 2024

Note: Rankings were calculated by compiling championship times across all classifications and associations into one big state meet. Each team is listed with their championship finish and total points.

1. Cardinal Gibbons — 113; 🏆4A champ
2. Cuthbertson — 277; 2nd in 4A
3. Marvin Ridge — 300; 3rd in 4A
4. Charlotte Country Day — 339; 🏆NCISAA 4A champ
5. North Lincoln — 398; 🏆3A champ
6. Myers Park — 413; 4th in 4A
7. Charlotte Latin — 451; 2nd in NCISAA 4A
8. Broughton — 474; 5th in 4A
9. Weddington — 510; 6th in 4A
10. Hoggard — 554; 8th in 4A
11. Athens Drive — 560; 7th in 4A
12. Panther Creek — 613; 9th in 4A
13. Chapel Hill — 640; 10th in 4A
14. Reagan — 665; 11th in 4A
15. Metrolina Christian — 677; 3rd in NCISAA 4A champ
16. Corinth Holders — 678; 13th in 4A
17. Burlington Christian — 678.5; 🏆NCISAA 2A champ
18. Green Level — 681; 14th in 4A
19. Watauga — 687; 12th in 4A
20. Asheville — 703; 15th in 4A
21. Swain County — 738; 🏆1A champ
22. Apex Friendship — 750; 16th in 4A
23. NCSSM-Durham — 771; 🏆2A champ
24. West Forsyth — 783; 17th in 4A
25. First Flight — 821; 2nd in 3A