Mississippi 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 5A team in Mississippi raced head-to-head? We scored all 14 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
MHSAA 5A Boys XC: The Virtual Meet -- Returners
Every full squad raced head-to-head on 2025 season bests · 14 scoring teams · 95 runners · top 5 count, 6--7 displace · 7 incomplete excluded
Front runner Scorers 2--5 1--5 pack spread
30PTS
1
20:00 25:00 30:00
Reed Jordan · 16:11 Mustang Stampede Invite · Sep 12 Kiplin Loprinzi · 16:14 MHSAA 4A-5A-6A-7A State Cross… · Oct 31 Gabriel Pierce · 17:11 Jesse Owens Classic · Oct 3 Jesse Dawson · 17:49 Jesse Owens Classic · Oct 3 Grayson Lafayette · 18:25 Saltillo Cross Country Invite · Sep 19
Breakdown
Avg 17:10.50 · Spread 2:14.27
66PTS
2
20:00 25:00 30:00
James Luttrell · 16:27 Saltillo Cross Country Invite · Sep 19 Jacob Smith · 17:19 Saltillo Cross Country Invite · Sep 19 Ian Hurt · 18:13 MHSAA 4A-5A-6A-7A State Cross… · Oct 31 Juan Gutierrez · 18:53 NMPHC Cross Country Classic 2… · Aug 22 Spence Hickman · 19:25 Saltillo Cross Country Invite · Sep 19
Breakdown
Avg 18:03.64 · Spread 2:58.00 · Behind #1 +53.1s per runner
117PTS
3
20:00 25:00 30:00
Makeyl Jenkins · 17:55 JPS XC Meet 1 · Aug 25 Ke'Shawn Springer · 18:41 JPS XC Meet 1 · Aug 25 Antquancy Henry · 18:59 MHSAA 4A-5A-6A-7A State Cross… · Oct 31 Nehemiah Hoskins · 19:45 MHSAA 4A-5A-6A-7A State Cross… · Oct 31 TreQuan Hurst · 20:06 MHSAA 4A-5A-6A-7A State Cross… · Oct 31
Breakdown
Avg 19:05.83 · Spread 2:10.21 · Behind #1 +1:55.3 per runner
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