Chiles High at the State Cross-Country Championship Meet, 1999 - 2022

So I was writing about the performance of Tallahassee teams at Florida's 2022 High School Cross-Country State Championship, and it was time to say something about the Chiles High boys. I had a sentence I wanted to use--" Chiles placed eleventh with 368 points, marking the _____ straight appearance by the Timberwolf boys at State." But what number went in the blank? Six? Maybe seven? Surely, it couldn't be high enough to require more than a few minutes of research. So I started checking results of earlier State Meets, starting with 2021. Then I moved on to 2020. 2019 was next. Then 2018.


Eventually I arrived back at 1999, the year that Chiles High opened. That was the only year that the Timberwolves hadn't sent a boys' cross-country team to State.

The 2014 Boys' Cross-Country State Champs from Chiles

It's not surprising that as a first-year program, the Chiles boys didn't advance to State in 1999. It is surprising that the Chiles girls did. Placing fifth in 1A District 1, then Sixth in 1A Region 1, that pioneering girls' squad advanced to the State Championship Meet where they placed 17th in their race. It was the first of fourteen consecutive years of trips to State for the Timberwolf girls.


The boys had their own streak. It didn't start till 2000, but was still alive in 2022. 23 straight trips to State. And counting.

These Chiles Girls were State Cross-Country Champions in 2018

Chiles doesn't just show up at State. Along the way, the Timberwolf boys have collected team titles in 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2014. The girls won it all in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017, and 2018. Racing in Chiles colors, Alex Miletich won the 3A boys' race in 2003 while Michael Phillips did the same in 2016 and 2017. In 2009 Carly Thomas was the first Chiles girl to win State; she was followed by Rachel Givens in 2012 and Ana Wallace in 2017.


So here's the year-by-year accounting of Chiles High at the State Cross-Country Meet. I'm hoping that if I post it here, I won't have to look it all up again when the Chiles boys go for number 24 in 2023.

Lawton Chiles High at the State Cross-Country Championship Meet 1999 - 2022
Year	Boys	Girls	Class
1999	--	17th	1A
2000	3rd	3rd	1A
2001	3rd	11th	2A
2002	2nd	6th	2A
2003	1st	2nd	3A
2004	7th	6th	3A
2005	1st	5th	3A
2006	1st	2nd	3A
2007	2nd	2nd	3A
2008	13th	1st	3A
2009	15th	1st	3A
2010	13th	1st	3A
2011	7th	2nd	3A
2012	7th	3rd	3A
2013	2nd	--	3A
2014	1st	5th	3A
2015	2nd	1st	3A
2016	2nd	2nd	3A
2017	2nd	1st	3A
2018	2nd	1st	3A
2019	14th	2nd	4A
2020	4th	--	4A
2021	6th	9th	4A
2022	11th	--	4A

Links

• State Championship Titles of Tallahassee and Leon County High School Cross-Country Teams, 1947-2022
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2022/11/tallahassee-titles-1947-2022.html
  
  
• Cross-country season may be over, but there are still races to run on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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