- December 4, 2025
Flagler Palm Coast took home two individual championships and a team championship at the Five Star Conference cross country meet on Saturday, Sept. 27, at New Smyrna Beach High School.
FPC won the boys championship for the fourth year in a row with freshman Douglas Seth leading the way with a first-place finish. Seth ran a time of 16:43.7, crossing the finish line 18.3 seconds ahead of runner-up finisher Maddox Kokin of New Smyrna Beach.
FPC senior Arianna Slaughter won the girls race in 19:37.9. She was the only runner to finish the race in under 20 minutes.
The FPC boys smoked the field with 44 points with New Smyrna Beach placing second with 74 points. Seabreeze was fifth with 91 points and Mainland was seventh with 186 points. Five Bulldogs finished among the top 15. Following Seth were Mateo Almeida (eighth, 17:45.1), Owen Stackpole (ninth, 17:53.8), Brayden Murray (14th, 18:25.9) and Evan Johnson (15th, 18:33.0).
Seabreeze senior Hunter Shuler placed seventh in 17:44.0, while teammate Kai Shirley was 16th in 18:39.1.
FPC’s girls also came into the meet aiming to win a fourth consecutive conference title. But despite having three of the top four runners, the Bulldogs (59 points) placed third behind first-place Spruce Creek (38) and runner-up New Smyrna Beach (55). Seabreeze was fifth with 128 and Mainland was seventh with 188.
FPC’s Anna Grigoruk placed third with a personal-record 20:10.2. Audrey Bowman also ran a personal-record time with a 20:35.3 to place fourth.
Mainland’s Azauriah Smith also ran a PR with a 24:06.5 to finish 13th. Seabreeze freshman Karly Rybicki was 15th with a PR time of 24:14.9.
