2025 Way Too Early Rankings

We are now past the state meet and we will have some teams continuing their seasons at NXR and hopefully NXN. There will be a lot of teams looking forward to track and next season. Lets take a look at how the state is looking a year away from the next Cross Country State meet. A few teams will change classifications due to success multiplication and enrollment changes. The only changes that will be included in these rankings are success multipled teams. These rankings are strickly based off PR's from returners and does not include any incoming freshman. This will change a lot by the start of next season, but this is an interesting list to look at as we head into track season.

Boys 3A Teams -

1. Plainfield North

2. Lake Zurich

3. Mt. Prospect (Prospect)

4. Downers Grove North

5. Plainfield South

6. Libertyville

7. Arlington Heights (Hersey)

8. Orland Park (Sandburg)

9. Edwardsville

10. Chicago (Lane)

11. Naperville North

12. Naperville Central

13. Elmhurst (York)

14. Palatine (Fremd)

15. Batavia

16. Naperville (Neuqua Valley)

17. Mundelein

18. O'Fallon

19. St. Charles North

20. Vernon Hills

21. Palatine

22. Chicago (Payton)

23. Oak Park-River Forest

24. New Lenox (Lincoln-Way Central)

25. Minooka

Boys 2A Teams -

1. Morton

2. Normal University

3. Mt. Vernon

4. Bethalto (Civic Memorial)

5. Morris

6. Mahomet-Seymour

7. Dixon

8. Aurora (Marmion Academy)

9. Metamora

10. Highland

11. Marion

12. Taylorville

13. Maple Park (Kaneland)

14. Chicago (St. Ignatius)

15. Woodstock

16. Belvidere North

17. Waterloo

18. Chatham (Glenwood)

19. Crystal Lake (Prairie Ridge)

20. Herrin

21. Mascoutah

22. Chicago (DePaul)

23. Geneseo

24. Crystal Lake Central

25. Dunlap

Boys 1A Teams -

1. Niles (Northridge Prep)

2. Peoria Notre Dame

3. Aurora Central Catholic

4. Eureka

5. Elmwood

6. Rockford Christian

7. Winnebago

8. Pinckneyville

9. Lombard (Montini)

10. El Paso-Gridley

11. Clinton

12. Glasford (Illini Bluffs)

13. Tolono Unity

14. Gillespie

15. Elgin (Harvest Christian Academy)

16. Toledo (Cumberland)

17. Edwardsville (Metro-East Lutheran)

18. Auburn

19. Georgetown (Notre Dame de La Salette)

20. St. Joseph-Ogden

21. Byron

22. Murphysboro

23. Effingham (St. Anthony)

24. Herscher

25. Shelbyville

3A Girls Teams -

1. Batavia

2. Elmhurst (York)

3. Chicago (St. Ignatius)

4. Barrington

5. Edwardsville

6. Lake Zurich

7. Naperville North

8. Huntley

9. Minooka

10. Arlington Heights (Hersey)

11. Plainfield North

12. Yorkville

13. Glen Ellyn (Glenbard West)

14. Hinsdale Central

15. Normal Community West

16. O'Fallon

17. New Lenox (Lincoln-Way Central)

18. Downers Grove North

19. Naperville Central

20. Mt. Prospect (Prospect)

21. Wheaton Warrenville South

22. Northbrook (Glenbrook North)

23. Park Ridge (Maine South)

24. St. Charles North

25. Palatine (Fremd)

2A Girls Teams -

1. Chatham (Glenwood)

2. Chicago (DePaul)

3. Grayslake Central

4. Wheaton (St. Francis)

5. Normal University

6. Washington

7. Rochester

8. Crystal Lake Central

9. Crystal Lake South

10. Oak Park (Fenwick)

11. Mahomet-Seymour

12. LaGrange Park (Nazareth)

13. Mascoutah

14. Lemont

15. West Chicago (Wheaton Academy)

16. Dunlap

17. Morton

18. Geneseo

19. Arlington Heights (St. Viator)

20. Lake Forest

21. Burlington Central

22. Mt. Zion

23. Rockford (Boylan)

24. Champaign (Centennial)

25. Chicago (Northside)

1A Girls Teams -

1. Anna-Jonesboro

2. El Paso-Gridley

3. Winnebago

4. Pleasant Plains

5. Williamsville

6. Elmwood

7. Eureka

8. Effingham (St. Anthony)

9. Peoria Notre Dame

10. Herscher

11. Cambridge

12. Springfield (Sacred Heart-Griffin)

13. Urbana University

14. Shelbyville

15. Byron

16. Palos Heights (Chicago Christian)

17. Breese (Mater Dei)

18. Monticello

19. Delavan

20. Fairfield

21. Marshall

22. Lombard (Montini)

23. Sherrard

24. St. Joseph-Ogden

25. Elmhurst (Timothy Christian)