POLL: 2024 Missouri Girls XC Performance of the Year

Nov 04, 2024

State Weekend is here! After an eventful weekend of Regional races, we are ready to crown 10 State Champions across the 5 classes. But first, it's time to vote for which girl you think had the best performance of the 2024 season.

All year long, you have been voting on who had the best performance each week. Now that we are at the end of the season, we have collected the winners from each poll and pushed them into one, final poll to determine who had the top performance of the season.

This week, polling starts on Monday, Nov. 4th at 8 a.m. and ends on Thursday at 10 p.m.

Here are the nominees!

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Brianna Krueger - St. Charles West

Class 3's top retuner Brianna Krueger kicked off her sophomore season with a 46-second victory over former Class 5 All-Stater Reese McDevitt at the First Capitol XC Meet. Krueger's 19:06.04 mark was over a minute faster than her 2023 debut on the same course.

Naomi Hunter - Smithville

Hunter was the winner at the competitive Todd Warner Kickoff Classic, running 18:46.10. It was her second sub-19 on the young season.

Savannah Amann - St. Joseph's Academy

Amann finished 3rd at the Forest Park XC Festival and ran a personal best of 18:38.70.

Ava Doll - Joplin

In her first cross country campaign, Joplin's Ava Doll pushed herself into the conversation as a top Class 5 runner after running 18:31.60 at the Missouri Southern Stampede. She had also run 19:12 and 19:25 this season.

Gabrielle Moresi - Parkway Central

Moresi won the 60th Annual Cape Tigers Invitational in a course record 19:30.00. She was coming off a personal best 19:19.00 mark which earned her 8th in the Green Division at the Forest Park XC Festival.

Addison Smith - Lexington

Addison Smith continued her season-opening win streak as she powered home in the final kilometer to pick up the Gans Creek Classic Blue Division victory. It was her fifth straight win in her new personal best of 19:18.90.

Chloe Heckman - North Platte

Heckman picked up the win at the Grain Valley Sock it to Cancer Invitational in the small schools division, running 19:40.40.

Brooke Stephenson - Raymore-Peculiar

Stephenson picked up a runner-up finish at the Billy Mills Classic in Kansas in her first sub-20 performance since the 19:30.50 mark she ran to secure all-state honors in 2022. She ran 19:51.60 on the day.

Jocelyn Haynes - Troy Buchanan

Haynes, coming back from an early-season injury, picked up her first career victory of her already illustrious career. Her 19:15.67 at the Bowling Green Invitational was a big season best and is pushing her closer to her third all-state medal in three tries.