VOTE: MO Boys Cross Country Runner of the Week (Oct. 5-10)

After another week of cross country racing in Missouri, it's time to vote for the MileSplit Missouri boys cross country performer of the week.

The poll closes Friday at 2 p.m. ET.

Check out this week's nominees and cast your vote below.

Note: Athletes who have been nominated in the past two weeks are not eligible. Previous winners are excluded for the rest of the season.

Previous Winners: 

Week 1 Winner: Noah Green - Liberty Wentzville

Week 6 Winner: Gavin Blaine - Kickapoo

This Week's Nominees:

Cruz Thomas, Westminster Christian Academy (Missouri): A 27.2-second margin separated the field at the Orchard Farm Invitational, where the winning time of 16:18.10 over 5K topped 129 finishers. That clocking sits at No. 11 of 1,803 athletes in MileSplit's database at Orchard Farm High School since 2010, and among senior athletes alone it ranks No. 10 of 648. The time also came in 4.2 seconds faster than the prior mark on this course.

Axtin Brune, Farmington High School (Missouri): Covering 5K in 16:26.95 at the Potosi Invitational/MAAA Conference meet, the winning margin stretched to 53.6 seconds across 89 finishers. The effort ranks No. 2 of 276 athletes in MileSplit's database at Potosi HS since 2024 and stands as the fastest among the 76 senior athletes recorded there in that span. It was also 60.1 seconds faster than the prior mark on this course.

Max Layton, Woodland High School (Missouri): A 1st-place finish at the Woodland Invitational/SCAA Conference meet came in 17:27.90 for 5K, enough to clear a 91-runner field by 31.6 seconds. The time ranks No. 5 of 377 athletes in MileSplit's database at Woodland School since 2021, and it stands as the fastest among 168 sophomore athletes recorded there since that year.

Grant Fink, Festus High School (Missouri): Winning the Statesmen Classic outright, a 15:29.80 clocking over 5K was good for 1st out of 150 finishers and a 7.5-second margin at the line. That time now ranks as the fastest in MileSplit's database at Blackburn Park since 2008, a span covering 2,481 athletes, and it also tops the 1,018 junior athletes recorded there in that window. The result came 175.4 seconds faster than the prior mark on this course.

Blake Romans, West Plains High School (Missouri): A 16:04.40 clocking over the 5K at the Cedar Ridge Invitational was good for the win, a 1st-place finish among 74 finishers that came with a 16.5-second cushion to spare. That mark now sits at No. 2 of 1,058 athletes in MileSplit's database at Cedar Ridge Elementary since 2007, and it holds the same No. 2 spot among 382 junior athletes recorded on this course over that span.