Final Girls Indoor Track & Field Rankings: Cuthbertson runs away with No. 1 spot
For the third time in its three-year history, Cuthbertson is the No. 1 team in the final HighSchoolOT girls indoor track & field rankings.
The Cavaliers, who won their seventh straight N.C. High School Athletic Association title, were the 4A champions this year.
The rankings are based on numbers taken from the N.C. High School Athletic Association championships and the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association invitational, which functions as the unofficial championship. HSOT uses championship times across all classifications and associations and combines them into one big state meet to calculate the final rankings.
In some events, there were ties across different classifications. In order to determine the points, the tiebreaker was podium placement (a 1A champ got the spot over a second-place 4A athlete in the same event). If the athletes were still tied, they split the points.
For the final rankings, if two teams were tied for a top-25 spot, the tiebreaker was whichever team had the higher finish at their respective state championship.
Previous All-State Teams, Final Rankings
- 2024 girls all-state team
- 2023 final rankings (Cuthbertson girls No. 1)
- 2023 all-state team
- 2022 final rankings (Cuthbertson girls No. 1)
- 2022 all-state team
- no 2021 final rankings (season canceled - pandemic)
- no 2021 all-state team (season canceled - pandemic)
State championship coverage, other links
Cuthbertson was a full 21 points ahead of second-place Olympic and third-place Marvin Ridge.
In total, 18 teams from the preseason top 25 also made it in the final 25, with No. 12 Myers Park the highest of those who began the year unranked. Cuthbertson was also the preseason No. 1 team.
Other state champions include No. 4 Providence Day (NCISAA D1) and No. 9 Coastal Christian (NCISAA D2/D3). NCHSAA 3A champion Dudley and 1A/2A champion Swain County were unranked.
The full rankings are below:
Final HSOT Statewide Top 25: Girls Indoor Track & Field
Reminder: Rankings are calculated by compiling championship times across all classifications and associations into one big state meet, with ties broken by podium placement. Each team is listed with their total points and championship finish.
- Cuthbertson 51, 4A champ
- Olympic 30, 2nd in 4A
- Marvin Ridge 30, 3rd in 4A
- Providence Day 27, NCISAA D1 champ
- Mount Tabor 18.5, T5th in 4A
- Cummings 18, 2nd in 1A/2A
- Rolesville 18, 7th in 4A
- Garner 18, T11th in 4A
- Coastal Christian 17, NCISAA D2/D3 champ
- Cardinal Gibbons 16, T5th in 4A
- Grimsley 16, 8th in 4A
- Myers Park 16, 10th in 4A
- Mallard Creek 14, 4th in 4A
- Statesville 14, 8th in 3A
- Hillside 14, 9th in 4A
- Greensboro Day 13, 3rd in NCISAA D2/D3
- Apex 13, 13th in 4A
- Ashbrook 12, 12th in 3A
- Panther Creek 11, T11th in 4A
- Parkland 11, T16th in 4A
- (tie) Porter Ridge 10 & Ardrey Kell 10, T21st in 4A
- Atkins 9, 2nd in 3A
- (tie) Robbinsville 9, 10th in 1A/2A & Fayetteville Academy 9, 10th in NCISAA D2/D3
