Daphne’s Sophie West as well as Spanish Fort’s Alexiana Hinote and Winston McGee were announced as cross country All-Stars for the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s All-Star Week this July.

The two 10-member teams comprised of 2024 rising seniors were announced by Brandon Dean, Director of the Alabama High School Athletic Directors & Coaches Association (AHSADCA) which operates under the auspices of the AHSAA. Other all-star games including baseball, softball, volleyball, boys’ and girls’ soccer, boys’ and girls’ basketball, boys’ and girls’ tennis and boys’ and girls’ golf will be held during All-Star Week, July 17-22.

All three represented their schools at the AHSAA cross country state championships this fall where Hinote registered eighth place in the Class 6A race in 19:24.83 and West took 21st in the Class 7A championship with a time of 19:38.55. In the boys’ 6A title race, McGhee recorded a time of 16:15.29 to take fourth place.

They’ll need to put up solid times once again to take down the North All-Stars which feature six girls’ runners who recorded sub-20 times at the state championships as well as two individual boys’ champions.

During last year’s All-Star Week, the North All-Stars won the girls’ race 19-38 to improve to 3-2 in the all-time series starting in 2017. The South All-Stars took the boys’ competition by a 22-33 margin for a similar 3-2 advantage in the all-time series.

Below are the full North-South cross country rosters with local players in bold.

GIRLS’ SOUTH ALL-STAR ROSTER

Kate Finch – Alabama Christian

Eva McGowan – Auburn

Lindsey Baxter – Baker

Molly Conway – Beauregard

Sophie West – Daphne

Madelyn Patterson – Providence Christian

Railey Prins – Smiths Station

Alexiana Hinote – Spanish Fort

Ella Browning – St. Luke's Episcopal

Emily Miles – St. Paul's Episcopal             

SOUTH ALL-STAR GIRLS’ COACHES

Chris Rodgers – Enterprise

Ron Peters – Smiths Station (Admin.)

BOYS’ SOUTH ALL-STAR ROSTER

Ben Erath – Auburn

Ben Stewart – Auburn

Bowden Michael – Enterprise

Henry Skala – Montgomery Catholic

Wyatt Mixson – Providence Christian

Brodie Norred – Smiths Station

Winston McGhee – Spanish Fort

Garrett Dolbear – St. Luke's Episcopal

Matthew Blake – Trinity Presbyterian

Charles Perry – UMS-Wright Preparatory

SOUTH ALL-STAR BOYS’ COACHES

Philip Peek – Bibb County

Ron Peters – Smiths Station (Admin.)

GIRLS’ NORTH ALL-STAR ROSTER

Autumn Betts – A. P. Brewer

Catherine Johnstone – Athens

Reagan Parris – Cold Springs

Emma Bothern – James Clemens

Mary Katherine Malone – Mountain Brook

Nancy Carolynne Kent – Mountain Brook

Mary Anna Trimble – Muscle Shoals

Anna Hopkins – Priceville

Samantha Menikheim – Sparkman

Emily Driskill – Whitesburg Christian       

NORTH ALL-STAR GIRLS’ COACHES

Stanley Johnson – Lawrence County

Michael McGovern – Mountain Brook (Admin.)

BOYS’ NORTH ALL-STAR ROSTER

Nadeem Johnson – Altamont

Carson Renicks – American Christian

Braden Ary – American Christian

Jayden Allred – Cold Springs

Ethan Edgeworth – Cold Springs

Cole Robinson – James Clemens

Michael Dryer – James Clemens

Arthur Langley – John Carroll Catholic

Dakota Frank – Munford

Harper Branscome – Muscle Shoals

NORTH ALL-STAR BOYS’ COACHES

Kim Nails – Southside-Gadsden

Michael McGovern – Mountain Brook (Admin.)