Author: Dave Facinoli

With individuals and teams winning races or placing high in various postseason meets, the 2025 high-school cross-country season during the fall was a big success for Arlington runners.

There also were some significant achievements for runners and teams from Fairfax County schools, especially from Potomac School on the private-school level.

Multiple local high-school indoor track-and-field squads have enough depth to contend for district, conference, region and state titles when playoffs begin at the end of the month.

On the girls side, the South County Stallions are the defending public-school Class 6 state indoor and outdoor champion from the 2025 track-and-field seasons.

It’s a challenge to single out who are, or could become, the top high-school indoor track-and-field athletes across Northern Virginia participating in the current winter season — because there are so many.

The 2025-26 campaign is ongoing and continues through early March.

The high-school indoor track-and-field season officially begins each December, but in reality doesn’t ramp up until early January.

The new year has brought a full slate of many more, and bigger, regular-season meets scheduled each week, with postseason championship competitions not far off.