Collinsville High School's boys cross country team won the first state championship in its program's history Friday, taking the UIL Class 2A title at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock.
The Pirates scored 73 points in the 5,000-meter race, three fewer than Windthorst, the defending champion, which finished second with 76, according to results posted by MileSplit Texas. Mason placed third with 92 points, Port Aransas fourth with 130 and Slidell fifth with 159. Sixteen teams competed.
In cross country, a team's score is the sum of the finishing places of its top five runners, so the lowest total wins. Collinsville's five scorers all finished within about a minute of one another, with the team's average time at 17:06.62, MileSplit's breakdown showed. Windthorst had more runners near the front but a wider gap to its fifth scorer.
The title reverses last year's result. At the 2025 state meet, Collinsville finished second with 115 points behind Windthorst's 106.
