Jake Favinger | XC Results and Championship Watch

Fall 2026 form · Reviewed October 23

Jake Favinger: recent racing and championship watch

Unadilla Valley · Class D watch · September 12–October 23 review

Section IV contender watch

Date Race and field Course Race place Published time
Oct 20, 2026 Whitney Point InvitationalBoys varsity XC course 1st 17:47.7
Oct 17, 2026 Marathon InvitationalBoys varsity unseeded 5K 3rd 17:40.0
Oct 10, 2026 BGAH Bears InvitationalPublished race division XC course 2nd 16:46.0
Oct 7, 2026 Delhi Jack Gariepy InvitationalPublished race division 5K 3rd 16:50.0
Sep 26, 2026 EJ Herrmann InvitationalPublished race division XC course 1st 17:48.6
Sep 19, 2026 New Hartford InvitationalPublished race division XC course 3rd 16:12.0

Who to compare

Degan won the BGAH Invitational on October 10 in 16:17.0. Class D’s Lewis ran 17:13.9 in Marathon’s seeded race. Favinger won Whitney Point on October 20 in 17:47.7. These races and fields differ.

Degan belongs in the Class C conversation with Datta and Skuban. Lewis, Favinger and Elmira Notre Dame’s Meier are Class D names to follow. Final sectional entries govern participation.

Explore: Owen Degan, Jaden Lewis, Gavin Meier.

STAC awards large-school and small-school titles. Section IV uses Classes A–D, so league rivals can separate at sectionals. This is a Confluence watchlist based on published results and seeds, not a final sectional entry list. Race places belong to their own divisions. Different XC courses and distances are not directly comparable.

Sources: Section IV published result history, October 22 conference seeds and the linked meet reports. Times keep the precision in the reviewed result history. Course distances are shown only where identified in the meet materials. 2026 Section IV handbook. Final entries and later timer corrections take precedence.

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