Here are the updated boys, girls, and school records for longest consecutive trips to the state XC championships.
Atop this list is just one team, that team is the Blacksburg girls' team who have made it to the state meet 42 years in a row or in percentage terms, 100%. They have made every single state meet since the first girls state XC meet in 1980, at Piedmont College. Their team is the only one to have an active streak spanning four different courses. Their streak includes Piedmont, Virginia Tech, Great Meadow, and Oatlands.
On the boys' side the current leader is Jamestown who has now made the state meet 19 times. With this they tie Radford's 2022 mark of 19 in a row. Radford dropped in 2022.
Combined there are two teams with very impressive streaks as schools as well. Blacksburg has made every state meet since 2006 for both boys and girls and Mathews has since 2007.
Thru every XC state meet in the current six class system Blacksburg, Maggie Walker, and Mathews have made the state meet for both teams in the same year.
Here are the current lists for boys and girls teams.
Girls Top 7 Longest Streaks:
7. Albemarle (11 Years)
6. Grafton (13 Years)
4. Mathews & West Springfield (14 Years)
3. Ocean Lakes (18 Years)
2. Maggie Walker (21 Years)
-->Longest AAA Former School Streak
1. Blacksburg (42 Years)
--> Have made it every year girls XC has been contested
*Jefferson Forest had made it 27 years until this year
Girls Longest Streaks By Current Classification
Longest Class 6 Streak: West Springfield (14 Years)
Longest Class 5 Streak: Ocean Lakes (18 Years)
Longest Class 4 Streak: Blacksburg (42 Years)
Longest Class 3 Streak: Maggie Walker (21 Years)
Longest Class 2 Streak: Bruton (10 Years)
Longest Class 1 Streak: Mathews (14 Years)
Boys Top 6 Longest Streaks:
6. Glen Allen (11 Years)
5. Maggie Walker (12 Years)
4. Lafayette (14 Years)
3. Mathews (16 Years)
2. Blacksburg (17 Years)
1. Jamestown (19 Years)
Boys Longest Streaks By Current Classification:
Longest Class 6 Streak: Glen Allen (11 Years)
Longest Class 5 Streak: Ocean Lakes (8 Years)
Longest Class 4 Streak: Jamestown (19 Years)
Longest Class 3 Streak: Maggie Walker (12 Years)
Longest Class 2 Streak: Bruton (6 Years)
Longest Class 1 Streak: Mathews (16 Years)
Girls teams making it to every state championship during the six classification era (9): Ocean Lakes, West Springfield, Albemarle, Grafton, Loudoun Valley, Blacksburg, Western Albemarle, Maggie Walker, and Mathews. Two teams dropped from this list in 2023.
Boys teams making it to every state championships during the six classification era (12): Glen Allen, Grafton, Jamestown, Lafayette, Loudoun Valley, Blacksburg, Tabb, Maggie Walker, Mathews, and Auburn. Just one team dropped from this list in 2023.
Copy & Paste Year: In 2017 and 2018 the exact same 12 boys teams made the state meet for one classification, this was the only year that we found this to have happened.