CROSS COUNTRY: Warwick State High School student Sophie Follett has won her third successive Darling Downs title in cross country.

She won the 16 years race only three days after winning the Warwick Credit Union X Country during the Pentath-run.

Follett is one of three Southern Downs athletes to win races at the regional school cross country championships at Kearney Springs in Toowoomba.

Samantha Brodie, Asbjorn Gaskell and Follett are the three winners from the region.

St Mary's student Ben Carey won bronze while Texas students Ella Byrnes (second) and Braithen Scott (third) were placed. Jordan Waterworth (St Joseph's, Stanthorpe) was third in his race.

Seven hundred students competed with up to 51 runners in each age group.

Follett has previously represented Queensland at national level and gets the chance to vie for state selection again when the top six Darling Downs placegetters in each age group head to St Paul's College at Bald Hills on July 15-17 for the state championships.

"My aim is top 10 at the state championships,” she said.

Warwick Christian College student Samantha Brodie won her first regional cross country title when she finished first in the 18/19 years age group.

"The state championships will be my first in school sport,” she said.

She is the first regional cross country winner from her school.

Asbjorn Gaskell (Stanthorpe High) was first in the 17 years boys event.

Any top-six positions not taken up in the Darling Downs team by this Friday will then be offered to placegetters outside the top six so the region has a full quota at Bald Hills.

A Queensland team will be named to compete in the nationals in Hobart in August where an Australian schools team will be selected to go to world school cross country in Paris in April.

Top 10 finishers from Southern Downs

17 years girls

Sophie Cartwright (Assumption) 9th

16 girls

Sophie Follett (Warwick High) 1st

Mary Higgins (Assumption) 9th

15 girls

Sophie Waples (Warwick High) 5th

Brianna Mullaly (Warwick High) 6th

14 girls

Larissa Vickers (Warwick High) 6th

Faith Kelly (Assumption) 9th

14 boys

Sam Wall (Warwick High) 7th

10 girls

Ella Byrnes (Texas State School) 2nd

10 boys

Braithen Scott (Texas) 3rd

18/19 girls

Samantha Brodie (Warwick Christian College) 1st

11 girls

Halle Belford (Texas) 4th

Molly Coventry (Texas) 6th

11 boys

Ben Carey (St Mary's) 3rd

12 girls

Kiah Murray (Assumption) 9th

16 boys

Maxwell Batterham (Scots PGC) 8th

17 boys

Asbjorn Gaskell (Stanthorpe High) 1st

12 boys

Jordan Waterworth (St Joseph's) 3rd