The accolades keep coming for the Fayetteville-Manlius girls cross country team, with the latest being perhaps the most prestigious.

ESPN Rise, a magazine and website that covers high school sports, has named the Hornets the best cross country team in the country.

F-M won it's fifth consecutive national championship this year.

Junior Katie Sischo says it's a thrill to be honored and to know all their hard work paid off.

"I don't think it would be as exciting as it really is unless we knew how much we had put in, how we much gave for each other and for the team and for our coach."

ESPN Rise was at the school Thursday preparing a story that will be on their website sometime in the next week.

The team also received special shirts and medals commemorating their accomplishment.

Head coach Bill Aris says being recognized by ESPN Rise is unlike any award the program has ever received.

"This is special and unique because we have never been honored in this way by ESPN Rise and to be among the first ones to get it, I think is an honor in and among itself."

ESPN Rise will honor the team in an assembly Friday morning at the school.

The boys cross country team, which finished second nationally, will also be recognized by ESPN Rise.