Texas Relays Crack Recap: Baller Sprints, Jumps, and Throws
Birexus Hawkins anchoring Fort Bend Hightower's winning 4x400
There were more than ten US #1 marks at the Texas Relays this weekend, mostly in the sprints, jumps, and throws. Among the new national leaders:
-Norman Grimes won the boys 300 hurdles in 36.33
-Mondo Duplantis won the boys pole vault at 17-8.5
-Adrian Piperi won the boys discus at 204-3
-Tara Davis won the girls triple jump with a 43-2 leap
-Kaylor Harris won the girls 100 in 11.58
-Tonea Marshall won the girls 100 hurdles with a wind-legal 13.04
-The Arlington Bowie boys won the 4x400 in 3:12.31
-The Strake Jesuit boys won the 4x800 in 7:41.58
-Dexter Neboh won the boys triple jump at 48-10.5
-Michael Mitchell leapt 23-8 to win the boys long jump
Piperi also won the shot put with a US #2 71-0 toss. Most impressive among the newly minted US #1s were Marshall and Davis, and Bowie and Marshall faced the stiffest competition.
Marshall's 13.04 in the girls 100H makes her #4 all-time in the event--on the heels of her 60H national high school record indoors--and she had to work to win her race on Saturday afternoon. The Texan beat out Virginia's Brandee Johnson, who ran 13.18 for second place and the #7 spot on the all-time list.
Davis's 43-2 hop, skip, and jump--part of a series where she was over 43 feet twice--is just a quarter inch shy of the top ten all-time.
Bowie's 3:12.31 win in the boys 4x4 was part of a wholesale rewriting of the national leaderboard. That mark is US #1, runner-up Arlington Martin's 3:13.09 is US #2, and DeSoto's 3:13.55 is US #3.
MileSplit was on site in Austin and provided mammoth coverage: