Edition 1: You Don't Know My Name, Yet

This is a new series we are beginning that we will highlight athletes who are up and comers. They have impressive performances so far, so be on the lookout for them in the upcoming outdoor track and field season


Bailey Hashmi wins the 60m at the 2025 Carl Lewis Inv.

BOYS

Bailey Hashmi (Houston Lamar) - Sprints

The Houston senior is a complete sprinter; he runs from the 60m through the 400m. In 2024, he qualified for the UIL 6A state meet in the 200m, so he is good.

However, this indoor season Hashmi is off to a blistering fast pace in the sprints. At 60m, he has 6.72, 6.77, and 6.78 runs; at 200m, he went 21.35, 21.39, and 22.10 this season.


Jett Harrison (Liberty Hill) -  Shot Put

Harrison hasn't been anything to sleep on before now, but he is really in a rhythm this indoor season. 

He has a 54-4.50 outdoor season shot put best; he has several indoor throws this season ahead of that clip already. Harrison opened up with a 54-2 meet best throw in December and since has gone 56-2.75, 55-0.75, and 52-7. He won the Carl Lewis Invitational two weeks ago.


Eric Rose (Leander Glenn) - Pole Vault

Rose had a 14-0 best jump at a competition coming into the indoor season. All he has done this season is go far above his competition best indoors. With in competition jumps of 17-0, 16-2, and 16-0 you can see he is on fire indoors in 2025.


Chastin Clark (Houston Cypress Ranch) - Jumps

Clark has been a versatile athlete throughout his high school career. He hurdles and he runs 50.74 in the 400m; however, he is legit jumper. With personal bests of 6-8, 21-9.50, and 48-0.50 outdoors, he is getting at it this indoor season. 

Clark won the Carl Lewis Invitational high jump with a 6-4 and he previously added a 6-4 clearance a the 2025 Texas High School Indoor Championship. He is also riding the curve of his long jump personal best in the long jump with a 21-5.75 this year and a 47-8.50 in the triple jump.


Cameron Phillips (Humble Summer Creek) - Jumps

The Summer Creek junior jumper is off to a great start this indoor season. While he did win the Region 3-6A triple jump title with his 48-1.75 personal best in 2024 to qualify for the state meet, he only managed a eighth place finish.

This indoor season he is on a heater. He has a 22-5 long jump personal best 22-5. In the triple jump, Phillips went 48-2 to win the Carl Lewis Invitational.


Heat 1 of the girls 400m at the 2025 Texas Tech Wes Kittley Inv.

Girls

Evah Elleby (Mansfield Lake Ridge) - Sprints

Elleby is having a solid indoor season, which leads us to believe she will become a familiar name outdoors. She has 60m performances of 7.66, 7.68, 7.73, and 7.75. In the 200m, she has added 24.42 and 24.71 runs at the Carl Lewis Invitational.

Her outdoor 200m best is 24.84, that could be blasted away at her first open race with decent weather.


Winter Eans (DeSoto) - Sprints

This indoor season, Eans has competed in both the hurdles and the sprints. She has 8.88, 8.92, and 9.02 runs in the 60-meter hurdles this indoor season. 

In the 60m and 200m distances she has been equally impressive. Eans ran 7.68 and 7.73 in the 60; at 200m, she started off with a 25.67 at A&M. Since then, she has really gathered herself and come into her own. She rattled off 24.54, 24.96, and 24.89 runs since the firs meet.


Eguonome Akpobassa (Bridgeland) -  Sprints/Jumps

Akpobassa was busy at the Texas Tech Wes Kittley High School Invitational. She ran in both the 60m and 200m events as well as jumped in both horizontal jumps.

She ran 7.78 in the 60m and 24.84 in the 200m. As impressive as that was, she was even better in the jumps. She placed third overall in both events as she went 19-1.25 in the long jump and 39-4 in the triple jump.


DaNaucia Johnson (Longview) - Sprints

Johnson ended the 2024 outdoor track and field by advancing to the Region 2-5A Championships in both the 200m and 400m. She had personal bests of 24.51 and 55.28 and gave her best shots in both events at the Nike Outdoor Nationals.

This indoor season, she is off to a great start when she competed at the Nike Outdoor Nationals. Johnson ran 7.93, 24.92, and 55.81 in Fayetteville to get her senior season off to a quick start.


Duren has covered her bases in all three indoor sprint events with good marks in the 60m, 200m, and 400m. I believe she could become a familiar name this spring based on those runs.

In the 60m, she has run 7.88 twice, 24.62 and 24.75, and then in the 400m, she dropped three 55-second runs. It will be hard not to notice Duren in the outdoor season.