On May 16 at Mike A. Myers Stadium, Katy Tompkins won the UIL 6A boys team title for the first time in program history, closing out the state championship with 47 team points. Byron Nelson came second with 27. Shadow Creek finished third at 24. Tompkins's path to the title ran through a football recruit who spent his junior year at Fort Bend Christian, came back to Tompkins for his senior season, and ran the fastest all-conditions 200m in American high school history on the last afternoon of his track career.

Blake Hamilton clocked an eye-popping 19.86 in the 200 final. The wind reading was +4.6 meters, but still the number is there. (He went undefeated in the 200m this season, and clocked a wind-legal 20.27 in the prelims.) Tompkins also won the 4x100 relay and finished second in the 4x200 at 1:24.07. 

The arc of how Hamilton got to that finish line is the part that doesn't show up in a results table. He ran 21.38 at UIL State in 2024 as a junior to finish fifth. He left for Fort Bend Christian the following year, won state in both the 100 and 200 at the TAPPS level, and came back to Tompkins for his senior year. This spring he won Victor Lopez in the 200 at 20.66. He won his district, area, and region meets. And of course he won state, going from a fifth-place finisher to the fastest all-conditions 200m in American high school istory, at the same meet, three years later.

The distance side of the program looks to build momentum in a similar capacity as Hamilton did over the past three years. At late March's Victor Lopez Classic - the same weekend Hamilton won the 200 at 20.66 - Carter Maloy ran the 1500 in 3:58.40 and finished third, good for the fourth fastest time in Texas in the less-frequently contested event. Jackson Armenta ran the same race and finished tenth at 4:03.04, 11th in Texas. Maloy also ran the 3000 at 8:53.13, seventh in Texas. Two years ago Maloy, now a junior, was running 4:37 at UIL District. This year he went on to finish 9th at UIL State in the 1600 at 4:22.38.

Kendall Maloy ran the 3000 at Victor Lopez that same weekend at 10:32.06, 12th in Texas. She is a freshman who has been competing since 2021 - at 12 she ran 11:08 at the USATF National Junior Olympic Championships in the 3200. This spring she is 5th in Texas in the mile at 5:15.42 from the Wildwood Miles on Mar 14, and also ran the 1500 at Victor Lopez at 4:53.81 the same weekend her brother ran his.

But there's even more reason to believe in this program. Troy Allsop (2027) is 16th in Texas in the 3000 at 9:02.51 and 26th in the 1500 at 4:10.76 - the third Tompkins runner in the state top 30 in the 1500. Emma Arthur (2028) is 13th in Texas in the 1500 at 4:49.61 and 24th in the 3000 at 10:52.87. Sara Hurtado (2027) is 29th in the 3000 at 10:56.86. Silas Scutt (2026) ran 20.84 in the 200, 23rd in Texas, running in the same sprint group as Hamilton all season. Jordan Wood (2026) is 17th in Texas in the 2000 steeplechase at 6:30.41. Phoenix Smith (2027) is 23rd in the shot put at 58-5. Esperanza Garcia (2026) pole vaults 12-0.75, 34th in Texas. Olalekan Fadesere (2028) runs an 800 of 1:53.92. Raha Samimi (2027) throws the discus 130-0. Saidee Castillo (2028) runs a 200 of 24.31.

Tompkins has its first team title and a roster that will still be here next spring.