The Texas middle school outdoor season started in February and the relay leaderboards have been building ever since. Some of the fastest marks were set in the first week of March. Others came in May. Here is how the season shaped up in the relays, event by event.

GIRLS

The girls 4x100 leader has been Xpress Track Club since the Clash of Texas in early May, where they ran 46.74. They also ran 4:00.57 in the 4x400m that same weekend - the only club in Texas leading two girls relay events. Gulf United is second in the girls 4x400 at 4:08.83, also from the Clash of Texas, making it the meet that defined the girls 4x400 leaderboard in a single weekend. Behind Xpress in the 4x100, Irving Johnson MS has held second at 47.30 since the Texan-Bobcat Relays on Feb 17 - one of the earliest meets of the season, still on the board months later.

The girls 4x200 played out differently. The Hal Peterson Zone Meet on Apr 9 was where the leaderboard took shape. Hal Peterson MS won their own zone meet in 1:43.23 - the top girls 4x200 mark in Texas - and Voss MS (1:44.69) and Loma Alta MS (1:44.98) both ran their season bests at the same meet. Three of the top four marks in the Texas girls 4x200 came out of one meet, with the only exception being Brock MS in second at 1:43.34, run at the Godley MS Relays on Mar 3. Brock is a small school that also has a pole vaulter in the national top 20 - they have been quietly competing across multiple events all season.

Aledo MS is 3rd in the girls 4x400 at 4:10.02 from the Mansfield ISD MS Championship on Apr 8. Pieper Ranch MS is 4th at 4:10.23 from the GVAC District Prelim on Apr 1. Boerne South MS is 5th at 4:12.26 from the SWAC District Championship on Apr 30.

BOYS

The boys 4x400 leaderboard was set early and stayed that way. Tulia ran 3:37.34 at the Hale Center Fightin' Owls Relays on Mar 5 - the first weekend of the season for many schools - and that mark has led Texas boys ever since. Pampa MS ran 3:37.50 the same weekend. Two small West Texas programs went 1-2 in March and neither has been caught. Boerne South MS is the closest anyone has come since, running 3:38.24 at the SWAC District Championship on Apr 30. Danny Jones MS is 4th at 3:38.77 from the Mansfield ISD MS Championship on Apr 8 and Waxahachie Howard is 5th at 3:39.54 from the Metro Meet of Champions on Apr 1.

Danny Jones MS leads the boys 4x100 at 43.12, also from the Mansfield ISD MS Championship on Apr 8. McKinzey MS was at the same meet and appears on all three boys relay leaderboards - 3rd in the 4x100 (44.17), 2nd in the 4x200 (1:34.61) and 11th in the 4x400 (3:40.90). Crowley MS is 2nd in the boys 4x100 at 43.58, run at the Collins MS Invite on Mar 4.

West Lake MS leads the boys 4x200 at 1:32.36, run at the Humble ISD MS District Meet late March - nearly two and a quarter seconds faster than the next-best mark and nothing has come close since March. Behind them, Argyle MS (1:34.63), Katy Haskett MS (1:34.64) and Dobie (Cibolo) MS (1:34.86) are separated by 23 hundredths in 3rd through 5th.