Same weekend, same weather, same stakes — and the boys brought the heat.

While Region 3 was still drying out from Friday’s downpour, the rest of the state’s distance runners got their business done. By Sunday, 96 boys had punched their tickets to Myers Stadium. Here’s the full picture on the 800m and 1600m.

The top two finishers per region earn automatic berths (marked x). The fastest third-place time across all four regions in each event earns the wild card (marked x as well). Third-place finishers who don’t claim the wild card go home.

We wrote the 3200m recap on Friday. Then the weather showed up.

Torrential rain in the Houston area forced Region 3 to push all preliminary rounds to Saturday and finals to Sunday — a scramble that tested athletes, coaches, and meet directors alike. But across all four regions and both classifications, the girls 800m and 1600m state fields are now set. Ninety-six spots. Some filled as expected. A few eyebrow-raisers. Here’s your full breakdown.

Storms rolled through several regional sites on Friday, but the 3200m races were eventually completed across all four regions in both the 5A and 6A classifications. By the time the last heat cleared, a defending champion had been unseated, an athlete ran the fastest high school two-mile in recent Texas memory, and a runner who wasn’t supposed to win Region 4 walked away with a state bid anyway.

Here is a full accounting of what happened.

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series covering the 5A and 6A Regional Meets. Region 1 — Lubbock, Region 2 — Arlington, Region 3 — Webster, Region 4 — San Antonio.

The Girls 6A regional fields are set. Sixty-four athletes per event — sixteen per region — have survived District and Area and now stand at the final checkpoint before the UIL 6A State Meet at Myers Stadium in Austin on May 15. This coming weekend, May 1–2, four regional meets will determine which nine girls in each event punch their ticket.

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series covering the 5A and 6A Regional Meets. Region 1 — Lubbock, Region 2 — Arlington, Region 3 — Webster, Region 4 — San Antonio.

The Girls 5A regional fields are set. Sixty-four athletes per event have earned their way through District and Area, and now the field is at four regionals this coming weekend, May 1–2, racing for nine state berths in each event. Top two from each regional advance automatically. A ninth spot goes to the fastest third-place finisher from across all four regions — the wild card.

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series covering the 5A and 6A Regional Meets. Region 1 — Arlington, Region 2 — Waco, Region 3 — Webster, Region 4 — San Antonio.

If you read the 5A version of this piece, you already know the shape of the journey: roughly 700 athletes per event began this championship cycle at District, District cut them to Area, and Area cut them again. Now 64 boys remain in the 6A distance events — sixteen per region — all of them racing for nine state berths on May 1–2.

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series that will be released this week on the upcoming 5A and 6A Regionals Meets. Region 1 - Lubbock, Region 2 - Arlington, Region 3 - Webster, Region 4 - San Antonio.

Championship season is here. Roughly 700 athletes started this journey at District meets in mid-April. District cut the field to Area. Area cut it again. Now 64 boys remain across the 800m, 1600m, and 3200m — sixteen per region, all of them having earned their spot the hard way.

The 98th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays delivered exactly what you’d expect from one of the country’s most storied invitational meets: fast times, out-of-state visitors testing themselves against Texas talent, and a few performances that will carry weight well into the championship season as district meets begin this week. Here’s a look at the high school distance action across all six events.

Boys 1600m

Holliday’s Noah Strohman added another chapter to what is already a historically decorated prep career, crossing in 4:10.22 to claim the win in extremely windy conditions. A four-time UIL 3A cross country state champion and three-time state champion in both the 1600m and 3200m on the track, Strohman signed with Oklahoma State University in February and is hunting a fourth state track title this spring. The race at Texas Relays was tight at the top: Austin Anderson’s Colby Huntress ran 4:10.69 for second, and IMG Academy’s Matthew Dodds — one of several out-of-state entrants — took third in 4:10.91. The entire podium was separated by less than a second, and the field as a whole showed impressive depth, with seven athletes finishing under 4:15.

The Texas Distance Festival has long been one of the premier early-season distance meets in the country, and the 2026 edition — presented by HOKA and hosted at Carroll High School in Southlake — lived up to every bit of that billing across two nights of racing. With events split across the two days — the 800m and 3200m on Friday, and the 1600m and 5K on Saturday — the new format gave runners a genuine shot at the double, and several of the state’s elite took full advantage.

The indoor national championship season wrapped up this weekend with Texas athletes making their presence felt across both the 2026 Nike Indoor Nationals in New York and the 2026 New Balance Nationals Indoor in Boston. From freshman breakthroughs to a historic relay performance and one remarkable kid who seemingly never sat down, it was a weekend worth cataloguing.

2026 Nike Indoor Nationals

Boys Freshman 1 Mile

San Antonio’s Cyril Girgis led Texas freshmen in the Boys Freshman Mile at Nike, finishing 14th in 4:36.88. The two Southlake entries — Aadi Ghanchi (28th, 4:41.75) and Cameron Perez (32nd, 4:43.80) — ran well, and Denton’s Logan Smith rounded out the Texas contingent in 68th at 4:56.37.