A day-by-day, event-by-event schedule for this year’s Texas Relays<\/a><\/p>\nWolfe likely knew that history. The teenager was a former high school star in her own right, having competed at major competitions like the Jamaican Under-20 Championships, the CARIFTA Games and the ISSA\/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships \u2014 considered by many to be one of the greatest high school competitions on the planet.<\/p>\n
Signing with Texas meant she would follow in Alfred\u2019s footsteps.<\/p>\n
But an underwhelming indoor season came and went. Wolfe still hadn\u2019t broken out when she stepped to the line Friday at the Relays.<\/p>\n
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Midway through her 100-meter heat, Wolfe shimmied away from the field in an NCAA-leading time of 11.01 seconds. The finish, which was wind-aided at 2.8 meters per second, sent her through to the women\u2019s 100-meter final on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Texas Longhorns\u2019 Abigail Wolfe runs a national leading time in the 100-meter dash prelims during the 98th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, April 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt didn\u2019t feel like I was running 11.01,\u201d Wolfe said. \u201cBut I mean, I don\u2019t know what that is because I\u2019ve never run that before.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Naturally, she said, credit goes out to Texas head coach Edrick Flor\u00e9al and sprints coach Ricky Morgan, whose instruction over the last few weeks fine-tuned her approach. \u201cI\u2019ve been putting in the work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s more, the coaching duo also helped shape Wolfe\u2019s state of mind. Or more succinctly, they made her understand what it meant to be a Longhorn.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust pride,\u201d she said. \u201cStepping out on the track and knowing I\u2019m better than anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wolfe\u2019s teammate, Carleta Bernard, was the second-fastest 100-meter qualifier on the day in 11.04 (+2.2) seconds. Tarleton State junior Victoria Cameron, who was third in the 60 meters at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March, ran 11.05. Around the track, Longhorns senior Kelsey Daniel nabbed a mark of 25 feet and 10\u00be inches \u2014 the second-best mark in the NCAA \u2014 to take the win in the men’s long jump.<\/p>\n
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Athletes competing in the 110-meter hurdles cross the line during the 98th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, April 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Back to the NCAA for more<\/p>\n
As NCAA revenue-share continues to evolve and NIL programs offer more financial liberties to collegiate athletes, college athletics may be heading for more stories like Louie Hinchliffe, who was back on the track for the Houston Cougars on Friday for just the third time since winning an NCAA title in 2024.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old native of Sheffield, England won a collegiate 100-meter title as a sophomore with Houston under Olympian Carl Lewis. Then Hinchliffe turned pro, moved back home, and ran for Great Britain at the Paris Olympics, earning bronze in the men\u2019s 400-meter relay. He was emerging as a real force until 2025, when he suffered a stress fracture in his back as well as a hamstring injury, according to the Houston Chronicle.<\/p>\n
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By October, Hinchliffe approached Lewis with thoughts of returning and worked with the UH compliance office to re-enroll with the program in the spring of 2026. He got it cleared through the NCAA\u2019s Student-Athlete Reinstatement Process, becoming the first track and field athlete to transition from the professional ranks back to college. He\u2019s now a senior.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Texas Longhorns\u2019 Ramiah Elliott takes off at the start to run the first leg in the 1600-meter relay prelims during the 98th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, April 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe routine was something I was familiar with,\u201d Hinchliffe said. \u201cThat was a big part, just getting back to the flow I had in 2024. I kind of missed that last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Friday, he anchored Houston to a leading time of 39.21 seconds in the prelims of the men\u2019s 400 relay. Another interesting note: Hinchliffe, who signed with ASICs in 2024, remains with the brand and still wears ASICs spikes \u2014 even though Houston is a Nike school.<\/p>\n
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Hinchliffe says his goal is to return to nationals and win another title. \u201cEveryone\u2019s goal is to go after an NCAA title,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Texas Longhorn\u2019s Kendrick Smallwood claps after his run in the 110-meter hurdle prelims during the 98th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, April 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Kendrick Smallwood excels in the hurdles<\/p>\n
This season, Kendrick Smallwood is thinking a bit differently.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou have to treat every single race as if it were a final,\u201d \u00a0the Texas senior said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He glided through the first round of the men’s 110-meter hurdles with a wind-legal time of 13.24 seconds. Best of the field. Part of that re-framing is because of recent performances. The Longhorns hurdler finished fourth in the 60-meter hurdles at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March. He was disqualified at the outdoor championships last June.<\/p>\n
This spring represents his final season as a Longhorn. Smallwood, who was coming off an abductor injury last year, wants to put his best foot forward.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m trying to go out with a bang,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the only way to accomplish that is to give every race, no matter how good or bad it is, everything that I have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Longhorns\u2019 Abigail Wolfe reacts to her result in the 100-meter dash, recording the fastest NCAA time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[416,27,29,537,28,88634,30487,88633],"class_list":["post-234215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-relays","tag-track-and-field","tag-university-of-texas-track-and-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}