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Only two Dallas-area schools have ever broken 40 seconds in the 4×100 relay. The first was\u00a0Duncanville, which ran 39.47, 39.65 and 39.73 in 2024 and 39.98 in 2022. Timberview ran 39.98 at the state meet last year, only to finish second.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s because Alvin Iowa Colony won the 5A state title in 39.74, a new state-meet record for the\u00a0UIL\u2019s second-largest classification. Only four schools in national history have run faster, including national record holder Humble Atascocita, which ran 38.92 during its legendary 2024 season and then set the overall state-meet record that year by winning the 6A state title in 39.14.<\/p>\n
Kobe Smith, who runs second leg for Timberview, said he thinks the 4×100 relay team would have run faster at state in 2025 if he hadn\u2019t been injured. He partially tore his groin at regionals but still competed as the anchor leg to help Timberview run the eighth-best time in the country last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we could have run way faster, and this year we get another chance to, so I\u2019m excited,\u201d he said. \u201cThe goal for me is to run 39.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another\u00a0Timberview runner has done the same as Smith this year. Anchor leg Brandon Gilmore Jr. has battled a hamstring injury that has had him in and out of the 4×100 lineup and forced him to take time off from practice.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m just thankful to be able to fight through that and compete at state,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel as close as I\u2019m going to get to 100%, but I still think I\u2019m at a high enough caliber to compete for a state title in all three events.\u201d<\/p>\n
He will also run the 4×400 relay and open 400 meters at state. He won regionals in the 400 in 46.25, the fastest 5A qualifying time for state and the 11th-best time in the nation for 2026, and Timberview had the fourth-best qualifying time in the 4×400 relay.<\/p>\n
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Like Smith, Gilmore ran on the 4×100 at state last year. It could have been demoralizing coming that close to a state title, but breaking 40 seconds showed Timberview what it was capable of this year, as the prohibitive favorite in a 5A field in which no one else has run faster than 40.68.<\/p>\n
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Timberview is also among the favorites to win the 5A team state championship after finishing in a tie for sixth last year.<\/p>\n
Gilmore isn\u2019t the only runner on Timberview\u2019s 4×100 who is more than a pure 100- and 200-meter sprinter. Shaw, a move-in from Mesquite High, has the fastest qualifying time for state in the 300 hurdles at 36.30, a time that is tied for 11th nationally.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the relay, I try to make them the best individual runner that they can be, whether it\u2019s the hurdles, the 400, the 100 or the 200,\u201d Timberview coach Trey Bates said. \u201cComing together and putting them together on the relay, that\u2019s the easy part, as long as they are coachable and do what they have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gilmore, a Houston track signee, likely won\u2019t be the only one of the four who competes in college. Shaw is a three-star wide receiver in football and lists 28 college offers on his 247Sports recruiting page, while Bates said Smith and\u00a0Nguyen each have a Division I offer for track\u00a0\u2014 Smith from Kansas and Nguyen from UT-Arlington\u00a0\u2014 and have been talking to other schools.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWith the collective group of talent, I think this is the fastest four guys that we\u2019ve had together since I\u2019ve been here,\u201d Bates said.<\/p>\n
That is saying something, given that Timberview has qualified for state in the 4×100 relay all five years that Bates has been the coach.\u00a0Timberview finished sixth in 2022, fourth in 2023 and fifth in 2024 before last year\u2019s runner-up performance.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s success goes beyond the mix of light and hard tempo workouts and repeat 250s and 350s.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat has made this group so good is that all of us have spent time out of school, in school together,\u201d said Nguyen, who is in his first year on Timberview\u2019s 4×100 team. \u201cAll of us have the deep bond of brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Perhaps that is why all four runners think the team can break 40 seconds at state. Bates agrees with them, but he doesn\u2019t want that to be the focus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sky is the limit,\u201d he said. \u201cI think they can do 39, but it\u2019s something that I try not to talk about. They talk about it enough, but like I tell them, we don\u2019t chase times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mansfield Timberview\u2019s Brandon Gilmore (right) and Tyler Madison (left) make the first exchange in the boys\u2019 4×100 meter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,106827,93006],"class_list":["post-292325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-tp-mansfield-timberview-school","tag-tp-track-and-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292325","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=292325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}