The national record of Lancaster continues the historical dominance of D-FW at Girls 4×100 Relay

Lancaster Girls Track Coach Lakeidra Hayes knows what a quick time looks like in the 4×100 meter relay. It was in the 4×100 team of Texas A&M, which won the NCAA championship outdoors in 2013, and ran 42.88.

But on Thursday she was still unprepared when the winning time for the 4×100 team of Lancaster Girls was shown by the Donnie Conner Panther Relays in Midlothian. Senior Datavia Hunter and Juniors Lily Pierrot, Milan Lathan and Saniyah Miller ran 43.84 to break the national high school record of 44.24, who won in 2019 by Desoto with the title of class 6a in the 6a.

“I was shocked. I'm still a little shocked about how fast it was, ”said Hayes on Friday. “I really didn't think about times or the like, really just the execution of everything. But I knew with the staff that we were a special group and could do something special. “

After Lancaster won the title of class 5a in the 4×100 relay in 46.08 in 46.08 season 46.08, he led three of the twelve top in the US high school story this season after he was also 44.58 and 44.77. Schools from the Dallas region now have eight of the twelve top in national history in the event, so Track & Field News, With Desoto 44.24, 44.44 and 44.65 in 2019, Skyline with 44.60 in 2004 and Duncanville won the title 6a State in 44.70 last year.

“The D-FW area is a special place,” said Hayes. “I am also a product of it, from my high school team to my summer track team. I think that the club and the summer track in Texas are really big, especially in our area, I think that plays a really big role. The children run over summer time, and since they compete inside, it is a big difference in my opinion. “

Surprisingly, all four D-FW schools that rank this season after the UIL's realignment in the top 12 in the US history in District 11-6a.

“It is always fireworks,” said Hayes. “For a certain reason, they call it the DOOM district, with all sports. I think it will be fireworks at all levels, from district, area, regional and further. “

In Lancaster's record run on Thursday there are currently seven events in the Dallas athlete High School National Records. The others outdoors are Shelbi Vaughan von Mansfield Legacy in the Girls Discus (198-9 in 2012), Duncanville in the young 4×200 season (1: 22.25 last year), Rowlett's Marquise Goodwin Goodwin in the boys (26-10 in 2009) and Thomas Jeffersons Michael Carter in the boy (81-30).

Justin Northwest Sophomore Cooper Lutkenhaus broke the national record of the Indoor High School in the young 800 with 1: 46.86 at the Millrose Games in New York. With a time of 8.02 in 2016, Tona Marshall from Arlington Seguin still holds the national record for the hurdles of Indoor Girls 60.

This is a legendary group, as Vaughan, Goodwin and Carter participated in the Olympic Games and played Goodwin and Carter in the NFL. Carter earned a silver medal in the shot at the 1984 Olympic Games and he was a three-time super bowl champion at the San Francisco 49ers.

Lancaster's best time last year was 45.69 and only returned Lathan and Miller from the seasons team, who won the state title. But Hunter, a UCF signator who is 400 runners, and Pierrot has helped Lancaster reach a level that has never been seen before because it was the first high school girl 4×100 that has ever run under 44 seconds.

“Each of them has an incredible work morality. They work very hard in practice, they listen and they really bought themselves in our training style and they can be trained, ”said Hayes. “And weather. The weather was much better this year than last year. “

Hayes went the last name Stewart when she won two NCAA titles at Texas A&M and won a state title in the 4×200 season in Mansfield TimberView in 2007.

Hayes took exactly where Humphrey stopped and led the Lancaster Girls to their Uil-Record 14th Team State Championship last year. Miller won the state in the 200.52 and Lancaster swept the state championships in all three seasons to beat the second -placed Lovejoy with 27 points.

Based on Thursday, the fireworks are starting in Lancaster. And it is still enough time to improve its record time, with the state being about seven weeks away on May 1 to 3 May.

Further high school sports reporting in the Dallas Morning News can be found here.

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