ANDREW JONES TOOK OVER THE TEXAS RELAYS

Andrew Jones has been building toward something all year. The Klein Collins senior won the 6A state titles in both the 110m and 300m hurdles as a junior last year, running 13.41 and 36.09. He is continuing on that same trajectory. 

Earlier in the season he broke Robert Griffin III's Texas state record in the 300m hurdles with a 35.07. Then at the Texas A&M Bluebonnet Invitational in March, he ran 13.01 in the 110m hurdles prelims - the fastest time ever run in the event under any conditions, though a +6.2 wind reading kept it out of the record books. He followed that with a 34.94 in the 300m hurdles final, making him only the second high school athlete in history to break 35 seconds in the event behind Vance Nilsson.

Then he came to the Texas Relays. The same meet where, as a sophomore, he won the 300m hurdles in 36.75 and started turning heads. He knew the track. He ran 12.97 (+2.8) in the 110m hurdles prelims - a new all-conditions high school national record, going faster than the 13.01 he ran at Bluebonnet with considerably less wind. Then he came back in the final and ran 13.15 (+1.9) to win - US#2 all-time wind-legal. He is committed to Texas A&M and was racing at what will soon be his home track.