Boys' 4 x 100
Meter Relay In the first cluster meet for 2026 at Crawford HS, the 26 year-old record was finally broken by the quartet below with a time of 43.98.
Because the new record was faster than the 1963 and 2000 records it stood alone as the 4x100 record. Later in the season at the third cluster at Morse HS, they lowered it to 43.43.
The 4x100 was orginally set as a 440 (quarter mile) relay at Sweetwater in 1963 when 200 meter record holder, Bill Corlett, teamed up with Rick Easton, John Everett, and Jay Dudney and ran 44.3. This was later converted to the metric equivalent of 44.0. In 2000 an electronic time of 44.22 was run by Felipe Hernandez, Marvin Dingle, Kherri Fernandand, and Steven Gooden at Sweetwater High School. Since the 2000 race was run on an all-weather track and the 1963 race on dirt and electronically timed we're keeping both on the books as the 4 x 100 record.
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