/Texas has entered the chat/
Now, since I've laid out how this argument pertains to Tennessee, I would like to pull from a larger sample size as I continue... Texas. I'm reminded of this race I watched from 2016:
Here were the final results:
Event 606 Boys 800 Meter 6A
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Hart Stadium: # 1:55.71 5/2/2015 Myles Marshall, Humble Kingw
Name Year School Finals Points
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Finals
1 Branch, Josh KILLEEN ELLISON 1:56.11 10
2 White, Cam 12 HUMBLE SUMMER CREEK 1:56.12 8
3 Wolf, Xavier 10 KLEIN COLLINS 1:56.16 6
4 Gilmore, Christian 10 HUMBLE ATASCOCITA 1:56.21 4This race is as exciting as it is brutal when you consider only 2 of the 4 runners advanced to the Texas State Championship. I did a little more research on each of these runner's profiles and these were the results:
| Best 400m | Best 800m | Best 1600m | |
| 51.88 | 01:56.1 | 4:55 | |
| 49.55 | 01:53.5 | 5:00 | |
| 48.72 | 01:52.1 | 4:40 | |
| 49.47 | 01:52.5 | 4:24 |
Of the four, Christian Gilmore was the only one to compete in a UIL State Cross Country Championship where he placed 120th. It goes without saying these are great individual runners but is this just an isolated incident from an isolated year or can Texas tell us more? I expanded my study to the program level.