10.28
A week after Memphis Central broke the longest standing relay record remaining at Jack Moran, the Warriors would travel to Austin to compete at Texas Relays for the second year in a row. With warm weather, a Mondo track surface, and elite competition, the ingredients were there for something special to occur yet again. While the Warriors were entered in the relays again (both of which qualified for the finals), Jordan Ware would also qualify for one of the handful of open events the meet offers.
The wind storm we experienced across the state Saturday was blowing in Texas on Friday and when when I opened twitter that morning, I caught a couple of highlights from the Collegiate qualifying rounds of the 100m dash. A lot of people were noting the wind readings that reached up to +6.5m/s and at Texas Relays, they always run with the wind. The high school qualifying rounds would occur later and I had low expectations that whatever Ware could run would be under the 2.0m/s threshold that would count for the State Record however, of the nine qualifying rounds run on Friday in this event, two had a legal wind reading and one of them was Jordan's. His 10.28 with a +1.9m/s will break Goodlettsville's Larry Cantrell's record of 10.33 that has stood since 1985 once ratified. Ware now is part of three state records: 100m Dash, 4x100m Relay, 4x200m Relay. I would imagine that now his focus would shift to the 200m dash record which was set in 1999 by Marquis Davis at 20.84. His best in that event is 20.94 ran last April. Congratulations to Jordan. Can't wait to see what he and the Warriors will do next.
