While kids across the country were busy chasing Easter eggs, the track world was chasing something a bit harder to find - records.

This weekend delivered a drama-free, but an undeniably electric slate of performances, ranging from high school all-time marks to collegiate records that reset expectations for the outdoor season.

In case you spent the whole weekend stuffing your face with Easter candy, check out our top stories from this weekend.

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5. Relay Rivalries Heating Up

With Penn Relays almost two weeks away, this weekend offered a preview of the fireworks headed for Franklin Field.

Bullis School (MD) has long been the headline act in high school relays, but this weekend, they got some competition as they tune up for the Relays.

At Florida Relays, Westwood High School threw down one of the biggest statements of the weekend, clocking 1:22.95 in the 4x200m, which put them at No. 4 all-time in high school history. In the process, they took down Bullis and came within striking distance of the national record, missing it by just 0.7 seconds.

After settling for third in that same 4x200m behind Westwood and Flanagan, Quincy Wilson and Bullis turned their attention to the 4x400m.

Running his fourth race of the weekend, Wilson anchored the final in 46.49, pulling Bullis to victory and reasserting their dominance in the event that matters most heading into Penn Relays. 

With only the 4x400m contested for high school athletes at Penn, Bullis has already proven they can handle the best in the U.S., but we will have to wait until April 23rd to see how they will stack up against the world class Jamaican’s.

4. Odey-Jordan & Taylor Go Toe-to-Toe with the Pros

Jake Odey-Jordan and Tate Taylor made a splash in the big pond at the Miramar Invitational in Florida, where they not only competed against the pros but gave them a run for their money.

The duo started their Easter Weekend in the 100m dash, where they lined up against some of the best 100m runners in track.

Olympian Ronnie Baker led the charge in the prelims in 10.03 (+1.3 m/s), with World bronze medalist Ackeem Blake headed into finals with the same seed time as high schooler Tate Taylor in 10.05. 

Jake Odey-Jordan ran 10.16, just missing the final.

When it came to the final, Taylor stormed to a second-place finish in 9.95, finishing second behind Blake and beating Baker. The high schooler went sub-10 to set an all-conditions personal best.

In between rounds, the duo teamed up with their club team, the Texas High School All-Stars, in the 4x100m, nearly pulling off an upset. They finished just 0.04 seconds behind Star Athletics, a squad featuring two-time Olympic silver medalist Kenny Bednarek and 4x100m World Champion, Courtney Lindsey. 

They may be young, but the Texas Tech commits have shown that their age does not match their ability to compete at any level.

Odey-Jordan capped the weekend with a statement of his own, winning the 300m in 32.43 while setting a new U20 British record. In his third race of the day, he beat the field by 0.14 seconds.

3. Andrew Jones Keeps Raising the Bar

Future Texas Tech teammate Andrew Jones was doing his normal routine of dominating the hurdles.

Jones has been dominating the hurdling world since the beginning of March, when we saw him run an all-conditions high school record in the 100m hurdles in 13.01.

At the Texas Relays, he set a new all-conditions record, breaking the 13-second barrier in 12.97 (+2.8 m/s). He backed it up when it counted, running a wind-legal 13.15 (+1.9 m/s) in the final, and now stands as the second-fastest high schooler ever under legal conditions. The only athlete to have legally run faster than him is Wayne Davis (13.09), who went on to run for Texas A&M and win a national championship in the event.

The Texas athlete is currently undefeated in the outdoor season and would stand as the fastest athlete in the NCAA thus far into the 2026 season.

2. DII Athletes Steal the Spotlight

Division II athletes made noise this weekend. Colorado School of Mines’ Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge delivered one of the most impressive distance performances of the meet.

The grad student raced in a record-breaking fast 10,000m, where Rutledge earned her spot in the history books with a new DII #2 All-Time. Before the fateful Friday night, Rutledge’s PR stood at 34:37.64. Running in her first race since the 2025 DII Outdoor Nationals, her PR now stands over two minutes faster at 32:24.23.

The current record stands at 32:08.09 by Caroline Kurgat.

While Rutledge fell short of the record, a DII record did fall this week at the Texas Relays. After seven events, Esther Conde-Turpin became the new DII Heptathlon record holder with 6161 points.

Her record-breaking performance is the best showing for the heptathlon in all three divisions of the NCAA thus far in the season.

Representing West Texas A&M, Turpin won her first NCAA DII title in the heptathlon this past winter season. 

Turpin broke the eleven-year-old record by a mere 20 points, held by Salcia Slack from 2015. 

1. Debut 10,000m, Collegiate Record for Hedengren

The Stanford Invite 10,000m went down as one of the fastest 10,000m races in the NCAA because of the freshman phenom, Jane Hedengren.

In her first-ever 10,000m and collegiate outdoor debut, Hedengren ran a 30:46.80, breaking Parker Valby’s collegiate record by three seconds.

This race not only marked a new collegiate record but a true turning point for what is possible in the NCAA. Collegiate outdoor debut. First 10,000m ever. NCAA Record. Casual day for Jane Hedengren.

This is her second time debuting at an event on the college stage and breaking a record after she broke Valby's 5,000m record on her indoor debut.

After breaking four high school records in her senior year of high school, it was obvious she was going to be a force to be reckoned with in college, but who could have expected this amount of dominance?

Her performance helped elevate the entire race, with Pamela Kosgei’s 30:49,99, which also broke Valby's previous NCAA record. Kosgei now sits at NCAA #2 all-time in the event.

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