Two dozen teams will compete in two divisions today at Tiger Field in the first Big Red Relays meet in two years. The meet wasn’t held last year but makes its return today with a star-studded field.
The Class 5A-4A Division includes District 13-5A foes Belton, Temple, Copperas Cove, Bryan and Waco along with perennial track and field powers Harker Heights, Killeen, Killeen Ellison, Killeen Shoemaker and Waco University.
The Killeen boys and the Harker Heights girls are the defending champions from the 2002 meet. Among those competing in the 3A-2A-A Division will be Academy, Granger, Salado and Troy.
Competition will begin with field events at 12:30 p.m., followed by the running events at 4:30. The running events will be finals only, meaning at least two or three heats will be run in each event for both boys and girls divisions.
The division of larger schools could be a shootout for the boys and girls titles.
The Belton boys feature Ramonce Taylor — the defending 5A state champion in the long jump — who leaped 23 feet, 10 inches to win last week’s Alamo Relays. That jump is the longest in 5A Region II this year.
The Tigers will also be strong in the shot put, where Nathan Nolan’s toss of 56-11
