It's only March, yet we're already seeing high schoolers break elusive time barriers.

On Saturday at the Texas A&M Bluebonnet Invitational in College Station, Duncanville High School (TX) senior Brayden Williams stormed to a 9.99 (+2.6) 100m effort in what was his outdoor season opener.

Williams, who's committed to run next year for the University of Georgia, broke 10 seconds in style, looking back at his competitors as he crossed the line for the win. It made for his first-ever sub-10.00 100m effort, joining a small club of names that have broken that barrier while competing for a U.S. high school.

Even though the performance was not wind legal, that's no reason to knock Williams' performance. In running 9.99 this weekend, he made history.

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Williams Is Just The Second Texas High Schooler To Ever Break 10 Seconds In The 100m

Texas has certainly produced some top sprinters over the years, but Williams is in limited company with his sub-10-second clocking.

Current adidas pro Matthew Boling is the only other Texas high schooler who has run under 10 seconds for the 100m in history. Boling did it back in April 2019 at the UIL 6A Region 3 Championships while at Houston Strake Jesuit, clocking 9.98 with a crazy, Texas-sized 4.2 m/s wind reading.

According to the MileSplit database, 10.13 is the fastest wind-legal, FAT mark recorded in Texas high school history. That was also done by Boling, doing so at the 2019 UIL 6A Outdoor Championships.

But the best part about going sub-10 in March? Williams now has plenty of meets ahead of him to potentially run a similar mark in calmer conditions.

Don't Discount The Performance Because It Was Wind-Aided

Yes, the wind was swirling a tad at College Station for the Bluebonnet Invitational -- but that doesn't mean we shouldn't take Williams' 9.99 seriously.

Texas has certainly seen crazier wind readings -- take Boling's 9.98 (+4.2), for instance. Put Williams' 9.99 performance in a wind correction calculator, and it equates to around 10.01 with an allowable 2.0 m/s figure.

But even when you look at the limited list of sub-10 performances in American high school history, most came in windy conditions.

In fact, Issam Asinga and Christian Miller are the only U.S. high schoolers that went under 10 seconds for the 100m with legal wind. Miller clocked wind-legal sub-10-second marks on three occasions -- at the PURE Athletics Sprint Elite Meet (9.93), New Balance Nationals Outdoor (9.95) and the U.S. Olympic Trials (9.98) during his senior year at Creekside High School (FL) in 2024. Asinga, who later was banned by the Athletics Integrity Union for a positive drug test, ran a 9.89 wind-legal effort at the South American Athletics Championships in 2023.

Only five have ever broken the barrier with wind over the allowable 2.0 m/s reading. That list includes Asinga, Miller, Boling, Trayvon Bromell and now Williams.

No Other U.S. High School Athlete Has Gone Under 10 Seconds This Early In The Outdoor Season

What makes Williams' effort even more crazy certainly has to be the date he clocked it -- March 8.

No other athlete has gone under 10 seconds in March. The fact that the Texas A&M Bluebonnet Invitational served as Williams' season opener makes it even more impressive.

Perhaps the question now should be where can Williams go from here. The Duncanville star will compete through the UIL rounds that culminate with the UIL Outdoor Championships in May, giving him plenty of time to chase after more sub-10 marks before heading off to Athens, Ga. this summer.

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