DeSoto boys, girls sweep Colt Relays titles

DeSoto swept both titles at the Colt Relays at Lee Academy in Clarksdale, Mississippi, with the boys finishing first at 95 team points and the girls taking the top spot with 94.5.

The twin wins signaled more than a strong day on the track. In a meet built on sprints, distance races, relays, jumps and throws, finishing first on both sides usually reflects a program with depth, balance and enough athletes to score in multiple places. For DeSoto School, it was the kind of result that suggests a track team rising as a whole.

That matters because track success is rarely built on one standout performance. It comes from repetition, conditioning and a roster that can fill lanes, exchange batons cleanly and score across the meet. A boys-and-girls sweep gives DeSoto a clear early-season marker: the Thunderbirds were not just competitive, they were complete.

The girls’ result also fit a broader pattern of success. A Helena World archive item showed DeSoto’s girls had already turned in a strong all-around performance in another meet at Lee Academy, winning a district championship with 103 team points and holding off Lee Academy, which finished second with 92. That kind of repeated showing points to a program that has stayed on a winning path against familiar regional opponents.

For Phillips County readers, the Colt Relays result lands as more than a score line. Helena World, which has covered Helena and Phillips County for more than a century, put the DeSoto sweep on its sports front because school athletics remain one of the clearest measures of momentum in the community. Wins like this can lift a campus, strengthen turnout at meets and give student-athletes a visible reward for the work that track demands every day.

With postseason competition still ahead, DeSoto’s sweep at Lee Academy offered a useful snapshot of where the program stood: fast enough, deep enough and balanced enough to win on both sides of the meet.