Amarillo High won five individual events and claimed the 400 and 800 relays, racking up 176 points to handily win the team title over second-place Lubbock Coronado (127 points) and third-place Hereford (70 points).
"Oh, yes. I was pleased with the way they competed and handled the cold and windy conditions," Hufstedler said. "Our goal was to come away healthy, and I think we were able to do that."
Amarillo High's bread-and-butter was its sprint relay team of Micah Nolan, Leslie White, Madilyn Newsome and Allison Martinez.
For instance, White walked away with three gold medals. The senior owned the hurdle events, handily winning the 300 intermediates in 47.33 and the 100s in 15.46.
Also, Newsome put together one of the more impressive runs of the event in the 400. Newsome owns the area-best time in the event at 58.38, the only Panhandle-area girl to break the minute mark in the 400.
Newsome fought through the annoying and strong wind conditions to win the 400 in 59.72, better than three seconds over runner-up Karissa Kinsey of Hereford.
"That was a great quarter by Madilyn," Hufstedler said.
Small-School Pride
All but one of the events over the two days was captured by a Class 5A-4A athlete. The exception was by White Deer discus thrower Dusty Armstrong. Armstrong won the discus Friday with a throw of 133-7. Tascosa's Casey Nelson took second at 129-4.
Other Amarillo High first-place individual winners were Eden Williams in the pole vault at 9-foot-6 and Jordan Coonts in the triple jump at 35-5.
Wind, Wind Go Away
The crummy weather conditions not only meant spectators, coaches and athletes were bundled up in winter clothing, but no records were set by the competitors.
However, that's not unusual.
Of the 17 events, 13 of the meet records were set in 1992 or earlier.
The oldest record is the triple jump of 38 feet set by Canyon's Merry Johnson in 1977.
Rare Repeat Winners
Because the Amarillo Relays Meet of Champions was canceled last year because of a snowstorm, only one individual can claim back-to-back victories in this meet.
That would be Hereford senior Alyssa Diaz in the 1600 meters.
"It's sad," Diaz said when asked about her final Amarillo Relays meet. "I really like this meet."
Diaz clocked a 5:21.83 in 2008 as a sophomore. Saturday she won with a 5:26.58 in much worse weather conditions.