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Need for speed: Toledo football recruits double as track and field standouts

Omar Mims, Jr., is among the top-five fastest recruits the University of Toledo has ever signed.

And he isn’t even the fastest player in the 2026 recruiting class.

Noah Sanders ran a school-record 100-meter dash last week with a blistering time of 10.68 — and that’s the “slowest” fastest time between Mims, Sanders, Tyrell Russell, and Kamren Flowers, the speediest quartet the Rockets have signed in a single class.

“To have four guys that are hitting sub-10.7 100-meter times, I don’t know if I’ve been a part of a class anywhere that I’ve been where we’ve signed four guys in the same year with those types of times,” UT general manager Bryan Gasser said.