Deptford High graduate Tyler Garland, only the No. 6 seed coming out of Friday’s trials, roared to a huge win in the 60-meter hurdles Saturday at the All-Atlantic Region Championships in Ithaca.

Garland, a Rowan sophomore, ran 8.45 in the trials, which left him racing out of lane 7 in the final. But he ran 8.33 in the final, winning by 2-100ths of a second over RIT sophomore Max Gloskey.

Garland was the state Group 3 champ in the 110-meter highs for Deptford in 2016. He competed for Rowan College at Gloucester County in 2017, where he was a JUCO All-America in the 110 highs, before arriving at Rowan last fall. With his PR of 8.24, he ranks 20th nationally in NCAA Division 3.

(Also, I love that @naseemsmith was the first person to retweet this blog post! With Garland and Smith, Deptford has built quite a hurdles reputation in recent years! Both are recent state Group 3 champs!)

Egg Harbor Township grad James Plummer, now a senior at Grand View College in Iowa, won his second national title Friday, his first in the weight throw.

Harbor, who never threw the 35-pound weight in high school, had the six-best throws of the NAIA Championships, including the winning heave of 71-6 1/2 on his second attempt at the Sanford-Jackrabbit Fieldhouse on the South Dakota State University campus in Brookings, S.D.

Plummer’s 71-7 1/2 broke the meet record of 71-3 1/2 set last year by Erik Escobedo of Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana.

He also had throws of 66-10 1/4 and 71-4 1/2 in the trials and then threw 68-11, 67-10 1/2 and 69-11 in the finals.

Second-place finisher Jacob Cornelio of Concordia in Nebraska was second with a throw of 65-1 3/4.

Plummer has a PR of 72-0 3/4 in the weight throw, so he threw within six inches of that on Friday. The 72-0 3/4 came last month at the Heart of America Athletic Conference Championships at Doane University Fieldhouse in Crete, Nebraska. He was the top seed in the event by more than two feet.

Plummer’s shot put PR is 56-4 from the same meet. He’s the No. 6 seed in the shot put on Saturday. He won the 2018 NAIA discus title last spring with a throw of 177-2 at Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium in Gulf Shores, Ala. He has a discus PR of 203-3 and a shot put PR of 57-11 1/4

Plummer, the 2013 National Scholastic high school champ in the discus, spent the 2014 and 2015 seasons at Clemson University and was a multiple ACC medalist before competing unattached in 2016 and 2017 and then resurfacing at Grand View, a small liberal arts school in Des Moines, Iowa.

I would love to be able to tell you where Plummer ranks among U.S. men, but the USATF – the governing body for track and field in the United States – hasn’t gotten around to updating its 2019 performance list since Feb. 13!

Rowan senior Aspen McMillan ran within 8-100ths of a second of her personal-best and school-record time in the 60-meter high hurdles Friday in the TRIALs at the All-Atlantic Regional Championships in Ithaca, N.Y.

She’ll race in the final on Saturday, and she’s the top seed in the final by a whopping 32-100ths of a second over No. 2 seed Erin MacDougall, a senior at SUNY Geneseo in New York.

McMillan ran 8.80, breaking the meet record of 8.84 that she set in the trials at last year’s meet. She came back the next day to win the final in 8.88.

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McMillan, a Kendall Park native and South Brunswick High graduate, set the Rowan school record of 8.72 last year, when she placed second in the NCAA Division 3 Championships in Birmingham, Ala., earning All-America honors. She’s also earned All-America honors twice outdoors as a member of Rowan’s 400-meter relay team.

She’s already ranked No. 3 in the U.S. this year in Division 3 with her 8.77 to win the New Jersey Athletic Conference title at Ocean Breeze last month.