Cherokee graduate Megan Lacy placed 4th in the Trail World Championships last weekend in Hawaii.

Lacy, a Marlton native now based in Boise, Idaho, covered the challenging 21K course on Kualoa Ranch in Kapalua, Hawaii, in 1:41.05. She finished fourth out of 80 women and 16th overall among 204 entrants.

World Mountain champion Grayson Murphy, a former XC All-America at Utah, was the women’s winner, covering the 13.05-mile course in 1:31.18. Bailey Kowalczyk (1:38.35) and Katherine Short (1:38.36) placed second and third. Lacy finished a minute and a half ahead of 5th-place finisher Sam Lewis.

Lacy ran PRs of 16:36.18 for 5,000 meters and 33:07.10 for 10,000 meters this past spring. She also ran 1:14.33 for a half marathon last winter and 2:39,.12 in 2019 in her first marathon and 1:29.38 for 25K.

Andrew Lodge, a Shawnee graduate now in his sophomore year at The College of New Jersey, won the 300-meter dash Saturday with a big personal-best at the Joe Handelman Invitational at Princeton.

Lodge ran 35.69 on the flat Jadwin Gym 200-meter track, edging freshman teammate Tyler Scott, who is likely the same Tyler Scott who ran for Burlington Township (TCNJ’s roster does not list a hometown or high school for Scott). He was second in 36.01.

Lodge’s 35.69 ranks No. 5 on the all-time TCNJ top-10 performance list and is only 33-100ths of a second off the listed school record of 35.33, set in 2005 by Eric Green. Scott’s 36.01 is No. 6 on the all-time list.

Lodge’s previous 300 PR was 36.66 in a home meet earlier this month. Scott had never run a 300 and actually has never raced indoors before this year.

TCNJ’s 1,600-meter relay team ran 3:22.94, with Lodge running a 50.48 second leg. That’s No. 5 nationally in NCAA Division in the early going. Brett Schuett (Bethel, Conn.), Roman Rychkiov (Robbinsville) and Alex Amoia (Hunterdon Central) also ran on the 4-by-4, Amoia anchoring in 49.54. Scott ran leadoff on a 4×4 B team.

Scott ran 7.08 for 6th in the 60-meter dash final after a 7.17 in the trials. The 7.08 equals No. 10 on the TCNJ all-time list. Lodge ran 7.26 in the prelims of the 60.

Lumberton’s Greg Foster has joined the 24-foot club.

Foster, a senior at The Lawrenceville School, leaped exactly 24 feet Saturday at the Lawrenceville Scrimmage Invitational at Lavino Fieldhouse. His series wasn’t listed in the results, but he is shown with a winning jump of 24-0.

His previous PR was 23-0 in a meet at the Armory late last month. He has an outdoor PR of 21-6 from the Mid-Atlantic Prep League Championships last spring at the Peddie School in Hightstown as well as a 22-8 in summer track in a meet in Baltimore.

Foster broke a 36-year-old Mercer County indoor long jump record. Matt Rose – a transfer from Bordentown – jumped 23-10 at the 1985 Christmas City Relays at Lehigh’s Rauch Fieldhouse in Bethlehem, Pa. The meet was held Dec. 27, 1984, so part of the 1985 season.

His 24-0 is No. 9 in New Jersey history indoors and makes him the 33rd 24-footer in New Jersey history indoors or out. The overall Mercer County record is 24-3 1/4 by Princeton’s Nils Wildberg at the 2019 New Balance Nationals in Greensboro. That mark, however, was strongly wind-aided (4.8), and Wildberg’s best high school wind-legal jump was a 23-11 at the 2019 state Group 4 meet at Franklin High School. So Foster’s 24-0 is the top legal indoor or outdoor long jump mark in Mercer County history.

Foster is tied for No. 2 in the early going nationally behind Krystian Williams of Collegiate High in Richmond, Va., who jumped 24-1 1/2, last week in a meet in Richmond. Chrisly Kelly-Cannon of Jefferson Academy in Broomfield, Colo., also jumped 24-0 earlier this month in a meet at Golden, Colo.

Foster also won the 55-meter hurdles Saturday in 7.95.

Here’s a look at the all-time New Jersey top-10 indoors:

25-5 1/2 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 1978
24-6 1/4 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990
24-3 3/4 … Hanif Kendrick [Franklin twp.], 2007
24-3 1/4 … Kaelen Mitchell [Piscataway], 2021
24-2 1/2 … Isaac Samuels [Kennedy], 1983
24-0 3/4 … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 2003
24-0 1/2 … William Spearmon [Woodrow Wilson], 1996
24-0 1/4 … Justes Nance [Blair Academy], 2016
24-0 … Greg Foster [Lawrenceville School], 2021
23-11 3/4 … Corey Crawford [Indian Hills], 2010

And here’s a look at every 24-foot jumper in New Jersey history indoors or out:
26-8 1/4 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 1979 [outdoors]
25-2 1/2 … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2012 [outdoors]
25-0 1/2 … Corey Crawford [Indian Hills], 2010 [outdoors]
25-0 … William Spearmon [Woodrow Wilson], 1996 [outdoors]
24-11 1/2 … Renaldo Nehemiah [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 1977 [outdoors]
24-11 1/4 … Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2002 [outdoors]
24-11 … Darius Pemberton [Hackensack], 1993 [outdoors]
24-8 1/4 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990 [outdoors]
24-8 … Isaac Samuels [Kennedy], 1983 [outdoors]
24-5 … Todd Baskerville [Rahway], 1984 [outdoors]
24-5 … Brad Mayo [West Orange], 1984 [outdoors]
24-5 … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 2003 [outdoors]
24-4 1/2 … Eulace Peacock [Union], 1933 [outdoors]
24-4 … Emeke Eze [Sayreville], 2012 [outdoors]
24-3 3/4 … Hanif Kendrick [Franklin Twp.], 2007 [indoors]
24-3 3/4 … Mikhail Micheaux [Eastern], 2013 [outdoors]
24-3 1/4 … Marcus Hickerson [Delbarton], 1987 [outdoors]
24-3 1/4 … Kaelen Mitchell [Piscataway], 2021 [indoors]
24-3 1/4 … Nils Wildberg [Princeton], 2019 [outdoors]
24-2 1/4 … Ed Ryan [Barringer], 1938 [outdoorts]
24-1 3/4 … Mark Henry [Plainfield], 1980 [outdoors]
24-1 3/4 … Evans Tobler [Trenton], 1984 [outdoors]
24-1 3/4 … Ron Lewis [Asbury Park], 1984 [outdoors]
24-1 1/2 … Richie Cimer [Paramus], 1965 [outdoors]
24-1 1/2 … Derrick Horner [Don Bosco], 1989 [outdoors]
24-1 … Bob Calhoun [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 1974 [outdoors]
24-1 … Zack Bazile [St. Joe’s], 2014 [outdoors]
24-0 1/2 … Kerry Vivett [Edgewood], 1984 [outdoors]
24-0 1/4 … Justes Nance [Blair Academy], 2016 [indoors]
24-0 … Sherman Gramby [Elizabeth], 1986 [outdoors]
24-0 … Greg Foster [Lawrenceville School], 2021 [indoors]
24-0 … A’nan Bridgett [West Windsor-Plainsboro South], 2018 [outdoors]
24-0 … Donavan Anderson [Bergenfield], 2021 [outdoors]

In her first collegiate race, Winslow graduate Shevell Higgs won the 60-meter hurdles at the Seahawk Shootout at Ocean Breeze.

Higgs, a Penn freshman, ran 8.88, edging junior teammate Haley Rizek by 1-100th of a second.

Higgs missed moving into the all-time Penn top-10 in the 60-meter highs by only 5-100ths of a second.

Higgs and Rizek both ran in the first of three sections of the final by time. Yasmeen Tinsley of Monmouth was third in 8.92.

At Winslow last year, Higgs ran ran 15.12 to win the state Group 3 title in the 100-meter highs and 14.85 for 6th in the Meet of Champions after a 14.82 in the trials. Indoors, she ran 8.40 to place second at states at 55 meters.

Higgs also placed 5th of 60 runners in the 60-meter dash with an 8.10.

Jalen Jones, a Burlington Township graduate, just missed the Monmouth University school record at 300 meters Friday in his first race of the indoor season.

Jones, a Monmouth junior,  ran 34.67 at the Seahawk Shootout at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island, N.Y. He won his section and wound up second out of 63 runners, behind only Penn sophomore Emerson Douds, who won a separate section in 34.24. It was a final by time.

Jones’ time is No. 2 in Monmouth history, behind only Khalid Slocum’s 34.56 two years ago at the same meet on the same track. Jones’ previous 300 PR was 35.36 in the same race Slocum ran 34.56.

Jones is a two-time Metro Atlantic Conference 400-meter dash champion. He has 400 PRs of 48.28 outdoors and 48.38 indoors.

Rancocas Valley graduate Bethany Biggi set a collegiate PR in the high jump in James Madison’s season-opening meet Saturday.

Biggi, a JMU red-shirt sophomore, leaped 5-5 3/4 and placed second at the Navy Invitational at Wesley A. Brown Fieldhouse in Annapolis, Md.

Her previous college PRs were 5-4 1/4 overall from last year’s George Mason Invitational and 5-3 indoors from a meet in January 2020 at the since-demolished Tolsma Track Center in Lynchburg, Va.

Biggi has an indoor 5-6 to her credit from her win at Easterns at the 168th Street Armory in February of 2019.

The 5-5 3/4 places Biggi at No. 6 in school history indoors and is the best mark in eight years, since Morgan Crewe cleared 5-7 1/4 during the 2013-14 season. Including indoor and outdoor marks, Biggi moved into the No. 8 spot on the all-time JMU high jump top-10.

Biggi, a multi-event specialist, placed third in the heptathlon last year at the CAA Championships in Harrisonburg, Va., with a score of 4,351, which is 7th in school history. She’s also 8th in program history in the indoor pentathlon with her 3,246 from the VMI Winter Relays  in Lexington, Va., this past January. And she ranks 8th all-time in the javelin with her 117-9 as part of a heptathlon in High Point, N.C., this past March.

Bordentown graduate Genesis Walker, a junior at Rider, ran a personal-best 7.84 for 60 meters Friday in a season-opening meet at Ocean Breeze.

Walker ran 7.84 in the trials of the 60 and then placed 4th overall with a 7.89 in the finals at the Fastrack Season Opener.

The 7.84 ranks 8th in Rider history. Walker’s previous PR was 7.88 when she placed 6th in the finals of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships at the Armory last February.

Walker also placed 5th in the 200 in 26.16

Washington Township graduate Jake Kolodziej, a Rowan sophomore, opened the indoor season with a big indoor 800 PR at Ocean Breeze.

Kolodziej ran 1:55.75 to win the 800 at the Fastrack Season Opener at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island, N.Y. He finished first of 32 runners and won by more than 1 1/2 seconds over second-place Stephen McClellan of St. Joe’s.

Kolodziej ran his overall 800 PR of 1:55.29 outdoors at the Oscar Moore Invitational in Glassboro last April. His previous indoor PR was 1:56.86 from last year’s Fastrack Invite, which he also won.

At Washington Township, Kolodziej had a PR of 1:57.10 from a meet at West Chester (Pa.) Henderson in May of 2018 and an indoor PR of 2:01.67 from indoor sectionals at the Bubble in Toms River in February of 2018.

Greg Foster, a Lumberton native who attends Lawrenceville School, soared a personal-best 23 feet in a season-opening exhibition meet at the Armory.

Foster competed in the 17-18 age division at the Armory Metro Eagles Invitational last weekend in New York. He fouled on his first attempt, then hit three straight PRs – 22-0, 22-10 1/2 and 23-0.

Foster’s previous long jump PR was 22-8 from an outdoor meet in Baltimore last summer. His official high school PR was 22-5 3/4 from an indoor meet in Virginia Beach in March.

The 23-0 is No. 3 all-time in Mercer County history indoors, behind Trenton’s Matt Rose, a Bordentown transfer (23-10 in 1985), Princeton’s Nils Wildberg (23-4 1/2 in 2018) and Trenton’s Evans Tobler (23-1 1/2 in 1984).

Foster also won the 55-meter hurdles in a personal-best 7.63 and won the 55-meter dash in a PR 6.70. His previous PRs in those events were 7.77 from the trials at Eastern’s in February and 6.83 from a dual meet in January of 2020 at Lawrenceville’s Lavino Fieldhouse

Foster’s father Greg attended Shawnee High School and Stockton University and went on to compete in the 1988 U.S. Track and Field Trials in the triple jump.

Greg Jr. has a triple jump PR of 47-9 1/2 from a meet this past summer in Jacksonville.