Jayden Greene, a St. Joe’s freshman from Washington Township, PR’d at 800 meters at the Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational at Boston university.
Greene ran 1:54.66, an indoor / outdoor lifetime best. His previous indoor PR was a 1:55.19 at the 2020 Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze. He has an outdoor PR of 1:55.41 from the 2019 state Group 4 meet at Franklin Township.
That was only Greene’s second collegiate 800 and his first indoors. He ran one outdoors in April at Franklin Field.
Greene’s time is No. 14 in the Atlantic 10 so far this spring and No. 5 among freshmen.
Greene has also run 1:21.99 for 600 meters this winter. He also ran leadoff on St. Joe’s 7:53.00 3,200-meter relay team back in early December.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 