Apparently, Greg Foster is a pretty good middle-distance runner now as well as an outstanding hurdler and horizontal jumper.
Foster, a Lumberton native and Princeton sophomore, ran his first collegiate flat race Saturday in the Joe Handelman Invitational at Jadwin Gym and won the 300 in 35.26.
Foster edged teammates Chris Page, the 2022 Ivy League 400-meter hurdles champ, and John Catherman, a 10.70 sprinter. Page ran 35.31 and Catherman 35.48.
Foster hadn’t contested any track race without hurdles since his senior year at Lawrenceville Prep, when he ran a couple 100s and 200s. He hadn’t run anything over 200 meters since February of 2022, when he ran a 52.39 for 400 meters in a meet at Lawrenceville. His only prior 300 was a 39.55 at the 2019 Bishop Loughlin Games at Ocean Breeze in December of 2019.
Foster placed 1st in the long jump, 2nd in the triple jump and 4th in the 110-meter hurdles last May at the Ivy League Championships (the Heps) at Franklin Field. He has PRs of 26-1 ¾ and 50-7 ½ as well as 14.23.
He’s No. 3 in Princeton history indoors in the hurdles [7.89] and long jump [25-10]. His 35.26 is only half a second off the all-time Princeton 300-meter dash top-10. The guy at No. 10 is legendary Bridgeton graduate Royce Reed [34.74]. Outdoors, Foster has the school record in the long jump [26-1 ¾] and No. 5 in the highs. He’s about an inch off the triple jump top 10 (but only triple jumped three times last spring).
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 