Anthony Vazquez ran a hurdles PR in Syracuse’s season-opening meet Saturday in Ithaca.

Vazquez, an Egg Harbor Township graduate, ran 7.94 and won the 60-meter highs at the Greg Page Relays and Multis at legendary Barton Hall on Cornell’s campus.

Vazquez, a junior, edged teammate Emanuel Joseph by 5-100ths of a second. Deptford grad Naseem Smith, a Syracuse senior, was 4th in 8.06, not far off his PR of 8.00, which he ran in the trials.

For Vazquez, the 7.94 was a PR of 1-100th of a second. He ran 7.95 at the same meet last year.

In the prelims, Vazquez was only 3rd-fastest at 8.03, behind Toronto junior David Adeleye [7.93] and Joseph [8.00]. Adeleye ran 7.99 in the final.

Vazquez’s time is No. 14 in NCAA Division 1 through the first weekend of indoor activity. Princeton’s Greg Foster from Lumberton and Lawrenceville Prep is No. 10 at 7.92.

Lumberton’s Greg Foster opened his sophomore year at Princeton with a near PR in the 60- meter hurdles.

Foster ran 7.92 and outraced teammate Easton Tan to win the hurdles at the TCNJ Indoor Opener at the Armory.

Foster led all qualifiers with a 7.99 in the trials, with Tan running 8.10, just off his PR of 8.09.

Foster is No. 3 in Princeton history with his 7.89 at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet in Cambridge, Mass., last January. He was the Ivy League long jump champ and competed in the long jump at NCAAs last year but didn’t contest either horizontal jump on Saturday. With his 26-1 ¾ last year Foster was ranked No. 14 among U.S. men.

On the all-time Princeton list, Foster trails Christian Brown [7.76 at the Dr. Sander Invite at the Armory in 2022] and Canadian Joey Daniels [7.77 at Heps in Ithaca in 2020].

Moorestown’s Kate Inglis, a junior at Catholic, ran a huge mile PR Saturday at the TCNJ Indoor Opener at the Armory.

Inglis placed 3rd in 5:09.23 off a 2:40.29 first half mile. That means she came back in 2:28.54, closing in 33.69.

Inglis’s previous mile PR was a 5:24.08 in a meet in March of 2022 in Winchester, Va. Inglis didn’t run indoor track at Moorestown. Her outdoor PR for 1,600 meters was 5:20.47 when she won the BCSL Liberty Division title in 2021 at Pennsauken.

Last month, Inglis placed 6th in the NCAA Division 3 South Region XC Championships. Last spring, she was the Landmark Conference steeplechase champion and 1,500 runner-up

Mainland Regional junior Sofia Day placed 11th out of 150 runners Saturday morning in the championship race at the RunningLane Cross Country Championships.

Day ran 18:05.4 over 5,000 meters at John Hunt Running Park in Huntsville, Ala. She was out in a very fast  5:35, which put her 19th through the mile, but she moved up to 12th at the two-mile mark and despite the hot early pace she moved up another spot over the final 1.1 miles.

Day, the state Group 3 champ at 800 meters indoors as a sophomore, placed 7th last nonth in the Meet of Champions in 18:34 at Holmdel County Park.

Evelyn Prodoehl of Lakota West High in West Chester, Ohio, outside Cincinnati was the overall winner in 17:32.8.

Isabelle Deal, a three-time All-America at Ursinus, has resurfaced as a senior at Rowan and in her first meet for the Profs the Washington Township High School graduate won the shot put at the FastTrack National Invitational at Ocean Breeze.

Deal last competed in May at the NCAA Division 3 Championships in Rochester, N.Y., and placed 6th in the javelin with a 139-9 throw.

On Friday on Staten Island, she won the shot put with a 41-0 ½ on her 5th attempt. Her indoor PR and Ursinus school record is 42-6 ½, which she threw this past March at the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Championships at the Armory. Her outdoor PR is 43-4 ½ from last May at the Centennial Conference Championships in Collegeville, Pa.

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Rowan’s indoor shot put record is 42-8 which was set by Pemberton graduate Kyanna Hawkins Deravin in December of 2014 at the New Years Invitational at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym in Hawkins Deravin’s first collegiate meet.

Overbrook graduate Angela Solomon set the outdoor record of 43-2 at the 1991 New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships in Ewing.

Aaron Brooks, a Monmouth sophomore from Eastern, opened his 2023-24 season by moving into the Hawks’ all-time top-10 in the 60-meter hurdles.

Brooks placed 3rd in the hurdles at the Rutgers Holiday Classic at the Armory in 8.27. That makes him No. 9 in Monmouth history.

Brooks only ran two hurdles races as a freshman, with a PR over the 42-inch hurdles of 8.39 at a meet at Ocean Breeze last December.

Rider senior Marques Merriweather from Jakcson won the race in a PR 8.02 and Rutgers freshman Chiemelie Anosike from East Brunswick was 2nd in 8.17.

Brooks didn’t long jump or triple jump Saturday, but he placed in both horizontal jumps last year at the Coastal Athletic Conference Championships in Virginia Beach.

Burlington Township graduate Jalen Walker holds Monmouth records in both the 60-meter hurdles [7.90] and 110-meter hurdles [14.15] from 2015.

A couple Woodstown graduates broke Georgian Court school records Friday in the 2023-24 season opener.

Senior Xavier Seals and junior Wayne Robinson, teammates at Woodstown in 2019 and now teammates at Georgian Court of Lakewood, both broke school records at the FastTrack National Invitational at Ocean Breeze.

Seals placed 3rd in the 3,000-meter run in 8:53.86 to break the school record of 8:54.76 set in 2019 by Leonia graduate Hussein Elmeshad at the same meet at Ocean Breeze. Seals’ previous indoor 3,000 PR was a 9:00.19 at Ocean Breeze this past February. Seals is already the school record holder in the indoor 800 [1:54.97], No. 2 in the 500 [1:06.01] and 1,000 [2:34.94] and No. 3 in the mile [4:21.95]. He doesn’t have any outdoor school records yet, but he’s No. 2 in the 800 [1:54.86] and No. 5 in the 1,500 [4:03.59].

Robinson became the first Georgian Court runner to break 50 seconds indoors, taking 3rd in the 400 in 49.79. The previous school record was 50.44 set by Bridgeton graduate DaShawn Lamar-Baldwin at the 2019 FastTrack Invite. Robinson’s outdoor PR is 49.26 from the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Championships this past May in Lakewood. His previous indoor PR was 50.45 from the 2022 East Coast Conference Championships at Ocean Breeze. Apparently, Georgian Court changed conferences, I reckon.

Robinson is also No. 2 on the all-time Georgian Court indoor list in the 200 at 22.19 behind Charles Wolef-Fields of Wildwood Catholic [21.94 in 2019]. Outdoors, he’s No. 8 in the 100 [11.52], No. 2 in the 200 [22.09] and No. 5 in the 400 [50.15].

Versatile freshman Julian Rodriguez of Deptford prepped for likely outdoor decathlon duty by running 8.67 in the 60-meter hurdles (No. 6 on the all-time Georgian Court performance list), PR’ing at 21-7 ¾ in the long jump (No. 7 all-time) and clearing 13-1 ½ in the pole vault (No. 5 all-time).

Also freshman Malicah Etienne of Cinnaminson threw 48-1 ½ on the final throw of his first college meet and first meet with the 16-pound shot. That’s No. 8 all-time at Georgian Court.

Georgian Court is coached by former Holy Cross standout Mike Murawski, a Cinnaminson native, two-time state high jump champion, decathlete at Duquesne and current Woodstown resident.

Marquise Young, a junior from Sterling, came within a fraction of a second of Rowan’s school record for the 60-meter hurdles Friday in his 2023-24 season-opening race.

Young won the event in 8.02 at the FastTrack National Invitational at Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island, N.Y.

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That’s 3rd-fastest in Rowan history, behind two former Division 1 transfers – David Benjamin ran 7.98 when he won the 2017 NCAA Division 3 title in Naperville, Ill. (after a 7.99 in the trials) and Bobby Cooks ran 8.01 at the 2018 All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference Championships in Ithaca, N.Y. (after another 8.01 in the trials).

Young’s 8.02 makes him tied for the No. 24 performer in NCAA Division 3 history, according to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches of America all-time performance list.

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Young, a seven-time NCAA Division 3 All-America, lowered his PR from 8.11, which he ran when he won the New Jersey Athletic Conference title this past February, also at Ocean Breeze.

In the trials, Young ran a near-PR of 8.12, and Rowan soph Kwaku Nkrumah from Teaneck ran 8.21 in a separate race for the 2nd-fastest qualifying time. In the final, New Haven junior Jordany Dely placed 2nd in 8.08 and Nkrumah, an All-America in the 110 highs last spring, PR’d at 8.14.

Benjamin, Cooks and Young are now the three-fastest indoor hurdlers in NJAC history. Only 17 Division 3 hurdlers have ever run sub-8, and Young is now 3-100ths of a second from becoming the 18th.

Young already holds one school record. He ran on Rowan’s 4-by-4 that ran an NCAA Division 3 indoor record 3:10.09 last February in Boston.

Willingboro graduate Anaias Hughes, a sophomore at Rowan, placed 5th in 8.34. That’s a big PR for Hughes, who ran 8.53 last year when he placed 6th as a freshman in the 60 highs at the NJAC Championships and then again at the AARTFC Championships at the Armory.

In his first college track meet on Friday, Pleasantville graduate Isaiah Davenport set a high jump PR.

Davenport, a freshman at Holy Family in Northeast Philadelphia and just across the Delaware River from Delanco, cleared 6-8 ¼ at the FastTrack National Invitational at Ocean Breeze.

Davenport PR’d at 6-8 when he won the state Group 2 title at Delsea this past June. His previous indoor PR was a 6-6 at the indoor state Group 2 meet at the Bubble in Toms River this past February.

On Friday, Davenport cleared 6-0 ¼ and 6-2 ½ on his first attempt and 6-4 ½ on his third. He was clean at 6-6 ¼ and then got over the bar at 6-8 ¼ on his second attempt. He finished the competition by taking three tries at 6-10 ¼.

Nishorn Pierre, Holy Family’s school indoor record holder at 7-1 ¾, won the event at 7-0 ¼. Pierre has cleared 7-2 ¼ outdoors. Pierre is a 2-time NCAA Division 2 All-America.

Triton graduate Nevaeh Lorjuste just missed the Rowan school record at 400 meters in her first meet of the year.

Lorjuste, a Rowan junior, won the 400 at the FastTrack National Invitational at Ocean Breeze in 56.88. just 8-100ths of a second off the school record of 56.80 set in 2013 by Delsea graduate Brianna Crofton at the NYU Fastrack Team Challenge at the Armory in February 2013.

Lorjuste’s previous indoor PR was a 57.54 this past February when she placed 2nd at the New Jersey Athletic Championships – also at Ocean Breeze. Her lifetime best is a 55.46 when she won the outdoor NJAC meet in Mahwah. That put her within reach of Rowan’s outdoor 400 record of 54.74, set by Pemberton grad Shailah Williams when she placed 3rd in the 2016 NCAA Division 3 Championships in Waverly, Iowa.

Through one lap, Rutgers-Newqark senior Zrreyah Moore had a very slight lead over Lorjuste, 26.66 for 200 meters to 26.70. But Lorjust finished two meters clear of Moore at the finish line.

Woodstown grad Molly Lodge ran 58.47 for 3rd place and Burlington Township’s Jasmine Pope was 4th in 58.49. 

Rowan junior Jasmine Pope of Pennsauken, in her first race for Rowan after transferring from St. Peter’s, was 4th in 58.49. It was Pope’s first race on the track since May 2022. That’s a lifetime best for Pope, whose indoor PR was a 1:00.67 for St. Peter’s in a meet in February 2022 at Ocean Breeze. He overall PR was a 59.61 at the 2021 Group 3 sectionals at Pennsauken.