Winslow graduate Tionna Tobias ran the 5th-fastest 60-meter hurdles time in NCAA Division 1 Saturday at the Hawkeye Invitational in Iowa City.
Tobias, a senior, entered the meet with a PR of 8.39 from last year’s Larry Wieczorek Invitational on the same track at the Iowa Recreation Building. She lowered that to 8.35 when she led al qualifiers into the final and then ran an eye-popping 8.19 in the final.
Her time is 2nd-fastest in Iowa history, behind an 8.07 by current Hawkeye junior Paige Magee, who ran 8.07 last month in a meet on the same track.
Tobias, the Big Ten Conference heptathlon champion last spring, is among the top U.S. women with this performance, but the World Athletics site has been missing marks all season. It currently shows 8.19 ranking 6th but there are several marks missing – including Magee’s.
Tobias also won the long jump with a 20-0 1/2 on her 3rd attempt.
It looks like Tobias’s mark is No. 2 all-time by a South Jersey woman and No. 7 on the all-time New Jersey alumni list.
7.80 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2014, Albuquerque
7.95 … Dawn Bowles [Neptune], 1997, Atlanta
8.10 … Charmaine Walker [Plainfield], Fayetteville, Ark., 2000
8.16 … Amber Williams [Roxbury], Boston, 2008
8.16 … Racquel Vassell [East Orange], University Park, 2011
8.17 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], New York, 2015
8.18 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], Iowa City, 2024
8.19 … Shameka Marshall [Oakcrest], Boston, 2005
8.25 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], New York, 2015
8.27 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], Storrs, Conn., 2024
Tobias also has PRs of 13.11 in the 100-meter hurdles, 5-7 ¼ in the high jump, 23.97 in the 200, 20-2 ½ in the long jump 3,674 points in the pentathlon, 5,640 points in the heptathlon and 2:19.61 in the 800.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 