Another PR this weekend for Syracuse hurdler Anthony Vazquez, a junior from Egg Harbor Township.
Vazquez lowered his 60-meter hurdles PR from 7.94 to 7.91 with a win at the NYC Gotham Cup at Ocean Breeze. Vazquez edged teammates Naseem Smith from Deptford and Isaiah Lewis from Winslow Township. Smith was 2nd in 8.04 and Lewis 3rd in 8.07.
I’d love to give you some background about Syracuse’s hurdling history – where does Vazquez rank on the all-time list? What’s the school record? – but Syracuse doesn’t have a top-10 list or even a record book on its web site – maybe the only NCAA Division major program that gives you nothing in the way of historical perspective. When you click on “men’s records” on their web site, you get “The page you are looking for no longer exists.”
In any case, Smith and Lewis both have PRs of 8.00, Smith at the Armory and Lewis at Clemson, so Syracuse is very close to having three hurdlers from South Jersey under 8 seconds in the 60-meter highs.
I put together my own all-time Syracuse list going back as far as TFRR.org goes, which is 2010:
7.49 … Jarret Eaton, 2012
7.61 … Jaheem Hayes, 2023
7.65 … Freddie Crittenden, 2017
7.69 … Angelo Goss, 2018
7.74 … Matt Moore, 2018
7.75 … Donald Pollitt II, 2014
7.81 … Amadou Gueye, 2013
7.85 … Richard Floyd, 2018
7.86 … Tyler Garland, 2020
7.87 … David Gilstrap, 2017
7.91 … Anthony Vazquez, 2024
7.93 … Brevin Sims, 2021
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 