Rowan’s Marquise Young, Nana Agyemang, Nicholas Razze and Amari Conte ran the 3rd-fastest 1,600-meter relay in NCAA Division 3 this weekend at a meet at the Armory.
Young is a senior from Sterling, Agyemang a junior from Parsippany, Razze a senior transfer from Pitman and Conte a junior from Ferris High in Jersey City.
They ran 3:15.87 and placed 3rd on the 200-meter banked track behind Division 1 schools North Carolina A&T and UConn. (One set of results shows UConn in the results, another doesn’t.)
Young led off with a 48.93 split, Agyemang ran 49.07, Razze 49.58 and Conte 48.29.
Ranked ahead of Rowan on the Division 3 performance list are John Carroll in suburban Cleveland [3:12.91 last month in Youngstown] and Wisconsin-La Crosse [3:15.25 earlier this month on its home track]. La Crosse also ran 3:15.35 in the same race with a B team.
Rowan set the NCAA Division 3 record of 3:10.09 last February at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational in Boston. Agyemang, Jah’mere Beasley, Young and Conte ran on that team. Beasley is now a junior at Rutgers.
The Profs’ time is No. 85 on the all-time NCAA Division 3 list and Rowan’s 9th-fastest all-time.
The new guy on the team is an interesting story.
Although you won’t learn anything about Razze from his bio on Rowan’s web site – 
! Nice work, Rowan sports information office! – he spent the 2019 indoor season through this past spring season at McDaniel College, an NCAA Division 3 school in Westminster, Md. (formerly Western Maryland).
Razze set the McDaniel school record of 52.84 in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles last May in a meet at Widener and he also ranks 3rd in McDaniel history in the 110-meter high hurdles [14.86] and 10th in McDaniel history in the 400 [50.11]. He also ran on the school-record 800-meter relay team [1:29.13 in 2022 at the Penn Relays] and the 1,600-meter relay [3:18.67 in May, also at Widener]. Anthony Razze, Nicholas’s brother, also ran on that 4-by-4 team.
Indoors, Razze is the McDaniel school record holder at 600 meters [1:25.66 last January] and also ranks 3rd in the 200 [23.30], 7th in the 300 [37.51], 5th in the 400 [50.83], 3rd in the 500 [1:07.76], 2nd in the 60 hurdles [8.67] and ran on school-record 4-by-2 [1:30.14], 4-by-4 [3:20.54] and sprint medley [3:39.88] teams. He’s also 10th in the high jump [5-8].
Razze raced in the 400 intermediates twice at NCAA Division 3 Nationals, placing 11th in 2022 in 53.11 at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, and 11th in 53.13 last spring at At. John Fisher in Rochester, N.Y. He actually raced at nationals against Young, who placed 6th in 52.64. He was a three-time Centennial Conference intermediates champ.
Razze has only run one open race so far for Rowan – a PR 1:06.91 for 500 meters in a meet at Ocean Breeze last month.
If Razze competes for Rowan this spring – and it looks like he should have a year of outdoor eligibility remaining – he’ll be the 8th-fastest returning intermediate hurdler in Division 3 with his 52.84. Young will be 9th-fastest with his 52.88. Rowan had the 3rd-fastest freshman intermediate hurdler in the spring of 2022 with Treshan Stevenson from Millville, who ran 53.24. But he doesn’t appear on the current Rowan roster.
At Pitman, Razze’s 400IH PR was 57.67 and he ran 15.27 over the 39-inch hurdles and placed 6th at the 2019 state Group 1 meet at Franklin.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 