Premier Wynn becomes one of fastest freshman 400 runners in NCAA Division 1 with breakthrough race at MEAC Championships!!!!!!

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Another race, another brilliant PR for Norfolk State’s Premier Wynn.

The freshman from Pennsauken ran a big lifetime-best 46.82 Tuesday afternoon and placed 2nd in the MEAC Championships at the Virginia Beach Sports Center.

He finished 2nd to freshman teammate Vincent Bond, who won the race at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference meet in 46.75.

Wynn had just PR’d with a 47.22 in Monday’s trials, which lowered his indoor best from 47.43 from a meet earlier in February at Penn State. So he’s lowered that by three-quarters of a second in less than 24 hours.

Wynn ran 47.39 outdoors in high school and 48.45 indoors.

It looks like Bond and Wynn are the 8th- and 9th-fastest freshmen in the 400 in NCAA Division 1. Their times are 3rd- and 4th-fastest in NCAA Division 1 Southeast Region.

Wynn’s time is No. 13 all-time by a South Jersey high school alum. It’s fastest by a college freshman from South Jersey in 19 years, since Vineland graduate Schefer Sherrer ran 46.66 outdoors as a freshman at Barton Community College in Great Bend, Kansas, at the Cavalier Cup meet at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas.

Wynn got out in an official FAT 21.57 through 200 meters, not far off his 200 PR of 21.43 from last month on the same track. He came back with a 25.25 for the second 200.

Norfolk State’s school record for 400 meters indoors is 46.17 by Trequan Barnes at the 2019 Penn State National in State College, Pa.

Wynn is scheduled to run the 200 later Tuesday afternoon.

All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Dash Alumni List
44.30 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], June 19, 1996, Atlanta
45.26 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], April 12, 1986, Tampa, Fla.
45.49 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], April 11, 2015, Tucson, Ariz.
45.98 … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], May 29, 2010, Charlotte, N.C.
46.05 … Schefer Sherrer [Vineland], May 18, 2005, Levelland, Texas
46.13 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], May 15, 2021, Raleigh, N.C.
46.19 … Maurice Ransome [Vineland], May 23-25, 1990, Naperville, Ill.
46.26 … Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], July 29, 2010, Nairobi, Kenya
46.48 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow], April 1, 2006, Atlanta
46.57 … Royce Reed [Bridgeton], May 19, 1996, Fairfax, Va.               
46.66 … Michael Bolling [Willingboro], May 15, 2004, Atlanta
46.67 … Jamaad Muse [Timber Creek], June 5, 2013, South Plainfield, N.J.
46.82 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], Feb. 20, 2024, Virginia Beach

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