Aliya Garozzo earned 2nd-team All-America honors Saturday with her anchor leg on Penn’s 1,600-meter relay team at NCAA Division 1 nationals in Boston.
Garozzo, a Sicklerville native who attended Paul VI, ran 52.65, and Penn placed 9th in 3:31.82 at the TRACK.
Penn had run an Ivy League-record 3:29.86 last month in a meet at Clemson but ran Saturday with a substitute leg because one of the regulars was injured.
According to the history page on Penn’s women’s track web site, this is the first time the Quakers have ever qualified for the 4-by-4 at indoor nationals, although it looks like nobody has bothered updating the site since 2020. Nice job by Penn’s sports information department. Maybe they’ll get around to it one of these years!
In any case, Garozzo’s specialty outdoors is the 400-meter hurdles, and she ranks 5th in Penn history at 59.76 when she placed 2nd at the 2022 Ivy League Championships in New Haven. She’s won Ivy League titles at 500 meters in 2023 and in the 60-meter hurdles last month.
Penn’s outdoor opener is March 23 in the Penn Challenge at Franklin Field.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 