Isabella Deal broke the Rowan indoor shot put record last month when she threw 42-9 ¾ in a meet at Widener University in Chester, Pa.
On Friday, she added the Rowan outdoor shot put record to her resume.
Deal, a Washington Township graduate and three-time javelin All-America for Ursinus, is starting her first outdoor season for Rowan and threw 43-4 ½ at the Emory Spring Break Classic in Atlanta.
Although the results have disappeared from the timing site , they were there last night and did show Deal with a 43-4 ½ placing 2nd to Grace Frye of Cleveland State, who won with a 43-8 ¾ throw.
Although Rowan’s web site shows the school record as 42-8 by Kyanna Hawkins-Deravin of Pemberton, which she threw early in the 2015 season in a meet at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym, the previous record was actually 42-11 ½ by Makayla Taylor of Randolph in a meet in 2022 at Stockton University in Galloway.
Not surprising that Rowan’s web site hasn’t been updated in two years. Maybe one day Deal will get credit for the record. Maybe not.
In any case, Deal now holds the Ursinus and Rowan outdoor shot put records, the Rowan indoor shot put record and the Ursinus javelin record. Rowan’s javelin record is listed as 153-2 by Kathy Darling from 2001. And according to an article in the May 22, 2001, Darling did throw 153-2 at the Seamus McElligot Invitational at Haverford, so maybe that’s actually correct.
Darling, who was from Milford, Del., competed for Rowan and later Johns Hopkins. At Johns Hopkins she threw 159-3 in 2002 and that remains No. 6 in NCAA Division 3 history. Darling threw the discus 167-6 in 2003 for Hopkins, which is No. 11 in D-3 history. Darling was also on the U.S. national handball team.
Deal’s javelin PR is 155-0 from last May at the AARTFC Championships in Selinsgrove, Pa. That’s No. 17 in NCAA Division 3 history. She didn’t throw the javelin at Emory on Friday.
Deal on Friday tied her outdoor PR of 43-4 ½ that she set at last year’s Centennial Conference Championships in Collegeville.
Deal is not listed on Rowan’s roster, which hasn’t been updated in a year, but TFRRS lists her as a junior.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 