After a brief start to his track career at Campbell University, former Glassboro middle-distance runner Dallas Hohney has resurfaced at Rider, and on Saturday ran a huge 400-meter dash PR.
Hohney placed 4th at the Sam Howell Invitational in Princeton in 48.35. His previous PR was a 49.32 from June 2022, when he won the state Group 1 title at Pennsauken.
Hohney’s time is No. 11 on the all-time Rider list, just 5-100ths of a second behind Shawnee graduate Chris Tarello, who ran 48.30 in 1993. Tarello now coaches at St. Joe’s.
His time is fastest by a Rider freshman since James Green ran 48.21 at the 2019 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships at in West Long Branch.
Hohney only raced three times at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., according to TFRRS – the Track and Field Results Reporting System – all last indoor season. He ran a DMR leg, a 600 and a 400.
He did not race outdoors, then resurfaced at Rider this past indoor season and ran 49.86 in February in a meet in Boston and also ran his first lifetime 800 – a race he never contested in high school – and ran 1:57.46 two weeks ago.
So far, Hohney is 2nd-fastest in the MAAC in the 400, behind Noah Jefferson of Manhattan, who ran 48.13 last month in a meet in Coral Gables, Fla.
Rider is scheduled to compete at the Big 5 and Friends meet at Franklin Field on Saturday.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 