Penn’s Aliya Garozzo from Paul VI runs two more massive PRs, now #1 in Ivy League in two events!!!!!!

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Fantastic day with two big PRs for Paul VI graduate Aliya Garozzo at the Penn Invitational at her home track, Franklin Field in West Philadelphia.

Garozzo won the 100-meter hurdles in 13.65 – 4th-fastest in Quaker history – and placed 4th in the 200 in 24.42.

Garozzo, a Penn junior, does not run the high hurdles very often outdoors. She ran 14.15 when she won the state Parochial A title in 2019 at Central Regional in Bayville, but she had only contested the event once since arriving at Penn and ran 14.12 at the Penn Challenge last March, also at Franklin Field.

But she did run 8.29 in the trials at the Ivy League Championships in Cambridge, Mass., before winning the final in 8.37. That 8.29 is No. 2 in Penn history.

Her 13.65 is fastest in the Ivy League this year.

Garozzo is already No. 21 in NCAA Division 1 in the intermediates with her 57.97 last weekend in Gainesville, Fla.

She didn’t race the 400IH this weekend but she did try her hand at the 200, another event she rarely runs. She had a high school PR of 25.19 from a meet in Bear, Del., then ran one early in her freshman year at Penn and ran 26.20 at Franklin Field. Then this past indoor season she ran 25.08 at Ocean Breeze.

But she blew those times away Saturday with her 24.42, which is No. 5 this year in the Ivy League.

Here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey `alumni 100-meter hurdles top-10 list:

12.34 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], Oct. 6, 2019, Doha, Qatar
13.11 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow], May 25, 2023, Bloomington, Ind.
13.28 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow], May 15, 2015, Starkville, Miss.
13.30 … Shameka Marshall [Oakcrest], May 28, 2005, New York
13.36 … Samantha Sharper [Wilson], May 12, 2013, Houston [+0.1]
13.57 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], May 12, 2023, Villanova, Pa. [+0.9]
13.61 … Sherese Price [Pleasantville], May 4, 2002, Storrs, Ct. [+0.6]
13.64 … Magenta Taylor [Willingboro], March 24, 2001, Houston [+0.9]
13.65 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], April 6, 2024, Philadelphia [+1.1]
13.71 … Imani Gilliam [Pennsauken], May 17, 2008, Princeton [+0.9]

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