From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Paul VI’s Aliya Garozzo, a Penn junior, raced to another huge PR in the intermediate hurdles Friday evening in Gainesville.

Garozzo ran 57.22 at the Tom Jones Memorial and destroyed her own Penn Quaker school record of 57.97 that she just set two weeks ago in an earlier meet on the same Percy Beard Track at the University of Florida.

Before this spring, Garozzo had a PR of 59.76 from the 2022 Ivy League Championships in New Haven. She’s now PR’d in both her 400IH races this spring.

She bumped Harvard sophomore Chloe Fair for the top time in the Ivy this year. Fair ran 57.78 in Gainesville two weeks ago.

Her time is fastest by any Ivy League woman in seven years, since Harvard senior Jade Miller ran 56.41 at the Mt. SAC Relays in Torrance, Calif., in April 2017.

She’s now 5th-fastest in South Jersey history and 8th-fastest on the all-time New Jersey list, a list topped by the world record holder.

Garozzo has also PR’d in the 200 [24.42] and 100-meter hurdles [13.65] so far this spring. She’s No. 1 in the Ivy in both hurdles races and No. 9 in the 200.

All-Time New Jersey 400-Meter Hurdles List
50.68 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], July 22, 2022, Eugene, Ore.
55.78 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], April 21, 1996, Walnut, Calif.
56.21 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 26, 2007, Gainesville, Fla.
56.87 … Evann Thompson [Lenape], May 30, 2014, Jacksonville, Fla.
56.91 … Angela Lee [Franklin Twp,.], May 24, 1998, Fairfax, Va.
57.14 … Leslie Njoku [McNair Academic], June 8, 2011, Des Moines, Iowa
57.16 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], May 9, 2022, High Point, N.C.
57.22 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], April 11, 2024, Gainesville, Fla.
57.31 … Danielle Myricks [Willingboro], May 19, 2002, Columbia, Mo.
57.84 … Arianna Smith [Pennsville], May 6, 2023, Philadelphia

All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Hurdles List
55.78 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], April 21, 1996, Walnut, Calif.
56.21 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 26, 2007, Gainesville, Fla.
56.87 … Evann Thompson [Lenape], May 30, 2014, Jacksonville, Fla.
57.16 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], May 9, 2022, High Point, N.C.
57.22 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], April 11, 2024, Gainesville, Fla.
57.31 … Danielle Myricks [Willingboro], May 19, 2002, Columbia, Mo.
57.84 … Arianna Smith [Pennsville], May 6, 2023, Philadelphia
58.28 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], May 27, 2023, Sacramento, Calif.
58.38 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow], May 2, 2015, Starkville, Miss.
58.75 … Andrea Olsen [Buena], May 27, 2016, Jacksonville, Fla.