RV’s Micah Wood PRs with #5 time in Rutgers history, and Bryce Tucker and Lathan Brown also qualify for 400 hurdles final at Big Ten Championships!!!!!!!

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Rancocas Valley’s Micah Wood, Pennsauken’s Bryce Tucker and Deptford’s Lathan Brown – all from Rutgers – each qualfied for the 400-meter hurdles final at the Big Ten Championships Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Wood, a senior led the South Jersey group with a 51.12, the 3rd-fastest qualifying time and a big personal-best. Wood set his previous PR of 51.42 in March in Orlando.

His time is also now No. 10 on the all-time South Jersey alumni list and fastest by a Burlington County hurdler since Lenape’s Mike Brown ran 50.68 in Atlanta in May 2006. Brown’s PR is 50.04 from Holmdel in 2002.

48.37 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], June 28, 2008, Eugene, Ore.
48.86 … Fred Sharpe [Paulsboro], May 18, 2003, Knoxville, Tenn.
49.50 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], June 12, 2003, Sacramento
50.04 … Mike Brown [Lenape], June 12, 2002, Holmdel, N.J.
50.52 … Martin Booker [Camden], May 12, 1984, Philadelphia
50.65 … Aaron Younger [Delsea], May 28, 2010, Greensboro, N.C.
50.69 … Danyne Brown [Camden], May 30, 2003, Fairfax, Va.
50.84 … Nick Brown [Bridgeton], July 16, 2005, New York
50.96 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], June 15, 2023, South Plainfield, N.J.
51.12 … Micah Wood [Rancocas Valley], May 10, 2024, Ann Arbor, Mich.
51.25 … Demetrius Rooks [Absegami], May 26, 2012, Claremont, Calif.

Wood’s time is No. 5 in Rutgers history, and he’s now 2nd-fastest among South Jersey hurdlers, behind Delsea grad Aaron Younger, who ran 50.65 in Greensboro in 2010.

Tucker, a freshman, ran 51.54 for the 5th-fastest qualifying time. That’s only 8-100ths of a second off his college PR of 54.46 from a meet last month in Columbia, S.C. Tucker ran 50.96 last June when he won his 3rd straight Meet of Champions.

Brown ran 52.17 and was the 7th-fastest of the nine qualifiers and 2nd-fastest among freshmen. So the two-fastest freshman intermediate hurdlers in the Big Ten are from South Jersey. Brown was only 1-100th of a second off his PR of 52.16 from a meet last month in Tampa.

The intermediate hurdles final is scheduled for 2:28 p.m. on Sunday back at the University of Michigan Track Stadium.

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