Freshman Eli Hendricks of Penns Grove, senior Shamar Love from Bridgeton and junior Robert McKinney from Highland earned All-America honors Saturday when Rowan placed 5th at NCAA Division 3 Nationals in the 400-meter relay in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Rowan – ranked only 16th coming into nationals – ran 40.63 on Thursday to qualify for the final and ran 40.68 in the final.

Sophomore Nana Agyemang of Parsippany led off for the Profs followed by the three South Jersey sprinters.

Rowan placed 2nd at NCAA Division 3 Nationals last year and then lost half of that team – Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley transferred and Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran hasn’t run since a meet in mid-April in Waco, Texas, and is presumably hurt.

Love led off last year’s team and is now a two-time All-America. The honor is the first for Hendricks and McKinney. Agyemang is now a six-time All-America.

Rowan sophomore Kwaku Nkrumah ran one of the fastest 110-meter hurdles time in NCAA Division 3 history under any conditions Friday and led all qualifiers into the final.

In the first of three semifinals at the NCAA Division 3 Championships at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Nkrumah ran 13.73, which would have been the 2nd-fastest time in NCAA Division 3 history had it not been aided by a 2.3 meters-per-second tailwind. Any race of 200 or shorter assisted by more than a 2.0 tailwind is not eligible for record purposes.

But USTFCCCA does track all times, and Nkrumah’s 13.73 is 4th-fastest among races in all wind readings. And according to the wind-correction calculator, it converts to a 13.89 with no wind, which equals the 5th-fastest time ever run in Division 3 with all wind readings adjusted to 0.0.

Nkrumah’s wind-legal PR is 14.00 from last week at the AARTFC Championships in Cortland, N.Y. Nkrumah ran high school track at the same high school as your humble scribe – Teaneck, in Bergen County.

Although Rowan’s web site lists Garry Moore – an Overbrook graduate – as the school record holder with a 13.40 in 1982, that never happened. Just one of many errors on the Rowan track web site. Moore’s fastest fat time was 13.90 in the qualifying rounds of NCAA Division Nationals in Naperville, Ill., and that remains the school record, although Nkrumah certainly seems ready to make a run at it if he can get a legal wind reading.

Interestingly, in that qualifying race where Moore ran 13.90, the 2nd-place runner was Mark Tankersley of Delaware Valley College, who went to Rancocas Valley.

In the 1982 final, Moore won in 13.99, Glassboro State teammate Robert Abdullah from Paulsboro was 2nd in 14.22 and Tankersley was 5th in 14.50, giving South Jersey three of the top-five finishers.

On Friday, Rowan sophomore Jason Agyemang from North Plainfield ran 13.95 in the 2nd of three heats with a legal 2.0 wind and was the 3rd-fastest qualifier Friday. So although he wasn’t the fastest Rowan hurdler in the race, he does get credit for the fastest time by a Glassboro / Rowan hurdler in 42 years. Agyemang’s previous PR was 14.12 last week in Cortland, N.Y.

Among legal times, Agyemang is 2nd-fastest in D-3 this year, behind Dontre Sinegal of McMurry University of Abiline, Texas, who ran 13.86 in the one wind-legal semifinal.

Rowan senior Marquise Young from Sterling ran 14.09 [with a 3.2 tailwind] and was the 6th-fastest qualifier. So Rowan had as many hurdlers run sub-14.10 as every other NCAA Division 3 school combined.

Sophomore Anaias Hughes from Willingboro ran 14.50 with a legal 2.0 wind in that second heat. His PR is 14.31, also from last week in Cortland. He missed advancing to the final by 22-100ths of a second and wound up 15th in all of Division 3.

Rowan does not have an all-time performance list on its web site, but the USTFCCCA web site does have deep all-time Division 3 performance lists, and that allowed me to put together at least a five-deep all-time Rowan wind-legal list:

13.90 … Garry Moore, 1982
13.95 … Jason Agyejmang, 2024
14.00 … Kwaku Nkrumah, 2024
14.01 … Marquise Young, 2024
14.01 … Stanley Moore, 1983

Rowan had David Benjamin run 14.00 in 2017 and Bobby Cooks 14.05 in 2018 but both were wind-aided.

The final is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday. Young will be in Lane 3, Nkrumah in Lane 4 and Agyemang in Lane 6.

Paulsboro’s Jamile Gantt, needing to clear a season-best 6-9 ½ to have a chance at All-America status, got over the bar on his 2nd attempt and finished 7th at the NCAA Division 3 Championships Friday in Myrtle Beach.

Gantt, a true freshman, had a collegiate best of 6-7 ½ until he cleared 6-9 last week at the AARTFC Championships in Cortland, N.Y. That qualified him for NCAAs as the No 16 seed.

Gantt was sitting in 7th place out of nine remaining competitors as the bar went from 6-9 ½ to 6-11, and the only way at that point that he could fail to earn All-America honors was if the two jumpers behind him – Jackson McDowell of St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., and Eli Mackowski of Nebraska Wesleyan in Lincoln – both cleared 6-11 and Gantt didn’t.

As it turned out, all three went out at 6-11, and Gantt had himself NCAA Division 3 All-America honors in his first NCAA meet.

Gantt’s finish was 2nd-best among freshmen behind only MIT’s Anthony Meng, who also cleared 6-9 ½ but did it on his 1st attempt.

With the metric progression of 1.95 / 2.00 / 2.05 / 2.08 / 2.11 / 2.14 etc., opening height was 6-4 ¾, and Gantt was clean over both 6-4 ¾ and 6-6 ¾. He cleared 6-8 ¾ on his 3rd and final attempt and 6-9 ¾ on his 2nd. He missed three tries at what would have been a lifetime-best 6-11

Gantt’s lifetime best is a 6-10 at the South Jersey Elite at Delsea last May. He was the state Group 1 champion and Meet of Champions runner-up last spring. He placed 2nd in the indoor NJAC meet at Ocean Breeze with a 6-7 ½ clearance and was 2nd earlier this month at the outdoor conference meet as well.

The last Paulsboro High male to earn All-America honors for Rowan or Glassboro State was hurdler Robert Abdullah, who was 2nd in the hurdles in 1982 and won in 1984. Paulsboro’s Euridee McCormick was a five-time All-America for the Rowan women’s team in the 100-meter hurdles in 1988, 1989 and 1990 and the hurdles and 4-by-1 in 1991.

Gantt is Rowan’s first high jump All-America since Harrison Escoffery from Hackensack placed 3rd in 2018 with a 6-10 ¼ clearance. The last South Jersey jumper to earn All-America honors for Rowan was Delsea graduate Jeffrey Jon Tucker, who was 4th in 2016 at 6-9 ½ and set the Rowan record of 7-2 ¼ at a meet at The College of New Jersey in Ewing in 2018.

Other Rowan high jump All-Americas are Audubon graduate Mark Kelly, the 1978 Division 3 champ at 6-11 ¾; Princeton’s Pete Sharpless who was 5th at 6-10 ¼ in 1983 and and tied for 5th at 6-11 in 1984; and Tim Bowser form Millville, who tied for 4th at 6-9 in 2005.

Jackson Biley of MIT won the event with a 7-0 1/4 clearance.

With senior Marquise Young of Sterling leading off and senior Nicholas Razze from Pitman on the 3rd leg, Rowan’s 1,600-meter relay team advanced to the final at the NCAA Division 3 Championships.

And freshman Eli Hendricks from Penns Grove, senior Shamar Love from Bridgeton and junior Robert McKinney from Highland all ran on the Profs’ 400-meter relay team, which also advanced to the final.

In the 4-by-4, Rowan ran 3:11.33 with Young Parsippany’s Nana Agyemang, Razze and Amara Conte from Ferris High in Jersey City. Young, Agyemang and Conte – along with Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley – set the school record of 3:08.74 a year ago this week when they placed 3rd at the 2023 NCAA Division 3 meet in Rochester, N.Y.

It took 3:12.65 just to qualify for the final, scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Bethel University of St. Paul, Minn., led all qualifiers in 3:10.15 and Mount Union ran 3:11.04. Other qualifiers were John Carroll [3:11.80], Wisconsin La Crosse [3:11.88], Dubuque [3:12.21], Wisconsin-Eau Claire [3:12.60] and Williams [3:12.65].

The top two finishers in each of two races automatically advance to the final, as well as the next four-fastest times. Rowan was 2nd to Mount Union in the 1st race for a large-Q qualifier.

In the 4-by-100, Agyemang led off, followed by Hendricks, Love and McKinney. They ran 40.63, 3rd-fastest time in school history and the 7th-fastest qualifier for the final at 4:15 p.m. Saturday.

La Crosse led all qualifiers in 39.92, only 6-100ths of a second off their NCAA Division 3 record set in the qualifying rounds last year in Rochester.

Rowan ran 40.14 last year at NCAAs in Rochester and placed 2nd to La Crosse’s 39.96 with Love, Beasley, Agyemang and Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran. The Profs’ time is 3rd-fastest in NCAA Division 1 history.

Beasley is now a senior at Rutgers. Corcoran is a Rowan sophomore and was NJAC runner-up indoors at both 60 and 200 meters but hasn’t raced since mid-April.

Riverside senior Jamir Brown continued his astonishing breakthrough season in the 110-meter hurdles Thursday night at Cherokee with the 7th-fastest time in state history.

Brown lowered his PR from 13.67 to a blazing 13.54 at the Cherokee Final Countdown Last Chance meet in Marlton.

The only hurdlers in New Jersey history to run faster are Camden’s Danyne Brown, who won the 1999 state Group 4 race in South Plainfield in 13.43, Washington Township senior Yashahya Brown, who ran 13.50 earlier this month at South Jersey Elite at Delsea, where Jamir Brown ran his previous PR chasing Yashahya Brown, and St. Augustine’s Sincere Rhea, who ran 13.51 at 2019 Greensboro Outdoor Nationals.

Brown and Brown – Yashahya and Jamir – are now No. 6 and 7 nationally, according to the MileSplit national database.

If this seems confusing, that might be because three of the four-fastest hurdlers in South Jersey history all have the last name Brown.

Brown broke a 34-year-old Burlington County record of 13.59 set by Gerard Reynolds at the 1990 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield.

His time is also fastest ever by a New Jersey Group 1 runner, breaking his own mark of 13.67.

Because Washington Township and Riverside are in different counties and conferences, the earliest Brown and Brown will meet again is either the Meet of Champions on June 12 at Pennsauken or June 13-16 at West Philly Nationals at Franklin Field.

Brown was the top freshman in New Jersey in 2021 with a 15.27 for 3rd place at the Burlington County Open. He spent 2022 at Delran and lowered his PR to 14.66 at the state Group 2 meet at Somerset, where he placed 2nd to Willingboro’s Anaias Hughes, currently running for Rowan.

Brown was back at Riverisde last year but was hurt and only competed in a couple meets and never ran the high hurdles.

But he quickly dropped his PR this spring – 14.34 at the Moorestown Invite, 13.93 in the trials of South Jersey Elite and then that 13.67 in the final.

ALL-TIME N.J. 110 HURDLES LIST
13.40 … Nathaniel Rayan [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 2023
13.43 … Danye Brown [Camden], 1999
13.46 … Cory Poole [East Orange Campus], 2017
13.50 … Yashaya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2024
13.51 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 2019
13.52 … Todd Matthews [Notre Dame], 1998
13.54 … Jamir Brown [Riverside], 2024
13.55 … Jaheem Hayles [Roselle], 2019
13.59 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990
13.62 … Christopher Stephens [Plainfield], 2001
13.66 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 1997
13.66 … Emmanuel Deux [Linden], 2001
13.67 … Jermaine Collier [Trenton], 2012
13.70 … Chris Alexander [Christian Brothers], 2015
13.71 … Akeem Lindo [East Orange], 2018
13.73 … Christopher Serrao [East Brunswick], 2022
13.73 … Kevin Hagamin [Timber Creek], 2014
13.74 … Scott Robinson [Hillsboro], 2001
13.74 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], 2001
13.75 … Rashad Baker [Wilson], 2000
13.75 … Bennett Jackson [Raritan], 2010
13.76 … Nate Harley [Pleasantville], 1996
13.76 … Isaac Williams [Willingboro], 2012
13.77 … Anthony Acklin [Triton], 2001
13.78 … Al-Tariq Dunson [East Orange], 2018
13.80 … Devon Hill [Trenton], 2008

ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY 110 HURDLES LIST
13.43 … Danye Brown [Camden], 1999
13.50 … Yashaya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2024
13.54 … Jamir Brown [Riverside], 2024
13.59 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990
13.66 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 1997
13.73 … Kevin Hagamin [Timber Creek], 2014
13.74 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], 2001
13.75 … Rashad Baker [Wilson], 2000
13.76 … Nate Harley [Pleasantville], 1996
13.76 … Isaac Williams [Willingboro], 2012
13.77 … Anthony Acklin [Triton], 2001
13.81 … Scot McCray [Camden], 1997
13.81 … Jeff Young [Wilson], 1999
13.87 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], 2023
13.90 … Edwin Alston [Winslow Twp.], 2015
13.92 … Enrique Llanos [Wilson], 1999
13.93 … Malachi Wesley [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2022
13.94 … Hal Lathan [Egg Harbor Twp,], 2009
13.95 … Kevin White [Haddon Heights], 1992
13.95 … Naseem Smith [Deptford], 2019
13.96 … Devon Carter [Washington Twp.], 2010
13.97 … Will Brown [Palmyra], 2006
13.97 … Syteek Farrington [Camden], 2010
13.99 … Herb Reid [Lenape], 2000
13.99 … Eric Foster [Wilingboro], 2024
13.99 … Herb Reid [Lenape], 2000

Woodstown graduate Molly Lodge advanced to the final of the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Division 3 Championships Thursday in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Lodge, a Rowan junior, ran 1:01.91, the 8th-fastest qualifying time. She ran within about half a second of her PR of 1:01.33 from last week at the AARTFC meet at Cortland, N.Y.

Lodge also led off Rowan’s 1,600-meter relay team, which ran 3:47.29 and goes into the final as the No. 6 seed after barely qualifying as the No. 14 seed out of 16 qualifiers with a 3:48.08 from last week in Cortland. More on the 4-by-4 in a minute.

Rowan hasn’t bothered updating its list of outdoor track All-Americas in five years because why update a historical list when you just did it half a decade ago! But Rowan does list only two women who’ve earned All-America honors in the 400-meter hurdles: Laiton Roberts of Oakcrest was 3rd in 1993 in 1:02.75 and Melirah Searcy of Edison was 8th in 2015 in 1:02.68.

Click to access WOTF_All-Americans.pdf

Lodge never ran the 400-meter hurdles in high school or as a freshman in college. Her first race was in March of 2023.

She’s already a two-time All-America on Rowan’s 1,600-meter relay team, and she’ll have a chance at a 3rd when the Profs race in the 4-by-4 final at 7:50 p.m. Saturday.

Lodge led off the 4-by-4, Pennsauken’s Jasmine Pope ran 2nd, Kathleen Pederson ran 3rd with a 56.78 and Triton’s Nevaeh Lorjuste anchored in 55.30.

Woodrow Wilson graduate Dennisha Page, a senior at Tennessee, easily advanced in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes Thursday at the NCAA Division 1 Championships East First Round at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Page ran 11.12 to win her heat of the 100 and 22.70 to place 2nd in a virtual tie in her heat of the 200 and automatically advance to the NCAA quarterfinals on Saturday in both sprints.

Page will race in the 100 quarterfinal at 6:35 p.m. Saturday and the 200 at 7:50 p.m.

The East Region meet is being held concurrently with the West Region meet in Fayetteville, Ark. The top 12 finishers in each event at each regional advance to the semifinals at the NCAA Championships June 5-8 in Eugene, Ore.

In the 100, Page ran 11.12, the 5th-fastest time among 48 qualifiers and only 2-100ths of a second off her lifetime-best 11.10 from the SEC Championships in Gainesville, Fla. She easily won the second of six heats, and she did it with a legal 0.3 meters-per-second tailwind.

In the 200, she posted the 6th-fastest qualifying time, finishing 3-1,000ths of a second behind Florida State’s Dajaz Defrand in the 3rd of six heats. Since the top three in each race automatically advance regardless of time, it didn’t matter whether Page finished ahead of Defrand or not. Defrand was officially timed in 22.692, Page in 22.695. Page’s PR is 22.39 earlier this month, also at the SEC Championships.

The Rutgers transfer is 15th-fastest American this year in the 100 and ranked No. 29 in the world. She’s 4th-fastest in New Jersey history. She’s 10th-fastest American woman in the 200 and 14th-fastest in the world and 3rd-fastest in New Jersey history.

For the second time in two weeks, Shelby Whetstone has run an 800 PR, and this time she did it in the first round of the NCAA Championships.

Whetstone, a Rutgers senior from Lenape, ran 2:05.14 at the East Region First Round in Lexington, Ky. Although she didn’t advance to Saturday’s quarterfinals, her time is 8th-fastest in South Jersey history and fastest by a South Jersey runner in seven years.

Whetstone came up just shy of advancing to the next round, but her time is 2nd-fastest in Rutgers history, behind Kassidy Johnson’s 2:02.35 at the 2023 Tom Jones in April 2023 in Gainesville.

Whetstone missed qualifying for the quarterfinals by 11-100ths of a second. Two runners who ran slower advanced because they finished among the top three in their heat to record auto qualifiers with slower times. Whetstone was 5th in a much faster heat.

She had just PR’d with a 2:05.58 to place 5th at the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Her time is fastest by a South Jersey half-miler since Rancocas Valley graduate Kimarra McDonald ran 2:02.76 on July 12, 2017, at the Lignano Sabbiadoro Meeting International Sport Solidarieta at Guido Teghil Stadium in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy.

The 24-fastest runners in Thursday’s first round advanced to the quarterfinals at 7:05 p.m. Saturday. Then the 12-fastest from each of two regional meets advance to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., June 5-8.

All-=
1:59.85 … Michelle DiMuro [Shawnee], June 17, 1996, Atlanta
1:59.99 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], July 13, 2010, Liège, Belgium
2:02.20 … Kimarra McDonald [Rancocas Valley], June 2, 2012, Nashville
2:02.49 … Krista Ferrara [Vineland], June 25, 2006, Indianapolis
2:03.34 … Greta Feldman [Haddonfield], June 15, 2013, Indianapolis
2:03.88 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], May 13, 2012, Baton Rouge, La.
2:05.06 … Renee Tomlin [Ocean City], May 31, 2013, West Chester, Pa.
2:05.14 … Shelby Whetstone [Lenape], May 23, 2024, Lexington, Ky.
2:06.15 … Sydney Coppolino [Sterling], May 13, 2022, Durham, N.C.
2:07.18 … Kristen Neidrach [Shawnee], Kortrijk, Belgium, July 10, 2021

For the 4th year in a row, Washington Township graduate Isabelle Deal is a javelin All-America.

Deal placed 8th in the javelin Thursday at the NCAA Division 3 Championships at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium in Myrtle Beach, S.C., with a throw of 137-9.

Deal – the No. 16 seed – opened competition with a 132-0 before hitting 137-9 on her 2nd throw of the trials. She threw 134-3 to finish the qualifying round and then closed with a foul and a couple 127-foot throws – 127-11 and 127-2.

She was sitting in 3rd place after the first flight – the lower-seeded throwers – and then hung on as only five of the 11 higher-seeded throwers passed her in the second flight. So she was seventh after the first round, and the top nine throwers got three more throws.

The 137-9 is Deal’s best throw since she transferred from Ursinus to Rowan last summer and her best overall since she threw 139-9 to place 6th at last year’s NCAA Division 3 Championships in Rochester. Her previous best throw this spring was a 135-8 in a meet at Widener. She threw her lifetime-best 155-0 – the Ursinus school record – last May in the AARTFC meet in Selinsgrove, Pa.

Deal also placed 8th at the 2021 nationals in Greensboro, N.C., at 135-1 and 6th in the 2022 meet in Geneva, Ohio, at 137-0.

Deal is the 3rd javelin All-America in Rowan women’s track history. Clayton’s Emma Painter placed 4th at 146-9 in the 1983 meet in Naperville, Ill., 2nd at 158-9 in 1984 in Northfield, Minn., and was national champ in 1985 in Granville, Ohio, with a 150-4. And Cherokee’s Melissa Lake was 8th in 2012 with a 138-5 in Claremont, Calif., and 8th again in 2013 at 137-6.

Deal is 4-for-4 finishing in the top eight in the javelin, but this year for the first time she also qualified for NCAA Division 3 nationals in the shot put with a lifetime-best and Rowan school-record 45-8 when she won the NJAC meet in Galloway Township earlier this month.

She’s No. 14 seed in the shot and scheduled to throw at 4 p.m. Friday.

I recently posted a list of all South Jersey athletes headed for the NCAA Division 1 Track Championships.

Turns out I missed a couple guys. A couple very impressive guys enjoying breakthrough 2024 outdoor seasons.

Mainland graduate Mawali Osunniyi, a freshman at Connecticut, is scheduled to compete in the high jump at the NCAA East First Round at 2 p.m. Friday in Lexington, Ky.

Osunniyi is tied for No. 6 freshman in NCAA Division 1 this year with a 7-1 ¼ from the UConn Northeast Challenge in Storrs back in April.

In all, he’s cleared 7-0 or better four times this year, including twice indoors. He won the indoor Big East title in Chicago with a 7-0 ¼ clearance and won the outdoor conference title at 6-11 at Villanova.

As we know from writing about Jailya Ash, UConn is one of the few Division 1 programs that doesn’t list an all-time top-10 anywhere on its web site, so we can’t tell you where Osunniyi ranks in school history. They do have media guides from 2009 through 2016 posted but none of them have all-time performance lists either.

Osunniyi only competed in the high jump one season at Mainland with a best of 6-8, which he cleared six times last spring. He played basketball in the winter and according to MileSplit his first competition ever was the 2023 Bridgeton Relays about 13 months ago. By June he was state Group 3 champ and 2nd in the Meet of Champions.

He also triple jumped 47-0 ½ in high school and was runner-up in the state Group 3 meet at Delsea. He hasn’t triple jumped yet in college, although a 47-0 ½ would have placed in the top five at the Big East meet.

Although the UConn web site is useless, we can tell from TFRRS that Osunniyi is already UConn’s best high jumper since Noel James cleared 7-1 ½ at indoor IC4As in Boston in 2012. Earlier that winter he cleared 7-3 in a meet at Penn State. But James’ best outdoor jump was a 7-0 ½ in Baton Rouge, and it appears that Osunniyi’s 7-1 ¼ is the best outdoor jump by a Huskie since at least 2010 (as far back as TFRRS goes).

I believe Osunniyi is Mainland’s first 7-footer since Paul Klemic, who cleared 7-4 1/2 – still the state record – at 2000 Outdoor Nationals in 2000. 

The other South Jersey athlete I missed is South Florida junior Gabriel Moronta, who will run on USF’s 5th-seeded 1,600-meter relay team, which ran 3:02.16 in March at the Florida Relays in Gainesville. Moronta, a transfer from Mississippi State, ran an eye-popping 400 PR of 45.81 in San Antonio two weeks ago. That’s 4th-fastest ever by a South Jersey athlete and should have qualified Moronta for the open 400 at East Regionals – it’s 17th in the East – but he wasn’t entered.

The only South Jersey athletes to run faster are Olympic gold medalists Lamont Smith [44.30 in 1996] and Dennis Mitchell [45.26 in 1986] as well as Woodbury’s Darrell Bush [45.49 in 2015].

Moronta is now under the B standard of 46.00 for the Olympic Trials next month in Eugene. He’s not far off the A standard of 45.20.

Moronta only ran one open 400 at Mississippi State and ran 46.24 in an indoor meet at Clemson in February of 2023. He focused more on the 400-meter hurdles [51.38] and 800 [1:49.33]. This spring at South Florida, he hasn’t run a single 400 hurdles race and his focus has been on the 400. Sure looks like that was the right thing to do.

South Florida races in the 4-by-4 quarterfinals at 8:45 p.m. Friday.

7-5 ¾ … Darren Burton [Delran], July 23, 1989, Ylivieska, Finland
7-5 ¼ … Mike Pascuzzo [Lenape], June 6, 1992, New York
7-4 ½ … Jim Pringle [Moorestown], March 21, 1982, Tallahassee, Fla.
7-4 ½ … Paul Klemic [Mainland Reg.], June 17, 2000, Raleigh, N.C.
7-4 ½ … Montez Blair [Timber Creek], June 23, 2013, Des Moines, Iowa
7-4 ½ … Robert Jordan [Millville], 2000
7-4 ¼ … Terrance Ferguson [Cherry Hill West], May 5, 1991, Princeton, N.J.
7-3 ¾ … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], May 14, 2005, Nashville, Tenn.
7-3 … Anthony Butler [Schalick], June 10, 2006, Colts Neck, N.J.
7-2 ¼ … Jeffrey-Jon Tucker [Eastern], April 28, 2018
7-1 ¾ … Drew Kanz [Seneca], Feb. 28, 2014, Birmingham, Ala.
7-1 ½ … Devin Bradham [Williamstown], May 3, 2019, University Park, Pa.
7-1 ½ … Mawali Osunniyi [Mainland Regional], Feb. 2, 2024, Cambridge, Mass.
7-0 ½ … Todd Lowber [Delran], May 26, 2006, Lisle, Ala.
7-0 … Kerry Vivett [Edgewood], Feb. 8, 1986, Oklahoma City

44.30 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], June 19, 1996, Atlanta
45.26 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], April 12, 1986, Tampa, Fla.
45.49 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], April 11, 2015, Tucson, Ariz.
45.81 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], May 10, 2024, San Antonio, Texas
45.98 … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], May 29, 2010, Charlotte, N.C.
46.05 … Schefer Sherrer [Vineland], May 18, 2005, Levelland, Texas
46.13 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], May 15, 2021, Raleigh, N.C.
46.19 … Maurice Ransome [Vineland], May 23-25, 1990, Naperville, Ill.
46.26 … Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], July 29, 2010, Nairobi, Kenya
46.48 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow], April 1, 2006, Atlanta