Rowan senior Joshua Cason, a graduate of Camden County Vo-Tech, became Rowan’s fastest runner at Lehigh since at least 2005 Saturday at the Paul Short Invitational.
Cason placed 16th of nearly 400 runners in the White race in 25:02. That’s the fastest time on record by a Rowan runner on Lehigh’s 8,000-meter course in Bethlehem and Lower Saucon Township. I went back to 2005 and couldn’t find a faster time by anyone from Rowan at Lehigh.
The fastest previous Rowan time at Lehigh I could find was a 25:16 by Lenape’s Kevin Lauer in 2019.As usual, Rowan’s athletics web site was zero help.
Cason, a Sicklerville native, ran more than a minute and a half faster Saturday than in his only previous race at Lehigh, a 26:43 at last year’s Paul Short.
His 25:02 is an all-course 8K PR. He ran 25:07 last year at the NCAA Division 3 Metro Region Championships at DREAM Park in Logan Township, a much faster course.
Cason was NJAC 3,000 champ indoors last year at Ocean Breeze. This is his 2nd year at Rowan.He started at Camden County College but it appears he only ran track and not cross country while he was there.
Rowan placed 12th in the White race and tops among NJAC teams. Junior Matthew Conway from Haddon Heights ran 25:49 and was the Profs’ 2nd finisher, freshman Colin Patterson, also from Haddon Heights, was 4th man across in 26:09, Caleb Clevenger was Rowan’s 5th finisher in 26:14, junior Giancarlo Vega from Timber Creek ran 26:23 and sophomore Scott Hubbard from Audubon 26:25.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 