Ocean City graduate Elaina Styer, broke the Stockton school record in the pentathlon in her first meet for the Ospreys.
Styer, competing at Fast Time Before Finals at Lehigh’s Rauch Fieldhouse, scored 3,383 points, breaking the school record of 3,369 points set by Eastern graduate Lisa Chatman at the 2006 ECAC Championships at Ursinus College in Collegeville.
Styer, a sophomore, had the top marks in the 60-meter hurdles [9.43] and 800 [2:25.38] and the 2nd-best marks in the high jump [5-2 ½], shot put [31-11 ½] and long jump [16-7].
All her marks are PRs other than the 800. She ran slightly faster [2:25.03] in a pentathlon in Ithaca this past February as a Cornell freshman.
Senior Kayla Robinson of Widener won the event by just 68 points with a score of 3,451 points.
Styer’s previous pentathlon best was a 3,150 this past March at the ECAC Championships in Boston. She placed 2nd.
Styer hadn’t competed in any meet since April 6, when she ran the hurdles and high jumped at the Penn Invitational at Franklin Field. That was her last meet for Cornell.
Through the first weekend of indoor track, Styer ranks 5th in NCAA Division 3, just behind Widener’s Robinson.
Haddonfield graduate Rachel Bonnet was Styer’s teammate at Cornell last year and placed 5th at Heps in the seven-event outdoor heptathlon with a score of 4,611.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 