Junior Julia Flanagan ran a nearly half-minute PR over 3,200 meterts Friday night and became the first Holy Cross girl in 15 years to win an indoor state title.
Flanagan ran 11:04.51 and ran away with the race at the state Parochial B championships at the Bubble in Toms River.
She won by 25 meters over Blythe Dudley of Villa Walsh Academy of Morristown, who was 2nd in 11:10.02.
Flanagan’s previous PR was a 11:31.30 outdoors last May at Haddonfield. She had just PR’d indoors with a 11:35.20 last month at the Ott Center. So this is a 31-second indoor PR and a 27-second lifetime best.
Flanagan’s time is No. 7 in Burlington County history indoors.
Earlier, Flanagan placed 3rd in the 1,600 in 1,600 for 16 total team points.
Flanagan is the first Holy Cross girl to win an indoor state title since Shannon Grogan won the 55-meter dash in a photo finish over Our Lady of Mercy’s Tacquaya Tobias. Both were timed in 7.47, with the photo reader giving Grogan the edge.
All-Time Burlington County Indoor 3,200 Top 10
10:23.49 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2011
10:26.48 … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2024
10:46.63 … Erika Kemp [Rancocas Valley], 2013
10:51.65 … Kerry O’Day [Cherokee], 2024
10:55.58 … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022
11:00.9y … Deanna Germano [Shawnee], 1985
11:04.51 … Julia Flanagan [Holy Cross], 2025
11:06.43y … Colleen Sunderland [Northern Burlington], 1995
11:06.72 … Meghan Malloy [Cinnaminson], 2011
11:08.03 … Nina Bendixen [Shawnee], 2015
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 