What a remarkable breakthrough race Sunday for Paul VI junior Macy Huber, who didn’t break 5:15 this past spring, didn’t break 5:10 for the first time until two weeks ago and went into the Meet of Champions with a PR of 5:05.15.
Now she’s one of the fastest in South Jersey history.
Huber ran a preposterous 8 ½-second PR and placed 7th in the fastest Meet of Champions 1,600 ever with 4:56.87 at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island.
Huber is the 9th South Jersey girl to run sub-5 at the indoor Meet of Champions, and her time is No. 28 in meet history and 12th-fastest by a South Jersey miler. The race produced the fastest times in meet history for 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th. and seven of the 28-fastest times in meet history.
The only South Jersey girls to run sub-4:57 at the Meet of Champions over the last nine years are Huber and her former teammate Shaelan McNally, who ran 4:52.90 last year and is now a freshman at Bucknell.
Huber didn’t race this indoor season until late January and only ran two races before states, including a 11:04.83 full two miles at Ocean Breeze last month that was an encouraging sign of her fitness. At Parochial A states, she placed 4th in the 1,600 in 5:05.15 and 3rd in the 3,200 in 11:08.44.
Her 4:56.76 is 12th-fastest in South Jersey history and 5th-fastest in Camden County history.
Here are the fastest 1,600 times ever run by South Jersey athletes at the Meet of Champions along with their overall MoC rank:
#4: 4:48.5h … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983 [1]
#9: 4:51.60 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2016 [3]
#10: 4:52.90 … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2024 [3]
#13: 4:53.36 … Lindsey Kane [Washington Twp.], 2014 [2]
#21: 4:54.58 … Celine Mazzi [Delsea], 2014 [4]
#27: 4:56.0h … Ruth Lockbaum [Glassboro], 1985 [1]
#28: 4:56.87 … Macy Huber [Paul VI], 2025 [7]
#30: 4:57.12 … Megan Quimby [Lenape], 2016 [4]
#45: 4:58.54 … Kerry O’Day [Cherokee], 2024 [7]
All-Time South Jersey Indoor 1,600-Meter List
4:41.52y … Michelle Rowen [Wash. Twp.], 1983
4:49.46y … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2001
4:50.44y … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2025
4:51.60 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2016
4:52.34 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 2017
4:52.90 … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2024
4:53.36 … Lindsey Kane [Washington Twp.], 2014
4:53.85 … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022
4:54.58 … Celine Mazzi [Delsea], 2014
4:55.04y … Marielle Hall [Haddonfield], 2010
4:56.1h,y … Ruth Lockbaum [Glassboro], 1985
4:56.87 … Macy Huber [Paul VI], 2025
4:57.12 … Megan Quimby [Lenape], 2015
4:57.72 … Caitlin Orr [Lenape], 2010
4:57.77y … Aubrey Pierontoni [Kingsway], 2022
4:58.48 … Natalia Ocasio [Lenape], 2010
4:58.54 … Kerry O’Day [Cherokee], 2024
4:59.28 … Grace Wassell [Highland], 2022
4:59.29 … Julia Despirito [Shawnee], 2014
4:59.39 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2012
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 