Emma Crozier-Carole, a sophomore at North Carolina Wilmington from Mainland Regional, continues to be one of the top multi-event specialists in the Coastal Athletic Conference.
Crozier-Carole posted the top score in the conference in the season-opening Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational in Myrtle Beach this past weekend, placing 2nd with 4,050 points.
Crozier-Carole ran the hurdles in 15.22, the 200 in 28.00, the 800 in 3:03.39, high jumped 5-0 ½, threw the javelin 89-2, long jumped 17-1 ¼ and threw the shot 34-7. She has PRs of 15.06, 27.22, 2:51.34, 5-3 ¾, 91-6, 18-0 ½ and 37-4 ½.
She PR’d with 4,329 points when she placed 5th in the conference meet last spring in Elon, N.C., and then scored 3,174 points when she placed 6th in the pentathlon at the conference meet indoors last month in Virginia Beach. That’s the 2nd-highest point total in school history.
When Crozier-Carole placed 5th in last year’s conference heptathlon, she finished 93 points behind another Atlantic County multi-eventer, Monmouth’s Anne Rutledge, who placed 4th. Rutledge, now a senior, has not yet competed outdoors this spring. She has PRs of 3,217 indoors and 4,536 outdoors. That 4,536 total is No. 4 in Monmouth history, just behind two other South Jersey multi-eventers: Bridgeton’s Mary Wilks [4,838 in 2010] and Lenape’s Lindsey Walsh [4,822 in 2012].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 