In first outdoor race for Duke, Aliya Garozzo of Paul VI flies to huge PR and 6th-fastest 400 ever by South Jersey alum!!!!!!

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In her first outdoor race for Duke, Paul VI’s Aliya Garozzo sped to the 6th-fastest 400 time ever recorded by a South Jersey high school alum.

Garozzo, a transfer from Penn, opened her outdoor season Friday by running 52.54 and placing 3rd in the 400 at the Raleigh Relays at Paul Derr Stadium. She placed 3rd out of 114 runners.

Garozzo’s previous PR was a 53.47 earlier this month indoors in the prelims of the ACC Championships in Louisville. Because she focuses on the intermediate hurdles outdoors, she didn’t run an outdoor 400 her last two years at Penn. Technically, her previous outdoor 400 PR was a 56.31 in a meet in Fairfax, Va., in April of 2022.

Garozzo hasn’t run a 400IH yet this spring. She PR’d with a 56.34 when she won last year’s Heps in Princeton. That’s 4th-fastest ever by a New Jersey intermediate hurdler.

Duke doesn’t have an all-time top-10 on its web site. It has an all-time top-5 which goes down to 52.30, so presumably Garozzo isn’t far outside that top five.

All-Time New Jersey 400-Meter Dash List
48.74 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], July 8, 2023, Eugene, Ore.
49.57… Athing Mu [Trenton], June 12, 2021, Eugene, Ore.
50.63 … Mikele Barber [Montclair], May 13, 2001, Columbia, S.C.
50.66 … Nadia Davy [Bridgeton], 2003, Sacramento
50.87 … Me’Lisa Barber [Montclair], June 1, 2002, Baton Rouge, La.
51.70 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], June 13, 2014, Eugene, Ore.
51.72 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], June 27, 1987, San Jose, Calif.
51.94 … Stephanie Saleem [Neptune], May 20, 1989, Knoxville, Tenn.
52.00 … Jenna Harris [Franklin Twp.], May 31, 2008, Fayetteville, Ark.
52.24 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], March 16, 1996, Westwood, Calif.
52.36 … Julia Jackson [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], May 12, 2023, Raleigh, N.C.
52.37 … Joetta Clark [Columbia], June 1, 1996, New York
52.42 … Arianna Sharpe [Clayton], Feb. 10, 2023, Clemson, S.C.
52.46 … Olivia Baker [Columbia], July 6, 2014, Eugene, Ore.
52.54 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], March 28, 2025, Raleigh, N.C.
52.77 … Eusheka Bartley [Highland], March 23, 1996, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
52.77 … Ahndraea Allen [Roselle Park], May 15, 2005, Princeton
52.80 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 12, 2007, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
52.86 … Tina Johnson [Burlington Twp.], May 20, 2001, Bloomington, Ind.

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