THEY’RE BACK!!!!!! Amirah and Arianna Sharpe, now at Arkansas, are back running fast, and Amirah ran the 8th-fastest 400 ever by a South Jersey woman Saturday in Gainesville!!!!!!!!!!!!

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In her 2nd 400 competing for Arkansas, Clayton graduate Amirah Sharpe ran the 8th-fastest 400 ever by a South Jersey woman.

Sharpe, who began her collegiate career at Auburn with twin sisters Arianna and Ariel and is now a sophomore at Arkansas, ran 52.78 at the Tom Jones Invitational Saturday at the University of Florida’s Percy Beard Track in Gainesville.

Sharpe raced for Auburn at the NCAA East Prelims in Jacksonville in May of 2023 and ran 53.84 and then didn’t compete in a college race again according to the Track and Field Results Reporting Service until a meet last weekend in Fayetteville, where she PR’d with a 53.06. She lowered her PR again Saturday and became the 10th South Jersey woman to run sub-53. She competed unattached last year with a best time of 53.90 in Atlanta.

Her time is 2nd-fastest ever by a Gloucester County woman. Twin sister Arianna ran 52.42 at Clemson indoors in February of 2023. That is the fastest indoor time ever run by a South Jersey woman. Her outdoor PR is 53.28 in Tallahassee in March of 2023, so Arianna now has the Gloucester County record for the indoor 400 and Amirah has the record for the outdoor 400.

Arianna is also now at Arkansas and ran 53.49 Saturday in a different race than her sister ran. Like Amirah, Arianna last competed for Auburn in the spring of 2023. She did compete in a few 400s unattached last year according to World Athletics, including a 53.32 in Jacksonville. Arianna won her 400 race in 53.49.

Arkansas ran two 4-by-4s Saturday in Gainesville, that ran 3:23.69 – 2nd-fastest in NCAA Division 1 this year – and 3:27.67 – 6th-fastest in D-1 this year. Arianna wasn’t on either one. Amirah led off the 3:27.67 team with a 52.X split.

Here’s my best attempt at an all-time South Jersey sub-53 400-meter dash list (I kept Halima Scott in the list because 53.01 is close enough!):
50.66 … Nadia Davey [Bridgeton], June 14, 2003, Sacramento
51.70 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], June 13, 2014, Eugene, Ore.
51.72 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], June 27, 1987, San Jose, Calif.
52.24 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], March 16, 1996, Westwood, Calif.
52.42 … Arianna Sharpe [Clayton], Feb. 10, 2023, Clemson, S.C.
52.54 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], March 27, 2025, Raleigh, N.C.
52.77 … Eusheka Bartley [Highland], March 23, 1996, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
52.78 … Amirah Sharpe [Clayton], April 19, 2025, Gainesville
52.80 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 12, 2007, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
52.86 … Tina Johnson [Burlington Twp.], May 20, 2001, Bloomington, Ind.
53.01 … Halima Scott [Camden Big Picture Learning Academy / Woodrow Wilson], May 6, 2023,

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