Lauren Fadairo PR’d in the triple jump and broke the Quinnipiac school record Sunday at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships in Lawrenceville.
Fadairo, a freshman from Rancocas Valley, PR’d four times Sunday at Rider and finished 4th at 39-5 ¾.
Rider senior Mariah Stephens from Egg Harbor Township finished just behind Fadairo in 5th place with a 39-4 ½. Her PR is 39-10 from a meet in April of 2023 at the same track at Rider.
Fadairo entered the meet with a PR of 38-9 ½ from a meet last month in Lewisburg. After opening Sunday with a 38-0 ¼, she PR’d with a wind-legal 38-11 ¾ and followed that with wind-aided jumps of 39-5 ¼ (2.6) and 39-5 ¾ (2.3). But the wind died down for her 5th jump, and she sailed 39-5 ¾ again, this time with a legal 1.7 tailwind.
Quinnipiac lists the school record as 39-6 ¾ by Britney Del Mundo in 2020. But the Quinnipiac all-time performance list – and good for them for actually having one – but it combines indoor and outdoor marks without any designation which is which. And it turns out Del Mundo hit that 39-6 ¾ indoors (twice), and her best outdoor mark was a 38-4 at the 2022 MAAC Championships, also at Lawrenceville.
Which means Fadairo actually already had the school outdoor record, and she broke her own mark on Sunday.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 