From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Princeton’s Greg Foster from Lumberton shattered the meet record in the hurdles Sunday with his 2^nd win of the weekend at the Ivy League Championships.

Foster, who won the long jump on Saturday, ran 13.78 in Sunday’s hurdles final, smashing his PR of 13.83 and shattering the meet record of 13.80 set in 2019 by Princeton’s Joseph Daniels at Princeton. Wind was a legal +0.5.

The two Ivy titles are the 5^th and 6^th of his college career. The hurdles title was his first.

Foster is also closing in on Daniels’ school record of 13.70, which he ran twice – at the Canadian Championships in Ottawa in July, 2018 and again at NCAAs in Austin the following June. Foster is No. 2 in school history.

Foster, who missed last spring season to have foot surgery, is one of four South Jersey collegians who’s run sub-13.85 this spring. St. Augustine’s Sincere Rhea of Texas Tech has run 13.48, Riverside’s Jamir Brown of Rowan has run 13.60 and Washington Township’s Yashahya Brown ran 13.82.

On Saturday, Foster won the long jump with a 25-3 ½ (wind-aided at 2.2). He had a legal 24-9 ¼. He has a legal PR of 26-1 ¾ from 2023 Ivys at Franklin Field.

Here’s a look at Foster’s 10 top-three finishes in Ivy League conference championships competition:

2023 Indoor
1^st – Long Jump [25-9 ½]
2^nd – Triple Jump [50-7 ½]
2023 Outdoors
1^st – Long Jump [26-1 ¾]
2^nd – Triple Jump [50-2 ¾]
2024 Indoors
1^st – Long Jump [25-2]
2^nd – Triple Jump [50-2]
2025 Indoors
1^st – Long Jump [24-10 ½]
3^rd – 60-Meter Hurdles [7.85]
2025 Outdoors
1^st – Long Jump [25-3 ½]
1^st – 110-Meter Hurdles [13.78]