Delsea’s Elisia Lancaster won the Millrose Games 20-pound weight throw Friday night for a 2nd straight year. Although most of the 118th annual Millrose is held at the Armory, the weight throws and the high school boys pole vault are held Friday.
Lancaster, who competed collegiately at Southern Illinois through 2022, threw 70-9 and won by more than eight feet over Nattaly Lindo of Albany. Lancaster, has a season-best throw of 71-11 from a meet at Ocean Breeze earlier this month. World Athletics no longer has weight throw rankings, so I don’t have a lot of info on where she ranks on various lists, but I believe her PR – which World Athletics does not list in her bio – is 77-2 ½ from a meet in Champaign, Ill., in January 2024. She won Millrose last year with a throw of 72-1.
Lancaster’s hammer throw PR is 222-7 from a meet last May in Princeton. That’s 66th in U.S. history. She missed reaching the finals in the hammer at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene by six inches.
At Millrose, Lancaster, competing for Shore Athletics Club, opened with a 70-2 ½ and a 66-11 ¼ before her winning 70-9. She added throws of 69-2 ½, 68-7 ¼ and 66-1 in the finals.
Lancaster was a six-time JUCO All-America at Rowan College of South Jersey before attending Towson and then finishing at Southern Illinois.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 