Another race, another Rider school record for Washington Township’s Dylan Giloley, who now owns four school records in less than two years in Lawrenceville. She’s set three of them this month.
Giloley ran a lifetime-best 56.30 Friday and placed 2nd in the 400 at the Penn Invitational at the Ott Center in West Philly.
Giloley broke a 27-year-old record of 56.41 set by Sheree Duval of Central High in Boston in February 1999.
Yale’s Gloria Guerrier won the race in 54.25, and Giloley and teammate Tamara Rawles from Piscataway were 2nd and 3rd, with Rawles also under the previous school record with a 56.38.
Giloley also holds school records indoors in the 60-meter dash (7.55 earlier this month at the Ott Center) and 200 (24.58 last weekend at Ocean Breeze) and outdoors in the 100 (11.73 in a home meet last May).
Her 56.30 is 2nd-fastest in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, 1-100th of a second behind Isabella Anzaldo of Quinnipiac, who ran 56.29 at Yale last month.
She’s also No. 1 in the MAAC in the 200 with her 24.58 at Oeean Breeze last weekend and No. 2 in the 55 with her 7.55.
Giloley’s high school PR was a 57.34 indoor at the Armory in January 2024. She focused mainly on the 100 and 200 outdoors and didn’t run a single 400 outdoors as either a junior or a senior.
St. Joe’s freshman Crytal Benito from Maple Shade placed 5th in the 400 with an indoor PR 57.19, nearly two seconds faster than her previous college PR of 59.09 from the Ott Center earlier this month. This was only her 3rd lifetime indoor 400. Benito never ran indoor track at Maple Shade, but she ran 56.50 outdoors at Delsea this past May.
Benito’s 57.19 makes her No. 7 in the Atlantic 10 Conference and No. 2 among freshmen, behind A-10 400 leader Reagan Garibaldi of St. Mark’s High in Wilmington, Del., who ran 56.10 in Boston last weekend.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 