Ocean City’s Elaina Styer broke her own Stockton University hurdles record Sunday at the Ott Center.
Styer, who spent her freshman year at Cornell, first broke the school record when she ran 9.03 at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., last March. She tied the record with another 9.03 at Ocean Breeze in December and then lowered it to 8.93 at Ocean Breeze. After a near-record 8.95 in Lynchburg, Va., last weekend, she smashed the 8.93 by winning the Widener Schuyhill Showdown Sunday in 8.89.
Her time is No. 15 in NCAA Division 3 and fastest in the New Jersey Athletic Conference.
Styer, fom Estelle Manor, also placed 2nd in the high jump with a 5-3 clearance and 2nd in the long jump with a 17-6. She’s jumped 18-0 ½ this winter and has a high jump PR of 5-5 ¼ from her NJAC pentathlon win, also at the Ott Center, last February. She also has PRs of 15.41 in the 100-meter highs and 3.628 in the pentathlon.
8.89, 15th Division 3
#1 in NJAC,
PR was 8.93, Ocean Breeze, Jan. 16, NYC Gotham Cup, 8.95 Liberty Open, Lynchburg, Jan. 23-24
school record 9.03 in 2025
also pentathlon, 3,628
SR indoor LJ 18-4 ¼, Jassina Surles, 2016
HJ indoor 5-6, Lisa Shepherd, 2008
outdoors
HH 14.45, Surles, 2016 [15.41]
LJ Surles 19-1 ¼, 2016 [17-1 ¼]
HJ Sheperd, 5-7 ¼, 2010 [—]
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 