Rowan’s Nyla Jones from Timber Creek and Stockton’s Elaina Styer both ran top-15 NCAA Division 3 times in the 60-meter hurdles Saturday at the Ott Center.
Jones ran 8.76 in the trials of the Widener Indoor Classic, leading all qualifiers to the final, and Styer ran 8.83, the 3rd-fastest qualifying time.
They now rank 8th and 14th in NCAA Division 3.
Jones previous PR was an 8.93 at Ocean Breeze in December. Her time is 2nd-fastest in Rowan history, behind the school-record 8.68 set by South Brunswick’s Aspen McMillan when she placed 4th in the 2019 NCAA Division 3 Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury, Mass. Jones, a 400 hurdles All-America in the spring, is defending NJAC high hurdles champion both indoors and outdoors.
Styer broke her own school record of 8.87, which she ran within her NCAA Division 3-leading pentathlon win in Utica, N.Y., last weekend.
Rowan freshman Keira Gibbons of Lenape also dropped her PR from 9.60 to 9.25, 5th-fastest in the NJAC this year and fastest among freshmen.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 