Stockton junior Elaina Styer from Ocean City put together one of the top pentathlon performances in NCAA Division 3 history Saturday at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships at the Ott Center.
Styer ran 8.92 in the hurdles, matched her PR by clearing 5-5 ¼ in the high jump, threw the shot put 32-6 ½, long jumped 17-11 ¼ and finished by running a PR 2:21.80 for 3,747 points.
That’s No. 14 in NCAA Division 3 history and the top mark in NCAA Division 3 this year. It puts her at No. 42 among all American women.
Styer scored 927 in the opening 60-meter hurdles, 806 in the high jump, 524 in the shot put, 691 in the long jump and 799 in the 800. She had the best mark in all five events.
She came out ahead after a great competition with The College of New Jesey’s Sarah Scepkowski of Arthur Johnson High in Clark, whose 3,358 is No. 14 in Division 3 this year.
Styer wasn’t far off her PRs in the hurdles [8.83], long jump [18-0 ½] and shot [34-9].
Styer broke her own meet record of 3,628 set last year, the 1st year the event was included in the NJAC Championships. She scored 3,570 two weeks ago in Utica, N.Y., in her previous multi this year.
Styer will compete in the NCAA Division 3 Championships in Birmingham next month.
Coniglario 21.56
Corcoran 21.62
Hendricks 22.27
Dixon 21.40
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 