Sophomores Nyla Jones of Timber Creek, Paige Franklin of Williamstown and Amari Pinkett of Egg Harbor helped the Rowan women record the 5th-fastest 800-meter relay in NCAA Division 3 history Saturday at the Ott Center.
Rowan ran 1:40.65, breaking the school record of 1:40.75 set last year by a completely different lineup – Molly Lodge of Woodstown, Jasmine Pope of Pennsauken, Jasmine Broadway of Burlington Township and Nevaeh Lorjuste of Triton, also at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships in West Philly.
Rowan placed 2nd to The College of New Jersey, who set a Division 3 record with a 1:39.69. TCNJ’s second leg was junior Kelsey Thomas from Clayton. TCNJ broke the D-3 record of 1:40.07 set by Colby College of Waterville, Maine, in Boston this past March.
Jones and Franklin ran the first two legs and Ava Reilly of Toms River East and Pickett finished, splitting 25.1 and 25.2.
On the 2026 indoor U.S. list, TCNJ is now 7th-fastest and Rowan is 9th-fastest.
TCNJ and Rowan now take up four of the top six spots on the all-time NCAA Division 3 list. TCNJ is 1st with its 1:39.69 Saturday and 4th with a 1:40.49 from the 2023 NJAC meet at Ocean Breeze, and Rowan is No. 5 with its performance Saturday and No. 6 with its 1:40.75 last year.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 