Anthony Barber, an Arcadia freshman from Burlington Township, threw a javelin PR on the first throw of his first college meet and then added three more PRs before his day was over.
What a college debut for the former Falcon!
Barber PR’d on each of his first three throws and and again on his 6th attempt and placed 3rd at the Danny Curren Invitational at Widener University in Chester, Pa.
His PR coming into his college debut was 175-7 when he placed 6th in his last high school meet, the Meet of Champions at Pennsauken last June.
On Saturday, he threw 179-4, 179-8 and 180-3 on his first three attempts and then finished with a 181-5 for his 4th PR of the afternoon.
The 181-5 is the best throw by an Arcadia freshman as far back as TFRRS goes back, which is 2010. A lot of those years Arcadia doesn’t seem to have had a track team. I’ll go out on a limb and say it’s a school freshman record. Can’t tell you what the school record is. Arcadia is one of a very small number of colleges that doesn’t list school records
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 