Last weekend, freshman Dakota Jones from Washington Township lowered the NJIT hurdles record from 14.78 down to 14.69. On Saturday, she dropped it another half second.
Jones ran a huge PR of 14.16 in the trials of the 100-meter hurdles at the Sam Howell Invitational at Princeton’s Weaver Stadium with a legal tailwind of 1.7 meters per second.
So she’s now lowered the school record 62-100ths of a second in the span of a week.
That’s No. 3 in the America East Conference behind two women from UMBC.
Jones placed 5th in the final in 14.27.
The 14.16 was also a lifetime best. Jones’ PR at Washington Township was 14.41, which she ran this past May at South Jersey Group 4 Sectionals at Pennsauken, where she placed 4th.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 