Rowan sophomore Nyla Jones from Timber Creek smashed two school records this weekend in Greensboro, N.C.
Racing at the Aggie Invitational at North Carolina A&T, Jones broke the Rowan school records in both the high and intermediate hurdles.
Jones ran 13.92 in the 100-meter hurdles prelims on Saturday with a legal 0.8 tailwind, smashing the Rowan record of 14.03 set by Darielle Cross at the 2019 NJAC Championships in Galloway Township. Her previous 100 hurdles PR was 14.27 from a meet last April in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Jones also ran 1:00.26 in the intermediates on Friday, breaking her own school record of 1:00.42 at last year’s NJAC Championships in Ewing.
She’s now No. 4 in NCAA Division 3 in the intermediates and No. 6 in the highs. Her high hurdles time is fastest by a NJAC runner since 1998, when Melissa Jones of Paterson Eastside and Montclair State ran 13.69 when she placed 2nd at Division 3 Nationals in St. Paul, Minn., and her 400IH time is fastest since Eliza Bruncaj of TCNJ ran 1:00.15 at the 2023 NCAA Division 3 Championships in Rochester, N.Y.
Jones is a two-time All-America hurdler. She placed 5th in the intermediates last spring at Division 3 Nationals in Geneva, Ohio, and she was 6th in the 60-meter hurdles at indoor Nationals in Birmingham, Ala.
Jones ran a PR 24.67 earlier this month in Daytona Beach. She also led off Rowan’s 3:56.33 4-by-4 in Greensboro this past weekend. That’s No. 2 in the NJAC this year. No splits listed in the results.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 