Lumberton’s Greg Foster broke the Princeton outdoor long jump record Friday at the Rick McCorkle Invitational at The College of New Jersey in Ewing.
Foster, who broke the Princeton and Ivy League indoor record with his 27-0 ½ at the indoor Ivy League Championships at the Armory, jumped 26-3 ½ with a legal 1.0 meters-per-second tailwind on his 5thjump.
He broke his own Princeton record of 26-1 ¾ from the 2023 Ivy League Championships at Franklin Field.
Foster also broke the overall Ivy League outdoor record of 26-2 ¾ that he set two weeks ago in Athens, Ga. That broke a 41-year-old Ivy League record of 26-2 shared by Chris Chrysotomou of Cornell and Eugene Profit of Yale, who both jumped 26-2 at 1985 IC4As in Cambridge, Mass.
Foster opened with 24-4 ¾, 24-9 ¼, 23-8 ½ and 24-6 before a foul and then the winning jump on his final attempt.
Foster is now No. 7 in NCAA Division 1.
Foster also won the 110-meter high hurdles in 13.90. He’s already No. 1 in the ivy at 13.80 from earlier this month in
Eastern’s A.J. Brooks placed 3rd with a legal 23-1 ¾, his best jump so far this spring and he was also 3rdin the 110 highs in 14.85.
Stockton All-America junior Ahmad Fogg from Egg Harbor was 2nd in the long jump at 23-11, an outdoor season best.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 