Catching up on Aliya Garozzo’s record-setting 400-meter hurdles race at the Drake Relays in Des Moines. Garozzo PR’d with a 54.90, finishing just behind two-time World Championship silver medalist Shamier Little, who ran 54.72. Little is all-time world No. 7 at 52.39.
Garozzo, from Sicklerville, is now 6th-fastest in the world this year and 3rd-fastest among U.S. women. It’s No. 47 in U.S. history.
The only New Jersey woman to run faster is world record holder and four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin of Dunellen, Middlesex County [50.37].
Garozzo’s previous PR was 55.69, which she just ran in March in Raleigh, N.C.
The only other New Jersey women to run sub-56 are Tonya Lee of Rancocas Valley, who ran 55.78 in 1996 in Walnut, Calif., and Natalie Dumas of Eastern, who ran 55.99 last June at West Philly Nationals.
Garozzo ran at Paul VI, got her undergraduate degree at Penn and ran a grad year at Duke.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 