Glassboro High’s Dallas Hohney, a Rowan senior, destroyed the meet record and the school record in winning the 800 at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships in Mahwah.
Hohney won the race in 1:49.26, breaking the school record of 1:49.54 set by Pemberton’s Tavo Rivera at the 1980 NCAA Championships in Naperville, Ill.
Rowan’s Teddy Wilson, a junior from Toms River North, also ran under the previous record with a 1:49.80, and junior Blaik Slavinski wasn’t far off with a 1:50.25. Those times are No. 1, 2 and 5 in Rowan history.
The previous meet record was 1:50.94 set in 1972 by Greg Weiss of Montclair State and Butler High School at what was then Trenton State.
Rutgers-Camden senior Jacob Dinerman from Haddon Township placed 2nd in 1:49.75, making it three runners under the old meet record from 54 years ago.
Hohney’s previous PR was a 1:50.71 while competing for Rider in a meet at the Ott Center in January 2025. Dinerman’s prior PR was 1:50.96 from a meet at Widener last month. That was also the previous Rutgers-Camden school record. Wilson’s previous PR was 1:51.80 from the NJAC Indoor Championships, also at the Ott. Slavinski’s 1:50.25 is his fastest competing for Rowan. He ran 1:47.65 in February 2025 while compting for Clemson at Clemson.
Their times are 4th, 5th, 6th and 10th in NCAA Division 3 this year.
Hohney and Dinerman are now No. 10 and 12 on the all-time South Jersey alumni list. Hohney is fastest by a Gloucester County alum since Paulsboro’s Fred Sharpe ran 1:48.26 in Santry, Ireland, in August 2023. Dinerman is fastest by a Camden County half-miler, topping Terrance Armstrong of Camden., who ran 1:50.08 at Princeton in May 1999.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 