Timber Creek’s Nyla Jones, a Rowan sophomore, demolished the NJAC Championships 100-meter hurdles record Saturday at Ramapo University in Mahah.
Jones won the race in 13.95, breaking the New Jersey Athletic Conference meet record of 14.03 set in the trials of the 2019 meet in Galloway Township by Darielle Cross from Matawan. The fastest previous time in a final was 14.12 by Delilah Cruz of Ramapo at the 2022 meet in Ewing.
There was a legal 1.2 meters-per-second tailwind in the race.
Jones PR’d with a 13.92 in a meet in Greensboro in April.
Jones has competed in the high hurdles at four NJAC meets and won all four races – 8.95 indoors in 2025 at the Ott, 14.35 last spring in Ewing and 8.87 this winter at the Ott. She also won the 400-meter intermediates last spring and will compete in that race later Saturday, looking for her 6th conference title in two years.
Ocean City’s Elaina Styer, a Stockton junior, placed 2nd in 14.29 after setting a school record of 14.22 with a legal 0.4 tailwind in the trials. That broke her own school reord of 14.23 set last month in Ewing during a heptathlon. Her 14.22 is No. 14 in NCAA Division 3 this year.
Freshman Keira Gibbons from Lenape placed 4th in a PR 14.97. She ran 14.91 at Lenape with no wind gauge.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 