Muhlenberg freshman Kadon Harris, who has been running the 400-meter hurdles for less than a year, won the event at the Centennial Conference Championships Sunday with a PR and school-record 54.73. He also won the high jump.
Harris won the intermediates at Gettysburg’s Musselman Stadium by over a second over Tyler Caswell of Johns Hopkins and Glen Rock, who was 2nd in 55.88.
Harris’s previous PR was 54.81, which he ran last June when he placed 9th in the Meet of Champions at Pennsauken.
He broke the Muhlenberg school record of 55.16 set in 2008 by Brendan Kirk of Hawthorne, Passaic County, in 2008 at a meet at Moravian in Bethlehem.
Harris didn’t run the intermediates until late in his senior year at Gloucester, and his first race was last year’s Camden County Championships at Haddon Township in May, where he ran 59.19. But he dropped to 56.60 in his next race a week later, winning South Jersey Group 2 Sectionals at Delsea.
Harris also won the high jump at the Centennial Confernce meet at 6-3 ¼ and led off Muhlenberg’s 2nd-place 4-by-4 team. His high jump PR is 6-4 ¾ from a meet at Ocean Breeze in February, No. 3 on the all-time Muhlenberg indoor list.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 