Lauren Fadairo, a Quinnipiac sophomore from Rancocas Valley, broke her own school triple jump record Saturday at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships in Emmitsburg, Md.
Fadairo placed 3rd with the three-best wind-legal jumps of her life, including a 40-8 ¼ that broke her own school record.
Fadairo’s school record and previous wind-legal PR was 39-5 ¾ from last year’s MAAC Championships in Lawrenceville. She actually had two jumps of exactly 39-5 ¾ that day, one of which was wind-aided at 2.3 and the second of which was legal at 1.7. Because the wind-aided mark is the one that’s listed on TFRRS there was some confusion about what the school record really was.
Fadairo jumped 41-2 ¼ in Lewisburg, Pa., last month, her longest jump under any conditions. She has an indoor PR of 39-7 ¼ from the Armory this past January, which was her previous overall PR. That’s Quinnipiac’s indoor school record.
On Saturday, Fadairo opened with a 39-3 ¼ before hitting her big 40-8 ¼ with a legal 0.6 tailwind. She finished her series with a 39-1, 38-4 ¼, 39-9 ¾ and 39-10,
Her six legal jumps averaged 39-6, so her average jump surpassed her previous personal best by a quarter of an inch.
Fadairo’s 40-8 ¼ puts her in the No. 5 spot on the all-time South Jersey alumni list and just two inches off the Burlington County alumni record of 40-10 ¼, set by Ashley Edwards of Northern Burlington at the 2014 Greensboro Nationals with a legal -0.5 wind reading.
Palmyra’s Abdulazeez Iyiola and Highland’s Cortland Webb both ran big PRs and top-5 times on their school’s all-time lists in the 400-meter hurdles Saturday at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships in Emmitsburg, Md.
Iyiola, a sophomore at Mount St. Mary’s, placed 3rd in 52.17, dropping more than a second off his previous PR of 53.39, which he ran at High Point, N.C., in April of 2025. His time is No. 3 in school history and fastest in 12 years, when Julian Woods ran 51.60 at Princeton. Iyiola raced just two hours after winning the 110-meter hurdles.
Webb, a sophomore at Rider, finished just behind Iyiola, placing 4th in 52.22 and dropping his PR from 52.44 earlier this month at Princeton. His time is No. 5 in Rider history (and 3rd-fastest in this race).
Rider freshman Mamadi Diawara and sophomore Camryn Thomas, former teammates at Toms River North, placed 1-2 in PRs of 51.70 and 51.87.
Diawara, Toms River North
Thomas, Toms River North
Iyiola 52.17 previous PR 53.39, April 2025, High Point, N.C., #3 school history
1) Dave Lishebo, 50.60, Villanova, 1989
2) Julian Woods, 51.60, Princeton, 2014
Webb 52.22 previous PR 52.44 earlier this month at Princeton
Rider
50.36
51.70 Diawara
51.87 Thomas
51.91
52.22 Webb
52.28 Evans
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 