Delsea graduate Elisia Lancaster moved into the No. 15 spot on the 2026 U.S. hammer throw list with a 225-1 in a meet in Glassboro. Lancaster’s previous PR was a 222-7 from a meet in Princeton in May of 2025.
Lancaster ranks 65th in the world and No. 56 on the all-time U.S. list. She’s hit the B standard for the USATF Championships in New York July 23-26. The auto standard is 232-0.
Lancaster began her college career at Rowan College at Gloucester County, where she was a multiple JUCO national champion in the shot, discus and hammer and then she spent a year at Towson before finishing at Southern Illinois, where she earned All-America honors indoors in the weight throw and was a Missouri Valley Conference champ in the hammer.
She threw 220-4 at Southern Illinois in May of 2022, improving to 222-7 as a post-grad in 2004 and now 225-1.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 