KINGSWAY’S EVAN CORCORAN TAKES 3RD IN 100 AT DIVISION 3 NATIONALS WITH ROWAN SCHOOL RECORD AND 5TH-FASTEST TIME EVER BY A SOUTH JERSEY SPRINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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What a race Saturday by Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran at the NCAA Division 3 Championships!

Cororan – the No. 13 seed – ran a lifetime-best 10.30 with legal wind and placed 3rd in the 100-meter dash in La Crosse, Wisc. The wind reading was 2.0 meters per second, the maximum allowable for a performance to be considered for record and performance-list purposes.

Corcoran, a Rowan senior, posted the 20th-fastest time in NCAA Division 3 history and broke the Rowan record of 10.32 set last month by teammate Rajahn Dixon from Eastern at a meet in Glassboro.

His time is 5th-fastest on the all-time South Jersey alumni list and 2nd-fastest in the last 20 years, behind Washington Township’s Ajani Dwyer, who ran 10.06 last month in Gainesville. It’s No. 12 on the all-time New Jersey alumni list.

After Corcoran’s race, 2nd-ranked Rowan was up to 56 points, trailing only top-ranked Wisconsin La Crosse, the host school, who had 80.

Corcoran is Rowan’s first 100-meter dash medalist at D-3 Nationals since 1979, when another Gloucester County sprinter – Paulsboro’s Charles Cooper – placed 4th in the 1979 meet in Berea, Ohio, with a hand-timed 10.8 for Glassboro State. Corcoran’s 3rd-place finish is best ever by a Rowan or Glassboro State sprinter. Cooper was 4th 47 years ago and Joe Taylor from Manalapan was 4th at the 1978 meet in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Earlier Saturday, Corcoran ran on Rowan’s 2nd-place 400-meter relay team, whose 39.56 is 5th-fastest in Division 3 history. He’s now a four-time All-America.

All-Time South Jersey Alumni 100-Meter Dash List
9.86 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], Aug. 25, 1991, Tokyo [+1.2]
9.91 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], Sept. 7, 1996, Milan, Italy [+1.2]
10.06 … Ajani Dwyer [Washington Twp.], April 4, 2026, Gainesville [+0.2]
10.27 … Barry Douglas [Willingboro], May 4, 1996, Fairfax, Va. [+1.3]
10.30 … Evan Corcoran [Kingsway], May 23, 2026, La Crosse, Wisc. [+2.0]
10.32 … John Stone [Mainland Reg.], April 15, 2000, Charlotte, N.C. [+1.7]
10.32 … Malachi James [Burlington City], May 16, 2025, Winston-Salem, N.C. [+0.6]
10.32 … Rajahn Dixon [Eastern], April 11, 2026, Glassboro [+0.3]
10.35 … Jamar Ervin [Camden], June 7, 2000, Piscataway [+2.0]
10.41 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], June 9, 2011, Old Bridge [+0.1]

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