Rowan’s 400-meter relay team raced to the 5th-fastest time in NCAA Division 3 history and placed 2ndSaturday at the Division 3 Championships in La Crosse, Wis.
Rowan, with Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran, Penns Grove’s Eli Hendricks and Eastern’s Rajahn Dixon in the lineup, ran 39.56 and placed 2nd to national record holders Wisconsin-Oshkosh, whose 39.25 broke its own meet record of 39.66 set last year in Geneva, Ohio.
Oshkosh set the national D-3 record of 38.96 last week, also at La Crosse. The only D-3 schools to run faster than Rowan did Saturday are Oshkosh twice this year and Wisconsin La Crosse with a 39.36 in the same race Oshkosh ran 38.96 and also at La Crosse with a 39.53 last May.
So the four-fastest D-3 times ever run have been on the same track in Western Wisconsin a mile east of the Minnesota border along the Mississippi River.
Rowan broke its own school and NJAC record of 39.72, which the Profs ran at last year’s nationals in Geneva with Bridgeton’s Shamar Love, Highland’s Robert McKinney, Hendricks and Corcoran. That was No. 5 in D-3 history.
Madaijoudou Diawara from Toms River North led off for Rowan, followed by Corcoran, Hendricks and Dixon.
The 2nd-place finish gave Rowan 39 points, three behind La Crosse, which was 3rd in the 4-by-1.
Rowan’s time ranks 44th on the 2026 U.S. list
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 