![]() ![]() ![]() It’s stood for 36 years and it just might stand for another 36. Meet of Champions winners like Megan Venables and Brittany Sedberry. All-Americans like Megan Lacy and Chelsea Ley. Olympians like Marielle Hall and Erin Donohue. Think about some of the legends who’ve chased Rowen’s mark. What’s incredible is that only one runner in South Jersey got within 20 seconds of Rowen for the next 18 years – that was the similarly named Mindy Rowand of Sterling, who ran 19.6 seconds off Rowen’s record in 1985. It was finally toppled as a state record last spring by Abby Loveys of Randolph, who’s now at Princeton, who 10:10.24 at the Morris County Championships at Boonton. It’s mind-blowing just how talented Michelle Rowen was. Her 10:12.8? That stood as the state record for 36 years and it remains the South Jersey record.Īpparently nobody at sectionals in 1983 realized it was a state record because none of the stories about her performance mention it: Her 4:41.5 stood as the South Jersey record for 19 years and as a state record for 24 years. Rowen’s 800 stood as a South Jersey record for 18 years. Today we’ll marvel at Rowen’s 10:12.8 state record in the 3,200, which she set on May 28, 1983, at the South Jersey Group 4 Championships at Toms River East. ![]() standard of 4:41.5 at the 1982 Kinney Championships in Berkeley, Calif. On Sunday, we wrote about Michelle Rowen’s South Jersey record of 2:10.1 at the 1982 Gloucester County Championships at Deptford. ![]() Of all her remarkable performances, the 10:12.8 may have been the most remarkable. ![]()
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