PITMAN, NJ --- Rutgers University-Newark fifth-year senior Timaul Williams (East Orange, NJ/East Orange) has been selected as the NJAC’s Thomas M. Gerrity Most Outstanding Athlete to highlight the 2024 NJAC Men’s Outdoor Track & Field All-Conference Team.
 
Additionally, Rowan University senior Marquise Young (Glendora, NJ/Sterling) was named Outstanding Track Athlete; Rowan freshman Damitrius Hester (Mahwah, NJ/Mahwah) was named Outstanding Field Athlete; and The College of New Jersey freshman Lucas Lattimer (Caldwell, NJ/Caldwell) was named Rookie of the Year. Rowan head coach Dustin Dimit and his staff were voted the Bill Fritz Coaching Staff of the Year by their peers.
 
All-Conference honors were determined by finish at the recent NJAC Outdoor Track & Field Championship and major awards were voted on by the league’s 10 head coaches.
 
Williams captured three gold medals at the NJAC Championship, winning the shot put, discus, and hammer throws. He set personal records in both the discus and shot, throwing 53.41 meters in discus and 16.07 meters in shot put. His discus throw ranks as the sixth-best in NCAA Division III this season and is also a Rutgers-Newark program record. His shot put throw ranks among the top 25 in D3. Both throws are the best in the Metro Region. He also threw the hammer 52.54 meters to win the event and currently ranks second in the Metro Region.
 
Young put up a huge national time to win the 110 meter hurdles. He clocked in at 14.01 seconds in the final, which is a personal record and ranks as the second-fastest in D3 this season. He also took home silver in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 53.58 seconds. He is currently tied for the fastest time in the Metro Region and tied for 13^th nationally with Rowan teammate Nicholas Razze.
 
Hester picked up the Outstanding Field Athlete honor after winning the javelin in his rookie season. He threw 60.63 meters to win the event by nearly two meters. He currently owns the fourth-best throw in D3 this season and the best in the Metro Region.
 
Lattimer put together a strong performance in his first collegiate NJAC championship as well, winning the 800 meters and helping TCNJ’s 4x400 relay to fourth place. He set a new personal record with a winning time oof 1:55.23, which is currently the eighth-fastest in the Metro Region. He also split 49.67 seconds as the anchor on the 4x400 quartet that finished in 3:24.87.
 
Rowan head coach Dustin Dimit and his staff including Eric DuBois, Ryan Gebhardt, Milton Goode, Liz Madden, John Oberg, Norm Tate, Julian Pratt, and Jassina Surles were named the Bill Fritz Coaching Staff of the Year. Dimit is part of the top coaching honor for the ninth consecutive season as he guided Rowan to its ninth straight outdoor title. The 2024 Profs dominated with 14 event wins, 11 second-place finishes, and seven third-place finishes en route to 368 points, winning by a whopping 222-point margin and including five podium sweeps.
 

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Event	First Team	Second Team	Honorable Mention
100m Dash	Raymond Schmitt TCNJ	Shamar Love Rowan	Brandon Balcacer Ramapo
200m Dash	Amara Conte Rowan	Eli Hendricks Rowan	Robert McKinney Rowan
400m Dash	Amara Conte Rowan	Jarquil Young Rowan	Samael Milevoix Rowan
800m Run	Lucas Lattimer TCNJ	Johannes Rivera Rowan	Joseph deBeaumont Stockton
1500m Run	Scott Hubbard Rowan	Brandon Chen TCNJ	Roman Fabbricatore TCNJ
5000m Run	Joshua Cason Rowan	Giancarlo Vega Rowan	Sam Tenebaum Stockton
10000m Run	Matthew Conway Rowan	Shane Vostenak Rowan	Adam Abushanab Rutgers-Newark
110m Hurdles	Marquise Young Rowan	Jason Agyemang Rowan	Kwaku Nkrumah Rowan
400m Hurdles	Nicholas Razze Rowan	Marquise Young Rowan	Jason Agyemang Rowan
3000m Steeplechase	Caleb Clevenger Rowan	Daniel Squicciarini Stockton	Ethan Fletcher Rowan
4x100 Relay	Rowan Eli Hendricks, Shamar Love, Nana Agyemang, Robert McKinney	TCNJ Raymond Schmitt, Jack Attali, Tyler Scott, Justin Gomez	Stockton Carson Latham, Anthony Gentile, Anthony McCullough, Eduardo Ruiz-Guiseppi
4x400 Relay	Rowan Nick Garman, Nicholas Razze, Teddy Wilson, Samael Milevoix	Stockton Marcellus Malloy, Darnell Cartwright, Joseph deBeaumont, Santana Wittenburg	Rutgers-Newark Diego Gomes, Andrew Mark, Christopher Williams, Cedric Augustin
High Jump	Arrington Rhym Rowan	Jamile Gantt Rowan	Adonis McGee Rowan
Pole Vault	Nicholas Lourenco Farmingdale State	Gavin Lum Stockton	Tyler DeMarco TCNJ
Long Jump	Nana Agyemang Rowan	Joseph Morales Stockton	Jabez Thomas Montclair State
Triple Jump	Joshua Justin Rowan	Daniel Bamfo Farmingdale State	Beck Deeny Montclair State
Shot Put	Timaul Williams Rutgers-Newark	John Griffith Montclair State	Josh Caudill Rowan
Discus Throw	Timaul Williams Rutgers-Newark	Stephen Daramola TCNJ	Zachary Mackiewicz TCNJ
Hammer Throw	Timaul Williams Rutgers-Newark	John Griffith Montclair State	Zachary Mackiewicz TCNJ
Javelin Throw	Damitrius Hester Rowan	Thomas Flanagan Rowan	Alexander Bogues TCNJ
Decathlon	Jayvee Dumas TCNJ	John Robinson Rowan	Kevin Lu-Chua Stockton