Published May 03. 2017 12:18PM
Palmerton graduate Austin Shupp, a redshirt-sophomore at Shippensburg University, set new personal bests in both hurdling events Saturday at the Paul Kaiser Classic.
Shupp ran the 110-meter hurdles in 14.47 seconds during preliminaries and later completed the 400-meter hurdles in 52.81 seconds. In the 110 finals, he took first in a time of 14.71, while his 400 showing was good enough for second place.Shupp ranks 19th in Division II for the 400-meter hurdles and ranks among the Top 30 for the 110-meter hurdles.He enters the Pennsylvania State Athletic conference championships as the No. 2 seed in both events. The PSAC meet begins Thursday.