Rutgers overcame several challenges during the NCAA East First Round, including weather delays, midnight start times because of the delays, and 95-degree temperatures in Jacksonville. However, as track and field director Bobby Farrell said to scarletknights.

Olympians Marion Jones and Tara Davis-Woodhall previously set state championship records in the long jump in 1993 and 2017, respectively, both surpassing 22 feet (6.7 meters). This year’s winner, Loren Webster, topped 21 feet (6.40 meters), with Hernandez trailing by a few inches.