PITMAN, N.J. — The New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) released its weekly award winners today, Monday, Jan. 30, and for the first time since December 13, 2021, New Jersey City University men's track & field senior Dave Etienne (Jersey City, N.J./Dickinson) has captured the NJAC Men's Runner of the Week honor. It his fourth Runner of the Week nod of his career from the conference, added to the two Rookie of the Week honors he collected back in 2019.

Etienne earned the weekly accolade after he climbed up the NJCU indoor record books this weekend with a pair of massive times for the Gothic Knights at the Boston University John Thomas Terrier Classic on Friday, Jan. 27. He tied a 17-year-old program record with a personal-record time of 21.71 in the 200-meter dash to place fifth overall out of 121 runners – it was the ninth fastest time in Division III to this point in the season and the second-fastest in the NJAC this year, as well. Etienne also blew away the 400-meter dash he was in, placing seventh out of 121 runners with a personal-record time of 48.17 to climb to third in the NJCU record books – it was the third-fastest time in Division III this season (just 0.01 short of second).

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Etienne and the rest of the NJCU men's and women's track & field squads will return to action on Friday evening, Feb. 3, at The Armory in New York City for the NYC DIII Invitational, which is being hosted by New York University.