Union Catholic Senior Amari Onque-Shabazz Commits! See Where This State Talent is Heading!


Here is Amari winning the 2015 Meet of Champions 800m. / Photo by Aaron Laserna for MileSplit

Union Catholic senior Amari Onque-Shabazz has verbally committed to Villanova University!

This talented middle distance runner owns a Group state title in the 400m dash as well as a Group and Meet of Champions title in the 800m run. She was also part of the National Championship winning and state record holding Union Catholic 4x400m relay team.

She won the outdoor Meet of Champions last spring when she ran a huge personal best of 2:10.03 in the 800m! You can watch her storm down the final stretch to finish that race right here. She also split 54.2 on the Union Catholics National title winning 4x400m squad which ran a US#2 all-time 3:35.90 last spring.

She has great range too, not limited to the 800m or the 400m where she a personal best of 56.14. She runs well in the 5K during XC season, just recently winning the Mountain division at the Union County Conference Championships with a time of 19:29 on a 5,150 meter course! She also has a Holmdel best of 19:08.

Other schools in the running were Michigan, Richmond, and Northeastern.

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