From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

The Winslow boys ran the 2nd-fastest 400-meter relay among New Jersey schools Friday at the 130th Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

Junior Jaylon Moss, senior KaRon Alil, freshman Keyon Ali and senior Quayd Hendryx ran 41.63, 10th-fastest in Camden County history and fastest since Pennsauken ran 41.57 at the 2017 Meet of Champions in Mansfield Township.

Winslow’s time was 18th-fastest of more than 600 schools that competed. The only faster New Jersey school at Penn this year was Bergen Catholic of Oradell, which ran 41.59 – 4-100ths of a second faster.

Winslow’s time is fastest this year at any meet by a south Jersey school.

The Eagles qualified for the Northeast Championship race, scheduled for 4:25 p.m. Saturday. Deptford also qualified for that race with a 42.07 with Liam Brown, Kareem Brown, Xavion Holmes and Johann Hernandez.

All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Relay List
40.75 … Burlington Twp., 2025
40.92 … Winslow, 2003
41.09 … Camden, 2000
41.25 … Camden, 2004
41.25 … Camden, 2001
41.26 … Washington Twp., 2026
41.29 … Rancocas Valley, 2025
41.45 … Timber Creek, 2014
41.47 … Deptford, 2018
41.50 … Timber Creek, 2013
41.53 … Lenape, 2026
41.54 … Camden, 2002
41.57 … Pennsauken, 2017
41.55 … Deptford, 2017
41.62 … Camden, 2003
41.63 … Winslow Twp., 2026
41.64 … Winslow Twp., 2004
41.69 … Willingboro, 1982
41.71 … Edgewood, 2000
41.71 … Salem, 2017
41.72 … Deptford, 2018
41.80 … Oakcrest, 2012
41.83 … Camden, 1997
41.83 … Oakcrest, 2011
41.83 … Camden, 1997
41.85 … Camden, 2024
41.86 … Winslow Twp., 2025
41.7h … Camden, 1996
41.7h … Edgewood, 2001
41.85 … Pennsauken, 2016
41.86 … Pennsauken, 2017
41.87 … Pennsauken, 2023
41.93 … Deptford, 2026
41.7h … Camden, 1996
41.7h … Edgewood, 2001
41.96 … Paul VI, 2018
41.99 … Rancocas Valley, 2021

Haddonfield freshman Dylan Hosty ran the 5^th-fastest 1,600 or mile in South Jersey history Friday at the 130^th Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

Hosty ran 4:49.48 for a full mile, which converts to 4:47.80 for 1,600 meters. Her previous PR was 4:51.58 over 1,600 meters at indoor Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze. She ran a 4:53.67 full mile indoors at the Ott Center, which converts to 4:51.97 for 1,600 meters.

Hosty negatived 72.08, 74.94, 73.68 and 68.79 for a second half mile of 2:22.47. Her time is 3^rd-fastest among all U.S. freshmen this year and 2^nd-fastest over a full mile on the all-time New Jersey list, behind only Sparata’s Claudia DiSomma, who ran 4:47.04 in a meet at Icahn Stadium in New York in 2010.

Hosty lowered the South Jersey freshman mile record of 5:00.16 set in 2014 by Briana Gess of Haddonfield in Glassboro. Gess ran 4:45.97 for 1,600 meters as a freshman when she won the Meet of Champions in South Plainfield, but you can’t convert 1,600 meters into a mile. You can’t convert up, only down.

All-Time South Jersey 1,600-Meter List
4:41.16 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2000
4:41.5y … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1982

4:45.91 … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2024
4:45.97 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2014
4:47.80y … Dylan Hosty [Haddonfield], 2026

4:48.82y … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022
4:48.73y … Marielle Hall [Haddonfield], 2010
4:49.11 … Renee Tomlin [Ocean City], 2005
4:49.26 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 2017

4:53.67 full mile Ott, January

4:51.58 1600 Ocean Breeze, MoC

4:49.48 = 4:47.80

The Winslow girls took on some of the fastest 1,600-meter relay teams in the U.S. and Jamaica Friday and finished 5^th in the Penn Relays Championship of America race.

Sophomore Amariah Arango, junior Cinniya Robinson, senior Olivia Okaro and sophomore Jasmine Jackson ran 3:41.17 at Franklin Field, just off their South Jersey-record 3:40.64 – 4^th-fastest in state history – from the South Jersey Championship race on Thursday.

Winslow finished behind only three Jamaican schools and U.S. powerhouse Bullis School of Potomac, Md.

Winslow’s 5^th-place finish is the best by a South Jersey school in the Championship of America 4-by-4 in 27 years, since Willingboro – with

Takia Canty, Shakirah Rutherford, Latasha Taylor and Danielle Myricks – won the 1999 race in the pouring rain.

The only other South Jersey schools to finish in the top five in the C-of-A is Camden, who placed 4^th in both 1994 and 1995. Chantell Parks, Tynisha Revels, Aishia Lawson and Medina Salaam ran in 1994 and Revels, Salaam, Lawson and Alishia Lawson in 1995.

The fastest previous time run by a South Jersey school in a Championship of America race is Clayton’s 3:44.67 in 2022 with Arianna, Ariel and Amirah Sharpe and Kelsey Thomas.

On Friday, Arango and Robinson got the baton around the track in 1:50.44, Okaro split 55.92 and Jackson anchored in 54.82.

Pennsauken, which ran 3:41.89 on Thursday – 2^nd-fastest in South Jersey history to Winslow and 8^th-fastest in state history – scratched after breaking the state record in the 400-meter Championship of America relay earlier in the day.

The two races Thursday and Friday produced the three-fastest times ever run by South Jersey schools at Penn – by far:

3:40.64 … Winslow Twp., 2026 Championship of America [5^th]
3:41.17 … Winslow Twp., 2026 South Jersey Large School [1^st]
3:41.89 … Pennsauken, 2026 South Jersey Large School [2^nd]
3:43.46 … Winslow Twp., 2025, South Jersey Large School [1^st]
3:44.67 … Clayton, 2022 Championship of America [6^th]

3:45.41 … Camden, 1995 Championship of America [4^th]

3:45.74 … Willingboro, 1999 Championship of America [1^st]

3:45.94 … Camden, 1995 South Jersey [1^st]

3:46.18 … Willingboro, 2000 Philadelphia Area [1^st]

3:47.30 … Willingboro, 2003 South Jersey Large School [1]

3:47.39 … Clayton, 2022 South Jersey Small School [1]

3:48.08 … Winslow Twp., 2017 Philadelphia Area [3^rd]

3:48.80 … Willingboro, 1999 South Jersey Large School [1]

3:49.30 … Winslow Twp., 2004 Philadelphia Area [1^st]

3:49.46 … Eastern, 2003 South Jersey Large School [2]

3:49.74 … Eastern, 2003 Philadelphia Area [1^st]

3:49.97 … Lenape, 2015 Philadelphia Area [3^rd]

3:49.53 … Willingboro, 1998 Philadelphia Area [1^st]

UConn freshman Jaidah Garrett from Absegami came a quarter of an inch from winning the Penn Relays long jump after PR’ing by more than five inches Friday at Franklin Field.

Garrett leaped 19-10 ¾, coming just 1 ¼ inches from becoming the 11^th South Jersey woman to jump 20 feet.

Garrett’s previous PR was 19-5 ½ indoors in January in Cambridge, Mass. She had a legal wind of 0.8 meters per second.

Garrett led until St. John’s senior Cassandra Lemus-Sodji jumped 19-11 on her final attempt.

Garrett responded with two jumps beyond her previous PR – a 19-9 ½ and a 19-8 ¼ on her 5^th and 6^th jumps but couldn’t quite catch Sodji.

Her jump makes her the No. 17 freshman in NCAA Division 1 and No. 2 in the Big East, behind only Sodji, who jumped 20-2 ¼ last month in Tampa.

On her first two jumps, Garrett went 18-8 ½ and 18-9 ¼ before a foul. Her five legal jumps averaged 19-4 ¼, less than an inch off her lifetime best before Friday.

The Pennsauken girls are officially the fastest in state history.

In one of the greatest performances ever by a South Jersey relay team, junior Summer Schaeffer and seniors Sanaya Dupree, Olivia Dupree and Sianni Wynn ran 45.30 in the 400-meter relay Friday to place 3^rd in the Championship of America race at the 130^th Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

They broke the state record of 45.48 set by Union Catholic on the same track at 2024 West Philly Nationals and broke the South Jersey record of 45.68 they set on Thursday at Penn to qualify for the presetigious Championship of America race.

Pennsauken finished behind only two Jamaican Schools. Edwin Allen of Clarendon, Jamaica, won the race in 44.13, and St. Jago of St. Catherine, Jamaica, was 2^nd in 45.08. Pennsauken’s time is 10^th-fastest in the U.S. this year, according to the MileSplit national database.

Pennsauken and Winslow both race in the Championship of America 1,600-meter relay later Friday.

A few minutes before Pennsauken’s historic race, Winslow won the Northeast Championship race in 46.39, 9^th-fastest in state history. Winslow, with sophomore Amariah Arango, senior Olivia Okaro, junior Cinniya Robinson and sophomore Jasmine Jackson, broke the meet record of 47.12 set last year by J.P. McCaskey High of Lancaster, Pa. Their time is 4^th-fastest in South Jersey history.

Winslow and Union Catholic got the stick neck and neck on the third handoff, but Jackson ran away from U.C.’s anchor to give Winslow the title.

Deptford ran what looks to be its fastest 3,200-meter relay in 59 years Friday morning at the 130^th running of the Penn Relays.

Anthony Schilling, Christian Gonzalez, Zachary Harrison and John Collier ran 7:57.81, which according to all available records is the school’s fastest since June 1, 1967, on the very same track at Franklin Field.

Results from Penn have been a mess for two days now and splits from Deptford’s race are not available.

In 1967, Deptford, with Irv Jenkins, Tom Williams, Jerry Clark and Irv Jenkins, ran 7:49.0 for the full two miles at the old Delaware Valley Meet of Champions at Franklin Field. Wayne Jenkins led off with a 1:56.9, Williams split 1:57.4, Clark ran 1:58.8 and Irv Jenkins anchored in 1:56.1.

That 7:49.0 converts to 7:46.2 for a 3,200-meter relay, which stood as the Gloucester County record for 51 years, until Delsea ran 7:46.28 at the 2018 Meet of Champions at Northern Burlington with George Tenenberg, William Mayhew, Colin Kane and Michael Szwed.

Deptford’s 7:57.81 is No. 11 in Gloucester County history. Their time was 3^rd-fastest among all New Jersey schools Saturday, behind only Hackensack [7:46.11] and Union Catholic [7:46.61], which both qualified for Saturday’s Championship of America.

7:46.2h … Deptford, 1967
7:47.66 … Kingsway, 2011
7:48.16 … Kingsway, 2013
7:48.3h … Woodbury, 1977
7:49.67 … Washington Twp., 2009
7:49.95 … Delsea, 2018
7:51.07 … Washington Twp., 2008
7:54.94 … Kingsway, 2014
7:55.53 … Delsea, 2017
7:56.44 … Glassboro, 2026
7:57.81 … Deptford, 2026

Winslow and Pennsauken ran the two-fastest 1,600-meter relays in South Jersey history Friday – and No. 4 and 8 in state history – in a historic showdown in the Penn Relays South Jersey Large-School championship race at Franklin Field.

Winslow won the race in 3:40.64 and Pennsauken was 2^nd in 3:41.89, and both qualified for the prestigious Championship of America race, sheduled for 4:55 p.m. Friday.

Both ran under the South Jersey-record 3:43.46 from last year’s South Jersey Large-School race.

Their times are 5^th– and 6^th-fastest of more than 500 schools that raced in various 4-by-4 sections on Thursday. The nine-fastest schools advance to the Championship of America.

The only U.S. school to run faster than Winslow and Pennsauken was Bullis School of Potomac, Md., which ran 3:40.24.

Sophomore Jasmine Jackson ran a 53.85 anchor to move Winslow into the lead on the final lap. Sophomore Amariah Arango [56.66], junior Cinniya Robinson [53.53] and senior Olivia Okaro [56.62] ran the first three legs for Winslow.

Pennsauken got a 57.13 leadoff from junior Summer Schaeffer, then 52.46 from three-time national champion Sianni Wynn, a 56.17 from Olivia Dupree and a 56.14 from sophomore anchor Hope Edwards.

Earlier in the day, Pennsauken and Winslow posted the 3^rd– and 10^th-fastest times of more than 600 schools in the 400-meter relay, with Pennsauken setting a South Jersey record of 45.68 and qualifying for the Championship of America on Friday and Winslow running 46.40, 4^th-fastest in South Jersey history and qualifying for the Northeast Championship race Friday.

This is Winslow’s fifth win in the South Jersey Large-School race. They also won in 2016, 2017, 2018 and last year with Amariah Arango, Jasmine Jackson, Skhye Seamon and Cinniya Robinson setting a South Jersey-record 3:43.46 and advancing to the Championship of America, where they ran 3:48.28 and placed 8^th.

3:39.55 … Hydel [St. Catherine, Jamaica]
3:39.56 … Edwin Allen [Clarendon, Jamaica]
3:39.82 … Holmwood Tech [Christiana, Jamaica]
3:40.24 … Bullis School [Potomac, Md.]
3:40.64 … Winslow Twp. [Atco, N.J.]
3:41.89 … Pennsauken [N.J.]
3:43.33 … Bishop McNamara [Forestville, Md.]
3:44.81 … Alphansus Davis [Clarendon, Jamaica]
3:44.81 … St. Augustine’s [Nassau, Bahamas]
3:45.93 … Western [Baltimore]
3:47.08 … Immaculate Conception [Kingston, Jamaica]
3:47.44 … St. Elizabeth Tech [Santa Cruz, Jamaica]

3:47.92 … Sydney Pagon STEM [St. Elizabeth, Jamaica]
3:48.77 … Willian Knibb [Trelawny, Jamaica]
3:49.13 … Elizabeth Seton [Bladensburg, Md.]
3:49.43 … Union Catholic [Scotch Plains, N.J.]
3:49.56 … Woodlawn [Md.]

3:35.90 … Union Catholic, 2015
3:38.92 … Union Catholic, 2017
3:40.36 … Columbia, 2013
3:40.64 … Winslow Twp. [Atco, N.J.]
3:41.03 … Montclair, 1998
3:41.17 … Union Catholic, 2024
3:41.19 … Columbia, 2014
3:41.89 … Pennsauken [N.J.]
3:42.54 … Columbia, 2010
3:42.59 … Union Catholic, 2016
3:42.97 … Union Catholic, 2019
3:43.46 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:43.3h … Plainfield, 1981
3:43.66 … Union Catholic, 2025
3:43.94 … Willingboro, 2003
3;44.43 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:44.64 … Willingboro, 2002
3:44.67 … Clayton, 2022
3:44.9h … Columbia, 1980
3:45.11 … Union Catholic, 2024
3:45.12 … Trenton, 2001
3:45.41 … Camden, 1995
3:45.67 … Willingboro, 1999
3:45.77 … Willingboro, 2025
3:45.89 … Lawrenceville School, 2025
3:46.04 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:46.13 … Willingboro, 2000
3:46.38 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:46.67 … Winslow, 2018
3:46.71 … Union Catholic, 2023
3:46.73 … Scotch Plains-Fanwood
3:46.85 … Winslow Twp., 2024

All-Time South Jersey 4-by-4 List
3:43.46 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:43.94 … Willingboro, 2001
3;44.43 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:44.64 … Willingboro, 2002
3:44.67 … Clayton, 2022
3:44.97 … Pennsauken, 2026
3:45.41 … Camden, 1995
3:45.67 … Willingboro, 1999
3:45.77 … Willingboro, 2025
3:46.04 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:46.13 … Willingboro, 2000
3:46.38 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:46.66 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:46.67 … Winslow Twp., 2018
3:46.85 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:47.16 … Eastern, 2003
3:47.30 … Willingboro, 2003
3:47.41 … Winslow Twp., 2017
3:47.4h … Camden, 1978
3:47.55 … Camden, 2006
3:48.00 … Wilson, 2001
3:48.17 … Wilson, 2006
3:48.6y … Camden,, 1978
3:48.78 … Lenape, 2014
3:48.7h … Washington Twp., 1999
3:48.87 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
3:48.91 … Penns Grove, 2013
3:49.25 … Lenape, 2015
3:49.2y … Camden, 1979
3:49.30 … Winslow Twp., 2004
3:49.43 … Willingboro, 1997
3:49.53 … Willingboro, 1998
3:49.63 … Winslow Twp., 2016
3:49.01 … Eastern, 2024
3:49.93 … Willingboro, 2009

The Pennsauken girls ran the 4th-fastest time in state history and Winslow ran the 4th-fastest in South Jersey history Friday morning during sizzling 400-meter relay heats at the 130th Penn Relays.

Pennsauken earned a lane in the prestigious Championship of America race on Friday. Winslow missed by 3-100ths of a second but will race in the Northeast Championship race on Friday.

Pennsauken smashed the South Jersey record it set just five days earlier at the Woodbury Relays with junior Summer Schaeffer leading off, followed by seniors Sanaya Dupree, Olivia Dupree and Sianni Wynn running 45.68. They had set the South Jersey record of 45.93 Saturday at Woodbury.

Their time is fastest by a New Jersey public school in 28 years, since the legendary Montclair team with Aleah Williams, Mikele and Melissa Barber and Chantel Coppedge ran 45.50 for 2nd place behind Vere Tech in the Championship of America in 1998.

The only schools to run faster than Pennsauken Thursday morning were Edwin Allen of Clarendon, Jamaica, who ran 45.63, and the Bullis School of Potomac, Md., who ran 45.68. That’s actually the same time as Pennsauken, but down to 1,000ths, Bullis ran 45.676 and Pennsauken 45.680.

Pennsauken won its race running solo, with nobody else within three seconds at the finish line.

About 10 minutes before Pennsauken raced, sophomore Amariah Arango, senior Olivia Okaro, junior Cinniya Robinson and sophomore Jasmine Jackson of Winslow ran 46.40, 4th-fastest in South Jersey history and 11th in state history. Winslow had just set a school record of 46.55 at Woodbury.

Pennsauken and Winslow ran the 3rd- and 10th-fastest times of 610 teams that raced in the small-school and large-school races.

As one of the top nine schools, Pennsauken qualified for the Championship of America race at 2:15 p.m. Friday. They will line up in Lane 8 Friday.alongside four Jamaican schools and three high schools from Maryland and one from Virginia.

Winslow, as one of the next nine-fastest U.S. schools, qualified for the Northeast  Championship race at 2 p.m. Friday.

They will line up in Lane 6.

Winslow and Pennsauken are both among the top seeds in the 1,600-meter relays coming up later Thursday, giving both Pennsauken and Winslow another chance at reaching a Championship of America race.

Kingsway [48.36], Rancocas Valley [48.51] and Willingboro [48.52] also ran well under 49 seconds. Talia Griscom, Saudah Turner, Lariah Miles and Noemi Haller ran for Kingsway, Allana Peebles, Dominique Johnston, Alexandra Rodriguez, and Angelina Brown ran for Rancocas Valley and Jaden Murry, Erin Scott, Trinity Brapoh and Jade Pinder for Willingboro.

All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Relay
45.93 … Pennsauken, 2026
46.19 … Timber Creek, 2024
46.20 … Willingboro, 2025
46.40 … Winslow Twp., 2026
46.43 … Timber Creek, 2023
46.55 … Winslow Twp., 2026
46.87 … Eastern, 2003
46.95 … Pennsauken, 2025
46.98 … Winslow Twp., 2017
46.9h … Willingboro, 1980
47.06 … Winslow Twp., 2014
47.07 … Winslow Twp., 2025
47.18 … Winslow Twp., 2013
47.19 … Winslow Twp., 2018
47.25 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2018
47.27 … Delsea, 2017
47.32 … Winslow Twp., 2026
47.36 … Eastern, 2019
47.36 … Rancocas Valley, 2025
47.40 … Winslow Twp., 2016
47.40 … Winslow Twp., 2025
47.3h … Willingboro, 1981
47.45 … Willingboro, 1994
47.49 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
47.53 … Millville, 2019
47.53 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
47.54 … Winslow Twp., 2003
47.54 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
47.4h … Camden,, 1978
47.4y … Camden, 1979
47.72 … Pennsauken, 2024
47.75 … Eastern, 2002
47.76 … Winslow Twp., 2005
47.76 … Winslow Twp., 2012
47.78 … Willingboro, 2023
47.79 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2021
47.81 … Haddonfield, 2024
47.82 … Moorestown, 2000
47.84 … Kingsway, 2025
47.85 … Deptford, 2015
47.87 … Winslow Twp., 2011
47.9h … Willingboro, 1995
47.8h … Willingboro, 2003
47.94 … Camden, 2000
47.96 … Winslow Twp., 2024
47.98 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2019

All-Time New Jersey 400-Meter Relay List
45.48 … Union Catholic, 2024
45.50 … Montclair, 1998
45.53 … Union Catholic, 2025
45.68 … Pennsauken
45.89 … Columbia, 2010
45.93 … Pennsauken, 2026
46.08 … Trenton, 1984
46.19 … Timber Creek, 2024
46.20 … Willingboro, 2025
46.40 … Union Catholic, 2023
46.40 … Winslow, 2026
46.42 … Franklin Twp., 2003
46.43 … Timber Creek, 2023
46.55 … Winslow Twp., 2026
46.84 … Piscataway, 2014
46.87 … Eastern, 2003
46.89 … Franklin Twp., 2001
46.90 … Paramus Catholic, 2010
46.95 … Pennsauken, 2025
46.96 … Columbia, 2009
46.98 … Winslow Twp., 2017

Lindenwold senior Egypt Bolan cleared 5-10 ½ – just a quarter of an inch off her PR – and placed 3rd on misses Thursday morning in the high jump at the 130th running of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

Bolan, who won West Philly Nationals at Franklin Field in June, was one of three girls to clear 5-10 ½ but one miss at 5-8 and two at 5-9 ¼ placed her 3rd behind two jumpers from New York state.

Bolan did clear 5-10 ½ on her 1st attempt and the official results then showed her clearing 5-11 ¼ on her also 1st attempt, which would have been the No. 2 jump in New Jersey history. But somehow that make turned into a miss in the results.

Bolan is No. 3 in state history at 5-10 ¾ behind Ridgewood’s Jenna Rogers [6-0 ¾ in 2017] and Randolph’s Tatiana Smolin [5-11 in 1983].

Winslow senior Leeya Joseph soared 19 feet to place 6^th in the long jump at the 130^th running of the Penn Relays Thursday morning at Franklin Field.

Joseph matched her best outdoor jump from last year’s Meet of Champions at Pennsauken. She PR’d indoors when she won the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze with 19-1 ½. So this equals her 2^nd-best jump ever.

Joseph also had jumps of 18-0 ½, 17-11 ½, 17-8 ¼ and 17-6 ¼ in a solid series. She finished only 9 ½ inches behind winner Brooklyn Little of Elizabeth Seton in Bladensburg, Md., who jumped 19-9 ½ on her final jump.

Joseph was the top jumper from New Jersey. Senior Angelina Brown of Rancocas Valley placed 9^th at 18-4 ½ on her 1^st attempt, not far off her PR of 18-10 ¾ from a meet in Yeadon, Pa., last week.