From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

After shattering South Jersey records in the 400- and 800-meter relays, Sianni Wynn and the Pennsauken girls ran the 6^th-fastest 4-by-4 in South Jersey history Saturday at the Woodbury Relays.

How about 45.93, 1:36.63 and 3:44.97?

Safe to call it the greatest day of sprinting in New Jersey girls track history. No other school has ever run as fast in the 4-by-1, 4-by-2 and 4-by-4 on the same day and only one other school – a catholic school based in Scotch Plains – has run that fast in school history.

Pennsauken finished the triple record-setting performance by winning the 1,600-meter relay with Summer Schaefer leading off in 57.38, Wynn splitting 53.45, then Olivia Dupree running 58.36 and Hope Edwards anchoring in 55.80.

They broke the Group 4 and overall meet record of 3:48.24 set by Columbia in 2013.

Pennsauken’s time is 16^th-fastest in state history. Pennsauken is the 2^nd school in state history to run as fast as 45.93, 1:36.63 and 3:44.97 at any point in school history and the first to do it in the same meet.

All-Time New Jersey 4-by-4 List
3:35.90 … Union Catholic, 2015
3:38.92 … Union Catholic, 2017
3:40.36 … Columbia, 2013
3:41.03 … Montclair, 1998
3:41.17 … Union Catholic, 2024
3:41.19 … Columbia, 2014
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
3:44.97 … Pennsauken, 2026
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 Winslow girls ran the 6^th-fastest sprint medley in South Jersey history at Woodbury Saturday, winning the Group 3 race in a meet-record 4:01.75.

The previous Group 3 record was Wilson’s 4:08.64 in 2003 and the previous overall meet record was Columbia’s 4:05.84 in 2014.

Although the official results show Amariah Arango and Olivia Okaro running the 200s, Cinniya Robinson the 400 and Jasmine Jackson the 800, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Arango ran the 800. How the other legs were split up who knows? If anybody knows the correct lineup – possibly Robinson and Okaro on the 200s, Jackson on the 400 and Arango on the 800 – let us know in thecomment section.

In any case, the 400 leg was 55.74, the 200s totalled 48.49 and the 800 was 2:17.53.

Wnislow’s previous fastest time wa a 4:05.2 hand-timed in 2003.

All-Time South Jersey Sprint Medley List
3:53.15 … Eastern, 2025
3:59.6h … Willingboro, 2003
4:00.34 … Willingboro, 2006
4:00.71 … Willingboro, 2002
4:01.07 … Lenape, 2015
4:01.75 … Winslow Twp., 2026
4:02.60 … Sterling, 2017
4:02.69 … Willingboro, 2004
4:02.89 … Woodrow Wilson, 2002
4:03.04 … Camden, 1995
4:03.42 … Millville, 2008
4:03.54 … Lenape, 2006
4:04.44 … Millville, 2013
4:04.69 … Cherokee, 2022
4:04.86 … Woodrow Wilson, 2009
4:05.2h … Winslow Twp., 2003
4:05.36 … Willingboro, 2010
4:05.38 … Millville, 2019
4:05.70 … Ocean City, 2004

Rowan’s Masai Byrd from Rancocas Valley, Evan Corcoran from Kingsway, Eli Hendricks from Penns Grove and Rajahn Dixon from Eastern ran the 2^nd-fastest 400-meter relay in NCAA Division 3 this year Saturday.

The all-South Jersey quartet won edge Pitt by 1-100^th of a second and won the 4-by-1 at the Virginia Challenge in Charlottesville with a 40.30. Pitt was 2^nd in 40.31.

The only faster time in Division 3 this year is Wisconsin-Oshkosh’s 40.14 in a home meet on Friday.

Rowan’s only faster times are 39.72 with Shamir Love of Bridgeton, Robert McKinney of Highland, Hendricks and Corcoran last year at the NCAA Championships and a 40.14 in 2023 with Love, Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley, Jason Agyemang and Corcoran at the NCAA Championships. Those times are No. 3 and No. 10 in Division 3 history.

An hour and a half after setting a South Jersey record in the 800-meter relay at the Woodbury Relays, the Pennsauken girls shattered the South Jersey 4-by-1 record.

Summer Schaeffer, Sanaya Dupree, Olivia Dupree and Sianni Wynn ran 45.93, breaking the South Jersey record of 46.19 set in 2024 at South Jersey Group 3 Sectionals at Delsea.

Pennsauken’s time is No. 5 in state history and fastest by a New Jersey public school since Columbia ran 45.89 at 2010 at Greensboro Nationals.

Earlier Saturday, the same four girls ran 1:36.63 in the 4-by-2, 2^nd-fastest in state history and fastest ever by a public school.

Pennsauken broke the Woodbury Relays overall and Group 4 record of 47.3 hand-timed set by Willingboro’s Pam Young, Carol Lewis, Monica Mayes and Michele Glover in 1981.

All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Relay List
45.93 … Pennsauken, 2026
46.19 … Timber Creek, 2024
46.20 … Willingboro, 2025
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
45.89 … Columbia, 2010
45.93 … Pennsauken, 2026
46.08 … Trenton, 1984
46.19 … Timber Creek, 2024
46.20 … Willingboro, 2025
46.40 … Union Catholic, 2023
46.42 … 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

With a 1:51 anchor presumably by Josh Crawford, the Woodstown boys ran the fastest 4-by-8 by a New Jersey Group 1 school in 43 years Saturday with a sizzling win at the Woodbury Relays.

Karson Chew, Jacob Marino, Crawford, David Farrell and  Crawford ran 7:52.95 to win the Group 1 race and smash the Group 1 meet record of 8:06.1 hand-timed set in 1978 by Woodbury’s Don Bland, Bruce Washington, Keith Washington and Dick Caton over two miles, which converts to 8:03.28 for 3,200 meters.

Chew led off with a 1:57.02, Marino ran 2:02.63, Farrell 2:01.78 and Crawford 1:51.53.

Woodstown broke its own South Jersey Group 1 record of 7:54.34 from last year’s Meet of Champions at Pennsauken with Crawford, Chew, Marino and Cole Lucas.

Their 7:52.95 is fastest by a New Jersey Group 1 since Bernards ran 7:48.1 at the 1983 Penn Relays. Woodbury ran a converted 7:48.3 in 1977 with Caton anchoring but I have no clue where they ran that fast. Wasn’t at any of the obvious meets.

Glassboro also ran fast, placing 2^nd in 7:56.44 with Aaron Johnson, Joseph Saicic, Zacchaeus Harrigan and Jaeden Wesley.

Sadly, Woodstown is unable to race at the Penn Relays and did not enter, even though they would have easily qualified and had a good chance to make the finals.

All-Time Group 1 List
7:48.1 … Bernards, 1983
7:48.2 … Bernards, 1982
7:48.3h … Woodbury, 1977
7:52.95 … Woodstown, 2026
7:54.84 … Woodstown, 2025
7:56.02 … Woodbury, 1972
7:56.51 … Indian Hills, 2016
7:57.80 … Shore Regional, 2017
7:58.09 … Metuchen, 1998
7:59.53 … Metuchen, 1999
7:58.54 … Metuchen, 2008
7:59.64 … Mountain Lakes, 2012
7:58.8y … Woodbury, 1972 [Turnock]

All-Time South Jersey List
7:40.43 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2017
7:40.71 … Pleasantville, 2013
7:40.99 … Willingboro, 1983
7:41.17 … Cherokee, 2023
7:43.57 … Haddonfield, 2015
7:44.25 … Willingboro, 2003
7:46.28 … Delsea, 2018
7:46.2h … Deptford, 1967
7:47.27 … Egg Harbor, 2016
7:47.66 … Kingsway, 2011
7:47.96 … Haddonfield, 2016
7:47.9h … Willingboro, 1982
7:48.16 … Kingsway, 2013
7:48.25 … Vineland, 2012
7:48.3y … Woodbury, 1977
7:48.70 … Rancocas Valley, 2016
7:48.92 … Highland, 2018
7:49.34 … Cherokee, 2000
7:49.67 … Washington Twp., 2009
7:49.72 … Haddonfield, 2019
7:49.85 … Cherokee, 2012
7:49.95 … Delsea, 2018
7:49.9h … Willingboro, 1978
7:50.1h … Camden, 1977
7:50.26 … Ocean City, 2003
7:50.31 … Cherokee, 2024
7:50.73 … Cherokee, 2021
7:50.87 … Haddonfield, 2014
7:51.07 … Washington Twp., 2008
7:51.09 … Mainland Reg., 2004
7:51.52 … Vineland, 2010
7:52.53 … Willingboro, 2002
7:52.60 … Cherokee, 2011
7:52.66 … Cherokee, 1998
7:52.75 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2018
7:52.90 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
7:52.95 … Woodstown, 2026
7:53.03 … Bishop Eustace, 1997
7:53.44 … Shawnee, 1991
7:53.99 … Highland, 1991
7:54.16 … Woodrow Wilson, 2011
7:54.43 … Cherry Hill East, 2023
7:54.5h … Paul VI, 1991
7:54.74 … Paul VI, 1990
7:54.78 … Highland, 2017
7:54.84 … Woodstown, 2025
7:54.94 … Kingsway, 2014

Sianni Wynn and the Pennsauken girls destroyed the South Jersey record and ran the 2^nd-fastest 800-meter relay in state history Saturday at the Woodbury Relays.

With a lineup listed as Sanaya Dupree, Olivia Dupree, Clearview transfer Summer Schaeffer and three time national champion Sianni Wynn anchoring, Pennsauken ran a dazzling 1:36.63 to win the Group 4 4-by-2.

That’s the fastest time ever by a New Jersey public school. The only faster time in state history is Union Catholic’s 1:35.89 this past June at West Philly Nationals.

Pennsauken broke the South Jersey record of 1:37.96 set at the same meet at Franklin Field by Kaila Speight, Maya Bolden, Jade Pinder and Nester Wea of Willingboro.

Pennsauken broke the Camden County record of 1:38.43 set by Winslow Township at 2018 Greensboro Nationals. Their time is 13^th-fastest in the U.S. this year, according to the MileSplit national database.

Pennsauken also broke the overall meet record of 1:39.59 set by Winslow Township in 2012 and the Group 4 meet record of 1:41.97 set by Eastern in 2002.

Pennsauken’s time is No. 16 in the world, according to the World Athletics database and No. 8 among U.S. teams. Baylor, Texas and Houston are the only U,S. colleges that have run faster this year.

Kingsway also ran hot, with Noemi Haller, Norah Brown, Taila Griscom and Kenya Nobles taking 2^nd in 1:39.99. That’s No. 11 in South Jersey history and broke the Gloucester County record of 1:40.45 set last June by Kingsway at West Philly Nationals.

All-Time South Jersey 800-Meter Relay List
1:36.63 … Pennsauken, 2026
1:37.96 … Willingboro, 2025
1:38.43 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:38.55 … Winslow Twp., 2025
1:39.21 … Eastern, 2003
1:39.59 … Winslow Twp., 2012
1:39.65 … Pennsauken, 2025
1:39.67 … Winslow Twp., 2019
1:39.67 … Timber Creek, 2023
1:39.78 … Willingboro, 2024
1:39.99 … Kingsway, 2026
1:40.10 … Timber Creek, 2024
1:40.25 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
1:40.30 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:40.45 … Kingsway, 2025
1:40.46 … Eastern, 2019
1:40.62 … Winslow Twp., 2003
1:40.72 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2018
1:40.5h … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:40.91 … Winslow Twp., 2004

All-Time New Jersey 800-Meter Relay List
1:35.89 … Union Catholic, 2025
1:36.63 … Pennsauken, 2026
1:37.53 … Union Catholic, 2017
1:37.75 … Union Catholic, 2024
1:37.77 … Franklin Twp., 2003
1:37.89 … Union Catholic, 2023
1:37.96 … Willingboro, 2025
1:38.11 … Union Catholic, 2019
1:38.42 … Franklin Twp., 2001
1:38.43 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:38.55 … Winslow Twp., 2025
1:38.98 … Union Catholic, 2022
1:39.04h … Montclair, 1980
1:39.21 … Eastern, 2003
1:39.54h … Montclair, 1981
1:39.59 … Winslow Twp., 2012
1:39.65 … Pennsauken, 2025 ***
1:39.67 … Winslow Twp., 2019
1:39.67 … Timber Creek, 2023
1:39.76 … Neptune, 2015
1:39.78 … Willingboro, 2024
1:39.79 … Columbia, 2010
1:39.86 … Summit, 2017
1:39.94 … Piscataway, 2011
1:39.99 … Kingsway

Sophomore Joe Saicic’s 4:23.28 anchor leg led Glassboro to the 3^rd-fastest distance medley ever by a South Jersey Group 1 shool Saturday morning at the Woodbury Relays.

Glassboro won the Group 1 DMR in 10:29.47, 12^th-fastest in Gloucester County history and fastest by a South Jersey Group 1 school in 11 years.

The only South Jersey Group 1s to run faster are Haddon Township with their 10:19.67 at the 2015 Penn Relays and Woodbury ran a 10:25.6 converted from 2 ½ miles in 1979 at a meet I haven’t been able to identify.

Aaron Johnson, Zacchaeus Harrigan and Jaeden Wesley also ran for Glassboro, with Wesley on the 1,200, Johnson on the 800 and Harrigan on the 400.  Wesley is a senior, and the three others are sophomores.

In any case, the 1,200 split was 3:12.24, the 400 was 51.75 and the 800 was 1:59.21. Glassboro’s DMR was fastest of the four races and 2^nd-fastest in New Jersey so far this year, behind CBA’s 10:26.30 at Arcadia, Calif.

It’s the fastest time by a New Jersey Group 1 in nine years, since McNair Academic of Jersey City ran 10:20.11  at the 2017 Penn Relays.

Glassboro will run the 4-by-8 at the 130^th Penn Relays, with Saicic, Johnson, Harrigan and Wesley racing in the fourth 4-by-8 section at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Franklin Field.

All-Time Gloucester County Distance Medley
10:10.74 … Washington Twp., 2000
10:15.9y … Williamstown, 1973
10:17.2y … Williamstown, 1974
10:19.11 … Washington Twp., 2009
10:25.44 … Kingsway, 2019
10:25.6y … Gateway, 1979
10:25.6y … Woodbury, 1979
10.26.74 … Kingsway, 2018
10:27.81 … Washington Twp., 2002
10:28.65 … Delsea, 2012
10:29.1y … Gateway, 1978
10:29.47 … Glassboro, 2026

All-Time Group 1 Distance Medley
10:19.67 … Haddon Twp., 2015
10:25.6y … Woodbury, 1979
10:29.47 … Glassboro, 2026

Haddon Township’s Jacob Dinerman, a Rutgers-Camden junior, ran the 8^th-fastest 800 in NCAA Division 3 Friday night in Chester.

Dinerman ran 1:50.96, his first time under 1:51. Dinerman’s previous PR was a 1:51.91 from a meet this past May on the same track.

Dinerman broke an 18-year-old school record. Mike Fox from Rancocas Valley ran 1:51.54 at Swarthmore in May of 2008.

Dinerman was out in 55.09 and came back in 55.87,

Also in the race was St. Joe’s sophomore Chris Manzo from Egg Harbor Township, who PR’d with a 1:51.55, dropping his previous best from 1:51.68 from a meet last April on the same track. His time is 9^th-fastest so far in the Atlantic 10 Conference

Massive discus PR Saturday morning for Woodstown senior Aidan Taulane at the Woodbury Relays.

Taulane threw the platter 164-7 on his 1^st attempt of the day, a PR of nearly 20 feet. His previous best was a 145-7 last weekend at the West Deptford Relays. His best last year was 132-5, so he’s PR’d by more than 30 feet in the last month.

Taulane’s throw is No. 5 in Salem County history and a Woodstown school record. The previous mark was a 154-9 by Jon Jones at the 2011 Woodbury Relays.

Taulane’s throw is No. 3 in New Jersey so far this year, behind a 168-1 by Montville’s Anthony Agnoli in Madison and a 167-2 by Jacob Humphrey of Toms River East in Bayville, both last week.

Highland Zion Josia Brockenbrough also surpassed the 160-foot plateau, placing 2^nd with a 162-7 on his 2^ndthrow. He PR’d by a few inches over his 162-4 from the West Deptford Relays last weekend.

All-Time Salem County Discus List
185-10 … Russ Willett [Penns Grove], 1985
183-4 … Janier Armstead [Penns Grove], 2023
175- 7 … John Clark [Pennsville], 2007
170- 0 … Anthony Robertson [Penns Grove], 2014
164-6 … Aidan Taulane [Woodstown], 2026

Kingsway’s Kyle Rakitis PR’d in the 1,500 Friday at the Wake Forest Invitational in Winston-Salem, N.C., with the 7^th-fastest time in Rutgers history.

Rakitis ran 3:47.25, lowering his PR from 3:47.35. That converts to a 4:05.43 full mile, which is well below his mile PR of 4:08.66 from Boston University indoors in February.

Rakitis ran his previous PR of 3:47.35 in Charlottesville in April of 2024.

On Friday, Rakitis came through 700 meters in 1:46.49 and then closed in 60.94 and 59.82 for a final 800 of 2:00.76.

Rakitis won the 2022 Meet of Champions 1,600 in 4:14.50 in Somerset. He ran 4:10.09 full mile in July 2021 at Hayward Field Nationals.