From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Senior Jacob Dinerman from Haddon Township broke his own Rutgers-Camden 1,500 record Monday at the Widener Last-Chance Invitational in Chester, Pa.

Dinerman ran 3:48.17, breaking his mark of 3:51.98 that he set in Newark, Del., last month. His time is the equivalent of a 4:06.42 mile, well below his mile PR of 4:09.85 from the Ott Center in February.

Dinerman came through 300 meters in 45.96, then split 60.72 for his next 400 and closed in 2:01.49 for his final 800 and 59.29 for his final 400.

His time is No. 16 in NCAA Division 3 and fastest this year in the NJAC.

Quite a steeplechase debut Monday evening for Northern Burlington’s Liliah Gordon.

Gordon, a Penn State freshman who’s red-shirting this spring, placed 2nd in her first lifetime 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Widener Last Chance Invitational in Chester in 10:34.78.

That’s the 2nd-fastest steeplechase in the last eight years by a South Jersey woman. Mainland Regional’s Gillian Lovett, a La Salle sophomore, ran 10:33.24 at the Penn Relays in April.

This was only Gordon’s 3rd race this outdoor season. She ran a couple 5,000s, including a 16:31.18 in Lewisburg in April.

Sydney Shock of Johns Hopkins won the race in 10:33.19, 6th-fastest this year in NCAA Division 3. Her time would be 23rd-fastest among Division 1 freshmen if she were officially competing this spring for Penn State.

Elizabethtown junior Will Inglis from Moorestown ran a huge 800 PR Monday in Chester, dropping the 4th-fastest time in school history at the Widener Last Chance Invitational.

Inglis lowered his PR from 1:52.37 down to 1:50.82, which is now 26th-fastest this year in NCAA Division 2. It’s the fastest time by an Elizabethtown half-miler in 10 years, since Eastern graduate Mike Twist ran 1:50.56 at a meet at Widener in 2016. Inglis ran less than half a second off the school-record 1:50.39 by Matt Rever of Dulaney High School in Timonium, Md., at Swarthmore in 2012.

Inglis’s time is fastest by a Burlington County runner since Bordentown’s Rob Novak ran 1:46.01 in Los Angeles in 2011.

His time is fastest this year by any Landmark Conference runner in 10 years, since Twist’s 1:50.56 on the same track in 2016.

The Kingsway girls ran the 4th-fastest 400-meter relay on the all-time Gloucester County list Monday afternoon at Deptford.

Senior Lariah Miles, junior Saudah Turner, junior Norah Brown and sophomore Talia Griscom ran 47.98, winning by more than two seconds at Spartan Sprint Night.

That’s the fastest time in South Jersey this year and 5th-fastest in New Jersey. Kingsway ran within 14-100ths of a second of the school-record 47.84 from last year’s Meet of Champions with Jonnelle Lewis, Griscom, Noemi Haller and Turner.

Delsea [47.27 in 2017] and Deptford [47.85] are the only other schools to run under 48 seconds.

Rowan junior Eli Hendricks from Penns Grove ran the 6th-fastest 200-meter dash in NCAA Division 3 this year and 2nd-fastest in Rowan history Monday at the Widener Last-Chance Qualifier in Chester, Pa.

Hendricks dropped his PR from 21.08 in April in Daytona Beach to 20.95, running away from a deep field. His race had a legal 0.1 wind reading.

Hendricks is 2nd in Rowan history to Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley, who ran 20.91 [with a 1.9] at the 2022 NCAA Division 3 Championships in Geneva, Ohio. It’s No. 61 in Division 3 history.

It’s also No. 10 on the all-time South Jersey alumni list, bumping teammate Rajahn Dixon from from 11th to 12 with his 21.02 from last month in Daytona Beach. Dixon did not race Monday.

Senior Evan Corcoran from Kingsway placed 3rd in 21.09 with a 0.2 wind reading, dropping his PR from 21.23 in Charlottesville last month. His time is 4th-fastest in Rowan history, behind Beasley, Hendricks and Dixon. It’s No. 18 in Division 3 this year.

So Hendricks, Dixon and Corcoran are currently ranked 7th, 11th and 18th in Division 3.

All-Time South Jersey Alumni 200-Meter Dash List
19.75 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], June 19, 1983, Indianapolis
20.09 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], June 2, 1989, Provo, Utah
20.51 … Ajani Dwyer [Washington Twp.], Feb. 28, 2026, Indianapolisf
20.61 … John Stone [Mainland Reg.], May 22, 1999, Atlanta [-0.4]
20.64 … Bruce Owens [Deptford], May 29, 2010, Greensboro, N.C. [1.1]
20.83 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], May 7, 2005, Columbus, Ohio
20.88 … Kevin Holloway [Palmyra], April 21, 1979, Bloomington, Ind.
20.90 … Jack Pierce [Woodbury], May 23, 1984, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
20.91 … Jah’mere Beasley [Sterling], May 26, 2022, Geneva, Ohio [1.9]
20.95 … Eli Hendricks [Penns Grove], May 11, 2026, Chester, Pa. [0.1]
20.97 … Matt Rose [Bordentown], May 24, 1987, Villanova, Pa.

Rowan’s 1,600-meter relay team, with Woodbury’s Marquis Taylor, Triton’s Samuel Agbessi, Toms River North’s Teddy Wilson and Glassboro’s Dallas Hohney, ran the fastest time in NCAA Division 3 this year Monday in Chester.

The Profs ran 3:08.97, 25th-fastest in NCAA Division 3 history and 2nd-fastest in Rowan and New Jersey Athletic Conference history behind a 3:08.74 at the 2023 NCAA Division 3 Championships in Rochester, N.Y., with Sterling’s Marquis Young, Nana Agyemang from Parsippany, Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley and Amara Conte from Ferris High in Jersey City.

They bumped Wisconsin-Eau Claire from the top spot in Division 3. Eau Claire ran 3:09.01 in a meet at La Crosse last week.

Taylor led off with a 46.42 split, Agbessi ran 49.12, Wilson split 47.41 and Hohney anchored in 46.02.

What’s remarkable about the performance is that not only was Rowan not pushed, they ran uncontested. It looks like Ramapo started the race but dropped out after two legs and Rowan ran the rest of the race with nobody else on the track.

Rowan’s previous best time this year was a 3:14.70 last week at the NJAC Championships in Mahwah with Nicholas Garman, Blaik Slavinski, Agbessi and Wilson.

Rancocas Valley senior La’el Yates cleared 11-6 for the first time and won the Burlington County Open pole vault with the 3rd-best mark in meet history.

Yates improved her PR from 11-3, which she just cleared two weeks ago at the Olympic Conference Championships on her home track in Mount Holly.

Yates’ mark ties No. 11 in South Jersey history and No. 6 in Burlington County history. The only vaulters to go higher at a County Open are former indoor national record holder Danielle O’Reilly of Shawnee, who cleared 12-0 in 2004, and Moorestown All-America Hannah Byrd-Leitner, who cleared 12-0 last year.

Yates had cleared at least 11 feet in 12 meets before her breakthrough on Thursday at R.V.

She’s the only South Jersey vaulter to clear 11-6 this year and her 11-6 is tied for 4th in New Jersey and No. 2 in Group 4.

Yates is the 2nd R.V. girl to win the County Open pole vault since it was added in 2001. Mia Paolone cleared 9-0 to win the 2022 meet, also at R.V.

Yates passed through 9-6 and then cleared 10-0, 10-6 and 11-0 on her 1st attempt and 11-6 on her 2nd. She finished by taking three attempts at 11-8.

Rancocas Valley won the team title 109-94 ½ over Willingboro. It was R.V.’s 8th consecutive team title following wins in 2017, 2019 and 2021 through 2025. There was no team champion in the incomplete 2018 meet and the meet was not held in 2020.

All-Time County Open List
12-0 … Danielle O’Reilly [Shawnee], 2004
12-0 … Hannah Byrd-Leitner [Moorestown], 2025
11-6 … La’el Yates [Rancocas Valley], 2026
11-6 …….. Byrd-Leitner [Moorestown], 2023
11-0 …..… O’Reilly, 2003
11-0 …..… O’Reilly, 2002
11-0 …..… O’Reilly, 2001
11-0 … Anna Heim [Moorestown], 2006
11-0 … Lauren Tauscher [Moorestown], 2007
11-0 … Colleen McDowell [Seneca], 2011
11-0 … Julia Greeley [Seneca], 2021
10-7 … Kristen Visconti [Cherokee], 2014

All-Time South Jersey List
13-3… Danielle O’Reilly [Shawnee], 2004
13-2 … Hannah Byrd-Leitner [Moorestown], 2024
12-8 … Rebecca Hoover [Haddonfield[, 2024
12-7 ½ … Ashley Preston [Delsea], 2018
12-0 … Jessica Kloss [Moorestown], 2005
12-0 … Brittney Raffo [Seneca], 2016
12-0 … Fiona Basewitz [Collingswood], 2021
12-0 … Quin Zacamy [Haddon Heights], 2024
11-10 … Kate Derman [Millville], 2014
11-9 … Julia Greeley [Seneca], 2021
11-6 … Lauren Tauscher [Moorestown], 2009
11-6 … Gabby Vetere [Washington Twp.], 2022
11-6 … Abigail Boggs [Ranocas Valley], 2021
11-6 … Reese Gebhard [Delsea], 2023
11-6 … La’el Yates [Rancocas Valley], 2026

While teammate Sianni Wynn was setting more records, Pennsauken senior Sanaya Dupree put together a big breakthrough meet at the Camden County Showcase at Haddon Township with the 2nd-fastest time in the state this year in the 100 and 3rd-fastest in the 200.

Dupree placed 2nd to Wynn’’s season-best 11.37 in the 100 with a PR of 11.91 with a legal 0.7 wind.(and thank you, Camden County, for the wind gauge!) and she was 3rd in the 200 behind two multiple national champions, Wynn [PR 23.03] and Natalie Dumas [24.22], at 24.41 with a legal 0.6, and that’s No. 3 in the state this year.

Dupree’s previous PRs were 12.34 and 24.55, both from the BCSL meet at Willingboro. Her times are both No. 12 in Camden County history.

As for Wynn, just another monster performance. Her 11.37 isn’t far off her wind-legal PR of 11.29 from West Philly Nationals last June, and her 23.03 dropped 2-100ths of a second off her previous South Jersey record and is 3rd-fastest in state history outdoors, behind Sydney McLaughlin’s wind-aided 22.96 in 2017 and Wendy Vereen’s 22.99 in 1983. McLaughlin’s fastest confirmed wind-legal time in high school was a 23.53, so if we were posting a wind-legal list Wynn would be No. 2 behind Vereen, whose 22.99 at Villanova in 1983 was legal.

Wynn’s 23.03 is No. 4 nationally with legal wind according to the MileSplit database. Her 100 is No. 5.

On the World Athletics U.S. Under-20 lists, Wynn’s marks from Saturday haven’t been updated, but she should be No. 4 in both sprints.

All-Time Camden County 100-Meter Dash List
11.23 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
11.25 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2024
11.32 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 2024
11.49 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
11.57 … Patti Dunlap [Camden], 1979
11.63 … Dennisha Page [Woodrow Wilson], 2019
11.71 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
11.73 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2014
11.84 … Olivia Okaro [Winslow Twp.], 2024
11.88 … Denis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
11.91 … Aliya Harrison [Sterling], 2017
11.91 … Sanaya Dupree [Pennsauken], 2026
11.94 … Emily Carson [Haddonfield], 2013
11.96 … Jamillah Nock [Woodrow Wilson], 2004
11.96 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], 2019
11.98 … Jennifer Jackson [Eastern], 2003

All-Time Camden County 200-Meter Dash List
23.03 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2025
23.29 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2023
23.46 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 2025
23.66 … Dennisha Page [Woodrow Wilson], 2019
23.85 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
23.85 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2026
24.04 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
24.11 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
24.19 … Patti Dunlap [Camden] 1978
24.19 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.]
24.31 … Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 2025
24.41 … Sanaya Dupree [Pennsauken], 2026
24.45 … Cinniya Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2026
24.48 … Avionne Sloan [Camden], 2003

Rider sophomore Dylan Giloley from Washington Township PR’d in the 200 with the No. 2 time in Rider history Sunday in Emmitsburg, Md.

Giloley ran 24.24 with a legal wind of 1.4 meters per second, dropping her legal PR from 24.48 from a meet in Durham, N.C., last month. She ran a windy 24.07 last May in Lawrenceville, aided by a 3.6 wind.

The only woman faster than Giloley in Rider history is La’tazah Coleman, who ran 23.87 with a 0.5 tailwind in Princeton in April 2013.

Giloley also ran 11.84 in the 100 final, just off her school-record 11.73 in last year’s conference meet.

She also ran on two 3^rd-place relay teams, with the 4-by-1 running 46.45 and the 4-by-4 3:48.81. She split 55.25 anchoring the 4-by-4. The 4-by-1 time is No. 2 in Rider history and the 4-by-4 is No. 3.

Pemberton senior Jaden Goins ran the fastest 100 by a Pemberton sprinter in 33 years and moved into the all-time Burlington County top-12 Saturday at the Burlington County Open at Lenape.

Goins won the 100 in 10.76, becoming the first Pemberton sprinter to win the 100 at the County Open in 17 years, since Jashuan Spady ran 11.04 to win the 2009 race at Maple Shade.

Goins’ 10.76 is fastest by a Pemberton runner since Bobby Orro won the 1993 Meet of Champions in 10.66 at South Plainfield.

All this comes with the caveat that unfortunately there was on wind gauge at the meet, so none of the sprint or horizontal jump marks will count for record purposes. Why meets continue to operate without this basic piece of track and field equipment to ratify elite marks is a great question. It’s not fair to the kids, and that’s who these meets should be about.

Goins also PR’d in the 200 at 21.96, although that won’t count either. His wind-legal PRs are 11.06 with a 1.8 wind reading at last year’s South Jersey Group 2 meet at Delsea and 21.97 indoors at Ocean Breeze.

I put together an all-time Burlington County all-conditions 100-meter dash list, with both wind-legal and wind-aided marks as well as marks made with no wind gauge, which are considered wind-aided.

All-Time Burlington County 100-Meter List
[all wind conditions]
10.18w … Malachi James [Burlington City], 2024
10.45 … James Townsend [Holy Cross], 2003 [+1.2]
10.48w … Donte Davis [Burlington City], 2025
10.58w … James Burris [Moorestown], 2022
10.61 … Quayd Hendryx [Burlington Twp.], 2025 [}1.3]
10.62w … Kashif Moore [Burlington Twp.], 2007
10.64w … Samuel Thomas [Northern Burlington], 2025
10.66 … Bobby Orro [Pemberton], 1993
10.72w … Sterling Pierce [Rancocas Valley], 2015
10.73w … Miekel House [Delran], 2019
10.75 … Jamaal Harris [Palmyra], 2002
10.76w … Jaden Goins [Pemberton], 2026
10.76w … Thomas Cusack [Shawnee], 2025
10.76 … Robert Null [Shawnee], 2025
10.77w … Rae-Juan Gayle [Willingboro], 2024
10.77w … David Smith [Rancocas Valley], 2024
10.78 … M.J. Lincoln [Lenape], 2025 [+1.3]
10.78w … Michael Bolling [Willingboro], 2000
10.78w … Sam Aviles [Palmyra], 2019