Thanks to hot legs from former Winslow teammates Dominic Bassey and Jayden Poteat, Hampton University recorded the 10th-fastest 4-by-4 time among all colleges in all races at the 130th running of the Penn Relays.
Hampton ran 3:07.87 in the Championship of America 1,600-Meter Relay heats, missing a lane in the final by less than a second.
Bassey, running 3rd, split 47.12 and Poteat blazed a lifetime-best 45.76 anchor to bring Hampton home.
Bassey and Poteat are both freshmen.
Pleasantville’s Gabriel Moronta, a national champ in the 4-by-4 at South Florida last year, won the Olympic Development 600 meters Saturday at the 130th running of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field.
Moronta ran 1:16.08 for the 1 ½-lap race, rarely run outdoors. He initially won by 15 meters over former TCU runner Lloyd Frilot, who was 2nd in 1:18.11. When Frilot was DQ’d, former Merrimack All-America Patrick Forest moved up to 2nd in 1:18.48.
Moronta, who changed his national affiliation from American to the Dominican Republic in June, ran 1:15.86 in an indoor 600 in February at Ocean Breeze, breaking the Dominican Republic national record. That’s No. 12 in the world this year.
Moronta came through 200 meters in 24.62 and then ran 400 meters in 51.46.
Lumberton’s Greg Foster broke the Princeton outdoor long jump record Friday at the Rick McCorkle Invitational at The College of New Jersey in Ewing.
Foster, who broke the Princeton and Ivy League indoor record with his 27-0 ½ at the indoor Ivy League Championships at the Armory, jumped 26-3 ½ with a legal 1.0 meters-per-second tailwind on his 5thjump.
He broke his own Princeton record of 26-1 ¾ from the 2023 Ivy League Championships at Franklin Field.
Foster also broke the overall Ivy League outdoor record of 26-2 ¾ that he set two weeks ago in Athens, Ga. That broke a 41-year-old Ivy League record of 26-2 shared by Chris Chrysotomou of Cornell and Eugene Profit of Yale, who both jumped 26-2 at 1985 IC4As in Cambridge, Mass.
Foster opened with 24-4 ¾, 24-9 ¼, 23-8 ½ and 24-6 before a foul and then the winning jump on his final attempt.
Foster is now No. 7 in NCAA Division 1.
Foster also won the 110-meter high hurdles in 13.90. He’s already No. 1 in the ivy at 13.80 from earlier this month in
Eastern’s A.J. Brooks placed 3rd with a legal 23-1 ¾, his best jump so far this spring and he was also 3rdin the 110 highs in 14.85.
Stockton All-America junior Ahmad Fogg from Egg Harbor was 2nd in the long jump at 23-11, an outdoor season best.
Winslow and Camden won the South Jersey 1,600-Meter Relays Saturday at the 130th running of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field.
Winslow won the Large-School race in 3:20.58 on senior Prince Owusu-Twum’s 48.46 anchor leg. Camden won the Small-School race in 3:21.59, edging Deptford by 12-100ths of a second.
This was Winslow’s 3rd straight Large-School win. Winslow also won in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 and Edgewood – which became Winslow – won in 1984, 1985 and 1987.
Senior Quayd Hendricks led off for Winslow with a 50.05 split, senior Jacoby James split 51.10 and freshman Keyon Ali ran 50.98.
Eastern placed 2nd in 3:22.07 with senior Brandon Lamon, sophomore Paul Moore, junior Keshawn Townsend and senior Ashton Gage. It was Eastern’s first top-three performance since the 2006 team placed 2nd.
Burlington Township ran 3:27.26 for 3rd with senior Robert Proctor, sophomore Jaylen Porter and seniors Jaydin Macklin and Suleiman Passewe.
In the Small-School race, Camden won its 7th title and 2nd in a row. The Panthers also won in 1999, 2005, 2009, 2012 and 2014.
Senior Jawan Brownlee led off with a 50.02, senior Christian Braxton ran 50.71, senior Jeremiah Steeley split 51.59 and senior Jaiden Steele anchored in 49.27. Steeley and Steele were also on the winning team last year.
Deptford ran 3:21.71 for 2nd with senior Johann Hernandez, junior Xavion Holmes and seniors Kyle Jackson and Kareem Brown, and Salem placed 3rd in 3:28.96 with senior Xavier McGriff, junior Jerry Seals, senior Gradin Buzby and junior Timothy Gregory.
All sub-50 splits in the two races. If the order of runners is incorrect and the wrong runner is credited with the sub-50 split let me know!
48.46 … Prince Owusu-Twum [Winslow], 4th leg
48.78 … Keshawn Townsend [Eastern], 3rd leg
49.11 … Kareem Brown [Deptford], 4th leg
49.27 … Jaiden Steele [Camden], 4th leg
49.43 … John Froelich [Overbrook], 4th leg
49.80 … Johann Hernandez [Deptford], 1st leg
49.89 … Jaylen Porter [Burlington Twp.], 2nd leg
49.93 … Tymir Gayle [Cherry Hill East], 4th leg
Sophomore Riley Tolson and juniors Alana Clevenger, Lillian Flora and Carly Godfrey ran the 3rd-fastest distance medley in South Jersey history Friday at the 130th running of the Penn Relays.
Godfrey’s 4:54.06 anchor leg brought Ocean City up from 6th to 4th place and got the Red Raiders across the line with a Cape May County record.
Tolson led off in 3:42.02 for 1,200 meters and got Ocean City into the lead group from the start. Clevenger split 61.34 and Flora ran 2:19.24 to keep the Red Raiders near the front, and Godfrey finished the race off in style with a personal-best 1,600 split.
Ocean City broke the county record and school record of 11:58.64 set last year by Ocean City with Chloe Care on the 1,200, Clevenger on the 400, Godfrey running the 800 and Maeve Smith anchoring.
The only faster times in South Jersey history were recorded by Lenape’s 11:53.15 with Camille Franklin, Ana de las Heras, Emily McGee and Natalie Ocasio at 2012 Greensboro Nationals and Cherokee’s 11:54.4 with Megan Niglio, Madison Van Haren, Kelsey Niglio and Kerry O’Day in 2023 at West Philly Nationals.
So Ocean City ran within 3 ½ seconds of the South Jersey record.
All-Time South Jersey Distance Medley List
11:53.15 … Lenape, 2012
11:54.48 … Cherokee, 2023
11;56.65 … Ocean City, 2026
11:58.48 … Cherokee, 2023
11:58.64 … Ocean City, 2025
12:00.47 … Haddonfield, 2021
12:00.64 … Ocean City, 2004
12:02.34 … Haddonfield 2000
12:02.37 … Haddonfield, 2014
12:04.39 … Lenape, 2010
12:05.01 … Cherokee, 2024
12:05.39 … Ocean City 2005
12:05.98 … Sterling, 2017
12:06.73 … Ocean City 1994
12:07.21 … Lenape 2008
12:07.43 … Cherokee, 2022
12:08.61 … Ocean City, 2014
12:10.75 … Sterling, 2016
12:10.76 … Lenape, 2017
12:11.70 … Ocean City, 2024
12:12.24 … Millville, 2009
12:13.08 … Cherokee, 2026
12:13.16 … Bishop Eustace, 2011
12:14.05 … Cherry Hill East, 2007
12:14.24 … Highland, 2004
12:14.61 … Lenape, 2013
12:15.42 … Ocean City, 2015
12:16.79 … Lenape, 2015
12:18.27 … Bishop Eustace, 1995
12:18.29 … Shawnee, 2012
12:19.26 … Woodrow Wilson, 2001
12:19.41 … Rancocas Valley, 2011
12:19.46 … Ocean City, 2013
12:19.60 … Shawnee, 2015
12:19.79 … Haddonfield, 2015
All-Time South Jersey Distance Medley List
11:12.20 … Union Catholic, 2025
11:24.26 … Union Catholic, 2026
11:32.29 … Red Bank Catholic, 2011
11:37.86 … Red Bank, 2003
11:40.81 … Southern Regional, 2007
11:42.16 … Roxbury, 2008
11:42.17 … Red Bank, 2002
11:45.54 … Southern Regional, 2006
11:47.67 … Southern Regional, 2008
11:47.95 … Voorhees, 2002
11:48.04 … Columbia, 1997
11:49.73 … Randolph, 2019
11:50.03 … Roxbury, 2006
11:50.73 … Ridgewood, 2012
11:50.7h … Summit, 1981
11:51.76 … Voorhees, 2007
11:52.24 … Bernards, 2012
11:53.13 … West Windsor-Plainsboro South, 2015
11:53.15 … Lenape, 2012
11:54.22 … Ridgewood, 2019
11:54.48 … Cherokee, 2023
11:54.9h … Summit, 1982
11:55.13 … Randolph, 2010
11:55.41 … Red Bank, 2001
11:55.49 … West Windsor-Plainsboro North, 2025
11:55.55 … Red Bank Catholic, 2012
11:56.10 … Mount St. Dominic, 2013
11:56.65 … Ocean City, 2026
11:56.60 … Southern Regional, 2004
11:56.69 … Ramapo, 2007
11:56.98 … Ridgewood, 2026
11:57.10 … Union Catholic, 2024
11:57.17 … Metuchen, 2022
11:57.56 … Ridge, 2026
11:57.85 … Northern Highlands, 2015
11:57.88 … Roxbury, 2007
11:57.96 … Bernards, 2013
11:58.08 … Oak Knoll School, 2025
11:58.33 … North Hunterdon, 2017
11:58.4h … North Hunterdon, 1987
11:58.43 … Randolph, 2007
11:58.64 … Ocean City, 2025
11:58.74 … Southern Regional, 2009
11:59.6h … Ridgewood, 1982
11:59.78 … Mendham, 2012
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, junior Karon Ceaser, 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 5th-fastest 1,600 or mile in South Jersey history Friday at the 130th 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 3rd-fastest among all U.S. freshmen this year and 2nd-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 5th 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 – 4th-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 5th-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 4th 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 – 2nd-fastest in South Jersey history to Winslow and 8th-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 [5th]
3:41.17 … Winslow Twp., 2026 South Jersey Large School [1st]
3:41.89 … Pennsauken, 2026 South Jersey Large School [2nd]
3:43.46 … Winslow Twp., 2025, South Jersey Large School [1st]
3:44.67 … Clayton, 2022 Championship of America [6th]
3:45.41 … Camden, 1995 Championship of America [4th]
3:45.74 … Willingboro, 1999 Championship of America [1st]
3:45.94 … Camden, 1995 South Jersey [1st]
3:46.18 … Willingboro, 2000 Philadelphia Area [1st]
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 [3rd]
3:48.80 … Willingboro, 1999 South Jersey Large School [1]
3:49.30 … Winslow Twp., 2004 Philadelphia Area [1st]
3:49.46 … Eastern, 2003 South Jersey Large School [2]
3:49.74 … Eastern, 2003 Philadelphia Area [1st]
3:49.97 … Lenape, 2015 Philadelphia Area [3rd]
3:49.53 … Willingboro, 1998 Philadelphia Area [1st]
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 11th 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 5th and 6th 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 3rd in the Championship of America race at the 130th 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 2nd in 45.08. Pennsauken’s time is 10th-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, 9th-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 4th-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.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 