From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Timber Creek’s Chace Pearson became Rowan’s 5th long jumper to reach 23 feet with legal wind Wednesday in Collegeville, Pa.

Pearson jumped a wind-legal PR 23-1 ¼ with a 0.0 wind reading at the AARTFC Championships at Ursinus.

He joins Salem’s Anthony Parker [25-0 indoors at Ocean Breeze], Christopher Ross of Walkill Valley [24-1 at Ursinus], Sterling’s Bright John [23-11 ½ indoors at the Ott] and South Brunswick’s Damarion Potts [23-5 ¼ in Daytona Beach] in the 23-foot club. Mainland Regional’s Josiah Williams is only a quarter of an inch shy of 23 feet with his 22-11 ¾ at Ursinus last month.

Pearson had a 23-4 ¾ with no wind gauge at the 2022 Woodbury Relays, but his wind-legal PR coming in was 22-8 ½ with a legal 1.3 at a meet in Glassboro last month. At Barton Junior College, his best jump was 22-4 ¼ indoors in Winston-Salem in December 2022.

Parker won the long jump Wednesday with a season-best 24-0 ¾, Potts jumped 23-6 ¾ for 2nd, Ross was 3rd at 23-5 ½, Pearson placed 7th and John was 8th with a 23-0. All were legal except Potts’ 23-6 ¾ on his only jump that got a mark.

Parker, Ross, John and Potts are all among the top 15 in NCAA Division 3.

Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran ran the 2nd-fastest wind-legal 100-meter dash in Rowan history Wednesday at the AARTFC Championships at Ursinus University in Collegeville, Pa.

Corcoran led all qualifiers into the finals Thursday with a time of 10.42 with a 0.7 tailwind. Corcoran had run 10.38 in Columbia, S.C., in 2003 with a 4.6 wind and 10.39 last month in Daytona Beach with a 3.0 tailwind. Sprints and horizontal jumps must be made with a maximum tailwind of 2.0 meters per second to be considered for record and all-time performance list purposes.

Corcoran’s previous legal 100 was a 10.61 with a 0.2 at last year’s New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships in Ewing.

The only faster legal time in school history is a 10.32 by Eastern’s Rajahn Dixon in Glassboro last month with a 0.4 wind reading.

The TFRRS performance lists do not differentiate between legal and wind-aided performances. Corcoran already ranks 11th in NCAA Division 3 with his 11.39. I went through the entire list and culled all the legal marks of 10.45 or faster, and Corcoran is 8th. Full list is below.

Three of the four-fastest 100-meter sprinters in Rowan history are current Profs – Dixon is No. 1, Corcoran now No. 2 and Penns Grove’s Eli Hendricks is No. 4 at 10.50 from last month in Charlotttesville with a 1.7.

The 100 final at the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Championshps is scheduled for 2:15 p.m. Thursday.

Ramapo sophomore Samuel Thomas ran 10.75 to also advance to Thursday’s final. His PR is 10.54 from his 2nd-place finish at this year’s NJACA meet in Mahwah.

All-Time Rowan  sub-10.70 club
10.32 … Rajahn Dixon [Eastern], Oscar Moore Invite, April 11, 2026 [+0.4]
10.42 … Evan Corcoran [Kingsway], AARTFC Championships, Collegeville, Pa., May 13, 2026 [+0.7]
10.43 … Shamar Love [Bridgeton], NJAC Championships, Ewing, May 3, 2025 [+1.9]
10.50 … Eli Hendricks [Penns Grove], Virginia Challenge, Charlottesville, Va., April 17, 2026 [+1.7]
10.55… Jah’mere Beasley [Sterling], NJAC Championships, Mahwah, N.J., May 6, 2023 [+0.0]
10.64 … Robert McKinney [Highland], NJAC Championships, Ewing, May 3, 2025 [+0.0]
10.64 … Eric Foster Jr. [Willingboro], NJAC Championships, Mahwah, May 2, 2026 [+0.9]
10.68 … Julian Pratt [Camden], NJAC Championships, Galloway Township, N.J., May 4, 2019 [+0.6]

2026 Wind-Legal NCAA Division 3 List
10.32 … Rajahn Dixon [Rowan]
10.35 … Luke Schroeder [Wisconsin-La Crosse]
10.35 … Kai Smith [Salisbury]
10.36 … Dylan Doss [Wisconsin-Oshkosh]
10.36 … Rico Griffith [Medger Evers]
10.40 … Shane Kawakami-Williams [Occidental]
10.41 … Franklyn Akabi-During [Dickinson]
10.42 … Jordan Jones [Pfeiffer]
10.42 … Evan Corcoran [Rowan]
10.42 … A.J. Wright [Wartburg]
10.43 … Maxim Rychkov [TCNJ]
10.44 … Davian Williams [Wisconsin-Oshkosh]
10.44 … Alex Cole [Worcester Polytech]
10.44 … Jaden Coleman [Redlands]
10.45 … Sam Vargas [Wisconsin-Whitewater]
10.45 … Westin Bruce [Hendrix]
10.51 … Lamont Victoria [Lynchburg]
10.53 … Ty Kellum [Greenville]

Willingboro’s Rae-Jaun Gayle won a couple national titles over the weekend at the NJCAA Division 3 National Championships at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, N.Y.

Gayle, a sophomore at Rowan College South Jersey Gloucester County campus in Deptford, won the 100 in 11.04 into a 3.1 meters-per-second headwind after a wind-aided 10.61 in the trials and ran 22.22 to win the 200 into a 2.4 headwind after a 21.79 in the prelims with an assisting wind.

He also earned All-America honors in the 400-meter relay, which placed 4th in 43.07 with freshman Kassim Joseph of Sparta, freshman Jamere Brooks of Willingboro and freshman Desmond Vassell from Glassboro.

Jimmy Reardon from Delsea placed 3rd in the javelin with a throw of 168-2.

In the women’s meet, freshman Jordyn White from Clearview ran 16.68 and placed 3rd in the 100-meter hurdles and 1:13.81 for 3rd in the 400-meter intermediates, and freshman Devin Phillips of Paul VI placed 4th in the 400 in 62.82

White and Phillips also ran on the 3rd-place 400-meter relay team, which ran 52.80. Freshman Emma Buttocovla from Seneca and freshman Kayla Cream from Washington Township also ran on that team.

Rowan College South Jersey finished 7th in the men’s meet with 39 points and 5th in the women’s meet, also with 39 points. Full results here.

It’s been quite a few days for Willingboro junior Jade Pinder, who moved onto the all-time Burlington County list in three events over two meets.

Pinder won the 100 in 12.25 after a PR 12.20 in the prelims and won the 200 in a PR 24.45 at the Burlington County Open Saturday at Lenape – remember, no wind gauge at that meet – and then ran a PR 55.83 in the 400 Monday night at Spartan Sprint Night at Deptford.

Pinder is now No. 8 in South Jersey in the 100, No. 4 in the 200 and No. 5 in the 400. She’s the 4th South Jersey sprinter to run that fast in all three events, joining Seneca’s Michelle Brown, former Willingboro teammate Nester Wea and Rancocas Valley’s Aliyah Taylor.

These lists are “all-condition,” including both legal and wind-aided times, since the Burlington County Open didn’t see fit to have a wind gauge at the meet.

With sectionals coming up this weekend, Pinder is currently No. 2 in New Jersey Group 2 in the 100 and No. 1 in the 200 and 400.

All-Time Burlington County 100-Meter Dash List
11.42 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981
11.61 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
11.62 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025
11.82 … Annie Johnson [Shawnee], 2012
11.95 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2017
12.00 … Andrea Conway [Bordentown], 1986
12.05 … Anu Ward [Moorestown], 2000
12.06 … Sydney Greenidge [Riverside], 2025
12.07 … Maya Bolden [Willingboro], 2024
12.08 … Kim Hargrove [Willingboro], 1996
12.10 … Addison Barnes [Shawnee], 2025
12.11 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2009
12.11 … Nia Lawrence [Pemberton], 2012
12.15 … Rageana Marigna [Palmyra], 2008
12.19 … Maya Jackson [Delran], 2024
12.20 … Jade Pinder [Willingboro], 2026
12.23 … Angelina Brown [Rancocas Valley], 2026

All-Time Burlington County 200-Meter Dash List
23.69 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981
23.84 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025
24.01 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
24.17 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2008
24.18 … Sheriyah Nutt [Rancocas Valley], 2019
24.31 … Morgan Gordon [Rancocas Valley], 2009
24.45 … Jade Pinder [Willingboro], 2026
24.49 … Annie Johnson [Shawnee], 2012
24.54 … Maya Bolden [Willingboro], 2024
24.55 … Daneille Myricks [Willingboro], 2000
24.61 … Aliyah Tayor [Rancocas Valley], 2018
24.72 … Halimah Bashir [Willingboro], 2002
24.78 … Kaila Speight [Willingboro], 2025
24.79 … Darynn Minus-Vincent [Rancocas Valley], 2018
24.81 … Jasmine Staten [Lenape], 2015

All-Time Burlington County 400-Meter Dash List
52.91 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2009
53.98 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025
54.19 … Okechi Ogbuokiri [Willingboro], 2003
55.13 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2018
55.51 … Mandie Dulin [Shawnee], 1996
55.4h … Carla Hunt [Holy Cross], 1976
55.67 … Shelby Whetstone [Lenape], 2017
55.82 … Danielle Myricks [Willingboro], 2001
55.83 … Jade Pinder [Willingboro], 2026
56.11 … Courtney Foster [Cherokee], 2013
56.0h … Halimah Bashir [Willingboro], 2002
56.20 … Kasey White [Rancocas Valley], 2023
56.1h … Angela Williams [Pemberton], 1981
56.26 … Shannon Lambert [Lenape], 2017
56.31 … Jasmine Staten [Lenape], 2017
56.2h … Carla Hunt [Holy Cross], 1976

Rowan, with with Willingboro’s Eric Foster, Penns Grove’s Eli Hendricks and Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran in the lineup, ran the 3rd-fastest 400-meter relay in NCAA Division 3 this year Monday night in Chester, Pa.

The Profs won the 4-by-1 at the Widener Last Chance Invitational in 40.17, the 26th-fastest time in Division 3 history. Only two Wisconsin schools – Oshkosh and La Crosse – have run faster this year. Oshkosh ran 39.78 earlier this month in La Crosse and La Crosse ran 39.79 last month in Des Moines, Idaho.

Rowan ran 39.72 last year – No. 3 in D-3 history – at the NCAA Division 3 Championships in Geneva, Ohio, with Bridgeton’s Shamar Love and Highland’s Robert McKinney along with Hendricks and Corcoran.

They also ran 39.97 with the same lineup one day earlier in the prelims, 40.03 at Widener last May with Love, McKinney, Hendricks and Corcoran and 40.14 in 2023 at Nationals in Rochester with Love, Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley, Nana Agyemang of Parsippany and Corcoran.

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.