Javon Sanders didn’t waste any time destroying his intermediate hurdles PR.

Sanders, a junior at Deptford, ran 56.77 for the 400 intermediates at the Rebel Relays Saturday at Howell High School.

Sanders’ previous PR was a 59.97 at last year’s South Jersey Invitational at Delsea. That was the only time he was under a minute last year.

Indoors, Sanders focused on the high hurdles and was third at Group 3 states at Toms River in 7.79 and had a PR of 7.68 from a SJTCA meet on the same track.

But his 56.77 puts him in an entirely new category. The only faster Deptford intermediate hurdler we found who ran faster as a junior is Shaquille Dixon, who ran 55.97 as a junior in 2014 — but he didn’t break 57 seconds until sectionals. Dixon went on to place second at states in 54.03 as a senior.

Sanders’ 56.77 is the fastest time in New Jersey after the first weekend of competition this spring.

This past winter, Sanders ran the third leg on Deptford’s 800-meter relay team, which ran 1:29.92 at the Ocean Breeze Invitational to tie the Gloucester County record.

Pennsville graduate Megan SaxvanderWeyden is off to a great start to her junior year at Baylor, with the three biggest meets of her career to open the outdoor season.

SaxvanderWeyden opened at the TCU Invitational in Forth Worth with a personal-best 158-7 and then followed that with a 152-10 at the Roadrunner Invitational in San Antonio and then this weekend threw 154-4 at the Texas Relays in Austin.

Coming into the season, SaxvanderWeyden’s PR was a 152-2 from last year’s Michael Johnson Invitational on her home track at Baylor in Waco, Texas.

So she has already surpassed her lifetime PR in all three meets this spring!

SaxvanderWeyden ranks 29th in NCAA Division 1, according to the Direct Athletics database, and 30th among all U.S. women, according to the IAAF database.

At Pennsville, SaxvanderWeyden had a PR of 138-4 from the 2015 Woodbury Relays and threw one inch short of that to win the Meet of Champions.

She has improved every year since her freshman year at Pennsville:

9th – 100-0

10th – 118-1

11th – 134-0

12th – 138-4

Fr – 145-1

So – 152-2

Jr. – 158-7

 

Cherokee graduate Jessica Woodard broke her own Oklahoma school discus record Saturday with a 190-9 at the Home Depot Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium on the University of Texas campus in Austin.

Woodard’s throw is No. 46 in the world this year and No. 6 among collegians. Her previous PR was 187-5 last weekend in San Diego. Coming into the year her PR was 185-9 at NCAA West Regionals last spring in Austin. Her mark is No. 3 among American women, according to the IAAF data base.

Woodard began her series with a 171-9 throw followed by a 179-9 before her first career 190-foot attempt. She finished with a foul, a 178-9 and a 172-10.

Woodard also won the shot put with a 56-6 1/2. She ranks No. 2 among collegians with her 57-9 from a meet last weekend in San Diego. Her PR is 60-2 3/4 from the Big 12 outdoor championships last year.

Woodard, a Marlton native and former Cherokee High School athlete, is a five-time All-America in the shot put but has never earned All-America status in the discus. Yet.