In her first track 3,000 since 2019, Edinboro junior and Kingsway graduate Kylie Anicic ran 9:56.81 to win the event at the Youngstown State University Indoor Invitational Friday in Ohio.

Anicic, in her first season of eligibility for NCAA Division 2 powerhouse Edinboro, recorded a provisional NCAA qualifier at 3,000 meters. Her time is No. 22 in the country in Division 2. The NCAA provisional qualifying standard is 9:58.36.

Anicic’s time is No. 9 on the all-time Edinboro performance list.

It was Anicic’s first 3,000 since Dec. 6, 2019, when she was attending Towson (Md.) University and ran 10:18.72 in a meet at Bucknell’s Gerhard Fieldhouse in Lewisburg, Pa. That was her previous PR.

Anicic ran 2:17.59, 5:07.11 and 11:09.09 at Kingsway but after graduation the Mickleton native enrolled at Temple to play soccer.

But after playing in only two games, she transferred to Towson, where she ran 4:36.42 for 1,500 meters and qualified for the USATF Under-20 Championships in Miramar, Fla.

Anicic enrolled at Edinboro in the fall but was ineligible for cross country season as a double transfer. But she’s eligible now and picking up where she left off two years ago.

Delsea senior Andrew Littlehales ran a big indoor PR at 3,200 meters Monday at the Bubble, leading five runners under 9:50.

Littlehales won the 16-lap race on the flat 200-meter track in Toms River in 9:28.66, No. 2 in South Jersey this year and No. 3 in the state.

Littlehales’ previous indoor PR was 9:47.82 two years ago at the state Group 2 meet, also at the Bubble. His overall lifetime PR is 9:27.05 from last spring’s state Group 2 outdoor meet at Franklin Township.

His time is No. 2 all-time by a Delsea runner indoors, behind only Nick Costello’s 9:24.71 at Group 2 states in 2012.

It’s also No. 9 all-time in Gloucester County history indoors:

9:13.93 ….. Paul Szulewski [Williamstown], 2011
9:15.8y ….. Mike Mantini [Gateway], 1978
9:22.0y … Willie Marino [Williamstown], 1976
9:23.34 … Anthony Dentino [Washington Twp.], 2011
9:23.0y … Joe Siedlecki [Williamstown], 1973
9:24.71 … Nick Costello [Delsea], 2012
9:26.02 … Stone Caraccio [Kingsway], 2020
9:27.16 … Sebastien Reed [Pitman], 2020
9:28.66 … Andrew Littlehales [Delsea], 2022
9:31.91 … Jacob Cobb [West Deptford], 2022

Only Triton senior Dennis Fortuna [9:21.36 at the Armory last week] and Ridge senior Jackson Barna [9:22.78 at Ocean Breeze earlier this month] have run faster in New Jersey this year.

Woodbury sophomore Peyton Shute placed second in 9:34.30, followed by West Deptford senior Jacob Cobb in 9:46.11, Williamstown junior Nicholas Krol in 9:47.27 and Cherokee senior Bradley Popler in 9:49.19.

Shute’s time is No. 7 in the state this year and No. 1 among sophomores. He dropped just over 10 seconds off his PR of 9:44.80 set at Group 1 states last spring at Pennsauken. He had never run an indoor 3,200. His 9:34.30 is fastest by a South Jersey sophomore indoors since Cherokee’s Chris Spisak ran 9:31.67 at Group 4 states at the Bubble in 2018.

Popler’s 9:49.19 was a big PR and his first time under 10 minutes indoors or out. His previous PR was 10:11.76 at Group 4 sectionals last spring at Washington Township.

Egg Harbor junior Ryan Taylor [10:06.0] and Buena senior Kayden Platania [10:14.21] also broke 10:15, both with big PRs as well.

Micah Wood continued his tremendous indoor season Saturday with a huge 600-meter run performance in Boston.

Wood, a Rancocas Valley and Rutgers sophomore transfer from Monmouth, ran 1:19.46 in the three-lap race in the Battle of Beantown at Boston University’s Track and Tennis Center.

Wood placed 3rd behind two U. Conn runners – Wellington Ventura won in 1:17.29 and Noah Woodman ran 1:19.40 for second.

That 1:19.46 is No. 3 in Rutgers history, behind only Jermaine Griffith, who ran 1:16.12 in 2016 at the Big East Championships in Geneva, Ohio, and Boaz Madeus, who ran 1:17.99 at the 2018 Big East meet in Geneva.

Wood never raced a 600 at Monmouth. He ran as fast as 1:53.46 for 800 meters indoors and won the Metro Atlantic title in the 400 intermediates last spring in 52.91.

He ran his first collegiate 600 last weekend in Lexington, Ky., and turned in an eye-opening 1:20.66. That PR lasted a week, and he lowered it more than a second on Saturday.

Wood’s time is No. 39 in the U.S. so far this winter on the IAAF performance list.

In the same race, Rutgers senior Eric Barnes from Egg Harbor Township ran a big 600 PR of 1:21.67, which moves him up from No. 10 on the all-time Scarlet Knights list (1:23.94 in his very first collegiate race at TCNJ in December 2017) to No. 6, just behind Lenape graduate Steve Swern, who’s No. 5 at 1:21.63 from 2009. 

Delsea graduate Nico Morales, a Rutgers sophomore, cleared 16 feet for the first time Saturday, placing second at the Boston University Battle in Beantown.

Morales cleared 16-0 3/4 on his first attempt, surpassing his lifetime best of 15-11 3/4, which he just set at the Jim Green Invitational in Lexington, Ky., last weekend.

Coming into the indoor season, Morales had a PR of 15-7 1/4 from an outdoor meet at Rutgers this past April. 

At Delsea, Morales set the South Jersey indoor record of 15-6 at the 2020 Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze – No. 3 in South Jersey indoor history – and jumped 15-7 outdoors at the 2019 Tri-County Championships at his home track in Franklinville, No. 3 in South Jersey history outdoors.

His brother Marco set the South Jersey indoor mark of 16-0 at a SJTCA meet at the Bubble in the winter of 2018. Marco competed for Rutgers last spring but no longer appears on their roster.

Nico Morales’ mark is No. 5 in Rutgers history and best indoors in nine years, since Chris Wyckoff cleared 16-9 1/2 at a meet at Rutgers in 2012. 

Morales passed until 4.60, which he cleared on his first attempt. He also cleared 4.75 on his first try as well as his PR 16-0 3/4. He then missed three attempts at 16-6 3/4.

Tyler Hrbeck of U. Conn won the event with a 16-6 3/4 clearance on his third and final attempt.

Pennsauken junior Bryce Tucker won the 600-meter run Saturday at the New Balance Games with the 3rd-fastest time in South Jersey history.

Tucker ran 1:20.79 for three laps at the Armory in Manhattan,finishing first overall in a field of 162 runners in 16 heats.

Wesley Noble Jr. of Bishop Loughlin was 2nd in 1:21.21 and Deptford Lathan Brown placed 3rd in 1:22.44.

Tucker’s time is No. 18 in state history and 3rd-fastest in the U.S. this year at the once-popular 600-meter distance, now raced much less often than it used to be.

The only South Jersey runners to go faster than Tucker are Bordentown’s Rob Novak, who ran 1:19.6 in 2005 at the Varsity Classic on the same track, and Florence’s Keith Griffith, who ran 1:20.71 in 2010 at the New Balance Invitational, also at the Armory. Top three times in South Jersey history from the BCSL.

The state record is 1:17.9 set by Paterson Kennedy’s Shaquon Brown in the same race Novak ran 1:19.6. At the time, Brown’s 1:17.9 was also the national record.

Tucker, the Meet of Champions 400IH champ last spring, broke the Camden County record of 1:23.34 set by Marcus Phillips of Cherry Hill East at the 2012 Bishop Loughlin Games at the Armory. Deptford’s Brown broke the Gloucester County 600 record of 1:24.26 set in 2018, also at the Armory, by Delsea’s Michael Szwed.

Tucker was out in 24.3 for his first 200 and came back with a 27.5 and 29.2 for the win. In his only previous 600, he ran 1:27.31 last March at the Bubble with nobody within six seconds.

Tucker also placed second in the 55-meter high hurdles in a personal-best 7.68. His previous PR was 7.84 from the Bubble last month,

Here’s the all-time South Jersey list:

1:19.6h … Rob Novak [Bordentown], 2005
1:20.71 … Keith Griffith [Florence], 2010
1:20.79 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], 2022
1:20.90 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], 2020
1:21.13 … Shannon Sherrer [Vineland], 2003
1:21.20 … Isaac Clark [Pleasantville], 2012
1:21.76 … Alan Laws [Pleasantville], 2007
1:22.44 … Lathan Brown [Deptford], 2022
1:23.34 … Marcus Phillips [Cherry Hill East], 2011
1:23.56 … Tyler Davidson [Willingboro], 2016
1:23.85 … Miah Wood [Rancocas Valley], 2019
1:24.02 … Dontae Guest [Camden], 2019

And the all-time New Jersey list:

1:17.9 … Shaquon Brown [JFK Paterson], 2005
1:18.90 … Clayton Parros [Seton Hall Prep], 2009
1:19.14 … Luis Peralta [Passaic], 2019
1:19.6h … Rob Novak [Bordentown], 2005
1:19.61 … Alfred Chawonza [St. Benedict’s Prep], 2019
1:20.0 … Ken Sinkovitz [Bergen Catholic], 2003
1:20.04 … Elijah Brown [Union Catholic], 2019
1:20.10 … Michael Thurston [Ridgewood], 2016
1:20.1 … Marcel VanEeden [Mendham], 2005
1:20.32 … Ernesto Perez [West Side], 1990
1:20.47 … Najee Glass [St. Peter’s Prep], 2012
1:20.50 … Christian Kildal-Brandt [Mendham], 2014
1:20.53 … Lewis Ngwenya [St. Benedict’s Prep], 2018
1:20.56 … Greg Stickle [Randolph], 2015
1:20.7 … Andrew Giannotti [Westwood], 1998
1:20.71 … Keith Griffith [Florence], 2010
1:20.73 … Ian McNally [Morris Hills], 2016
1:20.79 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], 2022
1:20.84 … Bryan Scotland [St. Benedict’s], 2005
1:20.90 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], 2020
1:21.00 … Jack Kerin [Indian Hills], 2016
1:21.13 … Shannon Sherrer [Vineland], 2003
1:21.3 … Joe Velazquez [Paramus], 1999
1:21.20 … Isaac Clark [Pleasantville], 2012
1:21.38 … Patrick Blackie [Seton Hall Prep], 2007
1:21.4 … Josh Kauke [Ridgewood], 2000
1:21.5 … Mike Pachella [Walkill Valley], 2005
1:20.60 … Kyle Davidson [Old Tappan], 2012
1:21.7 … Sharif Webb [Don Bosco], 2007
1:21.70 … Kishaun Richardson [East Orange], 2018
1:21.76 … Alan Laws [Pleasantville], 2007
1:21.80 … Domenick Wallace [Morris Hills], 2020
1:21.90 … Jason Apwah [Roxbury], 2007
1:21.90 … Ben Malone [Pascack Valley], 2012
1:22.0 … Hayrol Cruz [Pasaic], 2005

Cherokee senior Nicole Clifford and Kingsway junior Aubrey Pierontoni both broke 11 minutes for 3,200 meters for the first time Saturday at the SJTCA meet at the Bubble.

Clifford won the race in 10:55.58 and Pierontoni was second in 10:59.90. Their times are No. 23 and No. 27 in South Jersey history. 

Those times are also No. 3 and 4 in the state so far this year and No. 1 and 2 in South Jersey. Angelina Perez of Lakeland ran 10:38.21 last week in a meet at Ocean Breeze and Tilly O’Connor of St. Rose of Belmar ran 10:45.32 Friday at the Bubble.

Clifford, a 2:17 half-miler and 5:07 miler, doesn’t run the 3,200 very often. Her only previous indoor 3,200 was at 2019 sectionals at the Bubble, when she ran 12:05.84 as a freshman. Her lifetime best was 11:34.50 outdoors at Cherokee’s Night of Racing #1 in April of 2019.

Pierontoni ran 11:06.25 last March in a winter-season meet held outdoors at Cherokee. Her previous indoor PR was 11:29.19 at the 2020 state Group 4 meet at the Bubble.

Clifford’s time is No. 3 in Burlington County history, behind Cherokee’s Megan Lacy (10:23.49 in 2011) and Rancocas Valley’s Erika Kemp (10:46.63 in 2013). 

Pierontoni’s time is No. 7 in Gloucester County history, two spots behind older sister Allie Pierontoni, who ran 10:52.53 in 2020. Another sister, Emily Pierontoni, ran 11:19.65 in 2020 and is No. 13 in Gloucester County history.

Cherokee sophomore Kerry O’Day and Mainland freshman Sofia Day also ran PRs. O’Day was 3rd in 11:25.57. Her previous PR was an outdoor 11:38.06 last spring at the Burlington County Open. Day ran 4th in 11:31 in her first high school race ever on the track.

Here’s the all-time South Jersey sub-11-minute indoor list:

10:15.71 … Brittany Sedberry [Ocean City], 2006
10:23.49 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2011
10:29.90 … Chelsea Ley [Kingsway], 2009
10:33.95 … Alyssa Aldridge [Mainland Reg.], 2016
10:38.11 … Megan Venables [Highland], 2011
10:38.90 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2001
10:40.03 … Dina Iacone [Washington Twp.], 2012
10:40.80 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2017
10:42.06 … Holly Bischof [Bishop Eustace], 2012
10:42.22 … Theresa Cattuna [Cherry Hill East], 2007
10:43.2y … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983
10:45.20 … Devon Grisbaum [Ocean City], 2015
10:45.40 … Julianna Catania [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2016
10:46.63 … Erika Kemp [Rancocas Valley], 2013
10:48.78 … Shelby Cain [Haddonfield], 2014
10:49.12 … Madison Coppolino [Sterling], 2017 [3]
10:49.46 … Alyssa Condell [Timber Creek], 2016
10:52.05 … Amanda Goetschius [Delsea], 2007
10:52.53 … Allie Pierontoni [Kingsway], 2020
10:53.4h … Christin Bettis [Hammonton], 2012
10:53.89y … Sarah Naticchia [Haddonfield], 2020
10:55.29y … Ann Klocke [Bishop Eustace], 1996
10:55.58 … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022
10:57.95 … Katy Storti [Bishop Eustace], 2019
10:59.02 … Catherine Van Horn [Triton], 2005
10:59.04 … Maria Ruiz [Williamstown], 2009
10:59.13 … Vickie Ajimoko [Williamstown], 2013
10:59.90 … Aubrey Pierontoni [Kingsway], 2022

And the Burlington County all-time top-10:

10:23.49 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2011
10:46.63 … Erika Kemp [Rancocas Valley], 2013
10:55.58 … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022
11:00.7h … Deanna German [Shawnee], 1986
11:06.43y … Colleen Sunderland [Northern Burlington], 1995
11:06.72 … Meghan Malloy [Cinnaminson], 2011
11:08.03 … Nina Bendixen [Shawnee], 2015
11:10.88 … Caitlin Orr [Lenape], 2009
11:11.44 … Arianna McKinney [Highland], 2005
11:12.32 … Maria Schiffhauer [Seneca], 2014

And the Gloucester County all-time top 10!
10:29.90 … Chelsea Ley [Kingsway], 2009
10:40.03 … Dina Iacone [Washington Twp.], 2012
10:43.2y … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983
10:52.05 … Amanda Goetschius [Delsea], 2007
10:52.53 … Allie Pierontoni [Kingsway], 2020
10:59.04 … Maria Ruiz [Williamstown], 2009
10:59.90 … Aubrey Pierontoni [Kingsway], 2020
11:03.78 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 2017
11:08.35 … Lindsey Kane [Washington Twp.], 2013
11:09.29 … Kaitlyn Rauscher [Delsea], 2016

Cinnaminson junior Alex Boyko led 10 runners under 10 minutes Saturday and won the 3,200 at the Bubble with an overall personal best.

Boyko won the 3,200-meter run at the SJTCA meet at the Bennett Center in Toms River in 9:44.27, breaking his indoor-outdoor PR of 9:49.23 set at Group 2 sectionals last spring at Delsea. According to his MileSplit page, Boyko had never run an official indoor 3,200 before.

Boyko is coming off a terrific XC season that saw him place 11th at states and lead Cinnaminson to second place behind Haddonfield in the state Group 2 meet. This was his first open race on the track this winter.

The only South Jersey runner with a faster time this winter is West Deptford senior Jacob Cobb, who ran 9:31.91 at the Virginia Showcase in Virginia Beach earlier this week.

Five other South Jersey runners dipped below 10 minutes, and every one of them posted an indoor 3,200 PR and four of the five posted overall indoor-outdoor lifetime bests.

Lenape senior Jake Buniva [5th in 9:52.69], Cinnaminson junior Tyler Schill [6th 9:54.85], Highland junior Cole Knoedler [7th in 9:56.69], Rancocas Valley senior Andre Faigal [8th in 9:57.17] and Haddon Heights junior Jack Bolling [9th in 9:57.23] all broke 10 minutes.

Buniva broke his indoor and overall PRs, which had been 10:06.02 at Lawrenceville School last month indoors and 10:10.99 outdoors at Group 4 sectionals last spring at Washington Township.

Schill’s previous PR was 10:04.83 outdoors in the Night of 3200s at Cherokee last June. This was his first indoor 3,200.

Knoedler was also racing his first indoor 3,200. He lowered his overall PR from 10:25.30 from last March in a polar bear meet at Timber Creek.

Faigal’s indoor 3,200 PR was 10:21.31 from two years ago in a meet at Monmouth University in West Long Branch. He’s run slightly faster outdoors [9:56.87 last May at the Cherokee Last Chance Meet]. 

And Bolling had a PR of 10:24.73 from the Haddonfield Invitational last May outdoors and had also never run an official indoor 3,200.

Boyko, Buniva, Schill, Knoedler, Faigal and Bolling now rank No. 2 through 7 this year in South Jersey.

Eastern senior A.J. Brooks ran  a personal-best 7.69 to win the 55-meter hurdles Saturday morning at a SJTCA meet at the Bubble in Toms River.

That’s No. 1 in South Jersey this year and No. 3 in the state, behind Lumberton’s Greg Foster, who ran 7.61 at the Armory last month for Lawrenceville School (and is the nation’s No. 1 long jumper), and Chris Serrao of East Brunswick, who ran 7.62 at Ocean Breeze last month.

Brooks previously held the No. 1 mark in South Jersey this year with his 7.79 at a meet earlier this month at the Bubble. 

In the prelims, Washington Township’s Kanye Mills and Tracy Marshall led all qualifiers, Mills with a PR 7.82 and Marshall with a PR 8.11, and Brooks ran 8.20.

But it was all Brooks in the final, with Mills PR’ing again in 7.81 and Marshall 3rd with his second PR of the day in 8.02. Zach Debose of Pemberton made it PRs all around in 4th place with an 8.11. Fifth-place finisher Chace Pearson of Timber Creek also PR’d with an 8.17 since he had never raced the event before. 

Brooks and Mills now rank No. 1 and No. 2 in South Jersey this year. Also under 7.85 is Pennsauken junior Bryce Tucker, the Meet of Champions intermediate hurdles winner last spring.  

Brooks is Eastern’s fastest high hurdler indoors in 30 years, since Vince Rawlins ran 7.49 in 1991.   

Lawrenceville senior Greg Foster, a Lumberton native, unleashed the No. 2 long jump in New Jersey history Friday night with a 24-8 1/2 mark at the Mercer County Championships at the Lawrenceville School.

Although his full series and official results are not available, there is a video on YouTube that shows Foster hitting his mark perfectly from a new take-off board that was just added to the facility to enable him to land safely after a big jump.

Foster’s previous PR was a 24-0 at a scrimmage at Lawrenceville on Dec. 11. He came into the winter season with a PR of 23-6 from a meet last summer at the Peddie School in Hightstown and an official high school PR of 21-6 in an outdoor meet at Peddie and an official high school indoor PR of 22-5 3/4 from a meet last March in Virginia Beach.

Foster’s mark is No. 2 in state history behind Carl Lewis’s 25-5 1/2 at 1979 Eastern’s a few miles north at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym. 

It’s also No. 1 nationally so far this indoor season, bumping Micah Larry of Montverde (Fla.) Academy, who jumped 24-2 1/4 at the Virginia Showcase last weekend in Virginia Beach.

Foster also broke his own Mercer County indoor record of 24-0 that he set last month at the same facility.

He also broke the overall Mercer County record of 24-3 1/4 sort in 2019 by Princeton’s Nils Wildberg at thee New Balance Nationals in Greensboro, N.C.

Here’s a look at every 23-foot jumper in New Jersey indoor track history:

25-5 ½ … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 1979
24-8 1/2 … Greg Foster [Lawrenceville School], 2022
24-6 ¼ … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990
24-3 3/4 … Hanif Kendrick [Franklin]. 2007
24-3 1/4 … Kaelen Mitchell [Piscataway], 2021
24-2 ½ … Isaac Samuels [Kennedy], 1983
24-0 ¾ … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 2003
24-0 1/4 … Justes Nance [Blair Academy], 2016
24-0 ½ … William Spearmon [Wilson], 1996
23-11 3/4 … Corey Crawford [Indian Hills], 2010
23-11 ½ … Kerry Vivett [Edgewood], 1985
22-10 ¾ … Nick Brown [Bridgeton], 1999
23-10 ….. Matt Rose [Bordentown], 1985
23-9 1/2 … James Bivins [Donovan Catholic], 2021
23-9 …… Syteek Farrington [Camden], 2009
23-7 ¾ … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2012
23-5 ½ … Floyd Whitaker [Highland Reg.], 2020
23-5 1/2 … Rahdel Savage [Roselle], 2007
23-4 3/4 … Zack Bazile [St. Joe’s], 2014
23-4 1/2 … Nils Wildberg [Princeton], 2019
23-4 ½ … Maurice Hunter [Woodbury], 1983
23-4 ….. Andrew Athias [Cherry Hill East], 2011
23-3 ¾ … Jamar Byrd [Vineland], 2005
23-3 1/2 … Matias Pellegrino [Morris Knolls], 2018
23-3 … Jamal Williams [Teaneck], 2012
23-3 … Jon Pitt [South Brunswick], 2013
23-3 … Patrick Warren [Montgomery], 2016
23-2 1/4 … Tyler Heller [Hunterdon Central], 2020
23-2 ½ … Rich Winstead [Egg Harbor Twp.], 1988
23-2 … Victor Cotto [Bayonne], 2017
23-1 ….. Mikhail Micheaux [Eastern], 2014
23-0 ….. Derek King [Cumberland Reg.], 1984

And here’s a look at every 24-foot jumper in New Jersey history indoors or out:
26-8 1/4 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 1979 [outdoors]
25-2 1/2 … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2012 [outdoors]
25-0 1/2 … Corey Crawford [Indian Hills], 2010 [outdoors]
25-0 … William Spearmon [Woodrow Wilson], 1996 [outdoors]
24-11 1/2 … Renaldo Nehemiah [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 1977 [outdoors]
24-11 1/4 … Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2002 [outdoors]
24-11 … Darius Pemberton [Hackensack], 1993 [outdoors]
24-8 1/2 … Greg Foster [Lawrenceville School], 2022 [indoors]
24-8 1/4 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990 [outdoors]
24-8 … Isaac Samuels [Kennedy], 1983 [outdoors]
24-5 … Todd Baskerville [Rahway], 1984 [outdoors]
24-5 … Brad Mayo [West Orange], 1984 [outdoors]
24-5 … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 2003 [outdoors]
24-4 1/2 … Eulace Peacock [Union], 1933 [outdoors]
24-4 … Emeke Eze [Sayreville], 2012 [outdoors]
24-3 3/4 … Hanif Kendrick [Franklin Twp.], 2007 [indoors]
24-3 3/4 … Mikhail Micheaux [Eastern], 2013 [outdoors]
24-3 1/4 … Marcus Hickerson [Delbarton], 1987 [outdoors]
24-3 1/4 … Kaelen Mitchell [Piscataway], 2021 [indoors]
24-3 1/4 … Nils Wildberg [Princeton], 2019 [outdoors]
24-2 1/4 … Ed Ryan [Barringer], 1938 [outdoorts]
24-1 3/4 … Mark Henry [Plainfield], 1980 [outdoors]
24-1 3/4 … Evans Tobler [Trenton], 1984 [outdoors]
24-1 3/4 … Ron Lewis [Asbury Park], 1984 [outdoors]
24-1 1/2 … Richie Cimer [Paramus], 1965 [outdoors]
24-1 1/2 … Derrick Horner [Don Bosco], 1989 [outdoors]
24-1 … Bob Calhoun [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 1974 [outdoors]
24-1 … Zack Bazile [St. Joe’s], 2014 [outdoors]
24-0 1/2 … Kerry Vivett [Edgewood], 1984 [outdoors]
24-0 1/4 … Justes Nance [Blair Academy], 2016 [indoors]
24-0 … Sherman Gramby [Elizabeth], 1986 [outdoors]
24-0 … A’nan Bridgett [West Windsor-Plainsboro South], 2018 [outdoors]
24-0 … Donavan Anderson [Bergenfield], 2021 [outdoors]

Foster is also New Jersey No. 1 in the 55-meter hurdles with a 7.61 in a meet at the Armory last month.

Although Foster is from Lumberton, his marks are not eligible for the South Jersey record book since he attends a school in Mercer County.

Foster’s father, also Greg, competed for Shawnee High and was the 1988 NCAA Division 3 long jump and triple jump champion for Stockton University. He competed in the triple jump at the 1988 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Indianapolis and was actually the first jumper in the first event at the Trials that year. The senior Foster continued has continued competing on the masters in recent years.

Senior Livsey Kegler and junior Grace Malcarney were each on three scoring teams, and Haddonfield used 19 different athletes to score points on its way to a historic state Group 2 relays championship.

Kegler ran on the winning shuttle hurdles, 2nd-place sprint medley and 3rd-place 800-meter relay, and Malcarney ran on the shuttle hurdles and sprint med and was on the 3rd-place high jump relay team.

The Haddonfield girls scored 63 points, finishing 17 ahead of Point Pleasant Boro and Rumson-Fair Haven, who each scored 46. Sterling (25) and Delsea (14) took 4th and 5th.

Haddonfield won the distance medley, shuttle hurdles and 3,200-meter relay and placed in the top three in every event other than the shot put.

Haddonfield shattered the public school relays scoring record of 62, set in 1997 – also in Group 2 – by Notre Dame. The only other girls program ever to score at least 60 points was Willingboro, who won Group 1 with 60 in 2010. Because there are so few school in the parochial divisions and the meets are generally dominated by the same one or two schools, non-public winning scores are routinely in the 70s or 80s.

The title was Haddonfield’s eighth, 4th-most in state history and 2nd-most in South Jersey history. Willingboro has won 11 and Columbia and Hopewell Valley 10 apiece. 

The Haddonfield girls also won Group 1 in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2014 and 2016 and Group 2 in 2017 and 2020, the last time the meet was contested. 

Haddonfield used only seven girls in more than one event.

Sophomore Audrey Naticchia, junior Thea Spellmeyer, senior Jess Goode and junior Helene Usher won the distance medley in 12:55.17, Kegler, Malcarney, junior Sydney Bonner and freshman Audrey Adams won the shuttles in 35.42, and junior Libby DeMichele, sophomore Riley Slootsky, sophomore Stella Stolarick and Goode won the 3,200-meter relay in 10:00.65.

Haddonfield picked up eight points in the sprint medley, with sophomore Maeve DiMarino joining Naticchia, Malcarney and Kegler and running 4:27.68. They finished behind only Snyder, which ran 4:26.27.

Their other second place came in the high jump relay, where junior Franchesca Richards cleared 4-10 and Malcarney 4-8.

Haddonfield tied for second in the pole vault, with sophomore Fiona Mamas clearing 8-0 and DeMichele was 7-0.

Kegler, Maeve Hurley, sophomore Ava Peifer and senior Juliet Walls ran 1:52.49 for 3rd in the 800-meter relay, and Spellmeyer, Peifer, junior Maya Carey and sophomore Chloe Gwaku took 3rd in the 1,600-meter relay in 4:21.72.

Sterling won the high jump relay with junior Jenovia Logan (5-0) and senior Faith Frazier (4-10) clearing a combined 9-10. Sterling added seven points in the pole vault relay with a 2nd-place tie with seniors Catherine Miller (8-0) and Faith Frazier (7-0) and a 2nd in the shot put relay with junior Jordyn Caul throwing 35-10 and senior Kayla Franklin 32-0 1/2.

Delsea also picked up a field event win, with junior Gianni Johnson-Slater throwing the shot 36-0 and junior Zianna Johnson-Slater 34-3 3/4.

For Delsea, senior Emily Hill and juniors Juline Nwosu, Samantha Cole and Ava Reardon ran 1:53.65 for 4th in the 800-meter relay.

Cinnaminson placed 4th in the DMR with senior Jenna Averill, junior Samantha Magin, sophomore Anna Marino and junior Stephanie Renouf running 13:20.75. Renouf, Marino and juniors Natalie Surma and Kozette Quinn ran 4:34.90 for 5th in the 4-by-4. Cinnaminson also got a point in the high jump with junior Lea Del Grippo (4-8) and Quinn (4-4).

West Deptford finished just behind Cinnaminson in the DMR in 13:31.97 with the team of sophomore Rachel Barford, senior Ellie Goldberg, sophomore Isabella Mackey and senior Hope Siner. 

Camden took 6th in the shuttle hurdles with junior Deonna Fooks-Benbow, seniors Jakara Nock and Ciani Pruitt and sophomore Hasina Walker running 37.29.

Collingswood placed 6th in the high jump with sophomore Michelle Newton and senior Mina Guglietta both clearing 4-6.

Seneca took 6th in the shot put relay. Senior Tess Strittmatter (32-1) and senior Abigail Lewis (23-8) threw for the Golden Eagles.