Eastern’s Eva Sprewell opened her junior year with a huge high jump PR at the Bubble in Toms River.

Sprewell cleared 5-4 Friday, four inches above her previous PR of 5-0, which she cleared eight times last year – four times indoors and four times outdoors.

That’s the best high jump clearance by a girl from Eastern in six years, since Tamika Voltaire cleared a school-record 5-4 ¼ at the Bubble in January of 2017.

Thanks to @Eastern_Track for posting copies of some results pages from the meet since meet organizers and the meet’s timing company seem to have zero interest in anybody ever getting meet results.

Winslow freshman Ma’Syiah Brawner, in her first high school meet, cleared 4-10 for second place.

Mainland sophomore Sofia Day opened her season with an impressive two-mile win Saturday at  the Bishop Loughlin Games at Ocean Breeze.

Day ran 11:18.57 for the full two miles and finished 15 meters Ava Gumb of nearby St. Joseph Hill Academy in Staten Island, who ran 11:21.79.

Day was in third place with one lap to go, 10 meters behind Gumb and four meters behind Emily LaMena of John Glenn High in Elwood, N.Y., on Long Island.

But she ran her final 200 in a sizzling 31.48 to blow away the field.

Day ran her first three half miles in an evenly paced 2:50.85, 2:52.59 and 2:51.85 before closing in 2:43.28 for her final 800, 74.61 for her final 400 and 31.48 for her final 200.

Day’s time converts to 11:14.63 for 3,200 meters, which isn’t far off her PR of 11:08.72 from last year’s Meet of Champions at the Bubble. She didn’t compete last spring, so this was her first track race since the Meet of Champions in March.

Day is coming off a XC season where she placed 11th at the Meet of Champions.

There was definitely an Olympic Conference track meet at the Bubble yesterday  because MileSplit has videos on the site.

But results? They don’t seem to be anywhere.

Track and field for years had a problem getting results out in a timely and accurate manner and most of this has been solved by timing companies that provide instant live results. Venues like the Armory and Ocean Breeze even provide results in real-time as events are taking place.

But we’re not so lucky with the Bubble. The timing company that according to MileSplit timed the meet last night – JBAC Timers – doesn’t even seem to have a working web site.

It’s hard to write about a meet when the results aren’t available. So if anyone has ’em or knows where they are or how to find ’em please let us know in the comment section!

Maya Drayton of Cherry Hill East opened her senior year at Georgetown with a win at the VMI Team Challenge in Lexington, Va.

Drayton easily won the 400-meter dash in 56.61, outracing the field by more than 1 ½ seconds. Freshman teammate Jadah Fitzgerald was second in 58.35.

That ranks her No. 17 in the early going in NCAA Division 1 and No. 1 in the Big East Conference, with DePaul’s Jade Pope from Pennsauken No. 2 at 57.35.

Drayton was a Big East medalist in the 400 this past spring in Storrs, Ct., with a 4th-place finish in a personal-best 54.46. Her indoor PR is 54.78 from her 3rd-place finish at Big East at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, in March 2000. She ranks No. 7 in Georgetown history in the 400 outdoors and No. 14 outdoors.

Drayton also teamed up with Fitzgerald, Renee Newton and Rebecca Ochan to win the 1,600-meter relay in 3:50.59.

Egg Harbor Township graduate Anthony Vazquez opened his junior year at Syracuse with a monster PR and a spot in the all-time Syracuse top-10.

Vazquez won the 60-meter high hurdles at the Greg Page 2022 Invitational at Ithaca’s historic Barton Hall in 7.95. His previous PR was an 8.01 at the Virginia Tech Invitational in Blacksburg this past January.

Vazquez ran 8.03 to lead all qualifiers in the trials before recording his first sub-8.00 performance.

His time is No. 1 on the 2022-23 Puerto Rico performance list and No. 6 on the all-time Puerto Rico list.

It’s also No. 17 in the NCAA Division 1 so far this year and No. 2 in the ACC, behind Clemson senior Giano Roberts, who has run 7.80. Roberts placed 4th at the NCAA Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene this past  June in 13.45.

At Egg Harbor, Vazquez was the 2020 indoor Easterns champ in the 55-meter hurdles over the 39-inch barriers in 7.45 and the Meet of Champions winner in 7.31.

Is there an event Millville’s Bryanna Craig isn’t good at? We haven’t found one yet.

Craig, a two-time national champ in the heptathlon and pentathlon, is now a freshman at Purdue, and while she hasn’t participated in a collegiate multi-event yet, she showed just how much she’s improved her middle-distance fitness with a crazy 800 performance over the weekend.

After winning the high jump at 5-7 ¼ on Friday, Craig ran an eye-opening 2:14.27 to win the 800 at the Edmonds-Wilt Invitational at Purdue’s Lambert Fieldhouse in West Lafayette, Ind.

This isn’t just impressive, it’s important in terms of multi-events, since the 800 is the closing event of the women’s multis – the indoor pentathlon and outdoor heptathlon.

Craig’s previous PR at 800 meters was 2:18.06 finishing off her win at the Ocean Breeze Nationals in Staten Island, N.Y., in March. Craig was competing for Ruston (La.) High School after spending her first two years at Millville.

In pentathlon scoring, the difference between 2:14.27 and 2:18.06 is 53 points (903 vs. 850), which could be critical in big meets.

Craig’s 800 time is fast enough to rank her third among freshmen in NCAA Division 1 in the early going, behind Macey Hilton of SMU [2:10.49] and Jacey Farmer of BYU [2:11.02].

Purdue freshman Jessica Lyons from Allentown High in Monmouth County was second in 2:16.02.

Craig was out in 30.30 for her first lap and then ran 34.16, 35.78 and 34.04 splits for 64.46 and 69.82.

Craig’s pentathlon PR is her 3,780 at Ocean Breeze, No. 6 in scholastic history. Her heptathlon PR is 5,388 from the USATF Under-20 Championships in Eugene in June.

Craig has PRs of 25.29 in the 200, 58.14 in the 400, 2:14.27 in the 800, 8.31 in the 55 hurdles, 9.01 in the 60 hurdles, 5-8 in the high jump, 18—0 in the long jump and 30-10 ½ in the shot put indoors and 25.11 in the 200, 2:19.42 in the 800, 14.08 in the 100 highs, 5-9 in the high jump, 18-8 in the long jump, 34-7 in the shot put and 118-6 in the javelin outdoors.

Tionna Tobias opened her indoor season over the weekend with a long jump PR in Iowa City.

Tobias, an Iowa junior from Winslow Township, jumped 20-1 ¾ to win the Jimmy Grant Invitational at Iowa’s Rec Center.

Her previous PR was 20-1 ½ from the Larry Wieczorek Invitational at the same facility this past January. Her outdoor PR is 19-11 from the Big Ten Invitational in Bloomington, Ind., in March of 2021.

After opening with an 18-9 ½, Tobias soared past 19-9 on her next three jumps – 19-9 ¼, 19-9 and 19-9 ¾ – before a foul on her 5th attempt. She saved her best for last, hitting 20-1 ¾ on her final attempt.

She won by over a foot over Aliyah Adams of Western Illinois, who jumped 18-9. So Tobias had the five-best jumps of the competition.

Tobias’s mark is No. 3 in Iowa history, behind only Jahisha Thomas (21-0 ¾ in 2018) and Zinnia Miller (20-4 ¼ in 2014).

It’s also No. 5 in NCAA Division 1 so far this year and No. 1 in the Big Ten Conference.

It’s also No. 5 among U.S. women and No. 9 in the world in the very early stages of the indoor season.

Tobias also ran a near-PR 8.44 to place 3rd in the 60-meter hurdles behind teammates Myreanna Bebe [8.29] and Paige Magee [8.33]. Tobias’s PR is 8.40 from the pentathlon at the Big Ten Championships at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, this past February. That’s No. 8 in school history.

Eastern graduate Jailya Ash, now a sophomore at Connecticut, opened her season over the weekend with a PR in the 60-meter hurdles and a near-miss at the school record.

Ash won the 60 highs at the Joe Donahue Games Opener at The Track at New Balance in Boston in 8.31, winning easily over teammate Felicia Quainico, who ran 8.73.

Her previous PR was 8.54 from the Rutgers Open in February at the Armory. She actually lowered it to 8.52 in the trials.

The only faster time on record by a Uconn woman belongs to Phylicia George, who ran 8.24 in the prelims at the 2010 NCAA Championships at Randall Tyson Track at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. She missed qualifying for the final by 2-100ths of a second.

Ash’s time is No. 7 in NCAA Division 1 after two weeks of the indoor season and has her ranked No. 5 among U.S. women, 1-100th of a second behind Rancocas Valley graduate Jasmine Staten of Holy Family College in Philadelphia, who according to World Athletics ran 8.30 in the trials at the Fastrack Season Opener at Ocean Breeze on Dec. 2, although the meet results show an 8.36 and the Track and Field Results Reporting System doesn’t even list any times from the prelims, perhaps because of a timing irregularity.

UConn hasn’t updated the school records on its web site since 2015, but last year I took a couple hours and put together an all-time Huskies hurdles top 10, and here’s what that looks like now.

All-Time UConn 60-meter hurdles list
8.24 … Phylicia George, 2010
8.31 … Jailya Ash, 2023
8.33 … April Garner, 2005
8.45 … Madalayne Smith, 2012
8.55 … Chantal Scott, 2014
8.61 … Shavon Briscoe, 2012
8.61 … Tia Strackman, 2018
8.62 … Ashley Wiggins, 2017
8.63 … Toni-Ann Moore, 2015
8.67 … Gillian Flemmings, 2002

It took one jump for Greg Foster to move into 4th place on the all-time Princeton University long jump list.

Foster, a Lumberton native and Lawrenceville School graduate, began his collegiate jumping career with a 25-2 jump Saturday at the Joe Handelman Invitational at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym.

That was his only legal jump. He fouled twice, then passed on his last three attempts, but still won the event by more than four feet over Jadon Ra-Akbar of Morgan State, who was 2nd in 21-0 ¾.

Foster’s jump is 2nd-best by a Princeton athlete indoors in the last quarter century. Aviram Shwarzbard jumped 25-6 ¼ at Heps in February at the 168th Street Armory.

Foster’s jump was only 2 ½ inches shy of his indoor PR of 25-4 ½, which he jumped in his last indoor meet – when he won the Nike Indoor Nationals at Ocean Breeze in March. His lifetime best is 25-6 ¼ when he won New Balance Outdoor Nationals in June at Franklin Field.

Last weekend, in his first career college meet, Foster won the 60-meter hurdles at The College of New Jersey Opener at the Armory in 8.06, No. 9 in Princeton history.

Through two weekends, Foster is ranked No. 4 in NCAA Division 1 in the long jump and No. 1 among freshmen. He’s 29th in the hurdles and No. 6 among freshmen.

Here’s a look at the top 10 indoor long jumpers in Princeton history:

26-3 … Al Dyer [1990]
25-6 ¼ … Aviram Shwarzbard [2022]
25-5 ½ … Ugwunna Ikpeowo [1996]
25-2 … Greg Foster [2022]
25-1 ¾ … Tom Hopkins [2014 ]
25-0 ½ … Vince Smith [1990]
24-9 ¼ … Damon McLean [2013]
24-9 ¼ … Joe Sinisi [1988]
24-9 … Dwaine Banton [2005]
24-8 ½ … Bob Igoe [1985]
24-8 ½ … Jay Diamond [1986]

Former Millville star Bryanna Craig, who recorded the 11th-highest scholastic heptathlon score in history last spring, won the high jump Saturday in her college debut for Purdue.

Craig, a freshman at Purdue, where her dad Raffael is an assistant coach, cleared 5-7 ¼ on her first attempt before missing three tries at 5-9 ¼ at the Edmons-Wilt Invitational at Lambert Fieldhouse in West Lafayette, Ind.

Craig passed at 4-9, 4-11 and 5-1, cleared 5-3 on her first try, passed 5-5, and then cleared 5-6 and 5-7 ¼ on her first attempts.

Craig’s overall PR is 5-10 from the Little Caesars Chief Relays at West Ouachita High School in West Monroe, La., in April. Her indoor PR is 5-9 ¾ at the LSU Last Chance Qualifier this past February at LSU Fieldhouse in Baton Rouge, La.

She’s scheduled to race in the 60-meter hurdles later Saturday.

Craig was born and raised in Millville and led Millville High School’s track team to the 2019 state Group 4 championship. She won the national scholastic heptathlon as a Millville freshman and set the national freshman record. She graduated from Ruston (La.) High School this past spring.