Cherokee’s Kelsey Niglio, Kerry O’Day, Megan Niglio and Nicole Clifford teamed up to win the Meet of Champions 3,200-meter relay Saturday in record time.

Cherokee won the race by 110 meters – more than half a track length – over 2nd-place Ramapo, which took second in 9:33.36.

Ridge had won the Meet of Champions 4-by-8 every year since it was added to the Meet of Champions docket in 2017 and set the meet record of 9:14.47 in 2017. The meet wasn’t held last year.

The Meet of Champions title is the first for the Cherokee girls program since Monica Olkowski won the 800 in 1990 at Jadwin Gym in 2:12.45.

Niglio, O’Day, Niglio and Clifford all ran on Cherokee’s Meet of Champions-champion cross country team as well, so they’re now 2-for-2 in M-of-C’s this year.

Cherokee ranks No. 1 in New Jersey and No. 2 nationally this winter with its 9:07.81 at the Bubble last month.

Next weekend, the Chiefs will finally have the chance to run a 4-by-8 on a fast, banked track on Sunday at the New Balance Nationals at the Armory. That’s one of two so-called “national” meets being held in New York next weekend.

On Saturday, Kelsey Niglio led off with a 2:15.0 split, O’Day ran 2:21.4, Megan Niglio 2:22.1 and Clifford anchored unpressed in 2:14.8.

Rowan’s 800-meter relay team, anchored by Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley, ran the fastest time in NCAA Division 3 history on Saturday.

The team of Robert McKinney, Nana Agyemang, Amara Conte and Beasley ran 1:27.45 at the AARTFC Championships at the Golisano Training Center at Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y.

That broke the all-time NCAA Division 3 record of 1:27.69 set on Feb. 18, 2019 by a Rowan team consisting of Deptford’s Tyler Garland, West Deptford’s Shai Mumford, Dayquan Murray of Hammonton and Spencer Jarrett from Salem, who ran 1:27.69 at the NJAC Championships at Ocean Breeze.

Beasley brought the Profs across the line under the record with a 21.44 split.

Earlier this year, Rowan ran 1:27.88, which was No. 3 all-time. The Profs also ran 1:28.27 in 2018 and now claim the four-fastest 4-by-2 performances in Division 3 history.

Rowan also has a 1:29.05 from 2016 that’s No. 12 all-time and a 1:29.57 from 2018 that’s No. 23 all-time, a 1:29.70 from 2019 that’s No. 25 all-time and a 1:29.74 from 2017 that’s No. 28.

Rowan also broke the meet record of 1:28.99 set in 2019 by Rowan’s Murray, Jarrett, Garland and Mumford and broke the facility record of 1:29.98 set in 2020 by Rowan’s John Owens of West Windsor-Plainsboro North, Julian Pratt of Camden, Rakim Coyle from Wildwood Catholic and Beasley.

The Profs won by 20 meters over SUNY Cortland, who placed second in 1:29.91.

According to the IAAF 2022 world performance list, Rowan’s time is 14^th-fastest in the world this year and 3^rd-fastest among American teams.

The only Division 1 schools who’ve run faster are Rutgers, which ran 1:26.60 at the Armory last month, and Mississippi State, who ran 1:26.66 at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Alabama in January. Paul VI graduate Antonio Tarantino ran the second leg on that Rutgers team.

Rowan is ranked No. 15 in Division 3 going into next weekend’s Division 3 National Championships in Winston-Salem, N.C.

The AARTFC  is the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Championships. Rowan won the team title 98-72 over SUNY Geneseo.

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Kingsway senior Kyle Rakitis ran one of the fastest 1,600s in South Jersey history Saturday at the 53rd annual Meet of Champions.

Racing on the slow, flat track at the Toms River Bubble, Rakitis placed 3rd in 4:12.55, breaking the Gloucester County record and moving into the No. 5 spot in South Jersey history.

His time was fast enough to win any of the previous Meet of Champions mile or 1,600 races in meet history.

Union Catholic senior Shane Brosnan won the race in 4:09.42, the fastest Meet of Champions time in 50 years and 2nd-fastest ever. Vince Cartier of Scotch Plains-Fanwood won the 1972 race at Jadwin Gym in 4:06.6 over a full mile. That broke the U.S. schoolboy record of 4:07.2 set in 1965 by Jim Ryan of Wichita East at the Kansas indoor state meet at Kansas State’s Ahearn Fieldhouse in Manhattan, Kans.

Collin Boler of Delbarton in Morristown took 2nd in 4:11.04 and Rakitis was 3rd. In all, nine runners broke 4:20 and seven ran sub-4:17 in the fastest Meet of Champion 1,600 ever.

The race produced three of the nine-fastest times in meet history. The fastest previous 2nd-place time was Jim Rosa’s 4:13.12 in 2009 behind Liam Tansey of Morris Hills, who ran 4:11.95, and the previous-fastest 3rd-place time was 4:14.9 full mile (converts to 4:13.5), run by Harry Kronick of Franklin in 1972 behind Cartier and Chris Inman of Essex Catholic, who also ran 4:14.9

Rakitis broke his own Gloucester County record of 4:16.59, which he set last week at the state Group 4 meet.

His time is No. 5 in South Jersey history and fastest in six years, since Greg Pelose of Haddonfield ran 4:13.40 for a full mile, which converts to 4:11.93 for 1,600 meters.

The race also produced the fastest 4th-, 5th -, 6th- and 7th-fastest times in meet history with Amiri Whittle of Hackensack 4th in 4:14.51, Nikhil Makker of West Windsor-Plainsboro North 5th in 4:14.71, Jacob Heredia of Clifton 6th in 4:16.24 and Colin Riley of Jonathan Dayton 7th in 4:16.51.

All-time South Jersey 1,600 list
4:09.96y … Miles Schoedler [Ocean City], 2011
4:11.03y … Brett Johnson [Ocean City], 2009
4:11.89y … Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 2015
4:11.93y … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2016
4:12.55 … Kyle Rakitis [Kingsway], 2022
4:13.68y … Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 2002
4:13.87y … Stone Caraccio [Kingsway], 2020
4:14.1y … Marty Ludwikowski [C.H. West], 1975
4:15.2y … Jim Smith [Haddonfield], 1980
4:15.52 … Bill Dolan [Clearview], 2014
4:16.0y … Greg Stremmel [Gateway], 1974
4:16.02 … Erik Johnson [Ocean City], 2012
4:16.3y … Rich Caton [Woodbury], 1979
4:16.61y … Jon Anderson [Cinnaminson], 2004
4:16.71y … Dave Forward [Shawnee], 2009
4:16.85 … Ben Potts [Haddonfield], 2011
4:16.9y … Bob Marino [Williamstown], 1974
4:17.1y … Mike Mantini [Gateway], 1978
4:17.33y … Carmen Cavella [Washington Twp.], 2004
4:17.51y … Connor Melko [Bishop Eustace], 2019
4:17.67 … Derek Gess [Haddonfield], 2018
4:17.67y … Sebastien Reed [Pitman], 2020
4:17.98 … Seth Clevenger [Haddonfield], 2022
4:18.21y … Xavier Fraction [Washington Twp.], 2009
4:18.22 … Jacob Clark [Pleasantville], 2013
4:18.48 … Justin Kelly [Cherokee], 2018
4:18.50 … Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 2013
4:18.53y … Chris Platt [Haddonfield], 2001
4:18.4y … Al Harden [Millville], 1979
4:18.4h … Mike Myers [Eastern], 2001
4:18.70y … Ethan Wechsler [Cherokee], 2019
4:18.73 … Jacob Cobb [West Deptford], 2022
4:18.74 … George Andrus [Haddonfield], 2022
4:18.80y … Austin Gabay [Cinnaminson], 2020
4:18.83 … Tyler Jackson [Cherokee], 2020
4:19.03 … Noah Culbreath [Kingsway, 2014
4:19.40 … Justin Branco [Delsea], 2015
4:19.7y … Chris Hageman [Paul VI], 1985
4:19.96 … Robert Rawls [Triton], 2011
4:19.97 … Steve Burkholder [Cherokee], 2010

All-Time Meet of Champions Performance List
4:05.2h … Vince Cartier [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 1972 [1]
4:09.42 … Shane Brosnan [Union Catholic], 2022 [1]
4:00.04 … Collin Boler [Delbarton], 2002
4:11.66 … Ben Malone [Pascack Valley], 2012 [1]
4:11.83 … Drew Maher [Shore Regional], 2018 [1]
4:11.95 … Liam Tansey [Morris Hills], 2009 [1]
4:12.54 … D.J. Thornton [Union Catholic], 2010 [1]
4:12.55 … Kyle Rakitis [Kingsway], 2022 [3]
4:12.90 … Will Baginski [Ridgewood], 2019 [1]
4:13.01 … Will Daly, River Dell, 2016 [1]
4:13.12 … Jim Rosa [West Windsor-Plainsboro North], 2009 [2]
4:13.21 … Pat Schellberg, Delbarton, 2010 [2]
4:13.2h … Bll Sieben [Union Catholic], 1970 [1]
4:13.44 … Colin Daly, River Dell, 2016 [2]
4:13.49 … George Kelly [Christian Brothers], 2012 [2]
4:13.5h … Chris Inman [Essex Catholic], 1972 [2]
4:13.5h … Harry Kronick [Franklin], 1972 [3]
4:13.7h … Dave Wall, Dickinson, 1973 [1]
4:13.9h … Chris Elliott, [Ramapo], 1970 [2]
4:14.18 … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2016 [3]
4:14.20 … Mike McClemens [Christian Brothers], 2014 [1]
4:14.24 … Chris Romero [Voorhees], 2018 [2]
4:15.51 – Amiri Whittle [Hackensack], 2022 [4]
4:14.57 … Sam Macaluso [West Windsor-Plainsboro South], 2010 [3]
4:14.71 – Nikhil Makker [West Windsor-Plainsboro North], 2022 [5]

Rancocas Valley senior Anabella Chin handed nationally 7th-ranked Ajanae Thompson of Union Catholic her first hurdles loss of the year Saturday and won the 55-meter hurdles at the 43rd annual Meet of Champions at the Bubble.

The race was so close nobody knew who won until the FAT timers studied the photo and declared Chin the winner.

Chin edged Thompson by 1-100th of a second, winning the race in 8.22 with Thompson second at 8.23. Union Catholic’s Taylor Cox was 3rd in 8.30. Thompson placed 2nd last spring in the outdoor Meet of Champions behind Eastern’s Jailya Ash.

In the span of eight days, Chin won her first state title, won the Eastern States title and then became the second R.V. girl to win a Meet of Champions individual title. Aliyah Taylor won the 200 in 2017.

Chin ran within 1-100th of a second of her PR of 8.21, which she ran on a much faster track at the Armory at Easterns on Tuesday. She’s currently ranked 10th in the U.S. according to MileSplit’s national database.

In the trials, Thompson led all qualifiers with a 7.27, and Chin and Taylor Cox of Union Catholic each ran 8.31.

That placed Thompson in lane 4 for the final and Chin in lane 5 for the electrifying final.

Chin is the first Burlington County girl to win the Meet of Champions 55-meter hurdles in 41 years. Two-time Olympic long jumper Carol Lewis of Willingboro won the race in 1980 and 1981.

Michael Mazero ran away from a loaded 400-meter dash field Saturday to become the first indoor Meet of Champions winner in Paul VI history.

Mazero ran an indoor PR of 49.02, finishing five meters ahead of Pennsauken junior Bryce Tucker, who was second at the Bubble with an indoor PR of his own at 49.59. Another Pennsauken junior, Premier Wynn – seeded 7th – took 3rd in a PR 49.66 and Pleasantville junior Xander Roberts-Bogin, the Easterns champ, made it a South Jersey sweep of the top four places in 50.10.

His time is No. 16 in South Jersey history and No. 5 in Camden County history.

Mazero’s previous PR was a 49.33 when he won the state Parochial A title last weekend.

The only other Paul VI Meet of Champions individual winners came outside: Ron Faith won the 1,600 in 1986, Jason DiJoseph won the 3,200 in 1987 and the 1,600 in 1988 and Antonio Tarantino in the 200 in 2018.

Mazero’s 49.02 is 14th-fastest in the Meet of Champions’ 53-year history and fastest by a South Jersey runner in 31 years, since Olympic gold medalist Lamont Smith of Willingboro won the 1991 race at Jadwin Gym in 48.66.

Here’s a look at all the South Jersey quarter-milers to win the indoor Meet of Champions title:

1981: Kevin Overton [West Deptford], 50.1h
1984: Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 49.3h
1985: Brian Bennett [Edgewood], 49.5h
1990: William Mobley [Eastern], 49.80
1991: Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 48.68
1992: Curt McIntyre [Bridgeton], 50.02
1994: Royce Reed [Bridgeton], 50.06
1995: Royce Reed [Bridgeton], 49.92
1998: Rob Gary [Lenape], 49.53
1999: Nick Brown [Bridgeton], 49.76
2000: Mohammad Kanu [Lenape], 50.18
2001: Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], 50.13
2012: Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 49.11
2017: Luke Colehower [Haddonfield], 49.17
2022: Michael Mazero [Paul VI], 49.02

And here are the fastest times in meet history:

48.26 … Zyaire Clemes [Trenton], 2013 [1]
48.33 … Taylor McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2015 [1]
48.48 … Najee Glass [St. Peter’s Prep], 2011 [1]
48.50 … Lance Wigfall [East Orange], 2003 [1]
48.58 … Chinedu Amonu [Ewing], 2013 [2]
48.66 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 1991 [1]
48.66 … Adam Gorka [South Brunswick], 2020 [1]
48.71 … Mario Heslop [Franklin Twp.], 2018 [1]
48.77 … Nasir Haines [Freehold Twp.], 2015 [2]
48.92 … Charles Cox [Monmouth], 2007 [1]
48.98 … Nadale Buntin [J.P. Stevens], 2018 [2]
49.0h … Dave Law [Snyder], 1973 [1]
49.02 … Michael Mazero [Paul VI], 2022 [1]
49.04 … Leonard Robbins [East Brunswick], 2011 [2]
48.9h … Tony Valentine [Plainfield], 1983 [q]
49.11 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 2012 [1]
49.16 … Bryant McCombs [Old Bridge], 2006 [1]
49.17 … Luke Colehower [Haddonfield], 2017 [1]
49.19 … Amir Brock [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2017 [2]
49.29 … Devon Artis [Shabazz], 2011 [3]
49.31 … Alex Reber [Cherry Hil East], 2011 [4]
49.31 … Clayton Gravesande [Franklin], 2010 [1]

And the all-time South Jersey indoor list:
47.90 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], 2018
48.27 … Jade Smith [Camden], 2002
48.36 … Mohammad Kanu [Lenape], 2000
48.45 … Xander Roberts-Bogin [Pleasantville], 2022
48.48 … Amir Brock [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2017
48.50 … Alex Reber [Cherry Hill East], 2013
48.55 … Royce Reed [Bridgeton], 1995
48.64 … Keith Griffith [Florence], 2010
48.68 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 1991
48.74 … John Morris [Camden], 2001
48.75 … Luke Colehower [Haddonfield], 2017
48.79 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], 2020
48.7h … Curt Mcintyre [Bridgeton], 1992
48.91 … Marlin Gross [Bridgeton], 2001
48.91 … Rob Gary [Lenape], 1998
49.02 … Michael Mazero [Paul VI], 2022
49.03 … Ian Moore [Lenape], 2001
49.05 … William Mobley [Eastern], 1990
49.11 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 2012
49.13 … Eric Chekemian [Washington Twp.], 2001
49.19 … Amir Brock [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2017
49.1h … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], 2007

Just a couple hours after Jaden Johnson became Timber Creek’s first Meet of Champions winner ever, Chace Pearson became the second.

Pearson made it a Timber Creek sweep of the horizontal jumps Friday night at the 53rd annual Meet of Champions, winning the long jump with a personal-best 23-3 jump after Johnson won the triple jump with a PR 46-9 ½.

Pearson’s previous PR was 22-6 ¼ at South Jersey Group 3 states last spring at Pennsauken, and his indoor PR was 22-5 from last week at a meet in Fair Lawn, Bergen County.

Pearson won by 4 ½ inches over Fort Lee’s Tyson Lowe, who was second at 22-10 ½. Hammonton senior Connor Wright and Mainland Regional junior William Murray made it three South Jersey jumpers in the top eight. Wright was 5th at 22-0 ½, well beyond his PR of 21-7 from a tri-meet at Hammonton last April, and Murray jumped 21-7 ½, just 2 ½ inches shy of his PR from last month at the Bubble.

For Pearson, the winning jump moved him into the No. 15 spot on the all-time South Jersey indoor long jump list and No. 6 in Camden County history. He’s also No. 25 on the all-time state list, which as you can see below is dominated by South Jersey jumpers.

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This is only the third year the long jump has been held at the indoor Meet of Champions. Floyd Whitaker of Highland set the meet record of 23-5 ½ in 2020 at Ocean Breeze, and Princeton’s Nils Wildberg won the 2019 meet at 23-4.

This is the fourth time in meet history and the first time in 18 years two boys from the same South Jersey school have won events at an indoor Meet of Champions.

In 1985 at Jadwin Gym, Edgewood had three winners – Brian Bennett won the 400, Kerry Vivett the high jump and Lee Jerkins the 55-meter dash. In 1994, Bridgeton’s Ray Wilks won the shot put and Royce Reed won the 400. And most recently, in 2004, Vineland’s Jamal Ames won the high jump and Darren Ford won the 55.

All-time South Jersey indoor long jump 23-foot list
25-5 ½ … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 1979
24-6 ¼ … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990
24-2 ½ … Isaac Samuels [Kennedy], 1983
24-0 ¾ … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 2003
24-0 ½ … William Spearmon [Wilson], 1996
23-11 ½ … Kerry Vivett [Edgewood], 1985
22-10 ¾ … Nick Brown [Bridgeton], 1999
23-10 ….. Matt Rose [Bordentown], 1985
23-9 …… Syteek Farrington [Camden], 2009
23-7 ¾ … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2012
23-5 ½ … Floyd Whitaker [Highland Reg.], 2020
23-4 ½ … Maurice Hunter [Woodbury], 1983
23-4 ….. Andrew Athias [Cherry Hill East], 2011
23-3 ¾ … Jamar Byrd [Vineland], 2005
23-3 … Chace Pearson [Timber Creek], 2022
23-2 ½ … Rich Winstead [Egg Harbor Twp.], 1988
23-1 ….. Mikhail Micheaux [Eastern], 2014
23-0 ….. Derek King [Cumberland Reg.], 1984

And here’s the all-time New Jersey indoor long jump list
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 … Chace Pearson [Timber Creek], 2022
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

 

Timber Creek senior Jaden Johnson II won his first Meet of Champions title, moved up to No. 7 in South Jersey and broke the meet triple jump record Friday at the 53rd annual Meet of Champions

Johnson jumped 46-9 ½ and won by more than two feet over Heru Dwyer of Piscataway, who was second at 44-7.

The triple jump is not contested at the state level indoors but was added at the Meet of Champions in 2020.

Highland’s Floyd Whittaker – who has jumped over 51 feet this winter for the University of Minnesota (competing unattached) – won the inaugural M-of-C triple jump at Ocean Breeze two years ago at 46-3 ¼, which stood as the meet record for two years because the meet wasn’t held last year.

Johnson’s previous PR was a 46-5 ¼ at Ocean Breeze last month. His outdoor PR is 46-0 from a quad meet with Haddon Township, Sterling and Collingswood this past May at Haddon Township.

Johnson is the first Timber Creek boy to win an indoor Meet of Champions title.

The state’s top triple jumper is Lumberton resident Greg Foster, who leaped 48-9 ½ at Ocean Breeze last month. He’s not eligible for South Jersey lists because he attends Lawrenceville Prep in Mercer County. He also is ineligible for the Meet of Champions Lawrenceville Prep does not belong to the NJSIAA.

All-time South Jersey indoor 45-foot triple jump list:
49- 1 …..… Khaliel Burnett [Delsea], 2018
48- 9 …..… Dominique Irons [Haddon Heights], 2013
48- 8 ½ … Tristan Wilson [Delsea], 2014
48- 1 ¼ … Wayne Walls [Camden], 2009
47- 3 …..… Rhodeni Spence [Woodrow Wilson], 2007
46-10 ¾ … Floyd Whitaker [Highland], 2020
46-9 ½ … Jaden Johnson [Timber Creek], 2022
46- 5 …….. Orion Joyner [Kingsway], 2019
46- 3 ½ … Keon Grady [Delsea], 2018
45-10 …..… Kevin Kevelier [Collingswood], 2020
45- 3 ½ … Zakiyy Williams [Rancocas Valley], 2015
45- 0 …….. Earnest Daniel [Kingsway], 2017

James Madison’s Bethany Biggi, a sophomore from Rancocas Valley, placed 5th Friday in the pentathlon at the 45th annual ECAC Championships at Boston University.

Biggi scored a personal-best 3,476 points in the one-day, five-event multi challenge, recording PRs in both the 800 and shot put. She finished only 15 points out of 3rd place. Her previous PR was 3,409 earlier from the Winter Relays at Virginia Military Institute in January in Lexington City, Va.

Her score Friday ranks 5th on the all-time JMU pentathlon performance list but only 90 points off the school record of 3,566 points set in 2008 by Christine Nicewonger. That’s 18 points per event.

Biggi began the day running a near-PR 9.56 for the 60-meter hurdles, good for 796 points. She cleared 5-4 ½ in the high jump next, scoring 783 points. Next up was the shot, where she set a PR of 32-3 ¾, good for 520 points. Then it was off to the long jump, where she scored 623 points with a 17-2 jump. She finished up by running a collegiate PR 2:25.22 in the 800 for 754 points.

Biggi’s previous shot PR was 31-11 ¼ in a pentathlon in Lynchburg, Va., in January. Her previous 800 best was 2:28.30 last year, also in a meet in Lynchburg.

Her other PRs are 9.54 in the hurdles and 17-8 ¾ in the long jump, both from her pentathlon in January, and 5-5 ¾ in the high jump from a high jump competition at a meet in Annapolis in December.

Biggi placed 3rd in the heptathlon last spring at the Colonial Athletic Association Championships in Harrisonburg, Va.

It appears that the CAA for reasons I can’t fathom does not have an indoor track championship meet.

ECAC stands for Eastern Conference Athletic Conference.

Clayton sophomore Alanna Woolfolk won her second Meet of Champions title Friday night, clearing 5-6 in the high jump at the Bubble.

She’s the first girl from a South Jersey Group 1 school in 37 years to win an indoor Meet of Champions title.

Woolfolk won the outdoor Meet of Champions at 5-6 last spring as a Delsea freshman. There was no M-of-C last winter, so this was her first time competing indoors in a Meet of Champions.

Woolfolk matched her indoor PR, which she set last weekend when she won the state Group 1 title. She’s Clayton’s first Meet of Champions winner.

The official results do not show field event details – where she entered the competition, what height she attempted after 5-6, how many misses at 5-6 (if any) – but Woolfolk was the only jumper to clear 5-6.

Two other  South Jersey sophomores, Timber Creek’s Guerlande Pierre and Washington Township’s Dahlia Beasley, also cleared 5-2, Pierre taking 5th and Beasley 8th.

Woofolk is the third straight South Jersey girl to win the indoor Meet of Champions high jump. Tierra Hooker of Timber Creek cleared 5-8 to win the 2019 title and Millville’s Bryanna Craig cleared 5-6 to win in 2020.

Woolfolk is the seventh girl from a Gloucester County school to win an indoor M-of-C individual title in the meet’s 43-year history.

Washington Township’s Michelle Rowen won the 3,200 in 1981 and the 1,600 in 1983 and 1984, Glassboro’s Ruth Lockbaum won the 1,600 in 1985, Williamstown’s Dana Burnett won the 55 in 1996 and the 400 in 1995 and 1996, Washington Township’s Megan Tiernan won the 800 in 2010, Kierra Lester of Deptford won the 200 in 2015 and 2016 and Williamstown’s Bria Mack won the 55 in 2017.

The last South Jersey girl to win Meet of Champions titles for different schools was Aliyah Taylor, who won the indoor 55 in 2016 for Pemberton and the indoor 200 in 2017 for Rancocas Valley.

Rowan junior Ahmir Johnson shattered the school record and meet record in the triple jump Friday at the AARTFC Championships in Rochester.

Johnson leaped 48-11 ½ on his second attempt at Golisano Training Facility on the Nazareth College campus and won the event by 2 ½ feet over Amarian Hughes, a freshman at SUNY Cortland (N.Y.). He reached 46-3 on his third attempt.

Johnson broke his own record of 48-8 ¼ set at the same meet at the same facility in 2020. He broke the 28-year-old meet record of 48-10 ¼ set in 1994 by Geoffrey Rono of Rochester’s Roberts Wesleyan at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., and broke his own facility record of 48-8 ¼. AARTFC stands for All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference, a collection of Division 3 conferences in the Northeast.

Johnson, a graduate of Wissahickon High School in Ambler, Pa., has a lifetime best of 49-7 when he won the NCAA Division 3 national title at North Carolina A&T this past spring in Greensboro, N.C.

The 48-11 ½ moved Johnson into the No. 3 spot in NCAA Division 3 this year, behind Jonathan Wilburn of Wisconsin-Oshkosh [49-8 ½ last weekend in Platteville, Wisc.] and Will Ross of Illinois College [49-1 ½] in January at Davenport, Iowa.

Johnson got off five legal jumps Friday and all five were good enough to win the meet.

He opened with a 46-10 ¼ and then the 48-11 ½ winner, following up with jumps of 47-6 ½, 47-11 ¼ and 47-7 ¾ before a foul on his final attempt.

His five legal jumps averaged 47-9 ¼, well beyond his best previous triple jump this year, a 46-10 ¼ in a meet last month at Ithaca.

Johnson is a transfer from Gwynned-Mercy , where he jumped 46-8 ¼ during the 2019 indoor season. At Wissahickon, he set a Suburban One-American triple jump record of 48-5 ¾ in a meet at Glen Mills.

Johnson has also long jumped 23-2 ¼ this year, No. 26 in NCAA Division 3.

He’ll compete in the triple jump at NCAA Division 3 nationals next weekend in Winston-Salem, N.C.