Pennsauken’s Sianna Winn, racing her first high school 55-meter dash, ran the 12th-fastest time in South Jersey history at the Armory Saturday afternoon.
Winn ran 7.06 to place 2nd in the 55 at the Hispanic Games at the Armory in New York, finishing just 2-100ths of a second behind junior Avery Lewis of Friends Central in Lower Merion Township, just outside Philadelphia.
Lewis won the 60 at New Balance Nationals last year on the same track, won the long jump at the Penn Relays at 19-10 ¼ and ran a U.S. No. 2 55.89 last week at the Armory for 400 meters.
Lewis’s 7.04 and Winn’s 7.06 would put them No. 8 and No. 11 on the MileSplit U.S. performance list so far this indoor season. Six girls ran 7.17 or faster Saturday – two from New York, two from Pennsylvania and one each from Maryland and New Jersey.
Winn ran 7.24 in the prelims before her 7.06 in the final. The school record is a hand-timed 6.8 by Michelle Glover in 1978. Glover attended Pennsauken for two years before transferring to Willingboro, where she set a state record of 6.75 in 1981. But Winn’s 7.06 is a fat record for Pennsauken and No. 5 in Camden County history.
Her time is fastest by a South Jersey freshman since Olympic gold medalist English Gardner of Eastern ran 7.04 to win 2007 Easterns at the Armory. It’s also No. 24 in state history.
Here’s the all-time state sub-7.10 list:
6.73y … Michelle Glover [Willingboro], 1981
6.79y … Wenda Vereen [Trenton], 1984
6.84 … Myasia Jacobs [Paramus Catholic], 2011
6.87 … Aleah Williams [Montclair], 1998
6.88y … Patti Dunlap [Camden], 1979
6.91 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2010
6.92 … Dominique Booker [Immaculate Conception], 2009
6.93 … Ogechi Nwaneri [Chatham], 2008
6.94 … Stephanie Saleem [Neptune], 1985
6.95 … Bria Mack [Williamstown], 2017
6.95 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2014
6.95 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
6.95 … Christiana Nwachuku [Kent Place], 2022
6.97 … Jenna Harris [Franklin Twp.], 2003
6.97 … Melissa Barber [Montclair], 1998
6.98 … Lauren Princz [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2020
6.98 … Sydney Hawkins [Phillipsburg], 2017
7.00 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
7.00 … Iyanli Kollock [Our Lady of Mercy], 2017
7.00 … Haisha Bisiolu [Union], 2013
7.01 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2017
7.05 … Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 1996
7.05 … Regina Trotter [Weequahic], 1991
7.06 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], 2019
7.06 … Claire Connor [Rahway], 1984
7.06 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023
7.07 … Aliya Harrison [Sterling], 2018
7.07 … Dennisha Page [Woodrow Wilson], 2019
7.07 … Annie Johnson [Shawnee], 2012
7.07 … Audrey Wilson [Deptford], 2009
7.07 … Magenta Taylor [Willingboro], 1999
7.07 … Angela Clyburn [Egg Harbor Twp.], 1991
7.09 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
7.09 … Emily Carson [Haddonfield], 2013
7.09 … Georgina Nembhard [Ocean Twp.], 2007
7.09 … Jordyn Smith [Paramus Catholic], 2012
And the state sub-7:10 list:
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 