Pennsauken ran the fastest 800-meter relay in the state this year Saturday, with Premier Wynn anchoring in 21.4.

Freshman KaRon Ali, junior Bronze Whitmore, junior Elijah Jennins and Winn ran 1:30.63 to win the 4-by-200 at the Hispanic Games at the Armory in New York. The Indians edged Paramus Catholic, which was 2nd in 1:31.22.

According to the MileSplit national performance list, Pennsauken’s time is No. 8 in the country so far this indoor season.

Iona Prep led all qualifiers in 1 :31.01 followed by Paramus Catholic in 1:31.77 and Pennsauken in 1:31.78.

Pennsauken’s 1:30.63 is fastest by a South Jersey school in five years, since Deptford (1:29.92), Camden (1:30.09) and Paul VI (1:30.30) all ran faster in 2018 – Deptford and Camden at Ocean Breeze, Paul VI at the Armory.

The time is 3rd-fastest in Pennsauken history. The Indians ran 1:29.74 with Stephan Elam, Marquan Jones, Briheem Whitfield and Nahzir Russell at 2016 Easterns at the Armory and 1:29.81 last year with Bryce Tucker, Kahlil Ali, Nadir Page and Winn at Ocean Breeze Nationals.

On Saturday, Deptford ran 1:33.37 in the trials but didn’t race in the final.

It was all part of a very long and very productive  day at the Armory for Pennsauken:

–> As we wrote earlier here freshman Sianni Winn ran 7.06 in the 55-meter dash, No. 12 in South Jersey history and No. 2 in state history by a freshman.

–> Also, Tucker won the 55-meter hurdles in 7.56 and the 400 in 48.90, not far off his indoor PRs of 7.53 from the Meet of Champions at the Bubble and 48.23 from Ocean Breeze Nationals, both this past March.

–> Winn ran 24.81 in the 200 trials, No. 10 in South Jersey indoor history, before a 25.04 in the final.

–> Junior Ladainian McGrath ran an indoor PR 2:02.12 in the 800, Winn ran a PR 22.04 in the open 200 trials and a PR 6.66 in the 55 trials. Junior Elijah Jennings ran 6.71 in the 55 trials.

All-Time Camden County 800-Meter Relay List
1:26.90 … Camden, 2004
1:28.0h … Edgewood, 2001
1:28.45 … Camden, 2002
1:28.48 … Camden, 2007
1:28.91 … Camden, 2000
1:29.17 … Camden, 2001
1:29.57 … Camden, 1997
1:29.61 … Camden, 1999
1:29.72 … Timber Creek, 2013
1:29.74 … Pennsauken, 2016
1:29.81 … Pennsauken, 2022
1:29.87 … Timber Creek, 2016
1:30.08 … Camden, 2006
1:30.09 … Camden, 2018
1:30.16 … Camden, 2005
1:30.20 … Edgewood, 2000
1:30.36 … Winslow Twp., 2003
1:30.38 … Winslow Twp., 2008
1:30.51 … Woodrow Wilson, 1993
1:30.51 … Woodrow Wilson, 1996
1:30.62 … Winslow Twp., 2005
1:30.63 … Eastern, 2002
1:30.63 … Pennsauken, 2023
1:30.71 … Winslow Twp., 2004
1:30.87 … Woodrow Wilson, 1995
1:31.35 … Paul VI, 2020
1:31.44 … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:31.75 … Winslow Twp., 2006
1:31.78 … Pennsauken, 2023

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 200 List
24.38 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
24.39 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
24.42 … Dennisha Page [Woodrow Wilson], 2019
24.46 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
24.52 … Cecelia Gerstenbecher [Delsea], 2017
24.61 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
24.61 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2017
24.5h … Jennifer Jackson [Eastern], 2003
24.78 … Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 1996
24.81 … Sianni Winn [Pennsauken], 2023
24.83 … Kiara Lester [Deptford], 2014
24.83 … Lauren Princz [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2020
24.94 … Shardae Anderson [Paulsboro], 2005
24.96 … Jackie Dim [Washington Twp.], 2008
24.96 … Toni Glatz [Delsea], 2017
24.99 … Aliya Harrison [Sterling], 2018

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:

Woodrow Wilson graduate Dennisha Page shattered the Rutgers 60-meter dash record Friday in her first try at the distance this year.

Page, a Rutgers junior, ran a blistering 7.33 to win the 60 at the Wagner Invitational at Ocean Breeze ahead of teammate Sydney Hawkins of Phillipsburg, who ran a PR of her own at 7.45.

Page broke the school record of 7.34 by 1-100th of a second. The previous mark was set in February 2016 by Williamstown’s Gabrielle Farquharson at the Big Ten Indoor Championships at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

In the trials, Page led all qualifiers with a 7.41, destroying her personal best of 7.50, which she set in her first collegiate meet as a Syracuse freshman, the Greg Page Relays at Barton Hall in Ithaca, N.Y.

She lowered that to 7.33 in the final. That’s No. 8 in the world early on in the 2023 indoor season and No. 5 among U.S. women.

It’s also No. 4 among U.S. collegians so far this winter and tied for No. 1 in the Big Ten with Amira Young of Minnesota, who ran 7.33 at the IceBreaker Open in Minneapolis last month.

Page also ran an indoor PR 56.56 to place second in the 400 behind post-collegiate Leah Anderson, who ran 53.88. Anderson won five Big Ten 400 titles at St. John’s.

It was Page’s first collegiate 400 at either Syracuse or Rutgers. Her indoor PR was a 59.46 at Wilson to win the 2019 indoor Group 2 sectionals at the Bubble. She ran 54.41 that spring to win outdoor Group 3 sectionals at Delsea.

At the 2019 Meet of Champions at Northern Burlington, Page won the 100 in 11.86 and the 200 in 23.66 and was 3rd in the 400 in 55.41.

Timber Creek graduate Jaden Johnson, a freshman at New Jersey Institute of Technology, popped an indoor triple jump PR Friday in the Wagner Invitational at Ocean Breeze and broke the school record for the second time in as many meets.

Johnson jumped 47-3 ¾ and placed second to Malachi Aiken of St. Francis of Brooklyn, who won the event with a 49-2 ¼.

Johnson set an indoor school-record 46-11 ½ last month, also at Ocean Breeze, in his first collegiate triple jump competition.

At Timber Creek, Johnson had an indoor PR of 46-11 ¾ from his 4th-place finish in Nike Indoor Nationals – also at Ocean Breeze – this past March. He set his overall PR of 47-7 ½ in June when he won the state Group 3 title at Pennsauken.

Johnson had a terrific series Friday, with two jumps over 47 feet and three others over 46 feet. He opened with a 47-1 ¼ – his first indoor PR of the day – and then hit 46-7 ½ and 46-9 ½ on his last two jumps of the prelims. After a 45-3 ¾ to open the finals, he hit the 47-3 ¾ and finished with a 46-1 ½.

Johnson’s six legal jumps averaged 46-6 ½ – just five inches shy of his previous indoor lifetime best.

NJIT’s outdoor school record is 45-4 ¼ set by Jason Poppe at the 2014 Collegiate Track Conference Championships in Middletown, Ct.

Whatever he jumped Tuesday was going to be an indoor long jump PR for Christian Langston because he had never competed in an indoor long jump before.

Turned out to be not only a PR but the No. 10 jump in the state this year.

Langston won the long jump at the Rebel Shot / Jump Series No. 1 at the Bubble with a 21-3 ¼, which was a nearly two-foot PR for the Delsea junior.

He had only long jumped three times as a sophomore with a best of 19-6 ¾ at the Red & Black Invitational in East Stroudsburg in April.

He did have a promising season as a quarter-miler, dropping his 400 PR from 55.90 as a freshman to 51.52 for 7th at Group 3 sectionals on his home track. That made him the No. 4 sophomore in South Jersey.

Unfortunately, no series information is available, but Langston won the long jump by more than a foot over Tony Brinson of Central Regional, who placed 2nd at 20-2 ½.

Langston’s 21-3 ¼ is No. 3 among New Jersey underclassmen and trails Egg Harbor senior Ahmad Fogg [22-3 ½] and Mainland senior William Murray [21-10] on the 2023 South Jersey indoor list.

Langston’s mark is No. 11 in Gloucester County indoor history, just three inches outside the top 10:

23-7 ¾ … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2012
23-4 ½ … Maurice Hunter [Woodbury], 1983
22-9 ¼ … Shai Mumford [West Deptford], 2013
22-7 ¼ … Keon Grady [Delsea], 2017
22-5 ¾ … Khaliel Burnett [Delsea], 2018
22-2 … Adwon Parker [West Deptford], 2006
22-0 … Damir Lomax [Delsea], 2020
21-8 … Ferrell Cooper [West Deptford], 2011
21-6 ½ … Craig Howard [Washington Twp.], 1998
21-6 ½ … Mel Colvin [Delsea], 1999
21-3 ¼ … Christian Langston [Delsea], 2023
21-2 … Brandon Greene [Washington Twp.], 2019
21-1 ½ … Enis Hutchinson [Glassboro], 2014
21-0 … Raekwon Little-Martin [Williamstown], 2014

Here’s one from last month that I missed: Winslow grad Nylah Perry, now a sophomore at Iowa, ran a PR 38.46 for 300 meters in her season opener.

Perry placed 2nd, just 3-100ths of a second behind teammate Lia Love in the 300 at the Jimmy Grant Invitational in Iowa City.

Love and Perry’s times are fastest in the sporadically contested 300 by Iowa women since

They both fell a little over half a second short of the school record of 37.82 set in 1984 by Elaine Jones. Iowa swept the top five spots in the 300, with four women under 39 seconds.

Perry’s previous 300 PR was a 39.22 at the same meet last year.

Although the 300 isn’t contested in a lot of meets, 38.46 is still a very impressive time, and Love and Perry and teammates Mariel Bruxvoort (38.74) and LaSarah Hargrove (38.83) rank 4th, 5th, 7th and 9th on the current U.S. list.

Perry is also No. 11 on the 2022 world list. The 300 is run mainly in U.S. college meets but also in some international meets.

Perry ran 58.72 for the 400 intermediates last spring at the NCAA West Prelims in Fayetteville.

So far this year, that 300 is Perry’s only race, and Iowa isn’t scheduled to return to action until Jan. 14 at the Hawkeye Invitational, also in Iowa City.

Deptford senior Lathan Brown just missed the Gloucester County 400-meter dash record over the weekend at the Armory High School Holiday Classic in New York.

Brown ran a big indoor PR 49.18 to place 3rd in a fast 400 at the Armory behind outdoor state Group 2 champ Alexander Sadikov of Ocean Township (48.50) and Wesley Noble of Bishop Loughlin in Brooklyn (49.00), who ran 47.14 in June to win the USATF Outdoor Youth National Championship.

Brown’s previous indoor PR was a 50.26 from New Balance Nationals at the Armory in March. He just missed his overall PR of 49.17, which he ran at outdoor sectionals at Delsea in June.

He also just missed the county indoor mark of 49.11 set by Woodbury’s Darrell Bush when he won the 2012 Meet of Champions at the Bubble. His time is No. 22 in South Jersey history.

The versatile Brown ran 1:56.19 for the 800 and 55.22 in the intermediates last spring.

All-Time Gloucester County Indoor 400 Top-10
49.11 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 2012
49.13 … Eric Chekemian [Washington Twp.], 2001
49.18 … Lathan Brown [Deptford], 2023
49.26 … Tim Carey [Washington Twp,], 2010
49.65 … Aaron Younger [Delsea], 2007
50.05 … Devon Carter [Washington Twp.], 2010
50.16 … Derrell Manhertz [Kingsway], 2012
50.18 … Shaikyi Hannah [Delsea], 2020
50.22 … Marcus Williams [Delsea], 2012