Fantastic meet for Haddonfield junior Chloe Kamp at the Camden County Championships Saturday at Haddon Township.

Kamp won three events and placed 2nd in another, PR’d in two events and helped Haddonfield out-race Sterling 157-138 to win the Small-School Championship.

In the 100, Kamp ran a PR 12.43 in the trials before winning the final in 12.54. Her previous PR was a 12.63 just a week earlier at South Jersey Elite at Delsea. Kamp edged Sterling freshman Leeya Joseph, who was 2nd in a personal-best 12.69.

Kamp’s other PR came in the long jump, which she won at 16-10, four inches beyond her previous PR of 16-6 from last year’s South Jersey Group 2 sectionals, also at Delsea. Sterling senior Jenovia Logan was 2nd just a couple inches behind at 16-7 ¾.

Kamp is new to the 400, but she’s broken 60 in both major meets she’s raced. She ran her first lifetime 400 last month at the Blue Devil Classic in Westfield and ran 59.42. She ran 59.63 Saturday, edging sophomore teammate Molly Minor in a 1-2 Bulldog finish. Minor ran 59.99 for 2nd in what was also only her 2nd 400 ever. She ran 63.85 last May in a meet at Haddonfield.

Joseph ran a PR 25.52 to win the 200, with Camp 2nd in 26.10 for eight more big points. The 26.10 is a big-meet PR for Camp, although she did run a fully-automatic 25.99 in a dual meet at West Deptford last month.

In South Jersey Group 2, Kamp now ranks 2nd in the 400, 3rd in the 100 and long jump and 7th in the 200.

Haddonfield junior Ava Thomas also recorded a fast distance double [5:15.22, PR 10:55.73], sophomore Audrey Adams won the high hurdles in 16.25 and junior Mia Bompensa cleared 10-0 for 1st in the pole vault.

In addition to Joseph’s win in the 200 and 2nd in the 100 and 60.01 relay anchor, Sterling got wins from junior Avanna Brown [34-8 triple jump], junior Laurel Conway [101-10 javelin] and senior Jordan Caul [33-11 ¾ shot].

Sterling also won the 4-by-4 team with a season-best 4:07.22 with Ayanna Brown, Nylah Coleman and Jordan Frazier setting up Joseph.

The top two freshman long jumpers in New Jersey are teammates at Winslow Township.

Ma’syiah Brawner and Chantina Walker went 1-2 in the long jump Saturday at the Camden County Championships at Haddon Township, Brawner with a 17-10 ½ as part of a monster quad performance and Walker with a PR of 17-5 ¼.

Brawner and Walker both went over 17 feet indoors, Brawner with a 17-3 at Ocean Breeze in February and Walker also at 17-3 but at the Armory at Easterns.

With their jumps Saturday, they trail only Mainland seniors Emma Crozier-Carole [18-2 ¼ at Woodbury] and McKenna Pontari [17-10 ¾] on the 2023 South Jersey list, and they’re the top two freshmen in New Jersey.

Brawner’s long jump win was one of only four PRs she established Saturday, helping Winslow win the team title.

She won the high jump at 5-2 and the triple jump at 38-2 ¾ and ran 15.49 in the hurdles, placing 2nd to senior teammate Janelle Marshall, who ran a South Jersey No. 1 14.78.

Brawner’s 38-2 ¾ is a South Jersey freshman class record. Samantha Hunger of Sterling jumped 36-9 ¾ at the 2006 state Group 2 meet at Egg Harbor. It’s also No. 11 nationally among freshmen, according to the MileSplit U.S. database.

Brawner is No. 1 freshman in New Jersey in both horizontal jumps, No. 2 in the hurdles [behind Tessa Hughes of Peddie School, who ran 15.09 in Lawrenceville this weekend] and No. 2 in the high jump [behind Egypt Bolan of Lindenwold, who cleared 5-4 Saturday in the Small-School Division of the Camden County meet].

She’s the No. 2 triple jumper overall in South Jersey, behind Ocean City junior Sophia Curtis, the South Jersey record holder at 40-10 ¼ and she’s No. 4 overall in South Jersey in the 100-meter highs.

Browner is also No. 17 on the all-time South Jersey list, and she’s already broken Cidae’a Woods’ school record of 38-1 from 2014 Group 3 states at South Plainfield.

Walker was also 2nd in the triple jump Saturday with a 33-7 ¾, a personal-best of her own.

Winslow scored 147 ½ points to win the Large-School team title at Haddon Township, and Brawner [38] and Walker [16] scored more than a 3rd of them.

Here’s what we know:

Washington Township’s Jayden Greene and Timber Creek’s Joshua Thaler ran on the St. Joe’s 3,200-meter relay team that broke the school record while winning the IC4A championship.

From Chris Tarello, a 1992 Shawnee graduate and now assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at St. Joe’s under Mike Glavin, Thaler split 1:49.9 on the second leg for the Hawks, and Greene anchored in 1:49.6.

That’s some hot racing from two half-milers who didn’t break 1:55 in high school.

Here’s what we don’t know:

How fast they went.

St. Joe’s won IC4A’s in Fairfax, Va., on Sunday and their 9:24.86 broke a school record set in 2002.

The Hawks’ time is No. 17 in the world this year.

Unfortunately, neither the official results – which you can find here – nor a brief mention of the race on the school’s web site – which you can find here – lists splits.

The previous school record was 9:25.96 and was set in 2002 by “A. Craycraft, Ji. Smith, B. Rosetti and J. Puryear,” according to St. Joe’s web site. Because why include first names when you can just list initials? And why mention what meet that record was set? Pro tip to SIDs: The more information you include the better. Nobody is going to put initials in a story. Help us out a little here!

It didn’t take long for me to find the names of the four runners on the 2002 team: Andrew Craycraft, Jim Smith, Brian Rosetti and Jerry Puryear, and they set that record of 9:25.96 at 2002 IC4As in Princeton. I can even tell you Smith and Rosetti graduated from St. Joe’s the morning of the race and were shuttled to Princeton by assistant coach Bob Hamer, who ran for Council Rock and now coaches at Rider.

But if you want splits from yesterday? Good luck. You won’t find ‘em.

But congrats to Greene and Thaler, who are now part of a school record relay team. Even if nobody knows how fast they went.

The other St. Joe’s legs were handled by Owen Moelter, who led off in 1:52.0, and Gavin Campbell, who split 1:51.0 on the 3rd leg. Both ran in high school for Central Bucks South in Warrington.

Cherokee’s trio of half-milers did something at the Burlington County Open that hadn’t been done in nearly two decades.

Seniors Patrick Ditmars and Conor Jacob and junior Nick Kuenkel, Cherokee’s top three runners on the Chiefs’ state Group 4-champion XC team, swept the top three spots in the 800 Saturday at Northern Burlington, Ditmars winning in 1:55.23, Jacob 2nd in 1:56.32 and Kuenkel 3rd in 1:56.76.

Cinnaminson senior Derek Coceano [1:57.60] and Lenape junior Will Whalen [PR 1:58.77] also dipped under two minutes, but Cherokee became the first school to sweep any event at a County Open in 18 years.

Last time it happened was at the 2005 meet at Maple Shade, when Willingboro took the top three spots in the triple jump, with Bryan Potter [43-11 ¾], Travis Davis [42-10 ¾] and Antoine Rivera [40-10 ¼].

The last County Open sweep on the track also came in the 800 and it was also Willingboro. Back in 2003, Rashaad Lee of Willingboro won in 1:55.76, Ahmad Rutherford was 2nd in 1:55.90 and Edmund Dixon 3rd in 1:57.65. Those three, joined by Shareef Muhammad, ran 7:44.25 a few weeks later for 3rd place in the 4-by-8 at the adidas Outdoor Championships in Raleigh. That’s No. 5 in South Jersey history.

Ditmars has now won four Burlington County titles. He was the county XC champ in 2021 and took 2nd yo Kuenkel this past year. He won the 3,200 at the 2021 County Open as a soph and the 800 last year in 1:55.93. Ditmars’ 800 PR is 1:55.01 from last year’s South Jersey Elite at Delsea.

Jacob on Saturday also ran very close to his PR of 1:55.93 from Haddonfield Distance Night last year, and Kuenkel ran well under his PR of 1:58.38 from the South Jersey Elite earlier this month at Delsea.

The last time three half-milers from the same South Jersey school ran sub-1:57 in the same race was 2017 Group 4 sectionals , when Egg Harbor’s Aidin Hendriks ran 1:54.79, Eric Barnes 1:55.70 and Robert Dessoye 1:55.98 to place 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th on their home track.

The winner of that race was Malual Mu of Trenton, whose younger sister Athing is the Olympic 800 champion.

Millville grad Kira Parsons, a junior at Towson, popped a javelin PR 138-1 for 4^th place at the ECAC Championships Saturday at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

Parsons was sitting in 8^th place with a best throw of 127-0 going into her 6^th and final attempt when she bombed her 138-1 to move up four places.

Her previous PR was a 137-7 at the Towson (Md.) Invitational in April of 2021. At Millville, Parsons threw 134-0 at the 2019 state Group 4 meet at Franklin High School.

Her 138-1 ranks 5^th in Towson history.

Towson won its first ECAC team title ever with 89 ½ points.

Timber Creek junior Naylah Jones raced to a speedy 100-200 double Saturday at the Camden County Championships at Haddon Township.

Jones won the 100 in a PR 11.96 and the 200 in 24.64, also a PR. She moved into the top spot in New Jersey in the 100 and No. 2 in the 200 behind only Piscataway senior Brooke’lyn Drakeford, who ran 22.53 Saturday in Metuchen.

Jones is now No. 12 in Camden County history in the 100 and No. 11 in the 200.

In the 100, Jones had a PR of 12.08 coming into this year from last year’s South Jersey Group 3 meet at Delsea. She lowered that to 12.05 at Fast Times at Cherokee and then to 12.01 in the trials Saturday and then to 11.96 in the final, where she edged sophomore teammate Ryan Jennings, who ran 12.19 (after a PR 12.17 in the trials).

In the 200, Jones had a PR of 24.87 from Ocean Breeze back in February, and this was her first open 200 this spring. Jennings was also 2nd in the 200 with a PR 24.97, her first time under 25.59. Jennings is now the No. 1 soph in New Jersey in the 100 and No. 3 in the 200. Overall, Jones and Jennings are No. 1 and 4 in the state in the 100 and No. 2 and 9 in the state in the 200.

Junior Chloe Jones also had a big day for Timber Creek with a PR 57.17 to win the 400, No. 3 this year in South Jersey, and another PR 16-10 for 4th in the long jump.

All-Time Camden County 100-Meter Dash List
11.49 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
11.57 … Patti Dunlap [Camden], 1979
11.63 … Dennisha Page [Woodrow Wilson], 2019
11.71 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
11.73 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2014
11.88 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
11.90 … Jaia James [Winslow Twp.], 2022
11.91 … Aliya Harrison [Sterling], 2017
11.94 … Emily Carson [Haddonfield], 2013
11.96 … Jamillah Nock [Woodrow Wilson], 2004
11.96 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], 2019
11.96 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2023
11.98 … Jennifer Jackson [Eastern], 2003

All-Time Camden County 200-Meter Dash List
23.66 … Dennisha Page [Woodrow Wilson], 2019
23.85 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
24.04 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
24.11 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
24.19 … Patti Dunlap [Camden] 1978
24.19 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.]
24.48 … Avionne Sloan [Camden], 2003
24.53 … Maya Drayton [Cherry Hill East], 2019
24.57 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2014
24.61 … Emily Carson [Haddonfield], 2013
24.64 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2023
24.70 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], 2019
24.72 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2011
24.72 … Aliya Harrison [Sterling], 2016
24.73 … Nylah Perry [Winslow Twp.], 2019
24.77 … Halima Scott [Woodrow Wilson], 2018

Delran sophomore Emir Canli turned in a remarkable Burlington County Open Saturday, winning the hurdles and triple jump, taking 2nd in the long jump and setting PRs in all three events.

Canli single-handedly scored all of Delran’s 28 points and the Bears placed 7th in team scoring. He’s only the 8th Delran boy in meet history to record a double win and only the 4th to also place 2nd in a third event.

Incredibly, this is Canli’s first season of track, and he’s the No. 1 sophomore in South Jersey in the 110-meter hurdles, long jump and triple jump. State-wide among 10th-graders, he’s No. 2 in the triple jump, No. 4 in the hurdles among sophomores and No. 7 in the long jump.

On Saturday at Northern Burlington, Canli started out with a 15.28 in the hurdles trials, where he was the 2nd-fastest qualifier. In the final, he lowered his PR from 15.14 at Father Judge to 14.87, winning by five meters over the field. He became the first Delran runner ever to win the high hurdles at a County Open.

The triple jump was huge for Canli, who came in with a PR of 41-1 ¾ but improved to 41-9 ¼ on his 1st attempt, 41-10 ½ on this 3rd, 42-10 ¾ and then popped a huge 45-3 ½ on his final attempt to pass R.V. sophomore Adris Lewis [PR 43-9 ¼] for the win. That 45-3 ½ is the No. 2 jump in meet history (triple jump was added in 2003) behind R.V.’s Zakiyy Williams’ 45-4 ¾ in 2015. That’s a Burlington County sophomore class record, a quarter of an inch beyond the 45-3 ¼ by Rece Englehart of Moorestown from last year (Englehart is currently hurt but hoping to return for sectionals).

In the long jump, Canli finished just one inch behind Palmyra senior Kwinten Ives, who jumped 21-3 ¼ to become Palmyra’s first county long jump winner since Will Allison in 2004. But Canli’s 21-2 ¾ shattered his PR of 20-1 from the Don Danser Relays at Lenape last month.

The only Delran athlete to have a better County Open than Canli is Jamir Brown, who was a sophomore last year when he won the intermediates and long jump and placed 2nd in the high hurdles and triple jump. He’s no longer at Delran.

Two other Delran athletes recorded a double win and a 2nd place at a County Open. In 1991, Andre Fisher won the javelin and high jump and placed 2nd in the long jump to Maple Shade’s Karahn Davis, and in 2001 Todd Lowber won the high jump and 100 and was 2nd in the 200 to Willingboro’s Darrin Scott.

Best of all … there’s another Canli. Twin brother Deniz is currently hurt, but he’s long jumped 20-4 and triple jumped 42-8 and run 51.54. He’s the No. 5 sophomore in South Jersey in the long jump and No. 7 in the triple jump. He was the No. 1 freshman 400 runner in South Jersey last year.

Eastern graduate Jailya Ash, a sophomore at UConn, won her second straight Big East Conference Championship Saturday, and she did it by the narrowest of margins.

In a race that was decided by 3-1,000ths of a second, Ash edged her long-time rival, Villanova junior Jane Livingston, to win the 100-meter hurdles at the Big East meet at Villanova in Radnor Township.

Ash and Livingston were both credited with identical 13.58 times in the final, but the photo timer credited Ash with a 13.575 and Livingston a 13.578.

That’s about 1.2 inches separating the two athletes.

Ash edged Livingston by 5-100ths of a second to win the indoor Big East title in Chicago over the 60-meter hurdles. Last spring, Livingston edged Ash by 11-100ths of a second for the title.

In the trials on Friday, Ash ran a PR 13.57 with a legal wind (0.9). We went through this last year, but UConn’s web site is a disgrace – the most recent list of Huskies conference champions is from 2015 – but I went through the last eight years of Big East results it looks like Ash is the first UConn woman in program history to sweep the high hurdles at the indoor and outdoor Big East Championships.

Last spring I went through 20 years of TFRRS pages to determine that Ash’s 13.58 at last year’s conference meet was the fastest by a Connecticut hurdler since 13.39 by Phylicia George at the 2010 Big East meet in Cincinnati and the No. 2 time in Huskies history.

A’liyah Thomas, a current UConn sophomore, actually ran 13.45 this year in a meet in Storrs to presumably move into the No. 2 spot on the non-existent UConn all-time list, but she did not race in the hurdles in the conference meet.

And a plea to UConn’s sports information and athletic departments: Update the women’s track information on your web site, like every other Division 1 college. Put together all-time indoor and outdoor men’s and women’s performance lists, like every other Division 1 college. List all-tine conference champions somewhere on your web site, like every other Division 1 college. Thanks.

Tremendous meet Saturday for Eastern’s Rajahn Dixon, who swept the sprints and ran the fastest time in the state this year and one of the fastest in South Jersey history in the 200.

No wind guage at Haddon Township, but Dixon won the 200 in 21.40, which matches the No. 6 time in South Jersey history.

Dixon tied the meet record set by Timber Creek’s Jamaad Muse, who ran 21.40 at the  2014 meet, also at Haddon Township, and he broke a very fast Eastern school record of 21.46 set by Sabli Gonnet when he won the 2007 Meet of Champions at South Plainfield.

Dixon ran a hand-timed 21.5 in a dual meet last week, but his fat PR before this year was a 21.92 indoors at Ocean Breeze. He ran 21.96 at South Jersey Elite at Delsea earlier this month.

He out-raced indoor Meet of Champions winner Premier Wynn of Pennsauken, who was 2nd in 21.70 – which is actually a PR for Wynn. He ran 21.75 to win the MoC at Ocean Breeze.

It appears on his MileSplit page that this is Dixon’s first year of outdoor track, and this was only his 2nd lifetime outdoor 200.

Camden soph Azir Lee, in his first meet of the year, also dipped under 22 in 3rd place with a PR 21.96. Lee, who was at Sterling as a freshman, is the No. 3 sophomore in the state and the first Camden sprinter under 22 seconds since Tahshon Reese ran 21.76 at the 2012 Group 3 sectionals at Egg Harbor.

Dixon also won the 100 in 10.91. He ran a hand-timed 10.6 but his fat PR was 11.02 from Fast Times at Cherokee. He lowered that to 10.96 in the prelims Saturday before winning the final over Pennsauken junior Elijah Jennings, who ran 11.02.

South Jersey now claims three of the five-fastest 200 runners in the state. Dixon is No. 1 at 21.40, Washington Township junior Ajani Dwyer is No. 4 at 21.55 and Wynn is No. 5 with his 21.70.

All-Time South Jersey 200-Meter Dash List
21.06 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
21.07 … Antonio Tarantino [Paul VI], 2018
21.14 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], 2004
21.30 … Jah’mir Beasley [Sterling], 2019
21.39 … Martin Booker Jr. [Pennsauken], 2017
21.40 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 1991
21.40 … Rob Gary [Lenape], 1998
21.40 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 2001
21.40 … Jamaad Muse [Timber Creek], 2012
21.40 … Rajahn Dixon [Eastern], 2023
21.41 … Dorian Bryant [Kingsway], 2002
21.41 … T.J. Johnson [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2010
21.43 … Barry Cephas [Winslow Twp.], 2008
21.46 … Brondon Jenkins [Delran], 1994
21.46 … Sabli Gonnet [Eastern], 2007
21.47 … Curtis McIntyre [Bridgeton], 1992

Rancocas Valley sophomore Cecilia King won the high hurdles at the South Jersey Open last weekend at Delsea and at the Burlington County Open on Saturday.

That’s impressive enough. What makes it even more impressive is that they were the first two hurdles races of King’s life.

King ran everything from the 100 to the 800 as a freshman last year – she medaled in the 800 at the BCSL Liberty Division meet – and then this past indoor season she focused on the 55 and was quick enough to run 7.49 at Easterns, which made her the 12th-fastest sophomore in the state.

But King didn’t find her calling until this spring, when the R.V. coaches tried her in the hurdles, and she responded in a big way.

King has won the 100 highs at each of her first two meets, running 15.35 at Delsea last weekend and 15.37 at the County Open Saturday.

She’s only the third R.V. girl to win the 100-meter hurdles at a County Open. Legendary Tonya Lee won in 1986 and 1987, and Anabella Chin won it in 2021 and 2022.

King is the fourth sophomore to win the highs at the Open – Olympian Carol Lewis won four straight years from 1978 through 1981 – the first four years the girls meet was held – and Burlington Township’s Meagan Robinson won as a sophomore in 2009 as did Cinnaminson’s Meredith Updike in 2017.

On Saturday, King out-raced Burlington City’s Ny’era Hand-Brooks, the indoor Group 1 hurdles (and 55) state champion in the final. Hand-Brooks placed 2nd in 15.85.

King also won the 400-meter intermediates Saturday at Northern Burlington with a 1:07.00 in her second lifetime 400IH race.

That made her the first sophomore to double the two hurdles races since Lee in 1986.

The only other girls in meet history to double the two hurdles races are Willingboro’s Bobbie Tabb in 1982, Lee in 1986 and 1987, Shawnee’s Mandie Dulin in 1996, Tiffany Alford of Pemberton in 2002, Updike in 2017 and Chin last year.

King’s 15.35 from last weekend is No. 2 in South Jersey this spring behind Janelle Marshall of Winslow, who won the Camden County meet in 14.78 Saturday at Haddon Township. King is No. 5 sophomore in the state and the top soph in Group 4.

Rancocas Valley scored 131 points to win its 5th straight county title, equalling the longest winning streak in meet history. Lenape won five straight from 2007 through 2011. The meet wasn’t held in 2018 or 2020, so the last time R.V. didn’t win was 2016, when Lenape won.