With track season finally over, we’ll catch our breath and spend the next couple weeks taking a look at some top South Jersey athletes who fell through the cracks this year that we didn’t have a chance to write about.
Today: Sunsarai Moore, Glassboro
Sunsarai Moore started out her freshman year placing 28th in the discus at the Deptford Spartan Relays the first week of the season.
She improved so much over the next couple months that she was the top freshman discus thrower in the state by the end of the year.
Moore threw 95-9 in her 2nd meet, Fast Times at Cherokee, and then hit 100 feet for the first time at Delsea Crusader Field Event Meet in late May with a 107-9.
At Group 1 sectionals, she PR’d at 118-2 and placed 3rd behind Clayton junior Maylisa Bluford [129-5] and Schalick junior Grace O’Neill [125-11] and then PR’d again at states with 118-8 behind only Bluford’s 129-3.
So she went from 28th at Deptford on April 8 to 2nd in the entire state Group 1 on June 10.
She was the only freshman to even reach the Meet of Champions – she placed 17th overall – and finished the year 11th overall in South Jersey and is the No. 6 returning thrower for the 2024 season.
In the last 20 years, the only freshman in South Jersey to throw farther was Rancocas Valley’s Ravin Hood, who hit 130-6 at the 2019 Meet of Champions at Northern Burlington. Moore is the top Group 1 freshman in at least 20 years.
With three years to go, Moore is already within 11 feet of the Glassboro school record of 129-3 set by Stacie Belzer at the 2002 Tri-County Conference All-Star Meet at Delsea.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 