Hammonton’s Khristina Washington and Washington Township’s Isabelle Deal won titles Saturday at the NJAC Championships at Ocean Breeze.
Washington, a senior at Stockton, won her second New Jersey Athletic Conference triple jump title, and Deal, a senior at Rowan, won her first NJAC championship after winning two Centennial Conference titles in the javelin while attending Ursinus.
Washington fouled on four of her six jumps but hit 35-3 ½ on her third attempt and won by less than two inches over sophomore teammate Emma Petrolia, who jumped 35-1 ¾.
Washington won the triple jump at last year’s outdoor NJAC meet in Mahwah with a 36-4 ¾. In both meets, she fouled on her first two jumps. She also placed 6th in the long jump at 16-4 ¼.
Deal, a three-time javelin All-America at Ursinus, is in her first season at Rowan. She threw 42-9 ¾ earlier this month at Haverford, breaking the 9-year-old school record of 42-8 set by Pemberton’s Kyanna Hawkins-Deravin at Jadwin Gym in Princeton in 2015. She extended her record to 44-6 ¼ earlier this month, also at Ocean Breeze. That makes her No. 16 in NCAA Division 3.
On Saturday, she had the four-best throws of the competition, including a 44-0 ½ on her final attempt.
She also PR’d with a 50-0 for 2nd place in the weight throw. Her previous PR was 48-6 ¼, also earlier this month. Her best throw at Ursinus was a 45-6 ¼.
Deal has a javelin PR of 155-0 from a meet in Selinsgrove, Pa., last May.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 