Willingboro’s Kaila Speight, Maya Bolden, Jaden Murry, Nester Wea blast 8th-fastest 4×2 in S.J. history in Easterns triumph!!!!!!!

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The Willingboro girls won the 800-meter relay Tuesday evening at the 88th annual Easterns with the 8th-fastest in South Jersey history.

Sophomore Kaila Speight, freshman Maya Bolden, sophomore Jaden Murry and junior Nester Wea tore up the Armory track in 1:41.70, fastest by any South Jersey school indoors in six years.

Willingboro broke its own school record of 1:41.7 – hand-timed – which the Chimeras ran on the same track at 2002 Nationals with the team of Okechi Ogbuokiri, Channel Hamilton, Halimah Bashir and Rhea Mann.

The Chimeras led all qualifiers with a 1:42.54 in the trials – Haddonfield was 2nd-fastest to the final with a 1:44.39.

In the final, Willingboro led wire to wire, with Haddonfield second with a school-record 1:44.05 of its own.

Willingboro’s time is fastest by any South Jersey school since Winslow set the South Jersey record of 1:39.55 at Armory Nationals in 2018 and fastest by a Burlington County 4-by-200 since Moorestown ran 1:41.28 at 1999 Easterns at the Armory.

The Chimeras had never won the 4-by-200 at Easterns. They won the 4-by-4 in 2000, 2002 and 2003. Their time is 2nd-fastest by a New Jeraey school this year. The Union Catholic All-Star team ran 1:38.03 earlier this month at the Millrose Games.

The win is the 23rd for the Willingboro program, most of any South Jersey school at Easterns.

All-Time South Jersey sub-1:43 800-meter relay list
1:39.55 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:39.94 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:40.77 … Moorestown, 2000
1:41.14 … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:41.19 … Camden, 2008
1:41.28 … Woodrow Wilson, 2005
1:41.42 … Moorestown, 1999
1:41.70 … Willingboro, 2024
1:41.78 … Winslow Twp., 2014
1:41.80 … Winslow Twp., 2019
1:41.7h … Willingboro, 2002
1:41.98 … Camden, 2009
1:41.99 … Rancocas Valley, 2019

All-Time Burlington County sub-1:43 800-meter relay list
1:40.77 … Moorestown, 2000
1:41.42 … Moorestown, 1999
1:41.70 … Willingboro, 2024
1:41.7h … Willingboro, 2002
1:41.99 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
1:42.45 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
1:42.54 … Willingboro, 2024
1:42.5h … Willingboro, 2003
1:42.66 … Willingboro, 2000
1:43.11 … Rancocas Valley, 2020

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