South Jersey left the 88th annual Easterns at the Armory tonight with eight 1st place medals and 41 top-6 finishes in all.

Quite a night for South Jersey boys and girls at the older high school indoor track meet in the country.

We’ll have plenty more stories over the next couple days, but for now here’s a look at every South Jersey medalist tonight!

(Since the Armory results don’t list relay names, I’ve only included names of relay members that are confirmed. For the relay teams where names are missing, please let me know in the comment section and I’ll fill them in! And, yes, it’s nuts that this is happening in 2024.)

BOYS
55-Meter Dash
2nd – Brysheen Ferguson [Glassboro] 6.48

200-Meter Dash
2nd – Julian Conigliaro [Delsea], 21.71

400-Meter Dash
3rd – Alexander Osayemi [Clayton] 49.34

55-Meter Hurdles
1st – Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.] 7.10
3rd – Alexander Hollimon [Williamstown] 7.40

800-Meter Relay
6th – Deptford, 1:34.67 [1:31.79 in semis]

1,600-Meter Relay
2nd – Deptford, 3:24.23

High Jump
4th – David Goldbolt [Rancocas Valley] 6-4
6th – Carson Thomas [Washington Twp.] 6-2

Long Jump
6th – Bright John [Sterling] 21-1 ¾

Triple Jump
4th – Cartrell Moore [Glassboro] 44-9
5th – Adris Lewis [Rancocas Valley] 44-8
6th – Josiah Williams [Mainland Reg.] 44-4

Pole Vault
2nd – Daniel Couse [Clearview] 14-0
5th – Marcus Hood [Deptford] 12-6
6th – Trevor Farrell [Kingsway] 12-6

Shot Put
1st – Damere Lassiter [Glassboro] 60-1
2nd – Jonathan Harris [Delsea] 59-11
5th – Greg Masso [Delsea] 54-3
6th – Mike Simeon [Egg Harbor Twp.] 54-2 ½

GIRLS
55-Meter Dash
3rd – Olivia Okaro [Winslow Twp.] 7.28

200-Meter Dash
5th – Olivia Okaro [Winslow Twp.] 25.27

400-Meter Dash
2nd – Cinniya Robinson [Winslow Twp.] 57.05

1,600-Meter Run
4th – Gillian Lovett [Mainland Reg.] 5:11.74
5th – Michaela Schlemo [Egg Harbor Twp.,] 5:13.77

3,200-Meter Run
3rd – Alyssa Boucher [Williamstown], 11:25.59
5th – Sophia Aldridge [Williamstown], 11:32.96

800-Meter Relay
1st – Willingboro [Kaila Speight, Maya Bolden, Jaden Murry, Nester Wea] 1:41.70
2nd – Haddonfield 1:44.05

1,600-Meter Relay
1st – Willingboro, 4:05.50
4th – Kingsway, 4:13.24

Distance Medley
1st – Cherokee [Megan Niglio, Madison Van Haren, Madeline Meder, Kerry O’Day], 12:16.72
3rd – Egg Harbor Twp., 12:31.48

High Jump
1st – Alanna Woolfolk [Clayton] 5-6
T5th – Naa’rah Andrews [Willingboro] 5-0

Long Jump
6th – Jaidah Garrett [Absegami] 17-8

Triple Jump
1st – Lauren Fadairo [Rancocas Valley] 38-1 ½
6th – Ayanna Brown [Sterling] 37-0 ¼

Pole Vault
1st – Rebecca Hoover [Haddonfield], 11-6

Shot Put
5th – Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea] 38-0
6th – Maylisa Bluford [Clayton] 37-5 ¾

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

Washington Township senior Yashahya Brown, the state record holder in the hurdles, smashed the Easterns meet record yesterday.

Brown easily won the 55-meter hurdles at the 88th annual Easterns at the Armory in 7.10, just 4-100ths of a second off his state-record 7.06 from the South Jersey Group 4 sectional meet at the Bubble.

He smashed the meet record of 7.10, set just last year by Nathaniel Rayan of Scotch Plains-Fanwood, who ran 7.14 in the final and broke a 44-year-old meet record set in 1979 by Rod Wilson of Bartram at Jadwin Gym.

Brown is the 13th South Jersey hurdler to win an Easterns title going back to William Mitchell of Collingswood, who won the 60-yard highs in 1943. He’s the second Washington Township hurdler to win Easterns. Devon Carter won the 2010 meet at the Armory.

Washington Township’s other Easterns winner is Todd Dutch, who was 1st in the 200 in 2002 at the Armory.

The fastest previous South Jersey hurdler at Easterns was Delsea’s Sultan Tucker, who won the 1996 race in 7.23, edging Pleasantville’s Nate Harley, who ran 7.29.

Brown ran 7.43 in the trials and 7.20 in the semis. Williamstown senior Alexander Hollimon placed 3rd with a 7.40 in the final, giving Gloucester County a 1-3 finish. His time was just off his lifetime-best 7.36 from last month at the Bubble.

Here’s a look at the fastest times in meet history, with a + indicated the race was run at the identical 60-yard distance:

All-Time Easterns 55-Meter Hurdles List
7.10 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2024
7.14 … Nathaniel Rayan [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 2023
7.17+ … Rodney Wilson [Bartrum, Pa.], 1979
7.20 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 2019
7.23 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 1996
7.27+ … Patrick Mann [Gar-Field, Va.], 1984
7.28+ … Calvin Holmes [Denbeigh, Va.], 1984
7.29 … Anthony Acklin [Triton], 2001
7.29 … Nate Harley [Pleasantville], 1996
7.29 … Will Brown [Palmyra], 2006
7.30+ … James Purvis [Brentwood, N.Y.], 1984
7.31s … Danyne Brown [Camden], 1999

All-Time S.J. Hurdles Winners at Easterns
1943 … William Mitchell [Collingswood] 7.8y
1985 … Jonathan Dickey [Penns Grove] 7.32y
1989 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro] 7.44y
1990 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro] 7.35y
1995 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea] 7.47
1996 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea] 7.23
1999 … Danyne Brown [Camden] 7.34
2000 … Rashad Baker [Woodrow Wilson] 7.39
2001 … Anthony Acklin [Triton] 7.29
2002 … Matt Dahms [Haddonfield] 7.52
2006 … Will Brown [Palmyra] 7.29
2010 … Devon Carter [Washington Twp.] 7.49
2019 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine] 7.20
2020 … Anthony Vasquez [Egg Harbor Twp.] 7.45

All-Time Gloucester County Winners at Easterns
BOYS
55-Meter Dash
1965 … George Hartsfield [Glassboro], 6.3y
1966 … Bill Gaines [Clearview], 6.4y
1970 … John Boxley [Deptford], 6.5y
2012 … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 6.46
200-Meter Dash
2002 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 21.62
2012 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 21.53
Mile Run
1943 … Browning Ross [Woodbury], 4:37.5
2013 … Bill Dolan [Clearview], 4:21.51
55-Meter Hurdles
1995 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 7.47
1996 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 7.23
2010 … Devon Carter [Washington Twp.], 7.49
2020 … Anthony Vasquez [Egg Harbor Twp.], 7.45
High Jump
2015 … Ameer Banks [Delsea], 6-10
Pole Vault
2008 … Dan Batdorf [West Deptford], 15- 6
Long Jump
2012 … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 23- 7 ¾
Triple Jump
2014 … Tristan Wilson [Delsea], 48- 8 ½
2018 … Khaliel Burnett [Delsea], 49- 1
Shot Put
2002 … Jason Nwosu [Delsea], 61-5
800-Meter Relay
2015 … Deptford, 1:30.51

GIRLS
Mile Run
2017 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 4:55.96
High Jump
2023 … Alanna Woolfolk [Clayton], 5-8
1,600-Meter Relay
2010 … Washington Township, 3:58.85

Junior Megan Niglio, senior Madison Van Haren, sophomore Madeline Meder and senior Kerry O’Day ran 12:16.72 to win the distance medley Tuesday night at the 88th annual Easterns at the Armory.

Niglio led off with a 3:49.10 that had Cherokee a close 2nd behind Shenendehowa of Clifton Park, N.Y., Van Haren split 59.29 to move Cherokee into the lead, Meder ran the 800 in 2:25.32 to extend the lead to 10 meters, and O’Day anchored in 5:03.01, running away from the field to give Cherokee its first Easterns relay win.

Cherokee’s time is fastest in New Jersey this year and No. 8 in the U.S., according to the MileSplit national database.

The only previous Easterns wins for the Cherokee girls team were by Monica Olkowski in the 1,000 at the 1990 meet in Boston and Megan Lacy in the mile in 2010, also at the Armory.

Cherokee becomes the 3rd South Jersey school to win the Easterns DMR. Lenape won in 2010 and 2013. Cherokee’s time is 8th-fastest in Burlington County history, and the top nine times on the all-time county top-10 are from Cherokee or Lenape.

This is the 3rd straight year the Chiefs have run 12:20 or faster.

All-Time Burlington County Girls Indoor DMR Top 10
11:54.63 … Lenape, 2013
11:55.90 … Lenape, 2012
11:57.21 … Cherokee, 2022
11:58.92 … Lenape, 2010
12:04.9h … Lenape, 2015
12:10.07 … Cherokee, 2023
12:15.60 … Lenape, 2014
12:16.72 … Cherokee, 2024
12:19.81 … Lenape, 2009
12:20.11 … Shawnee, 2017

Washington Township junior Dakota Jones didn’t wait long to break a 10-year-old county record.

The 88th annual Easterns was only 20 minutes old Tuesday afternoon when Jones won her heat in the 55-meter hurdles at the Armory in New York in 8.30.

That breaks the Gloucester County record of 8.39 set by Kingsway’s Delicia Sample at the 2004 state Group 3 meet at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym and matched by Washington Township’s Lexie Fraction – now one of her coaches – in the semifinals of the 2014 Easterns.

Jones, who ran her previous PR of 8.39 at Ocean Breeze late last month, is No. 1 in South Jersey this winter and No. 7 in New Jerey.

She goes into the semifinals later this afternoon 3rd-fastest in the trials, behind Morristown senior Aaliyah Murphy [8.23] and Rahway senior Morgan Ryerson [8.23].

Another race, another brilliant PR for Norfolk State’s Premier Wynn.

The freshman from Pennsauken ran a big lifetime-best 46.82 Tuesday afternoon and placed 2nd in the MEAC Championships at the Virginia Beach Sports Center.

He finished 2nd to freshman teammate Vincent Bond, who won the race at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference meet in 46.75.

Wynn had just PR’d with a 47.22 in Monday’s trials, which lowered his indoor best from 47.43 from a meet earlier in February at Penn State. So he’s lowered that by three-quarters of a second in less than 24 hours.

Wynn ran 47.39 outdoors in high school and 48.45 indoors.

It looks like Bond and Wynn are the 8th- and 9th-fastest freshmen in the 400 in NCAA Division 1. Their times are 3rd- and 4th-fastest in NCAA Division 1 Southeast Region.

Wynn’s time is No. 13 all-time by a South Jersey high school alum. It’s fastest by a college freshman from South Jersey in 19 years, since Vineland graduate Schefer Sherrer ran 46.66 outdoors as a freshman at Barton Community College in Great Bend, Kansas, at the Cavalier Cup meet at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas.

Wynn got out in an official FAT 21.57 through 200 meters, not far off his 200 PR of 21.43 from last month on the same track. He came back with a 25.25 for the second 200.

Norfolk State’s school record for 400 meters indoors is 46.17 by Trequan Barnes at the 2019 Penn State National in State College, Pa.

Wynn is scheduled to run the 200 later Tuesday afternoon.

All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Dash Alumni List
44.30 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], June 19, 1996, Atlanta
45.26 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], April 12, 1986, Tampa, Fla.
45.49 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], April 11, 2015, Tucson, Ariz.
45.98 … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], May 29, 2010, Charlotte, N.C.
46.05 … Schefer Sherrer [Vineland], May 18, 2005, Levelland, Texas
46.13 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], May 15, 2021, Raleigh, N.C.
46.19 … Maurice Ransome [Vineland], May 23-25, 1990, Naperville, Ill.
46.26 … Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], July 29, 2010, Nairobi, Kenya
46.48 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow], April 1, 2006, Atlanta
46.57 … Royce Reed [Bridgeton], May 19, 1996, Fairfax, Va.               
46.66 … Michael Bolling [Willingboro], May 15, 2004, Atlanta
46.67 … Jamaad Muse [Timber Creek], June 5, 2013, South Plainfield, N.J.
46.82 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], Feb. 20, 2024, Virginia Beach

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.

Since legendary Browning Ross of Woodbury won the mile and William Mitchell of Collingswood won the 60-yard hurdles at the 1943 Easterns – then called the National AAU Interscholastic Track and Field Championships and held at Madison Square Garden – some 134 South Jersey athletes from 48 different high schools have won an Easterns title.

The 88th running of Easterns begins at 4:30 p.m. tonight at the Armory, the meet’s home since it moved from Princeton’s Jadwin Gym in 1997.

Here’s a look at every winner from South Jersey in meet history. Below that is a look at how many Easterns champions every South Jersey high school has had. Willingboro leads the way with 23, followed by Camden [19] and Haddonfield [10], although if you combined Edgewood and Winslow, they have 15.

BOYS
55-Meter Dash
1963 … Joe Williams [Haddon Heights], 6.5y
1965 … George Hartsfield [Glassboro], 6.3y
1966 … Bill Gaines [Clearview], 6.4y
1970 … John Boxley [Deptford], 6.5y
1981 … George McKey [Willingboro], 6.44y
1983 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 6.31y
1984 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 6.31y
1996 … Albert Newkirk [Camden], 6.46
1997 … Louis Smith [Burlington Township], 6.49
1998 … Richard Hubbard [Eastern], 6.55
2005 … Thomas Walls [Woodrow Wilson], 6.50 [6.47 semis],
2012 … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 6.46
2013 … Curtis Fitzpatrick [Egg Harbor Twp.], 6.47
2015 … Davon Tucker [Sterling], 6.52

200-Meter Dash
1997 … Albert Newkirk [Camden], 22.31
2002 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 21.62
2012 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 21.53
2013 … A.J. Dawson [Holy Spirit], 22.04

300-Yard Dash
1991 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 31.34

400-Meter Dash
2000 … Mohamad Kanu [Lenape], 48.36
2019 … Daniel Fenton [Millville], 49.63
2023 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], 48.44

600-Yard Dash
None

800-Meter Run
1998 … Joseph Lewis [Pleasantville], 1:56.31
2012 … Isaac Clark [Pleasantville], 1:54.34

1,000-Yard Run
None

One-Mile Run
1943 … Browning Ross [Woodbury], 4:37.5
1951 … Gene Fekete [Camden Regional], 4:28.4
2001 … Chris Platt [Haddonfield], 4:21.54
2004 … Jon Anderson [Cinnaminson], 4:22.71
2007 … Brian Tetreault [Cinnaminson], 4:22.06
2013 … Bill Dolan [Clearview], 4:21.51

Two-Mile Run
1986 … Kevin Pumphrey [Highland Regional], 9:22.67
1990 … Albert Donawa [Camden], 9:30.02
2008 … Jonathan Vitez [Haddonfield], 9:34.38

55-Meter Hurdles
1943 … William Mitchell [Collingswood], 7.8y
1985 … Jonathan Dickey [Penns Grove], 7.32y
1989 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 7.44y
1990 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 7.35y
1995 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 7.47
1996 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 7.23
1999 … Danyne Brown [Camden], 7.34
2000 … Rashad Baker [Woodrow Wilson], 7.39
2001 … Anthony Acklin [Triton], 7.29
2002 … Matt Dahms [Haddonfield], 7.52
2006 … Will Brown [Palmyra], 7.29
2010 … Devon Carter [Washington Twp.], 7.49
2019 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 7.20
2020 … Anthony Vasquez [Egg Harbor Twp.], 7.45

High Jump
1961 … Leonard Smith [Edgewood], 6- 6
1986 … Terry Ferguson [Cherry Hill West], 6-10
1987 … Terry Ferguson [Cherry Hill West], 7- 0
1989 … J.C. Slocum [Bordentown], 6- 8
1994 … Desmond Powell [Oakcrest], 6- 4
2002 … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 7- 0
2003 … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 7- 2
2012 … A.J. Vance [Egg Harbor], 6- 6
2015 … Ameer Banks [Delsea], 6-10
2023 … David Godbolt [Rancocas Valley], 6-0

Pole Vault
1985 … Mark Murphy [Haddonfield], 14- 6
2008 … Dan Batdorf [West Deptford], 15- 6

Long Jump
1978 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 23-11 ¼
1979 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 25- 5 ½
1982 … Isaac Samuels [Willingboro-Kennedy], 22-11 ½
1983 … Isaac Samuels [Willingboro-Kennedy, N .J.], 24- 0 ¼
1987 … John Meekins [Cinnaminson], 22- 9 ¾
1988 … Rich Winstead [Egg Harbor Twp.], 23- 1
1990 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 24- 6 ¼
1991 … Jermaine Jackson [Camden-Wilson], 22- 7
2003 … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 23- 2
2011 … Andrew Athias [Cherry Hill East], 23- 4
2012 … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 23- 7 ¾
2013 … Antwan Dickerson [Pennsauken], 22-11 ½
2020 … Floyd Whitaker [Highland], 22- 8
2022 … Ahmad Fogg [Egg Harbor Twp.], 21-9

Triple Jump
2014 … Tristan Wilson [Delsea], 48- 8 ½
2018 … Khaliel Burnett [Delsea], 49- 1
2020 … Floyd Whitaker [Highland], 46-10 ¾
2023 … Jashad Kersey [Eastern Reg.], 45-11

Shot Put
2004 … Ell Ash [Willingboro], 60- 0 ½
2012 … Braheme Days Jr. [Bridgeton], 70-8
2013 … Braheme Days Jr. [Bridgeton], 67-8
2014 … Benjamin Bonhurst [Smithtown West, N.Y.], 64-7
2002 … Jason Nwosu [Delsea], 61-5

800-Meter Relay
1988 … Willingboro, 1:31.33y
1995 … Woodrow Wilson, 1:30.87
1996 … Woodrow Wilson, 1:31.17
1999 … Camden, 1:29.61
2000 … Lenape, 1:28.46
2002 … Camden, 1:28.82
2003 … Vineland, 1:29.52
2004 … Camden, 1:26.90
2013 … Timber Creek, 1:29.72
2015 … Deptford, 1:30.51
2016 … Pennsauken, 1:29.74
2017 … Rancocas Valley, 1:29.29

1,600-Meter Relay
1985 … Edgewood, 3:23.94y
1996 … Camden, 3:24.91
1997 … Camden, 3:22.89
2001 … Camden, 3:15.78
2002 … Camden, 3:19.61
2003 … Vineland, 3:16.5
2007 … Pleasantville, 3:18.90
2013 … Timber Creek, 3:22.91

3,200-Meter Relay
2000 … Cherokee, 7:51.78
2002 … Willingboro, 7:53.64
2003 … Willingboro, 7:52.95
2013 … Pleasantville, 7:45.55
2016 … Egg Harbor Township, 8:00.39

Distance Medley
2002 … Haddonfield, 10:16.84
2010 … Haddonfield, 10:10.60

GIRLS
55-Meter Dash
1980 … Michelle Glover [Willingboro], 6.5y
1983 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 6.95y
1984 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 7.02y
1998 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 7.15
1999 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 7.05
2000 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 7.00
2007 … English Gardner [Eastern], 7.04
2008 … English Gardner [Eastern], 6.92
2010 … English Gardner [Eastern], 6.91
2012 … Annie Johnson [Shawnee], 7.07
2013 … Emily Carson [Haddonfield], 7.09
2014 … Torie Robinson [Winslow], 7.00
2023 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 7.04

200-Meter Dash
2004 … Avionne Sloan [Camden], 25.11
2012 … Ste’cye McNeil [Winslow], 24.65
2017 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 24.39

300-Yard Dash
None

400-Meter Dash
2003 … Okechi Ogbuokiri [Willingboro], 55.14
2008 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 54.91
2017 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 55.21
2018 … Ajae Alvarez [Egg Harbor Twp.], 56.78
2023 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 56.10

600-Yard Run
None

800-Meter Run<
None

1,000-Yard Run
1990 … Monica Olkowski [Cherokee], 2:34.63

One-Mile Run
2001 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 4:54.73
2012 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 5:05.88
2015 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 4:59.25
2017 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 4:55.96

Two-Mile Run
1996 … Ann Klocke [Bishop Eustace], 11:05.44
2011 … Meghan Malloy [Cinnaminson], 11:10.61
2018 … Alyssa Aldridge [Mainland Reg.], 11:17.28

55-Meter Hurdles
1983 … Zonya Cross [Edgewood], 8.04y
1998 … Sherese Price [Pleasantville], 8.06
2000 … Alethia Jenkins [Pennsauken], 8.03
2006 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 7.89
2008 … Samantha Sharper [Woodrow Wilson], 8.01
2012 … Ste’cye McNeil [Winslow], 7.89
2014 … Cidae’a Woods [Winslow], 8.12
2018 … Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 8.05

High Jump
1987 … Erin Halpin [Cherry Hill East], 5- 6
2019 … Bethany Biggi [Rancocas Valley], 5- 6
2023 … Alanna Woolfolk [Clayton], 5-8[

Long Jump
1980 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 20- 6 ¼
1988 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], 18- 4 ¾
1995 … Selina Burton [Willingboro], 17- 3
2008 … Lindsey Walsh [Lenape], 18- 5 ¾
2013 … Cidae’a Woods [Winslow Twp.], 19- 8
2018 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], 19- 8 ¼
2019 … Leah Ellis [Millville], 19- 3

Triple Jump
None

Pole Vault
2002 … Danielle O’Reilly [Shawnee], 11- 6
2004 … Danielle O’Reilly [Shawnee], 12- 0

Shot Put
2000 … Dana White [Camden], 41- 6 ½
2006 … Mercedes Hicks [Atlantic City], 43-10 ¼

800-Meter Relay/
2000 … Moorestown, 1:40.77
2008 … Camden, 1:41.19
2009 … Camden, 1:41.98
2018 … Winslow Twp., 1:39.75

1,600-Meter Relay
1993 … Camden, 4:00.68y
1995 … Camden, 3:50.17y
2000 … Willingboro,N.J., 3:56.62
2002 … Willingboro,N.J., 3:52.76
2003 … Willingboro,N.J., 3:49.27
2006 … Woodrow Wilson, 3:52.55
2008 … Millville, 3:54.82
2009 … Millville, 3:57.67
2010 … Washington Township, 3:58.85

3,200-Meter Relay
1999 … Buena, 9:21.38
2002 … Woodrow Wilson, 9:25.81
2008 … Lenape, 9:11.94
2012 … Lenape, 9:11.37
2017 … Haddonfield, 9:31.92

Distance Medley
2010 … Lenape, 11:58.92
2013 … Lenape, 11:54.63

Eastern champions from South Jersey
23 … Willingboro
19 … Camden
10 … Haddonfield
8 … Winslow Twp.
7 … Edgewood
7 … Egg Harbor Twp.
7 … Lenape
6 … Camden
6 … Delsea
6 … Pennsauken
6 … Pleasantville
5 … Eastern
5 … Rancocas Valley
4 … Cinnaminson
4 … Millville
4 … Wilson
4 … Woodbury
3 … Cherokee
3 … Deptford
3 … Highland
3 … Shawnee
3 … Washington Twp.
2 … Atlantic City
2 … Bridgeton
2 … Clearview
2 … Cherry Hill East
2 … Cherry Hill West
2 … Kennedy
2 … Oakcrest
2 … Timber Creek
2 … Vineland
1 … Bishop Eustace
1 … Bordentown
1 … Buena
1 … Burlington Twp.
1 … Clayton
1 … Collingswood
1 … Glassboro
1 … Haddon Heights
1 … Holy Spirit
1 … Kingsway
1 … Mainland Reg.
1 … Palmyra
1 … Penns Grove
1 … Sterling
1 … St. Augustine
1 … Triton
1 … West Deptford

Kingsway graduate Damon Dukes, a freshman at New Jersey Institute of Technology, ran a huge 200 PR Monday in the prelims at the America East Conference Championships in Boston.

Dukes, who had never run faster than 22.15 in high school or college, blasted one lap at The TRACK in 21.70, a nearly half second PR.

At Kingsway, Dukes ran 22.60 indoors at Ocean Breeze and 22.20 outdoors at Deptford, ran 22.15 in his only prevoius collegiate 200, a meet at Ocean Breeze last month.

On Monday, his 21.70 was the 2nd-fastest qualifying time going into Tuesday’s final. Junior Shavar Staats Jr. of Albany ran a PR 21.61 in a different semifinal race.

Dukes’ time is fastest by any America East freshman in six years, since Harmodio Cruz III and Garfield Napier, both of Albany, ran 21.54 and 21.67 in 2018.

Dukes will be in Lane 6, just outside Staats Jr., in the second section in the two-race final. The 200 final is scheduled for 2:25 p.m. Tuesday.

 

Sophomore Scott Hubbard from Audubon, junior Joshua Cason from Camden County Vo-Tech and sophomore Shane Vostenak from Bishop Eustace won conference titles Monday at Ocean Breeze, helping Rowan University win its 9th consecutive NJAC championship.

Hubbard and Cason, who are both transfers, won their first NJAC titles, and Vostenak won his 2nd.

Rowan piled up a ridiculous 297 points at Ocean Breeze, which is probably a record but nobody keeps track of this stuff so who knows? It’s a lot of points. Rowan scored 252 in 2018 and I’m guessing that was the highest previous total.

There are 17 events in the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships, so the Profs averaged 17 ½ points per event. Including relays, where you can only score 10.

Rowan, ranked 7th in NCAA Division 3, scored at least 16 points in every non-relay track event and at least eight in every event other than the weight throw.

Incredibly, only 13 of those 297 points were scored by seniors – Shamir Love from Bridgeton tied for 2nd in the 60 and and Marquise Young from Sterling placed 3rd in the 60-meter hurdles.

And Rowan scored 297 points without doubling anybody other than short sprinters.

Rowan outscored The College of New Jerey by 184 points, winning by a final margin of 297-113. Stockton placed 3rd with 78 points.

60-METER DASH [19 points]: Senior Shamir Love from Bridgeton, sophomore Evan Corcoran from Kingsway and sophomore Masai Byrd from Rancocas Valley went T2-T2-4, Love and Corcoran splitting 14 points with both in 6.88 and Byrd 6.93.

200-METER DASH [25 points]: Corcoran finished just 4-100ths of a second out of 1st, leading a 2-3-4-5-7 Rowan finish. Corcoran ran 21.98, junior Nana Agyemang from Parsippany was 3rd in 21.99, freshman Eli Hendricks from Penns Grove 4th in 22.01, Byrd 5th in 22.29 and Coleman 7th in 22.53.

400-METER DASH [35 points]: Amara Conte from Ferris High in Jersey City won the race in 48.54, with senior Nicholas Razze from Pitman 2nd in 49.06, junior Samuel Milevoix of Union County Vo-Tech 3rd in 49.49, sophomore Jason Agyemang from North Plainfield 4th in 50.28, junior James Coleman from Audubon 5th in 50.43 and sophomore Jarquil Young from Sterling 7th in 50.85.

800-METER RUN [18 points]: Sophomore Scott Hubbard from Audubon won by nearly three seconds with a big lifetime-best 1:53.78, sophomore Tyler Greene of Ocean City was 3rd in 1:57.60 and freshman Teddy Wilson from Toms River North placed 7th in 2:00.26. Hubbard is a little over a second off the school record of 1:52.63 set by South Brunswick’s Nick Neville at the NJAC meet in 2018.

MILE [16 points]: The Profs went 2-4-6 with Jacob Riley of North Warren 2nd [4:17.88], freshman Johannes Rivera from Bergenfield 4th [4:21.39] and freshman Colin Patterson from Haddon Heights 6th [4:24.91].

3,000-METER RUN [19 points]: Junior Joshua Cason from Camden County Vo-Tech ran 8:45.25 and won by a second, with sophomore Cole Kolodziej from Washington Township 3rd in 8:47.00 and junior Dario Epifania from South Brunswick 6th in 9:02.14.

5,000-METER RUN [26 points]: Sophomore Shane Vostenak from Bishop Eustace (not Pennsauken, as Rowan’s web site says), junior Matthew Conway of Haddon Township and junior Giancarlo Vega from Timber Creek swept the top three spots, Vostenak in 15:03.23, Conway 15:09.50 and Vega 15:13.74. Junior Caleb Clevenger of Haddonfield added two points in 7th place in 15:32.14.

60-METER HURDLES [35 points]: You can read all about this historic race here: https://sjtrackblog.com/2024/02/19/rowan-soph-kwaku-nkrumah-runs-9th-fastest-hurdles-time-in-ncaa-division-3-history-shatters-meet-and-school-records-at-njac-meet/

800-METER RELAY [10 points]: Junior Robert McKinney from Highland, Love, Hendricks and Byrd won the 4-by-2 by more than two seconds with a season-best 1:28.13, which is the 8th-fastest time in NCAA Division 3 history (and the 6th-fastest time in school history) and fastest in Division 3 this year. The Profs set the D-3 record last year with four other sprinters (Corcoran, Conte, Nana Agyemang, Jah’mere Beasley).

1,600-METER RELAY [10 points]: Milevoix, Razze, Corcoran and Coleman ran 3:23.78 and won the 4-by-4 with ease to close out the meet. Milevoix led off with a 49.69 to build a 15-meter lead at the first handoff, and the Profs were never challenged after that.

DISTANCE MEDLEY [8 points]: Freshman Ethan Fletcher from Wall Township, freshman Nicholas Garman from Cedar Crest in Lebanon, Pa., sophomore Ethan Wellborn from Haddonfield and freshman Liam O’Donnell from Cape Henlopen, Del., ran 10:31.59 for 2nd place.

LONG JUMP [18 points]: Nana Agyemang and freshman Damarion Potts from South Brunswick went 1-2, Agyemang jumping 22-9 ½ and Potts 22-6, both on their 3rd attempts.

TRIPLE JUMP [8 points]: Two freshmen from Passaic County Tech – Joshua Justin and Mikahi Johnson – placed 3rd and 7th, Justin with a 45-5 ¼ and Johnson 41-8 ¾.

HIGH JUMP [29 points]: The Profs swept the top four spots with four freshmen – Potts won it at 6-8 ¼, Paulsboro’s Jamile Gantt was 2nd with a 6-7 ¼ clearance, Arrington Rhym of Hamilton West 3rd with a 6-4 and Anthony Lanteigne of Williamstown at 6-2.

POLE VAULT [11 points]: Sophomore Tyler Raimondi of Toms River South, junior Jason Tomaino of Randolph and sophomore Luke Gnospelius of Ridgewood all placed, Rainmondi and Tomaino in 4th and 15th, both at 14-1 ¼, and Gnospelius tied for 6th with a 13-7 ½ clearance.

SHOT PUT [10 points]: Freshman Chris Guerrieri from Cherry Hill West, a JUCO national champ in the shot last year, placed 2nd with a 50-2 throw, and sophomore Josh Caudill from Delsea was 7th with a 45-10 ¾.

WEIGHT THROW [0 points]: The only event Rowan didn’t score at least eight points.

The College of New Jersey won 17 consecutive team titles through 2014 and Rowan has won every title since. There was no meet in 2021.