Rutgers freshman Jenovia Logan from Sterling PR’d in the high jump Saturday at the South Florida Invitational in Tampa.
Logan cleared 5-7 on her 3rd attempt and placed 5th overall. She missed three attempts at 5-8 ¾.
Logan had a PR of 5-6 at Sterling and she toppled that indoors, when she cleared 5-6 ½ at the Big Ten Championships in Geneva, Ohio.
On Saturday, Logan entered competition at 5-5 and cleared on her first attempt before sailing over the bar at 5-7 on her final chance.
Logan is the first Rutgers freshman to clear 5-7 since Courtney Campbell from South Brunswick High did it in a meet in Atlanta in 2018. Logan’s 5-7 matches the best performance by a Rutgers freshman since Rhonda Rogombe of Charleston, W. Va., cleared 5-8 ¾ in Williamsburg, Va., in 2017.
Indoors, Logan missed the all-time Rutgers top-10 by half an inch. She’s an inch off the outdoor all-time top-10.
The top performance by a South Jersey high jumper for Rutgers belongs to Shawnee graduate Kristen Bradley, who cleared 5-8 at a meet in Princeton in April 2014. Bradley now teaches math and coaches soccer and girls track at Woodbridge High in Middlesex County.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 