Winslow Township junior Brook-lynn Roberts threw a season-best 129-9 and placed 9th in the discus Thursday morning at the 128th annual Penn Relays.

Of the eight girls that finished ahead of her, six are Jamaican and one is from the Bahamas. Layla Giordano of Old Tappan won the event with a 167-10 on her 3rd throw. That’s No. 6 in the U.S. this year and No. 5 in New Jersey history

So Roberts was the No. 2 American thrower. She had three throws over 127 feet – 129-3 on her 2nd throw, 129-9 on her 3rd and another 127-3 on her 5th.

Roberts is No. 2 in South Jersey this year, seven inches behind Glassboro sophomore Sunsarai Moore, who threw 130-4 at Woodbury last weekend. Moore placed 13th Thursday with a best throw of 121-2 on her 3rd and final attempt.

Roberts won the South Jersey Group 3 title last spring with her PR of 137-0, No. 2 in Camden County history and best in the last 35 years.

When Cherry Hill East’s Noah Kriesman cleared 17-3 1/2 Saturday in Columbia, S.C., it got us thinking about the best pole vaulters New Jersey has ever produced.

I have all-time South Jersey top-10 lists (and much deeper for most events) for every other event, but there haven’t been enough national-class vaulters from South Jersey to put together a list. Kriesman is the first 17-footer from South Jersey, and there have only been a handful of 16-footers.

With strategic assistance from legendary Jim Lambert of MileSplit, I came up with what I think is a pretty close approximation of an all-time New Jersey alumni 17-foot list.

Interestingly, three of the top 10 vaulters are current Rutgers freshmen – school record holder Brian Sullivan of Hillsborough [17-3 3/4], Kriesman [17-3 1/2] and Kevin Sullivan, Brian’s twin brother [17-1 3/4].

South Jersey did produce a world record holder, but he never even cleared 16 feet. Penns Grove’s Don Bragg, a Carneys Point native, set his first world record of 15-9 1/4 at the 1960 Olympic Trials at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, Calif., then won the Olympic gold medal in Rome at 15-5. He set his 2nd world record at 15-9 1/2 indoors at the 1959 Philadelphia Inquirer Games before over 10,000 people at Convention Hall in West Philly.

A few blocks away from where Convention Hall once stood, the Penn Relays will be held starting tomorrow. And Bragg’s world-record 15-9 1/2 might be good enough to get 5th or 6th in the college vault.

Here’s our best attempt at an all-time New Jersey 17-foot list. If you see anybody missing let me know in the comment section!

18-6 ¼ … Bradley Jelmert [Watchung Hills], March 8, 2024, Boston
17-10 ½ … Craig Hunter [Robbinsville], June 8, 2016, Eugene, Ore.
17-9 … Kevin McGuire [Lawrenceville], May 26, 1993, Fairfax, Va.
17-8 ½ … Steve Keating [Pompton Lakes], June 12, 1993, Los Gatos, Calif.
17-6 ½ … Adam Sarafian [Ocean Township], Jan. 28, 2006, Reno, Nev.
17-4 ½ … Ed Keefe [St. John Vianney], Feb. 17, 2002, Syracuse
17-3 ¾ … Brian Sullivan [Hillsborough], 2024, March 22, 2024, Orlando
17-3 ½ … Noah Kriesman [Cherry Hill East], April 20, 2024, Columbia, S.C.
17-2 ½ … Christian Mazza [Toms River East], Feb. 23, 2024, Syracuse
17-1 ¾ … Kevin Sullivan [Hillsborough], Feb. 23, 2024, Geneva, Ohio
17-0 ¾ … Chris Wykoff [Toms River East], May 25, 2013, Greensboro, N.C.
17-0 … Bill Lange [Bridgewater East], 1980, Hanover, N.H.

We posted the high school qualifiers – distance relays here and individuals here – but today we’ll take a look at 25 collegians and post-collegians who are scheduled to compete at Penn this week.

I didn’t include relay legs in this list – there are just too many of them! – but we’re focusing on the South Jersey runners, throwers and jumpers who made the cutoff for individual events

This isn’t meant to be a complete list. The reality of a project like this is that there are some South Jersey athletes competing in college we don’t know about yet. If you see someone missing who is competing in an individual event, please let me know in the comment section!

For the complete schedule and live results once the meet begins, click here.

The 125th annual Penn Relays gets underway at 9 a.m. Thursday and Friday at Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia. Activity on Saturday starts at 7 a.m.

Ryan Allen: Kingsway graduate, now competing for Shore Athletic Club, is entered in the Olympic Development 5,000-meter Racewalk Elite, scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Allen has a 5,000 PR of 22:38.48 from last year’s Penn Relays.

Tey’ana Ames, Ciara Demarest: The versatile Ames, a Rutgers freshman from Atlantic County Tech, has high jumped 5-7 and long jumped 16-6 ½, but she’ll throw the shot at Penn. She’s got a PR of 45-9 ¾ from an indoor meet at Boston, No. 8 in Rutgers indoor history. Demarest, a Rutgers freshman from Williamstown, has thrown 43-3 this spring. They throw at noon Friday.

Jailya Ash: A junior from Eastern, Ash returns home to race in the 100-meter hurdles. Ash PR’d at 13.29 in her last hurdles race, late last month on her home track in Storrs. That’s No. 1 this year in the Big East and a UConn school record. Hurdles trials are 3:35 p.m. Friday on the backstretch.

Jah’Mere Beasley: Sterling grad, a Rutgers junior, qualified in the 100-meter dash. Beasley has a PR of 10.55 from last year’s NJAC Championships in Mahwah as a Rowan sophomore. He has run 10.45 this spring but it was wind-aided.
Lathan Brown, Bryce Tucker, Micah Wood, Premier Wynn: Four South Jersey intermediate hurdlers – three of them freshmen, three of them from Rutgers – will race at 5:45 p.m. Thursday. Wood, a Rutgers grad student, PR’d with a 51.42 last month in Orlando, No. 7 in Rutgers history and No. 3 this year in the Big Ten. Tucker ran 51.46 last weekend in Columbia, No. 8 in Rutgers history, and Brown ran 52.16 in Tampa earlier this month, No. 10 in Rutgers history. Wynn ran 52.29 in a home meet for Norfolk State, No. 2 this year in the MEAC.

Mike Carfagno: Stockton senior from Egg Harbor Township is entered in the men’s shot put at 3 p.m. Friday. He PR’d with a 49-4 ¼ for 3rd place at the indoor NJAC meet at Ocean Breeze.

Anabella Chin, Molly Lodge: Lodge, a Rowan junior, from Woodstown has a 1:02.01 intermediate hurdles PR to her credit from last year’s NJAC meet in Mahwah and came close to that with a 1:02.32 this past weekend at Widener. She’s No. 6 in NCAA Division 3 this year. Chin, a sophomore from Rancocas Valley, has a 1:02.21 PR from earlier this month in Tampa. The intermediate hurdles are slated for 5:25 p.m. Thursday.

Alyssa Condell: Former Timber Creek and Penn distance runner races in the Olympic Development 5,000, scheduled for 8:50 p.m. Friday. Condell has a PR of 16:29.45 from earlier this month at Princeton. That’s No. 10 in South Jersey alumni history.

Thomas Cooke: Cooke, a Kingsway graduate who ran briefly for Felician University but has blossomed as a post-grad, will race the Olympic Development 5,000 at 9:15 p.m. Friday. Cooke hasn’t run many track 5,000s but his PR is 14:20.39 from December 2021 indoors in Boston.

Isaiah Davenport, Skyler Salay: Davenport, a Holy Family freshman from Pleasantville, cleared a PR 6-8 ¼ indoors and will compete in the high jump Championship at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Salay, a Holy Family junior from Burlington Township, is in the college division high jump at noon Friday. He’s jumped 6-6 ¾.

Malicah Etienne: Cinnaminson grad is a freshman at Georgian Court in Lakewood and already the school record holder in the discus with his 169-5 earlier this month in Shippensburg, Pa. The men’s college discus is scheduled for noon Friday. He’s also entered in the shot, which is at 3 p.m. Friday. He threw 53-9 ¼ at Ocean Breeze in February.

Dennis Fortuna: Triton grad, a sophomore at Penn, races the college 5,000 at 8:55 p.m. Thursday. Fortuna has a 5,000 PR of 14:32.72 from two weeks ago at Princeton.

Skylar Harris: Fordham senior from Paul VI and Clementon qualified for Penn in the long jump and takes a PR of 18-4 ¼ to Franklin Field. Harris jumps at noon Friday.

Jaden Johnson: Timber Creek grad, now a sophomore at East Stroudsburg, will compete in the triple jump at 4 p.m. Friday. Johnson PR’d with a 48-1 ¾ indoors in January in a meet in Boston. He hit 47-5 earlier this month in a meet at Millersville. That’s No. 2 in the PSAC this spring.

Noah Kriesman: The greatest pole vaulter in South Jersey history, Kriesman cleared 17-3 ½ in Columbia, S.C., last weekend. Because that performance came after seeding for Penn, the Rutgers freshman and Cherry Hill East graduate compete in the college division at 4 p.m. Friday.

Zach Manorowitz: Rider senior Manorowitz is in the championship division of the long jump, scheduled for noon Saturday. Manorowitz, a Pennsville graduate, jumped at NCAAs last spring. He has a lifetime-best of 25-0 ¾ from last year’s Rider Invitational. He jumped 24-4 ½ last weekend in a home meet in Lawrenceville. That’s No. 1 this year in the MAAC.

Alexis Marini: A Woodstown grad and Rutgers-Camden senior, Marini just PR’d in the hammer at 168-0 this past weekend in Chester. That’s No. 28 this year in NCAA Division 3. Marini, who never threw the hammer until she arrived at Rutgers-Camden, throws at noon Thursday.

Kevin McDonnell: Former Camden Catholic runner races the Olympic Development 5,000 at 9:15 p.m. Friday. McDonnell, who ran for St. Joe’s/Penn, has a 5,000 PR of 14:03.52 in Williamsburg, Va., in 2013, but he ran 14:06.33 two weeks ago in Durham, N.C.

Emma Peretti: Yale freshman from Hammonton PR’d in the shot earlier this month in a home meet in New Haven with a 43-7. Women’s shot put is scheduled for noon Friday.

Lucciano Pizarro: Cherokee graduate now at Penn State throws the shot in the championship division at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Pizarro threw his PR of 65-0 ¾ last May in Bloomington, Ind. He has a 62-4 to his credit this spring.

Michaela Pomatto: Egg Harbor graduate, a Stockton junior, will throw the discus at Penn. She PR’d this past weekend with a big school-record 149-4 in a meet in Chester, Pa. She throws at 3:30 p.m. Friday.

Martin Riddell: Former Haddonfield runner, a Yale junior, races the 5,000 at 8:55 p.m. Thursday. Ridell ran 14:27.85 indoors in Boston.

Claudine Smith: Atlantic City graduate triple jumps at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Smith has a collegiate best of 41-10 from a meet at the Armory this past February. That’s a Rutgers indoor school record and the No. 2 mark in South Jersey history, behind a 43-3 ¼ by Winslow’s Cidaea’ Woods in Knoxville in 2018.

Naseem Smith, Anthony Vazquez: Both Syracuse hurdlers are entered in the college race scheduled for 3:55 p.m. Friday. Smith, a junior from Deptford, has a PR of 14.02 from last year’s ACC Championships in Raleigh but just ran 14.04 this past weekend in Albany. Vasquez, a senior from Egg Harbor Township, has a PR of 14.17 from last weekend in Albany. A 3rd Syracuse hurdler from South Jersey, Isaiah Lewis from Winslow, just PR’d at 14.18 this past weekend, also in Albany, but isn’t entered at Penn. Also entered are Kwaku Nkrumah and Jason Agyemang of Rowan. Nkrumah, from Teaneck, ran 7.93 indoor for the 60-meter hurdles, a Rowan school record and the No. 9 time in NCAA Division 3 history. He has an outdoor PR of 14.26 and Agyemang, a multiple Division 3 All-America from North Plainfield, has run 14.40.

Mariah Stephens: Egg Harbor Township’s Stephens, a Rider junior, qualified in the triple jump, which will be held at 4 p.m. Friday. She hit her PR of 39-10 last spring at Rider and just jumped 39-5 two weeks ago at Duke. Stephens so far this year is No. 1 in the MAAC in the triple jump, No. 1 in the MAAC in the 100-meter hurdles [13.97], No. 2 in the long jump [18-7 ¾] and No. 3 in the 100 (12.29).

South Jersey finally has its first 17-foot pole vaulter!

Cherry Hill East graduate Noah Kriesman, a Rutgers freshman, cleared a monster PR of 17-3 ½ at the USC Outdoor Open in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday.

He came within one-quarter of an inch of the Rutgers school record of 17-3 ¾ set last month in Orlando by Brian O’Sullivan from Hillsborough High School in Somerset County.

Kriesman’s previous lifetime best was 16-7 ¼ indoors in Chicago in February. His previous outdoor PR was a 16-2 ¾ a week earlier at Princeton.

The best previous vault by a South Jersey athlete was 16-10 by Seneca graduate and Tennessee junior Mike Maira at the 2014 SEC Championships in College Station, Texas, on March 1, 2014.

The best previous outdoor vault by a South Jersey high school graduate was a 16-9 ½ by Delsea graduate Nico Morales – also for Rutgers – at last year’s Penn Relays.

Kriesman passed the first six heights and entered at 15-9 ¾, clearing on his 1st attempt. He needed all three tries to make 16-3 ½ but then got over 16-7 ½ on his 1st attempt, a lifetime-best 16-11 on his 2nd try and then the big 17-3 ½ on his 3rd. He took three attempts at 17-7 ¼.

Kriesman placed 4th and beat both Rutgers Sullivan twins for the first time. Brian took 6th at 16-7 ½, and Kevin placed 11th at 16-3 ½. Delsea’s Morales cleared 16-3 ½ and placed 11th.

This is Kriesman’s first year of college outdoor track. He competed indoors last year for Rider and hit 15-7 to place 2nd at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships at the Armory.

He resurfaced at Rutgers this indoor season and had five meets over 16 feet, including that 16-7 ¼ in Chicago which made him No. 7 in Rutgers indoor history and No. 3 in South Jersey alumni history behind Maira and Morales.

Kriesman’s high school PR was 15-0, so he’s added nearly 2 ½ feet since he graduated and increased his outdoor PR 2 feet, 4 ½ inches since March 30.

Kriesman now ranks 4th in the Big Ten this year but only a quarter of an inch outside No. 2. Cody Johnston of Illinois is the top vaulter in the conference and the top freshman in NCAA Division 1 with an 18-4 ½ last month in Gainesville. Kriesman is No. 38 in NCAA Division 1 and No. 8 among freshmen.

Brian O’Sullivan has cleared 17-3 ¾ and Kevin Sullivan 17-1 this spring. The two O’Sullivans and Kriesman are three of the top-eight freshmen in NCAA Division 1. The results list Kriesman as a sophomore, but this is his first season of outdoor track, so while he’s a sophomore academically, he’s a freshman in outdoor track.

Stockton junior Joseph deBeaumont from Highland is the 4th-ranked half-miler in the NJAC thanks to his 1:56.77 this past weekend at the Paul Donahue Invitational at Widener.

What’s remarkable about deBeaumont’s story is that he never broke 2:03 in high school.

DeBeaumont’s fastest high school 800 was a 2:03.03 when he placed 3rd at the 2021 Camden County Championships at Haddon Township behind Timber Creek’s Joshua Thaler and Highland teammate Cole Knoedler.

He dropped to 2:01.75 indoors as a Stockton freshman and then had a breakthrough that spring, running 1:57.19 . He lowered his PR to 1:56.12 last spring and then this past winter had his best finish in a conference meet, taking 4th in the NJAC meet at Ocean Breeze, finishing behind only Scott Hubbard of Rowan and Audubon, Ryan Pena of Ramapo and Hackensack High and Tyler Greene of Rowan and Ocean City.

DeBeaumont broke 1:57 again this past weekend with his 1:56.77 and he currently ranks 4th in the conference behind freshmen Teddy Wilson of Toms River North [1:56.04] and Johannes Rivera of Bergenfield [1:56.09] of Rowan and Pena [1:56.44].

After racing the 4-by-4 with Stockton at the Penn Relays Friday, deBeaumont will race in the 800 at this year’s New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships the weekend of May 4-5 on his home track in Galloway Township.

Senior Dahlia Beasley, senior Kayla D’Ottaviano and freshman Layla Beasley each picked up three medals Saturday, and the Washington Township girls piled up a whopping 56 points to win the Group 4 competition at the 50th annual Woodbury Relays.

That’s the most points anybody has scored in Group 4 since Columbia made the trip from Maplewood down to Woodbury in 2013 with Olivia Baker and Company and scored 64 points.

Township is so deep they won three races and used 12 girls to do it.

Washington Township won the 400-meter relay, 3,200-meter relay and shuttle hurdles and won its 4th Woodbury Relays title. The Minutemaids also won Group 4 in 1999, 2001 and last year.

Township doubled up on 2nd-place Egg Harbor Township, 56-28. Egg Harbor held off Eastern [26], Williamstown [24] and Kingsway [24] in a wild four-way battle for 2nd place.

Dahlia Beasley ran on the winning 400-meter relay, the 2nd-place 800-meter relay and the 4th-place 1,600-meter relay, D’Ottaviano was on the winning 400-meter relay, 2nd-place 800-meter relay and 2nd-place sprint medley, and Layla Beasley ran on the 2nd-place sprint medley, 3rd-place distance medley and 4th-place 1,600-meter relay.

The shuttle hurdles team of junior Meciah Howell, senior Zarria Oliphant, junior Zaida Taylor-Burch and junior Dakota Jones won with a 1:05.49. The 4-by-8 ran 10:13.14 with junior Kaylee Russen, junior Emma-Rose Phillips, sophomore Hannah Saleh and junior Rachael Wilson, and the 4-by-1 ran 49.41 with D’Ottaviano, Dahlia Beasley, senior Alexandria Hetzel and senior Dylan Giloley.

Giloley, D’Ottaviano, Hetzel and Dahlia Beasley ran 1:42.97 for 2nd in the 4-by-200 and sophomore Hailey Kennedy, D’Ottaviano, senior Kaelyn Rodriquez and Layla Beasley ran 4:27.62 for 2nd in the sprint med. The 4-by-2 time is No. 5 in the state this year.

The DMR lineup was Russen, Layla Beasley, Saleh and sophomore Julia Blanchard, who ran 13:24.33, and Dahlia Beasley, Layla Beasley, Jones and Howell ran 4:15.41 for 4th in the 1,600-meter relay.

Eastern won the sprint medley in 4:08.70, fastest time in New Jersey this year and No. 12 in the country according to the MileSplit national data base.

Junior Samantha Osei-Kyei led off with a 58.17 split, senior Eva Sprewell and senior Lomaria Tengbeh ran the 200s and sophomore Natalie Dumas brought the Vikings home with a 2:17.21 anchor leg.

Eastern’s time is No. 8 in Camden County history and fastest since Sterling ran 4:02.60 at 2017 Greensboro Nationals. (In Group 3, Winslow ran 4:09.10, which is No. 9 on the all-time Camden County list.)

4:02.60 … Sterling, 2017
4:02.89 … Woodrow Wilson, 2002
4:03.04 … Camden, 1995
4:04.86 … Woodrow Wilson, 2009
4:05.2h … Winslow Twp., 2003
4:08.23 … Timber Creek, 2011
4:08.64 … Woodrow Wilson, 2003
4:08.70 … Eastern, 2024
4:09.10 … Winslow Twp., 2024
4:09.23 … Pennsauken, 2014

Kingsway won the 1,600-meter relay in 4:10.55 with junior Jonelle Lewis, junior eCamryn Stanard, junior Naveya Hall and freshman Mariyah Cumberlander.

Pennsauken’s 800-meter relay team of sophomore Sanaya Dupree, sophomore Sianni Wynn, junior Ameenah Rodriguez and Olivia Dupree ran 1:42.88, No. 4 in New Jersey this year.

Egg Harbor Township won the distance medley in 13:05.58 with senior Taylor Rooney, senior Amari Pinkett, sophomore Devyn Per and senior Michaela Schlemo.

Junior Marquis Taylor ran on three winning relay teams and added a 4th-place in a fourth event to lead Woodbury to its 11th team title in its own relay meet.

Senior Jayden Johnson, seniort Peyton Shute, sophomore Shiwoe Varpilah, senior Dante Viccharelli and senior Dorian Dunbar each ran on two 1st-place relay teams.

The host Thundering Herd also won Group 1 at the Woodbury Relays in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1997, 2007, 2011, 2012 and 2023.

Woodbury scored 60 of a possible 70 points and needed them to hold off an outstanding Glassboro team that finished 2nd with 50 points.

Woodbury won the 400-meter relay in 43.57, the sprint medley in 3:34.53, the distance medley in 10:51.07 and the 1,600-meter relay in 3:29.34.

In the sprint medley, Woodbury ran a New Jersey No. 4 3:34.53, fastest by a South Jersey Group 1 school in 45 years, since the 1979 Woodbury team ran 3:31.5 (hand timed and converted from yards). Taylor led off with a 50.81, Viccharelli, Dunbar ran the 200s and Shute anchored with a 1:57.86 leg.

Shute anchored the winning DMR with a 4:17.15 leg after senior Charlie Floyd ran the 1,200, Johnson the 400 and sophomore Elijah Young the 800.

Woodbury’s 4-by-1 team included Varpilah, Viccharelli, Dunbar and Taylor, and the winning 4-by-4 was Johnson, Varpilah, sophomore Jasir Brown and Taylor, who anchored in 49.86.

Senior Jaylen Bailey, Brown, junior Fabian Gonzalez and junior Jasuan Solomon ran 1:07.73 for 2nd in the shuttle hurdles, and Johnson, Floyd, Young and Shute placed 2nd in the 4-by-8, with Shute splitting 1:57.21.

Woodbury also scored in a very fast 800-meter relay, with Varpilah, Viccharelli, Jeremiah Graham and Taylor running 1:31.86. The race produced the five-fastest Group 1 4-by-2 times in New Jersey this year (and seven of the eight-fastest).

Glassboro’s senior Brysheen Ferguson, freshman Xavier Sabbi, sophomore Amari Sabbi and senior Cartrell Moore ran the 2nd-fastest 4-by-200 ever by a South Jersey Group 1 school and the No. 5 time in New Jersey this year, winning in 1:30.04.

Glassboro [1:30.04], Clayton [1:30.48], Salem [1:31.59], Woodbury [1:31.86], Audubon [1:32.75], Haddon Township [1:33.30] and Palmyra [1:33.86] all ran sub-1:34, which is unheard of for a Group 1 race. The race produced the No. 2, No. 4, No. 10 and No. 13 times in South Jersey this year.

Senior Desmond Vassell, senior Joseph Hadrick, sophomore Ison Keith and junior Dayshaun Day gave Glassboro a win in the shuttle hurdles in 1:06.27.

In the 3,200-meter relay, junior Cole Lucas’s 2:01.36 anchor gave Woodstown a win. Sophomores Jacob Marino, Bryce Ayars and Joshua Crawford handled the first three legs for the Wolverines, who ran 8:27.55.

In his 4th college intermediate hurdles race, Pennsauken’s Bryce Tucker moved up to No. 8 in Rutgers history.

Tucker placed 3rd in the 400-meter hurdles Saturday at the USC Outdoor Open in Columbia, S.C., with a 51.46. He finished behind Tennessee seniors Rasheeme Griffin [49.58] and Jakwan Hale [49.95], who both raced at NCAAs last year.

Tucker’s previous college PR was a 52.28 in a meet at Princeton last month. His time is No. 4 in the Big Ten – just behind R.V.’s Micah Wood of Rutgers, who ran a lifetime-best 51.14 in March – and No. 1 among underclassmen.

On the TFRRS performance list, he’s the No. 5 freshman in NCAA Division 1. Pennsauken teammate Premier Wynn, now at Norfolk State, is the No. 16 freshman in D-1 with his 52.29 earlier this month in Norfolk.

Tucker is one of four South Jersey alums on the Rutgers all-time list. Delsea’s Aaron Younger is No. 2 [50.65 in 2010], Wood is No. 7 with that 51.14, Lenape’s Steve Swern is No. 7 [51.68 in 2010] and Tucker is No. 8. Tucker knocked Deptford’s Lathan Brown off the top-10. Brown ran 52.16 earlier this month. Also recently knocked off the list was Delran’s Harran Williams [52.19 in 2002]. But six of the top 12 in Rutgers history are from South Jersey.

Tucker’s PR is a 50.96 when he won his 3rd straight Meet of Champions in June in Somerset. That’s No. 5 in New Jersey high school history.

Tucker, Wood and Brown are all entered in the 400-meter hurdles at the 125th annual Penn Relays at Franklin Field.  Wynn is in the field as well. The men’s college intermediates are scheduled for 5:45 p.m. Thursday.

For the 10th time in the last 18 years, the Winslow girls have won a Woodbury Relays team championship.

In a battle of New Jersey’s top two public school teams, Winslow locked up with Timber Creek in Group 3 and emerged with a 54-46 win.

Winslow also won Group 4 in 2003 and 2004 and Group 3 from 2011 through 2015, including a tie with Timber Creek in 2015. Winslow also won Group 3 in 2018, 2019 and 2022. Timber Creek won last year. Either Winslow or Timber Creek has won Group 3 every year since 2011. The meet wasn’t held in 2020 or 2021.

Winslow won the 1,600-meter relay in 3:51.53, the sprint medley in 4:09.10 and the 3,200-meter relay in 9:45.99. All three are No. 2 in New Jersey this year.

The official results list Skyhe Seamon, Olivia Okaro, Ava Millner and Cinniya Robinson [2:19.62 split] as the runners on the 4-by-8, Seamon, Millner, Jahrya Jackson and Ma’Syiah Brawner [2:18.01] on the sprint medley and Seamon, Robinson, Okaro and Dominique Clement on the 4-by-4.

Winslow’s shuttle hurdles team ran 1:05.01 and placed 2nd, withg Clement, Brawner, Sierra Handy and Robinson, the 4-by-2 of Clement, Okaro, Robinson and Seamon ran 1:42.11 and placed 2nd and the 4-by-1, with Clement, Handy, Okaro and Robinson ran 49.12.

Robinson is listed in five events, so obviously the lineups aren’t all correct. If anybody has Winslow’s correct lineups please post them in the comments section.

Mainland’s Madison Taylor, Ava McDole, Emma Preissman and Sofia Day won the distance medley in 12:45.67, No. 5 in New Jersey this year. Ocean City was a close 2nd in 12:48.59, No. 7 in the state.

Timber Creek’s senior Naylah Jones, junior Billie Frazier, junior Ryan Jennings and sophomore Saniyah Puckett swept the sprint relays with a 47.32 in the 400-meter relay and a 1:40.10. Both are fastest in New Jersey among public schools and No. 2 overall.

One-time Cinnaminson athlete Faith Blamon, who hadn’t competed since July of 2022, hit the 2nd-biggest javelin throw of her life Saturday and biggest in seven years in a meet at Rider.

Blamon, who competed at Monmouth through the 2017 season, threw 161-1 competing unattached at the Rider Invitational in Lawrenceville.

That’s the 2nd-best result of her career. She had a 162-7 to win the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships at Rider in 2017.

Series information not available, of course, because why would results include what actually happened in the meet?

Blamon’s last meet was the USATF Club Nationals in West Long Branch in July 2022, where she won with a throw of 144-10.

Blamon is one of 12 South Jersey women to hit 160 feet in the javelin, and she’s 9th on the all-time South Jersey list with her 162-7.

Her 161-1 Saturday isn’t listed on World Athletics 2024 U.S. javelin rankings but should be about No. 32. But who knows how many other marks aren’t listed? The World Athletics rankings, which have always been impeccable, have been riddled with inaccuracies and omissions this year.

A few years ago, a number of South Jersey women were active at a national level, but currently only Millville graduate Leah Howard of Texas Tech and Blamon are throwing in the 160s. Howard, who threw 163-1 as a Millville senior last spring, has a 159-9 so far this spring at a meet in Lubbock, Texas.

All-Time South Jersey Alumni Javelin List
169-9 … Kelly Yanucil [Bordentown], April 29, 2006, Philadelphia
169-3 … Lynlee Phillips [Shawnee], May 5, 2000, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
168-6 … Brielle Smith [Oakcrest], April 20, 2019, Woodbury, N.J.
168-0 … Maria Jiminez [Vineland], May 13, 2016, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
166-6 … Danielle Steff [Rancocas Valley], April 10, 2021, Lawrenceville, N.J.
166-4 … Megan Sax Vanderweyden [Pennsville], May 11, 2018, Waco, Texas
163-5 … Heather Juhring [Kingsway], March 21, 2015, Winston Salem, N.C.
163-1 … Leah Howard [Millville], April 22, 2023, Woodbury, N.J.
162-7 … Faith Blamon [Cinnaminson], May 6, 2017, Lawrenceville, N.J.
161-7 … Brenna Smith [Haddon Twp.], April 21, 2018, Durham, N.C.
161-1 … Katherine Johnston [Haddonfield], May 14, 2017, University Park, Pa.
160-4 … Alexa Gardner [Hammonton], May 26, 2022, Bloomington, Ind.