Fantastic day with two big PRs for Paul VI graduate Aliya Garozzo at the Penn Invitational at her home track, Franklin Field in West Philadelphia.

Garozzo won the 100-meter hurdles in 13.65 – 4th-fastest in Quaker history – and placed 4th in the 200 in 24.42.

Garozzo, a Penn junior, does not run the high hurdles very often outdoors. She ran 14.15 when she won the state Parochial A title in 2019 at Central Regional in Bayville, but she had only contested the event once since arriving at Penn and ran 14.12 at the Penn Challenge last March, also at Franklin Field.

But she did run 8.29 in the trials at the Ivy League Championships in Cambridge, Mass., before winning the final in 8.37. That 8.29 is No. 2 in Penn history.

Her 13.65 is fastest in the Ivy League this year.

Garozzo is already No. 21 in NCAA Division 1 in the intermediates with her 57.97 last weekend in Gainesville, Fla.

She didn’t race the 400IH this weekend but she did try her hand at the 200, another event she rarely runs. She had a high school PR of 25.19 from a meet in Bear, Del., then ran one early in her freshman year at Penn and ran 26.20 at Franklin Field. Then this past indoor season she ran 25.08 at Ocean Breeze.

But she blew those times away Saturday with her 24.42, which is No. 5 this year in the Ivy League.

Here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey `alumni 100-meter hurdles top-10 list:

12.34 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], Oct. 6, 2019, Doha, Qatar
13.11 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow], May 25, 2023, Bloomington, Ind.
13.28 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow], May 15, 2015, Starkville, Miss.
13.30 … Shameka Marshall [Oakcrest], May 28, 2005, New York
13.36 … Samantha Sharper [Wilson], May 12, 2013, Houston [+0.1]
13.57 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], May 12, 2023, Villanova, Pa. [+0.9]
13.61 … Sherese Price [Pleasantville], May 4, 2002, Storrs, Ct. [+0.6]
13.64 … Magenta Taylor [Willingboro], March 24, 2001, Houston [+0.9]
13.65 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], April 6, 2024, Philadelphia [+1.1]
13.71 … Imani Gilliam [Pennsauken], May 17, 2008, Princeton [+0.9]

In his first collegiate intermediate hurdles race, Norfolk State freshman Premier Wynn of Pennsauken picked up a win and a personal best.

Wynn ran 52.29 and won the 400-meter hurdles Saturday at the Norfolk State Invitational at NSU’s Dick Price Stadium.

His time is fastest by a Norfolk State freshman since Jaylen Banks ran 51.30 at the 2017 NCAA East Prelims in Lexington, Ky.

Wynn’s previous PR was his 52.68 to win the Camden County meet at Haddon Township last May in a 1`-2 finish with teammate Bryce Tucker, who ran 52.80.

Wynn won by nearly 2 ½ seconds over teammate Tafari Bishop, who placed 2nd in 54.53.

His time is No. 2 this year in the MEAC, behind only Howard senior Noah Langford, who ran 52.15 in a meet in Tampa last month.

Wynn already ranks No. 3 in the MEAC in the flat 400 with a 47.80 last weekend at the Raleigh Relays.

In her first 100-meter dash in a Tennessee uniform, Dennisha Page ran the 2nd-fastest time ever by a South Jersey woman.

Page, a Woodrow Wilson graduate, won the 100 Saturday at the Tennessee Invitational in Knoxville in 11.27, lowering her PR from 11.30, which she ran at the Big 10 Conference Championships in May in Bloomington, Ind., as a junior at Rutgers.

Page moved up from No. 3 to No. 2 on the all-time South Jersey list, passing Amandi Rhett of Moorestown, who ran 11.29 in 2005 in Walnut, Calif. The only faster woman is Olympic gold medalist English Gardner of Eastern, who ran 10.74 in 2016 at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore.

On the all-time New Jersey list, she moved up to No. 5, behind Gardner, the Barber twins from Montclair and Trenton’s Wenda Vereen. Me’Lisa Barber ran 10.95 in Carson, Calif., in 2007, and Mikele Barber ran 11.02 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, also in 2007. Vereen ran 11.18 in Colorado Springs in 1983.

According to the World Athletics database, Page’s time is No. 7 in the U.S. this year, but World Athletics has been slow to update the site this year. They also show Page at No. 20 in the world.

Incredibly, that 11.27 is only No. 10 on the all-time Tennessee list. The Vols have an incredible history of sprinters, led by current Tennessee senior Jacious Sears, who ran 10.96 last year.

Page won the race easily by three meters over teammate Dajour Miles, who was 2nd in 11.56.

In his first long jump competition in nearly two years, Jamir Brown popped a PR and broke Riverside’s school record.

Brown last long jumped in the spring of 2022 as a sophomore at Delran. He hit 22-0 ½ when he won the Burlington County Open at Rancocas Valley and went on to place 2nd at South Jersey Group 2 sectionals at Delsea and 4th at states at Franklin.

He also ran 54.52 in the intermediates and 14.66 in the 110 highs an triple jumped 43-10 that spring. He was the No. 2 sophomore in New Jersey in the long jump and both hurdles and No. 3 in the triple jump.

He was at Riverside last spring but was hurt all spring and only competed in three meets and didn’t approach his PRs from 2022. He only ran the flat 400 and never contested either hurdles race and didn’t long jump.

So Saturday’s Don Danser Relays at Rancocas Valley was his first long jump competition since June 11, 2022, when he jumped 21-2 ¼ at the state meet.

And after opening with a 20-11 and 21-5, he jumped 22-0 ¾ on his 3rd attempt. He won by exactly a foot over former teammate junior Emir Canli of Delran, who jumped 21-0 ¾. His twin brother, Deniz Canli, was 3rd at 20-8 ¼.

Brown broke the school record of 20-8 set (I think) by Jody Johnson at the 2018 Moorestown Invitational. Weird that Riverside has had four state Group 1 champion triple jumpers – Phil Lindemuller 45-3 ½ in 2007, Sean Jimoh 45-5 ¼ in 2008, Emmanuel Harris 45-8 ½ in 2018 and Alex Stockton 44-5 ½ – but none of them ever even jumped 21 feet. Jimoh hit 20-6 ½.

After an auspicious debut last week at CBA, Lenape senior Miles Acchione had another big meet Saturday in Mount Holly.

Acchione, whose 178-3 on Monday was the best throw by a Lenape thrower in 24 years, popped a 182-6 Saturday on a cold morning at the Don Danser Relays at Rancocas Valley.

Steve Finlan set the school record of 184-1 at the 2000 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield, but that was with the old javelin, so Acchione’s 182-6 would be a school record with the current implement.

The NJSIAA mandated use of the new javelin starting in 2003. The new javelin has an adjusted center of gravity to theoretically reduce the throwing distance, which theoretically makes it a safer event.

Acchione is now 11th on the all-time Burlington County list with the new javelin.

On Saturday, Acchione opened with a 167-1 and 161-3 before PR’ing at 181-2 and then again at 182-6 on his 4th and final throw.

A throw in the 180s should give Acchione a pretty good chance of getting into the Penn Relays. Marks from opening weekend are eligible to qualify for Penn.

227-10 … Nick Mirabelli [Rancocas Valley], 2017
224-10 … Curtis Thompson [Florence], 2014
216- 6 … Chris Mirabelli (Holy Cross), 2014
204-4 … Kevin Burr [Rancocas Valley], 2023
201-1 … Sean Biehn (Burlington City), 2006
192-6 … Matt Rafferty (Northern Burlington), 2012
192-3 … Shane McDevitt (Cinnaminson), 2014
191-6 … Robert Marks (Rancocas Valley), 2016
187-8 … Jerry Fusco (Holy Cross), 2016
187-0 … Jeremy Wilbur (Moorestown), 2013
182-6 … Miles Acchione [Lenape], 2024
181-3 … Matthew Dash [Willingboro], 2011

Big PR for Rutgers freshman Lathan Brown of Deptford in his second collegiate 400-meter intermediate hurdles race.

Brown ran 52.16 and placed 6th Friday in the South Florida Alumni Invitational in Tampa. He ran 53.64 last weekend in Princeton in his only other college hurdles race, and his lifetime best wa a 52.65 when he place 3rd in the Meet of Champions last June at Franklin High.

Brown’s time is No. 10 in Rutgers history, and he’s one of six South Jersey runners in Rutge’s’ all-time top-12 I the 400 hurdles.

Rutgers junior Micah Wood, who ran 51.42 two weeks ago, was 3rd Friday in 51.66. And freshman Bryce Tucker of Pennsauken ran 53.03.

Brown’s 52.16 puts him No. 5 in the Big Ten Conference so far this year and No. 2 among freshman. Tucker is the No. 3 freshman. Wood is No. 3 in the conference with his 51.42.

All-Time Rutgers 400 Hurdles Performance List
[South Jersey athletes in bold]
49.82 … Jameson Woodell [Hunterdon Central], Bloomington, Ind., May 25, 2022
50.65 … Aaron Younger [Delsea], Greenboro, N.C., May 28, 2010
50.79 … Boaz Madeus [Nottingham], Tampa, May 24, 2018
50.6h … Jack Hanley [J.P. Stevens], Knoxville, Tenn., 1969
51.35 … Jahmone Duhaney [Morris Catholic], Storrs, Conn., May 5, 2006
51.42 … Micah Wood [Rancocas Valley], Orlando, March 23, 2024
51.40 … Christopher Serrao [East Brunswick], March 17, 2023
51.68 … Steve Swern [Lenape], Princeton, May 14, 2010
52.11 … Kyle Holder [Randolph], Atlanta, April 21, 2017
52.16 … Lathan Brown [Deptford], April 5, 2024
52.19 … Harren Williams [Delran], Princeton, May 19, 2002
52.28 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], Princeton, March 30, 2024

To understand just how impressive Maria Muzzarelli’s 400-meter dash PR this past weekend was, you have to understand her history in the 400.

At Buena, Muzzarelli had a 400 PR of 1:05.36, which got her 13th in the 2021 South Jersey Group 1 sectionals at Washington Township.

Her freshman year at Widener, her fastest indoor time was 1:10.01 in a meet at Haverford and outdoors she ran 1:05.37 at Ursinus. This past winter, she focused on shorter sprints and got her 60 time down to 7.63, which won the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships in Reading. She went on to place 12th at NCAA Division 3 Championships in Virginia Beach with a 7.68, earning 2nd-team All-America honors.

But this past weekend, she ran her first open 400 in exactly a year and placed 2nd at the Danny Curran Invitational on her home track in Chester, Pa., in 58.76. The race was won by Triton grad Nevaeh Lorjuste of Rowan, who ran 56.92.

Muzzarelli’s 58.76 is a nearly two-second PR and No. 6 in Widener history. She’s already 2nd in school history in the 100 [12.09 last May] and 2nd in the 200 [25.17 last May] and 5th in the long jump [17-6 ¾] as well as the school record holder indoors in the 60 [7.63], 2nd in the 200 [25.67].

She ran more than 6 ½ seconds faster Saturday than she her fastest time in high school. And she’s now No. 1 in the MAAC so far this year.

As for Lorjuste, her time is No. 8 in NCAA Division 3 so far this year and No. 1 in the NJAC.

Tionna Tobias popped a lifetime best in the long jump Saturday in Gainesville and is closing in on the Iowa school record.

Tobias, a Hawkeye senior from Winslow Township, won the long jump at the Florida Relays with a leap of 21-4 ¼.

Her previous PR was a 21-0 ½ indoors in February in Albuqurque. Her outdoor PR was a 20-9 1/4 as part of her heptathlon at the NCAA Championships in Austin this past June.

Tobias opened with a foul before a big 20-9 ¼ on her 2nd attempt to tie her outdoor lifetime best. Then she surpassed it with a 20-10 on her 3rd attempt and after a foul to open the finals hit another outdoor PR of 21-0 on her 5th. She finished with the huge 21-4 ¼ with a 0.0 tailwind. All four jumps were wind-legal.

Tobias averaged 20-11 ¾ on her four legal jumps, so her average jump actually surpassed her outdoor lifetime best.

Her jump is 8th-best ever by a New Jersey high school alum and 6th-best by a South Jersey alum. The full top-10 is listed below.

Tobias is now No. 7 in the NCAA Division 1 and No. 1 in the Big Ten Conference. Rutgers junior Kristina Tossas from Rancocas Valley is No. 3 on that Big Ten list with a 20-11 ¾ (wind-aided) at a meet in Orlando the previous weekend.

Tobias’s mark is No. 3 in Iowa history behind Aisha James [22-3 at the 2003 Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa] and Jahisha Thomas [21-6 at the 2018 Big Ten Championships in Bloomington, Ind.].

Tobias also ran a near-PR 13.18 in the 100-meter hurdles in Gainesville. Her PR is 13.11 from NCAA West Prelims in Sacramento last May. That 13.18 is No. 21 in NCAA Division 1 and No. 4 in the Big Ten.

Tobias won the heptathlon last spring at the Big Ten Championships with a lifetime-best 5,640. She hasn’t contested a multi yet this spring.

On the 2024 U.S. list, Tobias is No. 14 in the long jump and No. 15 in the 100-meter hurdles.

Here’s a look at the updated all-time South Jersey alumni list!

23-1 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], Aug. 21, 1985, Zurich
23-0 … Shana Williams [Bridgeton], June 21, 1996, Atlanta
22-1 … Shameka Marshall [Oakcrest], June 26, 2010, Des Moines, Iowa
21-6 ¾ … Tisifenee Taylor [Woodbury], April 21, 2007, Bethlehem, Pa.
21-5 ½ … Gabrielle Farquharson [Williamstown], April 15, 2016, Tallahassee, Fla.
21-4 ¼ … Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], March 30, 2024, Gainesville, Fla.
21-0 … Cidae’a Woods [Winslow Twp.], May 12, 2017, Columbia, S.C.
20-9 … Kristina Tossas [Rancocas Valley], Feb. 24, 2023, Geneva, Ohio
20-6 … Asia Young [Holy Spirit], April 6, 2019, Tucson, Ariz.
20-0 ½ … Tenecia Smith [Cherry Hill East], 1992

After a brief start to his track career at Campbell University, former Glassboro middle-distance runner Dallas Hohney has resurfaced at Rider, and on Saturday ran a huge 400-meter dash PR.

Hohney placed 4th at the Sam Howell Invitational in Princeton in 48.35. His previous PR was a 49.32 from June 2022, when he won the state Group 1 title at Pennsauken.

Hohney’s time is No. 11 on the all-time Rider list, just 5-100ths of a second behind Shawnee graduate Chris Tarello, who ran 48.30 in 1993. Tarello now coaches at St. Joe’s.

His time is fastest by a Rider freshman since James Green ran 48.21 at the 2019 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships at in West Long Branch.

Hohney only raced three times at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., according to TFRRS – the Track and Field Results Reporting System – all last indoor season. He ran a DMR leg, a 600 and a 400.

He did not race outdoors, then resurfaced at Rider this past indoor season and ran 49.86 in February in a meet in Boston and also ran his first lifetime 800 – a race he never contested in high school – and ran 1:57.46 two weeks ago.

So far, Hohney is 2nd-fastest in the MAAC in the 400, behind Noah Jefferson of Manhattan, who ran 48.13 last month in a meet in Coral Gables, Fla.

Rider is scheduled to compete at the Big 5 and Friends meet at Franklin Field on Saturday.

Glassboro’s Sunsarai Moore opened her 2024 season Monday with the best discus throw by a Gloucester County sophomore in nine years.

Moore won the disc at the Penn Relays Qualifier at Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft with a PR 123-8 throw. That’s the best throw by a Gloucester County soph since Emily Hilt of Kingsway threw 129-7 at the 2015 South Jersey Group 4 sectionals at Egg Harbor.

Moore was the top freshman in New Jersey last year with a 118-8 when she placed 2nd at the state Group 1 meet at Franklin. Three of the top four freshmen in the state were from South Jersey last year: Moore at 118-8 was 1st, Delsea’s Hannah Nuhfer was 2nd at 113-1 and Burlington Township’s Gianna Creamer 4th at 103-11.

Her throw is best by a Glassboro girl in 22 years, since Stacie Belzer set a school record of 129-3 at the 2002 Tri-County All-Star Meet at Delsea. Belzer also won the state Group 1 title at Egg Harbor with a 128-0 throw and placed 6th in the Meet of Champions at 127-6.