Some smoking hot 400s Tuesday by Winslow’s young middle-distance runners at the Olympic Conference Championships at Rancocas Valley.
Freshman Cinniya Robinson led a 1-2-3 sweep with a PR 56.43, sophomore Olivia Okaro was 2nd in 56.98 and freshman Skyhe Seamon was 3rd in 58.07.
Robinson lowered her PR from 57.66 at the Camden County Championships last week at Haddon Township. Her time is No. 9 in New Jersey, No. 2 in South Jersey and No. 2 among New Jersey freshmen. Okaro has run slightly faster – 56.90 at South Jersey Elite – but she’s already No. 5 in South Jersey this year. And Seamon dropped her PR from 1:00.16, which she ran indoors at Easterns at the Armory back in February. She’s now the No. 6 freshman in New Jersey.
Robinson, Okaro and Seamon are now No. 2, 3 and 7 in New Jersey Group 3.
Robinson’s 56.43 is the fastest time in the Olympic Conference meet in 15 years, since Seneca’s Michelle Brown – who was inducted into the South Jersey Track Hall of Fame in March – won the 2009 race in 54.91. The only other faster times in meet history belong to Brown in 2008 [55.19] and Highland’s Nichole Bartley in 1992 [56.0].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 