Woodbury’s Peyton Shute shattered the South Jersey 3,200 record Friday night at the 56th Annual Glenn Loucks Invitational at White Plains (N.Y.) High School.

Shute won ran 8:54.11 and broke the 25-year-old record of 8:55.43, set in 1999 by Murad Campbell of Overbrook at the 1999 Golden West Invitational in Folsom, Calif.

He edged Shane Murphy of Hunter College Campus Schools in Manhattan. Murphy was 2nd in 8:54.71 and Elijah Gentry of Brooklyn Tech ran 8:55.11 for 3rd.

His time is No. 14 in state history and fastest by a Group 1 runner since Buck Logan of Bernards ran 8:48.91 [converted from two miles] in 1979.

Shute was out in 4:28.38 and came back in 4:25.73, closing in 65.18 and 31.83. He came through 3,000 meters in 8:22.28, which is No. 2 in South Jersey history, behind Haddonfield’s Jim Smith, who ran 8:18.30 at 1980 Golden West.

Shute broke the Gloucester County record of 9:01.9 [converted from two miles] set in 1979 by Gateway’s Mike Mantini.

Shute’s previous PR was a 9:05.99 when he placed 2nd at indoor Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze in March.

Earlier this month, Shute ran a 4:08.28 full mile, which also set a South Jersey record.

All-Time South Jersey 3,200 List
8:54.11 … Peyton Shute [Woodbury], 2024
8:55.43 … Murad Campbell [Overbrook], 1999
8:58.32 … Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 2015
8:59.6y … Mike Butynes [Sterling], 1972
8:59.8y … Jason DeJoseph [Paul VI], 1987
9:00.3y … Jim Smith [Haddonfield], 1980
9:00.30 … Jimmy Daniels [Sterling], 2013
9:01.89 … Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 2002
9:01.9y … Mike Mantini [Gateway], 1979
9:03.1y … Jerry Andrews [Highland], 1979
9:03.65 … Seth Clevenger [Haddonfield], 2022
9:03.7y … Ed Blakeley [Haddon Twp.], 1975
9:03.9h … Mike Elder [Haddon Twp.], 1973
9:04.05 … Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 2013
9:04.94 … Louis Corgiano [Hammonton], 2014

All-Time New Jersey 3,200 List
8:41.02y … Joe Rosa [West Windsor-Plainsboro North], 2010
8:41.49y … Craig Forys [Colts Neck], 2007
8:43.26 … Joe Barrett [Christian Brothers Academy], 2024
8:46.08 … Jeremy Elkaim [Livingston], 2010
8:47.85 … Collin Boler [Delbarton], 2023
8:48.38y … Jim Rosa [West Windsor-Plainsboro North], 2010
8:48.64 … Jackson Braddock [Southern Regional], 2021
8:48.91y … Buck Logan [Bernards], 1979
8:50.64y … Mohamad Khadraoui [JFK Paterson], 2004
8:50.9y … Mike Keogh [Essex Catholic], 1970
8:52.00 … Jackson Barna [Ridge], 2021
8:52.02y … Edward Cheserek [St. Benedict’s Prep], 2011
8:53.63y … Devin Hart [Point Pleasant Boro], 2018
8:54.11 … Peyton Shute [Woodbury], 2024
8:55.31 … Justin Scheid [Pope Paul XXIII], 2003

Rancocas Valley’s Micah Wood, Pennsauken’s Bryce Tucker and Deptford’s Lathan Brown – all from Rutgers – each qualfied for the 400-meter hurdles final at the Big Ten Championships Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Wood, a senior led the South Jersey group with a 51.12, the 3rd-fastest qualifying time and a big personal-best. Wood set his previous PR of 51.42 in March in Orlando.

His time is also now No. 10 on the all-time South Jersey alumni list and fastest by a Burlington County hurdler since Lenape’s Mike Brown ran 50.68 in Atlanta in May 2006. Brown’s PR is 50.04 from Holmdel in 2002.

48.37 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], June 28, 2008, Eugene, Ore.
48.86 … Fred Sharpe [Paulsboro], May 18, 2003, Knoxville, Tenn.
49.50 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], June 12, 2003, Sacramento
50.04 … Mike Brown [Lenape], June 12, 2002, Holmdel, N.J.
50.52 … Martin Booker [Camden], May 12, 1984, Philadelphia
50.65 … Aaron Younger [Delsea], May 28, 2010, Greensboro, N.C.
50.69 … Danyne Brown [Camden], May 30, 2003, Fairfax, Va.
50.84 … Nick Brown [Bridgeton], July 16, 2005, New York
50.96 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], June 15, 2023, South Plainfield, N.J.
51.12 … Micah Wood [Rancocas Valley], May 10, 2024, Ann Arbor, Mich.
51.25 … Demetrius Rooks [Absegami], May 26, 2012, Claremont, Calif.

Wood’s time is No. 5 in Rutgers history, and he’s now 2nd-fastest among South Jersey hurdlers, behind Delsea grad Aaron Younger, who ran 50.65 in Greensboro in 2010.

Tucker, a freshman, ran 51.54 for the 5th-fastest qualifying time. That’s only 8-100ths of a second off his college PR of 54.46 from a meet last month in Columbia, S.C. Tucker ran 50.96 last June when he won his 3rd straight Meet of Champions.

Brown ran 52.17 and was the 7th-fastest of the nine qualifiers and 2nd-fastest among freshmen. So the two-fastest freshman intermediate hurdlers in the Big Ten are from South Jersey. Brown was only 1-100th of a second off his PR of 52.16 from a meet last month in Tampa.

The intermediate hurdles final is scheduled for 2:28 p.m. on Sunday back at the University of Michigan Track Stadium.

Deptford grad Naseem Smith, a junior at Syracuse, dipped under 14 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles for the first time Friday in the qualifying rounds at the ACC Championships in Atlanta.

Smith ran 13.97 with a legal 0.1 meters-per-second tailwind and was the 5th-fastest qualifier, although the 4th, 5th and 6th were separated by 1-100th of a second.

Smith’s previous PR was a 14.02 in the prelims of last year’s ACC meet in Raleigh, N.C. He’s been close in his last two meets – 14.4 last month in Albany and 14.07 at the Penn Relays.

On the all-time South Jersey alumni list, Smith becomes the 17th hurdler to run sub-14 seconds

All-Time South Jersey Alumni 110-Meter Hurdles List
12.94 … Jack Pierce [Woodbury], June 22, 1996, Atlanta
13.12 … Anwar Moore [Camden], May 5, 2007, Modesto, Calif.
13.43 … Isaac Williams [Willingboro], April 16, 2016, Walnut, Calif.
13.48 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], May 12, 2023, Raleigh, N.C.
13.51 … Martin Booker [Camden], June 7, 1986, Indianapolis
13.54 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], May 22, 2004, St-Martin, France
13.77 … Jeffrey Young [Camden], May 11, 2022, Bloomington, Ind.
13.81 … Anthony Acklin [Triton], May 13, 2005, Cedar Falls, Iowa [+2.0]
13.82 … John Sease [Willingboro], March 26, 1982, El Paso, Texas
13.84 … Jusson Boyd [Willingboro], April 15, 2011, Greensboro, N.C. [+0.6]
13.90 … Garry Moore [Overbrook], May 29, 1982, Naperville, Ill.
13.90 … Danyne Brown [Camden], May 30, 2003, Fairfax, Va.
13.91 … Devon Carter [Washington Twp.], May 30, 2014, Jacksonville, Fla.
13.92 … Dave Still [Pennsauken], April 1, 1978, Tucson, Ariz.
13.93 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], June 8, 2005, Sacramento, Calif.
13.96 … Stanley Moore [Overbrook], May 26, 1983, Naperville, Ill.
13.97 … Naseem Smith [Deptford], May 10, 2024, Atlanta

Senior Cartrell Moore tripled the long jump, triple jump and 400-meter hurdles and senior Elijah Whitaker doubled the 1,600 and 3,200, and Glassboro won its first Gloucester County championship ever Thursday at Deptford.

Glassboro outscored 2nd-place Washington Township 118-90 despite missing Damere Lassiter, the top shot-disc thrower in New Jersey Group 1.

In 2009, when Glassboro had the best Group 1 team in South Jersey history and won the state title with with a ridiculous 86 points, the county meet wasn’t held.

Moore ran 54.45 to win the intermediates, long jumped 21-7 and triple jumped 46-0 ½. Moore is ranked No. 1 in New Jersey Group 1 in the intermediates and triple jump and No. 2 in the long jump. Whitaker ran a PR 4:23.15 in the 1,600 and led a 1-2 Bulldog finish in the 3,200 in 9:53.85, with junior Ty Blackman 2nd in 9:56.03.

The Bulldogs got a big lift from newcomer Xavier Sabb competing in his third career meet. Sabb didn’t compete indoors and hadn’t done anything outdoors in a major meet other than long jump twice. But he ran 10.097 for 2nd to Ajani Dwyer in the 100 and 22.23 for 3rd in the 200 as well as taking 2nd in the high jump at 6-0. He’s long jumped 20-7 ½ this spring but didn’t long jump Thursday.

Sabb’s 100 and 200 times are fastest this year by a New Jersey freshman. He’s No. 4 in the high jump among freshmen and No. 9 in the long jump.

Sophomore Amari Sabb cleared 6-2 for the first time to win the high jump, and senior Caron Wright took 2nd in the long jump at 21-0 ¼ for a 1-2 Glassboro sweep.

Also Glassboro’s 1,600-meter relay team placed 3rd in 3:25.97. Names of Glassboro’s four runners aren’t listed in the results.

Dwyer, New Jersey No. 1 in the 100 at 10.38 and No. 3 in the 200 at 21.22, won the sprints with a 10.63 and 21.61.

Washington Township senior Daniel Torres had a nice double with a 1:56.81 PR to win the 800 and a PR 4:23.77 for 2nd to Whitaker in the 1,600.

Clayton junior Alexander Osayemi won a very fast 400, leading four runners under 50. Osayemi is New Jersey No. 2 at 48.08 from South Jersey Elite earlier this month at Delsea. Woodbury junior Marquis Taylor was 2nd with a lifetime-best 48.72, Delsea senior Dante McGrenehan ran a PR 49.29 for 3rd and Woodbury senior Jayden Johnson a PR 49.66 for 4th.

Washington Township senior Yashahya Brown, U.S. No. 5 in the 110-meter highs at 13.50, ran 13.79 Thursday for the win.

Clearview senior Daniel Couse won the pole vault on misses at 14-0 over Deptford junior Marcus Hood, Paulsboro senior Javion Payne won the discus with a 157-5 and Deptford senior Bryce Dunn threw 146-5 to win the javelin.

Deptford’s Neo Clark-Tabb, Darryl Wayman, Kareem Brown and Abu Jabbie won the 1,600-meter relay in 3:21.56, just ahead of Delsea’s 3:21.69. Those are season bests for both Deptford and Delsea and No. 2 and 3 in South Jersey this year.

Junior Anthony Parker had a strong triple, winning the 200 with a 22.80, the high hurdles at 14.75 and the intermediates in 56.09 and taking 2nd in the long jump at 20-8 ¼ Wednesday in the Salem County Championships at Salem.

All four are PRs. The 14.75 is No. 2 in the state in Group 1, and all four marks are among the top eight in New Jersey Group 1.

Schalick freshman David Stewart tripled the 100 in 11.28, the 400 in 52.25 and the long jump with a 21-4 ½ and also took 4th in the triple jump with a 42-11 ¼. All four are big PRs, and Stewart is now the No. 1 freshman in New Jersey in the 100, 400 and long jump [and No. 2 in the triple jump].

Woodstown junior Cole Lucas doubled the 800 in 2:00.65 and the 1,600 in 4:42.41.

Penns Grove’s senior Theus Barrios, sophomore Kylee Goodson, junior Knowledge Young and sophomore Bryan Garlic ran 3:33.00 to win the 1,600-meter relay.

Other winners: Schalick junior Reggie Allen Jr. in the high jump at 6-2 on misses over Woodstown freshman Tyler Dolby, Schalick sophomore Salvatore Longo in the pole vault [11-0], Salem senior Davonte Jackson in the triple jump [44-7 ¼], Pennsville senior Daniel Saulin [41-7 ¾ shot], Pennsville junior Jackson McFarland [123-5 discus] and Pennsville junior Connor Ayars [146-4 javelin]

Schalick topped Salem 94-74 for the team title.

It was quite a day for Schalick senior Grace O’Neill, who scored 24 points and contributed to a winning relay in Schalick’s Salem County Meet victory on Wednesday at Salem.

O’Neill won the discus by 33 feet with a 125-6 on her final throw. That makes her No. 4 in South Jersey this year, No. 8 in New Jersey and No. 2 in Group 1, behind only Glassboro junior Sunsarai Moore, who threw 136-11 earlier this month in the South Jersey Elite at Delsea.

O’Neill threw 125-11 at South Jersey Group 1 sectionals at Pennsauken last year, but the 125-6 is her best throw this year.

But what makes O’Neill’s performance Wednesday so unique is the nature of the events she competed in. She ran a 400-meter hurdles PR of 1:07.83 to place 2nd to Salem senior Anna Buzby [1:05.91] and then ran a PR 62.44 in the 400 to take 3rd behind Buzby [59.76] and Schalick junior Gia Martellacci [62.44].

O’Neill also ran 61.13 on the 2nd leg of Schalick’s winning 4-by-4 team, which ran 4:12.60. Martellacci, senior Alivia Klancic and junior Sophia Harris also ran.

The old discus / 400 / intermediates / relay quad!

O’Neill’s previous track PRs were 64.67 on Saturday at Rancocas Valley and 1:08.47 from last year’s state Group 1 meet in Somerset.

Schalick’s 4:12.60 is No. 4 in New Jersey among Group 1 schools, behind Audubon [4:08.62 at Woodbury], Salem [4:11.38 at Woodbury] and Hasbrouck Heights [4:12.52 at Penn]. So two of the fastest Group 4-by-4s are from tiny Salem County.

Salem senior Karima Davenport-White, in just her 2nd major meet this year, won the high hurdles in 15.70, the fastest Group 1 time in New Jersey this year. She had just PR’d in the trials of the South Jersey Elite with a 15.77. She also won the long jump with a PR 16-1 ¾ and placed in both sprints with two more PRs.

Schalick junior Jordan Hadfield won the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 [PR 2:20.09, 5:30.64, 12:42.29], and Penns Grove senior Jameelyona Horace swept the 100 and 200 with PRs in both [12.67, 26.28].

Also Woodstown sophomore Kami Casiano won the high jump [4-10], Pennsville junior Megan Morris won the pole vault with a lifetime-best 9-0 on fewer misses over the versatile Buzby, Schalick senior Brooke Watt tripled jumped a winning 33-6 ¾, Salem sophomore Ava Rodgers threw a five-foot PR 35-2 ½ to win the shot put and Schalick junior Allyson Green won the javelin at 104-5.

Another race, another monster PR for Norfolk State freshman Premier Wynn from Pennsauken.

Wynn, who had a PR of 52.29 from early Apri before Monday, dropped it to 51.21 in the qualifying heats at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Championships on Monday and then lowered his PR to 50.72 in the final on Wednesday on his home track in Norfolk, Va.

In all, in just about a month, Wynn has dropped nearly two seconds from his high school PR of 52.68 from the Camden County Championships at Haddon Township last May to 50.72 on Wednesday.

Howard senior Noah Langford won the race in 50.72, and Wynn was 2nd.

Wynn’s time makes him No. 27 overall in NCAA Division 1 and 3rd among freshman behind high school rival Ryan Matulonis of Penn, who ran for Seton Hall Prep [49.75 at the Ivy League Championships Sunday at Princeton] and Markel Jones of South Florida [50.40 at the South Florida Invitational earlier this month].

Wynn’s time moves him ahead of high school teammate Bryce Tucker, the three-time Meet of Champions winner, who ran 50.96 when he won last year’s Meet of Champions at South Plainfield. Tucker, now at Rutgers, is the No. 8 freshman in Division 1 with his 51.46 last month in Columbia, S.C.

Younger ran 50.65 in the qualifying heats at the NCAA East Prelims in Greensboro, N.C., on May 28, 2010.

Wynn is also No. 29 among U.S. men. World Athletics hasn’t updated its Under-20 list lately, but no junior listed has run as fast as Wynn. Tucker is No. 2 on that list with his 51.82. Wynn and Tucker are both 19 and won’t turn 20 until after midnight on Dec. 31, so both are eligible for U.S. Under-20s next month in Eugene and a berth on the U.S. team going to World Under-20s in Lima, Peru, in August.

With only the 1,600-meter relay remaining, Norfolk led Howard 194-131 in team scoring.

ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY ALUMNI 400-METER HURDLES LIST
48.37 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], June 28, 2008, Eugene, Ore.
48.86 … Fred Sharpe [Paulsboro], May 18, 2003, Knoxville, Tenn.
49.50 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], June 12, 2003, Sacramento
50.04 … Mike Brown [Lenape], June 12, 2002, Holmdel, N.J.
50.52 … Martin Booker [Camden], May 12, 1984, Philadelphia
50.65 … Aaron Younger [Delsea], May 28, 2010, Greensboro, N.C.
50.69 … Danyne Brown [Camden], May 30, 2003, Fairfax, Va.
5o.72 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], May 8, Norfolk, Va.
50.84 … Nick Brown [Bridgeton], July 16, 2005, New York
50.96 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], June 15, 2023, South Plainfield, N.J.
51.25 … Demetrius Rooks [Absegami], May 26, 2012, Claremont, Calif.

Millville’s Kira Parsons, a senior at Towson University, popped a javelin PR over the weekend at the Kehow Twilight Meet at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.

Parsons threw 138-5 on her 3rd throw and placed 2nd to Chantae McMillan, a 2012 Olympic heptathlete and a former All-America at Nebraska.

Parsons’ throw is No. 5 in Towson history.

Going into the meet, Parsons had a PR of 138-1 from last year’s ECAC Championships in Fairfax, Va.

She had five throws at 132-5 or better at Maryland – 132-5, 134-11, 138-5, 137-6, foul, 133-0. Her average throw was a 135-3, which is less than three feet off her previous PR.

Parsons is ranked 5th in the Coastal Athletic Conference going into the conference meet Friday and Saturday in Elon, N.C. The women’s javelin is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Friday afternoon.

Rider junior Mariah Stephens from Egg Harbor Township won her 10th, 11th and 12th individual conference titles over the weekend at the MAAC Championships on her home track in Lawrenceville.

Competing all weekend in cold, rainy conditions, Stephens won the 100 in 12.33, the long jump with a personal-best 19-4 [more on that performance here] and also won the triple jump with a 38-6 ¾. She was also 2nd in the 100-meter hurdles and ran a leg on the 2nd-place 4-by-100 relay team [47.68]. She also PR’d in the 100 meters in Saturday’s trials with a 12.13.

In addition to her 11 individual Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference titles, Stephens has another first place on a relay team plus 11 more top-three performances in individual events.

That’s a total of 23 top-three finishes in three years.

Thanks in great part to Stephens, Rider won its 2nd straight team title, 227-170 over Quinnipiac. Rider also won team titles in 2004, 2007 and 2013.

Here’s a look at Stephens’ conference titles:

2024 Outdoors
100-Meter Dash [12.33]
Long Jump [19-4]
Triple Jump [38-6 ¾]
2024 Indoors
60-Meter Hurdles [8.64]
Long Jump [19-1 ¼]
Triple Jump [39-8 ¾]
2023 Outdoors
Triple Jump [39-0 ½]
2023 Indoors
60-Meter Hurdles [8.59]
Triple Jump [38-4 ¼]
2022 Outdoors
Triple Jump [39-5 ¼]
400-Meter Relay [47.26]
2022 Indoors
Long Jump [18-5 ¾]
Triple Jump [38-5 ½]

Haddon Township’s Jake Aylmer, a junior at Stevens, won his first conference title and smashed the school record in the 1,500 at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships at Widener University in Chester on Sunday.

Aylmer ran 3:55.49 and edged John Condon of Messiah by three meters. Condon placed 2nd in 3:55.84.

Aylmer broke the Stevens school record of 3:56.62 set by Nick Zickgraf from David Brearley High in Kenilworth at a meet at Swarthmore in May 2017.

Going into the meet, Aylmer was only the No. 4 seed. But he closed in  57.72 to blow away the field after nine runners came through with a lap to go between 2:57.28 and 2:59.30.

His time is equivalent to a 4:12.85 for 1,600 meter or 4:14.33 for a full mile. At Haddon Township, Aylmer had a PR of 4:32.87 for 1,600 meters at the 2020 South Jersey Group 1 sectionals at the Bubble.

Click to access moutdoorRecord_Board_xlsx.pdf

Aylmer’s previous PR was a 3:58.30 when he placed 6th at last year’s MAC meet in York. Aylmer’s previous conference title came when he anchored the winning distance medley at the indoor conference meet in Reading in February.

Stevens is scheduled to compete on Monday in the Widener Final Qualifier anmd then next Wednesday and Thursday at the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Championships in Cortland, N.Y., the final qualifier before NCAA Division 3 Nationals.