From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Riverside senior Jamir Brown, Woodbury senior Peyton Shute and Pennsauken sophomore Sianni Wynn have added their names to an elite list of South Jersey athletes who’ve won three individual events at the same state track championships.

Brown won the 110-meter hurdles in 13.81, the 400-meter hurdles in 53.52 and the long jump with a PR 23-8 ¾ at the Group 1 Championships this weekend in Somerset, Shute won the 800 in a PR 1:52.05, the 1.600 in 4:16.43 and the 3,200 in 9:26.98 in the same meet and Wynn swept the 100 in 11.52, the 200 in 23.79 and the 400 with a PR 53.45 at the Group 4 Championships, also in Somerset.

⮕ Brown is the first Riverside boy to turn in a state meet triple, and he’s actually the first Riverside boy to win two events at states the same year. The last Ram to win any event on the track at states was Ron Brock in the 1,600 in 1990. Brown is Riverside’s first 400 hurdles winner at states since Don Dmochowski in 1982 and first-ever winner in the high hurdles or long jump.

⮕ Shute is the first triple winner to sweep the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 since older brother Brady Shute turned the trick in 2022. They are the only South Jersey boys ever to sweep the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 at states. Three girls have done it – Glassboro’s Ruth Lockbaum in 1986, Haddonfield’s Erin Donohue in 1998, 1999 and 2000 (along with the javelin in 1999 and 2000) and Haddonfield’s Briana Gess in 2015.

⮕ Wynn is only the third South Jersey girl ever to pull off a triple state title sweep in Group 4. Pemberton’s Lillian Rivera won the shot, disc and javelin in 1984 and Winslow’s Krystal Cantey recorded an insane quad win – 200, 400, high hurdles, intermediate hurdles – in 2005. Wynn is the first to sweep the 100, 200 and 400. She’s Pennsauken’s first triple winner at states and the 4th sophomore, along with Donohue in 1999, Gess in 2015 and Willingboro’s Nester Wea last year.

Here’s a look at every triple winner at states in South Jersey history!

BOYS
Peyton Shute [Woodbury], Group 1 2024 [800, 1,600, 3,200]
Jamir Brown [Riverside], Group 1 2024 [110HH, 400IH, LJ]
Brady Shute [Woodbury], Group 1 2022 [800, 1,600, 3,200]
Kenneth Karcher [Maple Shade], Group 1 2017 [200, 400, 400IH]
Ben Mitchell [St. Joe’s-Hammonton], Parochial B 2015 [400IH, LJ, HJ]
Rocco Ordille [St. Joe’s-Hammonton], Parochial B 2014 [100, 200, LJ, TJ]
*Carl Watson [St. Joe’s-Hammonton], Parochial B 2011 [100, 200, 400]
*Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], Group 3 2010 [100, 200, 400]
Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], Group 3 2003 [100, 200, LJ]
Ed Young [Wildwood Catholic], Parochial B 2003 [110HH, 400IH, HJ]
Joe Lewis [Pleasantville], Group 2 1998 [400, 800, 400IH]
Fred Sharpe [Paulsboro], Group 1 1997 [800, 1,600, 400IH]
Royce Reed [Bridgeton], Group 3 1995 [200, 400, 400IH, Jav.]
*Royce Reed [Bridgeton], Group 3 1994 [200, 400, 400IH]
Kevin White [Haddon Heights], Group 2 1992 [100, 200, 400IH]
Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], Group 3 1989 [110HH, 400IH, LJ]
Jon Dickey [Penns Grove], Group 1 1985 [100, 200, 110HH, LJ]
Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], Group 4 1984 [100, 200, 400]
*Matt Rose [Bordentown], Group 1 1984 [200, 400, LJ]
*Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], Group 4 1983 [100, 200, 400]
Carl Lewis [Willingboro], Group 4 1979 [100, 200, LJ]

GIRLS
**Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2024 Group 4 [100, 200, 400]
**Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2023 Group 2 [100, 200, 400]
*Sophia Curtis [Ocean City], 2023 Group 3 [400, 400IH, TJ]
Arianna Sharpe [Clayton], 2022 Group 1 [100, 200, 400]
Dennisha Page [Wilson], 2019 Group 3 [100, 200, 400]
**Shakirah Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2016 Group 3 [100, 200, 400]
*Kiera Lester [Deptford], 2015 Group 2 [100, 200, 400]
**Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2015 Group 2 [800, 1,600, 3,200]
Gabrielle Bennett [Winslow Twp.], 2015 Group 3 [100HH, HJ, LJ]
*Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2013 Group 3 [100, 200, 100HH, 400IH]
*Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2012 Group 3 [100, 200, 100HH, 400IH]
Tacquaya Tobias [Our Lady of Mercy], 2011 Parochial B [100, 200, LJ]
Rajeana Marigna [Palmyra], 2008 Group 1 [100, 200, 400]
*Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2005 Group 4 [200, 400, 100HH, 400IH]
Shameka Speed [Bridgeton], 2003 Group 2 [100, 200, 400, LJ]
*Shameka Speed [Bridgeton], 2002 Group 2 [100, 200, 400, LJ]
***Shameka Speed [Bridgeton], 2000 Group 2 [200, 400, LJ]
*Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2000 Group 2 [800, 1,600, 3,200, Jav]
**Erin Donohue [Haddonfield],1999 Group 2 [800, 1,600, 3,200, Jav]
***Erin Donohue [Haddonfield],1999 Group 2 [800, 1,600, 3,200]
Candyce DeLoatch [Schalick], 1996 Group 1 [100, 200, 400]
Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 1996 Group 3 [100, 200, 400]
Tamika Nelson [Buena], 1993 Group 2 [100, 200, 400]
Ivy Foster [Haddon Heights], 1991 Group 1 [100, 200, 400]
Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], 1987 Group 3 [100HH, 400IH, LJ, HJ]
Kelli James [Bishop Eustace], 1987 Parochial B [100HH, HJ, LJ]
Ruth Lockbaum [Glassboro], 1986 Group 1 [800, 1,600, 3,200]
Dana Roberts [Holy Cross], 1984 Parochial A [100, 200, LJ]
Denise Liles [Kingsway], 1984 Group 1 [100, 200, 100HH]
Lillian Rivera [Pemberton], 1984 Group 4 [SP, Di, Jav]
*Denise Liles [Kingsway], 1983 Group 1 [100, 200, 100HH]
Tina Walls [Williamstown], 1982 [100HH, 400IH, LJ]
Kathy Rankins [Haddon Heights], 1980 [100, 200, LJ]