Moorestown senior Rece Englehart followed his Meet of Champions triple jump victory with an All-America performance at West Philly Nationals on Saturday at Franklin Field.
Englehart placed 8th with the 2nd-best jump of his life – a 47-10 on his 2nd attempt. His jump was made with a legal 0.4 meters-per-second tailwind.
He PR’d with a Burlington County-record 48-4 ½ [with a legal 1.7 tailwind] when he won the state Group 3 meet earlier this month at Delsea.
Englehart missed the entire 2023 season with a torn ACL. He was 7th as a sophomore at the Meet of Champions with a 44-9 ¾ jump but didn’t jump again for 19 months – until an indoor meet this past January in Collegeville, Pa., where he hit 43-10 ¼ following a year-and-a-half layoff.
He medaled in both horizontal jumps at the indoor Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze – 2nd in the long jump with a then-PR 22-7 ½ and 6th in the triple at 44-9 ¾ – before exploding this spring.
Englehart recorded big PRs with a 23-11 and 47-3 at South Jersey Elite at Delsea and then turned in a remarkable double with a PR 23-11 ¾ for 2nd and 47-7 ¼ for the win in Pennsauken Wednesday night.
On Saturday, Englehart had four jumps over 46 feet and two over 47. He finished 1 ½ inches ahead of the 9th-place jumper, guaranteeing him All-America honors.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 