In her first high school race – and the first high school meet ever held at the Ott Center – Winslow freshman Jasmine Jackson broke the South Jersey freshman class hurdles record Saturday morning in the South Jersey Track Coaches Association #2 meet.
Jackson won the 55-meter high hurdles in 8.42, breaking the South Jersey freshman record of 8.46 set by Millville’s Leah Ellis at 2019 Group 4 sectionals at the Bubble. Tonya Lee ran a hand-timed 8.4
The South Jersey Track Coaches Association #2 meet was the second meet and first high school meet at the brand-new $69 million Ott Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jackson won the 100-meter hurdles over the summer in the 14-year-old age group at the AAU Junior Olympics in Greensboro, N.C., with a 13.72. She also ran 24.45 and 58.48 as an 8th-grader.
Pennsauken junior Sianni Wynn was 2nd in the hurdles out of a difference heat. Wynn, the national runner-up at 100 meters last spring at West Philly Nationals across the Amtrak tracks at Franklin Field, ran 8.52, lowering her PR from 8.75 at the Bubble last winter in her only previous indoor hurdles race.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 