Sianni Wynn ran the 6th-fastest 400 in the U.S. early Saturday morning at the South Jersey Track Coaches Association meet at the Ott Center.
By 9:15 a.m., the Pennsauken junior had PR’d in the hurdles with an 8.38 and run 56.17 in the 400 on Penn’s new banked 200-meter track.
Before New Year’s in her first 400 of the year, she ran within two-thirds of a second of her indoor 400 PR of 55.51 from a meet last December at Ocean Breeze. That’s No. 6 in South Jersey history indoors. She ran 53.45 outdoors – No. 8 in state history – when she won the state Group 4 title in Somerset.
On Saturday, Wynn won by 20 meters over Autumn Carter of Hopewell Valley, who was 2nd in 59.49. Paul VI junior Claire Magee was also under a minute in 3rd place with a 59.84.
Wynn also won the 55-meter hurdles in 8.38, lowering her PR in a relatively new event from 8.52 , which she just ran last weekon the same track in West Philly.
That’s fastest by a Pennsauken girl since Alethia Jenkins ran 8.03 when she won 2000 Easterns title at the Armory.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 