The Winslow Township girls put on a remarkable display of talent and versatility Saturday, recording the highest score in any group in state relays history.
Winslow scored an astonishing 69 1/2 points to win Group 3 for the 7th straight year and 10th overall. Winslow outscored 2nd, 3rd and 4th place combined. Moorestown was 2nd with 23 points, Roxbury 3rd with 22 and Ocean City 3rd with 20.
The Eagles scored in all but one event and won six of nine events, scoring 50 of a possible 60 points on the track.
The previous meet record for points at the state relays was Haddonfield’s 63 in Group 2 in 2022. The previous Group 3 high was 52 by Timber Creek in 2017 and Winslow Township last year.
Only Willingboro, with 11 state relays titles, has won more than Winslow. Their streak of seven straight titles – interrupted by COVID in 2021 – is 3rd-longest ever behind Hopewell Valley’s nine-year streak in Group 2 from 2002 through 2010 and that North Jersey all-star team in Parochial A the last nine years.
Winslow won the 1,600-meter relay with Cinnihya Robinson, Amariah Arango, Skyhe Seamon and freshman Jasmine Jackson in a meet-record 3:54.33, breaking the mark of 3:57.96 set last year by Timber Creek.
Winslow also won the shuttle hurdles with Ma’Syiah Brawner, Jackson, Chantina Walker and Sanaa Bradley, the 800-meter relay with Jackson, Olivia Okaro, Robinson and Seamon, the 3,200-meter relay in 9:40.99 with Adaiah Arango, Amariah Arango, Tristan Hughes and Ava Millner and the sprint medley in with Jordyn Cato, Tammy Ellis, Millner and Okaro in 4:17.91.
Brawner cleared 5-2 and Walker 5-0 to win the high jump relay. In the shot put relay, Brook-lynn Roberts threw 38-6 and freshman Jenelle Harrison 29-6 1/2 for 2nd place. And Winslow tied for 5th in the pole vault, junior Nyla Williams clearing 9-6 and junior Cherish Hazelton 7-6.
For 2nd-place Moorestown, seniors Hannah Byrd-Leitner and Jaya Stockham won the pole vault relay, Byrd-Leitner clearing 12-0 and Stockham 9-6.
The Quakers were also 2nd in the 4-by-4 and 4-by-8, with Sophia DiFiore, Lillliana Stack Maya, Hope Edwards and Sarah Brown running 4:10.50 and Brown, Gabrielle DeJoseph, Edwards and Stack Maya running 9:42.68.
Ocean City took 2nd in both the DMR and 4-by-8, with Chloe Care, Maeve Smith and Carly Godfrey running on both teams. They were joined by Alana Clevenger on the DMR, which ran 12:27.02, and by Riley Tolson on the 4-by-8, which ran 9:42.19.
Pennsauken picked up 2nd places in the shuttles and 4-by-4. Ameenah Rodriguez, Sianni Wynn, Sanaya Dupree and Olivia Dupree ran on both teams.
Camryn DeMorat, Isabella Moscola, Aryanna Perez and Ava McDole took 3rd for Mainland in the shuttles in 33.61.
Here’s a look at all the schools that have scored 60 points in a state relays meet:
69 1/2 … Winslow Twp., 2025, Group 3
63 … Haddonfield, 2022, Group 2
62 … Notre Dame, 1997, Group 2
62 … Bishop Eustace, 2005, Group 1
62 … Haddonfield, 2024, Group 2
60 … Willingboro, 2010, Group 1
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 