From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Winslow Township’s Amariah Arango, Jasmine Jackson, Adaiah Arango and Cinniya Robinson put together the 5th-fastest 4-by-4 in state history and the fastest by a South Jersey relay in 22 years Saturday at Ocean Breeze.

Winslow ran 3:46.87 at the New York International Showcase, the 4th-fastest time in the U.S. this year acccording to the MileSplit national database behind three all-star programs.

Freshman Amariah Arango led off in 56.14, freshman Jasmine Jackson split 56.08, freshman Adaiah Arango ran 58.46 and junior Cinniya Robinson anchored in 56.21.

It’s fastest by any New Jersey school since a Scotch Plains-based Central Jersey all-star team ran 3:40.28 at 2016 Armory Nationals.

The only faster time in South Jersey history is Willingboro’s 3:45.37 with Halimah Bashir, Rhea Mann, Channel Hamilton and Okechi Ogbuokiri when they won Armory Nationals in 2003 and set a state record that stood for 10 years.

Winslow’s time is so fast it would rank 11th on the all-time South Jersey outdoor list.
Arango led off with a 56.04 split to give Winslow the lead, Okaro split a nearly identical 56.08, Seamon ran 58.46 and Robinson anchored in 56.21.

Winslow won by 20 meters over Archbishop Carroll of Washington, D.C.., which placed 2nd in 3:49.56.

The Eagles broke the Camden County record of 3:49.07 [converted from a full mile] set by Camden when it won Easterns at Harvard’s Gordon Track in Cambridge, Mass., in 1995. Winslow’s previous fastest time was a 3:49.50 last February at the Millrose Games at the Amory, with Seamon, Okaro, 2024 graduate Djassi Dean and Robinson.

All-Time New Jersey Indoor 4×4 List
3:40.28 … Union Catholic, 2016
3:42.03 … Columbia, 2013
3:45.37 … Willingboro, 2003
3:46.42 … Columbia, 2014
3:46.87 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:47.03 … Union Catholic, 2015
3:47.31 … Union Catholic, 2019
3:47.59 … Union Catholic, 2024
3:47.95 … Willingboro, 2002
3:48.9h … Plainfield, 1980
3:49.07 … Camden, 1995
3:49.50 … East Orange, 2006
3:49.50 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:49.59 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:49.9h … Plainfield, 1981
3:50.82 … Union Catholic, 2017
3:50.89 … Scotch Plains-Fanwood, 2022
3:50.90 … Winslow Twp., 2005
3:50.8h … Snyder, 1981

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 4×4 List
3:45.37 … Willingboro, 2003
3:46.87 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:47.95 … Willingboro, 2002
3:49.07 … Camden, 1995
3:49.50 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:49.59 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:50.90 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:51.49 … Winslow Twp., 2017
3:52.37 … Willingboro, 2000
3:52.55 … Wilson, 2006
3:53.61 … Willingboro, 1998
3:53.81 … Paul VI, 2020
3:53.6h … Willingboro, 1999
3:53.82 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:53.97 … Rancocas Valley, 2019