Dozens of college runners, jumpers and throwers from South Jersey will be in action next week at the 129th annual Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

This list doesn’t even include South Jersey runners running relay legs for non-South Jersey schools, but there are a ton of good ones who are down for relay duty but not individual events, including Ajani Dwyer, Gabriel Moronta, Premier Wynn, Kadence Dumas and Alexis Tepper.

The complete college and Olympic development schedules and entries can be found here:

College Men: https://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/schedule.aspx?l=CM
College Women: https://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/schedule.aspx?l=CW
Olympic Development Men: https://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/schedule.aspx?l=ODM
Olympic Development Women: https://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/schedule.aspx?l=ODW

Remember, most Olympic Development fields won’t be announced until closer to the start of the meet.

College Men
400-Meter Relay, 1:15 p.m. Friday
Rowan: Masai Byrd, Shamar Love, Eli Hendricks, Evan Corcoran
Stockton: Carson Latham, Marcellus Malloy, Anthony McCullough, Devante Greene
Rutgers-Camden: Robert Bayard, Hector Diaz, Walter Pierce, Benjamin Wilson

800-Meter Relay, 2:45 p.m. Friday
Rowan: Rajahn Dixon, Robert McKinney, Eli Hendricks, James Coleman

1,600-Meter Relay – Eastern, 7:50 p.m. Friday
Rutgers-Camden: Josiah Saint Ellen, Walter Pierce, Jacob Dinerman, Kristopher Ewell

1,600-Meter Relay – College, 7:30 p.m., Friday
Rowan: James Coleman, Luke Halbruner, Samuel Milevoix, Lowrentzky Ambroise

100-Meter Dash
Jah’Mere Beasley, Rutgers [Sterling], 3:30 p.m. Friday

1,500-Meter Run6;45 p.m. Thursday
Kyle Rakitis, Rutgers [Kingsway]

5,000-Meter Run, 9 p.m. Thursday
Kevin Antczak, North Carolina State [Mainland Reg.]

110-Meter Hurdles, 3:30 p.m. Friday
Yashahya Brown, Rutgers [Washington Twp.]
Kwaku Nkrumah, Rowan [Teaneck]
Jason Agyemang, Rowan [North Plainfield]
Jamir Brown, Rowan [Riverside]

400-Meter Hurdles, 6:05 p.m. Thursday
Bryce Tucker, Rutgers [Pennsauken]
Lathan Brown, Rutgers [Deptford]

High Jump – College, 12 p.m. Friday
Isaiah Davenport, Holy Family [Pleasantville]

Pole Vault – Championship, 11:30 a.m. Saturday
Noah Kriesman, Rutgers [Cherry Hill East]

Pole Vault – College, 4 p.m. Friday
Nico Morales, Rutgers [Delsea]
Ryan Merlino, Rutgers [Oakcrest]

Long Jump – Championship, 11:30 a.m. Saturday
Greg Foster, Princeton [Lumberton]

Long Jump – College, 12 p.m. Friday
Nana Agyemang, Rowan [Parsippany]
Ahmad Brock, Monmouth [Egg Harbor Twp.]
Desi Stroud, Holy Family [Atlantic County Tech]

Triple Jump – College, 4 p.m. Friday
Jaden Johnson, East Stroudsburg [Timber Creek]
Ahmad Fogg, Stockton [Egg Harbor Twp.]
Desi Stroud, Holy Family [Atlantic County Tech]
Joshua Justin, Rowan [Clifton]

Shot Put – College, 3 p.m. Friday
Malicah Etienne, Cinnaminson [Georgian Court]
Damere Lassiter, Glassboro [Rider]
Christopher Johnson, Willingboro [Delaware State]

Discus – College, 12 p.m. Friday
Malicah Etienne, Cinnaminson [Georgian Court]
Jake Nwosu, Delsea [Army]
Franklin Simms, St. Augustine [Wagner]

Hammer – College, 5 p.m. Thursday
Jake Nwosu, Delsea [Army]

Javelin – Championship, 3:30 p.m. Saturday
Damitrius Hester [Rowan]

College Women
800-Meter Relay, 2;30 p.m. Friday
Rowan: Molly Lodge, Nevaeh Lorjuste, Mya Walker, Jasmine Broadway

1,600-Meter Relay, 6:50 p.m. Friday
Rowan: Molly Lodge, Ava Reilly, Jasmine Broadway, Navaeh Lorjuste
Stockton: Kayla Sullivan, Emma Conroy, Emma Petrolia, Kayla Kass

100-Meter Dash, 3:10 p.m. Friday
Nayla Jones, Timber Creek [Rutgers]

10,000-Meter Run, 9:50 p.m. Thursday
Helene Usher, Haddonfield [La Salle]

100-Meter Hurdles , 3:10 p.m. Friday
Arianna Smith, Pennsville [Howard]

400-Meter Hurdles , 5:45 p.m. Thursday
Aliya Garozzo, Paul VI [Duke]
Arianna Smith, Pennsville [Howard]
Molly Lodge, Woodstown [Rowan]

High Jump – Championship, 11:30 a.m. Thursday
Jenovia Logan, Sterling [Rutgers]
Alanna Woolfolk, Clayton [Rutgers]

High Jump – College, 4 p.m. Friday
Elaina Styer, Ocean City [Stockton]

Long Jump – College, 12 p.m. Friday
Mariah Stephens, Egg Harbor Twp. [Rider]

Shot Put – College, 12 p.m. Friday
Tey’ana Ames, Atlantic County Tech [Rutgers]
Emma Peretti, Hammonton [Yale]

Discus – College, 3:30 p.m. Friday
Michelle Pomatto, Egg Harbor Twp. [Stockton]

Javelin – Championship, 3:30 p.m. Friday
Isabelle Deal, Washington Twp. [Rowan]

Javelin – College, 5:15 p.m. Friday
Laurel Conway, Sterling [Delaware]
Diamond Eaddy, Salem [Rowan]

Olympic Development
5,000-Meter Run, 9 p.m. Friday
Jack Shea, Cherokee [Shore Athletic Club]
Matthew Coffey [Philadelphia Runner]
Tom Cooke, Glassboro [Unattached]

5,000-Meter Run, 8:35 p.m. Friday
Alyssa Condell, Timber Creek [Philadelphia Runner]

While South Jersey boys are represented by only two relay teams and seven individuals at next week’s Penn Relays, the girls contingent is much larger, with six relay teams and nine individuals.

Northern Burlington senior Liliah Gordon leads the South Jersey group at Penn in the 3,000. Indoors, Gordon set a state 5,000 record of 16:48.89 in Boston and ran the 3rd-fastest 3,200 in state history when she won the Meet of Champions in 10:13.41. She came through 3,000 meters in that race in 9:39.04, another South Jersey record. The fastest South Jersey girl ever in the Penn Relays 3,000 is Haddonfield’s recent South Jersey Track Hall of Fame inductee Marielle Hall, who ran 9:40.23 at the 2010 Penn Relays.

Errors and omissions please let met know in the comment section as soon as possible. For the full girls high school click here.

3,200-Meter Relay, 9 a.m., Friday
Winslow Township [9 a.m.]: Adaiah Arango, Amariah Arango, Tristan Hughes, Ava Millner
Northern Burlington [9:23 a.m.]: Emma Price, Kayla Leonhardt, Bex Kearns, Zoe Chou
Cherokee [9:34 a.m.]: Alyssa Suriano, Megan Niglio, Sofia Recinto, Maddie Meder
Moorestown [9:34 a.m.]: Sarah Brown, Gabrielle DeJoseph, Hope Edwards, Payton Derer
Haddonfield [9:34 a.m.: Tylin Regan, Madison Kelsey, Edie Green, Molly Mills

Distance Medley, 4:35 p.m. Friday
Ocean City: Chloe Care, Alana Clevenger, Carly Godfrey, Maeve Smith

3,000-Meter Run, 5 p.m. Friday
Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington]

High Jump, 9:30 a.m. Friday
Egypt Bolan [Lindenwold]

Pole Vault, 9:30 a.m. Friday
Hannah Byrd-Leitner [Moorestown]
Rebecca Hoover [Haddonfield]

Triple Jump, 9:30 a.m. Friday
Ma’Syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.]

Shot Put, 9:30 a.m. Friday
Ella Karp [Washington Twp.]

Discus, 9:30 a.m. Friday
Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea]
Brook-lynn Roberts [Winslow Twp.]
Sunsarai Moore [Glassboro]

Thanks in part to the terrible weather that we had every Saturday before the entry deadline, we’ve got a small group of South Jersey boys in the invitational events at next week’s 129th annual Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

Haddonfield’s distance medley team, ranked 16th indoors at 10:11.61 from a meet in February at the Ott Center, leads the South Jersey contingent, with Bennett Wright, Luke Andressen, Ben Andrus and Jack Brand expected to race in the Championship of America final at 5:15 p.m. Friday.

Here’s a look at the full slate of invitational acceptances. Errors and omissions please let met know in the comment section as soon as possible. The full boys high school schedule, including the 4-by-100s and 4-by-400s, can be found here.

3,200-Meter Relay, 9:30 a.m., Friday
Winslow Township: Dominic Bassey, David Duran, Vincent Perri, Chukwuemeka Ajaegbulemh

Distance Medley, 5:15 p.m. Friday
Haddonfield: Bennet Wright, Luke Andressen, Ben Andrus, Jack Brand

High Jump, 10 a.m. Thursday
Jayden DeLeon [Highland]
Ryan James [Gloucester]

Pole Vault, 12 p.m. Thursday
Marcus Hood [Deptford]
Henry Cifaloglio [Delsea]

Triple Jump, 12 p.m. Thursday
Zamir Chance [Bridgeton]

Shot Put, 9:30 a.m. Thursday
Anthony Liakhnovich [Hammonton]
Jonathan Harris [Delsea]

Lauren Fadeiro, a freshman from Rancocas Valley, recorded the No. 2 triple jump in Quinnipiac history Sunday at the Bucknell Bison Invitational in Lewisburg, Pa.

Fadeiro PR’d with a jump of 38-9 1/2. The only superior jumper in Quinnipiac history is Fair Lawn graduate Britney Del Mundo, who hit 39-7 at the 2022 ECAC Championships in Boston.

Fadeiro had PRs of 5-2, 18-3 3/4 and 38-7 3/4 at R.V., her triple jump PR coming when she was 2nd in the state Group 4 meet this past June in Somerset.

At Quinnipiac, she jumped 38-4 indoors when she placed 4th in the MAAC Championships at the Armory and then recorded an overall PR Sunday at Bucknell.

Fadeiro had an excellent series Sunday, with three jumps over 38 feet. After opening with a foul, she jumped 38-7 3/4 – her best jump as a collegian and tying her lifetime best – and then followed with a PR of 38-9 1/2 on her 3rd attempt. After a foul and a 36-4, she finished with another 38-footer, 38-0 1/4.

The best jump ever by a Rancocas Valley graduate is 39-6 by Kristina Tossas of Rutgers at the 2022 indoor Big Ten Championship in Geneva, Ohio.

Good for Quinnipiac for posting an all-time top-10 list on its web site, but I have never seen an all-time performance list that combines indoor and outdoor marks. Truly bizarre.

In any case, Fadeiro is also 10th in school history in the combined indoor/outdoor high jump at 5-0 1/4. She’s only long jumped in three meets at Quinnipiac, none outdoors, but she has a 17-2 1/4 PR from Ocean Breeze in February. That’s just short of the all-time Quinnipiac top-10.

Quinnipiac is an NCAA Division 1 school located between New Haven and Hartford that competes in the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association.

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Mainland Regional’s Mawali Osunniyi, the JUCO indoor national high jump champ, took over the outdoor JUCO lead Saturday in a meet at Canyon, Texas.

Osunniyi, a sophomore at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, N. Mex., cleared 7-0 ½ at the Jo Meaker Classic and Multi at West Texas State’s Track & Field Complex at Buffalo Sports Park.

He’s the only 7-footer in the National Junior College Athletic Association ranks so far this spring.

Osunniyi cleared 6-7 ½ and 6-9 on his 1^st attempt and 6-11 ½ on his 2^nd. He got over the bar at 7-0 ½ on his 3^rd and final attempt before taking three attempts at 7-1 ¾, which would have been a lifetime best.

Osunniyi set his PR of 7-1 ½ in February of 2024 as a freshman at Connecticut at an indoor meet at the Armory. He won the indoor Big East last year with a 7-0 ¼ in Chicago and then won the outdoor Big East title last May at Villanova with a 6-11 ½. He matched that 7-1 ½ in his first meet at New Mexico JC in Lubbock. He cleared 6-11 ½ to win the JUCO national title last month, also in Lubbock.

He’s the 2^nd high jumper from Mainland Regional to clear at least 7-0. Paul Klemic cleared 7-4 ½ at the National Scholastic Championships in Raleigh, N.C., still the New Jersey state record 25 years later and No. 9 in U.S. history. He began his collegiate career at Northeastern, where he ran 14.244 and jumped 6-9 ½ and 24-8 ¾, then transferred to Stockton, where he still holds school records of 6-11 ¾, 14.05 and 25-2. Klemic was a two-time NCAA Division 3 long jump champ and a six-time All-America in the 110-meter hurdles, high jump and long jump.

7-4 ½ … Paul Klemic [Mainland Reg.], June 17, 2000, Raleigh, N.C.

Another 400 PR for Norfolk State sophomore Premier Wynn from Pennsauken Saturday at the Duke Invitational in Durham, N.C.

Wynn ran 46.38 and finished 2nd among 85 runners, behind only Virginia Tech senior and UCLA transfer Samuel Herenton, who PR’d at 46.13.

Wynn’s time is 10th-fastest all-time by a South Jersey high school graduate and fastest by a Camden County high school graduate since Olympic gold medalist Denmis Mitchell of Edgewood ran 45.26 in Tampa in 1986 in one of his last 400s before be began focusing on the 100 and 200.

It was Wynn’s first outdoor 400 since he ran 47.25 at the same meet last year. His previous PR was 46.64 when he took 2nd at the indoor MEAC Championships in February in Virginia Beach. His previous outdoor PR was that 47.25 a year ago.

Wynn’s primary event is the 400-meter hurdles, and his 50.58 PR is 6th-fastest on the all-time South Jersey alumni list. He ran 50.70 in Tampa last month and that’s No. 18 in NCAA Division 1 this year. On the NCAA Eastern Region list Wynn is No. 9 in the 400IH.

In the MEAC, Wynn is No. 3 in the 200 at 20.91, No. 3 in the 400 with Saturday’s 46.38 and No. 1 by more than a second in the intermediates.

Here’s the updated all-time South Jersey alumni 400-meter dash list:

44.30 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], June 19, 1996, Atlanta
45.26 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], April 12, 1986, Tampa, Fla.
45.49 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], April 11, 2015, Tucson, Ariz.
45.81 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], May 10, 2024, San Antonio, Texas
45.98 … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], May 29, 2010, Charlotte, N.C.
46.05 … Schefer Sherrer [Vineland], May 18, 2005, Levelland, Texas
46.13 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], May 15, 2021, Raleigh, N.C.
46.19 … Maurice Ransome [Vineland], May 23-25, 1990, Naperville, Ill.
46.26 … Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], July 29, 2010, Nairobi, Kenya
46.38 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], April 12, 2025, Durham, N.C.

Millville’s Leah Howard, a sophomore at Texas Tech, threw a season-best and near-PR 163-10 in the javelin late Saturday night at the Texas A&M 44 Farms Invitational in College Station.

Her mark is No. 17 among U.S. women this year, according to the World Athletics database.

Her throw is 4th-best in the Big 12 Conference this year and just six inches off her PR of 164-4 set at last year’s Big 12 meet in Waco.

Howard is bidding to beome the first-ever 170-foot thrower from South Jersey. Kelly Yanucil from Bordentown and Mount St. Mary’s is the alumni record holder with a 169-9 at the 2017 Penn Relays.

On Saturday, Howard threw 155-10 on her 3rd and final throw of the trials and secured the 9th and final spot in the finals by about 2 ½ feet.

She hit her 163-10 on her first throw of the finals before finishing with two fouls.

Interesting that the final results convert 49.93 to 163-9, but TFRRS – the Track and Field Race Reporting System, which is the official database for NCAA qualifying – converts her mark to 163-10.

A 49.93 converts to 163.81234, which equals 163-9.74808, which should be 163-9, since there are no inches in javelin, hammer or discus marks and you always round down to determine an official mark. But the throw shows up officially as 163-10, so we’ll go with that for now.

Howard was the 2023 Meet of Champions winner at 159-4, the No. 2 mark in MoC history. She’s No. 2 in state history with her 163-1 at the 2023 Woodbury Relays. a

Aliya Garozzo on Saturday became the fastest intermediate hurdler ever from South Jersey and fastest other than Sydney McLaughlin from New Jersey with a historic race on her home track in Durham, N.C.

Garozzo, a Sicklerville resident and Paul VI graduate, ran 55.77 to win the Duke Invitational on her home track.

That’s 1-100th of a second faster than Rancocas Valley graduatee and Tennessee All-America Tonya Lee ran at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., on April 21, 1996.

The only faster intermediate hurdler New Jersey has produced is McLaughlin, the world record holder with her 50.37 to win the gold medal at the Paris Olympics this past August.

She’s now 2nd all-time on the Duke performance list behind Lauren Hoffman, who ran 55.47 in June 2022 at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore.

Garozzo’s previous PR was 56.34 from her win at Heps this past May at Princeton while competing for Penn. Her previous-best time for Duke was 56.54 in Tucson last weekend.

Her 55.77 is 5th-fastest in NCAA Division 1 so far this year and No. 11 in the world, according to the World Athletics database. It’s No. 6 among U.S. women.

Garozzo, who began her collegiate track career at Penn, broke the meet record of 57.24 set in 2022 by Duke’s Lauren Hoffman and the facility record of 56.00 set by Hoffman at 2022 ACCs.

Runner-up in the race with a time of 57.14 was Pennsville’s Arianna Smith, a senior at Howard. That’s 3rd-fastest in Howard history and 14th-fastest in NCAA Division 1. She lowered her PR from 57.85, which she ran while at Princeton at Heps at Franklin Field in 2023. She finished one place ahead of Garozzo in that race.

Jewel Ash of Fresno State, an Eastern grad, ran 58.08 at Stanford last weekend, and she currently ranks 25th in Division 1. That means three of the top 25 intermediate hurdlers in college track are from South Jersey.

50.68 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], July 22, 2022, Eugene, Ore.
55.77 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], April 12, 2025, Durham, N.C.
55.78 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], April 21, 1996, Walnut, Calif.
56.21 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 26, 2007, Gainesville, Fla.
56.87 … Erin Crawford [Hillsborough], June 10, 2006, Sacramento, Calif.
56.87 … Evann Thompson [Lenape], May 30, 2014, Jacksonville, Fla.
56.91 … Angela Lee [Franklin Twp,.], May 24, 1998, Fairfax, Va.
57.14 … Leslie Njoku [McNair Academic], June 8, 2011, Des Moines, Iowa
57.16 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], May 9, 2022, High Point, N.C.
57.14 … Arianna Smith [Pennsville], April 12, 2025, Durham, N.C.
57.31 … Danielle Myricks [Willingboro], May 19, 2002, Columbia, Mo.
57.31 … Eusheka Bartley [Highland], May 29, 1996, Atlanta

Freshman Kerry O’Day from Cherokee ran the 9th-fastest 5,000 in Bucknell history Saturday night in her first lifetime 5K on the track.

O’Day ran 16:55.53 at the Bucknell Bison Classic in Lewisburg, Pa., 2nd-fastest all-time time by a Bucknell freshman and fastest since Lauren Gronbeck ran 16:52.68 at the same meet in 2017.

Her time is 4th-fastest this year in the Patriot League and fastest by a conference freshman.

O’Day has previously run 4:56.44 for a full mile, 9:57.06 for 3,000 meters and 10:58.56 in the steeplechase this year.

Former Kingsway runner and Edinboro All-America Kylie Anicic, racing unattached, won the race in 16:32.51 on a 69.40 final lap. She ran her final 800 in 2:27.27.

Payton Falkenstein, an East Stroudsburg sophomore from Burlington Township, ran 17:27.78, dropping her PR from 17:36.93 from this meet last year. Her time is 8th-fastest in school history and fastest by an East Stroudsburg woman since Northern Burlington graduate Laura Mason ran 17:23.24 in 1985.

Here’s my best attempt at an all-time Burlington County alumni 5,000-meter list:

15:10.10 … Erika Kemp [Rancocas Valley], May 29, 2021, Attleboro, Mass.
16:34.70 … Jenna Darcy [Shawnee], Feb. 19, 2005, Kingston, R.I.
16:36.18 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], June 5, 2021, Nashville, Tenn.
16:48.89 … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], March 16, 2025, Boston
16:54.03 … Isabella Turner [Shawnee], March 28, 2025, Raleigh, N.C.
16:55.53 … Kerry O’Day [Cherokee], April 12, 2025, Lewisburg, Pa.
16:56.62 … Keira Mansure [Northern Burlington], March 3, 2024, Boston
17:02.20 … Lisa Syvertson [Shawnee], 1991, N/A
17:03.30 … Laura Mason [Northern Burlington], June 15, 1996, Atlanta
17:08.79 … Isabella Leak [Egg Harbor Twp.], May 6, 2023, Williamsburg, Va.
17:12.71 … Colleen Sunderland [Northern Burlington], N/A

La Salle freshman Gillian Lovett from Mainland Regional and Catholic senior Kate Inglis from Moorestown both ran big steeplechase PRs Saturda in Lewisburg, Pa.

Lovett ran 10:48.24 and placed 5th in the Bucknell Bison Classic at Christy Mathewson Memorial Stadium, and Inglis finished just a few steps behind her, 7th in 10:49.69, a school record.

La Salle is one of the few Division 1 schools that doesn’t have an all-time top-10, but Inglis broke her own school record.

Lovett’s previous PR was a 10:59.98 in her last race last weekend at Princeton. Inglis lowered her PR and school record from 11:07.96 from a meet in Fairfax, Va., also last week.

Lovett’s time is No. 4 in the Atlantic 10 this year. Inglis’s time is fastest in the Landmark Conference this year and also fastest in NCAA Division 3 South Region. It’s No. 7 overall in NCAA Division 3.

There isn’t an extensive history of South Jersey women running a 3,000-meter steeplechase with a water jump, but Julianna Catania from Egg Harbor and Penn looks like the fastest from South Jersey with her 10:28.23 at the 2018 Penn Relays.

Also in the race was Lafayette sophomore Ava Severino from Haddon Heights, who ran 11:32.43.

Here’s a look at the sub-10:50 performers I found. I’m probably missing a couple. Feel free to message me with any omissions or errors.

10:28.23 … Julianna Catania [Egg Harbor Twp.], April 26, 2018, Philadelphia
10:29.27 … Natalia Ocasio [Lenape], April 22, 2016, Charlottesville, Va.
10:37.20 … Jena Peacock [Our Lady of Mercy], May 26, 2012, Claremont, Calif.
10:45.30 … Alicia Belko [Rancocas Valley], May 25-27, 2017, Alliance, Ohio
10:46.47 … Alyssa Condell [Timber Creek], Princeton, May 11, 2019
10:48.24 … Gillian Lovett [Mainland Reg.], Lewisburg, Pa., April 12, 2025
10:48.66 … Anna Sasse [Williamstown], Chester, Pa., May 13, 2024
10:49.69 … Kate Inglis [Moorestown], Lewisburg, Pa., April 12, 2025