In just her second lifetime multi, TCNJ’s Samantha Magin from Cinnaminson records SEVEN PRs on way to 2nd place in heptathlon at NJAC Championships!!!!!!

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She never placed in a sectional meet. She never placed in the Burlington County Open. She never broke 28 seconds in the 200, long jumped 15 feet or threw the shot put 23 feet. She never even picked up a javelin and never ran the high hurdles.

Samantha Magin’s track career at Cinnaminson may not have been the best ever, but she had one thing a lot of other athletes don’t have. The determination to keep going.

Magin is now a sophomore at The College of New Jersey and this weekend she placed 2nd in the heptathlon at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships at her home facility in Ewing.

Magin scored 3,757 points in her 2nd lifetime attempt at a multi and placed 2nd to teammate Sarah Scepkowski, who won the event with 4,048 points. Magin’s score is 6th-highest in TCNJ history.

How important was Magin to TCNJ this weekend? She scored eight points in the heptathlon, and TCNJ won the team title by 3 ½ points.

This is all new for Magin, who didn’t even enter the pentathlon at the NJAC Indoor Championships in February at the Ott Center.

But she gave multis a chance a couple weeks ago and scored 3,332 in her first try at a home meet. She tried again this weekend and PR’d by more than 400 points.

Magin had the top marks in the competition in the 200 [25.75] and concluding 800 [2:27.97] and also ran 17.80 in the hurdles, high jumped 4-4 ¼, threw the shot 28-8 ¼, long jumped 15-3 ½ and threw the javelin 77-3.

She recorded six PRs along the way, setting lifetime bests in every event but the hurdles. She ran 2-100ths of a second faster in her first multi last month. Considering her total score is also a PR, that’s seven PRs in two days.

That’s not all. Magin also anchored TCNJ’s winning 400-meter relay team, which ran a season-best 48.54. Mackenzie Burke from Bergen Tech, Rukky Daranijo from Trenton and Petra Doherty from Lawrence ran the first three legs.

Other TCNJ scorers from South Jersey:

 Sophomore Maya Scannell from Absegami placed 2nd in the pole vault with a 10-11 ¾ clearance. Stockton junior Eva Morrison from Mainland Regional won at 11-1 ¾, making it a 1-2 Atlantic County finish.

 Freshman Ella Feehan from Brigantine and Atlantic County Tech placed 8th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 13:34.70.

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