Egg Harbor’s Ahmad Fogg, a sophomore at Stockton, moved into the NCAA Division 3 top-10 when he won the long jump Saturday at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships.
Fogg jumped a wind-legal 24-1 on his final attempt and won by two inches over Rowan’s Nana Agyemang, who was 2nd with a season-best 23-11.
That’s tied for 8th-best in NCAA Division 3 this year. The top 20 qualify for D-3 Nationals, scheduled for
Fogg’s 24-1 is best by a Stockton jumper with legal wind since before 2013, which is as far back as the TFRRS database goes. It’s probably best by a Stockton jumper since 2006, when Mainland’s Paul Klemic jumped 24-9 ¾ (with -0.2 wind) to win the D-3 title in Lisle, Ill.
Stockton’s Jared Lewis, the 2017 and 2018 Division 3 triple jump champ from Deptford, had a 24-4 at a meet in Glassboro in 2016 but it was wind aided at 2.9.
Fogg’s previous legal long jump was a 23-6 ¼ indoors in Rochester in January.
Fogg also placed 3rd in the triple jump with a lifetime-best 47-8 ½. His previous PR was a 47-1 ½ at Widener last month.
So far this spring, four South Jersey long jumpers have surpassed 24 feet: Princeton junior Greg Foster from Lumberton [25-8 ½], Monmouth senior Ahmad Brock – Fogg’s one-time teammate at Egg Harbor – [24-7 ½] Monmouth junior Aaron Brooks from Eastern [24-0] and Fogg [24-1]
Fogg spent last season at Penn State, where he long jumped 23-6 ¾ in an indoor meet in Ann Arbor, Mich.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 