Winslow’s Jasmine Jackson ran the fastest hurdles race ever by a South Jersey freshman Saturday at the Camden County Championships.
Because there was no wind gauge at Haddon Township the performance isn’t eligible for record purposes, but Jackson won the 100-meter highs in 14.12, lowering her PR from 14.20 from FAT Wednesday at Cherokee. Her legal-wind PR is 14.30 from South Jersey Elite at Delsea. That currently stands as the official South Jersey freshman record.
Pleasantville’s Isabella Alvarez is 2nd-fastest on that list with her 14.55 on Saturday at the Cape Atlantic Championships at Buena. She has a 14.41 to her credit from the Atlantic County meet earlier this month at Egg Harbor, also with no wind gauge.
The only faster any-conditions times on record by New Jersey freshmen are by two graduates of the Scotch Plains-based Central Jersey all-star program – four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin ran 13.34 at 2014 Greensboro Nationals and current senior Taylor Cox ran 13.93 at 2022 Parochial A states in Middletown.
As for wind-legal times, Jackson is 4th behind McLaughlin, Cox and another Scotch Plains all-star, Amaya Chadwick, who ran 14.26 at 2015 Greensboro Nationals.
Her 14.12 is No. 16 in South Jersey condition regardless of wind readings, 4th-fastest in New Jersey this year and No. 1 in South Jersey.
Jackson also won the 100 in a PR 12.09 at the Camden County meet. That’s No. 13 in New Jersey this year.
13.65 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2006
13.67 … Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 2019
13.72 … Nichole Hill [Oakcrest], 1997
13.79 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow], 2012
13.84 … Lenaami Morton [Camden], 2017
13.85 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1980
13.85 … Sherese Price [Pleasantville], 1998
13.88 … Zonya Cross [Edgewood], 1983
13.98 … Cidae’a Woods [Winslow], 2014
13.99 … Imani Gilliam [Pennsauken], 2004
13.99 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], 2018
14.04 … Jasmine Staten [Lenape], 2016
14.05 … Jasmine Waddell [Kingsway], 2011
14.09 … Nichole Belcher [Wilson], 1992
14.11 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], 2019
14.12 … Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 2025
14.15 … Aliya Rae Garozzo [Paul VI], 2019
14.17 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
14.17 … Samantha Sharper [Wilson], 2008
14.17 … Andrea Olsen [Buena], 2013
14.20 … Alethia Jenkins [Pennsauken], 1999
14.20 … Sarah Jones [Bishop Eustace], 2018
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 