Junior Ma’Syiah Brawner, sophomore Cinniya Robinson and the 400-meter relay team picked up wins as the mighty Winslow girls piled up 54 points on Day 1 of the state Group 3 Championships at South Plainfield.
With scoring opportunities remaining Saturday in the 200 and 400, high hurdles, 1,600-meter relay, 3,200-meter relay, shot, long jump and high jump, Winslow has a chance at the Group 3 scoring record of 115 points that Winslow set in 2013.
After Day 1, Winslow leads Ocean City 54-20, with Moorestown and Northern Burlington tied for 4th with 12 points each.
Brawner won the triple jump with a legal 40-3 – unbelievably, no field series information provided in the results – her best mark this year and only 3 ¼ inches off her PR of 40-6 ¼ from last year’s West Philly Nationals. This was her 5th lifetime state title.
Sophomore Cinniya Robinson and freshman Jasmine Jackson went 1-2 in the 400-meter hurdles, Robinson running a PR 1:01.01 and Jackson a PR 1:01.08.
Winslow’s 400-meter relay team of freshman Amariah Arango, sophomore Skyhe Seamon, junior Chantina Walker and junior Leeya Joseph ran 47.89 to open the scoring Friday.
Junior Olivia Okaro placed 2nd in the 100 in 12.18 with legal wind, behind only Timber Creek’s Ryan Jennings. And senior Brook-lynn Roberts took 2nd in the discus with a 134-5 mark.
Jennings won the 100 in 11.45 with a legal tailwind of 0.9 meters per second, breaking the Group 3 meet record of 11.61 set in 2007 at South Plainfield by Lakewood’s Shavon Greaves. (The official “meet program” lists Greaves’ record as 10.62 in 2023. The NJSAA is such a joke when it comes to this stuff. They just don’t care about getting anything right. Greaves was born on Dec. 20, 1988, so she would have been 32 in 2023.)
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 