Glassboro and Camden are locked in a tight battle at the state Group 1 meet, with Hasbrouck Heights still within range.

After Day 1 at Somerset, Glassboro leads Camden, 31 ½-30, and Hasbrouck Heights has 24 points.

Camden got an early win in the 400-meter relay, with juniors Christian Braxton, Jaiden Steele, Chase Robinson and Wasi Muhammad running 42.50. Glassboro was 4th in 42.94, with sophomore Adekunle Adeleye, sophomore Ta’sheem Butler, junior Amari Sabb and sophomore Xavier Sabb. Camden won the Group 2 state title last year in the 4-by-1 with four underclassmen but only Steele remaining from that lineup.

Camden also got a win from Steele in the 100 with a wind-legal 10.86. Glassboro picked up six points in the 100 with Xavier Sabb’s 3rd-place in 10.96.

Glassboro and Camden both scored in the long jump, Adeleye taking 2nd at 21-11
and Muhammad 3rd with a 21-4 ¾. Camden’s Robinson ran 55.06 for 4th place in the intermediate hurdles.

Glassboro freshman Joseph Saicic took 2nd in the 3,200 with a 9:39.38 and the Bulldogs went 4-5 in the high jump with Xavier Sabb clearing 6-2 and Amari Sabb 6-0.

There are finals on Saturday in the 200, 400, 1,600, high hurdles, 4-by-4 and 4-by-8, discus, triple jump and pole vault.

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.)

Junior Quayd Hendryx and the Burlington Township boys ran the fastest 400-meter relay in New Jersey state championship history Friday at the Group 3 meet in South Plainfield.

Junior Solomon Wesley, junior Gemaus Sackie, senior Yeator Tappia and Hendryx ran a sizzling 41.30 to win the 4-by-1 with the 7th-fastest time in state history.

The Falcons broke the state Group 3 meet record of 41.71 at in 2017 by Deptford and the overall state meet record of 41.46 set in 2016 by Franklin Township. They broke the Burlington County record of 41.69 set in 1982 by Willingboro when the Chimeras placed 2nd to Calabar of Jamaica in the Championship of America race at the Penn Relays.

Before this year, Burlington Township’s school record was 42.60, set by Anthony Salley, David Slaton, Koree Dusenbury and Vinny Pini at the 2010 Woodbury Relays. But they broke that with a 42.39 at a Pennsauken batch meet in April before a 42.30 at the Burlington County Open at Lenape earlier this month.

So they broke the school record by exactly one second. This is the first time Township has ever won the 400-meter relay at states.

Hendryx came back to win the 100 in with a PR 10.71 with legal wind. He’s the first Burlington Township sprinter to win a state title since Louis Smith won the 200 in 2006, the 100 in 2007 and the 100 and 200 in 2008, all in Group 1.

All-Time New Jersey 400-Meter Relay List
40.92 … Winslow, 2003
41.0h … Plainfield, 1980
41.09 … Camden, 2000
41.25 … Camden, 2004
41.25 … Camden, 2001
41.26 … Washington Twp., 2024
41.30 … Burlington Twp., 2025
41.42 … St. Peter’s Prep, 2025
41.2h … Weequahic, 1972
41.45 … Timber Creek, 2014
41.46 … Franklin Twp., 2016
41.47 … Deptford, 2018
41.48 … East Brunswick, 2022
41.49 … Franklin Twp., 2017
41.50 … Timber Creek, 2013

All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Relay List
40.92 … Winslow, 2003
41.09 … Camden, 2000
41.25 … Camden, 2004
41.25 … Camden, 2001
41.26 … Washington Twp., 2024
41.30 … Burlington Twp., 2025
41.45 … Timber Creek, 2014
41.47 … Deptford, 2018
41.50 … Timber Creek, 2013
41.54 … Camden, 2002
41.57 … Pennsauken, 2017
41.55 … Deptford, 2017
41.62 … Camden, 2003
41.64 … Winslow Twp., 2004
41.69 … Willingboro, 1982
41.71 … Edgewood, 2000
41.71 … Salem, 2017
41.72 … Deptford, 2018
41.77 … Washington Twp., 2024
41.80 … Oakcrest, 2012
41.83 … Camden, 1997
41.83 … Oakcrest, 2011
41.83 … Camden, 1997
41.86 … Winslow Twp., 2025
41.7h … Camden, 1996
41.7h … Edgewood, 2001
41.85 … Pennsauken, 2016
41.86 … Pennsauken, 2017
41.87 … Pennsauken, 2023
41.7h … Camden, 1996
41.7h … Edgewood, 2001
41.96 … Paul VI, 2018
41.99 … Rancocas Valley, 2021

Eastern junior Natalie Dumas, already one of the fastest intermediate hurdlers in the country, shaved more than a second off her PR Friday at the state Group 4 meet in Somerset.

Dumas won the race in 57.30, the 21^st-fastest time in U.S. scholastic track history and fastest time in the country this year.

Her previous PR was a 58.32 when she won West Philly Nationals last June at Franklin Field. Her time is 3^rd-fastest in New Jersey history, behind only four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin [53.82 at 2017 U.S. Championships in Sacramento] and Winslow’s Krystal Cantey [56.83 in 2005 in Greensboro, N.C.]

Dumas, who tied the state 400 record of 51.87 last weekend – 20^th-fastest in U.S. history – is now 34^th-fastest U.S. woman this year and 5^th-fastest in the world on the 2025 Under-20 list.

She broke the Group 4 meet record of 59.66 set in 1997 by Shawnee’s Mandie Dulin in South Plainfield and she broke the overall public school state championship meet record of 58.95 set in 2018 by Reanda Richards of West Essex in the Group 3 meet at Central Regional in Berkeley Township.

Her time is 7th-fastest ever by a South Jersey native. Top-10 list below.

Earlier in the day, Dumas PR’d when she won the 800 with a 2:10.44, 7^th-fastest in South Jersey history.

ALL-TIME U.S. 400 HURDLES LIST
53.32 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2017
55.20 … Leslie Maxie [Mills, Millbrae, Calif.], 1984
55.20 … Anna Cockrell [Providence Day School, Charlotte, N.C.], 2016
55.76 … Lashinda Demus [Long Beach (Calif.) Wilson], 2001
55.96 … Ebony Collins [Long Beach (Calif.) Wilson], 2005
56.00 … Lauren Hoffman [Battlefield, Haymarket, Va.],. 2023
56.16 … Brandee Johnson [Nansemond River, Suffolk, Va.], 2016
56.16 … Akala Garrett [Harding, Charlotte, N.C.], 2022
56.36 … Britton Wilson [Mills Godwin, Henrico, Va..], 2019
56.66 … Michelle Smith [Monteverde (Fla.) Academy], 2023
56.80 … Kellie Roberts [Central, Seat Pleasant, Md.], 1986
56.82 … Sheena Johnson [Woodbridge, Va.], 2000
56.83 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2005
56.85 … Michelle Smith [Monteverde (Fla.) Academy], 2024
57.09 … Dalilah Muhammad [Cardozo, Queens, N.Y.], 2007
57.20 … Ryann Krais [Methacton, Eagleville, Pa.], 2007
57.21 … Jackie Coward [Knoxville (Tenn.) West], 2007
57.21 … Jade Miller [Great Oak, Temecula, Calif.], 2013
57.24 … Braelyn Baker [Bear Creek, Woodinville, Wash.], 2024
57.25 … Nicole Leach [West Catholic, Philadelphia], 2005
57.30 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025 [#19]
57.31 … Jasmine Robinson [North Cobb, Kennesaw, Ga.], 2024

ALL-TIME N.J. ALUMNI 400 HURDLES LIST
55.77 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], April 12, 2025, Durham, N.C.
55.78 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], April 21, 1996, Walnut, Calif.
56.11 … Arianna Smith [Pennsville], May 17, 2025, Norfolk, Va.
56.21 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 26, 2007, Gainesville, Fla.
56.87 … Evann Thompson [Lenape], May 30, 2014, Jacksonville, Fla.
57.16 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], May 9, 2022, High Point, N.C.
57.30 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], May 30, 2025, Somerset
57.31 … Danielle Myricks [Willingboro], May 19, 2002, Columbia, Mo.
57.31 … Eusheka Bartley [Highland], May 29, 1996, Atlanta
57.84 … Arianna Smith [Pennsville], May 6, 2023, Philadelphia
58.28 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], May 27, 2023, Sacramento, Calif.

ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY 800 LIST
2:07.33 … Marielle Hall [Haddonfield], 2009
2:08.87 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2001
2:09.2h … Katrina Sye [Buena], 1999
2:09.50 … Renee Tomlin [Ocean City], 2005
2:09.84 … Rachel Stremme [Ocean City], 2014
2:10.1h … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1982
2:10.44 … Kadence Dumas [Eastern], 2025
2:10.49 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025
2:10.55 … Shelby Whetstone [Lenape], 2019
2:10.57 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 2009
2:10.79 … Krista Ferrara [Vineland], 1991
2:10.9h … Ruth Lockbaum [Glassboro], 1985
2:11.07 … Miya Johnson [Lenape], 2007
2:11.12 … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022
2:11.45 … Sydney Coppolino [Sterling], 2017
2:11.56 … Mary Bohi [Seneca], 2009
2:11.80 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2016
2:11.80 … Kelsey Niglio [Cherokee], 2022
2:11.88 … Kayla Martin [Seneca], 2015
2:11.94 … Bridget Flynn [Ocean City], 2014

Fresno State senior Jewel Ash advanced to the quarterfinals of the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Championships Thursday night with a 2^nd-place finish in her heat at the NCAA West Prelims.

She advanced to the national quarterfinals, scheduled for 7:25 p.m. Saturday back in College Station, Texas. The top 12 from those three races – the top three from each heat and the next three-fastest – advance to the NCAA semifinals at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.,

Ash ran 57.46 – her fastest time in three years – and placed 2^nd in the 5^th of six heats, advancing automatically with a top-three finish.

Overall, her time was 13^th-fastest in the field of 48 intermediate hurdlers. Everyone who ran 58.66 or faster advanced.

Ash ran her PR 57.16 at the 2022 Big South Conference Championships in High Point, N.C., as a sophomore at Charleston Southern. She re-surfaced at Fresno State in January and ran a flat 400 PR of 53.95 indoors in Albuquerque. She won the Mountain West 400 hurdles in 57.63 two weeks ago, and that was her fastest time as a Fresno State Bulldog until Thursday evening.

Fresno State has the worst athletics web site I’ve ever seen and I had no luck finding an all-time top-10 list or even a list of school records.

But from TFRRS we can say that Ash’s 57.46 is the fastest time by a Fresno State intermediate hurdler since at least 2009, or as far back as the TFRRS data base goes. And I’m willing to say there’s a very good chance that is the school record. But there’s no way to know for sure.

Earlier in the day, Duke’s Aliya Garozzo from Paul VI and Howard’s Arianna Smith from Pennsville advanced to the 400-meter hurdles quarterfinals at the NCAA East Prelims Thursday in Jacksonville.

With Garozzo running 56.16, Smith 57.11 and Ash 57.46, all three not only advanced to their respective quarterfinals, they all ran their 2^nd-fastest time ever.

Garozzo, Smith and Ash posted the 4th-, 14th- and 26th-fastest times of the combined NCAA East and West Prelims.

Garozzo, Smith and Ash are now No. 1, 3 and 6 in South Jersey history. Here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey 400-meter hurdles all-time top-10:

55.77 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], April 12, 2025, Durham, N.C.
55.78 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], April 21, 1996, Walnut, Calif.
56.11 … Arianna Smith [Pennsville], May 17, 2025, Norfolk, Va.
56.21 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 26, 2007, Gainesville, Fla.
56.87 … Evann Thompson [Lenape], May 30, 2014, Jacksonville, Fla.
57.16 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], May 9, 2022, High Point, N.C.
57.31 … Danielle Myricks [Willingboro], May 19, 2002, Columbia, Mo.
57.31 … Eusheka Bartley [Highland], May 29, 1996, Atlanta
57.84 … Arianna Smith [Pennsville], May 6, 2023, Philadelphia
58.28 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], May 27, 2023, Sacramento, Calif.
58.32 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], June 14, Philadelphia

Duke’s Aliya Garozzo from Paul VI and Howard’s Arianna Smith from Pennsville both advanced to the 400-meter hurdles quarterfinals at the NCAA Championships East Prelims Thursday in Jacksonville.

Garozzo won the 5^th of seven heats in 56.16, her 2^nd-fastest time ever. Smith placed 2^nd in the 3^rd heat in 57.11, her 2^nd-fastest time as well. Both are seniors. Garozzo started out at Penn, Smith competed previously at Princeton and Rutgers.

Both advanced automatically to the NCAA quarterfinals, scheduled for 7:25 p.m. Saturday at the University of North Florida’s Hodges Stadium.

The top 12 in those three races – the top three from each heat and the next three-fastest – will move on to the NCAA Championships semifinals at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., at 6:14 p.m. June 2. The top 12 from the West Regionals in College Station, Texas, will also compete in the semis in Eugene.

Garozzo’s time was 4^thfastest of the 48 runners who qualified for East Prelims, and Smith was 11^th-fastest. Garozzo is ranked 8^th in NCAA Division 1 with her 55.77 at a meet in Durham, N.C., in April, and Smith is ranked 12^th with her 56.11 two weeks ago when she won the MEAC title in Norfolk, Va.

Garozzo is the 2^nd-fastest intermediate hurdler New Jersey has ever produced, behind four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin, who set a world-record 50.37 when she won the Olympic gold medal last summer in Paris. Smith is 4^th on that list, behind McLaughlin, Garozzo and Rancocas Valley’s Tonya Lee [55.78 in 1996].

Delsea’s Nico Morales, a Rutgers senior, cleared 17-5 ¾ on his 1^st attempt in the pole vault at NCAA East prelims to earn a trip to the NCAA Championships in Eugene next month.

The top 12 vaulters at East prelims in Jacksonville Thursday morning plus the top 12 from West prelims in College Station, Texas, qualified to compete at NCAAs at Hayward Field on June 11.

The competition, delayed by thunderstorms Wednesday night, was rescheduled for early Thursday morning before the first day of women’s action began at the University of North Florida’s Hodges Stadium.

Five vaulters cleared 17-9 ¾ Thursday and ten vaulters cleared 17-5 ¾, seven of whom advanced and three who didn’t. The vaulters who had multiple misses but cleared 17-5 ¾ did not advance.

Morales cleared 17-0 on his 2^nd attempt and 17-5 ¾ on his first.

Morales is the South Jersey alumni record holder with his 18-foot clearance at the Big Ten Championships in Eugene earlier this month (although the official results show him [and every other vaulter] no-heighting).

It’s been a remarkable year for Morales, who cleared 17 feet for the first time just four months ago – in January in Akron, Ohio – and is now ranked 18^th among U.S. men.

https://www.tfrrs.org/results/92594/5664508/Big_Ten_Outdoor_Track__Field_Championships/Mens-Pole-Vault

The 24 competitors will jump in Eugene at 4:35 p.m. on June 11.

Kevin Burr, a Tennessee sophomore from Rancocas Valley, advanced to the NCAA Championships in Eugene with a top-12 finish in NCAA East Prelims Wednesday night in Jacksonville.

Burr threw 221-1 and snagged the 12^th and final qualifying spot.

But he needed to come up huge on his final attempt to keep his season going.

After a long rain delay, Burr threw 207-4 and 200-5 on his 1^st two throws and was sitting 21^stgoing into his final throw, well out of qualifying range. But he managed that 221-1 on his last attempt and wound up qualifying by three inches. Reuben Booysen of South Alabama was 13^th at 220-9 but with a superior 2^nd-best throw to Burr at 214-5. So Burr had to throw 220-10 to advance, and he did … by three inches.

Burr placed 11^th at NCAAs last year in only his 2^nd year throwing the javelin with a throw of 231-8 after a lifetime-best 234-6 in East Prelims in Lexington, Ky.

He PR’d in April in Knoxville with a 240-1 and stretched that to 246-8 in another meet in Knoxville two weeks ago. That’s 6^th-best ever by a South Jersey javelin thrower.

Burr’s 1^st lifetime javelin competition was the Deptford Spartan Relays on April 8, 2023. He threw 132-1. By the Olympic Conference meet six weeks later he threw 187-7 and he hit his 1^st200-foot throw in June of 2023 at the Meet of Champions. HE popped a 225-0 in his college debut in Orlando in March of 2024 and has been steadily improving ever since.

Pleasantville’s Gabriel Moronta easily advanced to the 2nd round in the 400 at NCAA East Prelims Wednesday night in Jacksonville.

Moronta, a South Florida senior and one of the top-ranked quarter-milers in college track, ran 45.95 and placed 3rd in the 3rd of six heats late Wednesday evening following a long rain delay.

The top three in each race plus the next six-fastest advanced to the quarterfinals at 6:50 p.m. Friday. The top three from each of three heats Friday and the next three-fastest advance to the NCAA semifinals in Eugene, Ore., on June 11.

Moronta ranks 16th in Division 1 with his 45.31 at the Florida Relays last month. His 45.95 placed him 14th of 48 qualifiers in the first round. He’ll be in Lane 4 in the first semifinal on Friday along with sub-45 quarter-milers Samuel Ogazi of Alabama and Jenoah McKiver of Florida.

Moronta is the 3rd-fastest 400 runner from South Jersey, behind Olympic gold medalists Lamont Smith [44.30] and Dennis Mitchell [45.26]. He’s 8th-fastest on the all-time New Jersey alumni list, 1-100th of a second behind Willie McLaughlin of East Orange, who ran 45.30 in 1983. His daughter is four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin.

Moronta competed in the 400 hurdles and 800 at NCAA East Prelims while attending Southern Mississippi but since transferring to South Florida he’s been exclusively a 400 runner, and he’s become one of the best in the country.

Pennsauken’s Bryce Tucker ran an intermediate hurdles PR and advanced to the quarterfinals at the NCAA Championships Wednesday night.

Tucker, a Rutgers sophomore, ran 50.52 and posted the 10th-fastest time among 48 qualifiers at the East Prelims in Jacksonville.

Tucker won the 4th of six heats to earn an auto qualifier into the second round. The top three finishers in each heat plus the next six-fastest times advanced to Friday and will race at 7:25 p.m. The top three from each of three heats and the next three-fastest advance to the NCAA Championship finals at Hayward Field in Eugene June 11-14.

Tucker will be in Lane 7 Friday in the second of the three quarterfinal races. The top 12 from the East prelims and the top 12 from the West prelims in College Station, Texas, will race in the semis in Eugene at 6:14 p.m. on June 11.

His previous PR was a 50.61 when he won last year’s Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor, Mich. He ran close to his PR at both the Penn Relays and Big Ten prelims with a season-best 50.79 in both races.

Tucker’s 50.52 is No. 2 in Rutgers history, behind 49.82 by Hunterdon Central’s Jameson Woodell in the 2022 NCAA East prelims in Bloomington, Ind.

He moved up to a tie for the No. 5 spot on the all-time South Jersey alumni list, tied with Martin Booker. His time is fastest by a South Jersey intermediate hurdler since 50.07 at the Clermont (Calif.) Star Athletics Sprint Meet on June 7, 2014.

Tucker is under the B standard of 50.75 for U.S. Nationals this summer. He’s now ranked 45th among U.S. hurdlers. The A standard is 49.75.

Tucker’s high school teammate, Premier Wynn, who also qualified with a 50.70 scratched. He won the MEAC Championships earlier this month in the 400 and PR’d with a 46.00 in the trials but hasn’t run a 400IH race since March. He’s also listed as one of the legs on Norfolk’s 4-by-4 team, which races on Friday.

All-Time 400-Meter Hurdles South Jersey Alumni List
48.37 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], June 28, 2008, Eugene, Ore.
48.86 … Fred Sharpe [Paulsboro], May 18, 2003, Knoxville, Tenn.
49.50 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], June 12, 2003, Sacramento
50.04 … Mike Brown [Lenape], June 12, 2002, Holmdel, N.J.
50.52 … Martin Booker [Camden], May 12, 1984, Philadelphia
50.52 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], May 28, 2025, Jacksonville, Fla.
50.58 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], June 13, 2024, Eugene, Ore.
50.65 … Aaron Younger [Delsea], May 28, 2010, Greensboro, N.C.
50.69 … Danyne Brown [Camden], May 30, 2003, Fairfax, Va.
50.84 … Nick Brown [Bridgeton], July 16, 2005, New York