It was a very impressive – and very busy – season debut for Stockton sophomore Elaina Styer from Ocean City.

Competing at the Fastrack Season Opener at Ocean Breeze, Styer tied her own school record in the 60-meter hurdles, PR’d in the long jump, placed 2^nd in the high jump and ran a leg on the 4^th-place 1,600-meter relay team.

Styer, from Estell Manor, placed 4^th in the hurdles in 9.03, which tied her PR and school record that she set at Tufts in Medford, Mass., this past March.

Her 18-0 ½ long jump was a PR by nearly a foot. She jumped 17-1 ¼ as part of her pentathlon win at the NJAC Championships this past February at the Ott Center. That’s also only 3 ¾ inches off the school record of 18-4 ¼ set by Jassina Surles of Williamstown in March 2016 at the ECAC Division 3 Championships, also at Ocean Breeze. Styer had two other jumps over 17 – a 17-1 ½ on her 1^st attempt that actually set a PR and a 17-0 ¼ on her 2^nd attempt before the 18-footer on her 3^rd.

Styer cleared 5-1 on her 2^nd attempt in the high jump before missing three tries at 5-3. She cleared 5-5 ¼ as part of her NJAC pentathlon win.

Styer teamed up with senior Emma Conroy of Matawan, senior Emma Petrolia from New Milford and sophomore Marlie DiPalma from Pope John XXIII in Sparta to run 4:03.01 in the 4-by-4.

On the first NCAA Division 3 rankings, Styer is 11^th in the long jump and 15^th in the hurdles, and Stockton is 13^th in the 4-by-4.

Paulsboro’s Jamile Gantt, a two-time NCAA All-America, opened his season with a near-indoor PR at the Fastrack Season Opener at Ocean Breeze and led four Rowan high jumpers at 6-6 ¾ or higher.

Gantt, a Rowan junior, cleared 6-10 on his 1^st attempt, just one-quarter of an inch off his indoor lifetime best 6-10 ¼ from Ocean Breeze last December. Gantt hit his outdoor PR of 6-11 when he placed 3^rd at Division 3 Outdoor Nationals in Geneva, Ohio, this past May.

Gantt is No. 3 in Rowan indoor history, behind only Jeffrey Jon Tucker from Eastern [7-0 ½ in 2015] and Harrison Escoffery from Hackensack [7-0 ¼ in 2018]. His 6-11 is No. 3 outdoors behin Tucker [7-2 ¼] and Mark Kelly of Audubon [7-11 ¾ in 1978].

Gantt cleared 6-0 ¾, 6-2 ¾, 6-4 ¾, 6-6 ¾, 6-8 ¾ and 6-10 on his 1^st attempt before taking three tries at 7-0 ¼.

Rutgers-Camden freshman Jayden Deleon from Highland, competing in his first college meet, placed 2^nd at 6-8 ¾, which he cleared on his 1^st attempt. Deleon’s PR and indoor PR is 6-10 ¼ from last year’s Group 3 sectionals at the Bubble. He went on to win the indoor Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze.

That 6-8 ¾ broke the school record of 6-6 ¾ set by Ken Wise from Haddon Township at the 2008 NJAC meet in Toms River. Deleon also surpassed the outdoor school record of 6-5 set by Wise at the 2010 ECAC Championships in Springfield, Mass.

The next-three jumpers were all from Rowan – junior Arrington Rhym from Hamilton West, sophomore Noah Wampole from Radnor and junior Isaiah Davenport from Pleasantville, a transfer from Holy Family in Philadelphia.

Rhym cleared an indoor PR 6-8 ¾ on his 3^rd attempt before missing three tries at a lifetime-best 6-9 ¾. Rhym’s PR is 6-9 from an outdoor meet in Baltimore in May. His indoor PR was 6-6 ¼ from a meet at Ocean Breeze in February 2024..

Wampole cleared an indoor PR 6-6 ¾ on his 1^st attempt. His lifetime best is an outdoor 6-9 at a home meet this past April. His previous indoor PR was 6-6 ¼ at Oeean Breeze this past February.

Davenport, who jumped a PR 6-8 ¼ at Ocean Breeze this past January for Holy Family, cleared 6-6 ¾ on his 1^st attempt Saturday.

Through one weekend of competition, Gantt, Arrington and Deleon are ranked No. 1, 2 and 3 in NCAA Division 3. Wampole and Davenport are tied for 9^th.

Rowan’s high jump stable goes deeper than those three. Sophomore Malakai Pressey from Freehold Boro cleared 6-5 ½ last year as a freshman and was 3^rd in the NJAC outdoor meet, and sophomore Derrick Robinson from Cinnaminson cleared 6-6 three times in high school.

Rowan freshman Anthony Parker from Salem got his college career off to a hot start with a win and legal PR at the Fastrack Season Opener at Ocean Breeze Saturday.

Parker, the state Group 1 long jump champ last year, jumped 23-2 ¾ on his final attempt Saturday to jump from 8^th place to 1^st . Parker had a good series, with 21-5 ½, 21-9 ½, 22-7 ¾, 21-9 ¾ and 22-7 ¼ before his winning 23-2 ¾.

Fifteen jumpers hit at least 22 and the top five all finished within two inches of each other.

Parker’s previous indoor PR was a 22-5 when he placed 4^th at the Meet of Champions this past March at Ocean Breeze. He hit 23-9 in May at Delsea but without a wind gauge. His best (and only) wind-legal jump was a 21-7 ¾ at Franklin Field Nationals in June.

In addition to the long jump, Parker ran 14.32 in the 110 high hurdles and 55.26 in the 400-meter intermediates at Salem.

Stockton junior Ahmad Fogg from Egg Harbor placed 3^rd at 23-1 ¾, not far off his indoor PR of 23-6 ¾ from a meet in Ann Arbor, Mich., when he was a Penn State freshman in the winter of 2024.

Fogg also won the 60-meter dash in 7.10, a lifetime best. His previous PR was 7.30 in January at Ocean Breeze. Those are his only two collegiate 60s.

In addition to Parker, Rowan had three other long jumpers hit 22 feet. Sophomore Damarion Potts jumped 22-7 ¾, senior hurdles star Kwaku Nkrumah from Teaneck jumped 22-3 ¼ and freshman Bright John from Sterling went 22-0 ½.

This was Potts’ first long jump competition in a year and his best jump since his first college meet at Ocean Breeze in December 2023, when he went 23-6 ¾.

Nkrumah, an NCAA Division 3 hurdles champ, had never long jumped since he arrived in Glassboro. He had a high school PR of 20-7 at the 2022 Big North Freedom and National Championships at Ridgewood Middle School, and he hadn’t long jumped since.

That’s an indoor PR for Sterling’s John and an overall legal PR. According to MileSplit, John never competed in high school in an outdoor long jump with a wind guage.

Willingboro’s Christopher Johnson broke his own Delaware State indoor shot put record Saturday in Cambridge, Mass.

Johnson threw 54-4 ½ at the HBCU & IVY Challenge at Harvard’s Gordon Track and Tennis Center, breaking the school record of 54-3 ¼ that he set at the Gotham Cup at Ocean Breeze this past January.

Johnson placed 2^nd to Colton McMaster of Dartmouth, who won with a 56-7 ½. Johnson fouled four times but hit 54-4 ½ on his 1^st throw and 54-3 ¼ on his 3^rd.

Johnson set his lifetime best of 55-5 when he placed 3^rd at the MEAC Championships in Norfolk this past May.

Johnson on Saturday also threw 51-0 ¾ for 6^th in the weight throw. His PR is 52-1 ¼ from a meet this past February in Collegeville, Pa.

Glassboro High’s Dallas Hohney, who ran 1:50.71 for Rider last year, has resurfaced at hometown Rowan University and opened his indoor season with a 1:54.99 win at the Fastrack Season Opener Saturday at Ocean Breeze.

That’s 9^th-fastest in NCAA Division 1 through opening weekend.

Hohney won the 1^st section of the race and sophomore Joaquin Bell-Andrade of Marist University in Poughkeepsie won the 2^nd section in the exact same time, so since they were in separate races they were credited with a tie for 1^st.

Hohney ran 1:50.71 at the Ott Center in January, 3^rd-fastest in Rider history, and in the spring placed 2^nd in the MAAC Championships in Lawrenceville in 1:53.64.

Hohney also ran as fast as 47.64 last year – the Rider indoor school record – so will fit right in on Rowan’s 4-by-4. He ran a 50.67 leg Saturday on a 3:17.55 team that also included Eastern’s Rajahn Dixon [50.29], Teddy Wilson [47.30] and Nicholas Garman 49.30].

Rowan’s indoor 800 record is 1:52.63 by Nick Neville when he placed 2^nd at the 2018 NJAC meet at Ocean Breeze.

In the same meet, Woodstown’s Cole Lucas, a freshman at Marist, had an outstanding first college race placing 3^rd behind Hohney and Bell-Andrade with an indoor-PR 1:55.15. Lucas ran only 28-100ths of a second off his high school PR 1:54.87 from Group 1 sectionals this past May at Pennsauken. It’s an indoor PR by more than five seconds.

Nester Wea moved into the Towson all-time top-10 in two events in her collegiate debut Saturday.

Wea, a freshman from Willingboro, won the 60-meter dash in 7.57 and the 200 in 24.24 at the Youree Spence Garcia Invitational at Ocean Breeze in her first college meet.

Both times are indoor PRs for Wea and both are No. 6 in school history.

Wea’s 60 time is fastest by a Towson freshman since Crystal Johnson ran 7.50 at Ocean Breeze in February 2019, and her 200 time is fastest ever by a Towson freshman. Johnson ran 24.37 at Boston University in 2019.

Wea had indoor PRs of 7.82 in the 60 and 24.59. She ran 7.82 in March of 2024 in Boston and 24.59 in Boston in March of 2025. Her overall wind-legal 200 PR outdoors is 23.89 at the state Group 2 meet in South Plainfield this past May.

Wea was a 13-time Meet of Champions medalist at Willingboro and an 11-time state champion

UConn’s Ella Karp from Washington Township popped the best shot put by a Huskies freshman in nine years Saturday in her first college meet.

Karp threw a lifetime-best 45-9 ¾ and finished 1^st in the Harvard Classic at Gordon Track in Cambridge, Mass.

That’s the best throw by a Connecticut freshman since Divine Oladipo threw 53-10 ¼ in a meet in Birmingham, Ala., in February 2017.

Karp’s previous PR was a 45-1 ¼ to win the Tri-County Conference meet this past May at Delsea. Her indoor PR was 43-3 ¾ when she placed 2^nd at Easterns this past March at the Armory.

Karp opened with a 42-11 ½ and after a foul a 43-1 ¾. After a 42-11 ½ she closed with two 45-footers – a 45-2 ½ for her first PR of the day and then the 45-9 ¾ on her final attempt.

Another UConn freshman from South Jersey, Brook-lyn Roberts from Winslow, was 5^th with a throw of 41-1 ¾ on her 3^rd attempt. She won the state Group 3 title at the Bubble in February when she set her lifetime-best 43-5.

Villanova freshman Maeve Smith from Ocean City placed 7^th in the USATF Under-20 Championships Saturday and Penn State freshman Liliah Gordon from Northern Burlington was just behind her in 12^th.

Smith ran 22:52 over 6,000 meters at Glendoveer Golf Course in Portland, Ore., and Gordon ran 23:27.

Smith was the 6^th freshman finisher and the Wildcats’ 7^th finisher at the Big East Championships in Ashland, Neb., where ‘Nova placed 2^nd.

Gordon was the 12^th freshman finisher in the Big Ten Championships in East Lansing, Mich., where the Nittay Lions placed 2^nd.

Only athletes who don’t turn 21 before Jan. 1 are eligible for USATF Under-20 events.

In his first race competing for Tennessee, Premier Wynn ran the 4^th-fastest 300 in Vols history Saturday in Nashville.

Wynn, a  Pennsauken graduate and junior transfer from Norfolk State, ran 33.05 at the Vanderbilt Winter Challenge and placed 2^nd to sophomore teammate Saad Hinti, the Moroccan 400-meter hurdles record holder.

That’s 1 1/2 200s at 22.03 pace.

Terry McDaniel set the Tennessee 300 record of 32.68 when he placed 2nd to Lorenzo Daniel [29.60] of Mississippi State at the 1986 SEC Championships in Baton Rouge, La. [converted from 29.99 for 300 yards] and Emmanuel Bynum ran 32.83 at the 2024 Clemson Invitational. Hinti’s time Saturday is 3^rd-fastest in school history. (Daniel, a 1988 Olympian, was the world’s fastest 200 runner in 1988 with a 19.87.)

Wynn had run only one previous college 300, and that was one year ago today in Lynchburg, Va., where he ran 34.76.

Wynn’s time is 6^th-fastest ever by a New Jersey runner and 3^rd-fastest by a South Jersey sprinter, behind Olympic gold medalists and Willingboro track club teammates Carl Lewis [32.18 in 1984] and Dennis Mitchell [32.22 in 1988].

Wynn was the MEAC champion at 400 meters last spring in Norfolk at 46.53 after a lifetime-best 46.00 in the trials. He ran 50.70 in the 400-meter hurdles in Tampa last spring and has a 400IH PR of 50.58 from the 2024 USATF Under-20 Championships in Eugene. The 46.00 is 6^th-fastest ever by a South Jersey runner and the 50.70 is 7^th-fastest

I cobbled together an all-time New Jersey 300-meter dash list because why wouldn’t I? Some great names on here!

32.04 … Andrew Valmon [Manchester Twp.], Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, 1990
32.18 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], London, 1984
32.22 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, 1988
33.00 … Clayton Parros [Seton Hall Prep], Boston, 2015
33.01 … Jordaine Johnson [East Orange], New York, 2025
33.05 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], Nashville, 2025
33.48 … Charles Cox [Monmouth Regional], Blacksburg, Va., 2010
33.50 … Zyaire Clemes [Trenton], New York, 2014
33.62 … Clayton Gravesande [Franklin Twp.], Blacksburg, Va., 2013
33.62 … Taylor McLaughlin [Union Catholic], New York, Jan. 31, 2015

Austin Gabay ran the fastest 3,000 ever by a South Jersey runner Saturday at Boston University.

Gabay, a Cinnaminson graduate and now a senior at Butler, ran 7:56.98 in the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener. His previous PR was 7:58.94 on the same track in February 2024 while competing for Duke.

Gabay came through 1,600 meters in 4:15.00 and closed in 62.67 for his final 400 and 2:06.21 over his final 800.

The previous South Jersey 3,000 record was 7:57.65 by Absegami’s Ford Palmer in New York in 2017.

The only other South Jersey runner to go sub-8 was Ocean City’s John Richardson, who ran 7:59.26 in Seattle in 2008.

Butler does not have an all-time top-10 on its web site, so no way to know where that performance ranks in Butler history.

7:56.98i … Austin Gabay [Cinnaminson], Dec. 6, 2025, Boston
7:57.65i … Ford Palmer [Absegami], Jan. 28, 2017, New York
7:59.26i … John Richardson [Ocean City], Feb. 16, 2008, Seattle
8:01.24i … Samuel Gerstenbacher [Schalick], Feb. 26, 2023, Boston
8:01.79i … Austin Gabay [Cinnaminson], Jan. 26, 2024, Boston
8:0487i… Kevin Antczak [Mainland Regional], Feb. 10, 2024, Boston
8:07.88i … Noah Deckert [Delsea], Feb. 2, 2024, Boston
8:09.59i … Karl Savage [Eastern], Jan. 23, 2004, Johnson City, Tenn.
8:10.01i … Jon Vitez [Haddonfield], Feb. 9, 2013, Princeton
8:10.69i … Sebastien Reed [Pitman], March 6, 2022, Boston