Stockton senior Eva Morrison from Mainland Regional PR’d and won the pole vault Saturday at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships at the Ott Center.
Morrison extended her PR from 11-5 ¾, which she had cleared three times, to 11-9 ¾ and led a 1-2-3 Stockton sweep.
She won last year at 11-1 ¾ and is the first to repeat since Millville’s Kaitlyn Dermen of Stockton in 2018 and 2019.
Morrison entered at 10-6 and needed three attempts to get over the bar and just get a legal mark in the competition. But she settled down after that, clearning 10-10 on her 1st attempt, then passing 11-1 ¾ and getting over the bar at 11-5 ¾ and 11-9 ¾ on her 2nd attempt. She finished by taking three tries at 12-1 ½.
Her 11-9 ¾ is the best winning vault at the NJAC meet since Kristina Langan of Ramapo from Wayne Hills cleared 12-4 ½ at Ocean Breeze in 2019.
Stockton freshman Megan Morris from Pennsville and Sydney Rick from Hopewell Valley both matched their PR of 10-6, Morris on her 1st attempt and Rick on her 2nd attempt for 2nd and 3rd place an an Osprey sweep.
Stockton has now won the NJAC women’s vault eight of the last 10 times it was contested, with Chelsea Vaughan of Southern Regional in 2016 and 2017, Dermen in 2018 and 2019, Jeanmarie Harvey from River Dell in 2020, Madison Fey of Freedom High in Easton in 2023 and Morrison in 2025 and 2026. There was no meet in 2021.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 