Rancocas Valley senior Angelina Brown long jumped 18-5 Saturday at the Don Danser Invitational.
What makes that truly impressive is that it was the first time she had ever long jumped at an outdoor track meet.
Brown focused on the 100 and 200 as a freshman, she mainly high jumped as a sophomore and she sprinted and high jumped as a junior.
But she started long jumping this indoor season and had a 17-3 breakthrough at Ocean Breeze in January and then a school-record 18-10 to win Easterns at the Armory last month. She also ran 7.18 and 25.33 indoors and cleared 5-6 in the high jump.
But Saturday she finally got a chance to long jump outdoors and she recorded the best jump in New Jersey this year. That 18-5 is only 5 ¼ inches shy of the R.V. outdoor record of 18-10 ¼ set at the 1994 Meet of Champions at South Plainfield by Demya Walker, who went on to play pro basketball for 13 years.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 