Winslow and Pennsauken ran the two-fastest 1,600-meter relays in South Jersey history Friday – and No. 4 and 8 in state history – in a historic showdown in the Penn Relays South Jersey Large-School championship race at Franklin Field.
Winslow won the race in 3:40.64 and Pennsauken was 2nd in 3:41.89, and both qualified for the prestigious Championship of America race, sheduled for 4:55 p.m. Friday.
Both ran under the South Jersey-record 3:43.46 from last year’s South Jersey Large-School race.
Their times are 5th– and 6th-fastest of more than 500 schools that raced in various 4-by-4 sections on Thursday. The nine-fastest schools advance to the Championship of America.
The only U.S. school to run faster than Winslow and Pennsauken was Bullis School of Potomac, Md., which ran 3:40.24.
Sophomore Jasmine Jackson ran a 53.85 anchor to move Winslow into the lead on the final lap. Sophomore Amariah Arango [56.66], junior Cinniya Robinson [53.53] and senior Olivia Okaro [56.62] ran the first three legs for Winslow.
Pennsauken got a 57.13 leadoff from junior Summer Schaeffer, then 52.46 from three-time national champion Sianni Wynn, a 56.17 from Olivia Dupree and a 56.14 from sophomore anchor Hope Edwards.
Earlier in the day, Pennsauken and Winslow posted the 3rd– and 10th-fastest times of more than 600 schools in the 400-meter relay, with Pennsauken setting a South Jersey record of 45.68 and qualifying for the Championship of America on Friday and Winslow running 46.40, 4th-fastest in South Jersey history and qualifying for the Northeast Championship race Friday.
This is Winslow’s fifth win in the South Jersey Large-School race. They also won in 2016, 2017, 2018 and last year with Amariah Arango, Jasmine Jackson, Skhye Seamon and Cinniya Robinson setting a South Jersey-record 3:43.46 and advancing to the Championship of America, where they ran 3:48.28 and placed 8th.
3:39.55 … Hydel [St. Catherine, Jamaica]
3:39.56 … Edwin Allen [Clarendon, Jamaica]
3:39.82 … Holmwood Tech [Christiana, Jamaica]
3:40.24 … Bullis School [Potomac, Md.]
3:40.64 … Winslow Twp. [Atco, N.J.]
3:41.89 … Pennsauken [N.J.]
3:43.33 … Bishop McNamara [Forestville, Md.]
3:44.81 … Alphansus Davis [Clarendon, Jamaica]
3:44.81 … St. Augustine’s [Nassau, Bahamas]
3:45.93 … Western [Baltimore]
3:47.08 … Immaculate Conception [Kingston, Jamaica]
3:47.44 … St. Elizabeth Tech [Santa Cruz, Jamaica]
3:47.92 … Sydney Pagon STEM [St. Elizabeth, Jamaica]
3:48.77 … Willian Knibb [Trelawny, Jamaica]
3:49.13 … Elizabeth Seton [Bladensburg, Md.]
3:49.43 … Union Catholic [Scotch Plains, N.J.]
3:49.56 … Woodlawn [Md.]
3:35.90 … Union Catholic, 2015
3:38.92 … Union Catholic, 2017
3:40.36 … Columbia, 2013
3:40.64 … Winslow Twp. [Atco, N.J.]
3:41.03 … Montclair, 1998
3:41.17 … Union Catholic, 2024
3:41.19 … Columbia, 2014
3:41.89 … Pennsauken [N.J.]
3:42.54 … Columbia, 2010
3:42.59 … Union Catholic, 2016
3:42.97 … Union Catholic, 2019
3:43.46 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:43.3h … Plainfield, 1981
3:43.66 … Union Catholic, 2025
3:43.94 … Willingboro, 2003
3;44.43 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:44.64 … Willingboro, 2002
3:44.67 … Clayton, 2022
3:44.9h … Columbia, 1980
3:45.11 … Union Catholic, 2024
3:45.12 … Trenton, 2001
3:45.41 … Camden, 1995
3:45.67 … Willingboro, 1999
3:45.77 … Willingboro, 2025
3:45.89 … Lawrenceville School, 2025
3:46.04 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:46.13 … Willingboro, 2000
3:46.38 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:46.67 … Winslow, 2018
3:46.71 … Union Catholic, 2023
3:46.73 … Scotch Plains-Fanwood
3:46.85 … Winslow Twp., 2024
All-Time South Jersey 4-by-4 List
3:43.46 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:43.94 … Willingboro, 2001
3;44.43 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:44.64 … Willingboro, 2002
3:44.67 … Clayton, 2022
3:44.97 … Pennsauken, 2026
3:45.41 … Camden, 1995
3:45.67 … Willingboro, 1999
3:45.77 … Willingboro, 2025
3:46.04 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:46.13 … Willingboro, 2000
3:46.38 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:46.66 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:46.67 … Winslow Twp., 2018
3:46.85 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:47.16 … Eastern, 2003
3:47.30 … Willingboro, 2003
3:47.41 … Winslow Twp., 2017
3:47.4h … Camden, 1978
3:47.55 … Camden, 2006
3:48.00 … Wilson, 2001
3:48.17 … Wilson, 2006
3:48.6y … Camden,, 1978
3:48.78 … Lenape, 2014
3:48.7h … Washington Twp., 1999
3:48.87 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
3:48.91 … Penns Grove, 2013
3:49.25 … Lenape, 2015
3:49.2y … Camden, 1979
3:49.30 … Winslow Twp., 2004
3:49.43 … Willingboro, 1997
3:49.53 … Willingboro, 1998
3:49.63 … Winslow Twp., 2016
3:49.01 … Eastern, 2024
3:49.93 … Willingboro, 2009
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 