Brianna Growalt, an Atlantic Tech junior, moved into the all-time South Jersey 100-meter hurdles top-10 Monday at the Atlantic County meet.
Growalt ran a windy 13.87 [2.9] in the trials but the final was one of the few wind-legal races in the meet [1.7], and she won in 13.98, dropping her PR from 13.99 last month at the Moorestown Invitational.
That 1-100th of a second was enough to move her from a tie for 11th-fastest to a tie for 10th-fastest, with Winslow’s Cidae’a Woods, who ran 13.98 at the 2014 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield.
Growalt’s 13.98 is fastest in New Jersey this year, just ahead of Winslow’s Jasmine Jackson, who ran 14.04 at Lenape last month but has a legal 13.73 from West Philly Nationals this past June.
Growalt also won the 200 in 24.92 with an excessive 2.3 tailwind and she won the 400-meter hurdles in 1:02.99. Only a 2nd to Mainland senior Camryn DeMorat in the long jump with a 17-9 ½ to DeMorat’s 18-3 [no wind gauge at the long jump] kept her from a quad win.
Mainland doubled up on Egg Harbor, 210-101, to win the team title.
Junior Veronika Andreev won the 100 in 12.18 [2.6] and the triple jump at 34-10 [no wind gauge] and placed 2nd in the high jump with a 4-10 and 3rd in the 200 [26.35] for 34 points.
And senior Emma Preissman swept th 800 [2:21.49], 1,600 [5:16.33] and 3,200 [11:57.35] for 30 points.
All-Time South Jersey 100-Meter Hurdles List
13.65 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2006
13.67 … Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 2019
13.72 … Nichole Hill [Oakcrest], 1997
13.73 … Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 2025
13.79 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow], 2012
13.84 … Lenaami Morton [Camden], 2017
13.85 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1980
13.85 … Sherese Price [Pleasantville], 1998
13.88 … Zonya Cross [Edgewood], 1983
13.98 … Cidae’a Woods [Winslow], 2014
13.98 … Brianna Growalt [Atlantic Tech], 2026
13.99 … Imani Gilliam [Pennsauken], 2004
13.99 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], 2018
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 