Winslow sophomore Jasmine Jackson, who set a South Jersey sectional all-group hurdles record of 13.66 earlier in the day, destroyed that mark with a 13.39 in the Group 3 final Saturday at Delsea.
Jackson’s time, achieved with a legal 1.7 tailwind, is the fastest FAT time ever recorded at any sectional meet. The joke of a program that the NJSIAA puts out lists Neptune great Dawn Bowles with a 13.30, but that Central Jersey Group 4 race in 1988 was hand-timed and her time should be listed as 13.3. How do you list hand-timed records but not FAT records? That’s just inexcusable. (They also list all the girls hurdles events as 110 meters. What a joke!)
The fastest previous FAT time at any sectional meet turns out was actually Jackson’s 13.66 in the trials.
Jackson tied her own South Jersey record and New Jersey sophomore record, 5th-fastest in state history. She also ran 13.39 in Baltimore at a meet earlier this month.
Clearview junior Nya Jackmon-Smith was 2nd in 14.57 and Mainland senior Camryn DeMorat 3rdin 14.72. Winslow senior Ma’Syiah Brawner took 4th in 14.87, giving Winslow 14 points in the event and 149 overall so far.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 