The mighty Winslow girls this weekend won their 10th state title in the last 13 times it’s been contested with the highest point total in meet history under the current scoring system.
Sophomore Jasmine Jackson, junior Cinniya Robinson and senior Ma’Syiah Brawner helped Winslow pile up a whopping 143 points and Winslow won the state Group 4 championship by nearly 100 points in Somerset.
Winslow won its 3rd straight state title, 143-53, over 2nd-place Ramapo. The 143 points are the most ever scored in any state group meet under the current scoring system. Winslow set the previous record with 125 last year.
Winslow put an exclamation point on two days of dominance with a win in the 4-by-4, with junior Jordan Cato, junior Amaya Jones, sophomore Nylah Lovelace-Crump and junior Skhye Seamon running 3:53.57, Seamon anchoring in 57.71
Jackson won the 100-meter hurdles, 400-meter hurdles and 200-meter dash, Robinson won the 400, was 2nd in the 200, 3rd in the intermediates and led off the winning 400-meter relay and Brawner won the triple jump and placed 2nd in the high jump and 3rd in the long jump.
That’s 78 points just from Jackson, Robinson and Brawner. Enough to win the meet by 25 points.
Senior Olivia Okaro led a 1-2-3 sweep in the 100 with junior Amaya Jones and senior Leeya Joseph, and Jackson led a 1-2-3 sweep in the 200 with Robinson 2nd and Okaro 3rd. Joseph also placed 2nd in the long jump with an 18-6 ½.
Junior Jordan Cato, Jones and junior Skhye Seamon joined Robinson on the winning 4-by-1, which ran 47.12.
Jackson ran 13.43, 1:00.98 and 24.45 and broke the high hurdles record of 13.82 set in 2019 by Ramapo’s Grace Shea. Robinson ran 24.56, 56.28 and 1:02.13. Okaro ran 12.26 and 24.85 and was also 5th in the 400 in 58.82. Senior Nyla Williams placed 4th in the pole vault at 10-0. Sophomore Amariah Arango took 6th in the 400 400 in 58.63..
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 