With four first places from tireless Sianni Wynn and some help from Hope Edwards, the Dupree cousins and Summer Schaffer, Pennsauken bounced back after losing at sectionals to win its 2^nd consecutive state Group 4 title in commanding fashion.

Pennsauken, which lost to Southern Regional by 2 ½ points at sectionals, beat the field by 27 ½ points, outscoring three teams that tied for 2^nd – Eastern, Ridge and Bergen Tech – 65 ½-38.

Pennsauken became the first school since Columbia in 2013 and 2014 with Olivia Baker to win consecutive Group 4 championships.

Wynn won the 200 in 23.10, below the meet record but wind-aided at 3.9 meters-per-second, and won the 100 in 11.53. She also anchored the 4-by-1, which set a meet record of 46.35, and led off the 4-by-4, which won in 3:48.98.

Wynn finished her career with a record 17 state individual titles in 19 races. Her only losses came in a 200 to Meet of Champions winner Cynthia Boakye of Elizabeth as a freshman and in a 400 to national champion Natalie Dumas in a 400 last year. Erin Donohue had the previous record with 15 in the 800, 1,600, 3,200 and javelin.

We wrote Friday about sophomore Hope Edwards’ massive race in the 400-meter hurdles. Edwards placed 2^nd to Dumas in 59.17, the 10^th-fastest time in state history. You can find that story here. https://sjtrackblog.com/2026/05/29/pennsaukens-hope-edwards-chases-natalie-dumas-with-10th-fastest-400-hurdles-in-state-history/. Edwards came back Saturday and placed 4^th in the 400 in 57.21.

Senior Sanaya Dupree ran 24.29 for 3^rd in the 200 and tied for 5^th in the 100 with a 12.28 and senior Olivia Dupree was 3^rd in the 100-meter hurdles in 14.00.

Pennsauken scored 20 big points in the relays, with Schaffer, Sanaya and Olivia Dupree and Wynn running 46.35 to break Pennsauken’s own year-old meet record of 47.24. Wynn led off with a 55.15, Sanaya Dupree split 58.91, Schaffer, a junior, ran 57.67 and Edwards anchored in 57.27.

Pennsauken scored all 65 ½ of its points on the track. Southern, which won sectionals two weeks ago, finished 5^th with 36 points, 29 ½ fewer than Pennsauken.

Deptford and Winslow locked up this weekend in a titanic two-day battle between two of New Jersey ‘s deepest and most talented teams before Deptford emerged with a two-point win over Winslow in the state Group 3 meet in Mansfield Township.

Deptford edged Winslow 86-84 in a two-team race with no other schools scoring more than 25 points.

The state title is Deptford’s third. The Spartans also won Group 3 in 2019 and 2023. Winslow won it last year. With Delsea in 2018 and 2022, Pennsauken in 2021, South Jersey schools have won Group 3 seven of the last eight times it’s been contested.

Going into the 4-by-4, Deptford led 80-74, so if Winslow won, Deptford needed at least four points to tie for the team title and at least six to win the meet outright. Winslow did win, running 3:19.66, and Burlington Township was 2^nd in 3:21.85, but Deptford took 3^rd in 3:21.95, safely clear of 4^th-place Timber Creek’s 3:24.43 to clinch the team title.

Here’s a look at this epic showdown event-by-event:

400-meter relay [Winslow 10, Deptford 8]: Winslow opened the meet Friday with a fast win over Deptford in the 4-by-1, with freshman Keyon Ali, senior Quayd Hendryx, Elijah Deanley and Jaylon Moss running 41.46, and Deptford 2^nd in 41.50 with Liam Brown, Xavion Holmes, senior Johann Hernandez and senior Kareem Brown.

400-meter hurdles [Deptford 11, Winslow 0]: Brown ran a PR 53.07 to win the race and senior Larry Norman ran 55.54 for 6^th place.

100-meter dash [Winslow 14, Deptford 10]: Hernandez won the race in 10.72, with Winslow’s Hendryx 2^nd in 10.83 and Ali 3^rd in 10.96.

Long jump [Winslow 20, Deptford 0]: Huge event for Winslow, which went 1-3-4, with junior Andrew Kratee winning with a legal 24-1 ¼ [0.0 wind], senior Zyaire Rothmiller-McIntosh 3^rd at 23-2 [1.5] and junior Ka’Ron Ceasar 4^th with a 22-11 ¾ [0.0].

Pole vault [Deptford 10, Winslow 0]: Mason Henry cleared 14-6, topping rival Mason Murray of Delsea, who cleared 14-0. Of course, no field series info because this is 2026 and why would the timing company provide relevant information?

400-meter dash [Winslow 10, Deptford 0]: On to Saturday and a hot start for Winslow, with senior Prince Owusu-Twum PR’ing with a 48.02 to win the race.

3,200-meter relay [Deptford 10, Winslow 0]: John Collier’s 1:58.05 anchor leg got Deptford in under 8 minutes. Anthony Schilling, Christian Ramirez and Zach Harrison ran the first three legs for Deptford, which finished in 7:59.47, winning by a second and a half over Ocean City.

110-meter hurdles [Deptford 14, Winslow 0]: Big race for the Spartans, with Brown and Norman taking 2^ndand 3^rd in 14.16 and 14.24.

200-meter dash [Deptford 16, Winslow 12]: Great action here between the two South Jersey powerhouse programs, with Deptford and Winslow sweeping the top four spots. Hernandez added the 200 to his 100 win with a legal 21.51 [0.0], with Winslow’s Hendryx 2^nd in 21.61, Deptford’s Holmes 3^rd at 21.99 and Winslow’s Owusu-Twum 4^th in 22.00.

High jump: [Winslow 8, Deptford 0]: Kratee, who had won the long jump, cleared 6-4 to place 2^nd in the high jump.

1,600-meter relay [Winslow 10, Deptford 6]: Ceasar, Hendryx, Jacoby James and Owusu-Twum won the 4-by-4 with Owusu-Twum anchoring in 47.85. But Deptford got the 3^rd-place finish it needed with Norman, Hernandez and Brown setting up Collier, who anchored in 48.36.

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..

Pennsauken’s Premier Wynn from Tennessee and Clayton’s Alexander Osayemi from Alabama both ran speedy 400 legs on their 1,600-meter relay teams at NCAA East Prelims and advanced to the NCAA Championships next month in Eugene.

Wynn ran a 44.69 second leg, and Tennessee ran 3:01.06, and Osayemi anchored in 45.12 and Alabama ran 3:02.45. Tennessee and Alabama posted the 5th- and 8th-fastest qualifying times in the East and 5th- and 12th-fastest overall times including the West Regional.

Tennessee’s time broke the school record of 3:01.22 set at 2024 NCAA Championships in Eugene. It’s No. 10 on the 2026 U.S. list. Alabama’s time is a season best, No. 10 in school history and No. 15 on the 2026 U.S. list.

The top 12 teams advance to Hayward Field along with the top 12 from West Regionals. The top five qualifying times came out of the East Prelims.

Riverside’s Jamir Brown punched his ticket to the NCAA Championships with the 2nd-fastest qualifying time in the 110-meter hurdles at the East Prelims in Lexington, Ky.

Brown, a junior at Syracuse, matched his lifetime-best with a 13.25 with a legal 0.3 wind Friday. He’s No. 14 in the world and No. 8 American.

Brown will go into the NCAA Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., as the No. 7 seed in the 110-meter highs behind Auburn junior Ja’Kobe Tharp, who ran 13.05. Tharp is the indoor and outdoor NCAA champion, 3rd-fastest in world history over the 60-meter highs indoors at 7.32 and was a World Championships finalist.

In the West Region in Fayetteville, five hurdlers ran faster than 13.25, including Kendrick Smallwood of Texas, the No. 1 overall seed at NCAAs with a lifetime-best a13.04

Willingboro senior Chris Jones popped one of the longest wind-legal long jumps in South Jersey history Friday as part of a double win at the state Group 2 meet at Northern Burlington.

Hibes won the long jump at 24-6 ¾, which is No. 14 in state history regardless of wind conditions and No. 7 by a South Jersey jumper. It was recorded with a wind reading of 0.0.

His jump is longest by a South Jersey long jumper regardless of wind information in 13 years, since Anthony Averett of Woodbury hit 25-2 ½ at the 2013 Woodbury Relays with no wind gauge present.

It’s the best jump by a Willingboro boy since legendary South Jersey Hall of Famer Gerard Reynols soared 24-8 ½ at 1989 Group 3 Sectionals at Bridgeton and appears to be the best jump ever by a South Jersey high school athlete with legal wind. Even Carl Lewis’s historic 26-8 ¼ at the 1979 Pan Am Games does not have a wind reading, according to World Athletics.

Lumberton’s Greg Foster jumped 25-6 ¼ with legal wind of 1.6 at the 2022 West Philly Nationals, but although he grew up in Burlington County he attended high school in Mercer County at Lawrenceville Prep, so he’s not eligible for South Jersey lists.

Jones is the first Willingboro boy to win a state long jump title since Mike Morrison in 2003.

Jones also won the 100 in 10.88, becoming the first Willingboro athlete to double at states since Eric Foster won the 110-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash in 2023.

All-Time New Jersey Long Jump List
all wind conditions
26-8 ¼ … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 1979
25-6 ¼ … Greg Foster [Lawrenceville School], 2022
25-2 ½ … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2013
25-2 … Liam Paneque [Demarest], 2024
25-0 ½ … Corey Crawford [Indian Hills], 2010
25-0 … Justes Nance [Blair Academy], 2015
25-0 … William Spearmon [Woodrow Wilson], 1996
24-11 ½ … Renaldo Nehemiah [Scotch Plains], 1977
24-11 ½ … Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2002
24-11 … Darius Pemberton [Hackensack], 1993
24-8 ½ … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1989
24-8 … Isaac Samuels [Willingboro-Kennedy], 1983
24-7 … Ayo Sagoe [Monroe Twp.], 2026
24-6 ¾ … Chris Jones [Willingboro], 2026
24-5 ½ … Brendan Alef [Demarest], 2026
24-5 ….….. Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 2003
24-4 ¼ … Ahmad Fogg [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2023
24-4 … Emeke Eze [Sayreville], 2012
24-3 ¾ … Mikhail Micheaux [Eastern], 2013
24-3 ½ … Kaelen Mitchell [Piscataway], 2021
24-3 ¼ … Nils Wildberg [Princeton], 2019
24-1 ½ … Mike Boone [Burlington City], 1990
24-1 ½ … Andrew Kratee [Winslow Twp.], 2026
24-1 … Nnaemeka Amaechina [Central Reg.], 2025
24-1 … Zack Brazile [St. Joe’s-Montvale], 2014
24-1 … Ka’Ron Caesar [Winslow Twp.], 2026
24-0 ¼ … Kerry Vivett [Edgewood], 1984
24-0 ½ … Skylar McGhee [Piscataway], 2024
24-0 ½ … Railel Wiggins [Pleasantville], 2026
24-0 ¼ … Jael Hester [Toms River North], 2025
24-0 … A’nan Bridgett [West Windsor-Plainsboro South], 2018
24-0 … Donavan Anderson [Bergenfield], 2021

The Haddonfield boys, led by their bottomless distance team, piled up 36 points on Day 1 of the state Group 2 championships in Mansfield Township.

Senior Peter Simpson won the 3,200 in 9:25.15, leading a 1-2-4 Haddonfield finish for 22 points. Senior Benjamin Andrus took 2nd in 9:30.46, and senior Ryan Gibson was 4th ihn 9:33.63.

Senior Brandon Stoner added six points in the 800 with a PR 1:53.71 for 3rd place.

It wasn’t all the distance crew. Junior Ryder Bozine ran 54.40 for a close 2nd in the 400-meter hurdles. Bozine finished just 3-100ths of a second out of first.

Going into Day 2 at Northern Burlington, Haddonfield holds a 36-21 ½ lead over 2nd-place Willingboro, with Shabazz [18], Voorhees [17 ½] and Demarest [16] not far back.

Haddonfield is seeking its sixth state championship but first since 2015.

Sianni Wynn and the Pennsauken girls got off to a hot start Friday on Day 1 of the state Group 4 meet in Somerset.

Pennsauken goes into Saturday with a 29 ½-21 ½ lead over Passaic County Tech, with Hillsborough and Eastern tied for 3rd with 20. Pennsauken is bidding to become the first school in more than a decade to win consecutive state Group 4 titles.

Wynn won the 100 in 11.53, her 8th individual outdoor state title, and also anchored Pennsauken’s record-setting 400-meter relay team, which ran 46.35, breaking the meet record of 47.24 that Pennsauken set last year. Junior Summer Schaffer and senior cousins Sanaya and Olivia Dupree ran the first three legs. Pennsauken set a state record of 45.30 last month at the Penn Relays with the same lineup.

Sophomore Hope Edwards placed 2nd to Natalie Dumas in the 400-meter hurdles with a 59.17, the 10th-fastest time in state history, and Sanaya Dupree tied for 5th in the 100 with a 12.28.

Wynn races the 200 and the 4-by-4 on Saturday, Edwards is among the top seeds in the 400 as are Sanaya Dupree in the 200 and Olivia Dupree in the 100-meter hurdles.

Winslow build some distance between the field in the state Group 4 meet with a 1-2-3 sweep in the 100-meter dash Friday at Somerset.

Senior Olivia Okaro won the race in 12.26, junior Amaya Jones was 2nd in 12.31 and senior Leeya Joseph took 3rd in 12.32, the three Winslow sprinters finishing within 6-100ths of a second of one another.

The 24 points gives Winslow 58 points through just five events and a 31-point lead over Ramapo, which has 27 points.

Winslow is seeking its 3rd straight state Group 4 title and 10th in the last 13 years.

Pennsauken sophomore Hope Edwards chased Natalie Dumas around the track in the 400-meter hurdles Friday in Somerset and emerged with one of the fastest times in state history.

Dumas, the national champion from a year ago, won the Group 4 400-meter hurdles as expected in 58.06, and Edwards was 2nd in 59.17, 4th-fastest in South Jersey history and 10th-fastest on the all-time New Jersey list.

Edwards was the fastest freshman in the U.S. last year while attending Moorestown with a 1:00.32 at West Philly Nationals.

Her 59.17 is 5th-fastest in state history by a sophomore and 2nd-fastest by a South Jersey 10th-grader, behind Dumas’s 58.32 when she won 2024 West Philly Nationals.

According to the MileSplit U.S. database, Edwards’ time is 2nd-fastest nationally among sophomores this year, behind only Nia Armstrong of Sickles High School in Tampa, who ran 57.97 in a meet last month in Jacksonville

Brianna Growalt, a junior at Atlantic County Tech, was 3rd with a PR 1:00.55 -5th-fastest all-time Atlantic county – and Kingsway junior Norah Brown was 5th with a PR 1:02.35, making it a 1-2-3-5 South Jersey finish.

All-Time New Jersey 400IH List
53.82 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2017
56.83 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2005
57.48 … Tawana Watkins [Paterson Kennedy], 2000
58.32 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2024
58.44 … Amber Allen [Passaic County Tech], 2009
58.6h … Tracy Nelson [Plainfield], 1981
58.91 … Reanda Richards [West Essex], 2018
59.03 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], 1988
59.16 … Leslie Njoku [McNair Academic], 2007
59.17 … Hope Edwards [Pennsauken], 2026
59.33 … Kim Duke [Mount Olive], 1984
59.35 … Ugonna Ndu [Union], 2009
59.48 … Angela Lee [Franklin Twp.], 1995
59.49 … Shana-Gaye Tracey [Manchester Twp.], 2007
59.56 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2013
59.63 … Morgan Harvey [North Hunterdon], 2013
59.66 … Mandie Dulin [Shawnee], 1997
59.69 … Shelley Mitchell [Lakewood], 1988
59.72 … Abigail Dennis [Old Tappan], 2024
59.73 … Nichole Candelaria [Newark Tech], 2012
59.78 … Siobhan Counts [Plainfield], 2002
59.80 … Sophia Curtis [Ocean City], 2024
59.81 … Erin Crawford [Hillsboro], 2002