Halima Scott opened her final year at Delaware with a double sprint win at the Blue Hens’ own Delaware Invitational in Newark.

Scott, a Delaware grad student working toward her masters in strategic communication, won the 200 in 24.81 and won the 400 in 58.67, winning over a field of 28 in the 200 and 23 in the 400.

Scott is a graduate of Camden Big Picture Learning Academy but competed for Woodrow Wilson. She ran 12.29, 24.77 and 56.46 for Wilson and long jumped 17-6 ½.

At Delaware, she has PRs of 23.99 in the 200 at the 2019 Colonial Athletic Association Championships in Elon, N.C., and 53.01 for 400 meters at last year CAA Championships in Williamsburg, Va. She hasn’t long jumped in college.

She’s won two CAA titles: The 200 [23.99] outdoors in 2019 at Elon, and the 400 [54.19] outdoors in 2022 in Dedham, Mass. The CAA is now the Coastal Athletic Association.

On the all-time Delaware indoor lists, she ranks 6th in the 60-meter dash [7.72], 2nd in the 200 [24.12], 3rd in the 300 [40.07], and she’s the school-record holder in the 400 [53.97]. Outdoors, she’s No. 2 in the 200 [23.99], school record holder in the 400 [53.01] and also ran the 400 on the school-record sprint medley [3:57.75].

Rutgers freshman Jenovia Logan from Sterling PR’d in the high jump Saturday at the South Florida Invitational in Tampa.

Logan cleared 5-7 on her 3rd attempt and placed 5th overall. She missed three attempts at 5-8 ¾.

Logan had a PR of 5-6 at Sterling and she toppled that indoors, when she cleared 5-6 ½ at the Big Ten Championships in Geneva, Ohio.

On Saturday, Logan entered competition at 5-5 and cleared on her first attempt before sailing over the bar at 5-7 on her final chance.

Logan is the first Rutgers freshman to clear 5-7 since Courtney Campbell from South Brunswick High did it in a meet in Atlanta in 2018. Logan’s 5-7 matches the best performance by a Rutgers freshman since Rhonda Rogombe of Charleston, W. Va., cleared 5-8 ¾ in Williamsburg, Va., in 2017.

Indoors, Logan missed the all-time Rutgers top-10 by half an inch. She’s an inch off the outdoor all-time top-10.

The top performance by a South Jersey high jumper for Rutgers belongs to Shawnee graduate Kristen Bradley, who cleared 5-8 at a meet in Princeton in April 2014. Bradley now teaches math and coaches soccer and girls track at Woodbridge High in Middlesex County.

The Timber Creek girls got the season started with a couple fast relay performances Saturday at the Spartan Relays at Deptford.

Juniors Billie Frazier and Ryan Jennings and seniors Nyla Jones and Naylah Jones won the 400-meter relay in 48.18 and the same quarter in a different order – Naylah Jones to Jennings to Nyla Jones to Frazier – won the 800-meter relay in 1:42.14.

Although MileSplit hasn’t completely updated its database, both times appear to be the fastest in New Jersey after the first week of competition.

Timber Creek’s 48.18 is the 2nd-fastest in school history. Last year, Jennings, Nyla Jones and Naylah Jones were joined by Chloe Jones on the 4-by-1 at West Philly Nationals and they set a South Jersey-record of 46.43.

The 4-by-2 time is also Timber Creek’s fastest. Last April, Jennings, Frazier, Chloe Jones and Naylah Jones ran 1:39.67, 11th-fastest in state history.

Willingboro placed 2nd in the 4-by-100 in 49.94, with sophomore Kaila Speight, freshman Maya Bolden, freshman Trinity Brapoh and junior Nester Wea. Winslow was 2nd in the 4-by-2 in 1:44.93 with senior Dominique Clement, sophomore Olivia Okaro, freshman Cinniya Robinson and freshman Skyhe Seamon.

Bishop Eustace senior Shawn Brady and Bordentown senior Brock Schenck both opened the season with 160-foot-plus throws at the Don Danser Relays in Mount Holly Saturday.

Brady won the event with a 167-0 and Schenck threw 162-1 for 2nd place. They appear to be the only boys over 160 feet in New Jersey so far this year other than national scholastic runner-up Ben Shue of Bergen Catholic, who threw 195-3 at the Penn Relays Qualifier at CBA last week.

Brady came within a couple feet of his PR of 169-1 from his 6th-place finish at last year’s Meet of Champions. Before last year, Montel Johnson held the Eustace discus record with a 157-5 at the 2017 state Parochial A meet at Egg Harbor.

Schenck didn’t compete last year. He threw 138-2 when he won Central Jersey Group 2 sectionals at Middletown North as a sophomore in June 2022. So this was his first discus competition in nearly two years. He returned to action indoors and threw 54-8 in the shot.

The previous Bordentown school record … I’m not sure, but the best I could find was a 147-1 by James Coleman to win the 1990 Burlington County League Liberty Division title at Northern Burlington.

Pennsville’s Arianna Smith, in her first 400 hurdles race ever for Rutgers, picked up a victory and ran the 4th-fastest time in school history.

Smith ran 59.55 to win the 400-meter intermediates at the South Florida Invitational in Tampa. It was her first 400IH race in almost a year, since she ran her PR of 57.84 and set a Princeton school record  when she placed 2nd in the Ivy League Championships at Franklin Field in May.

Smith is a grad student at Rutgers. The Ivy League does not allow graduate students to compete in intercollegiate athletics.

The only women in Rutgers history to run faster than Smith are Lori McCauley of Pennridge High in East Rockhill Township, Bucks County [55.69 in 1984 in Colorado Springs], Reanda Richards of West Essex High in North Caldwell [56.31 in Jacksonville in 2019] and Danielle Hobson of West Orange [58.28 in Storrs, Conn., in 2003].

Rancocas Valley’s Annabella Chin, who transferred to Rutgers from from St. Joe’s, ran 1:02.21, her fastest time this year. She has a PR of 1:01.13 from last year’s Atlantic 10 Championships in Amherst, Mass.

Hammonton junior Anthony Liakhnovich uncorked the biggest shot put throw by an Atlantic County athlete in 11 years Saturday at the Rebel Relays at Howell High School.

Liakhnovich threw 59-10 – field series info not available – and won the event by more than nine feet. His throw is No. 3 in Atlantic County history and No. 24 on the all-time South Jersey list. Liakhnovich is just 18 inches off the county record of 61-4 set by Egg Harbor’s Kofi Yamoah at the 2013 South Jersey Invitational at Buena.

His throw is also best by a South Jersey underclassman since Braheme Days Jr. of Bridgeton threw 68-8 1/2 when he won the Penn Relays shot as a junior in 2012.

Coming into the meet, Liakhnovich had a PR of 56-10 ¼ from the Cherokee Throwdown in January. His outdoor PR was 48-9 ¾ from South Jersey Group 3 sectionals last spring at Delsea.

So this is more than a 10-foot outdoor PR.

His throw makes him No. 3 in New Jersey so far this year, behind Benjamin Shue of Bergen Catholic [61-6 ¼], who placed 6th at the U.S. Under-20 Championships last summer in Eugene, and Joshua Huisman of St. Rose of Belmar [60-1], runner-up at both Armory and Boston nationals indoors.

All-Time Atlantic County 58-Foot List
61-4 … Kofi Yamoah [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2013
60-3 … Dontaye Rivera [Pleasantville], 2012
59-10 …. Anthony Liakhnovich [Hammonton], 2024
59-6 … Dave Dixon [Mainland Reg.], 1987
59-5 ¼ … Cade Antonucci [Holy Spirit], 2017
58-0 … Steve Hanson [Holy Spirit], 1982
58-0 … James Plummer [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2013

Fantastic day with two big PRs for Paul VI graduate Aliya Garozzo at the Penn Invitational at her home track, Franklin Field in West Philadelphia.

Garozzo won the 100-meter hurdles in 13.65 – 4th-fastest in Quaker history – and placed 4th in the 200 in 24.42.

Garozzo, a Penn junior, does not run the high hurdles very often outdoors. She ran 14.15 when she won the state Parochial A title in 2019 at Central Regional in Bayville, but she had only contested the event once since arriving at Penn and ran 14.12 at the Penn Challenge last March, also at Franklin Field.

But she did run 8.29 in the trials at the Ivy League Championships in Cambridge, Mass., before winning the final in 8.37. That 8.29 is No. 2 in Penn history.

Her 13.65 is fastest in the Ivy League this year.

Garozzo is already No. 21 in NCAA Division 1 in the intermediates with her 57.97 last weekend in Gainesville, Fla.

She didn’t race the 400IH this weekend but she did try her hand at the 200, another event she rarely runs. She had a high school PR of 25.19 from a meet in Bear, Del., then ran one early in her freshman year at Penn and ran 26.20 at Franklin Field. Then this past indoor season she ran 25.08 at Ocean Breeze.

But she blew those times away Saturday with her 24.42, which is No. 5 this year in the Ivy League.

Here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey `alumni 100-meter hurdles top-10 list:

12.34 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], Oct. 6, 2019, Doha, Qatar
13.11 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow], May 25, 2023, Bloomington, Ind.
13.28 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow], May 15, 2015, Starkville, Miss.
13.30 … Shameka Marshall [Oakcrest], May 28, 2005, New York
13.36 … Samantha Sharper [Wilson], May 12, 2013, Houston [+0.1]
13.57 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], May 12, 2023, Villanova, Pa. [+0.9]
13.61 … Sherese Price [Pleasantville], May 4, 2002, Storrs, Ct. [+0.6]
13.64 … Magenta Taylor [Willingboro], March 24, 2001, Houston [+0.9]
13.65 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], April 6, 2024, Philadelphia [+1.1]
13.71 … Imani Gilliam [Pennsauken], May 17, 2008, Princeton [+0.9]

In his first collegiate intermediate hurdles race, Norfolk State freshman Premier Wynn of Pennsauken picked up a win and a personal best.

Wynn ran 52.29 and won the 400-meter hurdles Saturday at the Norfolk State Invitational at NSU’s Dick Price Stadium.

His time is fastest by a Norfolk State freshman since Jaylen Banks ran 51.30 at the 2017 NCAA East Prelims in Lexington, Ky.

Wynn’s previous PR was his 52.68 to win the Camden County meet at Haddon Township last May in a 1`-2 finish with teammate Bryce Tucker, who ran 52.80.

Wynn won by nearly 2 ½ seconds over teammate Tafari Bishop, who placed 2nd in 54.53.

His time is No. 2 this year in the MEAC, behind only Howard senior Noah Langford, who ran 52.15 in a meet in Tampa last month.

Wynn already ranks No. 3 in the MEAC in the flat 400 with a 47.80 last weekend at the Raleigh Relays.

In her first 100-meter dash in a Tennessee uniform, Dennisha Page ran the 2nd-fastest time ever by a South Jersey woman.

Page, a Woodrow Wilson graduate, won the 100 Saturday at the Tennessee Invitational in Knoxville in 11.27, lowering her PR from 11.30, which she ran at the Big 10 Conference Championships in May in Bloomington, Ind., as a junior at Rutgers.

Page moved up from No. 3 to No. 2 on the all-time South Jersey list, passing Amandi Rhett of Moorestown, who ran 11.29 in 2005 in Walnut, Calif. The only faster woman is Olympic gold medalist English Gardner of Eastern, who ran 10.74 in 2016 at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore.

On the all-time New Jersey list, she moved up to No. 5, behind Gardner, the Barber twins from Montclair and Trenton’s Wenda Vereen. Me’Lisa Barber ran 10.95 in Carson, Calif., in 2007, and Mikele Barber ran 11.02 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, also in 2007. Vereen ran 11.18 in Colorado Springs in 1983.

According to the World Athletics database, Page’s time is No. 7 in the U.S. this year, but World Athletics has been slow to update the site this year. They also show Page at No. 20 in the world.

Incredibly, that 11.27 is only No. 10 on the all-time Tennessee list. The Vols have an incredible history of sprinters, led by current Tennessee senior Jacious Sears, who ran 10.96 last year.

Page won the race easily by three meters over teammate Dajour Miles, who was 2nd in 11.56.

In his first long jump competition in nearly two years, Jamir Brown popped a PR and broke Riverside’s school record.

Brown last long jumped in the spring of 2022 as a sophomore at Delran. He hit 22-0 ½ when he won the Burlington County Open at Rancocas Valley and went on to place 2nd at South Jersey Group 2 sectionals at Delsea and 4th at states at Franklin.

He also ran 54.52 in the intermediates and 14.66 in the 110 highs an triple jumped 43-10 that spring. He was the No. 2 sophomore in New Jersey in the long jump and both hurdles and No. 3 in the triple jump.

He was at Riverside last spring but was hurt all spring and only competed in three meets and didn’t approach his PRs from 2022. He only ran the flat 400 and never contested either hurdles race and didn’t long jump.

So Saturday’s Don Danser Relays at Rancocas Valley was his first long jump competition since June 11, 2022, when he jumped 21-2 ¼ at the state meet.

And after opening with a 20-11 and 21-5, he jumped 22-0 ¾ on his 3rd attempt. He won by exactly a foot over former teammate junior Emir Canli of Delran, who jumped 21-0 ¾. His twin brother, Deniz Canli, was 3rd at 20-8 ¼.

Brown broke the school record of 20-8 set (I think) by Jody Johnson at the 2018 Moorestown Invitational. Weird that Riverside has had four state Group 1 champion triple jumpers – Phil Lindemuller 45-3 ½ in 2007, Sean Jimoh 45-5 ¼ in 2008, Emmanuel Harris 45-8 ½ in 2018 and Alex Stockton 44-5 ½ – but none of them ever even jumped 21 feet. Jimoh hit 20-6 ½.