Abdulbasid Shodolu had a season-best 5-10 in the high jump last spring for Highland, cleared 6-0 twice in his high school career – outdoors as a junior, indoors as a senior – and never finished higher than 12th at states.

Look at him now.

Shodolu, now a freshman at Rutgers-Camden, cleared 6-4 ¾ at Ocean Breeze this weekend, some 4 ¾ inches above his high school PR.

In his first collegiate meet, also at Ocean Breeze, he PR’d at 6-0 ¾, before his huge breakthrough on Friday afternoon.

Shodolu cleared 5-10 ¾ and 6-0 ¾ on his third attempts before PR’ing for the first time with a 6-2 ¾ on his 1st jump and then PR’ing again at 6-4 ¾ on his 1st try. He took three jumps at 6-6 ¾.

Rutgers-Camden’s top high jumper is Shodolu’s high school teammate, Jayden Deleon, who is now his teammate again at Rutgers-Camden. Deleon was the indoor Meet of Champions winner last year – also at Ocean Breeze – and is tied for No. 2 in NCAA Division 3 so far this year at 6-8 ¾, which he’s cleared twice. DeLeon has a PR of 6-10 ¼ from last year’s indoor South Jersey Group 3 Sectionals at Toms River.

Deptford led four schools who ran 1:31 and change in the 4-by-200 Saturday at the initial South Jersey Track Coaches Association meet at the Ott Center in West Philly.

Deptford won the race in 1:31.04, Williamstown ran 1:31.33, Rancocas Valley 1:31.52 and Overbrook 1:31.81.

Overbrook and R.V. ran in the 3rd section, Deptford and Williamstown in the 4th.

Senior Kareem Brown, senior Kyle Jackson, junior Xavion Holmes and Damon Albertson ran for senior Deptford; senior Jasiah Gibbons, junior Joshua George-Oyewole, sophomore Elijah Campbell and junior Ian Israel Jr. for Williamstown; senior Julian Coopage-Seepersaud, junior Samir Barber, junior Ethan Jones and junior Jor-el Santiago for Rancocas Valley; and junior Axcel Bailey, junior John Froelich, senior Anthony Powell and junior Jaiden Mitchell for Overbrook.

For Williamstown and Overbrook, those performances are school records. Williamstown’s previous school record was 1:32.33 this past January at the Ott Center. Overbrook’s school record was 1:33.45 in 2016 at Ocean Breeze with Quincy Fairey, Tevin Taylor, Jermaine Corbett and Nykols Rodriguez.

Deptford and R.V. have both run sub-1:30 several times.

Williamstown junior Timia Waters smashed the Gloucester County indoor triple jump record Saturday and moved into the all-time top-10.

Waters jumped 37-6 ¾ at the season-opening SJTCA meet at the Ott Center in West Philly on her only legal jump of the competition.

Coming into the season, Waters had a triple jump PR of 35-10 from 8th place at the state Group 4 meet in Somerset in May and an indoor PR of 32-3 ½ from a SJTCA meet this past January, also at the Ott Center.

Waters broke the Gloucester County indoor record of 36-9 ¼ set by Kingsway’s Jasmin Jones at the 2016 Easterns at the Armory. Her jump is No. 9 in South Jersey history indoors.

Four Gloucester County jumpers – including two from Williamstown – have gone farther outdoors: Zenee Gadson set the county overall record of 39-7 ½ at the 2012 state Group 1 meet in Old Bridge (but never triple jumped indoors), Jessica Mills of West Deptford jumped 39-6 when she won the 2005 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield, Williamstown’s Nalah Abul-Qasim set the overall Williamstown mark of 38-0 ¼ at the 2019 state Group 4 meet in Somerset and Williamstown’s Caleah Allen jumped 38-0 ¼ at the 2012 state Group 4 meet, also at Old Bridge.

So Waters is No. 5 all-time on the combined Gloucester County indoor / outdoor list.

The versatile Waters has PRs of 15.00 in the 100-meter highs, 17-1 ½ in the long jump, 7.54 in the 55 and 8.46 in the 55-meter highs.

All-Time South Jersey Girls 37-Foot Indoor Triple Jump List
41-3 ¼ … Sophia Curtis [Ocean City], 2025
40-1 ½ … Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 2019
39-4 … Ma’Syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.], 2025
38-4 … She’quell Higgs [Winslow Twp.], 2013
38-1 ½ – Lauren Fadairo [Rancocas Valley], 2024
38-0 ½ … Shaya Wilkerson [Lenape], 2012
37-10 … Cidae’a Woods [Winslow Twp.], 2013
37-7 … Elizabeth Montague [Cherokee], 2014
37-6 ¾ … Tamia Waters [Williamstown], 2026
37-5 ¾ … Brooklyn Ezekiel [Cherry Hill West], 2025
37-4 ¾ … I’Mara Ford [Moorestown], 2024
37-4 … Olivia Wright [Winslow Twp.], 2020
37-2 ½ … Kristina Tossas [Rancocas Valley], 2020
37-1 … Ashley Edwards [Northern Burlington], 2015
37-0 ¼ … Ayanna Brown [Sterling], 2024

Senior Humberto Cuellar smashed the Eastern indoor shot put record Saturday at the Ott Center at the SJTCA season opener.

Cuellar, who came into the meet with a PR of 48-10 ½, PR’d at 50-5 ¼ on his 1st attempt and then bombed a Vikings-record 53-3 ¾ on his 2nd throw before closing with a foul.

He broke the Eastern indoor record of 52-9 ½ set by Jarred Williams at 2010 South Jersey Group 4 Sectionals at the Bubble. Williams also holds Eastern’s outdoor record at 55-1 from 2010 outdoor Group 4 States at South Plainfield.

Cuellar’s previous overall PR was a 48-10 ½ at Group 4 States last May in Somerset. His indoor PR was a 43-10 ½ at the Ott Center last December. So he topped that by nearly 10 feet.

Cuellar is an offensive lineman and captain for Eastern’s football team.

Overbrook junior Jaiden Mitchell popped the first two 22-foot jumps of his life Saturday morning at the Ott Center.

Mitchell, who came into the SJTCA season opener in West Philly with a PR of 21-9 and an indoor PR 20-3 ¼, jumped 19-2 ¼ on his 1^st attempt before hitting 22-2 on his 2^nd and 22-4 ¼ on his 3^rd.

He jumped within 2 ¼ inches of the Overbrook school record of 22-6 ½ set by Damon Matthews at 2017 South Jersey Group 4 Sectionals at Egg Harbor. Mitchell moved past Brian Young [21-6 ¾ at the 1991 South Jersey Large-School Championships at Widener] for the No. 2 spot on the all-time Overbrook indoor list.

Mitchell was the No. 2 sophomore in South Jersey and No. 12 soph in the state last spring.

Rancocas Valley senior Rudolph Glover had three jumps over 21 feet – 21-7 ½, 21-0 and 21-6 ¾. Glover PR’d last spring at 22-1 ¼ to win the Burlington County Open at Lenape. This appears to be his first indoor meet ever.

Rancocas Valley senior Damanique Johnston PR’d by more than eight inches in the long jump Saturday morning with a 17-5 at the season-opening SJTCA meet at the Ott Center.

Johnston came into the season with a 16-8 ¼ PR from a meet in January at the Ott Center. She jumped an outdoor PR 16-7 at Delsea last spring on May 1 but that was her last meet of the year.

After a foul on her first jump, Johnston hit 17-5 on her 2^nd and then 16-11 ½, her 2^nd-best jump ever, on her 3^rd attempt. Athletes only got three jumps Saturday.

Johnson is the 5^th R.V. girl to jump 17-5 or better indoors.

Winslow senior Leeya Joseph also hit 17 feet, and she actually did it twice with a 17-4 on her 2^nd jump and then a 17-2 ¾. Joseph jumped 18-8 ½ for 2^ndat Easterns last winter at the Armory. She had a wind-legal 19-0 last June at the Met of Champions at Pennsauken.

All-Time Rancocas Valley Indoor Long Jump List
18-4 ¾ … Tonya Lee, 1988
17-10 … Kristina Tossas, 2020
17-7 ½ … Lauren Fadairo, 2024
17-6 ¼ … Anaya Young, 2020
17-5 … Damanique Johnston, 2026

The Winslow girls opened the 2025-26 season with a hot 800-meter relay Saturday morning at the Ott Center.

Junior Jordyn Cato, junior Amaya Jones, senior Olivia Okaro and sophomore Jasmine Jackson ran 1:41.31, 9^th-fastest in South Jersey history at the SJTCA season-opener.

Winslow ran 1:39.66 last year, No. 2 in South Jersey history, with only Cato and Okaro in the lineup from this race. Winslow’s time is No. 20 on the all-time New Jersey indoor list. Jackson anchored in 24.53.

Winslow ran unpressed, with Pennsauken – minus Sianni Wynn – 2^nd in 1:47.75. senior Sanaya Dupree, junior Abigayle John, junior Jade Georges-Reyes and senior Olivia Dupree ran for Pennsauken.

Winslow has run faster only in 2017, 2018 and 2025.

1:39.55 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:39.66 … Winslow Twp., 2025
1:39.94 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:40.77 … Moorestown, 2000
1:41.19 … Camden, 2008
1:41.14 … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:41.19 … Camden, 2008
1:41.28 … Woodrow Wilson, 2005
1:41.31 … Winslow Twp., 2026
1:41.42 … Moorestown, 1999
1:41.70 … Willingboro, 2002
1:41.78 … Winslow Twp., 2014
1:41.80 … Winslow Twp., 2019

1:38.03 … Union Catholic, 2024
1:38.60 … Union Catholic, 2023
1:38.99 … Columbia, 2014
1:39.29 … Union Catholic, 2016
1:39.37 … Columbia, 2011
1:39.55 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:39.66 … Winslow Twp., 2025
1:39.74 … Franklin, 2003
1:39.94 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:39.94 … East Orange Campus, 2007
1:40.51 … Union Catholic, 2014
1:40.67 … Union Catholic, 2017
1:40.76 … Union Catholic, 2022
1:40.77 … Moorestown, 2000
1:41.07 … Union Catholic, 2015
1:41.14 … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:41.19 … Camden, 2008
1:41.28 … Woodrow Wilson, 2005
1:41.30 … Union Catholic, 2025
1:41.31 … Winslow Twp., 2026

In her first meet since winning a national title, Lindenwold senior Egypt Bolan cleared 5-6 in the high jump Friday at the Bubble.

Bolan cleared 5-10 ¾ in June at Franklin Field Nationals, a South Jersey record and No. 3 in New Jersey history.

Bolan cleared 5-0 on her 2^nd attempt and 5-2 on her 3^rd before getting over the bar at 5-4 on her 1^st attempt. She cleared 5-6 on her 2^nd before taking three tries at 5-8.

That would have matched her indoor PR, which she cleared four times last year, all four also at the Bubble.

Bolan also long jumped 15-11 ½ and ran 7.68 in the hurdles in the season-opening South Jersey Track Coaches Association meet.

Timber Creek’s Darien Cade, a junior at Fairleigh Dickinson, recorded his first 50-foot shot put with the 16-pound ball Friday at Ocean Breeze.

Cade improved his PR from 49-8 ½ from the Northeast Conference Championships in May in Easton, Mass., to 50-8 ¼ on his 2^nd attempt at the Seahawk Shootout.

His previous indoor PR was a 49-9 ¾ Saturday, also at Ocean Breeze.

His throw Friday is the best by an FDU shot putter indoors in four years, since Benjamin Clay threw 58-0 ½ in a meet at the Armory in 2022.

Cade’s high school PR was 49-0 at the 2023 Tri-County Conference Championships at Delsea, so he’s thrown farther with the 16-pound shot than the 12-pounder.

Action begins at the spectacular new Ott Center Saturday with a South Jersey Track Coaches Association meet starting at 8 a.m.

The 73,000-square foot, $69.3 million Ott Center, which opened last year, is a state-of-the-arm indoor track facility with a banked track  located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in West Philly.

The track is tucked between the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks and the Schuylkill Expressway just south of South Street. and just north of Rhodes Field, where Penn’s soccer team plays.

Here’s a look at the complete Ott Center schedule for the 2025-26 indoor track season!

Dec. 13, SJTCA #2, 8 a.m.
Dec. 20, SJTCA #4, 8 a.m.
Dec. 27, SJTCA #7, 8 a.m.
Jan. 2, La Salle Winter Series, 1:30 p.m.
Jan. 3, SJTCA #8, 8 a.m.
Jan. 3, Upper Dublin Winter Series, 1:30 p.m.
Jan. 4, UAGTCA [United Age Group Track Coaches Association], 7:30 a.m.
Jan. 7, La Salle Boys Distance Meet, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 9, DVGTCA [Delaware Valley Girls Track Coaches Association], 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 10, Penn Select, Noon
Jan. 11, UAGTCA, 7:30 a.m.
Jan. 14, Upper Dublin Girls Meet, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 16, T&FCAGP [Track and Field Coaches Association of Greater Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 17, Quaker Invitational, 4 p.m.
Jan. 21, SJTCA #14, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 22, Penn Elite Multi Day 1, 3 p.m.
Jan. 23, Penn Elite Day 1, 10 a.m.
Jan. 24, Penn Elite Day 2, 11 a.m.
Jan. 28, Germantown Friends Invitational, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 30, Penn Invitational, Noon
Jan. 31, Penn Relays Winter Showcase, 9 a.m.
Feb. 1, Widener Meet #1, 1 p.m.
Feb. 2, SJTCA #17, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 4, La Salle Boys Relays, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 6, Penn Classic Day 1, 10 a.m.
Feb. 7, Penn Classic Day 2, 10 a.m.
Feb. 11, Upper Dublin Girls Relays, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 13, DVGTCA, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 14, Widener Invite, 1 p.m.
Feb. 15, PAISAA [Pennsylvania Independent School Athletic Association] Championship, 4:30 p.m.
Feb. 16, T&FCAGP Meet of Champions, 6:30 p.m.|
Feb. 20, Philly Metro, 11 a.m.
Feb. 21, New Jersey Athletic Conference, 4:30 p.m.
Feb. 22, New Jersey Athletic Conference, 2:30 p.m.
March 1, TCNJ Last-Chance Meet, Noon
March 7, PRTC [Philadelphia Runner Track Club] Indoor Classic, 9 a.m.