Haddonfield junior Rebecca Hoover continues climbing the South Jersey all-time pole vault lists thanks to her first 12-foot clearance Monday at the Bubble.

Hoover increased her PR from 11-9 to 12-0. Series information not available. Her 12-0 clearance movres her into a tie for No. 4 in South Jersey history both on the all-time indoor list and the all-conditions list.

She broke her own Camden County indoor record and tied the overall Camden County record, set by Fiona Basewitz at the 2021 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield. Before Hoover cleared 11-6 in her first meet of the year at the Armory, the Camden County indoor record was 11-2 by Audubon’s Sarah Parr from a meet in Norristown, Pa., February of 2020.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor List
13-5 … Danielle O’Reilly [Shawnee], 2004
12-7 … Ashley Preston [Delsea], 2018
12-6 … Hannah Byrd-Leitner [Moorestown], 2024
12-0 … Jessica Kloss [Moorestown], 2004
12-0 … Rebecca Hoover [Haddonfield], 2024
11-6 … Melissa Gale [Millville], 2005
11-6 … Brittney Raffo [Seneca], 2017
11-6 … Lindsey Michie [Northern Burlington], 2019

All-Time South Jersey Overall List
13-5 … Danielle O’Reilly [Shawnee], 2004 [i]
12-7 ½ … Ashley Preston [Delsea], 2018 [o]
12-6 … Hannah Byrd-Leitner [Moorestown], 2024
12-0 … Brittany Raffo [Seneca], 2016 [o]
12-0 … Jessica Kloss [Moorestown], 2004 [i, o]
12-0 … Fiona Basewitz [Collingswood], 2021 [o]
12-0 … Brittney Raffo [Seneca], 2017 [o]
12-0 … Rebecca Hoover [Haddonfield], 2024 [i]
11-10 … Kaitlyn Dermen [Millville], 2014 [o]
11-9 … Julia Greeley [Seneca], 2021 [o]
11-6 … Melissa Gale [Millville], 2005 [i]
11-6 … Lindsey Michie [Northern Burlington], 2019 [i]
11-6 … Abby Boggs [Rancocas Valley], 2021
11-6 … Gabby Vetere [Washington Twp.], 2022
11-6 … Lauren Tauscher [Moorestown], 2009
11-6 … Reese Gebhard [Delsea], 2023
11-6 … Quin Zacamy [Haddon Heights], 2023

Two wins, two PRs and three outstanding performances Wednesday evening for Ocean City junior Hercules Stewart at the Metropolitan Invitational at the Armory.

Stewart won the high jump with a lifetime-best 6-4 clearance, won the triple jump with a 44-foot jump and placed 2nd in the long jump with a PR 21-2, finishing 6 ½ inches behind Piscataway senior Skylar McGhee, who jumped 21-8 ½.

Stewart had a high jump PR of 5-10 a month ago. He cleared 6-2 in his season opener, the Marine Corps Classic at the Armory, before clearing the bar at 6-4 Wednesday on his 3rd and final attempt. He was clean at 5-8 and 5-10, made 6-0 on his 2nd try and 6-2 on his 1st.

That 6-4 ties the Cape May County record shared by three other Ocean City jumpers. It was originally set by Ben Marple in 1995 and matched by Jim O’Connor in 2011 and Ryan Givens in 2014.

Stewart shares the No. 2 mark in South Jersey behind Rancocas Valley senior David Godbolt, who cleared 6-6 last month at the Armory. Willingboro’s Tra’san Adam, Highland’s Jayden De Leon and Washington Township’s Carson Thomas have also cleared 6-4.

Stewart is already No. 4 in the state in the triple jump with a 45-0 last week at the South Jersey Track Coaches Association meet at Ocean Breeze. That 45-0 is No. 12 in South Jersey history and also a Cape May County record. The previous mark was 43-8 ½ by Ocean City’s Dan Givens at this meet in 2022.

His triple jump series included five jumps of at least 43 feet, including the winning 44-0 on his 2nd attempt. He averaged 43-3 ½ on his five legal jumps, and that average would have won the meet. Ethan Gutierrez of Monroe-Woodbury, N.Y., was 2nd with a 43-1.

In the long jump, Stewart topped his previous PR of 20-4 ¾ from Ocean Breeze last week. That 21-2 is 11 inches shy of Givens’ county record of 22-1 from 2015 and it’s No. 2 in South Jersey this year, behind only Moorestown’s Rece Englehart, who jumped 22-5 at a meet at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa., earlier this month in his first lifetime indoor long jump competition.

Woodrow Wilson graduate Dennisha Page, now a post-grad student at Tennessee, ran one of the fastest 60-meter dashes in the world this year as well as a 200-meter dash indoor PR this weekend at Texas A&M.

Page ran 7.23 and 23.60 at the Ted Nelson Invite at the R.A. Murray Fasken ’38 Indoor Track in College Station, Texas.

That’s No. 12 in the world according to the World Athletics database and No. 8 among U.S. women.

Her previous 60 PR was 7.26 in the prelims of the Tyson Invitational at Arkansas’s Randall Tyson Track in Fayetteville, Ark., last February. Her previous indoor 200 PR was a 23.61 last January at the Bob Pollock Invitational at Clemson Indoor Track. She was competing for Rutgers when she ran both those times.

The 7.23 is No. 6 in Tennessee history and No. 6 on the 2023-24 NCAA Division 1 performance list.

It’s also 4th-fastest ever by a New Jersey sprinter, behind Montclair’s Me’Lisa Barber [7.01 in Moscow, Russia, in 2006] Eastern’s English Gardner [7.10 in New York in 2019] and Montclair’s Mikele Barber [7.14 in Albuqurque in 2010] and just ahead of Lakewood’s Shavon Greaves [7.24 at State College in 2010], Montclair Immaculate’s Dominique Booker [7.24 in Fayetteville in 2011] and Paramus Catholic’s Myasia Jacobs [7.24 in Boston in 2016].

Page was the 5th-fastest qualifier with a 7.37 in the trials before the 7.23 breakthrough race in the final. She placed 2nd to Jacious Sears, who won in a world No. 2 7.10. Sears is No. 2 in college track history with a 7.04 last winter. That’s No. 13 in U.S. history.

Page’s lifetime best at 200 meters is 23.08 from the prelims of the Big Ten Championships in June in Bloomington, Ind. That’s the No. 8 time ever run by a New Jersey high school graduate for 200 meters and No. 3 by a South Jersey woman.

Another PR this weekend for Syracuse hurdler Anthony Vazquez, a junior from Egg Harbor Township.

Vazquez lowered his 60-meter hurdles PR from 7.94 to 7.91 with a win at the NYC Gotham Cup at Ocean Breeze. Vazquez edged teammates Naseem Smith from Deptford and Isaiah Lewis from Winslow Township. Smith was 2nd in 8.04 and Lewis 3rd in 8.07.

I’d love to give you some background about Syracuse’s hurdling history – where does Vazquez rank on the all-time list? What’s the school record? – but Syracuse doesn’t have a top-10 list or even a record book on its web site – maybe the only NCAA Division major program that gives you nothing in the way of historical perspective. When you click on “men’s records” on their web site, you get “The page you are looking for no longer exists.”

In any case, Smith and Lewis both have PRs of 8.00, Smith at the Armory and Lewis at Clemson, so Syracuse is very close to having three hurdlers from South Jersey under 8 seconds in the 60-meter highs.

I put together my own all-time Syracuse list going back as far as TFRR.org goes, which is 2010:

7.49 … Jarret Eaton, 2012
7.61 … Jaheem Hayes, 2023
7.65 … Freddie Crittenden, 2017
7.69 … Angelo Goss, 2018
7.74 … Matt Moore, 2018
7.75 … Donald Pollitt II, 2014
7.81 … Amadou Gueye, 2013
7.85 … Richard Floyd, 2018
7.86 … Tyler Garland, 2020
7.87 … David Gilstrap, 2017
7.91 … Anthony Vazquez, 2024
7.93 … Brevin Sims, 2021

Norfolk State freshman Premier Wynn from Pennsauken won the 200 with the fastest time in the MEAC this year Friday at the Marlin Invitational in Virginia Beach.

Wynn ran 21.43 and edged teammate Christopher Basking in a 1-2-3 finish of Norfolk State freshmen. Basking ran 21.85 and Vincent Bond was 3rd in 21.89.

Wynn’s time is fastest in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference so far this year.

Wynn had a PR of 21.55 in high school from his win at the state Group 4 meet at Franklin Township High last June. His indoor PR was 21.75 when he won the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze this past March.

His time matches the fastest by a Norfolk State freshman indoors in 13 years, since James Taylor ran 21.08 in a meet in Blacksburg, Va., in 2011. Savien Hayes also ran 21.43 as a freshman in 2020.

Another meet, another PR for Noah Kriesman.

The Rutgers sophomore from Cherry Hill East cleared 16-3 ½ and placed 5th Saturday at the TRACK at New Balance Collegiate Showdown in Boston.

Kriesman had just PR’d at 16-2 ¾ last Sunday in a meet at the same facility. Before that he had a PR of 15-7 as a Rider freshman last winter at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships last February at the Armory.

Kriesman improved on his own No. 3 mark in South Jersey alumni history, behind Seneca’s Mike Maira [16-10 in 2014 in College Station, Texas] and current Rutgers teammate Nico Morales [16-9 ½ in April at the Penn Relays].

Although Rutgers hasn’t updated its all-time top-10 performance list, it looks like Kriesman’s 16-3 ½ is No. 7 in school history. Morales is No. 5 at 16-6 from December, but he hasn’t competed since.

At Cherry Hill East, Kriesman had indoor and outdoor PRs of 15-0, so he improved seven inches as a college freshman at Rider and has improved another 7 ¾ inches this year. Kriesman hasn’t competed outdoors since he was a senior at East.

Penn State freshman Ahmad Fogg from Egg Harbor Township High recorded a victory in his first collegiate meet Saturday.

Fogg jumped an indoor PR 23-6 ¾ to win the long jump at the Simmons-Harvey Invitational at the Athletics South Competition and Performance Center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Fogg’s previous indoor PR was a 22-3 ½ last year as an EHT senior at Ocean Breeze. He jumped 24-4 ¼ outdoors at West Philly Nationals in June.

Fogg won the competition by three-quarters of an inch over Michigan State’s Heath Baldwin. He popped the 23-6 ¾ on his first attempt.

His 23-6 ¾ is the best jump by a Penn State freshman in seven years, since William Henderson jumped 23-11 on Feb. 2, 2018, in a meet at Penn State’s Ashenfelter Track in State College, Pa.

Ahmad Fogg EHT

https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/530962/results/all

1st Simmons-Harvey Invitational, Athletics South Competition and Performance Center, Ann Arbor, Mich.

23-6 ¾

7.18 meters

Paul VI graduate Aliya Garozzo ran the 4th-fastest 500 meters in Penn history Saturday at the Wesley Brown Invitational in Annapolis, Md.

Garozzo ran 1:12.31 as part of a fast 1-2-3 Penn Quaker sweep. Junior Isabella Whittaker broke the school record with a 1:10.12 win – which is No. 16 in NCAA Division 1 history – junior Jocelyn Niemiec was 2nd in 1:12.13 – No. 3 in school history – and Garozzo was a close 3rd in a race that produced three of the four-fastest times in school history.

Garozzo’s previous PR over 500 meters was 1:13.95 last winter when she placed 3rd in the Ivy League Championships – the Heps – in Hanover, N.H.

Last spring, Garozzo ran 59.76 in the 400-meter hurdles at a meet at Franklin Field, No. 5 in Penn history and went on to place 3rd at Heps, also at Franklin Field, and 2nd at ECACs in Fairfax, Va.

She’s No. 5 in Penn history in the 60-meter hurdles with her 8.49 from the prelims last year at Heps.

At PVI, Garozzo was a three-time state champ in the 100 and 400 hurdles and a mutiple Meet of Champions medalist.

Here’s a look at the all-time Penn top-10 list in the 500:
1:10.12 … Isabella Whittaker, 2024 [Wes Brown Invitational, Annapolis, Md.]
1:11.77 … Jesse Carlin, 2005 [ECAC Championships, Boston]
1:12.13 … Jocelyn Niemiec, 2024 [Wes Brown Invitational, Annapolis, Md.]
1:12.31 … Aliya Garozzo, 2024 [Wes Brown Invitational, Annapolis, Md.]
1:12.37 … Uchechi Nwogwugwu, 2019 [Ivy League Championships, Cambridge, Mass.]
1:12.68 … Jamie Massarelli, 2010 [ECAC Championships, Boston]
1:12.72 … Candace Taylor, 2015 [Armory Invitational]
1:12.75 … Nia Akins, 2017 [Ivy League Championships, New York]
1:13.04 … Skyla Wilson, 2022 [Ivy League Championships, New York]
1:13.36 … Taylor Hennig, 2015 [Ivy League Championships, Cambridge, Mass.]

What a long jump series Saturday by Winslow sophomore Ma’Syiah Brawner at the Armory.

Brawner, who came into the meet with a PR of 18-10, soared 19-3 ½ on her fourth attempt at the Hall of Fame Invitational at the Armory, the No. 5 jump in South Jersey indoor history and best in eight years.

It’s also No. 9 in South Jersey history in any conditions and best in six years and No. 12 on the all-time New Jersey indoor list.

Brawner had a remarkable series, with all six jumps over 18 feet and all six surpassing her previous indoor PR of 17-6 ¾ from a meet at Ocean Breeze last month. Any of the six would have won the competition.

She opened with 18-0, 18-5 ½ and 18-4 and then in the finals followed the 19-3 ½ with an 18-9 and an 18-3. 18-6 ¼. She averaged 18-6 ½ on her six jumps, only 3 ½ inches off her previous lifetime best.

Brawner’s 19-3 ½ is No. 6 in the U.S. and No. 1 among sophomores, bumping an 18-10 ¾ by Ava Kitchings of Greater Atlanta Christian of Norcross, Ga., from a meet in Fayetteville, Ark., last weekend.

It’s the best mark by a New Jersey sophomore indoors since Sydney McLaughlin of Union Catholic, the 400-meter hurdles Olympic champion and world record holder, jumped 19-4 at the 2015 Varsity Classic at the Armory.

It appears to be the best indoor jump by a South Jersey sophomore since two-time Olympian Carol Lewis of Willingboro set a state indoor record of 19-8 when she placed fifth at AAU Senior Nationals at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 23, 1979.

Brawner also has PRs of 39-10 ¼ in the triple jump, 5-4 in the high jump, 8.64 in the 55-meter hurdles and 15.35 in the 100-meter hurdles.

All-Time New Jersey Indoor Long Jump List
21-7 ½ … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1981
20-8 ¾ … Keturah Orji [Mount Olive], 2014
20-7 ¾ … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2017
19-11 ¾ … Claire Connor [Rahway], 1984
19-8 ¼ … Tionna Tobias [Winslow], 2016
19-8 ……. Celeste Holder [Parsippany], 2006
19-8 ……. Cidae’a Woods [Winslow], 2014
19-7 ½ … Helen Wilks [Bridgeton], 1993
19-6 …….. Iana Amsterdam [Newark Tech], 2013
19-5 ¾ … Kayla Richardson [Columbia], 2014
19-4 ¾ … Celine-Jada Brown [Plainfield], 2022
19-3 ½ … Ma’syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.], 2024
19-3 …….. Leah Ellis [Millville], 2019
19-2 ¾ … Kaitlin Salisbury [Hawthorne], 2016
19-1 ½ … Carlene Cummings [Englewood], 1998
19-1 1/4 … Kelsey Vieira [Hillsborough], 2016
19-1 ¼ … Kayla Richardson [Columbia], 2014
19-0 ½ … Natalia Hinton [Newark Tech], 2013
19-0 …….. Tatiana Sanders [Paramus Catholic], 2013
19-0 … Saniyah Evans [Rahway], 2024

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 19-Foot Long Jump List
21-7 ½ … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1981
19-8 ¼ … Tionna Tobias [Winslow], 2016
19-8 ……. Cidae’a Woods [Winslow], 2014
19-7 ½ … Helen Wilks [Bridgeton], 1993
19-3 ½ … Ma’syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.], 2024
19-3 …….. Leah Ellis [Millville], 2019
18-9 …….. Shameka Speed [Bridgeton], 2002
18-8 ¾ … Artrelia Turner [Wilson], 1984
18-7 ¼ … Shelly Bailey [Woodbury], 1982
18-6 ½ … Tisifinee Taylor [Woodbury], 2002
18-6 ½ … Asia Young [Holy Spirit], 2016

Overall All-Time South Jersey 19-Foot List
21-7 ¾ …… Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1980 [o]
20-0 ½ ….. Teneacia Smith [Cherry Hill East], 1992 [o]
19-11 ½ … Kathy Rankins [Haddon Heights], 1980 [o]
19-11 ½ …. Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], 2018 [o]
19-9 ¼ ….. Cidae’a Woods [Winslow Twp.], 2013 [o]
19-7 ½ ….. Helen Wilks [Bridgeton], 1993 [i, o]
19-4 ¾ …… Gabrielle Farquharson [Williamstown], 2011 [o]
19-4 ………. Emily Carson [Haddonfield], 2012 [o]
19-3 ½ … Ma’syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.], 2024 [i]
19-3 ………. Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], 2017 [o]
19-3 … Leah Ellis [Millville], 2019 [i]
19-2 ¾ …….Asia Young [Holy Spirit], 2016 [o]
19-2 ½ ….…Gabrielle Bennett [Winslow Twp.], 2015 [o]
19¬-2 ………. Tierra Hooker [Timber Creek], 2018 [o]
19¬-2 ………. Robin Taylor [Deptford], 1980 [o]
19¬-1 ……….. Nena Moore [Cherry Hill West], 1995 [o]
19-1 ………. Yvonne Wolef [Middle Twp.], 2012 [o]
19-0 ¼ …… Jasmine Staten [Lenape], 2016 [o]

Iowa senior Tionna Tobias from Winslow Township recorded the 3rd-highest pentathlon score in Hawkeyes history Friday at a meet in Iowa City.

Tobias scored 4,049 points and won the one-day, five-event test at the Larry Wieczorek Invitational at the Iowa Rec Building.

Tobias’s score is 3rd-highest in Iowa history, behind Jenny Kimbro [4,269 in 2020] and Tria Simmons [4,200 in 2019].

In the first event of the day, Tobias ran 8.37 in the 60-meter hurdles, scoring 1,046 points. She scored 806 in the high jump [5-5 ¼], 577 points in the shot put [35-2], 856 in the long jump [19-9] and 764 in the 800 [2:24.43].

Tobias won by 295 points over teammate Annie Wirth, who scored 3,754.

The high jump and long jump were also held on Friday, and Tobias did not compete in those open events, but she is entered in the hurdles, scheduled for 5:25 p.m. Saturday. Tobias is No. 10 in NCAA Division 1 with her 8.19 from last weekend in Iowa City

Her previous lifetime-best pentathlon score was 3,997 at last year’s Big Ten Championships at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, where she placed 3rd – 49 points behind Millville’s Bryanna Craig of Purdue.

Tobias’s lifetime best is now three points higher than Craig’s lifetime best. Tobias has a 5,640 lifetime best in the two-day outdoor heptathlon from her win at outdoor Big Tens in Bloomington, Ind., in May. Craig was 2nd in that meet with a PR of 5,460. Craig hasn’t done a multi yet this winter.