Skyhe Seamon, Olivia Okaro lead Winslow to 6th straight state relays title in terrific battle with Timber Creek!!!!!!

Freshman Skyhe Seamon and sophomore Olivia Okaro ran on three top-3 teams and the Winslow Township girls won their 8th state relays title and 6th in a row Sunday.

Winslow outscored neighborhood rival Timber Creek 52-42 in the Group 3 competition at the Bubble in Toms River.

Seamon ran on 2nd-place 4-by-200 [1:43.83], sprint medley [4:21.31] and 4-by-400 [4:00.86] and Okaro was on the 4-by-2 and 4-by-4 and 3rd-place 4-by-800 as Winslow won a close battle with neighboring Timber Creek, 52-42.

Winslow’s streak of six straight titles is 3rd-longest in meet history behind a nine-year streak by Hopewell Valley from 2002-2010 – their coach at the time was Mike Hammill from Moorestown – and Union Catholic’s streak of eight straight in Parochial A.

Winslow also won titles in 2011, 2013 and 2015 for a total of nine championships. That’s tied for 4th-most in history behind Willingboro [11], Columbia [10] and Hopewell Valley [10] and tied with Haddonfield.

The other legs on Winslow’s 4-by-200 were Dominique Clement and Djassi Dean. Joining Seamon on the sprint med were Clement, Dean and sophomore Ava Millner. The other 4-by-4 legs were freshmen Cinniya Robinson and Tristan Hughes. Joining Okaro on the 4-by-8 were Millner, Robinson and Hughes.

Winslow won the shuttle hurdles in 31.76 with sophomore Ma’Syiah Brawner, Clement, sophomore Taneyah Picott and senior Sierra Handy.

Brawner cleared 5-4 and teamed with sophomore Chantina Walker to place 3rd in the high jump relay.

Timber Creek won the 4-by-200 in 1:42.69 and 1,600-meter relay in 3:57.96 as well as the shot put and high jump relays. Freshman Amaya Jones, junior Ryan Jennings and seniors Naylah Jones and Chloe Jones ran the 800-meter relay and Naylah Jones, Chloe Jones, freshman Taylor Gaines and Nyla Jones the 1,600-meter relay.

The shot put results are messed up, but senior Guerlande Pierre threw 35-2 ½ and sophomore Nasira Gordon a PR 24-5 ¾ and it looks like they won. Pierre and Gordon also won the high jump relay with Pierre clearing 5-2 and Gordon a personal-best 4-10.

Hammonton sophomore Mitra Sampson also PR’d with a 38-2 ½, the 2nd-best throw of the competition.

Moorestown junior Hannah Byrd-Leitner cleared 12-0 and junior Jaya Stockham 9-6 and the Quaker tandem won the pole vault relay.

Pennsauken ran 1:44.85 and 4:03.16 and placed 3rd in both the 4-by-200 and 4-by-400, with Sianni Wynn, sophomores Olivia Dupree and Sanaya Dupree and junior Ameenah Rodriguez on both teams.

The Mainland Regional girls won both the 4-by-800 and distance medley. We wrote about their fast double here.

Cherry Hill East’s Noak Kreisman records 6th-best pole vault in school history in 2nd meet for Rutgers!!!!!!

Cherry Hill East graduate Noah Kreisman, in his 2nd meet for Rutgers after transferring from Rider, joined the 16-foot club Sunday in Boston.

Kriesman cleared 16-2 ¾ to win the Umass Amherst Flagship Indoor Invitational at The TRACK in Boston.

Kreisman, a sophomore at Rutgers, competed last indoor season for Rider and PR’d at 15-7 when he placed 2nd in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships at the Armory last February.

He didn’t compete outdoors and that was his last meet until Dec. 1 at the Armory, when he cleared 15-2 ¼ in his first meet for Rutgers before his big breakthrough performance Sunday.

As a Cherry Hill East senior, Kreisman cleared 15-0 indoors in December of 2021 at the Bubble and once outdoors at the state Group 4 meet at Franklin High in June of 2022.

As far as anybody has been able to determine, the only other 16-footers in South Jersey history are Mike Maira of Seneca [16-10 in 2014], Nico Morales of Delsea [16-9 ½ in 2023], Marco Morales of Delsea [16-0 in 2020] and Bob Green of Haddon Heights [16-0 in 1992].

So from all available information, Kreisman moves into the No. 3 spot on the all-time South Jersey alumni list. Nico Morales also competes for Rutgers and Marco Morales formerly did.

Kreisman also moved into a tie for the No. 6 spot on the all-time Rutgers indoor list with the best clearance in 11 years.

Morales and Kreisman are now No. 5 and No. 9 this year on the Big Ten Conference pole vault performance list.

Wilson’s Dennisha Page, in first meet as Tennessee post grad, runs #3 time in 300 in Vols history!!!!!!

Former Syracuse and Rutgers star Dennisha Page from Wilson High is now doing a post-grad year at Tennessee and made a successful Volunteers debut Saturday at the Gamecock Opener in Columbia, S.C.

Page, who graduated last spring from Rutgers with a degree in health administration, placed 2nd in the 55-meter dash in 7.33, ran 4th in the 300-meter dash in 37.55 and also ran a leg on Tennessee’s 4-by-400 B team, which ran 3:45.75.

Page was at Syracuse only for the 2020 indoor season and ran 7.50 for 60 meters in a meet at Ithaca and 24.31 for the 200 in a meet at South Bend, Ind.

She surfaced at Rutgers for the 2021 indoor season and ran 7.26 last indoor season in Fayetteville, Ark., and then ran her wind-legal PRs of 11.30 and 23.08 in the 100 and 200 at the Big Ten Championships last spring in Bloomington, Ind. She competed in NCAA Eastern Prelims last spring and ran 11.42 and a windy 22.88.

In her first meet for Tennessee, Page ran within 7-100ths of a second of her 60 PR and destroyed her 300 PR with that 37.55. Her previous best at 300 meters was 39.32 for Rutgers at a meet at the Armory two years ago. Her 37.55 is No. 3 in school history, behind only LaVonna Martin’s 36.75 in 1987 and Felicia Brown’s 37.12 in 2016.

Page ran the third leg on Tennessee’s 4-by-4. Charleston Southern finished just behind Tennessee with Jailya Ash from Eastern anchoring.

Christian Langston, Xavier Wyatt, Julian Conigliaro lead Delsea to state Group 3 Relays championship!!!!!!

Seniors Christian Langston, Xavier Wyatt and Julian Conigliaro were on three relay teams that placed in the top three, Delsea’s field event team scored 26 of a possible 30 points Sunday and the Crusaders won their 5th state relays title since 2010 at the Bubble.

Delsea scored 50 points at the Bubble in Group 3, finishing well clear of 2nd-place Morris Knolls, which finished with 31. Winslow was 3rd with 24 and Timber Creek 5th with 19.

Delsea also won state relays titles in 2010, 2011 and 2020, all in Group 2. The only South Jersey schools with more relays championships than Delsea are Willingboro [18], Haddonfield [7] and Woodbury [5]. Bishop Eustace, Bridgeton, Kingsway and Winslow also have four.

Langston, Xavier Wyatt, senior Dante McGrenehan and Conigliaro gave the Crusaders their one win on the track, placing 1st in the 800-meter relay in 1:31.38 in a 1-2-3 finish with Timber Creek [1:33.2] and Winslow Township [1:34.90].

Delsea also won the shot put relay with junior Jonathan Harris [55-5 ½] and senior Greg Masso [50-3 ½] combining to throw 105-9.

In the pole vault relay, sophomore Mason Murray tied his PR with a 13-0 clearance, and senior Carlos Reyes cleared 12-6 for a combined 25-6.

Delsea also took 2nd in the high jump with senior Wayne Adair clearing 5-10 and sophomore Quincy Matthews

Delsea placed 3rd in the 1,600-meter relay with Langston, Wyatt, McGrenehan and Conigliaro running 3:30.46 and 3rd also in the sprint medley with Langston, Wyatt, Conigliaro and sophomore Matthew Littlehales anchoring.

Winslow won the sprint medley in 3:39.03 with junior Chukwuemeka Ajaegbulemh, junior Dominic Bassey, junior Jayden Poteat and senior Darrell Jackson Jr., and took 3rd in the 800-meter relay with a 1:34.90 with Poteat, freshman Jabril Hammond, Jackson Jr and sophomore Jacoby James.

Timber Creek won the 1,600-meter relay in 3:28.23 and placed 2nd in the 800-meter relay in 1:33.27. Senior Nasir Ali, senior Isiah Marcellus, junior Kysim Khan ran on the 4-by-200 and Ali, Marcellus, Khan and senior Robert Wakefield on the 4-by-400.

Absegami placed 2nd in the shot put relay with senior Gabriel Wilkins [PR 53-7 ¾] and junior Vincent Kronk [39-1] and Hammonton was 3rd with junior Anthony Liakhonovich [PR 50-6 ¾] and junior Christian Medina [40-7 ½].

Clearview placed 3rd in the pole vault relay with senior Daniel Couse hitting an indoor PR of 13-6 ½

Mainland girls run U.S. #5 distance medley, #1 N.J. 4×8 at State Group 3 Relays!!!!!!

Mainland Regional sophomores Emma Preissman and Madison Taylor, junior Sofia Day and senior Gillian Lovett won the distance medley Sunday at the state Group 3 Relays with the 2nd-fastest time in Atlantic County history and the 2nd-fastest time in New Jerey this year.

Mainland beat the field by 150 meters – nearly a full track length at the Bubble in Toms River – with a winning time of 12:26.51. West Windsor-Plainsboro North was 2nd in 12:56.53.

Mainland’s time is No. 2 in New Jersey this year, behind only Union Catholic’s 12:17.16 at the Parochial A state relays at the Bubble on Wednesday, and No. 2 in Atlantic County history, behind only Egg Harbor Township’s 12;11.47 at 2000 Easterns at the Armory.

The Mustangs’ time is No. 5 nationally, according to the MileSplit data base.

Mainland was already No. 2 in South Jersey with its previous school-record 12:36.80 at Ocean Breeze two weeks ago, behind only Paul VI’s 12:31.11 at Ocean Breeze in late December.

Outdoors, Mainland’s fastest time is a 12:44.26 at the 2017 Rowan University Open in Glassboro, so this was Mainland’s fastest time indoors or out.

Mainland came back to win the 4-by-800 in a New Jersey No. 1 9:40.19 with Preiessman, Lovett, Day and junior Ava McDole. The Mustangs won by 90 meters over Randolph, who was 2nd in 9:58.90.

The Mustangs broke their own Atlantic County indoor record of 9:47.86 that they set earlier this month at Ocean Breeze.

Egg Harbor’s Ahmad Brock records triple jump PR, moves into #6 on all-time Monmouth list!!!!!!

Monmouth junior Ahmad Brock from Egg Harbor Township won the triple jump Saturday at the Penn Select 10 Invitational at Ocean Breezer with an indoor personal best and the No. 6 mark in Monmouth history.

Brock entered the meet with an indoor PR of 47-6 ½ from a meet last January at Ocean Breeze. On Saturday, after a 47-2 ½ on his 1st attempt he recorded a 47-10 on his 2nd. He added a 47-2 ¾ on his 4th before passing his remaining jumps. He’s now No. 4 in the CAA

Outdoors, Brock is No. 5 in Monmouth history with a 48-3 ½ from his win this past spring in the Coastal Athletic Association Conference Championships in Williamsburg, Va. He was also the conference champ indoors in Virginia Beach at 47-0 ¼ .

Brock is also No. 3 in Monmouth history at 100 meters [10.57].

Fairleigh Dickinson freshman Jashad Kersey from Eastern jumped 45-7 on his 2nd attempt and placed 4th in his 3rd collegiate meet and 2nd collegiate triple jump competition. That’s the No. 3 mark so far this year in the Northeastern Conference and best by an FDU freshman since Taeco O’Garro hit 48-9 at the 2019 NEC meet at Ocean Breeze.

Kersey’s overall PR is a 45-11, which he hit twice last winter – once at Ocean Breeze and once at the Armory.

Stella Stolarick, Riley Austin, Audrey Adams lead Haddonfield girls to 9th state relays title, Willingboro picks up 3 wins!!!!!!

Senior Stella Stolarick, sophomore Riley Austin and junior Audrey Adams were each part of three relay teams that finished in the top three, helping Haddonfield win its ninth state relays title since 2000.

The Haddonfield girls placed in the top three in every event other than the shot put and defeated 2nd-place Point Pleasant Borough, 62-41, with Willingboro 3rd with 40 points in the State Group 2 Relays at the Bubble in Toms River Saturday.

Stolarick and Austin both ran on the winning distance medley and 3,200-meter relay teams and the 3rd-place 1,600-meter relay team. Adams contributed to the 2nd-place high jump relay and 3rd-place sprint medley and shuttle hurdles teams.

Stolarick and Austin were joined by senior Ava Thomas and senior Anna Stolarick on the DMR, which ran 12:51.18, and by Anna Stolarick and junior Tylin Regan on the 4-by-8, which ran 10:00.43.

Adams and junior Maeve Hurly both cleared 4-8 in the high jump – that’s a PR for Hurly in her second lifetime high jump competition – for a winning combined height of 9-4.

Haddonfield also won the pole vault relay with junior Rebecca Hoover tying her PR at 11-6 and senior Mia Bompensa clearing 9-6.

Haddonfield placed 3rd in the 800-meter relay [1:49.59], the shuttle hurdles [34.10], the sprint medley [4:21.36] and the 4-by-4 [4:12.99].

Junior Nicolette Pinkerton, junior Molly Minor, senior Ava Peifer and senior Chloe Kamp ran the 4-by-2, Adams, Pinkerton, Hoover and Hurly the shuttle hurdles, Thomas, Peifer, Adams and Camp the sprint medley and Stella Stolarick, Austin, Minor and junior Penny Davis the 4-by-4.

Haddonfield also won Group 1 state relays titles in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2014 and 2016 and Group 2 in 2017, 2020 and 2022. Haddonfield’s nine titles are 4th-most ever behind Willingboro [11], Columbia [10] and Hopewell Valley [10].

For Willingboro, freshman Maya Bolden, sophomore Kaila Speight, sophomore Jaden Murry and junior Nester Wea won the 800-meter relay in 1:45.44 and the 4-by-4 in 4:06.11 and junior Chanel Swain [38-2] and senior Aniya Jolla [29-7 ¼] teamed up to win the shot put. Junior Sunny Oyibo, senior Naa’rah Andrews, Murry and Wea placed 2nd in the shuttle hurdles in 33.47.

Iowa State’s Seth Clevenger from Haddonfield runs early mile PR at Hawkeye Invitational!!!!!!

Haddonfield graduate Seth Clevenger, a sophomore at Iowa State, ran a big mile PR of 4:07.62 Saturday in a meet at the University of Iowa.

Clevenger placed 4th in the Hawkeye Invitational at the Iowa Recreation Building in Iowa City. His previous PR was a 4:09.15 in a meet last month at his home track at the Leid Recreation Center in Ames, Iowa.

His time is No. 7 in the Big 12 Conference

Clevenger ran 4:09.34 for 1,600 meters outdoors at Haddonfield, equivalent of a 4:10.79 full mile.

It appears Clevenger’s 4:07.62 is fastest by a Haddonfield alumni. Greg Pelose ran 4:10.14 at Boston University as a freshman at B.U. in 2017, Jonathan Vitez ran 4:11.03 in 2012 at Harvard’s Gordon Track Center in Cambridge, Mass., as a sophomore at Princeton, and Ben Potts of Cornell ran 4:11.18 at 2013 IC4As at Boston University as a sophomore.

Iowa’s Tionna Tobias from Winslow runs massive PR and #5 hurdles time in NCAA Division 1 in 2024 debut!!!!!!

Winslow graduate Tionna Tobias ran the 5th-fastest 60-meter hurdles time in NCAA Division 1 Saturday at the Hawkeye Invitational in Iowa City.

Tobias, a senior, entered the meet with a PR of 8.39 from last year’s Larry Wieczorek Invitational on the same track at the Iowa Recreation Building. She lowered that to 8.35 when she led al qualifiers into the final and then ran an eye-popping 8.19 in the final.

Her time is 2nd-fastest in Iowa history, behind an 8.07 by current Hawkeye junior Paige Magee, who ran 8.07 last month in a meet on the same track.

Tobias, the Big Ten Conference heptathlon champion last spring, is among the top U.S. women with this performance, but the World Athletics site has been missing marks all season. It currently shows 8.19 ranking 6th but there are several marks missing – including Magee’s.

Tobias also won the long jump with a 20-0 1/2 on her 3rd attempt.

It looks like Tobias’s mark is No. 2 all-time by a South Jersey woman and No. 7 on the all-time New Jersey alumni list.

7.80 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2014, Albuquerque
7.95 … Dawn Bowles [Neptune], 1997, Atlanta
8.10 … Charmaine Walker [Plainfield], Fayetteville, Ark., 2000
8.16 … Amber Williams [Roxbury], Boston, 2008
8.16 … Racquel Vassell [East Orange], University Park, 2011
8.17 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], New York, 2015
8.18 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], Iowa City, 2024
8.19 … Shameka Marshall [Oakcrest], Boston, 2005
8.25 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], New York, 2015
8.27 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], Storrs, Conn., 2024

Tobias also has PRs of 13.11 in the 100-meter hurdles, 5-7 ¼ in the high jump, 23.97 in the 200, 20-2 ½ in the long jump 3,674 points in the pentathlon, 5,640 points in the heptathlon and 2:19.61 in the 800.

Darryl Wayman, Christian Berry lead Deptford to 3rd straight state relays title!!!!!!

Seniors Darryl Wayman and Christian Berry were part of a 1st-place team, a 2nd-place team and a 3rd-place team and Deptford rolling to its 3rd straight State Group 2 Relays team title at the Bubble.

Deptford outscored Willingboro 44-32 to win its 4th title in five years. The Spartans joined Willingboro (2000-03, 2017-20), Woodbury (1976-79) and Oakcrest (2011-2013) as the 4th South Jersey school to win four straight state relays titles since the meet’s inception in 1966.

Wayman and Berry were joined by sophomore Kareem Brown and senior Abu Jabbie on the winning sprint medley team, which ran 3:43.55. They were joined by juniors Sean Nieves and Neo Clark-Tabb on the 4-by-4, which placed 2nd in 3:32.37. And they teamed up with sophomore Kareem Brown and Kamari Brown on the 4-by-2, which placed 3rd in 1:34.54.

Deptford also placed 2nd in the shuttle hurdles in 31.05 behind Oakcrest’s 30.99. Senior Manny Perdue, junior Ryan Sanchez and sophomores Kamaldeep Singh and Larry Norman ran the shuttles.

Sophomore Mason Henry and Jabbie both cleared 5-8 and picked up eight big points in the high jump relay, and Henry and junior Marcus Hood both PR’d in the pole vault, picking up two points with a 5th-place finish. Hood cleared 12-6 and Henry 11-6.

Deptford’s 4-by-8 also placed 5th, with Nieves, junior Lucius Davis, senior Matthew Schilling and sophomore Anthony Schilling running 8:37.00.

For Oakcrest, Clayton Husta, Armando Velazquez, Kelvin Urena and Asmar Gibbs won the shuttle hurdles.

Willingboro got two wins in the field. In the high jump relay, junior Tra’san Adam cleared a huge PR 6-4 – more on him later – and junior Zaire Wormley 5-8. In the shot, junior Julian Williams threw a PR 52-8 ¾ and senior Derrick Swan PR’d at 48-6.