I’m a little behind, but covering a Super Bowl is really demanding and time-consuming! If I missed something I’m sorry, I’ll try to catch up over the next few weeks!

Let’s start with Pennsauken’s performance Monday at the SJTCA #14 meet, the second one over the fast Ocean Breeze track in Staten Island.

✅ Senior Premier Wynn demolished his indoor 400 PR, winning in 48.45, with Timber Creek junior Nasir Ali 2nd in 49.72. Wynn’s previous indoor PR was a 49.66 at last year’s Meet of Champions at the Bubble. He ran 47.86 outdoors last spring to win the state Group 3 title and also ran 54.28 in the intermediates. His 48.45 is No. 3 in the state this year and No. 1 in South Jersey. It’s also No. 5 in South Jersey history and No. 22 in the U.S. this year according to the MileSplit national database. Wynn also placed 5th in the 55 in 6.65. All-time South Jersey list below!

✅ Premier’s younger sister, Sianni, won the 400 in 56.98, fastest by a New Jersey freshman since Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin of Union Catholic ran 56.15 at the 2014 Meet of Champions. Her time is No. 1 in South Jersey this year and No. 2 in the state behind Piscataway senior Brooke’lyn Drakeford, who ran 56.51 in December at Ocean Breeze. It also tied the school record set by Jade Pope at the 2020 state Group 3 meet at the Bubble. All-time South Jersey list below!

✅ Sianni Wynn also won a hot 200 in 24.87, with Timber Creek junior Naylah Jones second with the same time. Wynn is already No. 2 in the state at 24.81 from the Armory last month, and now Jones moves into the No. 3 spot on the state list. Jones’ previous PR was an outdoor 25.46, so that’s a huge breakthrough for her. Wynn and Jones are now No. 10 and No. 13 on the all-time South Jersey list. All-time South Jersey list below!

✅ Senior Bryce Tucker won a fast 800, leading five runners under 2:00, including the top three from South Jersey schools. Tucker ran an indoor PR 1:55.92, Deptford senior Lathan Brown was 2nd in 1:56.51 and Winslow sophomore Dominic Bassey took 3rd in 1:57.63. Those are the top three S.J. times this winter. Two Colts Neck runners also broke 2:00. Tucker’s 1:55.92 is No. 5 in the state this year and No. 1 in South Jersey. Tucker’s previous indoor PR was a 1:56.82 last month at the Bubble. He wasn’t far off his overall PR of 1:55.00 from last May outdoors in a meet at Metuchen. Tucker’s time is No. 22 in South Jersey history. Brown broke his indoor PR of 1:56.71 from last year’s Easterns at the Armory and not far from his overall PR of 1:56.19 from last year’s Haddonfield Distance Night. Bassey’s performance was a huge breakthrough and his first time under 2:01, 2:00, 1:59 and 1:58. His previous indoor or outdoor PR was 2:01.33 indoors at last year’s Group 4 sectionals at the Bubble. His time is No. 1 among all New Jersey sophomores and No. 7 nationally among sophs, according to MileSplit. It’s also fastest by a South Jersey sophomore since Haddonfield’s Derek Gess ran 1:55.93 at 2017 Easterns at the Armory. All-Time South Jersey list below!

✅ Tucker also won the 55-meter high hurdles in 7.66. Tucker already ranks 4th in the state this year at 7.56 from the Armory last month. He ran his PR of 7.53 at last year’s Meet of Champions at the Bubble. Another Pennsauken senior, 2nd-year hurdler Zah’kye Copling, PR’d at 7.92, his first time under 8 seconds.

✅ KaRon Ali ran 50.94 for 4th in the 400, which makes him the 7th-fastest freshman in the country according to MileSplit and the fastest South Jersey freshman since Luke Colehower of Haddonfield ran 49.44 at the 2016 Meet of Champions.

✅ Junior Elijah Jennings was 2nd in the 55 in 6.60, just off his PR 6.58 from sectionals. He’s No. 4 in South Jersey this year.

✅ In the boys meet, Eastern senior Rajahn Dixon won the 200 in a speedy 21.92, No. 2 in New Jersey this year and No. 9 in South Jersey history. He’s the first South Jersey sprinter to dip under 22 seconds since Antonio Tarantino of Paul VI in 2018. Dixon, in his first year of outdoor track, had a previous 22.41 from Ocean Breeze earlier this month. The all-time South Jersey boys 200 list is below.

Other South Jersey winners:

In the boys meet, Timber Creek junior Robert Wakefield won the 1,600 in 4:31.25 with Delsea’s Matthew Littlehales running 4:32.19, No. 15 among U.S. freshmen according to MileSplit, Highland won the 3,200-meter relay in 8:02.08 (names not available), Eastern senior Jashad Kersey won the triple jump at 44-0 ½; and Cinnaminson senior Malicah Etienne won the shot at 49-8.

In the girls meet, Timber Creek’s Jones won the 55 in 7.16, just over her PR of 7.11, which is No. 2 in New Jersey; Winslow freshman Ma’Syiah Brawner won the high jump at 5-2 and the long jump at 17-3 (both No. 1 in New Jersey among freshmen); Delsea senior Reese Gebhard won the pole vault with a 10-0 clearance; Delsea senior Lillie Widmer won the 800 in 2:21.09; Highland senior Grace Wassell was first in the 1,600 in 5:14.36; Delsea’s Reese Gebhard won the pole vault at 10-0; and Willingboro sophomore Chanel Swain was first in the shot put at 35-11 ¼. Also, Haddonfield won the 4-by-8 in 9:47.57 (names not available).

LISTS!

All-Time South Jersey Indoor Girls 200 List
24.38 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
24.39 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
24.42 … Dennisha Page [Woodrow Wilson], 2019
24.46 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
24.52 … Cecelia Gerstenbecher [Delsea], 2017
24.61 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
24.61 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2017
24.5h … Jennifer Jackson [Eastern], 2003
24.78 … Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 1996
24.81 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023
24.83 … Kiara Lester [Deptford], 2014
24.83 … Lauren Princz [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2020
24.87 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2023
24.94 … Shardae Anderson [Paulsboro], 2005
24.96 … Jackie Dim [Washington Twp.], 2008
24.96 … Toni Glatz [Delsea], 2017
24.99 … Aliya Harrison [Sterling], 2018

All-Time South Jersey Indoor Boys 200 List
21.53 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 2012
21.62 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 2002
21.82 … Antonio Tarantino [Paul VI], 2018
21.7h … A.J. Burton [West Deptford], 2006
21.85 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 1991
21.86 … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], 2007
21.89 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], 2004
21.91 … Sterling Pierce [Rancocas Valley], 2015
21.92 … Rajahn Dixon [Eastern], 2023
21.96 … Mike Bolling [Willingboro], 2001

All-Time South Jersey Indoor Boys 400 List
47.90 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], 2018
48.23 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], 2022
48.27 … Jade Smith [Camden], 2002
48.36 … Mohammad Kanu [Lenape], 2000
48.45 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023
48.45 … Xander Roberts-Bogin [Pleasantville], 2021
48.48 … Amir Brock [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2017
48.50 … Alex Reber [Cherry Hill East], 2013
48.55 … Royce Reed [Bridgeton], 1995
48.64 … Keith Griffith [Florence], 2010
48.68 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 1991
48.72 … Michael Mazero [Paul VI], 2022
48.74 … John Morris [Camden], 2001
48.75 … Luke Colehower [Haddonfield], 2017
48.79 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], 2020
48.7h … Curt Mcintyre [Bridgeton], 1992
48.91 … Marlin Gross [Bridgeton], 2001
48.91 … Rob Gary [Lenape], 1998

All-Time South Jersey Indoor Girls 400 List
54.24 … Okechi Ogbuokiri [Willingboro], 2003
54.91 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 2008
55.16 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
55.19 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2008
55.21 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2017
55.4h … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
55.6h … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
55.83 … Kiara Lester [Deptford], 2016
56.19 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], 2020
56.21 … Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 1997
56.34 … Katrina Sye [Buena], 1997
56.44 … Avionne Sloan [Camden], 2006
56.62 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
56.65 … Britney Kott [Millville], 2009
56.76 … Simone Thomas [Willingboro], 2003
56.78 … Ajae Alvarez-Tyler [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2018
56.85 … Emily Duffey [Lenape], 2012
56.85 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], 2020
56.88 … Marcene Jack [Mainland Reg.], 2004
56.90 … Nadia Davy [Bridgeton], 1999
56.98 … Jade Pope [Pennsauken], 2020
56.98 … Sianna Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023

All-Time South Jersey Indoor Boys 800 List
1:51.52 … Jacob Clark [Pleasantville], 2013
1:51.72 … Isaac Clark [Pleasantville], 2013
1:51.80 … Derrell Manhertz [Kingsway], 2013
1:52.46 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], 2020
1:53.51 … Alan Laws [Pleasantville], 2007
1:53.68 … Ishmael Muhammad [Oakcrest], 2013
1:54.53 … Stone Caraccio [Kingsway], 2020
1:54.80 … Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], 2001
1:54.81 … Bill Dolan [Clearview], 2013
1:54.82 … Xavier Fraction [Washington Twp.], 2009
1:55.00 … Steve Butenewicz [Delsea], 2011
1:55.14 … Shannon Sherrer [Vineland], 2002
1:55.14 … Zach McBride [Lenape], 2002
1:55.16 … Joe Lewis [Pleasantville], 1998
1:55.16 … Tivo Rivera [Kingsway], 2009
1:55.19 … Isaiah Curbelo [Rancocas Valley], 2016
1:55.19 … Jayden Greene [Washington Twp.], 2020
1:55.42 … Kevin Cianfarino [West Deptford], 2014
1:55.3h … Tony Uzdavines [Williamstown], 1976
1:55.77 … Carmen Cavella [Washington Twp.], 2004
1:55.84 … Matt Poskus [Cinnaminson], 2007
1:55.92 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], 2023
1:55.93 … Derek Gess [Haddonfield], 2017

Big PR Saturday for Bishop Eustace graduate Connor Melko, who won the mile at the Big Apple Invitational at Ocean Breeze in 4:08.55.

Melko, a senior at Lehigh, ran the No. 4 time in school history and lowered his PR from 4:10.12 in his last race, last weekend in the Scarlet Knight Open at the Armory.

The 4:08.55 qualified Melko for the IC4A Championships March 3-4 in Boston.

Melko finished two steps ahead of Connor McMenamin, a former Bucknell and Penn State runner. The next collegiate runner in the field was Melko’s current Lehigh teammate, sophomore Aidan Lynch, who was 3rd in 4:11.23.

Melko has shown great range at Lehigh, from 1:52.62 for 800 meters to 14:15.73 for 5,000 meters. His mile PR before this month was 4:14.39 from last year’s Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge at the Armory.

With all four legs well under 60 seconds, the Timber Creek girls raced to first place in the Suburban 1,600-meter relay at the 115th annual Millrose Games Saturday at the Armory in New York.

Chloe Jones, Adiat Olaogun Dickson, Billie Frazier and Naylah Jones and ran 3:53.82, the 10th-fastest time in South Jersey history indoors. Timber Creek won by a whopping 30 meters over 2nd-place Bronxville (N.Y.), which ran 3:58.60.

Chloe Jones led off with a 58.16 to give Timber Creek a 10-meter lead after just two laps. Olaogun Dickson split 58.75, Fazier 59.39 and Naylah Jones anchored in 57.52.

Timber Creek is the first New Jersey school to go under 4 minutes this winter. They were previously No. 1 in the state with their 4:01.76 at the Millrose Trials last month, also at the Armory.

Timber Creek’s time is No. 5 in the U.S. according to the MileSplit database.

Winslow placed 4th with a season-best 4:02.54, with Briyel Brown, who led off in 59.98, Janelle Marshall [60.67], Olivia Okaro [62.13] and Alana Henry, who anchored in 59.78.

Here’s a look at all the South Jersey schools that have run sub-3:55:

3:45.37 … Willingboro, 2003
3:47.95 … Willingboro, 2002
3:49.07 … Camden, 1995
3:51.49 … Winslow Twp., 2017
3:52.37 … Willingboro, 2000
3:52.55 … Wilson, 2006
3:53.61 … Willingboro, 1998
3:53.81 … Paul VI, 2020
3:53.6h … Willingboro, 1999
3:53.82 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:53.97 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
3:54.38 … Camden, 2009
3:54.4h … Eastern, 2003
3:54.62 … Rancocas Valley, 2020
3:54.82 … Millville, 2008
3:54.99 … Winslow Twp., 2018

Multi-talented junior Guerlande Pierre won the high jump, placed 2nd in the shot put and took 4th in the hurdles to help the Timber Creek girls win the South Jersey Group 3 sectionals at the Bubble.

Pierre cleared 5-2 in the high jump, threw a PR 35-67 ¾ in the shot and ran a PR 8.74 in the hurdles, scoring 22 points as Timber Creek outscored 2nd-place Delsea 54-29.

This is Timber Creek’s 2nd indoor sectional title. The Chargers won the 2017 Group 3 title as well.

Pierre was Timber Creek’s only individual winner, but Chloe Joners, Naylah Jones, Billie Frazier and sophomore Adiat Olaogun-Dickson ran 4:02.37 to win the 1,600-meter relay.

Junior Chloe Jones was also 3rd in the 400 [58.80] and 6th in the 55 [7.51], junior Naylah Jones ran 4th in the 400 [58.91] and 2nd in the 55 [PR 7.11, No. 2 in New Jersey], junior Nyla Jones placed 6th in the hurdles in 8.98 and Frazier took 6th in the 800 in a PR 2:29.28.

Fast double from Pennsauken freshman Sianni Wynn, who ran a PR 57.86 – No. 3 in New Jersey this year – to win the 400, leading five girls under 60 seconds. Ocean City junior Sophia Curtis ran a PR 58.22 for 2nd, Timber Creek juniors Chloe Jones and Naylah Jones ran 58.80 and 58.91 for 3rd and 4tjh, and Absegami senior Hannah Ross was 5th in 59.13.

She also won the 55 in 7.06, equalling her U.S. No. 17 time this year according to the MileSplit national database.

Delsea senior Lillie Widmer had a blazing-fast 1,600-3,200 double, winning the 1,600 in a PR 5:06.77, No. 2 in South Jersey this year, Mainland junior Gillian Lovett broke 5:10 for the first time with a PR 5:09.02 for 2nd. Widmer won the 3,200 in a PR 10:55.38, with Clearview senior Abby Waddington just behind in 10:59.69. Very fast race with two girls under 11 in the Bubble.

Curtis finished ahead of a very close, very fast pack in the 55-meter hurdles, with five girls breaking 8.80 and four of them PR’ing. Curtis won in a PR 8.44, lowering her own Cape May County record, Mainland senior Emma Crozier-Carole ran a PR 8.48 for 2nd, Winslow’s Janelle Marshall took 3rd in 8.66,

Mainland sophomore Sofia Day PR’d again in the 800 with a 2:17.71, 2nd-fastest in South Jersey this year.

Highland senior A.J. Wilson won the shot put with a 36-10 ¾, more than a one-foot PR. She just broke 35 feet for the first time last week.

Huge breakthrough 800 for Washington Township graduate Jayden Greene, who’s now a junior at St. Joe’s.

Greene ran 1:51.81 at the Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational at the Boston University Track and Tennis Center.

That’s No. 3 in St. Joe’s history.

Green’s previous PR was 1:54.10 last May at the IC4A Championships at William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and his indoor PR was 1:55.10 from the 2020 Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze. His collegiate indoor PR was 1:55.51 from last year’s Atlantic 10 Championships at George Mason in Fairfax, Va.

St. Joe’s grad student Michael Szwed from Delsea also PR’d in the same race (previous section) with a 1:52.73. His previous indoor PR was 1:54.00 from a meet in February of 2020 on the same track. He’s run 1:52.52 outdoors (also at IC4A’s last year).

Another St. Joe’s runner from South Jersey, Matt Coffey, a senior from Camden Catholic, PR’d in the mile with a 4:11.31. His previous PR was 4:13.58 at the same meet last year.

Also Delsea’s Noah Deckert [PR 8:23.84] and Paul VI’s Colton Johnson [8:25.64] both qualified for IC4A’s in the 3,000.

Additionally, Jay Shanahan ran a PR 14:38.83 to qualify for IC4A’s in the 5,000. Shanahan isn’t from South Jersey – he graduated from Durham (N.C.) Academy Upper School – but his father Joe Shanahan ran for Haddonfield and his mother Lisa Syvertson ran for Shawnee.

Senior Helene Usher was a double winner and the Haddonfield girls won their fourth straight Group 2 sectional title and 11th overall Saturday at the Bubble.

Usher led a 1-2-3 Haddonfield sweep in the 1,600 and a 1-2-5 finish in the 3,200, and the Bulldogs scored in every event other than the 400 and shot put to pile up 111 points aand win the team title by 81 points.

This is the 9th time Haddonfield has scored over 100 points at indoor sectionals. Only four other teams have scored 100 points (Willingboro, Delsea twice, Collingswood).

Haddonfield’s 11 titles are the most in state history at indoor sectionals. Ridge has won 10 going into the North 2 Group 4 meet at the Bubble next week. Haddonfield’s streak of four straight titles is 2nd-longest by a South Jersey school. Delsea won five straight from 2010 through 2014.

Indoor sectionals began in 2008 and the meet wasn’t held in 2021, so Haddonfield has won 12 titles out of a possible 15 – the first seven in Group 1, the last five in Group 2.

In the 1,600, Usher ran 5:24.21, with junior Riley Slootsky [5:26.32] and senior Libby DeMichele [5:34.90] in 2nd and 3rd. In the 3,200, Usher ran 11:40.01, junior Ava Thomas was 2nd [11:45.02] and sophomore Dylan Melcher 5th [12:33.20].

Haddonfield added a 1-3-4 finish in the 800 for 60 out of a possible 72 points in the three long track races. Junior Stella Stolarick ran a PR 2:24.28 for the win, senior Thea Spellmeyer ran 2:26.75 for 2nd and senior Maya Carey was 5th in 2:29.73.

Sophomores Audrey Adams and Avery Connor both PR’d in the 55-meter hurdles and picked up 14 more points, Adams winning in 9.15 and Connor 4th in 9.63. Adams also placed 3rd in the high jump at 4-8

Sophomore Mia Bompensa PR’d at 9-6 in the pole vault for another Haddonfield win and junior Chloe Kamp ran 7.53 in the 55 for 2nd place.

Slootsky, Solarick, Ava Carpenter and Spellmeyer ran 4:15.06 to win the 1,600-meter relay.

Other winners: Oakcrest senior Royanah Farmer in the 55 [PR 7.18], Deptford junior Djassi Dean in the 400 [1:00.16] and Sterling senior Jordyn Caul in the shot put [34-9 ¾].

Seniors Bryce Tucker and Premier Wynn combined to score 48 points – enough to win the title by themselves – and Pennsauken sprinted its way to its third straight sectional title at the Bubble Sunday.

Tucker won the 55-meter hurdles in 7.85 and the 800 in 2:00.12 and placed second in the 400 in 50.28, and Wynn won the 55 with a PR 6.57 and the 400 in 50.10.

They also ran the third and fourth legs on Pennsauken’s winning 1,600-meter relay team, which won in 3:26.52 to finish off the meet. Freshman KaRon Ali and junior Ladanian McGrath ran the first two legs on the 4-by-4.

Pennsauken outscored 2nd-place Winslow Township 78-42.33, and the 78 points are most in a Group 3 sectional since Kingsway scored 97 in 2015.

McGrath and Elijah Jennings picked up 2nd-place finishes, McGrath with a 2:00.18 behind Tucker in the 800 and Jennings with a 6.58 just behind Wynn.

Junior Bronze Whitmore finished 5th in the 55 in 6.71. That race saw the first seven placers all finish with 17-100ths of a second of one another. Ali also scored in the 400 with a PR 52.58.

Other winners were Highland junior Cortland Webb in the 1,600 [4:24.60], Ocean City’s Nick Scarangelli in the 3,200 [PR 9:45.09], Winslow senior Jaylen Wall in the high jump [four-inch PR 6-4] and Delsea junior Greg Masso in the shot put [53-10].

In the 3,200, Delsea’s Matthew Littlehales placed 2nd in 9:50.72, fastest by a South Jersey freshman indoors in 15 years. In 2008, Triton’s Robert Rawls ran 9:45.41 at Group 4 sectionals, also at the Bubble. Littlehales’ previous PR was 10:11.09 last week at the Bubble. That was his only previous 3,200.

Another huge meet for Pennsauken freshman Sianni Wynn at the SJTCA Winter Meet #10 at the Bubble.

Wynn ran a big indoor 400 PR with the No. 2 time in South Jersey this year and also won the 55-meter dash.

She ran 58.02 in the 400, No. 2 in the state behind only Piscataway senior Brooke’lyn Drakeford, who ran 56.51 at Ocean Breeze late last year. Wynn’s time is No. 11 nationally among freshmen, according to the MileSplit database, and it’s fastest by a South Jersey freshman since another Pennsauken girl, Jade Pope, ran 56.98 / 57.79 at Group 3 states at the Bubble in 2018.

The South Jersey freshman record is 56.29 by Olympian English Gardner of Eastern at the 2007 Meet of Champions, also at the Bubble in Toms River.

http://milesplit.live/meets/505891/events/1/results/F/F

In the 55, Wynn won in 7.14 unpressed (second place was 7.62). She ran a state-leading 7.06 at the Armory in early January, No. 12 in South Jersey history.

Wynn this winter has also run a S.J. No. 1 24.81 in the 200 and 39.17 for 300 meters – both at the Armory.

Wynn’s 400 time is No. 17 on a very fast all-time Camden County list, but only a little over half a second outside the top 10.

55.16 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
55.4h … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
55.6h … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
56.19 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], 2020
56.44 … Avionne Sloan [Camden], 2006
56.62 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
56.85 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], 2020
56.98 … Jade Pope [Pennsauken], 2020
57.36 … Flora Ahiarakwe [Winslow Twp.], 2018
57.43 … Raniyah Walker [Camden], 2002
57.59 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], 2020
57.61 … Janeya Hammond [Winslow Twp.], 2020
57.72 … Aishia Lawson [Camden], 1995
57.76 … Olivia Jamison [Pennsauken], 2015
57.7h … Jenelle Wilson [Eastern], 2003
57.84 … Tamara Jones [Woodrow Wilson], 2007
58.02 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023
58.15 … Kristina Keegan [Haddonfield], 2002
58.19 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
58.28 … Jennifer Civatte [Eastern], 2017

So much for that PR.

Egg Harbor junior Michaela Schlemo arrived in Toms River Monday with a 3,200 PR of 12:02.01. When she left, she had lowered it nearly 50 seconds.

Schlemo was first across the line at the SJTCA meet at the Bubble with an 11:13.59, No. 5 in Atlantic County history and No. 2 in South Jersey this year.

http://milesplit.live/meets/505893/events/11/results/F/F

You don’t get many 48.42-second PRs in a race as short as 3,200 meters, but Schlemo finished 50 meters ahead of Cherokee sophomore Megan Niglio, who placed 2nd in 11:23.16.

The only faster time by a South Jersey two-miler this winter belongs to Clearview senior Abby Waddington, who ran 10:55.10 at the Bubble last week. Schlemo’s time is No. 9 in the state.

Schlemo plays softball in the spring and has never run outdoor track, although if her times keep dropping … who knows?

She ran a 1,600 PR of 5:16.00 at Ocean Breeze earlier this month, and that’s No. 9 this year in South Jersey.

Before this month, Schlemo had PRs of 5:34.82 from Ocean Breeze and 12:02.01 from a SJTCA meet at the Bubble, both last February.

But she’s coming off a terrific XC season, where she placed 3rd in the Shore Coaches A race, 4th at sectionals and 15th at the Meet of Champions with a 19:26 at Holmdel.

Here’s a look at the top-5 indoor 3,200 times in Atlantic County history:

10:33.95 … Alyssa Aldridge [Mainland Reg.], 2016
10:45.40 … Julianna Catania [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2016
10:53.4h … Christin Bettis [Hammonton], 2012
11:08.72 … Sofia Day [Mainland Reg.], 2022
11:13.59 … Michaela Schlemo [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2023

Washington Township junior Yashahya Brown continued his attack on the record book Friday with a state-leading performance in the 55-meter hurdles at the Bubble.

Brown ran 7.44 at the Olympic Conference #2 meet, eclipsing his PR of 7.46 that he set earlier this month at Ocean Breeze.

Brown ranks 6th nationally according to the MileSplit database and No. 2 among underclassmen, behind Colton Westlake of St. Clairsville (Ohio) High School, who ran 7.40 at the Dyson Baudo Rec Center in Marietta, Ohio.

His time is also No. 19 in South Jersey history and No. 4 on the all-time Gloucester County list.

Brown bumped senior Nathaniel Rayan of Scotch Plains-Fanwood from the No. 1 spot in New Jersey this year. Rayan ran 7.45 at the Metropolitan Invitational earlier this week at the Armory.

The Minutemen have two of the top-six hurdlers in the state with Brown and senior Kanye Mills, who ran a PR 7.64 earlier this month at Ocean Breeze. Mills ran a 5-second 800 PR of 2:00.29 Friday at the bubble.

Brown is the fastest underclassman in New Jersey since Sincere Rhea of St. Augustine, who’s now at Miami, ran 7.35 to win the 2018 Meet of Champions at the Bubble.

Here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey top-20:

7.10 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 2019
7.18 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 1996
7.22 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], 2001
7.22 … Isaac Williams [Willingboro], 2012
7.29 … Nate Harley [Pleasantville], 1996
7.29 … Danyne Brown [Camden], 1999
7.29 … Anthony Acklin [Triton], 2001
7.29 … Will Brown [Palmyra], 2006
7.31 … Anthony Vasquez [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2020
7.32 … Jon Dickey [Penns Grove], 1985
7.34 … Chais Hill [Highland], 2015
7.35 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990
7.39 … Rashad Baker [Wilson], 2000
7.39 … Isaiah Lewis [Winslow Twp.], 2020
7.42 … Kevon Brown [West Deptford], 2009
7.42 … Naseem Smith [Deptford], 2019
7.43 … Danyne Brown [Camden], 1999
7.43 … Edwin Alston [Winslow Twp.], 2015
7.44 … Lance Reed [Willingboro], 1983
7.44 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2023