Sophomore Amariah Arango, sophomore Jasmine Jackson, senior Olivia Okaro and junior Cinniya Robinson won the Invitational 1,600-Meter Relay Sunday at the 118^th Millrose Games Sunday at the Armory with the 7^th-fastest time in state history and 3^rd-fastest time in the U.S. this year.

Winslow ran 3:46.06 and won by 35 meters over 2^nd-place Oak Park (Mich.), which ran 3:51.03.

This is Winslow’s 4^th Millrose Games 4-by-4 championship, and their time is fastest ever run by a South Jersey school at Millrose.

Arango led off with a 55.92 split that gave Winslow a 25-meter lead at the first handoff, and Jackson split 57.99 to extend the lead to 30 meters. Okaro ran 56.60 to maintain the lead and Robinson brought Winslow home with a 56.69 anchor.

Their time is 3^rd-fastest in South Jersey history, behind only Winslow’s South Jersey-record 3:44.74 this past March at Boston Nationals and Willingboro’s 3:45.37 at 2003 Armory Nationals.

The time is also 3^rd-fastest in the U.S., according to the MileSplit national database, behind something called APXP Speed Development, which is apparently Atascotita High of Houston and ran 3:42.26 in College Station, Texas, earlier this month, and Monteverde (Fla.) Academy, which ran 3:44.14 in Virginia Beach earlier this month.

Winslow also won Millrose in 2017 in 3:52.17 in 2017 with Iyianna Williams, Flora Ahiarakwe, Janeya Hammond and Shakira Dancy, in 2018 with Nylah Perry, Dancy, Hammond and Ahiarakwe in 3:54.99 and in 2024 in 3:49.50 with Okaro and Robinson in the lineup along with Djassi Dean and Skyhe Seamon.

South Jersey schools have now won 13 Millrose Games girls suburban 1,600-meter relays, including six of the last nine.

In a separate race, Willingboro ran a season-best 3:58.49 with Aaliyah Robinson, Jade Pinder, Trinity Brapoh and Maya Bolden. That’s 2^nd-fastest in New Jersey this year, behind only Winslow.

South Jersey Girls 4-by-4 Winners at Millrose
1995 ….. Camden, 4:01.40
1998 ….. Willingboro, 3:56.66
1999 ….. Willingboro, 3:57.47
2002 ….. Willingboro, 4:01.11
2003 ….. Willingboro, 4:04.19
2008 ….. Camden, 3:59.49
2009 ….. Seneca, 4:03.30
2017 … Winslow Twp., 3:52.17
2018 … Winslow Twp., 3:54.99
2022 … Rancocas Valley, 3:58.75
2023 … Timber Creek, 3:53.82
2024 … Winslow Twp., 3:49.50
2026 … Winslow Twp., 3:46.06

All-Time New Jersey 4-by-4 List
3:40.28 … Union Catholic, 2016
3:41.19 … Union Catholic, 2025
3:42.03 … Columbia, 2013
3:43.38 … Union Catholic, 2025
3:44.74 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:45.37 … Willingboro, 2003
3:46.06 … Winslow Twp., 2026
3:46.42 … Columbia, 2014
3:47.03 … Union Catholic, 2015
3:47.31 … Union Catholic, 2019
3:47.59 … Union Catholic, 2024
3:47.95 … Willingboro, 2002
3:48.9h … Plainfield, 1980
3:49.07 … Camden, 1995
3:49.18 … Rumson-Fair Haven, 2025
3:49.50 … East Orange, 2006
3:49.50 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:49.59 … Timber Creek, 2024

The Woodstown boys ran the 13th-fastest 3,200-meter relay in South Jersey history Sunday at the 118th Millrose Games at the Armory.

Senior leadoff Karson Chew split 1:56.42 and senior anchor Josh Crawford 1:54.42 and Woodstown ran 7:55.62, becoming the 4th-fastest Group 1 school in state history.

That’s a Penn Relays qualifier, although Woodstown won’t be able to race at Franklin Field the last weekend of April.

Woodstown finished 7th overall and 2nd among New Jersey schools, behind Union Catholic’s state-record and meet-record 7:37.96.

After Chew’s leadoff, senior Jacob Marino split 2:01.39 and junior David Farrell 2:03.40 before Crawford’s anchor, 3rd-fastest anchor of 13 schools that qualified for the race.

The only faster New Jersey Group 1 schools are Pleasantville’s 7:45.55 when they won 2013 Easterns at the Armory and two Bernards performances from the 1980s converted from two-mile relays. Bernards ran a converted 7:54.18 in 1984 and 7:45.5 in 1983.

Woodstown also only lowered its own Salem County record from its 8:00.24 at Millrose Trials earlier this month it ran the fastest time by any South Jersey school indoors in six years, since Kingsway’s 7:47.50 when it won the 2020 Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze.

All-Time South Jersey 3,200-Meter Relay List
7:43.64 … Cherokee, 2012
7:45.55 … Pleasantville, 2013
7:47.50 … Kingsway, 2020
7:48.92 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2017
7:51.45 … Washington Twp., 2009
7:51.78 … Cherokee, 2000
7:52.77 … Pleasantville, 2006
7:52.95 … Willingboro, 2003
7:53.64 … Willingboro, 2002
7:54.76 … Pleasantville, 2007
7:55.40 … Washington Twp., 2008
7:55.44 … Haddonfield, 2010
7:55.62 … Woodstown, 2026
7:57.28 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
7:57.29 … Oakrest, 2009
7;57.56 … Haddonfield, 2019
7:58.08 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2016
7:58.5h … Willingboro, 1983
7:59.05 … Pleasantville, 2015
7:59.51 … Pleasantville, 2012
7:59.84 … Kingsway, 2014
7:59.91 … Kingsway, 2013

Florence’s Curtis Thompson earned his 5th straight No. 1 U.S. ranking in the javelin and became the first American ranked in the top 10 in 19 years in Track and Field News’ 2025 U.S. and world ranking issue.

This is Thompson’s 10th consecutive year in the U.S. top 10. He’s the first U.S. thrower to make the world top-10 since Breaux Greer was No. 3 in 2007.

Thompson in 2025 became only the 3rd American to medal in the javelin at the World Championships when he placed 3rd in Tokyo with a throw of 284-4. That was the 2nd-best throw ever by an American at Worlds. In 2001, Greer threw 285-5 when he placed 4th in Edmonton, Alberta.

Thompson, a 2014 Florence High School graduate, this past year also won his 5th U.S. title and threw a lifetime-best 287-11 in Austin, 3rd-best in U.S. history.

Thompson, 29, turns 30 later this week.

Glassboro’s Erika Townsend recorded the 4th-best indoor long jump by a South Jersey freshman Saturday in Toms River.

Townsend won the long jump at the Olympic & Tri-County Meet at the Bubble with a PR 17-11 ½ on her 2nd attempt. Her previous PR was a 17-3 ¼ at the Ott Center two weeks ago.

South Jersey’s top three freshman indoor jumpers are Leah Ellis of Millville, who jumped 19-3 at 2019 Easterns at the Armory, Winslow’s Tionna Tobias, who went 18-9 at 2016 Easterns at the Armory and Pleasantville’s Isabella Alvarez, who jumped 18-4 this past March at the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze (but has yet to compete this year).

Olympian Carol Lewis jumped 21-7 ¾ outdoors as a freshman but apparently did not compete indoors as a 9th-grader in the winter of 1978.

According to the MileSplit U.S. database, her jump is tied for 7th nationally among freshmen.

Townsend opened with a 16-11 and finished with a 17-9, so her three jumps averaged 17-6 ½, beyond her previous PR.

Townsend’s jump puts her at No. 7 in New Jersey this year and No. 1 among Group 1 jumpers. It’s also 7 on the all-time Gloucester County list.

All-Time Gloucester County Indoor List1
18-7 ¼ … Shelly Bailey [Woodbury], 1982
18-6 ½ … Tisifinee Taylor [Woodbury], 2002
18-5 ¼ … Tacquaya Tobias [Our Lady of Mercy], 2011
18-2 ¼ … Karissa Watson [Williamstown], 2020
18-1 ¾ … Robin Taylor [Deptford], 1980
18-1 … Tawana McLean [Deptford], 1980
17-11 ½ … Erika Townsend [Glassboro], 2026
17-10 ½ … Timia Waters [Williamstown], 2026
17-9 ½ … Nicol Corsey [Deptford], 1997
17-9 ¼ … Jasmin Jones [Deptford], 2018
17-7 ¾ … Jen Heisinger [Woodbury], 1991
17-7 … Tina Walls [Williamstown], 1982
17-4 … Terry Archie [Woodbury], 1986
17-1 ½ … Sabrina Burrell [Delsea], 2014
17-1 … Dahlia Beasley [Washington Twp.], 2023

Pennsauken senior Sianni Wynn ran within 6-100ths of a second of her state record in the 200 Saturday at the Ott Center.

Wynn, who set the state record of 23.31 in March when she won the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze, ran 23.37 to win the Penn Relays Winter Showcase.

They’re the two-fastest times in New Jersey indoor track history.

Wynn’s time is 4th-fastest in the country according to MileSplit’s national database. Seniors Mia and Mariah Maxwell of Atascocita High of Humble, Texas, ran 22.89 and 22.97 in a meet earlier this month in College Station, Texas, and freshman Melanie Dodgett of Landmark Christian School in Fairburn, Ga., ran 23.25 last month in Birmingham, Ala.

Wynn also won the 60 in 7.36, fastest in New Jersey this year and just 7-100ths of a second off her state-record 7.29 from Armory Nationals in March. The only other New Jersey girl to run as fast as 7.36 is Myasia Jacobs of Paramus Catholic, who ran 7.34 in 2011 Armory Nationals.

Wynn officially came through 55 meters in 6.86, also 3rd-fastest nationally this year. She shares the state record of 6.73 with Willingboro legend Michelle Glover, who ran 6.73 in 1981.

Holy Cross senior Julia Flanagan ran the 2nd-fastest 3,000 in South Jersey history Saturday at the Ott Center.

Flanagan ran 9:53.03 and placed 4th in the Penn Relays Winter Showcase. The only faster record by a South Jersey girl is Liliah Gordon’s 9:39.04, an official en route time during her Meet of Champions 3,200 win at Ocean Breeze last March. The fastest previous time in a 3,00-meter race was Megan Lacy’s 9:53.39 at the 2011 Princeton Invitational at Jadwin Gym.

Flanagan was out in 2:34.79 and 5:15.22 before a 2:40.62 800 and closing in 1:47.20 for her final 600 and 37.45 for her final lap.

Her time is No. 23 nationally this year and No. 5 in New Jersey.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 3,000 List
9:39.04e … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2025
9:53.03 … Julia Flanagan [Holy Cross], 2026
9:53.39 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2011
10:00.86 … Alyssa Aldridge [Mainland Reg.], 2017
10:09.80 … Devon Grisbaum [Ocean City], 2015
10:11.65 … Brittany Sedberry [Ocean City], 2006
10:15.70 … Giovanni Mantuano [Paul VI], 2026
10:16.46 … Megan Venables [Highland], 2009
10:18.9h … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1981
10:20.60 … Macy Huber [Paul VI], 2026

Haddonfield’s Dylan Hosty shattered the South Jersey freshman mile record Saturday morning at the Penn Relays Winter Showcase at the Ott Center, winning the race in 4:53.67.

That converts to 4:51.97 for 1,600 meters, 5th-fastest in South Jersey history. She shattered the South Jersey freshman record of 4:58.48 set at the 2010 state Group 4 meet at the Bubble by Lenape’s Natalia Ocasio.

This was Hosty’s second high school 1,600 or mile. She ran 5:11.89 at the Armory last month. In her previous race, she won the 800 at the Ott Center in 2:14.66, also a South Jersey freshman record.

Hosty’s time is 3rd-fastest by a freshman nationally this year, according to the MileSplit U.S. database. Mackenzie Skelly of Penn Charter in Philly ran 4:50.30 in Boston last weekend and Alexandra Scappaticci of Northville (Mich.) ran 4:51.88 in Allendale, Mich., also last weekend.

Hosty’s time is 5th-fastest in New Jersey this year and fastest by a South Jersey runner.

Hosty edged junior Tsadia Bercuvitz of Ithaca by 6-100ths of a second. Bercuvitz led by as much as 4 ½ seconds with 400 to go and still led by 15 meters with one lap to go.

Hosty was out in 74.71 and 75.69 before coming back in 75.33 and 67.95 for massive negative splits of 2:30.40 and 2:23.28. She ran her final lap in 32.68.

Soon after running the 4^th-fastest 800-meter relay in NCAA Division 3 history, Rowan ran the fastest 4-by-4 in D-3 this year.

Rowan ran 1:25.88 to win the 4-by-200 at the Metropolitan Invitational at Ocean Breeze and soon after won the 4-by-4 in 3:15.05, which bumped Wittenberg for the top spot on the 2026 D-3 performance list. Wittenberg ran 3:16.54 on its home track in Springfield, Ohio, last month.

Rowan won the 800-meter relay with sophomore Julian Conigliaro from Delsea, sophomore Madaijoudou Diawara from Toms River North, senior Evan Corcoran from Kingsway and junior Eli Hendricks from Penns Grove but used a completely different lineup for the 4-by-4, with Luke Halbruner of Ocean City, freshman Marquis Taylor of Woodbury, junior Teddy Wilson from Toms River North and senior Dallas Hohney of Glassboro racing.

Halbruner ran 50.14 out of the hole, with Taylor splitting 48.68, Wilson 48.55 and Hohney 47.68.

Rowan’s previous best time this season was 3:17.55 with Eastern’s Rahjan Dixon, Hohney, Wilson and Nicholas Garman of Cedar Crest High in Lebanon, Pa.

School record indoors is 3:10.09, also fastest in Division 3 history. The Profs ran that in Boston in February 2023 with Marquise Young of Sterling, Nana Agyamang from Parsippany, Jah’mere Beasley of Sterling and Amara Conte of Ferris High in Jersey City.

Delaware junior Kadence Dumas ran the 3rd-fastest indoor 800 time in Blue Hens history Friday at Penn State.

Dumas ran 2:09.99 at the Penn State National Open in State College, out in 63.95 and back in 65.04.

The only faster times in school history are Michaela Meyer’s school-record 2:03.40 in 2020 and Jeanette Burroughs’ 2:09.61 in 2018.

Dumas’s previous PR was 2:11.03. Outdoors, she’s also No. 3 in school history with her 2:07.30, behind only Holly Manning’s 2:04.82 in 2021 and Meyer’s 2:07.02 in 2019.

At Eastern, Dumas ran 2:10.44 when she won the 2023 Meet of Champions in Somerset, and her indoor best was 2:17.12 at the 2023 state Group 4 meet at the Bubble.

The 800 was only Dumas’s 2nd race this indoor season. She ran a mile PR of 4:56.28 at the Ott Center two weeks ago. That’s No. 9 in school history. Dumas is also No. 5 in school history in the 500 [1:14.92], No. 7 in the 1,000 [2:55.83] and No. 2 in the 600 behind only Lenape graduate Carly Pettipaw [1:33.15]. Outdoors, she’s 7th in the 400 [55.37] in addition to 3rd in the 800.

Delsea’s Elisia Lancaster won the Millrose Games 20-pound weight throw Friday night for a 2nd straight year. Although most of the 118th annual Millrose is held at the Armory, the weight throws and the high school boys pole vault are held Friday.

Lancaster, who competed collegiately at Southern Illinois through 2022, threw 70-9 and won by more than eight feet over Nattaly Lindo of Albany. Lancaster, has a season-best throw of 71-11 from a meet at Ocean Breeze earlier this month. World Athletics no longer has weight throw rankings, so I don’t have a lot of info on where she ranks on various lists, but I believe her PR – which World Athletics does not list in her bio – is 77-2 ½ from a meet in Champaign, Ill., in January 2024. She won Millrose last year with a throw of 72-1.

Lancaster’s hammer throw PR is 222-7 from a meet last May in Princeton. That’s 66th in U.S. history. She missed reaching the finals in the hammer at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene by six inches.

At Millrose, Lancaster, competing for Shore Athletics Club, opened with a 70-2 ½ and a 66-11 ¼ before her winning 70-9. She added throws of 69-2 ½, 68-7 ¼ and 66-1 in the finals.

Lancaster was a six-time JUCO All-America at Rowan College of South Jersey before attending Towson and then finishing at Southern Illinois.