Winslow Township’s Jayden Poteat is off to a hot start as a freshman at Hampton.

Poteat is 2nd-fastest in the Colonial Athletic Association in the 400 with a lifetime-best 47.88 and 4th in the 200 with a PR 21.52. He also ran leadoff on Hampton’s 1,600-meter relay team, which is 2nd in the conference at 3:12.08.

Poteat ran the 21.52 in Lynchburg this past weekend and the 47.88 earlier this month in Louisville. Hampton ran 3:12.08 last month at the Ott Center. They were his first collegiate races at 200 or 400 meters.

Poteat ran a windy 21.48 at the 2024 state Group 3 meet at Delsea, but his previous wind-legal 200 was a 21.67 a week earlier at sectionals, also at Delsea. His previous 400 PR was a 48.23 when he won the 2024 state title.

Poteat hadn’t raced in nearly a year. After winning state Group 3 titles indoors at 55 and 400 meters at the Bubble in February, he did not compete last outdoor season. So that was his first 400 in 10 months and his first 200 since a 21.72 at the Ott Center in December of 2024.

Poteat is one of three South Jersey athletes at Hampton, located across the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel from Norfolk.

Washington Township’s Yashahya Brown, the 2024 national high hurdles champ, is in his first year at Hampton after a year at Rutgers and ran 8.59 in Lynchburg this past weekend in his first race for Hampton. Brown ran 13.82 in Tampa last spring, 4th-fastest in Rutgers history.

Also at Hampton is Dominic Bassey, Poteat’s former Winslow teammate. Bassey, who ran 1:52.15 and 53.35 in the intermediates last spring, has yet to race this indoor season.

Hampton will be at the Ott Center Feb. 6-7 for the Penn Classic.

Pemberton senior Jaden Goins, whose 6.40 last week at the Ott Center is 10^th-fastest in South Jersey history and 5^th-fastest all-time Burlington County, ran the fastest 60 in New Jersey this year Saturday at Ocean Breeze.

Goins ran 7.00 in the trials against a loaded field of sprinters from across the East Coast at the Shoe Company New York International Showcase.

Holmdel junior Jason Rualo ran 7.03 in the trials, 2^nd-fastest in New Jersey this year. Goins ran 7.03 in the final. Rualo didn’t make the final. So they are No. 1 and 2 in New Jersey this year. Camden senior Jawan Brownlee ran 7.08 in the trials, now 4^th-fastest in New Jersey this year.

Goins’ time is 11^th-fastest in South Jersey history and 3^rd-fastest all-time Burlington County, behind Malachi James of Burlington City [6.71 in 2024] and Samuel Thomas of Northern Burlington [6.91 in 2023].

This was Goins’ first high school 60. He has never run indoor track before.

All-Time South Jersey 60-Meter Dash
6.70 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2011
6.71 … Malachi James [Burlington City], 2024
6.76 … Ajani Dywer [Washington Twp.], 2024
6.83 … Jamar Ervin [Camden], 2001
6.87 … Chris Church [Millville], 2007
6.91 … Samuel Thomas [Nothern Burlington], 2023
6.93 … A.J. Bunton [West Deptford], 2006
6.96 … Julian Onesti [St. Augustine], 2025
6.96 … M.J. Lincoln [Lenape], 2025
6.97 … Marquis Taylor [Woodbury], 2025
7.00 … Prince Kim [Bordentown], 2008
7.00 … David Smith [Rancocas Valley], 2025
7.00 … Jaden Goins [Pemberton], 2026
7.01 … Michael Bolling [Willingboro], 1999
7.02 … Rob McGriff [Camden], 2006
7.03 … Gary Gordon [Willingboro], 1995
7.03 … Albert Newkirk [Camden], 1996
7.04 … Thomas Hampton [Clayton], 2018
7.06 … Sherron Bullock [Camden], 2004
7.06 … Fabian Santiago [Oakcrest], 2012
7.08 … Curtis Fitzpatrick [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2013
7.08 … Jawan Brownlee [Camden], 2026
7.08 … Aaron Mull [Hammonton], 2024

Oakcrest’s Alexia Bey, a Rowan senior, popped a huge weight throw PR Saturday and the No. 16 throw in NCAA Division 3 this year.

Bey won the weight throw at the Seamus McElligott Invitational at Haverord’s Alumni Fieldhouse with a throw of 53-11 on her 5^th throw.

That’s No. 1 in the NJAC by more than four feet and looks like it makes her the No. 3 performer in Rowan history behind the school record 55-3 ¾ set by Pitman’s Emily Galvin at Ocean Breeze in 2023 and a 55-0 ¼ by Makayla Taylor of Randolph in Rochester in 2022.

Bey’s previous PR in the 20-pound weight throw was a 50-8 a week ago at Ocean Breeze. She’s thrown 39-8 in the shot and 154-7 in the hammer throw. She was 2^nd in the shot and 5^th in the weight throw last winter in the outdoor NJAC meet at the Ott Center.

Bey threw 36-5 in the shot at Oakcrest and placed 4^th in the state Group 2 meet in Somerset in the spring of 2022. She only competed outdoors in high school, so she never competed in the weight throw until she arrived at Rowan.

Her season best in the shot was a 39-3 ¼ at Ocean Breeze earlier this month. That’s No. 2 in the NJAC this year behind Taniya Giles of Clifton and Montclair State, who threw 39-9 ¼ at the Armory last month.

Rowan is ranked No. 2 in the initial NCAA Division 3 poll, released Tuesday by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association .

The poll is based on the latest NCAA Division 3 performance list and projected point totals in events contested at nationals.

Wisconsin-Oshkosh is No. 1 with 278 points and Rowan is No. 2 with 217 points.

Rowan men ranked in the top eight nationally include Seth Clevenger of Haddonfield, No. 1 in both the mile and 3,000, Masai Byrd of Rancocas Valley, No. 6 in the 60, Rajahn Dixon of Eastern, No. 7 in the 200, Kwaku Nkrumah of Teaneck and Jason Agyemang of North Plainfield, who are tied for 3^rd in the hurdles; David Brown of Edison, Jamile Gantt of Paulsboro, Arrington Rhym of Hamilton West and Noah Wampole of Radnor, who are 1^st, 2^nd, 5^th and 7^th in the high jump; Anthony Parker of Salem, 3^rd in the long jump; and Joshua Justin of Passaic Tech, who is 5^th in the triple jump.

Also, Rowan’s 4-by-4 team of Dixon, Glassboro’s Dallas Hohney, Teddy Wilson of Toms River North and Nicholas Garman of Cedar Crest in Lebanon, Pa. is ranked 6^th in the 1,600-meter relay but with a ton of upside.

Rowan also has a number of potential national qualifiers who haven’t competed yet or haven’t competed in their best events yet. Clevenger alone will be No. 1 in the 5,000 whenever he races one and could make Rowan’s DMR a national contender. Blaik Slavinski of Point Pleasant Borough ran 1:47.65 last indoor season for Clemson but hasn’t run an 800 yet for Rowan; and Hohney ran 1:50.71 last winter for Rider.

Rowan sprinter Eli Hendricks from Penns Grove was a 200 finalist at NCAAs last year and could be back in the mix this year, and Willingboro’s Eric Foster Jr. has run 8.02 in the 60-meter highs, which would put him squarely among national qualifiers. As it is, he’s 10^th at 8.12 based on 2026 times. Additionally, Dixon and Slavinski could both be factors in the 400.

Other NJAC schools in the top 50 include TCNJ 16^th, Montclair State 33^rd and Stockton 47^th.

The Rowan women are ranked 2^nd in the Metro Region with 302 points, behind only TCNJ with 393. Stockton is 5^th.

Oakcrest’s Alexia Bey, a Rowan senior, popped a huge weight throw PR Saturday and the No. 16 throw in NCAA Division 3 this year.

Bey won the weight throw at the Seamus McElligott Invitational at Haverord’s Alumni Fieldhouse with a throw of 53-11 on her 5^th throw.

That’s No. 1 in the NJAC by more than four feet and looks like it makes her the No. 3 performer in Rowan history behind the school record 55-3 ¾ set by Pitman’s Emily Galvin at Ocean Breeze in 2023 and a 55-0 ¼ by Makayla Taylor of Randolph in Rochester in 2022.

Bey’s previous PR in the 20-pound weight throw was a 50-8 a week ago at Ocean Breeze. She’s thrown 39-8 in the shot and 154-7 in the hammer throw. She was 2^nd in the shot and 5^th in the weight throw last winter in the outdoor NJAC meet at the Ott Center.

Bey threw 36-5 in the shot at Oakcrest and placed 4^th in the state Group 2 meet in Somerset in the spring of 2022. She only competed outdoors in high school, so she never competed in the weight throw until she arrived at Rowan.

Her season best in the shot was a 39-3 ¼ at Ocean Breeze earlier this month. That’s No. 2 in the NJAC this year behind Taniya Giles of Clifton and Montclair State, who threw 39-9 ¼ at the Armory last month.

Moorestown’s Hannah Byrd-Leitner, a freshman at Virginia, recorded the 2nd-best indoor pole vault of her life Friday in Blacksburg, Va.

Byrd-Leitner cleared 12-11 on her 1st attempt at the Hokie Invitational at Virginia Tech, her best indoor clearance since a 13-0 clearance when she won the state Group 3 title at the Bubble this past February as a senior at Moorestown.

She took three attempts at a lifetime-best 13-3. Post-collegiate Sydney Horn, a 10-tine All-America at High Point, won the event at 14-10 ¾, 8th-best in the world this year.

Byrd-Leitner’s 12-11 is 5th-best all-time clearance by a Virginia freshman and 11th on the all-time Virginia performance list.

She’s now tied for 9th in the Atlantic Coast Conference this year and No. 2 freshman, behind only Annie Kerr of North Carolina, who cleared 13-3 last week in Chapel Hill.

Byrd-Leitner’s lifetime best is 13-2 from her win at the 2024 outdoor Meet of Champions at Pennsauken.

Deptford senior Anthony Schilling, senior Christian Gonzalez, sophomore John Collier and senior Zach Harrison teamed up to run the fastest 3,200-meter relay by a Gloucester County school in six years Saturday at Ocean Breeze.

Deptford placed 2nd at the Shoe Company New York Showcase in 8:02.56, 3rd-fastest in New Jrsey this year.

Deptford’s time is 8th-fastest in Gloucester County history indoors and fastest since 2020, when Kingsway set the county record of 7:47.50 at the Meet of Champions, also at Ocean Breeze.

Schilling led off in 1:59.67, Gonazlez split 2:04.77, Collier ran 1:58.51 and Harrison anchored in 1:59.62. Saratoga Springs won the race in 8:01.61.

Only Woodstown, with an 8:00.24 at the Millrose Games, has run faster among South Jersey schools this year. Woodstown and Deptford are now 8th and 16th nationally on the MileSplit U.S. database.

Deptford smashed the indoor school record of 8:10.77 from the 2024 Meet of Champions, also at Ocean Breeze. Deptford set the outdoor South Jersey record of 7:49.00 for a full two miles at the 1967 Delaware Valley Meet of Champions at Franklin Field with Wayne Jenkins, Tom Williams, Jerry Clark and Irv Jenkins. That remained the South Jersey record until Willingboro ran 7:40.99 as part of their 1983 Penn Relays distance relay double and remains Deptford’s outdoor school record.

Winslow and Iowa graduate Tionna Tobias popped her best long jump since 2024 Saturday at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix at the TRACK at Shoe Company in Boston.

Tobias placed 4th with a jump of 20-10, which ranks her 12th among American jumpers this year.

It was Tobias’s best jump since her historic 22-9 ¼ at the Holloway Pro Classic at Percy Beard Track in Gainesville in July 2024. That’s No. 22 in U.S. history.

Tobias surpassed 20 feet on each of her first four jumps – 20-10, 20-6 ½, 20-0 ½ and 20-1 ½ – before finishing with a foul.

The 20-10 is only 2 ½ inches off her indoor PR. She jumped 21-0 ½ at a meet in Albuquerque in February 2024.

Tobias won the 2023 Big Ten heptathlon in Bloomington and an NCAA hurdle qualifier, but she is now exclusively a long jumper. Her last multi was 2024 Big Ten indoors in Geneva, Ohio, and her last hurdles race was 2024 outdoor NCAAs in Fayetteville, Ark.

Freshman Denirah Jones from Woodbury ran Rowan’s fastest 60-meter dash in eight years Saturday at the Gulden Invitational at Bucknell’s Gerhard Fieldhouse.

Jones ran 7.81 in the prelims before a 7.84 in the final. That 7.81 is fastest by a Rowan woman since 2018, when Aaniyah Robinson from Passaic Tech ran 7.77 when she won the NJAC Championships at Ocean Breeze. It looks like it’s 4th-fastst all-time at Rowan, although I could be missing a time or two from back in the day.

Jones ran 7.92 in her first two races, both at Ocean Breeze. Those performances tied her high school PR set at the Ott Center last January.

Jones was a state long jump champ and sectional sprint champ at Woodbury with PRs of 7.39, 12.58 and 18-0.

Her 7.81 on Saturday is No. 2 in the NJAC this year behind only senior Lucia Garcia-Beltran of Hopewell Valley and TCNJ, a Rutgers transfer who ran 7.63 at the Armory earlier this month.

All-Time Rowan 60-Meter Dash List
7.58 … Shailah Williams, 2016
7.74 … Ebonique Jones, 2016
7.77 … Aaniyah Robinson, 2018
7.81 … Denirah Jones, 2026
7.79 … Molly Lodge, 2024
7.84 … Promise Fadahunsi, 2020
7.82 … Nia Lawrence, 2015
7.87 … Kayla Julien, 2025

Winslow sophomore Jasmine Jackson ran the 6th-fastest 60-meter hurdles in state history Saturday in the Insert Shoe Company New York International Showcase at Ocean Breeze.

Jackson ran 8.44, 2nd-fastest in South Jersey history behind World Champion Nia Ali of Pleasantville, who ran 8.36 at 2006 Nationals a the Prince Georges Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Md.

Jackson’s time is 8th-fastest in the U.S. this year, according to the MileSplit national rankings and 2nd-fastest among sophomores, behind Nia Armstrong of Sickles High in Tampa, who ran 8.40 earlier this month in Gainesville, Fla.

Jackson is 4th nationally this winter in the 55-meter hurdles with a 7.90 from earlier this month at the Armory.

In the 60-meter highs, Jackson ran 8.49 in the trials before her 8.44 in the final. She broke the Camden County record of 8.72 set in 2021 by Eastern’s Jailya Ash in Virginia Beach.

She also ran the 200 Saturday at Ocean Breeze and placed 4th with a New Jersey No. 5 24.68. That’s tied for No. 2 in South Jersey this year behind Sianni Wynn’s 23.49 at the Ott Center last week. Winslow senior Olivia Okaro also ran 24.68 in the 200 Saturday.

All-Time New Jersey 60-Meter Hurdles List
8.10 … Taylor Cox [Union Catholic], 2025
8.17 … Sydney McLoughlin [Union Catholic], 2015
8.33 … Charmaine Walker [Plainfield], 1997
8.36 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2006
8.38 … Grace O’Shea [Ramapo], 2019
8.44 … Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 2026
8.50 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
8.52 … Alethia Jenkins [Pennsauken], 2000
8.52 … Amaya Chadwick [Union Catholic], 2016
8.55 … Abigail Dennis [Old Tappan], 2024
8.59 … Ajanae Thompson [Union Catholic], 2022
8.62 … Lenaami Morton [Camden], 2017
8.64 … Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 2019
8.67 … Sofia Swindell [Lawrenceville School], 2025
8.67 … Porsche Dobson [Kent Place School], 2003
8.68 … Patti Dziekonska [West Windsor-Plainsboro North], 2014
8.69 … Danielle Delgado [Franklin Twp.], 2013

Alexis Tepper, a UMBC transfer in her first race for Bloomsburg, ran the fastest 3,000 by a Bloomsburg woman in 11 years Saturday in Lewisburg, Pa.

Tepper, from Cherry Hill East, ran 10:01.20 and placed 2nd in the Gulden Invitational on a flat track at Bucknell’s Gerhard Fieldhouse, 1-100th of a second behind Bucknell’s Bradley Weldon.

Her time is fastest in the PSAC so far this year.

Tepper’s time is fastest by a Bloomsburg woman since Kate Dodds of Upper Dublin High set the school record of 9:52.10 in a meet at Ithaca’s Barton Hall in February 2024.

Tepper ran 2:14.77, 4:57.08 and 9:56.83 while she was at University of Maryland Baltimore County.