Impressive race over 60 meters Monday at the Bubble between Kingsway sophomore Chase Daciw and Monroe Township junior Adedotun Aderibigbe, with Daciw edging Aderibigbe by 1-100th of a second.

Daciw PR’d at 6.61 and Aderibigbe was 2nd at 6.62, with Oakcrest junior 3rd in 6.70 and Burlington senior Malachi Sadler 5th at 6.73.

Daciw had a 6.93 PR as a freshman, but blew that away with a 6.73 last week in Toms River before hitting 6.61 Monday. It looks like he didn’t compete outdoors last spring.

The fastest Kingsway time I could find is a 6.56 by Damon Dukes Jr. at 2022 South Jersey Group 4 Sectionals, also at the Bubble. So unless there’s a faster time somewhere Daciw is only 5-100ths of a second off the school record early in his sophomore year.

Looks like the only faster Gloucester County sophomore over the past 10 years is John Santos of Washington Township, who ran 6.58 in 2023 at Ocean Breeze.

Junior Sheldon Goldsborough came within 1 ¾ inches of becoming Delsea’s latest 50-foot shot putter Monday in Marlton.

Goldsborough, who placed 4th at South Jersey Group 1 sectionals last year as a sophomore at Schalick, threw a big PR 49-10 ¾ to win the Cherokee Throwdown.

Goldsborough had an outdoor PR last year of 47-5 ½ from the Woodbury Relays and went on to place 4th at South Jersey Group 1 sectionals at Pennsauken at 45-7 ½.

His previous indoor PR looks like 43-9 from a meet this past January at the Bubble.

Here’s my best attempt at an all-time Delsea indoor 50-foot list:

65-6 … Jonathan Harris, 2025
62-0 ½ … Jason Nwosu, 2022
58-8 ¾ … Bill Goldsborough [Delsea], 2018
57-8 1/4 … Josh Awotunde [Delsea], 2013
55-7 … Greg Masso, 2024
55-4 ¾ … Ryan Knight [Delsea], 1996
54-6 ½ … Josh Caudill, 2022
54-1 ¼ … Joe Metzger [Delsea], 2020
53-7 ½ … Savien Higgs, 2025
52-5 ½ … Tyler Habersham-Agbemenu, 2024
51-5 ½ … Juan Romero, 2024
51-0 ¼ … Kevin Gilliano, 2019
50-9 ½ … Jake Phelan, 2023
50-8 … Will Sneathen, 2018
50-1 ¼ … Dakota Bravero, 2014

Delsea senior Hannah Nuhfer, in her first meet since she won a national discus title, broke the Gloucester County shot put record.

In June, Nuhfer threw 178-9 at Franklin Field Nationals, the No. 19 throw in U.S. scholastic history.

On Tuesday, she threw 45-1 at the Cherokee Throw Down #1, breaking the Gloucester County (and Delsea) indoor record of 44-3 ½ thrown by Jocelyn White at the 2004 state Group 3 meet at Jadwin Gym in Princeton.

Series information not available, but Nuhfer topped her indoor PR of 41-9 ½ set last year at Easterns at the Armory.

Nuhfer threw her outdoor-best 47-9 at South Jersey Group 3 sectionals at Delsea in May, setting a South Jersey shot put record.

Her 45-1 is No. 5 in South Jersey history indoors and best since Cydney Thomas of Haddon Heights threw 46-1 at 2019 South Jersey Group 1 Sectionals at the Bubble.

Glassboro senior Sunsarai Moore, the outdoor state Group 1 champ in both the shot and discus last spring, placed 2nd with a 37-11 ½, and Hammonton senior Mitra Sampson, the state Group 3 shot runner-up last spring, was 3rd with a 36-9.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 40-Foot List
45-1 … Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea], 2025
44-6 ½ … Sylvia Galarza [Millville], 2004
44-3 ½ … Jocelyn White [Delsea], 2004
44-0 ½ … Melinda Boykin [Bridgeton], 1996
43-11 ¾ … Stephanie Scaramella [Bishop Eustace], 2007
43-10 ¼ … Mercedes Hicks [Atlantic City], 2006
43-10 … Rosetta Hunter [Burlington Twp.], 2015
43-5 … Brook-Lynn Roberts [Winslow Twp.], 2025
43-4 ¾ … Jessica Woodard [Cherokee], 2012
43-4 ½ … Victoria Imbesi [Our Lady of Mercy], 2009
43-3 ¾ … Ella Karp [Washington Twp.], 2025
43-3 … Janice Rose [Delsea], 2011
42-11 ¼ … Ciara Demarest [Williamstown], 2023
42-7 ¾ … Typhanie Bates [Williamstown], 1995
42-5 ½ … Genevieve Tybicki [Our Lady of Mercy], 2007
42-4 … Sophia Coleburn [Haddon Heights], 2007
42-3 … Genevieve Rybicki [Our Lady of Mercy], 2009
42-1 … Donovan Bennett [Vineland], 2014
42-0 ½ … Lisa Stuto [Winslow Twp.], 2009
42-0 ¼ … Lola Agabalogun [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2013
41-10 … Lillian Rivera [Pemberton], 1984
41-9 … Bernadette McGowan [Paul VI], 2016
41-8 … Alijah Caul [Sterling], 2019
41-6 ½ … Dana White [Camden], 2000
41-3 … Tara Daniels [Kingsway], 2013
41-3 … Kendra Green [Rancocas Valley], 2025
41-2 … Ciarra Johnson [Winslow Twp.], 2018
41-0 … Nicole Scott [Willingboro], 1997
40-11 … Alexis Kennedy [Millville], 2012
40-10 … Danea Wint [Vineland], 2015
40-10 … Nyla Noble [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2014
40-9 … Amanda Thompson [Camden], 2001
40-8 ¾ … Emily Hilt [Kingsway], 2017
40-5 ½ … Cameron Daniels [Vineland], 2015
40-4 … Shanna Campbell [Pemberton], 2007
40-3 ½ … Lacole Fields [Camden], 1996
40-2 … Chanel Swain [Willingboro], 2023
40-1 ¾ … Kelly Staten [Atlantic City], 2001
40-1 ½ … Sophia Colburn [Haddon Heights], 2007
40-1 … Katherine Johnston [Haddonfield], 2012
40- ½ … Linda Dougherty [Sterling], 1982

As we hit a little lull before indoor track really kicks into gear, I wanted to take a moment to look back at Haddonfield’s astonishing cross country season.

Is this the greatest XC team in South Jersey history?

They’re in the mix.

All the Bulldogs did was win sectionals by 63 points with only one of their usual top five, scored 27 points to win states, then score just 90 points at the Meet of Champions to finish 2nd behind only the No. 3 team in the country.

Then they took on the best teams in the Northeast at Nike Cross Regionals and placed 2nd to that same No. 3 team in the country to earn a berth at Nationals in Oregon, where they finished 9th in the entire freaking country.

That made them only the second New Jersey public school ever to finish in the top 10 at Nike Nationals. And the first since the legendary West Windsor-Plainsboro North team with the Rosa twins in 2009.

Haddonfield also placed 2nd in last year’s Meet of Champions – and actually had a slightly lower score – but finished 4th at Nike Cross Regionals and didn’t make it to Oregon.

And they did all this without their projected 5th man, senior Aaron Keith, the state 800 champ last year, who got hurt early in the season and didn’t run after a batch meet on Sept. 9.

There are about 30,000 high schools in the U.S. and eight finished ahead of Haddonfield.

There are plenty of terrific programs in South Jersey. Just this year, Haddonfield placed 2nd, Cherokee 5th, Cherry Hill East 7th, Ocean City 9th and Glassboro 12th out of Group 1 at the Meet of Champions.

Five of the top public schools in the state came from South Jersey.

A phenomenal coaching job by Matt Cieslik, who is assisted by former Haddonfield runner Andrew Gostovich.

There have been a ton of extremely successful XC teams in South Jersey history. Mainland Regional won the MoC in 2002 and 2003. Haddonfield won in 2001, placed 2nd three times and 3rd three other times. Cherokee has placed 2nd or 3rd five times. Holy Cross was second back in 1983, and Washington Township and Cherry Hill East have each had 3rd-place finishes as well. Then there were the great Paul VI teams, who from 1984 won four Meet of Champions, placed 2nd twice and 3rd three times.

Interesting to note that Cieslik ran on that 1988 Paul VI team, placing 14th at the Meet of Champions, he was an assistant to George Steinhoff on the 1994 team that beat CBA by 18 at the MoC and he coached the 2014 Cherry Hill East team that finished 3rd in the 2014 meet, behind only CBA and South Brunswick. He arrived at Haddonfield in 2023 as co-head coach with the late legendary Nick Baker before taking over the program.

If you had to pick a best team in South Jersey before this year, you’d probably pick one of those Paul VI teams, who were completely dominant. The 1988 team scored just 62 points in winning the MoC, the 1989 team scored just 50, and the 1994 team 63 points.

There’s no way to really compare or declare an all-time best because there were no Nationals until 2004.

But it is safe to say that if you lined up all the best teams in South Jersey history on the starting line together at Holmdel, it would be one hell of a race.

Abdulbasid Shodolu had a season-best 5-10 in the high jump last spring for Highland, cleared 6-0 twice in his high school career – outdoors as a junior, indoors as a senior – and never finished higher than 12th at states.

Look at him now.

Shodolu, now a freshman at Rutgers-Camden, cleared 6-4 ¾ at Ocean Breeze this weekend, some 4 ¾ inches above his high school PR.

In his first collegiate meet, also at Ocean Breeze, he PR’d at 6-0 ¾, before his huge breakthrough on Friday afternoon.

Shodolu cleared 5-10 ¾ and 6-0 ¾ on his third attempts before PR’ing for the first time with a 6-2 ¾ on his 1st jump and then PR’ing again at 6-4 ¾ on his 1st try. He took three jumps at 6-6 ¾.

Rutgers-Camden’s top high jumper is Shodolu’s high school teammate, Jayden Deleon, who is now his teammate again at Rutgers-Camden. Deleon was the indoor Meet of Champions winner last year – also at Ocean Breeze – and is tied for No. 2 in NCAA Division 3 so far this year at 6-8 ¾, which he’s cleared twice. DeLeon has a PR of 6-10 ¼ from last year’s indoor South Jersey Group 3 Sectionals at Toms River.

Deptford led four schools who ran 1:31 and change in the 4-by-200 Saturday at the initial South Jersey Track Coaches Association meet at the Ott Center in West Philly.

Deptford won the race in 1:31.04, Williamstown ran 1:31.33, Rancocas Valley 1:31.52 and Overbrook 1:31.81.

Overbrook and R.V. ran in the 3rd section, Deptford and Williamstown in the 4th.

Senior Kareem Brown, senior Kyle Jackson, junior Xavion Holmes and Damon Albertson ran for senior Deptford; senior Jasiah Gibbons, junior Joshua George-Oyewole, sophomore Elijah Campbell and junior Ian Israel Jr. for Williamstown; senior Julian Coopage-Seepersaud, junior Samir Barber, junior Ethan Jones and junior Jor-el Santiago for Rancocas Valley; and junior Axcel Bailey, junior John Froelich, senior Anthony Powell and junior Jaiden Mitchell for Overbrook.

For Williamstown and Overbrook, those performances are school records. Williamstown’s previous school record was 1:32.33 this past January at the Ott Center. Overbrook’s school record was 1:33.45 in 2016 at Ocean Breeze with Quincy Fairey, Tevin Taylor, Jermaine Corbett and Nykols Rodriguez.

Deptford and R.V. have both run sub-1:30 several times.

Williamstown junior Timia Waters smashed the Gloucester County indoor triple jump record Saturday and moved into the all-time top-10.

Waters jumped 37-6 ¾ at the season-opening SJTCA meet at the Ott Center in West Philly on her only legal jump of the competition.

Coming into the season, Waters had a triple jump PR of 35-10 from 8th place at the state Group 4 meet in Somerset in May and an indoor PR of 32-3 ½ from a SJTCA meet this past January, also at the Ott Center.

Waters broke the Gloucester County indoor record of 36-9 ¼ set by Kingsway’s Jasmin Jones at the 2016 Easterns at the Armory. Her jump is No. 9 in South Jersey history indoors.

Four Gloucester County jumpers – including two from Williamstown – have gone farther outdoors: Zenee Gadson set the county overall record of 39-7 ½ at the 2012 state Group 1 meet in Old Bridge (but never triple jumped indoors), Jessica Mills of West Deptford jumped 39-6 when she won the 2005 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield, Williamstown’s Nalah Abul-Qasim set the overall Williamstown mark of 38-0 ¼ at the 2019 state Group 4 meet in Somerset and Williamstown’s Caleah Allen jumped 38-0 ¼ at the 2012 state Group 4 meet, also at Old Bridge.

So Waters is No. 5 all-time on the combined Gloucester County indoor / outdoor list.

The versatile Waters has PRs of 15.00 in the 100-meter highs, 17-1 ½ in the long jump, 7.54 in the 55 and 8.46 in the 55-meter highs.

All-Time South Jersey Girls 37-Foot Indoor Triple Jump List
41-3 ¼ … Sophia Curtis [Ocean City], 2025
40-1 ½ … Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 2019
39-4 … Ma’Syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.], 2025
38-4 … She’quell Higgs [Winslow Twp.], 2013
38-1 ½ – Lauren Fadairo [Rancocas Valley], 2024
38-0 ½ … Shaya Wilkerson [Lenape], 2012
37-10 … Cidae’a Woods [Winslow Twp.], 2013
37-7 … Elizabeth Montague [Cherokee], 2014
37-6 ¾ … Tamia Waters [Williamstown], 2026
37-5 ¾ … Brooklyn Ezekiel [Cherry Hill West], 2025
37-4 ¾ … I’Mara Ford [Moorestown], 2024
37-4 … Olivia Wright [Winslow Twp.], 2020
37-2 ½ … Kristina Tossas [Rancocas Valley], 2020
37-1 … Ashley Edwards [Northern Burlington], 2015
37-0 ¼ … Ayanna Brown [Sterling], 2024

Senior Humberto Cuellar smashed the Eastern indoor shot put record Saturday at the Ott Center at the SJTCA season opener.

Cuellar, who came into the meet with a PR of 48-10 ½, PR’d at 50-5 ¼ on his 1st attempt and then bombed a Vikings-record 53-3 ¾ on his 2nd throw before closing with a foul.

He broke the Eastern indoor record of 52-9 ½ set by Jarred Williams at 2010 South Jersey Group 4 Sectionals at the Bubble. Williams also holds Eastern’s outdoor record at 55-1 from 2010 outdoor Group 4 States at South Plainfield.

Cuellar’s previous overall PR was a 48-10 ½ at Group 4 States last May in Somerset. His indoor PR was a 43-10 ½ at the Ott Center last December. So he topped that by nearly 10 feet.

Cuellar is an offensive lineman and captain for Eastern’s football team.

Overbrook junior Jaiden Mitchell popped the first two 22-foot jumps of his life Saturday morning at the Ott Center.

Mitchell, who came into the SJTCA season opener in West Philly with a PR of 21-9 and an indoor PR 20-3 ¼, jumped 19-2 ¼ on his 1^st attempt before hitting 22-2 on his 2^nd and 22-4 ¼ on his 3^rd.

He jumped within 2 ¼ inches of the Overbrook school record of 22-6 ½ set by Damon Matthews at 2017 South Jersey Group 4 Sectionals at Egg Harbor. Mitchell moved past Brian Young [21-6 ¾ at the 1991 South Jersey Large-School Championships at Widener] for the No. 2 spot on the all-time Overbrook indoor list.

Mitchell was the No. 2 sophomore in South Jersey and No. 12 soph in the state last spring.

Rancocas Valley senior Rudolph Glover had three jumps over 21 feet – 21-7 ½, 21-0 and 21-6 ¾. Glover PR’d last spring at 22-1 ¼ to win the Burlington County Open at Lenape. This appears to be his first indoor meet ever.

Rancocas Valley senior Damanique Johnston PR’d by more than eight inches in the long jump Saturday morning with a 17-5 at the season-opening SJTCA meet at the Ott Center.

Johnston came into the season with a 16-8 ¼ PR from a meet in January at the Ott Center. She jumped an outdoor PR 16-7 at Delsea last spring on May 1 but that was her last meet of the year.

After a foul on her first jump, Johnston hit 17-5 on her 2^nd and then 16-11 ½, her 2^nd-best jump ever, on her 3^rd attempt. Athletes only got three jumps Saturday.

Johnson is the 5^th R.V. girl to jump 17-5 or better indoors.

Winslow senior Leeya Joseph also hit 17 feet, and she actually did it twice with a 17-4 on her 2^nd jump and then a 17-2 ¾. Joseph jumped 18-8 ½ for 2^ndat Easterns last winter at the Armory. She had a wind-legal 19-0 last June at the Met of Champions at Pennsauken.

All-Time Rancocas Valley Indoor Long Jump List
18-4 ¾ … Tonya Lee, 1988
17-10 … Kristina Tossas, 2020
17-7 ½ … Lauren Fadairo, 2024
17-6 ¼ … Anaya Young, 2020
17-5 … Damanique Johnston, 2026