Willingboro’s Rae-Juan Gayle a double winner for Rowan College South Jersey at JUCO Nationals!!!!!!!!

Willingboro’s Rae-Jaun Gayle won a couple national titles over the weekend at the NJCAA Division 3 National Championships at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, N.Y.

Gayle, a sophomore at Rowan College South Jersey Gloucester County campus in Deptford, won the 100 in 11.04 into a 3.1 meters-per-second headwind after a wind-aided 10.61 in the trials and ran 22.22 to win the 200 into a 2.4 headwind after a 21.79 in the prelims with an assisting wind.

He also earned All-America honors in the 400-meter relay, which placed 4th in 43.07 with freshman Kassim Joseph of Sparta, freshman Jamere Brooks of Willingboro and freshman Desmond Vassell from Glassboro.

Jimmy Reardon from Delsea placed 3rd in the javelin with a throw of 168-2.

In the women’s meet, freshman Jordyn White from Clearview ran 16.68 and placed 3rd in the 100-meter hurdles and 1:13.81 for 3rd in the 400-meter intermediates, and freshman Devin Phillips of Paul VI placed 4th in the 400 in 62.82

White and Phillips also ran on the 3rd-place 400-meter relay team, which ran 52.80. Freshman Emma Buttocovla from Seneca and freshman Kayla Cream from Washington Township also ran on that team.

Rowan College South Jersey finished 7th in the men’s meet with 39 points and 5th in the women’s meet, also with 39 points. Full results here.

Big week of PRs in three events for Willingboro’s Jade Pinder!!!!!!!!

It’s been quite a few days for Willingboro junior Jade Pinder, who moved onto the all-time Burlington County list in three events over two meets.

Pinder won the 100 in 12.25 after a PR 12.20 in the prelims and won the 200 in a PR 24.45 at the Burlington County Open Saturday at Lenape – remember, no wind gauge at that meet – and then ran a PR 55.83 in the 400 Monday night at Spartan Sprint Night at Deptford.

Pinder is now No. 8 in South Jersey in the 100, No. 4 in the 200 and No. 5 in the 400. She’s the 4th South Jersey sprinter to run that fast in all three events, joining Seneca’s Michelle Brown, former Willingboro teammate Nester Wea and Rancocas Valley’s Aliyah Taylor.

These lists are “all-condition,” including both legal and wind-aided times, since the Burlington County Open didn’t see fit to have a wind gauge at the meet.

With sectionals coming up this weekend, Pinder is currently No. 2 in New Jersey Group 2 in the 100 and No. 1 in the 200 and 400.

All-Time Burlington County 100-Meter Dash List
11.42 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981
11.61 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
11.62 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025
11.82 … Annie Johnson [Shawnee], 2012
11.95 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2017
12.00 … Andrea Conway [Bordentown], 1986
12.05 … Anu Ward [Moorestown], 2000
12.06 … Sydney Greenidge [Riverside], 2025
12.07 … Maya Bolden [Willingboro], 2024
12.08 … Kim Hargrove [Willingboro], 1996
12.10 … Addison Barnes [Shawnee], 2025
12.11 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2009
12.11 … Nia Lawrence [Pemberton], 2012
12.15 … Rageana Marigna [Palmyra], 2008
12.19 … Maya Jackson [Delran], 2024
12.20 … Jade Pinder [Willingboro], 2026
12.23 … Angelina Brown [Rancocas Valley], 2026

All-Time Burlington County 200-Meter Dash List
23.69 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981
23.84 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025
24.01 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
24.17 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2008
24.18 … Sheriyah Nutt [Rancocas Valley], 2019
24.31 … Morgan Gordon [Rancocas Valley], 2009
24.45 … Jade Pinder [Willingboro], 2026
24.49 … Annie Johnson [Shawnee], 2012
24.54 … Maya Bolden [Willingboro], 2024
24.55 … Daneille Myricks [Willingboro], 2000
24.61 … Aliyah Tayor [Rancocas Valley], 2018
24.72 … Halimah Bashir [Willingboro], 2002
24.78 … Kaila Speight [Willingboro], 2025
24.79 … Darynn Minus-Vincent [Rancocas Valley], 2018
24.81 … Jasmine Staten [Lenape], 2015

All-Time Burlington County 400-Meter Dash List
52.91 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2009
53.98 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025
54.19 … Okechi Ogbuokiri [Willingboro], 2003
55.13 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2018
55.51 … Mandie Dulin [Shawnee], 1996
55.4h … Carla Hunt [Holy Cross], 1976
55.67 … Shelby Whetstone [Lenape], 2017
55.82 … Danielle Myricks [Willingboro], 2001
55.83 … Jade Pinder [Willingboro], 2026
56.11 … Courtney Foster [Cherokee], 2013
56.0h … Halimah Bashir [Willingboro], 2002
56.20 … Kasey White [Rancocas Valley], 2023
56.1h … Angela Williams [Pemberton], 1981
56.26 … Shannon Lambert [Lenape], 2017
56.31 … Jasmine Staten [Lenape], 2017
56.2h … Carla Hunt [Holy Cross], 1976

Willingboro’s Eri c Foster, Penns Grove’s Eli Hendricks, Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran lead Rowan to 3rd-fastest 4×1 in NCAA Division 3 this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rowan, with with Willingboro’s Eric Foster, Penns Grove’s Eli Hendricks and Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran in the lineup, ran the 3rd-fastest 400-meter relay in NCAA Division 3 this year Monday night in Chester, Pa.

The Profs won the 4-by-1 at the Widener Last Chance Invitational in 40.17, the 26th-fastest time in Division 3 history. Only two Wisconsin schools – Oshkosh and La Crosse – have run faster this year. Oshkosh ran 39.78 earlier this month in La Crosse and La Crosse ran 39.79 last month in Des Moines, Idaho.

Rowan ran 39.72 last year – No. 3 in D-3 history – at the NCAA Division 3 Championships in Geneva, Ohio, with Bridgeton’s Shamar Love and Highland’s Robert McKinney along with Hendricks and Corcoran.

They also ran 39.97 with the same lineup one day earlier in the prelims, 40.03 at Widener last May with Love, McKinney, Hendricks and Corcoran and 40.14 in 2023 at Nationals in Rochester with Love, Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley, Nana Agyemang of Parsippany and Corcoran.

Haddon Township’s Jacob Dinerman smashes Rutgers-Camden 1,500 record with #16 time in NCAA Division 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Senior Jacob Dinerman from Haddon Township broke his own Rutgers-Camden 1,500 record Monday at the Widener Last-Chance Invitational in Chester, Pa.

Dinerman ran 3:48.17, breaking his mark of 3:51.98 that he set in Newark, Del., last month. His time is the equivalent of a 4:06.42 mile, well below his mile PR of 4:09.85 from the Ott Center in February.

Dinerman came through 300 meters in 45.96, then split 60.72 for his next 400 and closed in 2:01.49 for his final 800 and 59.29 for his final 400.

His time is No. 16 in NCAA Division 3 and fastest this year in the NJAC.

Liliiah Gordon crushes her steeplechase debut at Widener!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quite a steeplechase debut Monday evening for Northern Burlington’s Liliah Gordon.

Gordon, a Penn State freshman who’s red-shirting this spring, placed 2nd in her first lifetime 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Widener Last Chance Invitational in Chester in 10:34.78.

That’s the 2nd-fastest steeplechase in the last eight years by a South Jersey woman. Mainland Regional’s Gillian Lovett, a La Salle sophomore, ran 10:33.24 at the Penn Relays in April.

This was only Gordon’s 3rd race this outdoor season. She ran a couple 5,000s, including a 16:31.18 in Lewisburg in April.

Sydney Shock of Johns Hopkins won the race in 10:33.19, 6th-fastest this year in NCAA Division 3. Her time would be 23rd-fastest among Division 1 freshmen if she were officially competing this spring for Penn State.

Moorestown’s Will Inglis of Elizabethtown runs monster 800 PR, fastest time by a Landmark Conference runner in 10 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elizabethtown junior Will Inglis from Moorestown ran a huge 800 PR Monday in Chester, dropping the 4th-fastest time in school history at the Widener Last Chance Invitational.

Inglis lowered his PR from 1:52.37 down to 1:50.82, which is now 26th-fastest this year in NCAA Division 2. It’s the fastest time by an Elizabethtown half-miler in 10 years, since Eastern graduate Mike Twist ran 1:50.56 at a meet at Widener in 2016. Inglis ran less than half a second off the school-record 1:50.39 by Matt Rever of Dulaney High School in Timonium, Md., at Swarthmore in 2012.

Inglis’s time is fastest by a Burlington County runner since Bordentown’s Rob Novak ran 1:46.01 in Los Angeles in 2011.

His time is fastest this year by any Landmark Conference runner in 10 years, since Twist’s 1:50.56 on the same track in 2016.

Kingsway girls run 4th-fastest 400-meter relay in Gloucester County history at Spartan Sprint Night!!!!!!!!

The Kingsway girls ran the 4th-fastest 400-meter relay on the all-time Gloucester County list Monday afternoon at Deptford.

Senior Lariah Miles, junior Saudah Turner, junior Norah Brown and sophomore Talia Griscom ran 47.98, winning by more than two seconds at Spartan Sprint Night.

That’s the fastest time in South Jersey this year and 5th-fastest in New Jersey. Kingsway ran within 14-100ths of a second of the school-record 47.84 from last year’s Meet of Champions with Jonnelle Lewis, Griscom, Noemi Haller and Turner.

Delsea [47.27 in 2017] and Deptford [47.85] are the only other schools to run under 48 seconds.

Rowan’s Eli Hendricks from Penns Grove runs 6th-fastest 200 in NCAA Division 3 this year, Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran races into D-3 top-20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rowan junior Eli Hendricks from Penns Grove ran the 6th-fastest 200-meter dash in NCAA Division 3 this year and 2nd-fastest in Rowan history Monday at the Widener Last-Chance Qualifier in Chester, Pa.

Hendricks dropped his PR from 21.08 in April in Daytona Beach to 20.95, running away from a deep field. His race had a legal 0.1 wind reading.

Hendricks is 2nd in Rowan history to Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley, who ran 20.91 [with a 1.9] at the 2022 NCAA Division 3 Championships in Geneva, Ohio. It’s No. 61 in Division 3 history.

It’s also No. 10 on the all-time South Jersey alumni list, bumping teammate Rajahn Dixon from from 11th to 12 with his 21.02 from last month in Daytona Beach. Dixon did not race Monday.

Senior Evan Corcoran from Kingsway placed 3rd in 21.09 with a 0.2 wind reading, dropping his PR from 21.23 in Charlottesville last month. His time is 4th-fastest in Rowan history, behind Beasley, Hendricks and Dixon. It’s No. 18 in Division 3 this year.

So Hendricks, Dixon and Corcoran are currently ranked 7th, 11th and 18th in Division 3.

All-Time South Jersey Alumni 200-Meter Dash List
19.75 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], June 19, 1983, Indianapolis
20.09 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], June 2, 1989, Provo, Utah
20.51 … Ajani Dwyer [Washington Twp.], Feb. 28, 2026, Indianapolisf
20.61 … John Stone [Mainland Reg.], May 22, 1999, Atlanta [-0.4]
20.64 … Bruce Owens [Deptford], May 29, 2010, Greensboro, N.C. [1.1]
20.83 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], May 7, 2005, Columbus, Ohio
20.88 … Kevin Holloway [Palmyra], April 21, 1979, Bloomington, Ind.
20.90 … Jack Pierce [Woodbury], May 23, 1984, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
20.91 … Jah’mere Beasley [Sterling], May 26, 2022, Geneva, Ohio [1.9]
20.95 … Eli Hendricks [Penns Grove], May 11, 2026, Chester, Pa. [0.1]
20.97 … Matt Rose [Bordentown], May 24, 1987, Villanova, Pa.

With Woodbury’s Marquis Taylor, Sterling’s Samuel Abbess and Glassboro’s Dallas Hohney, Rowan runs fastest 4×4 in NCAA Division 3 this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rowan’s 1,600-meter relay team, with Woodbury’s Marquis Taylor, Triton’s Samuel Agbessi, Toms River North’s Teddy Wilson and Glassboro’s Dallas Hohney, ran the fastest time in NCAA Division 3 this year Monday in Chester.

The Profs ran 3:08.97, 25th-fastest in NCAA Division 3 history and 2nd-fastest in Rowan and New Jersey Athletic Conference history behind a 3:08.74 at the 2023 NCAA Division 3 Championships in Rochester, N.Y., with Sterling’s Marquis Young, Nana Agyemang from Parsippany, Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley and Amara Conte from Ferris High in Jersey City.

They bumped Wisconsin-Eau Claire from the top spot in Division 3. Eau Claire ran 3:09.01 in a meet at La Crosse last week.

Taylor led off with a 46.42 split, Agbessi ran 49.12, Wilson split 47.41 and Hohney anchored in 46.02.

What’s remarkable about the performance is that not only was Rowan not pushed, they ran uncontested. It looks like Ramapo started the race but dropped out after two legs and Rowan ran the rest of the race with nobody else on the track.

Rowan’s previous best time this year was a 3:14.70 last week at the NJAC Championships in Mahwah with Nicholas Garman, Blaik Slavinski, Agbessi and Wilson.

Rancocas Valley’s La’el Yates PRs at Burlington County Open with #11 pole vault clearance in South Jersey history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rancocas Valley senior La’el Yates cleared 11-6 for the first time and won the Burlington County Open pole vault with the 3rd-best mark in meet history.

Yates improved her PR from 11-3, which she just cleared two weeks ago at the Olympic Conference Championships on her home track in Mount Holly.

Yates’ mark ties No. 11 in South Jersey history and No. 6 in Burlington County history. The only vaulters to go higher at a County Open are former indoor national record holder Danielle O’Reilly of Shawnee, who cleared 12-0 in 2004, and Moorestown All-America Hannah Byrd-Leitner, who cleared 12-0 last year.

Yates had cleared at least 11 feet in 12 meets before her breakthrough on Thursday at R.V.

She’s the only South Jersey vaulter to clear 11-6 this year and her 11-6 is tied for 4th in New Jersey and No. 2 in Group 4.

Yates is the 2nd R.V. girl to win the County Open pole vault since it was added in 2001. Mia Paolone cleared 9-0 to win the 2022 meet, also at R.V.

Yates passed through 9-6 and then cleared 10-0, 10-6 and 11-0 on her 1st attempt and 11-6 on her 2nd. She finished by taking three attempts at 11-8.

Rancocas Valley won the team title 109-94 ½ over Willingboro. It was R.V.’s 8th consecutive team title following wins in 2017, 2019 and 2021 through 2025. There was no team champion in the incomplete 2018 meet and the meet was not held in 2020.

All-Time County Open List
12-0 … Danielle O’Reilly [Shawnee], 2004
12-0 … Hannah Byrd-Leitner [Moorestown], 2025
11-6 … La’el Yates [Rancocas Valley], 2026
11-6 …….. Byrd-Leitner [Moorestown], 2023
11-0 …..… O’Reilly, 2003
11-0 …..… O’Reilly, 2002
11-0 …..… O’Reilly, 2001
11-0 … Anna Heim [Moorestown], 2006
11-0 … Lauren Tauscher [Moorestown], 2007
11-0 … Colleen McDowell [Seneca], 2011
11-0 … Julia Greeley [Seneca], 2021
10-7 … Kristen Visconti [Cherokee], 2014

All-Time South Jersey List
13-3… Danielle O’Reilly [Shawnee], 2004
13-2 … Hannah Byrd-Leitner [Moorestown], 2024
12-8 … Rebecca Hoover [Haddonfield[, 2024
12-7 ½ … Ashley Preston [Delsea], 2018
12-0 … Jessica Kloss [Moorestown], 2005
12-0 … Brittney Raffo [Seneca], 2016
12-0 … Fiona Basewitz [Collingswood], 2021
12-0 … Quin Zacamy [Haddon Heights], 2024
11-10 … Kate Derman [Millville], 2014
11-9 … Julia Greeley [Seneca], 2021
11-6 … Lauren Tauscher [Moorestown], 2009
11-6 … Gabby Vetere [Washington Twp.], 2022
11-6 … Abigail Boggs [Ranocas Valley], 2021
11-6 … Reese Gebhard [Delsea], 2023
11-6 … La’el Yates [Rancocas Valley], 2026