Woodbury senior Marquis Taylor, the state Group 1 champ at 400 meters last spring, won his first three indoor state titles Sunday at the Bubble in Toms River.

Taylor ran 6.46 to win the 55-meter dash and 50.91 to win the 400 at the state Group 1 meet. He’s the first Woodbury sprinter to double the 55 and 400 since 2011, when Darrell Bush won the 55 in 6.59 and the 400 in 50.03.

In the 55, Taylor ran 6.46, the 2nd-fastest time in Group 1 meet history and led four South Jersey sprinters in the top six. Schalick sophomore David Stewart ran 6.68 for 3rd and the Camden duo of juniors Jaiden Steele and Christian Braxton placed 5th and 6th in 6.71 and 6.72.

In the 400, Taylor edge Gloucester County rival Alexander Osayemi, a senior at Clayton, by 5-100ths of a second. Osayemi ran 50.96. Buena junior Yandel Montanez placed 4th in 51.79 and was the top underclassman in the race, and Camden’s Steele ran 52.43 for 6th.

Taylor picked up his 3rd win in the 1,600-meter relay, where he was joined by juniors Shiwoe Varpilah, Elijah Young and Jasir Brown. They ran 3:31.29, edging Woodstown, who ran 3:31.60 with senior Cole Lucas and juniors Karson Chew, Anthony Costello and Joshua Crawford. Audubon made it a 1-2-3 South Jersey finish with the all-underclass quartet of junior Kowie Limbaga, sophomore Evan Calhoun, junior Paul Davis and junior Dylan Gallagher running 3:34.81.

Hasbrouck Heights won the Group 1 title with 40 points, with Glassboro 2nd with 31 ½, Woodebury 3rd with 30 and Woodstown 5th with 22.

Woodstown junior Joshua Crawford won the 800, and you can read about that race here.

Glassboro had three medalists in the high jump, with junior Amari Sabb clearing 6-2 for 2nd and freshmen Moses Robles and Mahki Parker taking 4th and 6th at 6-0 and 5-10. The Bulldogs also got 2nd-place finishes from Ty Blackman in the 1,600 in 4:23.49 and senior Kyle Williams, who PR’d with a 52-7 ¼ in the shot put, and Salem senior Anthony Parker placed 2nd in the hurdles in 7.66.

For Schalick, in addition to Stewart, junior Salvatore Longo cleared 12-0 for the first time indoors or outdoors to place 6th in the pole vault.

Haddon Township senior Jacob George, the Group 1 sectional champ, placed 2nd in the pole vault with a 13-0 clearance, and junior Shaun Maloney ran 2:04.25 for 6th in the 800.

In addition to Crawford, Woodstown junior Jacob Marino ran 10:15.17 for 3rd place in the 3,200. Gateway junior David Houck and Glassboro sophomore Lucas Kudless took 5th and 6th in that 3,200, Houck in 10:21.78 and Kudless rn 10:21.99 for 6th.

Clayton senior Pedro Ibarra threw a lifetime-best 45-5 ½ for 6th in the shot put.

Junior Natalie Dumas won the 400 and 800 and anchored the winning 4-by-4 and the Eastern girls won their first indoor state title Saturday at the Bubble in Toms River.

In the 400, Dumas ran 56.04 to edge sophomore Rhia Randolph of West Orange, last year’s indoor Meet of Champions winner as a freshman at Union Catholic. Randolph was 2nd in 56.24.

In the 800, Dumas ran 2:13.81 and ran away from Manalapan’s Jessica Abbott in what wound up as a pivotal finish in the final team standings.

Manalapan and Eastern both scored 30 points to share the team title. Going into the relay, Manalapan had 30 points and Eastern had 20, so Eastern needed to win the 4-by-4 while Manalapan didn’t score to deliver the team title to the Vikings. Manalapan wound up getting DQ’d in an earlier section but would have had to run 4:07.02 to score and they have a season best of 4:11.78.

Eastern took care of the relay with junior Adriana Marella, senior Samantha Osei-Kyei and senior Jasmine Davies setting up Dumas. Eastern won the 4-by-4 in 4:01.66, finishing eight meters ahead of Kingsway, who was 2nd in 4:02.97.

Ridgewood finished 3rd with 24 points and Washington Township 4th with 18 points. Eastern is the first South Jersey school to win Group 4 since Rancocas Valley in 2017.

For Washington Township, senior Dakota Jones won the hurdles in 8.28 becoming the Minutemaids’ 1st indoor state champ in eight years, since Kami Joi Hickson in the 800 back in 2017.

Junior Cali Lacovara placed 3rd in the pole vault with a 10-6 clearance, matching her indoor PR, and senior Ella Karp placed 5th in the shot put with a 40-7 ¾ throw.

Kingsway’s 2nd-place 4-by-4 team consisted of seniors Jonelle Lewis, senior Camryn Stanard, freshman Noemi Haller and sophomore Norah Brown.

Lewis also placed 6th in the 55 in 7.32 after a PR 7.20 in the trials that is tied for 9th-fastest in Gloucester County history. Haller also placed 6th in the 400 in 59.48.

For Cherokee, junior Alyssa Suriano ran a nearly four-second indoor-outdoor PR of 2:19.95 to place 5th in the 800, junior Madeline Meder ran an indoor PR 11:21.91 for 5th in the 3,200, and freshman Erin Healy ran an 18-second 3,200 PR 11:23.27 for 6th place.

Atlantic County Tech sophomore Brianna Growalt placed 3rd in the hurdles in 8.53.

Also, Rancocas Valley senior Milena Otoo cleared 10-0 for 5th in the pole vault, and Williamstown senior Addison Inge tied for 6th in the high jump with a 5-2 clearance.

Norfolk State sophomore Premier Wynn from Pennsauken led all qualifiers to the 400-meter dash finals at the MEAC Championships Sunday at the Armory.

Wynn ran a season-best 47.32 in the trials, and he’ll be in Lane 5 in the final, which is scheduled for 1:20 p.m. Monday.

Wynn ran within half a second of his 400 PR of 46.82 from last year’s MEAC meet at the Virginia Beach Sports Center.

Wynn also ran a PR 21.25, the 2nd-fastest qualifying time in the 200. His previous PR was a 21.42 when he placed 5th at last year’s MAAC Championships. The 200 final is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, so will be a short recovery period before that 200.

Norfolk State is the top seed in the 4-by-4 at 3:07.75, and Wynn is listed as the second leg for the final, which is scheduled for 3:20 p.m. Monday.

Ajani Dwyer posted the fastest qualifying time in the 60-meter dash Sunday at the U.S. Championships at Ocean Breeze.

Dwyer, a Penn State freshman from Washington Township, ran 6.54, lowering his PR from 6.55, which he ran at Bucknell in December. His time is 6th-fastest among U.S. men this year.

Dwyer tied the Penn State school record set by Olympian Cheickna Traore at last year’s Big Ten Championships in Geneva, Ohio.

Running in the first of three semifinal races, Dwyer finished just ahead of 2018 World Championship medalist and 2021 Olympian and Ronnie Baker, who ran 6.57.

According to the World Athletics database, Dwyer’s time equals the 2nd-fastest ever by a U.S. sprinter in the Under-20 age group, behind only D’Angelo Cherry, who ran 6.52 in Boston at the 2009 U.S. Championships. Dwyer, 18, turns 19 in May.

Dwyer’s time is only 1-100th off the fastest time ever run by a New Jersey sprinter over 60 meters. In 1994, Edgewood graduate Dennis Mitchell ran 6.53 in a meet in Stuttgart, Germany.

The 60 final is scheduled for 2:54 p.m. Sunday.

For the first time in 19 years, Woodstown has a state champion. And Joshua Crawford has a county record.

Crawford, a Woodstown junior, ran a lifetime-best 1:59.01 and edged Shore Regional sophomore Brady McHugh by two meters to win the 800 at the state Group 1 championships Sunday at the Bubble in Toms River.

He’s Woodstown’s first indoor state champion since Brendan McDonough won the 800 in 2:00.42 at the 2006 state Group 1 meet at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym.

He broke the Salem County indoor record of 1:59.21 set at 2020 Group 1 states at the Bubble by Schalick’s Greg McGuire.

This is Crawford’s first time under two minutes indoors. His previous PR was 2:01.51 when he won sectionals last weekend. He ran 1:59.49 last spring at Group 1 states in Somerset.

Senior teammate Cole Lucas placed 4th in the same race in 2:02.59, giving the Wolverines 14 points in the 800.

Penns Grove’s Jaymes Dennison set the Salem County outdoor record of 1:52.97 at the 2013 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield. He went on to run 1:47.63 at a meet in Tempe, Ariz., in 2017 as an Iowa State junior. That’s 4th-fastest ever by a South Jersey high school graduate.

Mariah Stephens of Egg Harbor Township popped a long jump lifetime best 19-10 ¼ to win the MAAC title and smash the Rider school record Saturday at the Armory.

Stephens, a Rider senior, jumped 19-10 ¼ on her only legal jump of the competition to win her 11th MAAC individual title.

Her previous best was a 19-7 ½ earlier this month at Ocean Breeze. She broke the school record of 19-8 ¾ set by another Atlantic County jumper, Holy Spirit graduate Asia Young, at the 2018 MAAC championships at the Armory. The only superior jump in Rider history is Raisa Thunig’s outdoor school-record 20-1 ½ in a meet in Lawrenceville in 2023.

Stephens also leads all qualifiers into Sunday’s hurdles final with an 8.60, just off her lifetime-best 8.57 from the prelims at the 2023 MAAC Championships, also at the Armory. That 8.57 is No. 2 in school history behind Sara Gardner’s 8.41 at the 2019 MAAC meet at the Armory.

Stephens also found time to jump in the 60-meter dash trials and PR’d with a 7.60, which is also No. 2 in school history, behind only Tierra Taylor’s 7.57 at the 2017 MAAC meet at the Armory. She’s the No. 3 qualifier in the dash, just ahead of teammate Dylan Giloley, a freshman from Washington Township, who ran 7.67. She’s already No. 4 in school history with her 7.66 from December at the Ott Center. Giloley also advanced in the 200 with a 25.12.

Absegami’s Diamond McLaughlin, a senior at St. Peter’s, ran 57.37 in the 400 trials and is the No. 3 seed going into the final.

In the men’s meet, Rider freshman Damere Lassiter of Glassboro threw 53-9 to place 5th in the weight throw.

Willingboro’s remarkable Nester Wea won three more state titles this weekend, giving her eight so far in her high school track career.

Wea has etched her name alongside the Willingboro greats like Carol Lewis, Okechi Ogbuokiri and Shakirah Rutherford with her consistency and versatility over a number of years, and Saturday was no different.

Wea ran a lifetime-best 7.14 to win the 55-meter dash, an indoor-PR 56.32 to win the 400 and another PR 8.33 to win the 55-meter hurdles Saturday at the state Group 2 meet at the Bubble in Toms River.

Willingboro also won the 4-by-4 in 4:04.13 and as always the Bubble results don’t list relay legs, so we’re not sure who ran – blame the Bubble for that – but presumably Wea was on the anchor leg. If anybody reading this has Willingboro’s lineup please let us know in the comment section! Thanks!

Rumson Fair-Haven edged Willingboro 48-42 for the team title. Sophomore Maya Bolden also scored for the Chimeras, placing 5th in the 55 in a PR 7.26 after a PR 7.29 in the trials.

Haddonfield placed 3rd with 25 points, led by senior Rebecca Hoover, who after winning the pole vault title had the bar moved to 12-6 ½, which she cleared to break the meet record of 12-6 set in 2008 by Chrissy Finkel of Montville. Of course, no field series info on the terrible Bubble results platform. Welcome to 2006.

Hoover has a 12-8 outdoor clearance at the Camden County Championships at Haddon Township in May, but the 12-6 ½ is an indoor PR. That’s No. 4 in South Jersey history, behind Shawnee’s Danielle O’Reilly, who set the then national record of 13-5 at the Armory in 2004, Moorestown’s Hannah Byrd-Leitner – who cleared 13 feet on Saturday to win the state Group 3 title – and Delsea’s Ashley Preston [12-7 in 2018]

Any decent results site should have relay names, full splits, full field series information and live updates in all events. The Bubble has none of these things. Among other things. Like the ability to actually watch a race. The day New Jersey moves its sectional and state meets out of that place will be a great day for New Jersey track and field.

Anyway. Junior Riley Austin ran an indoor-outdoor PR of 2:16.82 to place 3rd in a loaded 800, sophomore Nina Fisicaro was 3rd in the vault at 9-6, senior Tylin Regan ran 5:25.61 for 6th in the 1,.600 and senior Dylan Melcher 11:29.60 for 6th in the 3,200. Haddonfield’s 4-by-4 – sorry, no names available – was 6th in 4:12.99.

Amazing Pleasantville freshman Isabella Alvaraz single-handedly scored 22 points with a wild triple – she won the shot put at 36-8 ¾, placed 2nd in the hurdles in 8.47 and took 4th in the high jump at 5-4.

Lindenwold junior Egypt Bolan won her 1st state title with a 5-6 clearance in the high jump. She’s cleared at least 5-6 in her last five meets.

Haddon Heights senior Jayla Criss placed 4th in the dash with a PR 7.26, and Sterling senior Ashe DeWalt, a state medalist outdoors last spring in the discus, placed 4th in the shot put with a 35-1 ¼.

Ocean City’s Elaina Syyer turned into a fantastic performance on Day 1 of the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships at the Ott Center.

Styer, a sophomore at Stockton, won the one-day five-event pentathlon with a whopping 3,628 points. She won by over 700 points.

Styer had the top mark in all five events, which were contested over about 4 1/2 hours, and she PR’d in four of them, recording an indoor PR in the 5th.

Styer opened up with a personal-best 9.09 in the 60-meter hurdles, good for 891 points. She didn’t contest the open hurdles, but that 9.09 would have been the 2nd-fastest qualifying time for Sunday’s final. Her previous PR was a 9.14 in a meet in Rochester last month.

Up next was the high jump and Styer PR’d again with a 5-5 1/4 clearance on her 1st attempt. The high jump earned Styer 806 points.

Then it was off to the shot put, where she threw 31-10 1/4 and 31-5 1/4 on her first two attempts before a 33-8 PR on her final throw that was worth 546 points. Her previous PR was a 31-11 1/2 in a meet at Lehigh in December.

The long jump is one of Styer’s strongest events – she jumped 17-9 at Ocean City and was 4th at Group 3 states in the spring of 2023 – and on her 2nd of three attempts she hit 17-1 1/4, an indoor lifetime best. Her previous indoor PR was a 17-0 3/4 in a meet last week at the same facility. The 17-1 1/4 was worth 617 points.

In the concluding 800, Styer ran another PR with a 2:24.18, closing in 34.07 over her final 200. She picked up 768 points in the 800. Her previous 800 PR was 2:25.03 in a multi last February at Ithaca as a freshman at Cornell.

Styer is entered in the high jump on Sunday and is also listed in Stockton’s 4-by-4 lineup.

With an all-South Jersey lineup, Rowan shattered the NCAA Division 3 800-meter relay record Saturday afternoon at the Ott Center.

Sophomore Eli Hendricks of Penn Grove, junior Masai Byrd of Rancocas Valley, senior Robert McKinney of Highland and freshman Rajhan Dixon of Eastern ran 1:25.45, which shattered the NCAA Division 3 record of 1:25.86 set by Rowan at the Armory in March of 2023. Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran, Amara Conte, Nana Agyemang and Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley set the previous record.

Rowan’s time is 6th-fastest in college track history, according to the USTFCCCA all-time list. It’s also No. 3 this year in the world and fastest by an American quartet.

The all-time collegiate top 10 looks like this:

1:24.70 … Penn State, 2013 [University Park, Pa.]
1:24.91 … Pitt, 2014 [University Park, Pa.]
1:25.05 … Rutgers , 2007 [University Park, Pa.]
1:25.18 … Arkansas, 1985 [?]
1:25.20 … Mississippi State, 2016 [New York]
1:25.24 …….. Pitt, 2014 [New York]
1:25.45 … Rowan, 2025 [Philadelphia]
1:25.47 … Charleston Southern, 2010 [?]
1:25.52 …….. Penn State, 2013 [University Park]
1:25.81 … South Carolina, 2013 [\New York]
1:25.86 … Rowan, 2023 [New York]
1:25.88 … Charleston Southern, 2008

(Interesting note about that 2007 Rutgers team. It was coached by Lenape graduate Lou Tomlinson and included Deptford graduate Bruce Owens in the lineup.)

Rowan broke the meet record of 1:26.43 set in 2023 by Agyemang, Beasley Corcoran and Conte.

The College of New Jersey placed 2nd in 1:26.24, which only Rowan has surpassed in NCAA Division 3 history. That’s now the No. 3 mark all-time in D-3.

Riverside’s Jamir Brown shattered the meet record in the trials with a 7.74. That’s the 2nd-fastest time in NCAA Division 3 history behind his own 7.72 in December at Ocean Breeze. The meet record was 7.92 set by teammate Kwaku Nkrumah in the previous semifinal race. Nkrumah broke his own meet record of 7.93 set last year at Ocean Breeze.

Rowan’s Marquise Young was the 3rd qualifier under 8 seconds with a 7.95, 1-100th of a second below his previous PR Brown, Nkrumah and Young are 1st, 11th and 15th in NCAA Division 3 history going into the final.

Rowan’s Jason Agyemang [8.00], Michael Lawrence [8.23] and Anaias Hughes of Willingboro [8.38] give Rowan the top six qualifiers going into Sunday’s hurdles final.

Also for Rowan:

—> Senior Matt Conway of Haddon Township dipped under 15 minutes for the first time, winning the 5,000 in 14:58.93, 3rd-fastest in meet history.

—> Junior Masai Byrd tied his PR and school record with a 6.84 in the 60 trials.

For Stockton:
—> Egg Harbor graduate Ahmad Fogg, a sophomore, won the long jump with a 23-4 on his first jump.

—> Bordentown graduate Carson Latham ran a lifetime-best 6.90 to advance to Sunday’s 60-meter dash final.

For TCNJ:

Salem graduate Jayden Wright, a junior, threw 50-1 3/4 for 2nd place in the shot put.

Senior Jayden Poteat won the 400 and placed 2nd in the 8900, senior Dominic Bassey was 2nd in the 800 and 5th in the 400 and both ran on the winning relay team as the Winslow boys won their first indoor state title in 21 years Saturday.

Winslow coasted to a 44-28 win over Colts Neck in the state Group 3 meet at the Bubble in Toms River. Winslow previous won Group 4 in 2003 and Group 3 in 2004.

Poteat won the 400 in 50.09, with senior KaRon Ali 4th in 50.87 and Bassey 5th in 51.00. And Bassey took 2nd – by 8-1,000ths of a second – in the 800 in 1:56.96 and ran 51.00 in the 400.

Junior Prince Owusu-Twum joined Ali, Bassey and Poteat on the winning 4-by-4, which ran 3:25.46.

Senior Kristopher Jackson placed 6th in the hurdles in 7.91, and senior David Duran ran 2:00.75 for 6th in the 800.

Depford senior Ryan Sanchez matched his lifetime-best 7.42 to win the hurdles, with junior teammate Larry Norman 5th in 7.87. Senior Neo Clark-Tabb, junior Kareem Brown, sophomore Xavion Holmes and Sanchez ran 3:31.78 for 4th in the relay.

Highland senior Jayden DeLeon cleared 6-8 to win the high jump.

Delsea junior Matt Littlehales ran 4:15.50 for 2nd in the 1,600. That’s No. 13 in South Jersey history and 4th-fastest on the all-time Gloucester County list. Senior Jonathan Harris threw 59-5 for 2nd in the shot put.

Hammonton shot putters Anthony Liakhnovich and Christian Medina placed 3rd and 5th, Liakhnovich with a 58-9 ¾ and Medina 52-4 ¼.

Timber Creek senior Jayson Ross took 4th in the shot put at 54-0, Mainland junior Chris Keena was 5th in the 55 in 6.55 and Shawnee ran 5th in the relay with seniors Brody Dillich, Nicholas Micklewright, Justin Robinson and Jake Howley running 3:33.35.