Washington Township’s Kanye Mills, a freshman at Point Park University, an NAIA school in Pittsburgh, won both hurdles races at the recent River States Conference championships at Robert Morris in Moon Township outside Pittsburgh.

Mills won the 110-meter highs in a slightly wind-aided 14.40 and won the 400-meter hurdles in 54.70. Both are PRs, although Mills’ wind-legal highs PR over the 42-inch barriers is 14.70 from a meet in March in Morgantown, W. Va.

The 14.70 broke the school record listed at 15.25 by Delsea graduate and current Point Park senior Damir Lomax last April in a meet at Slippery Rock, Pa. The 54.70 is No. 2 in school history behind a 53.74 by Malcolm Harris at the 2018 River States Conference meet in Pittsburgh. Mills also won the 60-meter hurdles at the conference indoor meet in February in Logan, Ohio.

Lomax placed 3rd in the hurdles finals in 15.28, 3rd in the 100 in 22.43 and ran the 2nd leg on the Pioneers’ winning 400-meter relay team, which ran 42.54. Mills and Lomax both ran on the 2nd-place 4-by-4, which ran 3:21.20, finishing 1-100th of a second behind Indiana University Kokomo.

Lomax was the 2021 River States indoor conference champ in the 60-meter highs and 400 and 2022 outdoor winner in the 100, 2023 indoor hurdles winner. He’s long jumped 22-5 for Point Park but did not long jump this spring.

Mills ran 14.54 over the 39-inch high school hurdles for Washington Township and 54.95 in the intermediates.

On the 2024 NAIA performance list, Mills ranks 17th in the 110 highs. There is literally nowhere on the NAIA track web site that says how many people qualify for the nationals, scheduled for May 22-24 at Indiana Wesleyan in Marion, Ind.

There are a couple other South Jersey athletes on Point Park’s track team. Senior Nasir Galloway of Woodbury placed 10th in the shot put at 42-10 ¼ and freshman Xavier Tolliver of Willingboro was 5th in the triple jump at 42-0 ½ and 11th in the long jump with a 20-1 ½.

Penns Grove graduate Eli Hendricks, whose high school PR was 22.53, ran a full second faster Monday at Widener.

Hendricks ran a wind-legal 21.45 at the Widener Final Qualifier in Chester, Pa., the 6th-fastest time in NCAA Division 3 this year. It’s also the fastest wind-legal time by any NJAC runner this year. His teammate, Rowan junior Amara Conte, ran 21.27 to win the conference title last week in Galloway Township with a 2.3 meters-per-second tailwind, but his wind-legal season-best is 21.81 in the NJAC trials.

That 21.45 ranks Hendricks 40th in NCAA Division 3 this year. The top 22 in each individual event qualify for the NCAA Division 3 National Championships. Right now, the cut-off is 21.18 (including wind-aided times). Rowan competes at the AARTFC Championships in Cortland, N.Y., on Wednesday and Thursday, the final qualifier for nationals.

Hendricks ran a wind-aided 21.38 to place 2nd in the conference meet, but his legal PR before today was a 22.03 at the College of New Jersey in Ewing in his only previous 200 this year with legal wind.

At Penns Grove, Hendricks had a windy 200 PR of 22.27, and he ran his legal PR of 22.53 this past June at the Meet of Champions in Somerset. He ran 11.07 in the 100 and was a state medalist indoors in the 60 and outdoors in both the 100 and 200.

Hendricks was 4th in the 200 at the indoor NJAC meet at Ocean Breeze with a 22.01 and ran a leg on Rowan’s winning 4-by-200. At the outdoor conference meet, he ran a 100 PR 10.87 for 5th and that windy 21.38 for 2nd in the 200 and also ran on the winning 4-by-1.

Highland graduate Robert McKinney, a Rowan junior, ran a PR 21.58 in the same race, and junior James Coleman of Audubon ran a PR 21.90.

Hendricks, Bridgeton’s Shamar Love, Agyemang and McKinney won the 400-meter relay in 40.98. Rowan ran slightly faster [40.86] last month with Rancocas Valley’s Masai Byrd, Love, Agyemang and Kingsway’s Evan Corcoran. Rowan ranks 18th in NCAA Division 3 and the top 16 teams go to the NCAA Championships. They’re currently 3-100ths of a second outside the top 16.

Camden Catholic gradaute Matt Coffey ran a big 5,000 PR Monday night in the Widener Final Qualifier in Chester, Pa.

Coffey, running unattached after finishing a grad year at St. Joe’s, ran 14:14.16 and placed 4th out of 88 runners. His previous PR was a 14:19.95 last month in Princeton.

Penn State’s Brian DiCola from Hatboro-Horsham High in Montgomery County won the race in 14:04.82.

Coffey, a Pennsauken native, is now up to 13th on my best attempt at an all-time South Jersey 5,000-meter run list, which has undergone major changes over the past few months. Who’s missing?

ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY 5,000-METER RUN LIST
13:44.57 … Jack Shea [Cherokee], April 29, 2022, Palo Alto, Calif.
13:48.61 …Karl Savage [Eastern], April 17, 2003, Walnut, Calif.
13:58.23 … Jon Anderson [Cinnaminson], April 23, 2009, Philadelphia
13:58.84 … Austin Gabay [Cinnaminson], March 28, 2024, Raleigh, N.C.
14:03.52 … Kevin McDonnell [Camden Catholic], April 5, 2013, Williamsburg
14:04.8h … Kevin Pumphrey [Highland], 1989, ???
14:06.23 … Sam Gerstenbacher [Schalick], April 29, 2022, Philadelphia
14:08.24 … Kevin Antczak [Mainland Regional], Feb. 22, 2024, Boston
14:09.10 … Andy Arnold [Bishop Eustace], April 4, 2014, San Francisco
14:09.37 … Jon Vitez [Haddonfield], March 30, 2012, Raleigh, N.C.
14:12.0h … Mike Elder [Haddon Twp.], 1977, ???
14:13.72 … Miles Schoedler [Ocean City], April 5, 2013, Williamsburg, Va.
14:14.02… Ethan Wechsler [Cherokee], April 19, 2024, Charlottesville, Va.
14:14.16 … Matt Coffey [Camden Catholic], May 13, 2024, Chester, Pa.
14:15.73 … Conor Melko [Bishop Eustace], May 15, 2021, Springfield, Mass.
14:15.94 … Sebastien Reed [Pitman], April 29, 2022, Philadelphia
14:16.10 … John Richardson [Ocean City], April, 2008, Palo Alto, Calif.
14:17.77 … Keith Krieger [Cherokee], April 6, 2007, Durham, N.C.
14:17.91 … Dennis Fortuna [Triton], April 25, 2024, Philadelphia
14:17.99 … Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], May 7, 2006, Storrs, Ct.
14:20.26 … Eric Lorenz [Holy Cross], 1992
14:20.39 … Thomas Cooke [Kingsway], 2021, Boston
14:21.54 … Kevin Antczak [Mainland Reg.], March 24, 2022, Raleigh, N.C.
14:23.12 … Mike Rankin [Paul VI], April 12, 2014, Fairfax, Va.
14:23.23 … Martin Riddell [Haddonfield], April 25, 2024, Philadelphia
14:24.46 … Seth Clevenger [Haddonfield], April 14, 2023, Asuza, Calif.
14:26.53 … Nick / Cole Pschunder [Eastern], March 2, 2019, Boston
14:26.90 … Aaron Groff [Cherry Hill East], Feb. 15, 2020, Boston
14:27.38 … Ben Woodward [Highland], March 5, 2022, Boston
14:28.30 … Colton Johnson [Paul VI], May 5, 2024, Fairfax, Va.
14:30.65 … Noah Deckert [Delsea], April 12, 2024, Princeton
14:31.31 … Paul Szulewski [Williamstown], April 13, 2013, Lewisburg, Pa.
14:32.01 … Joe Domanico [Haddon Township], Feb. 15, 2020, Boston

With Sterling’s Marquise Young and Pitman’s Nick Razze on the first two legs, Rowan ran one of the fastest 4-by-400 relays in NCAA Division 3 history Monday night.

Young and Razze ran the first two legs and Rowan won the 4-by-4 at the Widener Final Qualifier Meet in Chester, Pa., in 3:09.31.

That’s 16th-fastest in NCAA Division 3 history and No. 2 this year, only 4-100ths of a second behind Bethel of Arden Hills, Minn., which ran 3:09.27 at its own Bethel Invitational last month.

Rowan will race at the NCAA Division 3 Championships May 23-25 at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Unfortunately, no splits are available from Widener, which is ridiculous in this day and age, but Young led off, Razze – a transfer from McDaniel College in Westminster, Md., who hasn’t run an open 400 all spring – ran 2nd, Nana Agyemang of Parsippany ran the 3rd leg and Amara Conte of Ferris High in Jersey City anchored.

If anybody out there has splits, shoot ’em over my way!

Rowan’s time ranks 48th among all U.S. 4-by-4 teams this year.

The time is Rowan’s 2nd-fastest . The Profs ran a school-record 3:08.74 for 3rd place in the NCAA Division 3 Championships last May at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y. That was with Young, Agyemang, Jah’mere Beasley of Sterling and Conte.

All-Time NCAA Division 3 1,600-Meter List
3:07.24 … Mount Union, 2023, Rochester, N.Y. [Division 3]
3:07.42 … Lincoln [Pa.], 2005, Princeton, N.J. [IC4A]
3:07.78 … Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2004, Iowa City, Iowa [Musco Twilight]
3:07.82 … Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 2023, Rochester [Division 3]
3:08.10 … Mount Union, 2018, La Crosse, Wisc. [Division 3]
3:08.21 … Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2004, Decatur, Ill. [Division 3]
3:08.26 … Wesley, 2018, La Crosse, Wisc. [Division 3]
3:08.31 … Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2013, Des Moines, Iowa [Drake Relays]
3:08.34 … Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2023, Rock Island, Ill. [Augustana Twilight Qualifier]
3:08.55 … Lincoln [Pa.], 2006, Lisle, Ill. [Division 3]
3:08.67 … Lincoln [Pa.], 1996, ???
3:08.71 … Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2005, ???
3:08.74 … Rowan, 2023, Rochester [Division 3]
3:08.81 …..… Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2023 [Division 3]
3:09.18 … Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007, ???
3:09.20 …….. Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2013, La Crosse, Wisc. [Division 3]
3:09.26 …..… Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 2023, Rochester, N.Y. [Division 3]
3:09.27 … Bethel, 2024, Arden Hills, Minn. [Bethel Invitational]
3:09.31 … Rowan, 2024, Chester, Pa. [Widener Final Qualifier]
3:09.38 …….. Mount Union, 2023, Rochester, N.Y. [Division 3]
3:09.38 …….. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2023, Rochester, N.Y. [Division 3]
3:09.44 … John Carroll, 2023, Rochester [Division 3]
3:09.44 … Mount Union, 2022, Geneva, Ohio [Division. 3]
3:09.48 … Augustana, 2013, Des Moines, iowa [Drake Relays]

Cherokee senior Bobby Poplau broke a 19-year-old meet record and ran the 4th-fastest 800 in New Jersey this year, and he did it in a solo effort with nobody within 50 meters at the finish.

Poplau won the Burlington County Open 800 at Northern Burlington in 1:53.15, breaking the meet record of 1:53.58 set at Maple Shade in 2005 by Ian Waterhouse in his highly anticipated showdown with Bordentown’s Rob Novak, who went on to win the national 800 title in Greensboro.

Poplau broke the county record indoors with his 1:53.45 at Ocean Breeze, and he lowered it to 1:52.74 at Boston Nationals.

His time is No. 9 in Burlington County outdoor history and fastest in eight years, since Moorestown’s Kevin Fox ran 1:51.60 at 2016 Haddonfield Distance Night. It’s No. 1 this year in New Jersey Group 4.

Poplau took off at the gun and ran unpressed the entire race. Teammates Ben Realley, a freshman, and Tate Midora, a junior, placed 2nd and 3rd in 2:00.31 and 2:00.43, which was a PR for Midora

All-Time County Open 800 List
1:53.15 … Bobby Poplau [Cherokee], 2024
1:53.58 … Ian Waterhouse (Rancocas Valley), 2005
1:53.4h … Clayton Baloche (Lenape), 1992
1:53.5h … Vance Watson (Willingboro), 1983
1:53.84 … Dave Sitzer (Cherokee), 2000
1:54.14 … Rob Novak (Bordentown), 2005
1:54.91 … Marvin Lewis (Willingboro), 2001
1:54.94 … Colin Merrigan (Cherokee), 2012
1:55.0y … Art Milak (Bordentown), 1975
1:55.2y ……..Milak, 1974
1:55.23 … Patrick Ditmars (Cherokee), 2023

All-Time Burlington County Outdoor 800 List
1:49.84 … Rob Novak [Bordentown], 2005
1:50.8h … Vance Watson [Willingboro], 1983
1:52.1y … Greg Honsby [Rancocas Valley], 1974
1:52.37 … Matt Poskus [Cinnaminson], 2007
1:52.60 … Kevin Fox [Moorestown], 2016
1:52.65 … Ian Waterhouse [Rancocas Valley], 2004
1:52.94 … Keith Griffin [Florence], 2009
1:53.14 … Dave Sitzer [Cherokee], 2000
1:53.15 … Bobby Poplau [Cherokee], 2024
1:53.27 … Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], 2001
1:53.35 … Ahmad Rutherford [Willingboro], 2003
1:53.40 … Daveigh Brooks [Burlington City], 2016
1:53.3y … Tavo Rivera [Pemberton], 1977
1:53.57 … Isaiah Curbelo [Rancocas Valley], 2016
1:53.4y … Bryant Walker [Pemberton], 1983
1:53.4y … Clayton Baloche [Lenape], 1992
1:53.66 … Xavier Wright [Willingboro], 2011
1:53.78 … Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], 2001
1:53.84 … Ryan Garvin [Lenape], 2009

Millville’s Leah Howard, a Texas Tech true freshman, popped a javelin PR and the No. 3 throw in Red Raider history (we think) Friday morning at the Big 12 Championships in Waco, Texas.

Howard placed 6th in a loaded field with a 164-4 on her 3rd throw. Her previous PR was a 163-1 at last year’s Woodbury Relays.

Howard’s throw is No. 7 on the all-time South Jersey alumni list. There are 12 known 160-foot throwers from South Jersey.

She is tied for 36th among U.S. women with Alianna Eucker of Rutgers and Westwood High in Washington Township, Bergen County. Eucker threw 164-4 at the Penn Relays.

For some ridiculous  reason, Texas Tech’s web site doesn’t have an all-time performers list, only a top-10 performances list, which lists the same thrower 10 times. That’s truly idiotic. They do have a year-by-year list that shows only two women ahead of Howard – Hannah Carson, the 2016 Olympic Trials runner-up, threw 200-9 in 2016 and Callie Jones 165-3 in 2002.

But that doesn’t account for the possibility of someone throwing between 164-5 and those marks. I went through the “all performances” section on TFRRS for each year Texas Tech had a woman at 164-4 or over but the best mark I found was a 164-0 by Natalie Baker in 2016, so apparently Howard is No. 3 in school history.

Her 164-4 would also be No. 2 in Texas Tech history among freshmen, behind Carson’s 171-1 at the 2013 Clyde Littlefield Relays in Austin. Carson competed in one meet in 2012 in Tucson as a true freshman and threw 166-10.

Howard’s throw makes her No. 45 in NCAA Division 1 this year and No. 9 among freshmen. It’s not clear whether she’ll turn 20 before or after midnight Dec. 31. If she doesn’t, she’ll be eligible for U.S. Under-20 Nationals.

https://tf.tfrrs.org/lists/4515/2024_NCAA_Division_I_All_Schools_Rankings?gender=f

On Friday, Howard opened with a 146-11 and 159-1 before finishing the trials with her new PR. She finished with another 160-foot throw – 160-4 – a foul and then a 153-2.

169-9 … Kelly Yanucil [Bordentown], April 29, 2006, Philadelphia
169-3 … Lynlee Phillips [Shawnee], May 5, 2000, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
168-6 … Brielle Smith [Oakcrest], April 20, 2019, Woodbury, N.J.
168-0 … Maria Jiminez [Vineland], May 13, 2016, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
166-6 … Danielle Steff [Rancocas Valley], April 10, 2021, Lawrenceville, N.J.
166-4 … Megan Sax Vander Weyden [Pennsville], May 11, 2018, Waco, Texas
164-4 … Leah Howard [Millville], May 11, 2024, Waco, Texas
163-5 … Heather Juhring [Kingsway], March 21, 2015, Winston Salem, N.C.
162-7 … Faith Blamon [Cinnaminson], May 6, 2017, Lawrenceville, N.J.
161-7 … Brenna Smith [Haddon Twp.], April 21, 2018, Durham, N.C.
161-1 … Katherine Johnston [Haddonfield], May 14, 2017, University Park, Pa.
160-4 … Alexa Gardner [Hammonton], May 26, 2022, Bloomington, Ind.

Jason Nwosu, a William and Mary sophomore from Delsea, won his 2nd straight conference shot put title over the weekend and placed in two other events.

Nwosu won the shot put with a 55-9 ¼, placed 3rd in the discus at 160-11 and took 5th in the hammer with a 180-2 at the Coastal Athletic Conference Championships in Elon, N.C.

In the shot, Nwosu won by three inches over Carlos Alexander of North Carolina A&T, who threw 55-6 1/4. Nwosu hit his 55-9 ¼ on his 1^st attempt. He has a PR of 57-11 ¾ from the Colonial Relays in Williamsburg, Va., last month. Nwosu won the shot at last year’s CAA meet (then the Colonial Athletic Conference) at William and Mary with a 54-6.

In the discus, Nwosu threw 160-11 on his 5th attempt and finished behind two North Carolina A&T throwers – junior Brayden Hodgest won with a 166-3, and Alexander took 2nd at 163-6. Nwosu threw his PR 163-5 at the Wake Forest Invitational last month in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Nwosu just missed his PR in the hammer with his 180-2 for 5th. He threw 181-11 at the CNU Blue & Silver Challenge at Christopher Newport in Newport News, Va., in March.

Nwosu ranks 3rd in William and Mary history in the shot, 8th in the discus and 10th in the hammer.

William and Mary placed 5th with 95 points, and Nwosu scored 18 of them.

Bryce Tucker, a true freshman from Pennsauken, won the 400-meter hurdles at the Big Ten Championships Sunday in Ann Arbor, Mich., with the 2nd-fastest time in Rutgers history.

Tucker ran a lifetime-best 50.61 and beat a loaded field that included Rutgers school record holder Jameson Woodell from Hunterdon Central and two other Burlington County runners – Rutgers freshman Lathan Brown from Deptford and senior Micah Wood from Rancocas Valley.

Tucker topped Illinois senior Robert Williams by five meters. Williams was 2nd in 51.24.

Woodell set the Rutgers school record of 49.82 at the NCAA East Prelims in Bloomington, Ind., in May 2022.

The No. 5 and 6 freshmen in NCAA Division 1 are now Tucker and his Pennsauken teammate Premier Wynn of Norfolk State, who ran 50.72 last weekend in the MEAC Championships.

Tucker’s previous lifetime-best was 50.96 from this past June in South Plainfield, when he won his 3rd consecutive Meet of Champions title.

His time is fastest by a South Jersey runner since Winslow graduate Reuben McCoy ran 50.07 at the Clermont (Fla.) Star Athletics Sprint Meet on June 7, 2014.

On the World Athletics Under-20 world list, Tucker drops to No. 5 in the world and No. 2 American, behind Xavier Branker, who ran 50.41 in Atlanta on Saturday. Wynn should be No. 8 and No. 3 American but is not currently listed. Both Tucker and Wynn are eligible for U.S. Under-20 Championships in Eugene next month.

Tucker broke the University of Michigan Track and Field Stadium record of 51.36 set in 2019 by Taylor McLaughlin from Scotch Plains, N.J., older brother of Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin.

He’s the first Rutgers runner ever to win the Big Ten intermediates.

All-Time South Jersey Alumni 400-Meter Hurdles List
48.37 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], June 28, 2008, Eugene, Ore.
48.86 … Fred Sharpe [Paulsboro], May 18, 2003, Knoxville, Tenn.
49.50 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], June 12, 2003, Sacramento
50.04 … Mike Brown [Lenape], June 12, 2002, Holmdel, N.J.
50.52 … Martin Booker [Camden], May 12, 1984, Philadelphia
50.61 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], May 12, 2024, Ann Arbor, Mich.
50.65 … Aaron Younger [Delsea], May 28, 2010, Greensboro, N.C.
50.69 … Danyne Brown [Camden], May 30, 2003, Fairfax, Va.
50.72 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], May 8, 2024, Norfolk, Va.
50.84 … Nick Brown [Bridgeton], July 16, 2005, New York

A day after running a PR of 2:07.91, Shelby Whetstone ran two seconds faster.

Whetstone, a Rutgers senior from Lenape, placed 5th at the Big Ten Championships Sunday in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 2:05.58.

Her PR for two years had been 2:08.02 from a meet in Palo Alto, Calif., in April 2022, but she trimmed it to 2:07.91 in the Big Ten trials on Saturday and then had a huge breakthrough Sunday in her final conference meet.

Whetstone’s 2:05.58 is 2nd-fastest in Rutgers history, behind Kassidy Johnson’s 2:02.35 at the 2023 Tom Jones in April 2023 in Gainesville.

Her time is 7th-fastest all-time by a South Jersey native and fastest since Rancocas Valley graduate Kimarra McDonald ran 2:02.76 on July 12, 2017, at the Lignano Sabbiadoro Meeting International Sport Solidarieta at Guido Teghil Stadium in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy.

1:59.85 … Michelle DiMuro [Shawnee], June 17, 1996, Atlanta
1:59.99 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], July 13, 2010, Liège, Belgium
2:02.20 … Kimarra McDonald [Rancocas Valley], June 2, 2012, Nashville
2:02.49 … Krista Ferrara [Vineland], June 25, 2006, Indianapolis
2:03.34 … Greta Feldman [Haddonfield], June 15, 2013, Indianapolis
2:03.88 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], May 13, 2012, Baton Rouge, La.
2:05.06 … Renee Tomlin [Ocean City], May 31, 2013, West Chester, Pa.
2:05.58 … Shelby Whetstone [Lenape], May 12, 2024, Ann Arboro, Mich.
2:06.15 … Sydney Coppolino [Sterling], May 13, 2022, Durham, N.C.
2:07.18 … Kristen Neidrach [Shawnee], Kortrijk, Belgium, July 10, 2021

Jamir Brown on Saturday became the first Riverside athlete to double at the Burlington County Open in 54 years, and he did it with a meet record in one event and a big PR in another.

Brown won the high hurdles in 13.75, breaking the meet record of 13.76 set in 2012 by Willingboro’s Isaac Williams, and he won the long jump with a 23-0 ½, nearly a foot beyond his PR of 22-1 ¼ from last week at the South Jersey Elite at Delsea.

Brown is only the second Riverside boy in meet history to win two events the same year and the first since Dean Van Ness won the shot put at 56-7 ½ and the discus at 136-5 in the 1970 meet at Bordentown.

He’s the first Riverside boy to win any event at a County meet since Michael Ramos won the intermediate hurdles in 2015.

Brown won the intermediates as a Delran sophomore in the spring of 2022 and didn’t compete last year. He’s the first Riverside boy to win either the high hurdles or long jump in County Open history.

Brown PR’d in the high hurdles earlier this month at the South Jersey Elite at Delsea with a 13.67 – No. 13 in state history, No. 6 in South Jersey history and No. 2 in New Jersey this year behind Washington Township’s Yashahya Brown, who ran 13.50 at South Jersey Elite with Jamir Brown chasing him. He’s No. 10 nationally with his 13.67 according to the MileSplit national database.

He’s also No. 1 in state history among Group 1 hurdlers, his 13.67 breaking the record of 13.95 set by Haddon Heights’ Kevin White at 1992 states at South Plainfield.

Brown’s 23-foot long jump was the best at the County Open in 16 years, since Cherokee’s Chris Steliga went 23-3 ½ at the 2008 meet at Maple Shade. It’s 10th on the all-time Open performance list. Brown is now 5th in New Jersey in the long jump and No. 2 in South Jersey behind Moorestown’s Rece Englehart, who jumped 23-11 ½ at South Jersey Elite.

All-Time Burlington County Open Long Jump List
24-1 ½ … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1989
23-7 ½ … Matt Rose [Bordentown], 1984
23-7 ……. Jerry Mathis [Kennedy], 1984
23-5 ………… Reynolds, 1990
23-4 ¾ ………Mathis, 1985
23-3 ½… Isaac Samuels [Kennedy], 1982
23-3 ½ … Chris Steliga [Cherokee], 2008
23-1 ¾… Marv Forchion [Willingboro], 1986
23-0 ½ ………. Samuels, 1983
23-0 ½ … Jamie Brown [Riverside], 2024
23-0 ……. Louis Smith [Burlington Twp], 1997

All-Time Riverside County Open Champions
[since meet was revived in 1967]
1970….. Dean Van Ness (Riverside), Discus [136-5]
1970….. Dean Van Ness (Riverside), Shot Put [56-7 ½]
1975….. Steve Ogorzalek (Riverside), Shot Put [51-2]
1982 ….. Dan Dmochoski (Riverside), 400-Meter Hurdles [52.2q]
1984 ….. Tom Williams (Riverside), Pole Vault [12-6]
1991 ….. Ron Brock (Riverside), 1,600-Meter Run [4:23.6]
2003 ….. Marcin Pawelek (Riverside), Triple Jump [41-11 ½]
2015……Michael Ramos (Riverside), 400-Meter Hurdles [56.00]

All-Time New Jersey 110-Meter Hurdles List
13.40 … Nathaniel Rayan [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 2023
13.43 … Danyne Brown [Camden], 1999
13.46 … Cory Poole [East Orange], 2017
13.50 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2023
13.51 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 2019
13.52 … Todd Matthews [Notre Dame], 1998
13.55 … Jaheem Hayles [Roselle], 2019
13.59 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990
13.62 … Chris Stephens [Plainfield], 2001
13.66 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 1997
13.66 … Emmanuel Daux [Linden], 2001
13.67 … Jermaine Collier [Trenton], 2012
13.67 … Jamir Brown [Riverside], 2024