Washington Township senior Yashahya Brown got the South Jersey Elite  off to a scintillating start with the 4th-fastest hurdles time in New Jersey history.

In the 110-meter hurdles trials, Brown ran 13.50 with a legal 1.4 meters-per-second wind.

That breaks the hallowed Gloucester County record of 13.66 set by Delsea’s Sultan Tucker when he placed 2nd to Notre Dame’s Todd Matthews at the 1997 Meet of Champions at South Plainfield and is No. 2 in South Jersey history, behind Danyne Brown of Camden, who ran 13.43 at the 1999 state Group 4 meet, also at South Plainfield.

Brown’s previous PR was 13.82 at West Philly Nationals last June.

Riverside senior Jamir Brown ran a huge PR 13.93, which is No. 3 in Burlington County history behind two Willingboro legends – Gerard Reynolds ran a then-state-record 13.59 in 1990 and Isaac Williams ran 13.76 in 1996.

Williamstown senior Alexander Holliman [14.05], Willingboro senior Eric Foster [14.27] and Oakcrest senior Clayton Husta [14.33] all ran under 14.40.

The final is coming up later tonight at Delsea.

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 Hayes [Roselle], 2019
13.59 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990

All-Time South Jersey 110-Meter Hurdles List
13.43 … Danyne Brown [Camden], 1999
13.50 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2023
13.51 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 2019
13.59 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990
13.66 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 1997
13.73 … Kevin Hagamin [Timber Creek], 2014
13.74 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], 2001
13.75 … Rashad Baker [Wilson], 2000
13.76 … Nate Harley [Pleasantville], 1996
13.76 … Isaac Williams [Willingboro], 2012
13.77 … Anthony Acklin [Triton], 2001
13.81 … Scot McCray [Camden], 1997
13.81 … Jeff Young [Wilson], 1999
13.87 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], 2023
13.90 … Edwin Alston [Winslow Twp.], 2015
13.92 … Enrquie Llanos [Woodrow Wilson], 1999
13.93 … Malachi Wesley [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2022
13.93 … Jamir Brown [Riverside], 2024
13.94 … Harold Lathan [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2009
13.95 … Naseem Smith [Deptford], 2019
13.95 … Kevin White [Haddon Heights], 1992
13.96 … Devon Carter [Washington Twp.], 2010
13.96 … Jeffrey Young [Woodrow Wilson], 1999
13.97 … Scot McCray [Camden], 1996
13.97 … Will Brown [Palmyra], 2006
13.97 … Syteek Farrington [Camden], 2010
13.99 … Herb Reid [Lenape], 2000

Malachi James is 6th-fastest in state history at 100 meters. Ajani Dwyer is 14th-fastest in state history.

They’re two of the fastest sprinters in the country, two of the fastest in South Jersey history, the two-fastest in New Jersey ths year, and they’ve never raced each other outdoors.

That ends Thursday night when James, a senior at Burlington City, And Dwyer, a senior at Washington Township, are both scheduled to run the 100 at the South Jersey Elite at Delsea.

Dwyer didn’t compete in track as a freshman or sophomore, and his outdoor season ended early, before sectionals. He got hurt late in the indoor season and hasn’t raced in a major meet since Millrose in early February.

James missed the entire 2023 outdoor season with a severe hamstring injury suffered in the finals of the 55 at the South Jersey Group 1 indoor meet at the Bubble.

So far this spring, James has only run hot at the USATF New York Youth Challenge Series Opener, where he ran PRs of 10.40 and 21.13.

James and Dwyer did meet three times indoors this past winter. At the Ocean Breeze Holiday Festival in late December, Brown ran 6.33 and James 6.36 in the 55. At the Millrose Games Trials at the Armory, Dwyer ran a state-record 6.18 for 55 meters and James 6.42, both qualifying for the Millrose finals in February, where Dwyer ran 6.76 and James 6.78, placing 2nd and 3rd behind LSU football signee Jelani Watkins of Atoscocito High in Houston, who ran 6.68.

But James won the Meet of Champions in 6.22 – the 2nd-fastest time in state history – and also ran a N.J. all-time No. 2 6.71 at Ocean Breeze. He went on to place 2nd at Armory Nationals at 60 meters in 6.79.

So through indoor season, here are their PRs and all-time New Jersey rankings:

Malachi James
55: 6.22 [#2]
60: 6.71 [#5]
100: 10.40 [#6]
200: 21.13 [#8]

Ajani Dwyer
55: 6.18 [#1]
60: 6.76 [#8]
100: 10.48 [#14]
200: 21.25 [#15]

The 100 will be run as a trials and final Thursday evening. The boys 100 trials will follow the boys and girls hurdles trials and probably start around 6:20 p.m. Finals start at 6:30 p.m., with the intermediates, 1,600, 400 and high hurdles finals preceding the 100 final.

The South Jersey Elite carries the lineage of the old South Jersey Invitational, which began in 1992 at Eastern, and we consider it the same meet with a slightly different name. The meet record is 10.57 going back to 2010 by Timber Creek’s Damiere Byrd, who has spent the last eight years in the NFL with the Panthers, Cards, Patriots, Bears and Falcons.

Other top seeds in the 100 are Pennsauken senior Elijah Jennings [10.84], Washington Township junior John Santos [10.91], Cherokee senior Ryan Bender [10.94], Washington Township senior Yashahya Brown [10.96], Delsea senior Julian Conigliaro [10.97] and Willingboro senior Rae-Juan Gayle [10.99].

Dwyer is also entered in the 200, along with Conigliaro [21.71] and Woodbury junior Marquis Taylor [21.98].

Complete entry list is here.

Here’s a look at the fastest 100 times in meet history:

10.57 … Damiere Byrd (Timber Creek) 2010
10.61 …….. Byrd, 2011
10.62 …….. Byrd, 2011
10.64 … Jeremy Cooper (Kingsway), 1997
10.67 … Fabian Santiago (Oakcrest), 2011
10.68 …….. Santiago, 2012
10.71 … Albert Newkirk (Camden), 1997
10.73 … Jonathan Taylor (Salem), 2016
10.75 … Jamaal Harris (Palmyra), 2002
10.75 … Thomas Hampton (Clayton), 2019
10.77 …….. Santiago, 2012
10.78 … Jamil Benjamin (Cumberland Reg.), 2006
10.79 … Santiago, 2010
10.79 …….. Taylor, 2016
10.80 … Darnell Charles (Oakcrest), 2012
10.81 … Anthony Averett (Woodbury), 2012
10.81 …… Miekel House (Delran), 2019
10.83 …… Hampton, 2019
10.84 …… House, 2019
10.85 …… Sahmir Jones (Pleasantville), 2019
10.85 …… D.J. Germann (Egg Harbor Twp.), 2022
10.85q …….. Germann, 2022
10.87q … James Burrus (Moorestown), 2022
10.92q … Malachi Melton [Cedar Creek], 2019
10.93 … Samuel Thomas (Northern Burlington), 2022
10.95q …….. Thomas, 2022
10.96q … Ziyan Smith (Delsea), 2022
10.97 …….. Smith, 2022
10.99 …….. Jones, 2019
10.99 …… Burrus (Moorestown), 2022
10.99 … J’Nathan Silver (Washington Twp.), 2022

Some other absolutely loaded events:

Boys 400 [six seeds under 50], boys 800 [seven under 2:00], boys hurdles [four at 14.34 or faster], boys pole vault [five at 14-0 or better], boys long jump [three 22-footers], boys triple jump [six 44-footers], boys discus [six 160-footers], boys shot put [four 57-footers], girls 100 [three under 12], girls 200 [five under 25], girls 400 [five under 58, 12 under 60], girls 800 [seven under 2:20], girls 1,600 [five at 5:07 or faster, 15 under 5:19], girls high jump [four at 5-5 or better], girls pole vault [two 12-footers], girls long jump [eight 17-footers], girls discus [three at 130 or better], girls javelin [four at 122 or better] and girls shot put [three 40-footers].

Cherokee’s Benjamin Realley shattered the South Jersey freshman 3,200 record Tuesday night at the Holmdel Twilight Series Night of 3200s.

Realley placed 11th out of 446 runners, covering eight laps at Holmdel High in 9:21.01. The previous South Jersey freshman record was 9:27.73 set by Realley’s current teammate, Cherokee senior Nick Kuenkel, at the 2021 state Group 4 meet in Somerset.

Realley’s previous PR was 9:32.85 on his home track at the Cherokee Night of 3200s on April 12.

Incredibly, his time is No. 10 in Cherokee history, and that’s a program with one of the richest distance traditions of any New Jersey high school.

Realley has run 4:27.45 full mile this spring and indoors ran 1:59.75 for 800 meters. He’s fastest in New Jersey among freshman in the 1,600 and 3,200 and No. 2 in the 800.

South Jersey’s top finisher was Glassboro senior Elijah Whitaker in his first race this spring. Whitaker ran a massive PR and Glassboro school record of 9:20.27, dropping more than half a minute from his 9:52.60 from indoor South Jersey Group 1 sectionals at the Bubble in February. Whitaker’s time is No. 11 in Gloucester County history, just about a second outside the top 10.

Cherokee sophomore Logan Bromley finished just behind Whitaker and Realley in a huge PR of his own at 9:21.24. He ran 9:36.40 at Cherokee earlier this month. His time is 2nd-fastest by a New Jersey sophomore this year.

Another Cherokee runner, junior Liam Tindall, placed 17th in 9:29.89, an outdoor PR, and another Glassboro runner, junior Ty Blackman, ran a 16-second PR of 9:38.24.

Junior Enzo Corona [9:49.46], freshman Sean Sooy [9:50.98] and junior Benjamin Weiner [9:55.10] made it six Cherokee runners under 10 minutes. Their former PRs were 10:29.39 for Corona, 10:07.93 for Sooy and 10:06.81 for Weiner.

All-Time Burlington County 3,200 List
9:01.89 … Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 2002
9:04.05 … Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 2013
9:08.22 … Jon Anderson [Cinnaminson], 2004
9:09.27 … David Forward [Shawnee], 2009
9:09.80 … Todd Campbell [Cinnaminson], 2009
9:10.90 … Ethan Wechsler (Cherokee), 2019
9:11.32 … Michael Ungvarsky (Cinnaminson), 2017
9:11.8y … Henry Englehardt (Willingboro), 1976
9:12.1y … Mark Strucko (Rancocas Valley), 1978
9:12.60 … Michael Bowden (Northern Burlington), 2009
9:15.08 … Nick Falk (Cherokee), 2017
9:15.13 … Austin Gabay (Cinnaminson), 2019
9:15.07 … Alex Boyko [Cinnaminson], 2023
9:16.54 … Nick Kuenkel [Cherokee], 2022
9:18.80 … Tyler Schill [Cinnaminson], 2022
9:18.82 … Robert Poplau [Cherokee], 2024
9:19.60 … Adam Ambrus [Shawnee], 2001
9:19.78 … Matt McCarron [Cinnaminson], 2023
9:20.1y … Paul Friedman [Moorestown], 1976
9:21.01 … Benjamin Realley [Cherokee], 2024
9:21.24 … Logan Bromley [Cherokee], 2024
9:21.1h … Rex Myers [Delran], 1988

All-Time Gloucester County List
9:01.84y ….. Mike Mantini (Gateway), 1979
9:06.11y ….. Greg Stremmel (Gateway), 1974
9:10.39 … Andrew Littlehales [Delsea], 2022
9:11.11 … Peyton Shute [Woodbury], 2023
9:11.88 … Paul Szulewski [Williamstown], 2011
9:14.31 … Anthony Dentino [Washington Twp.], 2011
9:14.93 … Kyle Rakitis [Kingsway], 2021
9:16.39 … Stone Caraccio [Kingsway], 2019
9:19.19 … Nick Costello [Delsea], 2012
9:19.89 … Jacob Cobb [West Deptford], 2021
9:20.97 … Elijah Whitaker [Glassboro], 2024
9:20.99 … Brady Shute [Woodbury], 2021

All-Time Cherokee List
9:01.89 … Marc Pelerin, 2001
9:04.05 … Shawn Wilson, 2013
9:10.90 … Ethan Wechsler, 2019
9:15.08 … Nick Falk, 2017
9:08.42i … Nick Kuenkel, 2024
9:16.61 … Justin Kelly, 2018
9:17.19 … Keith Krieger, 2003
9:18.82 … Robert Poplau, 2024
9:19.44 … Jack Shea, 2017
9:21.01 … Ben Realley, 2024
9:21.24 … Logan Bromley [Cherokee], 2024
9:24.84 … Alex Yersak, 2008

Pleasantville’s Gabriel Moronta ran a 44.69 anchor leg and South Florida placed 3rd in the Championship of America 1,600-Meter Relay Saturday at the 128th Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

Moronta, in his first season at South Florida after three years at Mississippi State, had the fastest split of any runner in the race.

South Florida placed 3rd in 3:02.43, just behind Texas A&M [3:01.52] and Arizona State [3:02.02]. Tre’Sean Bouie, Shevioe Reid and Devontie Archer ran the first three legs for the Bulls of Tampa. Bouie is a Philly native who went to high school at Neumann Goretti.

The time is No. 2 in school history, behind a 3:02.16 the Bulls ran with the same lineup in Gainesville last month. That 3:02.16 is No. 11 in the world this year. It’s not eligible for the U.S. list because Reid and Archer are Jamaican.

South Florida had run 3:05.32 in Friday’s heats with a slightly different lineup that didn’t include Moronta.

Moronta has run 46.55 for 400 meters this spring, No. 7 in school history. He has PRs of 46.24, 1:49.33 and 51.38 for the intermediates, all from his stay at Mississippi State.

Freshman Premier Wynn of Pennsauken also raced in the Championship of America 4-by-4, running the second leg for Norfolk State, who placed 5th in 3:06.99.

With an all-South Jersey lineup of freshman Chastiney Pearson from Timber Creek, junior Jasmine Pope from Pennsauken, Molly Lodge from Woodstown and junior Nevaeh Lorjuste from Triton, the Rowan women ran the No. 14 time in NCAA Division 3 in the 1,600-meter relay Saturday at the 128th annual Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

The Profs ran 3:51.66, missing the College Final 4-by-4 by 11-100ths of a second.

As always, the first two splits aren’t available, since the race is run in a three-turn stagger and you can’t have a FAT timer for every lane. Lodge split 56.99 and Lorjuste 56.09.

Pearson is an interesting story. She graduated in 2021 from Timber Creek, where she was a 17-foot long jumper and 36-foot triple jumper but never even ran the 400 – or anything over the 55 . Not sure if she was at another college and not competing the last two years or took some time off. Can’t find any record of her anywhere else in 2022 or 2023. Either way, incredible to be a part of a 3:51 relay team in a new event in what appears to be your first year of track in three years.

What makes Pearson’s split even crazier is that according to TFRRS – the Track and field Race Reporting System – Pearson had never even run a 4-by-4 since she first began competing for Rowan in late January. She did some long jump and some shot put but literally nothing on the track.

Rowan’s previous fastest 4-by-4 this year was a 3:53.45 two weeks ago in Princeton. Indoors, the Profs ran 3:48.64 and placed 5th at the NCAA Division 3 Championships in Virginia Beach with Lodge, Pope and Lorjuste in the lineup.

With the New Jersey Athletic Conference meet scheduled for this weekend – Saturday and Sunday at Stockton in Galloway Township – Rowan’s time is No. 1 in the conference. The College of New Jersey has also run sub-4 with a 3:55.95 last month in San Marcos, Texas, with Shawnee’s Amanda Demko anchoring.

The Paul VI girls ran the fastest distance medley in South Jersey this year Saturday at the Rowland Relays at Haddon Township.

PVI won the race in 12:33.19 with Shaelan McNally leading off with a 3:36 split, freshman distance runner Kara Salamone dipping down to the 400 and splitting  69, freshman Grace Gutowski splitting 2:23 and sophomore Giovanna Mantuano anchoring in 5:22.

Paul VI’s time is No. 4 in New Jersey this year behind three schools that raced in somewhat more prominent events – Manalapan [12:07.02] and Pingry [12:16.83] ran at Penn and Union Catholic [12:27.48] at Arcadia [Calif.].

Paul VI on the other hand raced with no competition, winning by half a lap. Hopefully, the Eagles can find a fast race somewhere over the next couple weeks. Shame the East Coast Relays isn’t around anymore.

This was Paul VI’s 3rd-fastest outdoor time ever and fastest since 1983, when they ran 12:28.7 – not sure where. Still working on figuring that out. They also ran 12:27.9 in 1982. They ran 12:31.11 indoors in December at Ocean Breeze, just missing the Penn Relays qualifying time by about eight seconds.

Paul VI’s Aliya Garozzo and the Penn Quakers smashed the Ivy League 1,600-Meter Relay record Saturday and placed 3rd in the Championship of America at the 128th annual Penn Relays.

Racing on their home track at Franklin Field, the Quakers ran 3:29.29, finishing behind only Houston [3:27.32] and Texas A&M [3:29.27].

Penn’s 3:29.29 is the 3rd-fastest 3rd-place time in meet history.

That time is No. 12 in NCAA Division 1 this year, No. 27 in the world and No. 9 on the U.S. list (all four runners must be from the U.S. to be eligible for that list, which is why Penn is ranked higher in the U.S. than in college track).

Garozzo, a senior from Sicklerville, ran the 2nd leg for Penn and although her split isn’t available, she’s been regularly running 52-low splits this spring. Junior Jocelyn Niemiec of Arnold O. Beckham High in Irvine, Calif., led off for Penn, with sophomore Christiana Nwachuku of Kent Place School in Summit and senior Isabella Whittaker of Mount DeSales Academy in Catonsville handling the last two legs, Whittaker anchoring in 50.05.

Penn broke the school and Ivy League record of 3:29.64 that the Quakers just set last month at the Florida Relays in Gainesville.

Before that, the Ivy League record was 3:29.98 by Harvard in 2016 in the NCAA Division 1 East Preliminary meet in Jacksonville and the school record was 3:32.12 set by the 2019 team, also at NCAA East Prelims in Jacksonville.

Penn also broke school and Ivy League 4-by-4 records indoors, with a 3:29.86 at the Clemson Tiger Paw Invitational in February. That was with a lineup of Nwachuku, Niemiec, Whitaker and Garozzo.

Garozzo will turn her attention back to the hurdles this coming weekend when Penn competes in the Ivy League Championships (the “Heps”).

Garozzo is the top-ranked woman in the Ivy League in both the 100-meter hurdles [13.65 earlier this month at Penn] and the 400-meter hurdles [57.22 in Gainesville earlier this month]. Both are PRs, and the 57.22 is a school record and the 13.65 is 4th in Penn history. Garozzo won the 60-meter highs at indoor Heps in February in Cambridge, Mass.

Heps are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at Princeton’s Weaver Stadium.

We thought it would be fun to come up with an all-time Penn Relays 4-by-4 sub-3:30 list!

3:24.72 … Oregon, 2017 [1]
3:25.05 … Texas, 2014 [1]
3:25.97 … Texas A&M, 2023 [1]
3:26.53 … South Carolina, 2022 [1]
3:26.56 … Ohio State, 2023 [2]
3:26.73 … Oregon, 2013 [1]
3:27.14 … Duke, 2023 [3]
3:27.32 … Houston, 2024 [1]
3:27.64 … Texas, 2003 [1]
3:27.85 … Miami (Fla.), 2006 [1]
3:27.85 … Utah, 2013 [2]
3:27.93 … Auburn, 2006 [2]
3:27.96 … LSU, 2006 [3]
3:28.00 … South Carolina, 2005 [1]
3:28.34 … South Carolina, 2001 [1]
3:28.68 … LSU, 2003 [2]
3:29.10 … South Carolina, 2002 [1]
3:29.15 … South Carolina, 2004 [1]
3:29.27 … Miami (Fla.), 2005 [2]
3:29.27 … Texas A&M, 2024 [2]
3:29.29 … Penn, 2024 [3]
3:29.46 … Texas, 2015 [1]
3:29.70 … Texas Tech, 2005 [3]
3:29.78 … South Carolina, 2007 [1]
3:29.91 … LSU, 1993 [1]

Despite being interfered late in the race, Rancocas Valley’s 400-meter relay team ran the 3rd-fastest 400-meter relay in Burlington County history Saturday at the 128th annual Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

The all-underclass team of Jameer Bellamy, Xavier Bancroft, David Smith and Julian Coppage-Seepersand placed 2nd in the Northeast Championship race, finishing 1-100th of a second behind Coatesville of Chester County.

That’s four inches separating Coatesville and R.V. at the finish line.

R.V. almost certainly would have won the race and definitely would have run significantly faster if the Red Devils hadn’t been interfered with by a runner from Toms River North.

With Coatesville in Lane 6, R.V. in Lane 7 and Toms River North in Lane 8, on the final straightaway, Toms River North’s runner drifted well into R.V’s lane, impeding Coppage-Seepersand and allowing North to win the race.

Toms River North was disqualified, which moved Coatesville into first with a 41.99 win and moved R.V. from 3rd to 2nd in 42.00, but it was little consolation because everybody who watched the race knows the Red Devils likely finish first in a clean race.

R.V. had run 42.38 in the trials and Toms River North 42.40. Coatesville ran 41.88. R.V.’s 42.00 is fastest by a New Jersey school this year and 1-100th of a second off the school record of 41.99 set by the 2021 Red Devils – Masai Byrd, Herbert Quarterman, James McGhee and Isaiah Arzu – when they won the 2021 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield.

Willingboro set the county record of 41.69 at the 1982 Penn Relays when they placed 2nd to Camperdown of Kingston, Jamaica, in the Championship of America race with the team of Lance Reed, George McKee, Damon Chambers and Derek Streater.

For R.V., Smith is a junior and Bellamy, Bancroft and Coppage-Seepersand are sophomores.

All-time South Jersey List
40.92 … Winslow, 2003
41.09 … Camden, 2000
41.25 … Camden, 2004
41.25 … Camden, 2001
41.45 … Timber Creek, 2014
41.47 … Deptford, 2018
41.50 … Timber Creek, 2013
41.54 … Camden, 2002
41.57 … Pennsauken, 2017
41.55 … Deptford, 2017
41.62 … Camden, 2003
41.64 … Winslow Twp., 2004
41.69 … Willingboro, 1982
41.71 … Edgewood, 2000
41.71 … Salem, 2017
41.72 … Deptford, 2018
41.80 … Oakcrest, 2012
41.83 … Camden, 1997
41.83 … Oakcrest, 2011
41.83 … Camden, 1997
41.7h … Camden, 1996
41.7h … Edgewood, 2001
41.85 … Pennsauken, 2016
41.86 … Pennsauken, 2017
41.87 … Pennsauken, 2023
41.7h … Camden, 1996
41.7h … Edgewood, 2001
41.96 … Paul VI, 2018
41.99 … Rancocas Valley, 2021
42.00 … Rancocas Valley, 2024

All-Time Burlington County List
41.69 … Willingboro, 1982
41.99 … Rancocas Valley, 2021
42.00 … Rancocas Valley, 2024
42.03 … Rancocas Valley, 2015
42.07 … Kennedy, 1982
42.12 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
42.24 … Willingboro, 1988
42.31 … Moorestown, 2010
42.34 … Willingboro, 2000
42.1h … Kennedy, 1988

You’ll never believe who’s back competing again.

Tim VanLiew, a Deptford native and javelin finalist at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, hadn’t competed since 2018 but popped up in the results of the Lions Invitational Saturday at The College of New Jersey in Lawrenceville.

In his first meet in six years, VanLiew threw 219-1, which is incredible after a six-year layoff.

VanLiew’s last competition was the 2018 U.S. Championships in Des Moines, where he placed fifth with a 236-4.

His lifetime best is a 261-2 in Arizona on May 21, 2016 at the Tucson Elite Throws Classic. From 2013 through 2018, he was ranked 10th, 16th, 5th, 5th, 4th and 15th among U.S. men.

VanLiew was a two-time NCAA Division 3 champ at Rutgers-Camden, where he was also a 3rd-team All-America goalie on Rutgers-Camden’s soccer team.

Hs 261-2 is tied for 2nd-best ever by a South Jersey thrower. Holy Cross graduate Vince Labosky threw 261-2 in Norwalk, Calif., in 1990. Curtis Thompson of Florence threw 287-9 in East Stroudsburg in 2022.

VanLiew, now 33, earned himself a No. 55 U.S. ranking after his first meet in six years, which is impressive. His series info from Saturday isn’t listed in the results. Thomas Flanagan of Rowan and Arthur Johnson High School placed 2nd with a lifetime-best 196-11 throw.

After missing the Championship of America 400-Meter Relay by just 8-100ths of a second with a 47.15 in their class race, the Timber Creek girls proved they belong among the best with a blazing 46.68 win in the Northeast Championship race at the 128th annual Penn Relays.

Junior Billie Frazier, junior Ryan Jennings, sophmore Samiyah Puckett and senior Naylah Jones outraced Cheltenham by six meters. Cheltenham placed 2nd in 47.41.

Timber Creek’s time is 2nd-fastest in South Jersey history. Jennings, Chloe Jones, Nyla Jones and Naylah Jones set the South Jersey record of 46.43 in the trials of West Philly Nationals this past June, also at Franklin Field.

It’s also No. 9 in state history.

Winslow placed 5th in 47.96, a full second faster than they ran in their class race. Senior Sierra Handy, senior Dominique Clement, freshman Cinniya Robinson and sophomore Olivia Okaro for for Winslow.

All-Time New Jersey 400-Meter Relay List
45.50 … Montclair, 1998
45.89 … Columbia, 2010
46.07 … Union Catholic, 2024
46.08 … Trenton, 1984
46.19 … Union Catholic, 2024
46.40 … Union Catholic, 2023
46.42 … Franklin Twp., 2003
46.43 … Timber Creek, 2023
46.68 … Timber Creek, 2024
46.84 … Piscataway, 2014
46.87 … Eastern, 2003
46.89 … Franklin Twp., 2001
46.90 … Paramus Catholic, 2010
46.96 … Columbia, 2009
46.98 … Winslow Twp., 2017
46.9h … Willingboro, 1980
47.02 … Columbia, 2005
47.05 … Union Catholic, 2022
47.07 … Union Catholic, 2024
47.15 … Timber Creek, 2024

All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Relay List
46.43 … Timber Creek, 2023
46.68 … Timber Creek, 2024
46.87 … Eastern, 2003
46.98 … Winslow Twp., 2017
46.9h … Willingboro, 1980
47.06 … Winslow Twp., 2014
47.15 … Timber Creek, 2024
47.18 … Winslow Twp., 2013
47.19 … Winslow Twp., 2018
47.25 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2018
47.27 … Delsea, 2017
47.36 … Eastern, 2019
47.40 … Winslow Twp., 2016
47.3h … Willingboro, 1981
47.45 … Willingboro, 1994
47.49 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
47.53 … Millville, 2019
47.53 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
47.54 … Winslow Twp., 2003
47.54 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
47.4h … Camden,, 1978
47.4y … Camden, 1979
47.75 … Eastern, 2002
47.76 … Winslow Twp., 2005
47.76 … Winslow Twp., 2012
47.79 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2021
47.78 … Willingboro, 2023
47.82 … Moorestown, 2000
47.85 … Deptford, 2015
47.87 … Winslow Twp., 2011
47.9h … Willingboro, 1995
47.8h … Willingboro, 2003
47.94 … Camden, 2000
47.96 … Winslow Twp., 2024
47.98 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2019

Winslow ran 48.96 in class race