Bishop Eustace senior Shawn Brady threw a lifetime-best 57-0 ¼ in the shot put at Fast Times at Fast Times at Cherokee High Saturday morning.

Brady had a PR of 56-10 ¼ from his 4th-place finish at the indoor Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze. His outdoor PR was 56-3 from the Don Danser Relays at Rancocas Valley last weekend.

Brady is the first 57-footer from Camden County in 12 years, since Timber Creek’s Quanzell Lambert threw 57-7 ¾ at the old Hall of Fame Relays at Maple Shade.

Brady opened with a 56-1 before hitting his 57-footer on his second attempt. He fouled on his 3rd and final throw.

Also over 50 feet were Delsea junior Jonathan Harris [53-11 ¼], Delsea senior Greg Masso [50-11 ¼], Timber Creek sophomore Roseby Lubintus [50-6] and Cinnaminson junior Victor Meira.

That’s an enormous PR for Lubintus, who came in with a lifetime-best 44-9 ¼ from a meet at Cherokee this past May. He didn’t compete indoors. Meira’s previous best was a 48-5 at the indoor state Group 2 met at the Bubble in February.

Here’s a look at the all-time Camden County 57-foot list:
64-6 ¼ … Ron Dayne [Overbook], 1996
61-2 ½ … Matthew Huckabee, [Timber Creek], 2010
60-5 ¼ … Chris Bolden [Edgewood], 1990
60-1 … Bill Banks [Wilson], 1973
59-10 ½ … Mike Gorczynski [Cherry Hill East], 1977
59-8 ½ … Jim Casson [Paul VI], 1975
58-11 ½ … Howard Clark [Pennsauken], 1998
58-9 ½ … Michael Daniels [Highland Reg.], 2007
58-1 … Keith Hinson [Pennsauken], 1979
57-7 ¾ … Quanzell Lambert [Timber Creek], 2012
57-5 ½ … Matt Klaus [Haddon Twp.], 1994
57-0 ¼ … Shawn Brady [Bishop Eustace], 2024

Woodbury senior Peyton Shute ran 9:12.13 and led five runners under 9:20 at the Cherokee Night of 3200s Friday night.

Nearly 500 runners raced in 21 sections, with more than three-quarters of them running PRs.

Shute was out in 4:42.23 for 1,600 meters and then came back in 4:29.91, closing in 2:14.98 and 67.83.

This was Shute’s 3,200 or two-mile since he ran a PR 9:05.99 at the indoor Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze. He actually ran within a second of his outdoor PR of 9:11.11, which he set this past May at the Gloucester County Championships at Deptford.

Colts Neck junior Hunter Celkupa, who came in with a PR of 9:27.31 from the Shore Conference Championships at the Bubble in January, was 2nd in 9:15.27, followed by the Cherokee pair of seniors Nick Kuenkel [9:16.54] and Robert Poplau [PR 9:18.82]. Haddonfield junior Bennett Wright [17-second PR 9:19.81] also dipped under 9:20.

Other South Jersey runners in the top 20: Ocean City senior Matt Hoffman was 8th [9:27.16], Cherokee freshman Benjamin Realley 12th [PR 9:32.85], Cherokee junior Liam Tindall 13th [9:34.15], Cherokee sophomore Logan Bromley 15th [PR 9:36.40], Washington Township senior Daniel Torres 17th [PR 9:37.46] an Delsea sophomore Matthew Littlehales 19th [9:40.24].

As we wrote about last night, Paul VI senior Shaelan McNally was the fastest girl with a 10:18.93, the 2nd-fastest time ever by a South Jersey girl and fastest in 41 years.

Kylie Anicic ran the 4th-fastest 5,000 in NCAA Division 2 this year late Friday night in Southern California.

Anicic, a Kingsway graduate and senior at Edinboro, ran 16:14.07 at the Bryan Clay Invitational at Cougar Stadium at Azusa Pacific University.

Her time is 8th-fastest ever by a South Jersey high school graduate.

Anicic’s previous 5,000 PR was a 16:25.97 in March of 2023 when she placed 6th at the NCAA Division 2 indoor championships in Virginia Beach. She broke the school record of 16:18.41 set by Stefanie Parsons at last year’s Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif.

Anicic has raced twice this spring and run huge PRs both times. She set a school record of 33:25.55 in the 10,000 two weeks ago in Raleigh, N.C. That remains the No. 1 time in NCAA Division 2 this year.

In addition to the 5,000 and 10,000 outdoors, Anicic holds Edinboro school records indoors at 3,000 meters [9:27.55] and 5,000 meters [16:25.97].

The official results do not list splits. Anicic finished 2nd in the race behind post-collegiate runner Layla Almasri, who ran 16:07.99.

Anicic is one of three women from Kingsway who have run sub 16:20. Chelsea Ley ran 16:12.62 at the 2012 Colonial Relays in Williamsburg, Va., and Lori Townsend ran 16:17.67 at the 1995 Penn Relays.

All-Time South Jersey Alumni 5,000-Meter List
15:02.27 … Marielle Hall [Haddonfield], July 9, 2019, Azusa, Calif.
15:10.10 … Erika Kemp [Rancocas Valley], May 29, 2021, Attleboro, Mass.
15:41.78 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], May 1, 2011, Palo Alto, Calif.
15:53.74 … Megan McGlinchey [West Deptford], Dec. 7, 2013, Haverford, Pa.
15:56.73 … Mindy Rowand [Sterling], March 9, 1990, Indianapolis
16:06.92 … Amanda Goetschius [Delsea], March 12, 2020, Fayetteville, Ark.
16:12.62 … Chelsea Ley [Kingsway], April 7, 2012, Williamsburg, Va.
16:14.07 … Kylie Anicic [Kingsway], April 12, 2024, Azusa, Calif.
16:17.67 … Lori Townsend [Kingsway], April 27, 1995, Philadelphia
16:29.45 … Alyssa Condell [Timber Creek], April 12, 2024, Princeton

Cinnaminson’s Austin Gabay ran the 4th-fastest 1,500 ever by a South Jersey runner Friday night at the Duke Invitational on his home track in Durham, N.C.

Gabay ran 3:40.73, the equivalent of a 3:58.39 full mile. After covering the first 300 in 43.53 – which is 58.04 pace for 400 meters – he ran his last three laps in 59.56, 59.54 and 58.10.

His previous 1,500 PR was a 3:42.94 in a meet at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C., last April. The 3:40.73 is No. 3 on the all-time Duke list, behind only Olympian Bob Wheeler, who ran 3:39.0 in 1972, and Nick Dahl, who ran 3:39.10 in 2022.

Here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey 1,500 alumni top-10:
3:36.98 … Ford Palmer [Absegami], July 18, 201, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
3:38.91 … Brett Johnson [Ocean City], May 17, 2013, Los Angeles
3:40.09 … Mark Sivieri [St.Augustine], May 31, 1996, Eugene, Ore.
3:40.73 … Austin Gabay [Cinnaminson], April 12, 2024, Durham, N.C.
3:40.90 … Rob Novak [Bordentown], May 22, 2010, Los Angeles
3:41.35 … Karl Savage [Eastern], June 26, 2004, Bloomington, Ind.
3:41.70 … John Richardson [Ocean City], June 15, 2007, Bloomington, Ind.
3:41.97 … Terrance Armstrong [Camden], July 10, 1998, Montréal
3:41.99 … Jimmy Wyner [Mainland Reg.], May 30, 2009, Greensboro, N.C.
3:42.82 … Brian Gallagher [Sterling], May 10, 1998, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Gabay will finish his college eligibility next year with a grad season at Butler University in Indianapolis.

Paul VI senior Shaelan McNally opened her outdoor season with the fastest time by a South Jersey two-miler in 41 years.

McNally, competing at the Cherokee Night of 3200s, ran 10:18.93, the fastest time by a South Jersey girl since legendary Michelle Rowen ran 10:12.8 on May 28, 1983, at the South Jersey Group 4 Championships at Toms River East.

Her time is No. 16 in state history and one of the fastest ever this early in a season. McNally ran 2:11.85 and 4:52.90 indoors. Her previous 3,200 or two-mile PR was 10:48.90 last June at the state Parochial A meet at Franklin.

McNally negative-split the race, out in 5:13.92 and coming back in 5:05.01, closing in 2:26.74 and 71.86.

McNally was competing in a mixed race in the 17th of 21 sections of 3,200s. She finished 2nd in her race to Joseph Calabrese, a freshman from Monsignor Farrell in Staten Island, N.Y. Calabrese ran a PR 10:13.32.

For record purposes, some statisticians might not include the performance because it came in a mixed race. From the Backstretch policy is to include any performances in a mixed race.

McNally broke the Camden County record of 10:28.6 set by Olympian Erin Donohue of Haddonfield at 2001 South Jersey Group 2 sectionals at Buena.

There wasn’t a clock at 3,000 meters, but since she closed in 71.86, if her last 200 was in about 35 or 36 seconds, she came through 3,000 meters in about 9:40, which would put her around 13th-fastest on the all-time South Jersey 3,000 alumni list.

Olympian Marielle Hall holds the official South Jersey 3,000 record of 9:40.23 from the 2010 Penn Relays.

The 2nd-place girl was Ocean City junior Maeve, who ran a lifetime-best 10:50.72 . Cherokee senior Kerry O’Day also ran sub-11, finishing 3rd among girls in 10:58.48.

ALL-TIME N.J. 3,200 LIST
9:53.29 … Angelina Perez [Lakeland Regional], 2022
9:59.34 … Charlotte Bednar [The Lawrenceville School], 2021
10:10.24 … Abby Loveys [Randolph], 2019
10:12.73 … Dana Giordano [Bernards], 2012
10:12.8h … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983
10:13.44 … Ashley Higginson [Colts Neck], 2007
10:15.02 … Sarah Disanza [High Point Reg.], 2013
10:15.82 … Alexa Westley [Warren Hills], 2019
10:16.46 … Molly Malague [Metuchen], 2022
10:17.18 … Melanie Thompson [Voorhees], 2008
10:17.28 … Katie McCafferty [Oak Knoll], 2008
10:18.08 … Tilly O’Connor [St. Rose], 2023
10:18.0h … Jodie Bilotta [North Hunterdon], 1987
10:18.24 … Mackenzie Barry [Mendham], 2012
10:18.34 … Lily Shapiro [Colts Neck], 2021
10:18.93 … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2024
10:18.7h … Janet Smith [North Edison], 1983
10:19.31 … Chelsea Ley [Kingsway], 2008
10:19.37 … Julia Trethaway [West Morris Central], 2019
10:21.46 … Grace Dwyer [Nottingham], 2015
10:22.02 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2012
10:22.87 … Courtney Thompson [St. John Vianney], 2014
10:25.33 … Megan Curham [Villa Walsh], 2013
10:25.54 … Cate DeSousa [Red Bank Cathollic], 2022
10:25.69 … Lindsay Hausman [Kent Place], 2023
10:26.14 … Elyssa Gensib [Princeton], 2012
10:26.1h … Christi Constantin [Kittatinny], 1988
10:26.47 … Katy Trotter [Red Bank], 2003
10:26.56 … Eve Glasergreen [North Hunterdon], 2014
10:26.59 … Colette Richter [Mountain Lakes], 2012
10:27.44 … Alyssa Aldridge [Mainland Reg.], 2017
10:27.74 … Colette Whitney [Voorhees], 2010
10:28.25 … Kaitlyn Mooney [Southern Reg.], 2016
10:28.35 … Kelly Janokowicz [Hillsborough], 2012
10:28.11 … Amanda Trotter [Red Bank], 2003
10:28.6h … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2001
10:28.80 … Caroline Kellner [West Windsor-Plainsboro South], 2012
10:29.28 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 2017
10:29.79 … Sarah Pagano [Immaculate Heart], 2008
10:29.97 … Carleen Jeffers [Ridgewood], 2015

ALL-TIME S.J. 3,200 LIST
10:12.8h ….. Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983
10:18.93 … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2024
10:19.31 … Chelsea Ley [Kingsway], 2009
10:22.02 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2012
10:27.44 … Alyssa Aldridge [Mainland Reg.], 2017
10:28.6h….. Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2001
10:29.28 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 2017
10:30.57 … Dina Iacone [Washington Twp.], 2012
10:32.4h….. Mindy Rowand [Sterling], 1985
10:33.22 … Holly Bischof [Bishop Eustace], 2012
10:33.25 … Megan Venables [Highland], 2011
10:33.85 … Sarah Naticchia [Haddonfield], 2021
10:34.79 … Theresa Cattuna [Cherry Hill East], 2007
10:35.59 … Amanda Goetschius [Delsea], 2007
10:37.47 … Meghan McGlinchey [West Depford], 2009
10:37.53 … Vanessa Wright [Haddonfield], 2005
10:39.15 … Devon Grisbaum [Ocean City], 2015

West Deptford’s Jacob Cobb, a sophomore at Massachusts Institute of Technology, shattered his steeplechase PR Friday evening and moved into the all-time South Jersey top-10.

Cobb ran 9:12.63 and placed 6th at the Providence College Friar Invitational at Ray Treacy Track at Hendricken Field. His time is No. 7 in MIT history.

Cobb’s time is also No. 10 on the all-time South Jersey performance list, just behind 1952 Olympian Browning Ross of Woodbury, who remains the Gloucester County alumni steeplechase record holder 72 years after he ran 9:08.3 and placed 3rd at the 1952 U.S. Olympic Trials at L.A. Coliseum.

Cobb’s previous PR was a 9:24.26 last weekend in a meet in Amherst, Mass. Before this month, his steeple PR was 9:30.62 from last May in a meet on his home track in Cambridge, Mass.

Here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey top-10 (as far as I can find):

8:38.94 … Sam Gerstenbacher [Schalick], May 20, 2022, New York
8:46.16 … Mike Ungvarsky [Cinnaminson], May 2022, Durham, N.C.
8:53.66 … Connor Herr [Shawnee], 2015, Philadelphia
8:56.15 … Terrance Armstrong [Camden], 1994, unknown
9:04.63 … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], May 4, 2019, Worcester, Mass.
9:05.48 … Louis Corgliano [Hammonton], March 30, 2018, Gainesville, Fla.
9:06.1h … Karl Savage [Eastern], May 16, 2005, Philadelphia
9:07.70 … Dave DeJong [Shawnee], 2001, unknown
9:08.3h … Browning Ross [Woodbury], June 28, 1952, Los Angeles
9:12.63 … Jacob Cobb [West Deptford], April 12, 2024, Providence, R.I.

Paul VI’s Aliya Garozzo, a Penn junior, raced to another huge PR in the intermediate hurdles Friday evening in Gainesville.

Garozzo ran 57.22 at the Tom Jones Memorial and destroyed her own Penn Quaker school record of 57.97 that she just set two weeks ago in an earlier meet on the same Percy Beard Track at the University of Florida.

Before this spring, Garozzo had a PR of 59.76 from the 2022 Ivy League Championships in New Haven. She’s now PR’d in both her 400IH races this spring.

She bumped Harvard sophomore Chloe Fair for the top time in the Ivy this year. Fair ran 57.78 in Gainesville two weeks ago.

Her time is fastest by any Ivy League woman in seven years, since Harvard senior Jade Miller ran 56.41 at the Mt. SAC Relays in Torrance, Calif., in April 2017.

She’s now 5th-fastest in South Jersey history and 8th-fastest on the all-time New Jersey list, a list topped by the world record holder.

Garozzo has also PR’d in the 200 [24.42] and 100-meter hurdles [13.65] so far this spring. She’s No. 1 in the Ivy in both hurdles races and No. 9 in the 200.

All-Time New Jersey 400-Meter Hurdles List
50.68 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], July 22, 2022, Eugene, Ore.
55.78 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], April 21, 1996, Walnut, Calif.
56.21 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 26, 2007, Gainesville, Fla.
56.87 … Evann Thompson [Lenape], May 30, 2014, Jacksonville, Fla.
56.91 … Angela Lee [Franklin Twp,.], May 24, 1998, Fairfax, Va.
57.14 … Leslie Njoku [McNair Academic], June 8, 2011, Des Moines, Iowa
57.16 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], May 9, 2022, High Point, N.C.
57.22 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], April 11, 2024, Gainesville, Fla.
57.31 … Danielle Myricks [Willingboro], May 19, 2002, Columbia, Mo.
57.84 … Arianna Smith [Pennsville], May 6, 2023, Philadelphia

All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Hurdles List
55.78 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], April 21, 1996, Walnut, Calif.
56.21 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 26, 2007, Gainesville, Fla.
56.87 … Evann Thompson [Lenape], May 30, 2014, Jacksonville, Fla.
57.16 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], May 9, 2022, High Point, N.C.
57.22 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], April 11, 2024, Gainesville, Fla.
57.31 … Danielle Myricks [Willingboro], May 19, 2002, Columbia, Mo.
57.84 … Arianna Smith [Pennsville], May 6, 2023, Philadelphia
58.28 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], May 27, 2023, Sacramento, Calif.
58.38 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow], May 2, 2015, Starkville, Miss.
58.75 … Andrea Olsen [Buena], May 27, 2016, Jacksonville, Fla.

Wilson’s Dennisha Page blasted another massive sprint PR Friday afternoon in Gainesville, this time at 200 meters.

Page, a senior at Tennessee, ran a remarkable popping 22.70 – into a 1.8 meters-per-second headwind – at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational at Percy Beard Track at the University of Florida.

That time is 5th-fastest ever by a New Jersey native and fastest since Olympic golf medalist and world 400-meter hurdles record holder Sydney McLaughlin ran 22.39 in Gainesville in 2018.

The only faster time recorded by a South Jersey native is a 22.62 by Olympic gold medalist English Gardner in Los Angeles in 2013.

Page placed 6th but had the fastest wind-legal time in the race.

Page’s previous PR was 23.08 just two weeks ago in Baton Rouge. She had a wind-aided 22.88 (3.1) at NCAA East Prelims in Jacksonville last May in her last meet competing for Rutgers.

Her 22.70 is 6th-fastest in Tennessee history. She ran 11.27 last weekend in a home meet in Knoxville, and that’s No. 10 in Vols history.

Only three women in NCAA Division 1 had run as fast as 22.70 this spring, according to TFRRS [Track and Field Results Reporting System], but we won’t know exactly where Page ranks on the 2024 list until results from all meets this weekend are added into the database by Sunday.

The World Athletics database shows only nine U.S. women having run faster than Page this year and 14 world-wide.

The provisional qualifying standard for the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene is 23.00. The A standard is 22.57. A field of 35 will qualify.

All-Time New Jersey 200-Meter Dash List
22.37… Me’Lisa Barber [Montclair], June 26, 2005, Carson, Calif.
22.39 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], March 29, 2018, Gainesville, Fla.
22.62 … English Gardner [Eastern], May 12, 2013, Los Angeles
22.63 … Wenda Vereen [Trenton], April 17, 1993, Walnut, Calif.
22.70 … Dennisha Page [Wilson], April 11, 2024, Gainesville, Fla.
22.73 … Mikele Barber [Montclair], June 23, 2007, Indianapolis, Ind.
23.07 … Shavon Greaves [Lakewood], April 2, 2010, Gainesville, Fla.
23.07 … Gabrielle Farquharson [Williamstown], May 15, 2016, Lincoln, Neb.
23.08 … Aleah Williams [Montclair], May 19, 2003, Austin, Texas
23.24 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], June 10, 2004, Austin, Texas

All-Time South Jersey 200-Meter Dash List
22.62 … English Gardner [Eastern], May 12, 2013, Los Angeles
22.70 … Dennisha Page [Wilson], April 11, 2024, Gainesville, Fla.
23.07 … Gabrielle Farquharson [Williamstown], May 15, 2016, Lincoln, Neb.
23.24 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], June 10, 2004, Austin, Texas
23.53 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], May 14, 2017, Atlanta
23.53 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], May 12, 2023, Bloomington, Ind.
23.67 … Aisha Morgan [Schalick], May 10, 2002, Louisville, Ky. [+0.9]
23.71i… Kiara Lester [Deptford], Feb. 23, 2019, Ann Arbor, Mich.
23.90 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], June 11, 2009, Fayetteville, Ark. [+1.3]
23.95 … Andrea Conaway [Bordentown], 1988

Malicah Etienne is off and running in his first season of collegiate outdoor track with the 5th-best discus throw in Georgian Court history.

Etienne, a freshman from Cinnaminson, threw 157-8 with the 4.4-pound college discus at a meet in West Long Branch. He had a high school PR of 177-4 with the 3.5-pound disc.

That 157-8 is the best throw by a Georgian Court thrower since 2019 and less than five feet off the school record of 162-0 set at a meet in Galloway Township in 2017 by Joseph Kaas, who was from Governor Thomas Johnson High in Frederick, Md. No. 2 on that list is Delsea’s Bill Goldsborough, who threw 161-6 at a meet in West Long Branch in 2019.

Etienne threw 53-9 ¼ indoors in February at Ocean Breeze, which is No. 3 on the Georgian Court all-time list.

A nice 800 PR for UMBC freshman Lexi Tepper from Cherry Hill East in her first outdoor season in Catonsville.

In her first outdoor 800, Tepper ran a PR of 2:16.92 in a meet in Columbia, S.C. She also ran a 1,500 PR of 4:45.78 in a meet in Fairfax, V a.

At Cherry Hill East, Tepper ran 2:17.02 this past spring at South Jersey Group 4 sectionals at Pennsauken. Indoors, she ran 2:20.88 and lowered her mile PR more than 15 seconds to 5:02.80 in a meet at the Armory.

Tepper ran 21:48.6 for 6,000 meters at the NCAA Division 1 Mid-Atlantic Cross Country Championships, and that’s the 9th-fastest 6,000 time in school history.

Next up for Tepper is the Bison Classic at Bucknell in Lewisburg, Pa., on Friday and Saturday.

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