Woodrow Wilson graduate Dennisha Page, now a post-grad student at Tennessee, ran one of the fastest 60-meter dashes in the world this year as well as a 200-meter dash indoor PR this weekend at Texas A&M.

Page ran 7.23 and 23.60 at the Ted Nelson Invite at the R.A. Murray Fasken ’38 Indoor Track in College Station, Texas.

That’s No. 12 in the world according to the World Athletics database and No. 8 among U.S. women.

Her previous 60 PR was 7.26 in the prelims of the Tyson Invitational at Arkansas’s Randall Tyson Track in Fayetteville, Ark., last February. Her previous indoor 200 PR was a 23.61 last January at the Bob Pollock Invitational at Clemson Indoor Track. She was competing for Rutgers when she ran both those times.

The 7.23 is No. 6 in Tennessee history and No. 6 on the 2023-24 NCAA Division 1 performance list.

It’s also 4th-fastest ever by a New Jersey sprinter, behind Montclair’s Me’Lisa Barber [7.01 in Moscow, Russia, in 2006] Eastern’s English Gardner [7.10 in New York in 2019] and Montclair’s Mikele Barber [7.14 in Albuqurque in 2010] and just ahead of Lakewood’s Shavon Greaves [7.24 at State College in 2010], Montclair Immaculate’s Dominique Booker [7.24 in Fayetteville in 2011] and Paramus Catholic’s Myasia Jacobs [7.24 in Boston in 2016].

Page was the 5th-fastest qualifier with a 7.37 in the trials before the 7.23 breakthrough race in the final. She placed 2nd to Jacious Sears, who won in a world No. 2 7.10. Sears is No. 2 in college track history with a 7.04 last winter. That’s No. 13 in U.S. history.

Page’s lifetime best at 200 meters is 23.08 from the prelims of the Big Ten Championships in June in Bloomington, Ind. That’s the No. 8 time ever run by a New Jersey high school graduate for 200 meters and No. 3 by a South Jersey woman.

Another PR this weekend for Syracuse hurdler Anthony Vazquez, a junior from Egg Harbor Township.

Vazquez lowered his 60-meter hurdles PR from 7.94 to 7.91 with a win at the NYC Gotham Cup at Ocean Breeze. Vazquez edged teammates Naseem Smith from Deptford and Isaiah Lewis from Winslow Township. Smith was 2nd in 8.04 and Lewis 3rd in 8.07.

I’d love to give you some background about Syracuse’s hurdling history – where does Vazquez rank on the all-time list? What’s the school record? – but Syracuse doesn’t have a top-10 list or even a record book on its web site – maybe the only NCAA Division major program that gives you nothing in the way of historical perspective. When you click on “men’s records” on their web site, you get “The page you are looking for no longer exists.”

In any case, Smith and Lewis both have PRs of 8.00, Smith at the Armory and Lewis at Clemson, so Syracuse is very close to having three hurdlers from South Jersey under 8 seconds in the 60-meter highs.

I put together my own all-time Syracuse list going back as far as TFRR.org goes, which is 2010:

7.49 … Jarret Eaton, 2012
7.61 … Jaheem Hayes, 2023
7.65 … Freddie Crittenden, 2017
7.69 … Angelo Goss, 2018
7.74 … Matt Moore, 2018
7.75 … Donald Pollitt II, 2014
7.81 … Amadou Gueye, 2013
7.85 … Richard Floyd, 2018
7.86 … Tyler Garland, 2020
7.87 … David Gilstrap, 2017
7.91 … Anthony Vazquez, 2024
7.93 … Brevin Sims, 2021

Norfolk State freshman Premier Wynn from Pennsauken won the 200 with the fastest time in the MEAC this year Friday at the Marlin Invitational in Virginia Beach.

Wynn ran 21.43 and edged teammate Christopher Basking in a 1-2-3 finish of Norfolk State freshmen. Basking ran 21.85 and Vincent Bond was 3rd in 21.89.

Wynn’s time is fastest in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference so far this year.

Wynn had a PR of 21.55 in high school from his win at the state Group 4 meet at Franklin Township High last June. His indoor PR was 21.75 when he won the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze this past March.

His time matches the fastest by a Norfolk State freshman indoors in 13 years, since James Taylor ran 21.08 in a meet in Blacksburg, Va., in 2011. Savien Hayes also ran 21.43 as a freshman in 2020.

Another meet, another PR for Noah Kriesman.

The Rutgers sophomore from Cherry Hill East cleared 16-3 ½ and placed 5th Saturday at the TRACK at New Balance Collegiate Showdown in Boston.

Kriesman had just PR’d at 16-2 ¾ last Sunday in a meet at the same facility. Before that he had a PR of 15-7 as a Rider freshman last winter at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships last February at the Armory.

Kriesman improved on his own No. 3 mark in South Jersey alumni history, behind Seneca’s Mike Maira [16-10 in 2014 in College Station, Texas] and current Rutgers teammate Nico Morales [16-9 ½ in April at the Penn Relays].

Although Rutgers hasn’t updated its all-time top-10 performance list, it looks like Kriesman’s 16-3 ½ is No. 7 in school history. Morales is No. 5 at 16-6 from December, but he hasn’t competed since.

At Cherry Hill East, Kriesman had indoor and outdoor PRs of 15-0, so he improved seven inches as a college freshman at Rider and has improved another 7 ¾ inches this year. Kriesman hasn’t competed outdoors since he was a senior at East.

Penn State freshman Ahmad Fogg from Egg Harbor Township High recorded a victory in his first collegiate meet Saturday.

Fogg jumped an indoor PR 23-6 ¾ to win the long jump at the Simmons-Harvey Invitational at the Athletics South Competition and Performance Center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Fogg’s previous indoor PR was a 22-3 ½ last year as an EHT senior at Ocean Breeze. He jumped 24-4 ¼ outdoors at West Philly Nationals in June.

Fogg won the competition by three-quarters of an inch over Michigan State’s Heath Baldwin. He popped the 23-6 ¾ on his first attempt.

His 23-6 ¾ is the best jump by a Penn State freshman in seven years, since William Henderson jumped 23-11 on Feb. 2, 2018, in a meet at Penn State’s Ashenfelter Track in State College, Pa.

Ahmad Fogg EHT

https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/530962/results/all

1st Simmons-Harvey Invitational, Athletics South Competition and Performance Center, Ann Arbor, Mich.

23-6 ¾

7.18 meters

Paul VI graduate Aliya Garozzo ran the 4th-fastest 500 meters in Penn history Saturday at the Wesley Brown Invitational in Annapolis, Md.

Garozzo ran 1:12.31 as part of a fast 1-2-3 Penn Quaker sweep. Junior Isabella Whittaker broke the school record with a 1:10.12 win – which is No. 16 in NCAA Division 1 history – junior Jocelyn Niemiec was 2nd in 1:12.13 – No. 3 in school history – and Garozzo was a close 3rd in a race that produced three of the four-fastest times in school history.

Garozzo’s previous PR over 500 meters was 1:13.95 last winter when she placed 3rd in the Ivy League Championships – the Heps – in Hanover, N.H.

Last spring, Garozzo ran 59.76 in the 400-meter hurdles at a meet at Franklin Field, No. 5 in Penn history and went on to place 3rd at Heps, also at Franklin Field, and 2nd at ECACs in Fairfax, Va.

She’s No. 5 in Penn history in the 60-meter hurdles with her 8.49 from the prelims last year at Heps.

At PVI, Garozzo was a three-time state champ in the 100 and 400 hurdles and a mutiple Meet of Champions medalist.

Here’s a look at the all-time Penn top-10 list in the 500:
1:10.12 … Isabella Whittaker, 2024 [Wes Brown Invitational, Annapolis, Md.]
1:11.77 … Jesse Carlin, 2005 [ECAC Championships, Boston]
1:12.13 … Jocelyn Niemiec, 2024 [Wes Brown Invitational, Annapolis, Md.]
1:12.31 … Aliya Garozzo, 2024 [Wes Brown Invitational, Annapolis, Md.]
1:12.37 … Uchechi Nwogwugwu, 2019 [Ivy League Championships, Cambridge, Mass.]
1:12.68 … Jamie Massarelli, 2010 [ECAC Championships, Boston]
1:12.72 … Candace Taylor, 2015 [Armory Invitational]
1:12.75 … Nia Akins, 2017 [Ivy League Championships, New York]
1:13.04 … Skyla Wilson, 2022 [Ivy League Championships, New York]
1:13.36 … Taylor Hennig, 2015 [Ivy League Championships, Cambridge, Mass.]

What a long jump series Saturday by Winslow sophomore Ma’Syiah Brawner at the Armory.

Brawner, who came into the meet with a PR of 18-10, soared 19-3 ½ on her fourth attempt at the Hall of Fame Invitational at the Armory, the No. 5 jump in South Jersey indoor history and best in eight years.

It’s also No. 9 in South Jersey history in any conditions and best in six years and No. 12 on the all-time New Jersey indoor list.

Brawner had a remarkable series, with all six jumps over 18 feet and all six surpassing her previous indoor PR of 17-6 ¾ from a meet at Ocean Breeze last month. Any of the six would have won the competition.

She opened with 18-0, 18-5 ½ and 18-4 and then in the finals followed the 19-3 ½ with an 18-9 and an 18-3. 18-6 ¼. She averaged 18-6 ½ on her six jumps, only 3 ½ inches off her previous lifetime best.

Brawner’s 19-3 ½ is No. 6 in the U.S. and No. 1 among sophomores, bumping an 18-10 ¾ by Ava Kitchings of Greater Atlanta Christian of Norcross, Ga., from a meet in Fayetteville, Ark., last weekend.

It’s the best mark by a New Jersey sophomore indoors since Sydney McLaughlin of Union Catholic, the 400-meter hurdles Olympic champion and world record holder, jumped 19-4 at the 2015 Varsity Classic at the Armory.

It appears to be the best indoor jump by a South Jersey sophomore since two-time Olympian Carol Lewis of Willingboro set a state indoor record of 19-8 when she placed fifth at AAU Senior Nationals at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 23, 1979.

Brawner also has PRs of 39-10 ¼ in the triple jump, 5-4 in the high jump, 8.64 in the 55-meter hurdles and 15.35 in the 100-meter hurdles.

All-Time New Jersey Indoor Long Jump List
21-7 ½ … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1981
20-8 ¾ … Keturah Orji [Mount Olive], 2014
20-7 ¾ … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2017
19-11 ¾ … Claire Connor [Rahway], 1984
19-8 ¼ … Tionna Tobias [Winslow], 2016
19-8 ……. Celeste Holder [Parsippany], 2006
19-8 ……. Cidae’a Woods [Winslow], 2014
19-7 ½ … Helen Wilks [Bridgeton], 1993
19-6 …….. Iana Amsterdam [Newark Tech], 2013
19-5 ¾ … Kayla Richardson [Columbia], 2014
19-4 ¾ … Celine-Jada Brown [Plainfield], 2022
19-3 ½ … Ma’syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.], 2024
19-3 …….. Leah Ellis [Millville], 2019
19-2 ¾ … Kaitlin Salisbury [Hawthorne], 2016
19-1 ½ … Carlene Cummings [Englewood], 1998
19-1 1/4 … Kelsey Vieira [Hillsborough], 2016
19-1 ¼ … Kayla Richardson [Columbia], 2014
19-0 ½ … Natalia Hinton [Newark Tech], 2013
19-0 …….. Tatiana Sanders [Paramus Catholic], 2013
19-0 … Saniyah Evans [Rahway], 2024

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 19-Foot Long Jump List
21-7 ½ … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1981
19-8 ¼ … Tionna Tobias [Winslow], 2016
19-8 ……. Cidae’a Woods [Winslow], 2014
19-7 ½ … Helen Wilks [Bridgeton], 1993
19-3 ½ … Ma’syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.], 2024
19-3 …….. Leah Ellis [Millville], 2019
18-9 …….. Shameka Speed [Bridgeton], 2002
18-8 ¾ … Artrelia Turner [Wilson], 1984
18-7 ¼ … Shelly Bailey [Woodbury], 1982
18-6 ½ … Tisifinee Taylor [Woodbury], 2002
18-6 ½ … Asia Young [Holy Spirit], 2016

Overall All-Time South Jersey 19-Foot List
21-7 ¾ …… Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1980 [o]
20-0 ½ ….. Teneacia Smith [Cherry Hill East], 1992 [o]
19-11 ½ … Kathy Rankins [Haddon Heights], 1980 [o]
19-11 ½ …. Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], 2018 [o]
19-9 ¼ ….. Cidae’a Woods [Winslow Twp.], 2013 [o]
19-7 ½ ….. Helen Wilks [Bridgeton], 1993 [i, o]
19-4 ¾ …… Gabrielle Farquharson [Williamstown], 2011 [o]
19-4 ………. Emily Carson [Haddonfield], 2012 [o]
19-3 ½ … Ma’syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.], 2024 [i]
19-3 ………. Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], 2017 [o]
19-3 … Leah Ellis [Millville], 2019 [i]
19-2 ¾ …….Asia Young [Holy Spirit], 2016 [o]
19-2 ½ ….…Gabrielle Bennett [Winslow Twp.], 2015 [o]
19¬-2 ………. Tierra Hooker [Timber Creek], 2018 [o]
19¬-2 ………. Robin Taylor [Deptford], 1980 [o]
19¬-1 ……….. Nena Moore [Cherry Hill West], 1995 [o]
19-1 ………. Yvonne Wolef [Middle Twp.], 2012 [o]
19-0 ¼ …… Jasmine Staten [Lenape], 2016 [o]

Iowa senior Tionna Tobias from Winslow Township recorded the 3rd-highest pentathlon score in Hawkeyes history Friday at a meet in Iowa City.

Tobias scored 4,049 points and won the one-day, five-event test at the Larry Wieczorek Invitational at the Iowa Rec Building.

Tobias’s score is 3rd-highest in Iowa history, behind Jenny Kimbro [4,269 in 2020] and Tria Simmons [4,200 in 2019].

In the first event of the day, Tobias ran 8.37 in the 60-meter hurdles, scoring 1,046 points. She scored 806 in the high jump [5-5 ¼], 577 points in the shot put [35-2], 856 in the long jump [19-9] and 764 in the 800 [2:24.43].

Tobias won by 295 points over teammate Annie Wirth, who scored 3,754.

The high jump and long jump were also held on Friday, and Tobias did not compete in those open events, but she is entered in the hurdles, scheduled for 5:25 p.m. Saturday. Tobias is No. 10 in NCAA Division 1 with her 8.19 from last weekend in Iowa City

Her previous lifetime-best pentathlon score was 3,997 at last year’s Big Ten Championships at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, where she placed 3rd – 49 points behind Millville’s Bryanna Craig of Purdue.

Tobias’s lifetime best is now three points higher than Craig’s lifetime best. Tobias has a 5,640 lifetime best in the two-day outdoor heptathlon from her win at outdoor Big Tens in Bloomington, Ind., in May. Craig was 2nd in that meet with a PR of 5,460. Craig hasn’t done a multi yet this winter.

Alexis Tepper of Cherry Hill East moved into the No. 7 spot in the mile on the all-time University of Maryland Baltimore County performance list in her first collegiate mile race.

Tepper ran 5:02.80 Friday at the Ramapo College Season Opener at the Armory, placing 2nd to Ramapo’s Dale Leonard, who ran 4:57.05.

Tepper was mainly a 400-800 runner in high school and rarely ran the 1,600 or mile. She had a PR of 5:18.72 from a meet two years ago this week at the Bubble. So this is a 16-second PR in her first 1,600 or mile since December of 2022. She ran 2:17.12 in high school but hasn’t run an 800 yet in college.

Delsea sophomore Hannah Nuhfer joined the 40-foot club Thursday with a 40-8 on her final attempt at the Cherokee Throw Down #1. That’s the best throw in South Jersey this year.

Nuhfer threw 36-5 last spring at the Lenape Invite and then PR’d with a 37-9 ½ last month at a South Jersey Coaches Association meet at the Bubble. She was the No. 4 freshman in the state in 2023 and No. 2 in South Jersey, just behind Hammonton’s Mitra Sampson, who threw 37-9 at Group 3 sectionals at Delsea.

She opened Thursday with a personal-best 38-8 ½ and after a foul and a 35-1 ½ she finished with her 40-8, becoming Delsea’s first 40-foot thrower indoors in 13 years and the No. 9 throw in

Nuhfer led five throwers over 37 feet Thursday, with Clayton senior Maylisa Bluford throwing 38-2 ¾ for 2nd place on her final attempt, Willingboro junior Chanel Swain 3rd with a 37-8 ¼, Washington Township junior Ella Karp 4th with a 37-3 and Sampson 5th with a 37-1 ¾.

Nuhfer’s 40-8 is No. 2 in New Jersey this year, behind only Columbia senior Madison Stevens, who threw 41-5 ½ at the Group 4 state relays on Sunday at the Bubble.

It’s the best mark by a South Jersey sophomore indoors since Najeaya Singleton of Vineland threw 43-3 at the 2016 Meet of Champions at the Bubble.

All-Time South Jersey 40-Foot Indoor Shot Put List
47-5 ¾ … Zyra Thomas [Schalick], 2018
46-1 ½ … Najeaya Singleton [Vineland], 2017
46-1 … Cydney Thomas [Haddon Heights], 2019
45-3 … Nacole Moore [Bridgeton], 2000
44-6 ½ … Sylvia Galarza [Millville], 2004
44-3 ½ … Jocelyn White [Delsea], 2004
44-0 ½ … Melinda Boykin [Bridgeton], 1996
43-11 ¾ … Stephanie Scaramella [Bishop Eustace], 2007
43-10 ¼ … Mercedes Hicks [Atlantic City], 2006
43-10 … Rosetta Hunter [Burlington Twp.], 2015
43-4 ¾ … Jessica Woodard [Cherokee], 2012
43-4 ½ … Victoria Imbesi [Our Lady of Mercy], 2009
43-3 … Janice Rose [Delsea], 2011
42-11 ¼ … Ciara Demarest [Williamstown], 2022
42-7 ¾ … Typhanie Bates [Williamstown], 1995
42-5 ½ … Genevieve Tybicki [Our Lady of Mercy], 2007
42-4 … Sophia Coleburn [Haddon Heights], 2007
42-1 … Donovan Bennett [Vineland], 2014
42-0 ½ … Lisa Stuto [Winslow Twp.], 2009
42-0 ¼ … Lola Agabalogun [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2013
41-10 … Lillian Rivera [Pemberton], 1984
41-9 … Bernadette McGowan [Paul VI], 2016
41-8 … Alijah Caul [Sterling], 2019
41-6 ½ … Dana White [Camden], 2000
41-3 … Tara Daniels [Kingsway], 2013
41-2 … Ciarra Johnson [Winslow Twp.], 2018
41-0 … Nicole Scott [Willingboro], 1997
40-11 … Alexis Kennedy [Millville], 2012
40-10 … Danea Wint [Vineland], 2015
40-10 … Nyla Noble [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2014
40-9 … Amanda Thompson [Camden], 2001
40-8 ¾ … Emily Hilt [Kingsway], 2017
40-8 … Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea], 2024
40-5 ½ … Cameron Daniels [Vineland], 2015
40-4 … Shanna Campbell [Pemberton], 2007
40-3 ½ … Lacole Fields [Camden], 1996
40-2 … Chanel Swain [Willingboro], 2023
40-1 ¾ … Kelly Staten [Atlantic City], 2001
40-1 ½ … Sophia Colburn [Haddon Heights], 2007
40-1 … Katherine Johnston [Haddonfield], 2012
40- ½ … Linda Dougherty [Sterling], 1982

Gloucester County Indoor Shot Put Top-10
44-3 ½ … Jocelyn White [Delsea], 2004
43-4 ½ … Victoria Imbesi [Our Lady of Mercy], 2009
43-3 … Janice Rose [Delsea], 2011
42-11 ¼ … Ciara Demarest [Williamstown], 2022
42-7 ¾ … Typhanie Bates [Williamstown], 1995
42-5 ½ … Genevieve Tybicki [Our Lady of Mercy], 2007
41-3 … Tara Daniels [Kingsway], 2013
40-8 ¾ … Emily Hilt [Kingsway], 2017
40-8 … Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea], 2024
39-10 ½ … Giaanni Johnson-Slater [Delsea], 2022