Senior Mason Henry was Deptford’s only winner, with a meet record in the pole vault, but the Spartans piled up the 2nds and 3rds and rolled to a 73-58 win over Winslow Township at the South Jersey Group 3 Sectional Championships Saturday at the Bubble in Toms River.

The sectional title is Deptford’s third indoors. They won Group 2 in 2019 and 2021.

Ocean City was 3rd with 35 points, Tom River East 4th with 32 and Delsea [28], Cherry Hill West [20], Timber Creek [19], Highland [17] and Mainland Regional [14] also reached double figures.

Henry cleared 15-2, breaking the meet record of 15-1 set in 2014 by Kingsway’s Dylan Altland. That’s also No. 6 in South Jersey history indoors and No. 5 in Gloucester County.

Henry, who had cleared 15-0 twice this year, didn’t have a miss at 13-0, 13-6, 14-0, 14-6, 15-0 or 15-2. He took three tries at 15-7, one inch higher than Marcus Hood’s year-old school record of 15-6.

Henry also tied for 2nd in the high jump with a 6-0 clearance, giving him 17 of Deptford’s 73 total points.

Deptford went 2-4-5 in the hurdles, with senior Larry Norman 2nd in 7.70, senior Kareem Brown 4th in 7.83 and junior Xavion Holmes 5th in 7.85. Norman was also 4th in the high jump at 5-10.

The Spartans also had three medalists in the 800, with sophomore John Collier 2nd in 2:00.67, senior Zach Harrison 3rd in 2:01.29 and senior Anthony Schilling 5th in 2:01.40.

Deptford’s 1,600-meter relay team placed 2nd in 3:30.34 with Brown, senior Kyle Jackson, Holmes and Norman.

Also, senior Johann Hernandez ran 6.59 for 3rd in the 55, senior Kamaldeep Singh cleared 12-0 for 3rd in the pole vault, senior Dominic DiPietro cleared 11-0 for 6th in the vault and senior Michael Smith threw 45-4 for 6th in the shot put.

Winslow got wins from senior KaRon Ali, who ran 49.66 in the 400, and senior Elijah Deanley, who ran 7.68 in the hurdles, along with the 4-by-4 of Ali, freshman Keyon Ali, senior Prince Owusu-Twum and Deanley, which ran 3:29.74. Ali also placed 6th in the 55 in 6.64.

Keyon Ali, racing his first high school 55, tied the South Jersey freshman record of 6.59 for 3rd place. It was his first meet in over a month. Damiere Byrd of Timber Creek, an NFL receiver from 2016 through 2023, also ran 6.59 at the 2008 Meet of Champions at the Bubble.

Senior Vincent Perri placed 3rd in both the 1,600 and 3,200, running 4:27.63 and 9:55.09. Junior Jaylon Moss placed 4th in the 55 in 6.62, senior Prince Osusu-Twum took 5th in the 400 in 51.53, junior Jibril Hammond was 6th in the hurdles in 7.96 and , 4th, 55 [6.62]

Ocean City senior Erik Priesner won the 3,200 in 9:43.55 and placed 2nd in the 1,600 in 4:24.19. Junior Nathan Aschmann ran 2nd behind Priesner in the 3,200 with a 9:51.40.

For Delsea, senior Matthew Littlehales won the 1,600 in 4:22.09, senior Mason Murray was 2nd in the pole vault at 14-6 and junior Sheldon Goldsborough thrw 47-10 ½ for 3rd in the shot.

Cherry Hill East got a 1-2 finish from high jumpers Supreme Stadford, a sophomore who won at 6-6, and junior Elijah Triche, who cleared 6-0.

Senior Chris Keena of Mainland won the 55-meter dash at 6.58, Timber Creek got a 2nd from junior Timothy Whitaker in the 400 [51.16] and a 3rd from senior Jayden Lyons [.7.74] and Highland had senior Zion Josia Brockenbaugh 2nd in the shot [50-1 ½] and sophomore Elijah Capra 3rd in the 400 [51.29]

Sophomore Jasmine Jackson won three events, and the Winslow Township girls piled up 114 points in 10 events and won their 6th indoor sectional title in eight years Saturday at the Bubble in Toms River.

Winslow outscored Ocean City 114-67 to win South Jersey Group 3, with Mainland third with 53 points. Those three schools scored 234 of the 310 available points, or 75 percent of all the points in the meet that could be scored.

Winslow scored 24 points before the meet was five minutes old with a 1-2-3 sweep in the 400, with Jackson winning in 56.52, sophomore Amariah Arango 2nd in 58.61 and junior Cinniya Robinson 3rd in 58.66.

Winslow went 1-3-4 in the hurdles with Jackson winning again in 8.16, senior Ma’Syiah Brawner 2nd in 8.56 and junior Justice Green 4th at 8.67.

Winslow then went 1-2-5 for 20 more points in the 55-meter dash, with Jackson picking up her 3rd win with a lifetime-best 7.09, senior Olivia Okaro 2nd at 7.19 and senior Leeya Joseph 5th in 7.46.

That’s 64 points just in the 55, 400 and hurdles.

Winslow also won the 1,600-meter relay in 3:59.92, without any of the girls who medaled in the 400. Junior Amaya Jones, junior Jordyn Cato, sophomore Nylah Lovelace-Crump and senior Leeya Joseph ran 3:59.92.

Brawner and senior Nyla Williams also picked up wins, Brawner taking 1st in the high jump at 5-2 and Williams tying her PR of 10-6 on her 1st attempt to win the pole vault,

Sophomore Annabella Cassidy got Winslow eight points in the 1,600 and 3,200 with a 10-second PR for 4th place in the 1,600 at 5:19.70 and an 11:52.56 for 4th in the 3,200 as well. Arango also placed 2nd in the 800 with a 2:19.12. And junior Jaida Perry threw 33-5 ½ for 5th in the shot put.

Winslow also won indoor sectional titles in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2025. There was no meet held in 2021.Winslow’s 112 points are 2nd-most ever in a South Jersey Group 3 sectional. Haddonfield scored 136 in 2024 in a brief foray up to Group 3 from Group 2.

In addition to a 2nd place by junior Allie Thomas, who cleared 5-2 in the high jump, Mainland picked up five 3rd places.

Senior Emma Preissman placed 3rd in both the 1,600 [5:14.88] and 3,200 [11:46.43], senior Madison Taylor was 3rd in the 800 [2:19.19], as was junior Veronika Andreev in the 55 [7.40]. Also, the relay team of sophomore Alaya Steinberg, Taylor, junior Lily Molinaro and junior Lauren LaMonaca ran 4:20.32 for another 3rd place.

Delsea senior Hannah Nuhfer, who set the South Jersey record of 47-6 last week, won the shot at 45-7 ½ on her 1st throw.

Ocean City went 1-2 in the 1,600, with junior Carly Godfrey and sophomore Riley Tolson running 5:06.79 and 5:07.87. Godfrey won the 800 in 2:16.25, breaking the meet-record 2:17.71 set in 2023 by Mainland Regional’s Sofia Day, and Tolson won the 3,200 in 11:17.42, with Ocean City junior Peighton Clemens 2nd at 11:45.88.
Callie Duff 3rd HJ 5-0

The Red Raiders also placed 2nd in the 4-by-4 with Alana Clevenger, Kai Linthicum, Julianne Goodman and Godfrey running 4:04.52

Hammonton senior Mitra Sampson threw 38-9 ¼ for 2nd in the shot.

Rowan freshman David Brown moved into a tie for the No. 3 spot in the high jump in NCAA Division 3 history with a 7-2 ½ clearance Saturday evening at the Ott Center.

Brown, from Edison High, was perfect until he missed three attempts at 7-4 ¼, which would have broken the NCAA Division 3 record.

His 7-2 ½ clearance is the best jump ever by an NCAA Division 3 freshman. He’s now No. 51 in the world and No. 15 among U.S. men.

It’s also the best jump by a Division 3 athlete in 33 years, since Ken Hoffman of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., set the D-3 record of 7-3 ½ at the 1993 NCAA Division 3 Championships at Bowdoin University in Brunswick, Maine. (That’s my dad’s alma mater!)

His jump is No. 1 in NCAA Division 3 and was good enough to be No. 12 in Division 1. Brown’s previous PR was 7-0 ½ at Ocean Breeze last weekend. He had a PR of 6-8 ¼ as recently as a month ago.

Brown also broke the overall Rowan record of 7-2 ¼ set by Eastern’s Jeffrey Jon Tucker at the 2-19 Penn Relays.

Rowan ranks 1-2-4-8-8 in the high jump in NCAA Division 3 with Brown, Paulsboro’s Jamile Gantt and Noah Wampole [6-10 ¾] and Pleasantville’s Isaiah Davenport and Arrington Rhynm [6-8 ¾].

Brown is now tied for 12th on the all-time New Jersey alumni performance list. The last New Jersey jumper to clear 7-2 ½ was Westfield graduate Adam Bergo in New York in 2022. The last New Jersey jumper to go higher was Timber Creek’s Montez Blair, who cleared 7-4 ¼ in Boston in 2014.

Brown opened at 6-6 ¾ and then passed 6-8 ¾ before 1st-jump clearances at 6-10 ¾, 7-0 ½ and 7-2 ¼.

All-Time New Jersey Alumni High Jump List
7-5 ¾ … Milt Goode [Monmouth Reg.], June 24, 1984, Los Angeles
7-5 ¾ … Darren Burton [Delran], July 23, 1989, Ylivieska, Finland
7-5 ¼ … Eric Taylor-Perry [Montclair], May 18, 1991, Odessa, Texas
7-5 ¼ … Mike Pascuzzo [Lenape], June 6, 1992, New York
7-4 ½ … Jim Pringle [Moorestown], March 21, 1982, Tallahassee, Fla.
7-4 ½ … Paul Klemic [Mainland Reg.], June 17, 2000, Raleigh, N.C.
7-4 ½ … Justin Frick [Freehold], June 25, 2012, Eugene, Ore.
7-4 ½ … Montez Blair [Timber Creek], June 23, 2013, Des Moines, Iowa
7-4 … Terrance Ferguson [Cherry Hill West], May 5, 1991, Princeton, N.J.
7-4 … Robert Jordan [Millville], June 20, 1999, Denton, Texas
7-3 ¾ … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], May 14, 2005, Nashville, Tenn.
7-2 ½ … Adam Bergo [Westfield], Feb. 22, 2022, New York
7-2 1/2 … David Brown [Edison], Feb. 14, 2026, Philadelphia

Rowan’s Nyla Jones from Timber Creek and Stockton’s Elaina Styer both ran top-15 NCAA Division 3 times in the 60-meter hurdles Saturday at the Ott Center.

Jones ran 8.76 in the trials of the Widener Indoor Classic, leading all qualifiers to the final, and Styer ran 8.83, the 3rd-fastest qualifying time.

They now rank 8th and 14th in NCAA Division 3.

Jones previous PR was an 8.93 at Ocean Breeze in December. Her time is 2nd-fastest in Rowan history, behind the school-record 8.68 set by South Brunswick’s Aspen McMillan when she placed 4th in the 2019 NCAA Division 3 Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury, Mass. Jones, a 400 hurdles All-America in the spring, is defending NJAC high hurdles champion both indoors and outdoors.

Styer broke her own school record of 8.87, which she ran within her NCAA Division 3-leading pentathlon win in Utica, N.Y., last weekend.

Rowan freshman Keira Gibbons of Lenape also dropped her PR from 9.60 to 9.25, 5th-fastest in the NJAC this year and fastest among freshmen.

Seth Clevenger’s 4:00.64 anchor leg led Rowan to the fastest distance medley in NCAA Division 3 this year Saturday in Medford, Mass.

One day after smashing the NCAA Division 3 record for 5,000 meters six miles away at Boston University, the Haddonfield graduate led Rowan to a 9:53.19 win at the Tufts Cupid Challenge at the Gantcher Center.

Junior Blaik Slavinski from Point Pleasant Borough led off for Rowan with a 3:07.65 for 1,200 meters. Freshman Matt Niedbalski from Clearview split 50.52 for 400 meters, junior Teddy Wilson from Toms River North ran 800 meters in 1:54.39 setting up Clevenger, who held off SUNY Geneseo’s anchor by 18-100ths of a second with a 28.41 final 200.

Rowan bumped Hope College of Holland, Mich., from the top spot on the 2026 Division 3 DMR list. Hope ran 9:58.25 in South Bend, Ind., last month. TCNJ is now 3rd on the list with its 9:58.79 last weekend in Boston. TCNJ and Rowan will race each other at the New Jersey Athletic Conference meet Saturday at the Ott Center.

TCNJ held the previous record for fastest DMR by a New Jersey Athletic Conference school with its 9:57.81 at 2007 IC4As at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston with Chris Guerriero of Saddle Brook, Rob McGowan of Monroe Township, Matt Randal from South Brunswick and Brian Kopnicki from Scotch Plains-Fanwood.

Rowan’s previous school record was 9:58.49 at 2018 NCAAs in Birmingham, Ala., with Nick Nocco from Southern Regional, Justin Bishop from Mainland Regional, Nick Neville from South Brunswick and Kevin Veltre from Brick Memorial.

Another monster meet for Lumberton’s Greg Foster, who PR’d in the long jump for the 2^nd time in his last two meets.

Foster soared 26-10 ½ on his 5^th throw in a monster series at the Tyson Invitational at the Lance Harter Track at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville Friday, moving into the No. 3 spot on the all-time New Jersey alumni list.

Foster, who PR’d at 26-5 ¾ at the Ott Center three weeks ago, averaged 26-1 ¾ on his five legal jumps Friday. He opened with a 25-2 ¾  before a 26-5 ½, 25-10 ¾, 26-4 ¼ and finally of 26-4 or better.

Foster’s jump is the best ever indoors or outdoors by an Ivy League long jumper.

The 26-10 ½ also guaranteed Foster entry into the USATF Championships on Feb. 28 and March 1 at Ocean Breeze. The A standard is 26-6 ¾.

His jump is No. 7 in the world this year and No. 3 among Americans. Foster placed 2^nd behind world hurdles champion Cordell Tinch, who PR’d at 27-2 ½. Tinch moves to No. 49 in U.S. history and Foster is No. 78.

The only New Jersey high school graduates to jump farther than Foster did Friday are Carl Lewis, with his 29-1 ¼ in Tokyo in 1991, and Corey Crawford of Indian Hills, who jumped 27-2 ¼ in Chula Vista, Calif., in 2021.

Foster’s 26-10 ½ is No. 2 in NCAA Division 1 this year, behind only Kennedy Stringfellow of Oklahoma, who jumped 27-2  ½ last month in Norman, Okla. Stringfellow, a Mississippi State transfer, placed 12^th Friday with a 25-1 ¼ on his only legal jump.

Foster did not hurdle Friday, but he is No. 2 in the Ivy League with his PR 7.77 from the Ott Center last month. He’s also 4^th in the conference in the 60 with a PR 6.72, also from the Ott Center last month.

All-Time New Jersey Alumni Long Jump List
29-1 ¼  … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], Aug. 30, 1991, Tokyo
27-2 ¼ … Corey Crawford [Indian Hills], May 29, 2021, Chula Vista, Calif.
26-10 3/4 … Greg Foster [Lumberton / Lawrenceville PRep], Feb. 13, 2026, Fayetteville, Ark.
26-10 ¼ … Evans Tobler [Trenton], May 13, 1989, Ponce, Puerto Rico
26-7 ½ … Chris Phipps [Lodi], June 27, 2010, Des Moines, Iowa [+1.8]
26-5 ½ … Darius Pemberton [Hackensack], March 22, 1997, Houston
26-3 ¼  … Matt Rose [Bordentown], Mary 4, 1991, Knoxville, Tenn.
26-3 … Eulace Peacock [Union], July 4, 1935, Lincoln, Neb.
26-3 … Bob Calhoun [Scotch Plains], May 20, 1978, Philadelphia
26-1 ¾  … Norm Tate [East Orange], May 20, 1972, El Paso, Texas
26-1 ¾  … Chris Gillis [Pennsauken], May 12, 2006, Waco, Texas

Winslow and Iowa graduate Tionna Tobias recorded her best long jump in a year and a half Friday in Fayetteville with a 20-11 ½ on her 1^st attempt at the Tyson Invitational.

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That’s No. 14 in the U.S. this year. She jumped 20-10 in her one previous meet this year, last month in Boston. Tobias, competing unattached Friday, jumped again 20-10 on her 2^nd attempt Friday.

The 20-11 ½ is Tobias’s best jump since her breakthrough 22-9 ¼ at the Holloway Pro Classic at Percy Beard Track in Gainesville in July 2024. That’s No. 22 in U.S. history. It’s the 4^th-best jump of her life.

With an all-South Jersey lineup of junior Dallas Hohney of Glassboro, sophomore Luke Halbruner of Ocean City, freshman Marquis Taylor of Woodbury and sophomore Rajahn Dixon of Eastern, Rowan ran the 5^th-fastest 1,600-meter relay in NCAA Division 3 this year Friday evening in Youngstown, Ohio.

The Profs placed 2^nd to NCAA Division 1 Akron at the Youngstown State Last-Chance Meet at the Watson and Tressel Training Site with a time of 3:14.34.

That’s 5^th-fastest in Rowan history and 6^th-fasteste ever by an NJAC school. TCNJ ran 3:13.04 this past March in Boston.

Rowan’s 3:10.09 in Boston in 2023 is the NCAA Division 3 record.

The results site the meet uses is a joke and has no names or splits, so I could be wrong about Rowan’s lineup, and I have no splits. But they definitely ran 3:14.34. A Rowan B team ran 3:19.34. No idea who was on that team. This is like track in the 1970s. We just have no clue about anything. But it’s Youngstown so what should we expect?

Rowan’s fastest indoor 4x4s
3:10.09 … Nana Agyemang, Jah’mere Beasley, Marquise Young, Amara Conte, 2023, Boston
3:12.39 … Jason Agyemang, Marquise Young, Nana Agyemang, Amara Conte, 2024, Boston
3:12.80 … Charlie Serrano, Nana Agyemang, Jah’mere Beasley, Amara Conte, 2022, Boston
3:13.15 … Marquise Young, Nana Agyemang, Samuel Millevoix, Rajahn Dixon, 2025, Boston
3:14.34 … Dallas Hohney, Luke Halbruner, Marquis Taylor, Rajahn Dixon, 2026, Youngstown

Haddonfield’s Seth Clevenger destroyed the NCAA Division 3 record for 5,000 meters Friday at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston University.

Racing in a loaded field against an assortment of Division 1 stars and pros, Clevenger, a junior at Rowan, ran 13:32.09 in the invitational section of the 5,000, breaking the Division 3 mark of 14:44.98 set by Alex Phillips of John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, just outside Cleveland, at the same meet in 2023.

Clevenger also ran faster than the NCAA Division 3 outdoor 5,000 record of 13:41.96 set this past April by Chasen Hunt of Lynchburg (Va.) in Azusa, Calif.

Since arriving in Glassboro after starting out at Iowa State, Clevenger has run the 3^rd-fastest 3,000 in D-3 history – 7:54.87 at the Armory last month – and the 4^th-fastest mile – 3:59.41 at Ocean Breeze last week.

His 13:32.09 is also fastest ever by a South Jersey high school graduate, breaking the record of 13:44.57 set by Cherokee’s Jack Shea in Palo Alto, Calif., in April 2022. Others under 14 minutes are Eastern’s Karl Savage [14:48.61 in Walnut, Calif., in 2003], and two Cinnaminson runners – Jon Anderson [15:58,23 at 2009 Penn Relays] and Austin Gabay [13:58.84 in Raleigh in 2024].

Clevenger smashed the school record of 14:30.19 set by Oakcrest’s Ron Deckert in 1986. His time is 8^th-fastest on the all-time New Jersey alumni list.

Clevenger’s 800 splits were 2:08.46, 2:08.88, 2:09.75. 2:12.58 and 2:11.00, closing in 2:10.75 for his final 800. He ran all 25 laps between 31.39 and 33.55. He came through 3,000 meters in 8:06.84, below the previous school record in the 3,000.

His time would rank 23^rd this year in NCAA Division 1. His previous PR over 5,000 meters on the track was 14:24.57 in April 2023 in Azusa, Calif.

A week after an indoor PR 52.96, Paul VI graduate Aliya Garozzo ran a lifetime-best 52.43 Friday at the Tiger Paw Invitational Clemson.

Garozzo, a Penn undergraduate grad and Duke grad school graduate now competing unattached, shattered her PR 52.54 from Raleigh, N.C., last March.

Her time is 8^th-fastest ever by a South Jersey quarter-miler. It’s also only 23-100ths off the A standard for USATF Indoor Champions at Ocean Breeze on Feb. 28 and March 1.

Garozzo finished 4-100ths of a second behind former Duke teammate Julia Jackson from Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, who ran an indoor 52.40, breaking the Duke record of 52.57 set by Megan McGinnis in Louisville in 2023.

Garozzo ran 55.77 for the 400 hurdles in Durham, N.C., this past April, which ranked 16^th among U.S. women.

South Jersey All-Time 400 Alumni List
50.66 … Nadia Davy [Bridgeton], 2003, Sacramento
51.14 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], June 21, Philadelphia
51.70 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], June 13, 2014, Eugene, Ore.
51.72 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], June 27, 1987, San Jose, Calif.
51.91 … Arianna Sharpe [Clayton], May 9, 2025, Fayetteville, Ark.
52.20 … Amirah Sharpe [Clayton], April 25, 2025, Fayetteville, Ark.
52.24 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], March 16, 1996, Westwood, Calif.
52.43 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], Feb. 13, 2026, Clemson, S.C.
52.77 … Eusheka Bartley [Highland], March 23, 1996, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
52.80 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 12, 2007, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
52.80 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], May 3, 2025, Pennsauken
52.86 … Tina Johnson [Burlington Twp.], May 20, 2001, Bloomington, Ind.