Buena graduate Maria Muzzarelli, a sophomore at Widener, won the 60-meter dash by 4-100ths of a second Saturday at the AARTFC Championships at the Armory.

Muzzarelli, the Middle Atlantic Conference champion, ran 7.77 and edged Vassar’s Traci Francis, who was second in 7.81. The first four finishers are ran within 7-100ths of a second of each other.

The AARTFC is the All-Atlantic Regional Track and Field Conference.

Muzzarelli broke the school record at 60 meters last week with her 7.68 at the conference meet in Reading. The previous record was set by teammate Jayla Gore, who ran 7.81 last month at the Armory. Gore was third Saturday in 7.83.

Muzzarelli had PRs of 7.50 for 55 meters and 12.77 for 100 meters. She was 2020 Group 1 sectional champ in the 55 and placed 4th at states.

Muzzarelli ranks 17th in NCAA Division 3 with today as the deadline for qualifying for nationals. The top 20 performers in each event are invited to nationals, which will be held next weekend in Birmingham.

The 55th annual Meet of Champions starts at 10 a.m. Sunday at Ocean Breeze, and if this meet is like the previous Meet of Champions held on a real track – the 2020 MoC was also held at Ocean Breeze – it should be a heck of a meet with tremendous performances all over the place.

If you can’t make it to Staten Island, these links will help you enjoy the annual highlight of the indoor season.

The boys meet started in 1969 and the girls meet in 1979. Both have been held every year since, other than 2021. The meet was held at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym through 2006 and moved to the Bubble – the Bennett Center – in Toms River in 2007. It was held at the Bubble from 2007 through 2019 and again last year. For the sake of the athletes and fans, hopefully it remains at Ocean Breeze until New Jersey finds a way to build a suitable venue for a championship indoor track meet.

(It was brought to my attention that the Order of Events listed in the NJSIAA’s own official meet program is incorrect.  How does the NJSIAA get something that important incorrect in its own official program? Good question. I’ve replaced the official and incorrect Order of Events with the correct one from MileSplit.)

Meet of Champions Link Dump
Live Results
Order of Events
Corrected Order of Events
All-Time Meet of Champions winners
NJSIAA MoC Program (with 29 pages of ads deleted)
Meet of Champions All-Time Boys Performance List
Meet of Champions All-Time Girls Performance List  
“Showcase Events” Entries
Boys Performance List
Girls Performance List 
Previous Results (1997-2022)
Previous Results (1969-1996)
MileSplit live video link (subscription needed)

 

Turns out Isabelle Deal is more than just a terrific javelin thrower.

The Washington Township graduate, now an Ursinus senior, broke her own school record in the shot put Friday at the All-Atlantic Regional Track and Field Championships at the Armory.

Deal, a senior, placed second with a throw of 42-6 ¾ on her final attempt of the competition. She was sitting in 5th place through five rounds before her clutch final-throw bomb.

Deal broke her own school record of 42-5 ¾, which she set last month at a meet at her home facility in Collegeville.

Stockton senior Shahyan Abraham of Orange won the event with a 42-7, moving up from 7th to 1st on her fifth throw. That’s only 8 1/4 inches off the school record of 43-5 1/4 set in 2005 by Cherokee’s Jessica Caccamo.

Deal’s series started out modestly with throws of 40-2 ¼, 41-2 ½ and 41-8 ½ in the trials and then a 39-9 ¼ and 40-8 ¾ on her first two attempts in the finals.

The AARTFC Championships are a last-chance qualifier for the NCAA Division 3 Championships next weekend in Birmingham, Ala. The qualifying deadline is Saturday.

Deal has always been an elite javelin thrower, and the only similarity between the javelin and shot put is that they’re both throws.

But Deal hasn’t been content to simply throw the javelin outdoors and sit around and do nothing indoors, and she’s gradually become a very good shot putter as well.

She had high school PRs of 36-0 indoors and 37-8 outdoor and then surpassed 40 feet once her freshman year at Ursinus – she threw 40-9 at an indoor meet in Winchester, Va. – and once more her junior year – she threw 40-1 ½ outdoors last spring at Gwynedd-Mercy.

But this winter, she’s been over 40 feet in all nine meets, including her PR and school record Friday. She placed second in the shot (and sixth in the weight throw) at the Cenennial Conference Championships last weekend in Lancaster, and her weight throw PR of 45-6 ¼ is only five inches off the school record. She’s not listed among the entrants in the weight throw on Saturday.

As for the javelin, Deal has a PR of 144-10 – also the school record – from a meet last spring in Princeton and earned All-America honors for the second time with a 6th-place finish at Division 3 nationals at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. She placed 8th in 2021 with a 135-1 in Greensboro.

Bridgeton graduate Shamar Love shattered the Rowan University school record in the 60-meter dash Friday at the AARTFC Championships at the Armory.

Love ran 6.85 in the AARTFC trials, breaking the record of 6.87 set last year by Nana Agyemang at last year’s New Jersey Athletic Conference Championship at Ocean Breeze.

Love advanced to the final at 11:50 a.m. Saturday. He’s the 3rd-fastest qualifier, behind Ithaca’s Jalen Loneard-Osbourn (6.78) and Elizabethtown’s Myron Holland (6.81).

Love’s previous PR was a 6.92 for 2nd place in this year’s NJAC meet at Ocean Breeze behind Ramapo’s Cheickna Traore, the NCAA Division 3 runner-up in the 200 last spring.

From 2020 through 2022, Love played football and ran track at Westminster University in New Wilmington, Pa., near the Ohio border in western Pennsylvania. He was an NCAA Division 3 All-America as anchor of Westminster’s 7th-place 400-meter relay team at the NCAA Division 3 Championships at SPIRE Institute at Geneva, Ohio.

His 6.85 ranks 22nd this year in NCAA Division 3. The top 20 performers qualify for nationals, and the cut-off is Saturday. Going into the final weekend of qualifying, the 20th-best mark was 6.84.

At Bridgeton, Love had PRs of 6.74 for 55 meters and 24.63 for the 200 indoors and 11.15 and 23.21 outdoors. He ran on Bridgeton’s 400-meter relay team that set a Cumberland County record of 42.05 at the 2018 state Group 3 meet at Central Regional in Bayville. Basil Williams, Revell Williams and Taz’Mire Burton were also on that team, which ranked No. 5 in the state.

The NCAA Division 3 Championships are scheduled for March 10-11 at the Birmingham (Ala.) CrossPlex.

Masai Byrd of Rancocas Valley, a Rowan freshman, also qualified for the 60 final. He ran 6.94 in the trials, the 7th-fastest qualifying time. His previous PR was a 7.01 in his first collegiate meet back in December at Ocean Breeze.

Bordentown graduate Carson Lathom, a Stockton freshman, just missed reaching Sunday’s 60 final with a PR 7.01 in the trials. He had run 7.04 at a meet in Haverford in January.

In the final, Love will be in the middle of the track in Lane 4, and Byrd will be in Lane 2.

Deptford senior Lathan Brown and Winslow sophomore Dominic Bassey recorded the two-fastest 800s by South Jersey runners at the 88th annual Easterns Wednesday night at the Armory.

Brown placed 3rd in 1:56.42 and Bassey was a half step behind him in 4th with a 1:56.66. Steven Hergenrother of Ridgefield High in Connecticut won the race in 1:54.25, and Patrick Mulryan of Chaminade in Mineola, N.Y., was 2nd in 1:55.49.

Brown has run slightly faster outdoors – 1:56.19 this past May at Haddonfield Distance Night – but his previous indoor PR was 1:56.51 from a meet last month at Ocean Breeze.

Brown is one of the most versatile athletes in the state. He’s fast enough to run the 200 in 22.51 but has range up to 800 meters. He’s run the 55-meter hurdles in 8.06, and his strongest event is probably the 400-meter intermediates, which he’s run in 55.22, won sectionals last spring and placed 3rd at states. He’s the 9th-fastest returner in the state in 2023.

Bassey’s improvement has been incredible. He ran 2:03.61 indoors last year, then 2:01.87 last spring, which made him the No. 2 freshman in the state.

But he had a huge breakthrough 1:57.63 at Ocean Breeze three weeks ago – finishing just behind Brown and Bryce Tucker in a hot 1-2-3 South Jersey finish.

But his 1:56.66 makes him the top sophomore in New Jersey this year – by nearly two seconds – and the No. 6 sophomore in the country according to the MileSplit national database.

He’s also the fastest South Jersey sophomore indoors since Haddonfield’s Derek Gess ran 1:55.93 at Easterns in 2019.

Brown will run the 400 at the Meet of Champions – he’s the No. 3 seed at 49.69 – and Bassey is in the 800. The 55th annual indoor M-of-C starts at 10 a.m. Sunday at Ocean Breeze.

Here’s where Brown and Bassey line up so far on the all-time South Jersey indoor list:
1:51.52 … Jacob Clark [Pleasantville], 2013
1:51.72 … Isaac Clark [Pleasantville], 2013
1:51.80 … Derrell Manhertz [Kingsway], 2013
1:52.46 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], 2020
1:53.51 … Alan Laws [Pleasantville], 2007
1:53.68 … Ishmael Muhammad [Oakcrest], 2013
1:54.53 … Stone Caraccio [Kingsway], 2020
1:54.80 … Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], 2001
1:54.81 … Bill Dolan [Clearview], 2013
1:54.82 … Xavier Fraction [Washington Twp.], 2009
1:55.00 … Steve Butenewicz [Delsea], 2011
1:55.14 … Shannon Sherrer [Vineland], 2002
1:55.14 … Zach McBride [Lenape], 2002
1:55.16 … Joe Lewis [Pleasantville], 1998
1:55.16 … Tivo Rivera [Kingsway], 2009
1:55.19 … Isaiah Curbelo [Rancocas Valley], 2016
1:55.19 … Jayden Greene [Washington Twp.], 2020
1:55.42 … Kevin Cianfarino [West Deptford], 2014
1:55.3h … Tony Uzdavines [Williamstown], 1976
1:55.77 … Carmen Cavella [Washington Twp.], 2004
1:55.84 … Matt Poskus [Cinnaminson], 2007
1:55.92 … Bryce Tucker [Pennsauken], 2020
1:55.93 … Derek Gess [Haddonfield], 2017
1:56.02 … Dave Sitzer [Cherokee], 1999
1:56.07 … Stephen Marrone [Washington Twp.], 2010
1:56.13 … Joe Lewis [Pleasantville], 1998
1:56.2h … Roger Lawyer [Willingboro], 1988
1:56.37 … Ian Waterhouse [Rancocas Valley], 2004
1:56.42 … Lathan Brown [Deptford], 2023
1:56.43 … Holland Sherrer [Cumberland Reg.], 2011
1:56.43 … Eric Barnes [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2017
1:56.46 … Jalen Jones [Burlington Twp.], 2017
1:56.49 … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2016
1:56.50 … Brian Laskowski [Bishop Eustace], 2008
1:56.52 … Rob Novak [Bordentown], 2005
1:56.4h … Chris Platt [Haddonfield], 2005
1:56.60 … Andrew Rivielo [Eastern], 2003
1:56.66 … Dominic Bassey [Winslow Twp.], 2023
1:56.69 … Sean Watson [Willingboro], 1995
1:56.71 … Wayne Riley [Willingboro], 1997
1:56.73 … Dan Galeano [Absegami], 2010
1:56.77 … Larry Ramirez [Pleasantville], 2010
1:56.87 … Billy Clewell [Camden Catholic], 2022
1:56.93 … Mark Weems [Washington Twp.], 1999

Sianni Wynn became the second South Jersey girl to record a double-win at the 88th annual Easterns Wednesday night at the Armory.

Wynn, a Pennsauken freshman, PR’d in both the 55-meter dash and the 400. She won the 55 in 7.04, which is No. 11 in South Jersey history, and then came back and won the 400 in 56.10, which is No. 10 in South Jersey history.

Wynn is the first girl in meet history – which goes back to 1980 – to double the 55 and 400 (or 55 and 300, which was run until 1995).

The only other South Jersey girl to win two individual events at Easterns is Winslow’s Ste’cye McNeil, who won the 200 in 24.65 and hurdles in 7.89 in 2012.

Both marks are South Jersey freshman records. The 7.04 tied English Gardner’s mark set at the 2007 Easterns at the Armory, and the 56.10 broke Gardner’s freshman record of 56.29, set two days earlier at the Meet of Champions at the Bubble.

On the MileSplit U.S. national list, Wynn is the No. 1 freshman at 7.04 and No. 4 in the 400 with her 56.10.

For more on the 55, click here.

In the 400, Wynn ran away from the field in the final heat, finishing a whopping eight meters in front of Gina Certo of Academy of the Holy Angels in Demarest, who ran 57.29. Chairely Bido of Snyder in Jersey City actually wound up 2nd with a 57.23 out of the 4th section.

That 56.10 is fastest by a South Jersey girl in six years, since Rancocas Valley’s Aliyah Taylor ran 55.21 at Easterns and fastest by a Camden County quarter-miler since Gardner’s hand-timed 55.4 in 2008.

Wynn wasn’t the only South Jersey runner doing damage in the Easterns 400.

Eastern senior Kadence Dumas placed 4th in 56.64 – that’s just 2-100ths of a second off her PR from sectionals – and Absegami senior Hannah Ross PR’d in 58.28 for 6th place out of an unseeded heat. Her previous indoor PR was 58.44 at Group 4 states last month at the Bubble.

Here’s the all-time South Jersey sub-57 list:

54.24 … Okechi Ogbuokiri [Willingboro], 2003
54.91 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 2008
55.16 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
55.19 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2008
55.21 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2017
55.4h … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
55.6h … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
55.83 … Kiara Lester [Deptford], 2016
56.10 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023
56.19 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], 2020
56.21 … Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 1997
56.34 … Katrina Sye [Buena], 1997
56.44 … Avionne Sloan [Camden], 2006
56.62 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
56.65 … Britney Kott [Millville], 2009
56.76 … Simone Thomas [Willingboro], 2003
56.78 … Ajae Alvarez-Tyler [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2018
56.85 … Emily Duffey [Lenape], 2012
56.85 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], 2020
56.88 … Marcene Jack [Mainland Reg.], 2004
56.90 … Nadia Davy [Bridgeton], 1999
56.98 … Jade Pope [Pennsauken], 2020

Wynn’s time is 4th-fastest ever by a South Jersey girl at Easterns, behind only Oakcrest’s Nijgia Snapp [54.91 in 2008], Willingboro’s Okechi Ogbuokiri in 2003 [55.14] and Seneca’s Michelle Brown in 2010 [55.74].

She’s also the fifth South Jersey girl to win an Easterns 400 title:

2003 … Okechi Ogbuokiri (Willingboro, N.J.) 55.14
2008 … Nijgia Snapp (Oakcrest, N.J.) 54.91
2017 … Aliyah Taylor (Rancocas Valley, N.J.) 55.21
2018 … Ajae Alvarez (Egg Harbor Twp., N.J.) 56.78
2023 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 56.10

The fields for the so-called Meet of Champions “Showcase Events” have been announced by the NJSIAA, and they’re all loaded with South Jersey athletes.

You can find the lists of athletes who advanced out of the state meets at these links – boys and girls. But the 200-meter dash, long jump, triple jump and 3,200-meter relay are not contested at the state meet, so instead of advancing to the Meet of Champions the fields are simply filled with the entries based on the 24 best performances per event through the end of Easterns Wednesday night (or perhaps it was Thursday morning.)

The 54th annual Meet of Champions is scheduled for 10 a.m. at Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island, N.Y.

Here’s a look at the fields for the Showcase Events.

Boys
200-Meter Dash
Premier Wynn, Pennsauken [21.77]
Rajahn Dixon, Eastern Reg. [21.92]
Ejani Shakir, Winslow Twp. [22.32]
John Williams, Washington Twp. [22.44]
Nasir Ali, Timber Creek [22.54]
Samuel Thomas, Northern Burlington [22.57]

Long Jump
Ahmad Fogg, Egg Harbor Twp. [22-3 ½]
William Murray, Mainland Reg. [22-2 ¾]
Mark Williams, Williamstown [21-9]
Christian Langston, Delsea [21-5 ¼]
David Goldbolt, Rancocas Valley [21-0]
Derrick Robinson, Cinnaminson [20-10 ½]
Benny Liles III, Kingsway [20-10]
Jashad Kersey, Eastern Reg. [20-9 ¼]

Triple Jump
Jashad Kersey, Eastern [45-11]
Cartrell Moore, Glassboro [44-10]
David Goldbolt, Rancocas Valley [44-3]
Derrick Robinson, Cinnaminson [42-11]
Josiah Williams, Mainland Reg. [42-9 ½]

3,200-Meter Relay
Highland [8:02.08]
Cinnaminson [8:05.79]
Haddon Heights [8:07.47]
Washington Twp. [8:16.89]
Egg Harbor Twp. [8:20.41]
Cherry Hill East [8:25.49]

Girls
200-Meter Dash
Sianni Wynn, Pennsauken [24.81]
Naylah Jones, Timber Creek [24.87]
Chloe Jones, Timber Creek [25.33]
Hannah Ross, Absegami [25.78]
Olivia Okaro, Winslow Twp. [25.87]
Kadence Dumas, Eastern [26.15]

Long Jump
Ma’Syiah Brawner, Winslow Twp. [17-3]
Chantina Walker, Winslow Twp. [17-3]
McKenna Pontari, Mainland Reg. [17-0]
Guerlande Pierre, Timber Creek [16-10 ½]
Emma Crozier-Carole, Mainland Reg. [16-9 ¾]

Triple Jump
Sophia Curtis, Ocean City [38-6]
Lauren Fadairo, Rancocas Valley [35-11 ¼]
Ma’Syiah Brawner, Winslow Twp. [35-8 ½]
Chantina Walker, Winslow Twp. [35-5]
Ayanna Brown, Sterling [35-3]
Kalla Tocci-Rogers, Mainland Reg. [35-1 ½]

3,200-Meter Relay
Cherokee [9:19.80]
Haddonfield [9:47.57]
Mainland Reg. [9:48.47]
Washington Twp. [9:54.92]
Kingsway [9:55.92]
West Deptford [10:10.42]

The Cherokee girls ran the fastest distance medley by a New Jersey school this year at Easterns Wednesday evening and earned a certain Penn Relays qualifier.

The team of Megan Niglio, Van Haren, Kelsey Niglio and Kerry O’Day ran 12:14.47 at the 88th annual Eastern States Championships at the Armory, placing 2nd to Hunter College Campus School, which ran 12:09.72.

Megan Niglio led off with a 3:44.35 split for 1,200 meters, Van Haren split 65.37 for 400 meters, Niglio ran 2:16.80 and O’Day anchored in 5:07.96.

Cherokee’s time is No. 1 in New Jersey this year, No. 7 in the U.S. on the MileSplit national database and No. 15 in South Jersey history.

Although the Penn Relays doesn’t have a specific time cutoff for entry into the DMR – which is a one-race final – 12:14 is a lock to get in. Cherokee has run 9:19.80 for the 4-by-8 so will have its choice which race to enter next month.

Cherokee is only the third South Jersey school to win the girls DMR at Easterns going back to 1981 (the DMR wasn’t held at the inaugural girls meet in 1980). Lenape set South Jersey records of 11:58.92 in 2010 and 11:54.63 in 2013.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor DMR list
11:43.94 … Haddonfield, 2014
11:54.63 … Lenape, 2013
11:55.90 … Lenape, 2012
11:57.64 … Haddonfield, 2017
11:57.91 … Cherokee, 2022
11:58.92 … Lenape, 2010
12:02.51 … Ocean City, 2014
12:03.40 … Haddonfield, 2015
12:04.45 … Haddonfield, 2009
12:04.62 … Sterling, 2017
12:04.9h ….. Lenape, 2015
12:11.47 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2020
12:12.22 … Ocean City, 2005
12:13.46 … Washington Twp., 2011
12:14.47 … Cherokee, 2023
12:14.48 … Haddonfield, 2013
12:15.60 … Lenape, 2014
12:16.71 … Highland, 2004
12:17.11 … Kingsway, 2017
12:17.40 … Lenape, 2017
12:19.81 … Lenape, 2009

Jashad Kersey tied his own No. 10 triple jump mark in South Jersey history Wednesday night and became the first Eastern Regional boy to win an Eastern States title in 25 years.

Kersey, who jumped 45-11 at Ocean Breeze last month, hit the exact same mark Wednesday night at the 88th annual Eastern States Championships at the Armory.

He’s the first boy from Eastern to win an Easterns title since Rich Hubbard ran 6.55 to win the 55-meter dash at Jadwin Gym in 1998.

After South Jersey was blanked in the Easterns triple jump from 1976, when the event was first contested, through 2013, South Jersey athletes have won the event five of the last nine times it was held.

Tristan Wilson [48-8 ½] in 2014 and Khaliel Burnett [49-1 in 2018] of Delsea, Highland’s Floyd Whitaker [46-10 ¾ in 2020] and Lumberton’s Greg Foster of the Lawrenceville School [47-4 ¼] all won Easterns titles. The meet wasn’t held in 2021.

Kersey won by 5 ¾ inches over Kam Coleman of Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft.

Kersey was in seventh place after two rounds before hitting the winning 45-11 on his third attempt. He was over 44-7 on all three of his jumps in the finals – 44-7 ¼, 44-8 and 44-11 ½. Coleman had jumps of 45-1 ¼ and 45-3 before popping the 45-5 ¼ on his final attempt.

Kersey is No. 1 in New Jersey this year. He’s expected to be the top seed for the Meet of Champions triple jump showcase, which will be announced on Thursday. The triple jump, introduced at the indoor Meet of Champions in 2020, has been won both years by South Jersey athletes – Whitaker in 2020 [46-3 ¼] and Timber Creek’s Jaden Johnson in 2022 [46-9 ½]. The meet wasn’t held in 2021.

Glassboro senior Cartrell Moore also PR’d in the triple jump and placed 3rd with a 44-10 on his first attempt, which is No. 15 on the all-time South Jersey list. Moore’s previous PR was 44-2 1/4 from a meet last month at Ocean Breeze.

All-Time S.J. Indoor Triple Jump List
49- 1 …..… Khaliel Burnett [Delsea], 2018
48- 9 …..… Dominique Irons [Haddon Heights], 2013
48- 8 ½ … Tristan Wilson [Delsea], 2014
48- 1 ¼ … Wayne Walls [Camden], 2009
47- 3 …..… Rhodeni Spence [Woodrow Wilson], 2007
46-11 ……. Jaden Johnson [Timber Creek], 2022
46-10 ¾ … Floyd Whitaker [Highland], 2020
46- 5 …….. Orion Joyner [Kingsway], 2019
46- 3 ½ … Keon Grady [Delsea], 2018
45-11 …….. Jashad Kersey [Eastern], 2023
45-10 …..… Kevin Kevelier [Collingswood], 2020
45- 3 ½ … Zakiyy Williams [Rancocas Valley], 2015
45- 0 …….. Earnest Daniel [Kingsway], 2017
44-11 … Devon Carter [Washington Twp.], 2010
44-10 … Cartrell Moore [Glassboro], 2023

Clayton junior Alanna Woolfolk cleared 5-8 for the first time Wednesday night at the 88th annual Easterns at the Armory, matching the No. 2 performance in South Jersey history.

Woolfolk won the event when she cleared 5-6 on her third attempt and three other remaining competitors who had cleared 5-4 missed. She then cleared 5-8 on her first attempt before missing three tries at tying the South Jersey record of 5-10.

The only South Jersey girl to jump higher is Tierra Hooker of Timber Creek, who cleared 5-10 at the 2018 Ocean Breeze Invitational. Five others have cleared 5-8, most recently Winslow’s Gabrielle Bennett four different times in 2015.

Woolfolk, who had cleared her indoor PR of 5-6 numerous times, broke the Gloucester County indoor record of 5-7 set by West Deptford’s Megan Kirschling at a meet at the Bubble in 2012.

Woolfolk is only the third South Jersey girl to win the high jump at Easterns. Erin Halpin of Cherry Hill East won at 5-6 in 1987 and Rancocas Valley’s Bethany Biggi won in 2019 with a 5-6 clearance.

She’s also only third girl from a Gloucester County high school to win an individual title at Easterns, and the first two were in the mile: Michelle Rowen of Washington Township set a meet record of 4:43.16 in Boston in 1983 that still stands and Kingsway’s Rachel Vick (4:55.96 mile in 2017). Also Washington Township won the 4-by-4 with a 3:58.85 in 2010.

Here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey list with everyone who’s cleared a high above 5-6. Kirschling is the only Gloucester County jumper to go higher indoors or out. She set the South Jersey record of 5-10 ½ at the 2012 state Group 2 meet at South Plainfield. Three other Gloucester County jumpers have cleared 5-8 outdoors: Washington Township’s Misty Farrell in 1995, Kingsway’s Brooke Minor in 2001 and Delsea’s Brianna Hunt in 2010.

Woolfolk is the second New Jersey jumper to clear 5-8 this year. Senior Samantha Strydesky of Howell cleared 5-8 at the Group 4 State Relays at the Bubble. She was 3rd Wednesday with a 5-4 clearance.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor High Jump List
5-10 … Tierra Hooker [Timber Creek], 2018
5-8 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1981
5-8 … Shatich Rivers [Moorestown], 1992
5-8 … Abby Campbell [Shawnee], 2002
5-8 … Lindsey Walsh [Lenape], 2008
5-8 … Gabrielle Bennett [Winslow Twp.], 2015
5-8 … Alanna Woolfolk [Clayton], 2023
5-7 1/4 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], 1988
5-7 … Megan Kirschling [West Deptford], 2012
5-7 … Alicia Terrell [Timber Creek], 2013
5-7 … Kambi Walker [Paul VI], 2019

Here’s the combined South Jersey indoor-outdoor list:
5-10 ½ … Megan Kirschling [West Deptford], 2012
5-10 …….. Tierra Hooker [Timber Creek], 2017, 2018
5-9 ½ ….. Priscilla Frederick [Paul VI], 2007
5-9 ¼ ….. Mandi Wolicki [Ocean City], 1995
5-9 ………. Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1981
5-9 ………. Erin Halpin [Cherry Hill East], 1986
5-9 ………. Kim Stoll [Holy Spirit], 1994
5-8 ¾ …… Kenady Wilson [Willingboro], 2019
5-8 ………. Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], 1988
5-8 ………. Joi Johnson [Ocean City], 1993
5-8 ………. Misty Farrell [Washington Twp.], 1995
5-8 ………. Brooke Minor [Kingsway], 2001
5-8i ……… Abby Campbell [Shawnee], 2002
5-8 ………. Marcene Jack [Mainland Reg.], 2004
5-8 ………. Briana Gray [Haddon Heights], 2005
5-8 ………. Anna Cook [Florence], 2007
5-8i ……… Lindsey Walsh [Lenape], 2008
5-8 ………. Brianna Hunt [Delsea], 2010
5-8 ………. Gabrielle Bennett [Winslow Twp.], 2015
5-8 ………. Natalie Cowan [Hammonton], 2015
5-8 ………. Bryanna Craig [Millville], 2019
5-8i ……… Alanna Woolfolk [Clayton], 2023