Glassboro sophomore Moses Robles turned in a record-setting jumps double Saturday at the U.S. Marine Corps Holiday Classic at the Armory.

Robles placed 4th in the long jump at 22-4 ¾ and 3rd in the high jump at 6-6. Both are big lifetime bests and among the top sophomore jumps in South Jersey history. He’s now tied for No. 1 in New Jersey in the high jump and No. 2 in the long jump.

The 22-4 ¾ is No. 2 all-time by a South Jersey sophomore behind a 22-7 ½ by Lenape’s Chase Campbell in a meet at Lehigh in December of 2014. That performance is a little suspect because Campbell never approached that mark again and by his senior year he wasn’t even long jumping. He never came closer than 22 inches away from that jump indoors or outdoors the rest of his career. He ran 21.76 and 48.89 as a senior but never jumped better than 20-8 outdoors.

Anyway, Robles’ mark is No. 6 in Gloucester County history indoors and best in seven years, since former state triple jump record holder Khaliel Burnett of Delsea went 22-5 ¾ at 2018 Easterns at the Armory. Robles hit the 22-4 ¾ on his 2nd jump and also had a 21-4 in his series.

In the high jump, Robles finished 3rd behind twins Ethan and Aaron Rich of Lyman Hall High School in Wallingford, Conn. Ethan jumped 6-8 and Aaron 6-6, taking 2nd because Robles had one miss at 6-4.

His previous PR was 6-2 indoors earlier this month at the Ott Center, and his overall PR was 6-2 ¼ outdoors when he placed 5th in the freshman high jump in June at West Philly Nationals.

The 6-6 is tied for No. 4 in South Jersey indoor history by a sophomore and the best jump by a 10th-grader in 21 years, since Wesley Edwards of Winslow Township went 6-6 at the 2005 state Group 4 Relays at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym.

Robles didn’t triple jump Saturday, but he has already gone 46-4 ½ earlier this month at the Ott Center. That’s No. 4 in New Jersey this year, No. 5 all-time Gloucester County and best ever by a South Jersey sophomore. It’s also only two inches off the indoor school record of 46-6 ½ set two years ago by Cartrell Moore in Collegeville, Pa.

All-Time Gloucester County High Jump List
6-10 … Josh Butler [Delsea], 2006
6-10 … Devin Bradham [Williamstown], 2015
6-10 … Ameer Banks [Delsea], 2015
6-6 … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2012
6-6 … Chase Matthews [Kingsway], 2016
6-6 … Craig Howard [Washington Twp.], 1998
6-6 … Moses Robles [Glassboro], 2026
6-4 … Thomas Berryman [Delsea], 2010
6-4 … Amari Sabb [Glasssboro], 2024
6-4 … Carson Thomas [Washington Twp.], 2023

All-Time Gloucester County Long Jump List
23-7 ¾ … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2012
23-4 ½ … Maurice Hunter [Woodbury], 1983
22-9 ¼ … Shai Mumford [West Deptford], 2013
22-7 ¼ … Keon Grady [Delsea], 2017
22-5 ¾ … Khaliel Burnett [Delsea], 2018
22-4 ¾ … Moses Robles [Glassboro], 2026
22-2 … Adwon Parker [West Deptford], 2006
22-0 … Damir Lomax [Delsea], 2020
21-9 3/4 … Mark Williams [Williamstown], 2023
21-8 … Ferrell Cooper [West Deptford], 2011

In her first 800 of the indoor season, U.S. champion and state record holder Natalie Dumas of Eastern ran just 5-100ths of a second off her indoor PR in beating a loaded field at the U.S. Marine Corps Holiday Classic at the Armory.

Dumas, who set the South Jersey indoor record of 2:07.68 this past March at Armory Nationals on the same track in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, won the race in 2:07.73.

Dumas was out in 31.58, took command of the race with a second lap of 30.67, then came back in 32.42 and 33.08.

She finished 20 meters ahead of two runners from an all-star team located in Scotch Plains. A freshman who lives in New York State but competes for the Scotch Plains all-star team was second in 2:11.37. Five girls ran under 2:14.

Dumas set the state outdoor record of 2:00.11 at West Philly Nationals, where she also won the 400-meter hurdles in 55.99 and 400 in 51.14 and anchored Eastern’s 2^nd-place sprint medley team. She’s the only woman in world history to run that fast for those three events.

Dumas’s 2:07.68 from last winter is No. 9 in state history.

Dumas’s time is No. 2 in the U.S. this year, just behind Ellie Barada of Bloomington South High in Indiana, who ran 2:07.19 in a meet in Ypsilanti, Mich., last week. Barada did not compete for a high school in that race, and it looks like a club meet more than anything. But since it was in-season race and she competed against (I think) only high school only competition and she’s currently a high school student, it counts as a high school performance.

In his first 800 since last spring, Woodstown senior Joshua Crawford smashed the Salem County indoor record with the 15^th-fastest indoor time in South Jersey history.

Crawford, the state Group 1 champ outdoors last year, ran 1:54.98 at the SJTCA meet at the Ott Center on the University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philly.

Crawford’s time is fastest by any New Jersey Group 1 runner since Jacob Clark ran 1:51.52 and twin brother Isaac ran 1:51.72 in 2013. Pleasantville was a Group 2 when Gabriel Moronta ran 1:52.46 in 2020 but it was a Group 1 indoors in 2013.

It’s also fastest in New Jersey so far this winter.

Crawford broke his own Salem County indoor record of 1:57.66 that he set at the Meet of Champions in March at Ocean Breeze.

Crawford and Teddy Foster of Haverford quickly broke free of the pack, with Crawford holding a slight lead through 200 meters (27.53 to 27.74), 400 meters (55.89 to 56.10) and 600 meters (1:26.17 to 1:26.28).

Foster closed in 29.62, but Crawford ran his final lap in 28.81 to pull away and win by six meters.

Crawford ran an outdoor-PR 1:53.44 last spring to win the state Group 1 race in Somerset. The Salem County outdoor record is 1:52.97 set by Jaymes Dennison of Penns Grove at the 2013 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield.

Also in the top six Saturday in the 800 were Woodstown senior Karson Chew, Crawford’s teammate on the state Group 1-champion 4-by-8 last year [2:00.54], Delsea senior Matthew Littlehales [2:00.90], Gateway senior Nathaniel Martinez [2:02.01] and Timber Creek junior Timothy Whitaker [PR 2:02.37].

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 800 Top 20
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
1:52.74 … Bobby Poplau [Cherokee], 2024
1:53.51 … Alan Laws [Pleasantville], 2007
1:53.59 … Christian Napoli [Paul VI], 2025
1:53.68 … Ishmael Muhammad [Oakcrest], 2013
1:54.05 … Dominic Bassey [Winslow Twp.], 2025
1:54.53 … Stone Caraccio [Kingsway], 2020
1:54.73 … Chris Manzo [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2024
1:54.80 … Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], 2001
1:54.81 … Bill Dolan [Clearview], 2013
1:54.82 … Xavier Fraction [Washington Twp.], 2009
1:54.98 … Joshua Crawford [Woodstown], 2026
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

Salem County record of 1:52.97 set by Jaymes Dennison of Penns Grove at the 2013 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield.

Closing in 61.4, Ocean City senior Erik Preisner won the 1,600 at the SJTCA meet Saturday morning at the Ott Center with the 7^th-fastest indoor 1,600 time in Cape May County history.

Preisner, the South Jersey Group 3 XC champion, ran a lifetime-best 4:22.84, with Highland senior Andrew Dopkin 2^nd in 4:24.59, an indoor-outdoor PR.

Preisner came through 800 in 2:15.17 and 1,200 in 3:21.49 before running his last two laps in 31.00 and 30.36. He big-time negatived 2:15.2 and 2:07.7.

Preisner’s previous indoor PR was 4:30.04 this past January in a meet at the Armory. He’s run 4:21.08 outdoors last spring in a meet at Allentown.

Dopkin’s previous PR was 4:28.10 at Delsea in May. His previous indoor PR was 4:32.67 converted from a full mile in a race in January at the Ott Center.

All-Time Cape May County Indoor 1,600 List
4:09.96y … Miles Schoedler [Ocean City], 2011
4:11.03y … Brett Johnson [Ocean City], 2009
4:16.02 … Erik Johnson [Ocean City], 2012
4:20.43 … Owen Ritti [Ocean City], 2020
4:20.51 … Ryan Birchmeier [Ocean City], 2008
4:20.58y … John Richardson [Ocean City], 2002
4:22.84 … Erik Preisner [Ocean City], 2026

Sianni Wynn out-leaned Brianna Growalt Saturday morning at the SJTCA meet at the Ott Center in a battle of two of New Jersey’s fastest hurdlers.

Wynn, a senior at Pennsauken, won the race in 8.13, 1-100^th of a second ahead of Growalt, a junior at Atlantic County Tech, who ran a lifetime-best 8.14 for 2^nd place.

The times are 3^rd– and 4th-fastest in New Jersey at the moment and 2nd- and 3rd-fastest by South Jersey hurdlers so far this winter.

Wynn ran 7.99 – No. 8 in South Jersey history – this past February at Ocean Breeze. Growalt lowered her PR from 8.23, which she ran when she placed 2^nd to a runner from the Scotch Plains-based all-star team at the Meet of Champions in March, also at Ocean Breeze.

Growalt’s time is No. 18 in South Jersey history and 4^th-fastest all-time in Atlantic County and fastest since Claudine Smith of Atlantic City ran 8.03 when she won the 2019 Meet of Champions at the Bubble.

Just a few minutes later, Wynn won the 55 in 7.08 with teammate Sanaya Dupree 2nd in 7.36 and Growalt 3rd with a lifetime-best 7.37. Dupree missed her PR of 7.35 from last year’s sectionals at the Bubble by 1-100th of a second. Wynn shares the state record of 6.73 with. Michelle Glover.

All-Time South Jersey 55-Meter Hurdles List
7.89 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
7.89 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2006
7.92 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1981
7.94 … Lenaami Morton [Camden], 2017
7.97 … Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 2025
7.98 … Nichole Belcher [Woodrow Wilson], 1992
7.98 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], 2019
7.99 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2025
8.01 … Samantha Sharper [Woodrow Wilson], 2008
8.03 … Alethia Jenkins [Pennsauken], 2000
8.03 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], 2020
8.03 … Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 2018
8.04 … Zonya Cross [Edgewood], 1983
8.05 … Sherese Price [Pleasantville], 1998
8.06 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
8.10 … Nichole Hill [Oakcrest], 1997
8.11 … Cidae’a Woods [Winslow Twp.], 2014
8.14 … Brianna Growalt [Atlantic County Tech], 2026
8.15 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], 2020
8.16 … Dakota Jones [Washington Twp.], 2025
8.17 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2014
8.17 … Aliya Rae Garozzo [Paul VI], 2020
8.18 … Gabrielle Bennett [Winslow Twp.], 2015
8.18 … Te’seanna Harris [Camden], 2019
8.19 … Brittany Preston [Winslow Twp,], 2016

The SJTCA meet at the Ott Center in West Philly Saturday is still on but will start at 10:30 p.m., two hours later than originally scheduled, thanks to snow and icy conditions on area roads.

Coaches and athletes are permitted to enter the facility at 9:30 a.m.

This meet will have 55-meter hurdles, 55-meter dash, 1,600, 400, 800 and 3,200 on the track with high jump, pole vault, shot put, long jump and triple jump, boys followed by girls

Link to purchase spectator tickets is here.

Link for live results is here.

Ott Center information can be found here.

More info on SJTCA meets is here.

We’re in a track lull right now so let’s catch up on Rowan’s opener at Ocean Breeze earlier this month and Rajahn Dixon’s fast opening 200.

Dixon, a sophomore from Eastern and an All-America as a freshman, ran 21.53 and won the 200 at the Fastrack Season Opener at Ocean Breeze.

That’s 3^rd-fastest in NCAA Division 3 this year. Bethany (W. Va.) junior Caliyph McClinton has the fastest time in Division 3 so far with his 21.42 in a meet at Wittenberg in Springfield, Ohio, and Wisconsin-Oshkosh junior Dylan Doss is No. 2 with his 21.44 in a home meet in Oshkosh.

Dixon finished clear of Bowie State sophomore Dareon Faircloth, who was 2^nd in 21.89.

Dixon set his indoor best of 21.34 – the Rowan indoor school record – in February when he won the 200 at the NJAC Championships at the Ott Center. He ran his lifetime-best 21.13 in the trials at NCAA Championships in Geneva, Ohio, this past May before placing 8^th in the final and earning All-America honors.

Dixon ran 21.40 as a senior at Eastern at the Camden County Championships with no wind guage. His indoor high school PR was 21.92 from February of 2023, also at Ocean Breeze.

Kingsway junior Payton Veilleux won the 1,600 Monday at Ocean Breeze, and assuming it’s the same Payton Veilleux who began his high school career at Mount Pleasant High School in Michigan – about halfway between Detroit and the Straits of Mackinac – this is a huge PR.

(btw … “Mackinac” is pronounced “Mackinaw.”)

Veilleux ran 4:32.54 and won the 1,600 at the SJTCA meet at Ocean Breeze, finishing 15 meters ahead of 2^nd-place Tyler Hurst of Steinert.

If it’s a different Payton Veilleux – and how many Payton Veilleux’s can there really be? – it’s the first track race of his life.

We’ll operate under the assumption this is the same Veilleux who competed from the 2023 XC season through the 2025 outdoor season for Mount Pleasant and had a 1,600 PR of 4:45.09 at a meet this past March at the Jack Skoog Indoor Track at Central Michigan University, also in Mount Pleasant.

According to the Michigan Milesplit page, Veilleux only ran two races last spring with a 1,600 best of 4:56.97 in a meet in April at his home high school. He resurfaced at Kingsway this past fall, placing 17^th in Group 4 Sectionals at DREAM Park in 16:26.92.

So assuming it’s the same Veilleux, this is a 24 ½-second PR.

The Winslow girls put together a hot early 4-by-4 Sunday at Ocean Breeze.

Sophomore Amariah Arango, senior Olivia Okaro, junior Cinniya Robinson and junior Amaya Jones won the 4-by-4 at the 71^st annual Bishop Loughlin Games in 3:54.37.

Arango led off in 61:50, followed by Okaro in 57.18, Robinson 56.96 and Jones anchoring in 58.75 well clear of 2^nd-place Benjamin Banneker Academy of Brooklyn, who ran 3:57.08.

Winslow’s time is No. 16 in South Jersey history indoors and No. 9 on the all-time Camden County list.

That also 5^th-fastest in the U.S. this year in the early going and fastest by a New Jersey school.

Winslow set the South Jersey indoor record of 3:44.74 in March in Boston with Jasmine Jackson, Skyhe Seamon, Arango and Robinson in the lineup.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 4×4 List
3:44.74 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:45.37 … Willingboro, 2003
3:47.95 … Willingboro, 2002
3:49.07 … Camden, 1995
3:49.50 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:49.59 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:51.49 … Winslow Twp., 2017
3:52.37 … Willingboro, 2000
3:52.55 … Wilson, 2006
3:53.07 … Willingboro, 2025
3:53.61 … Willingboro, 1998
3:53.81 … Paul VI, 2020
3:53.6h … Willingboro, 1999
3:53.82 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:53.97 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
3:54.37 … Winslow Twp., 2026
3:54.38 … Camden, 2009
3:54.59 … Willingboro, 2024
3:54.63 … Eastern, 2025
3:54.4h … Eastern, 2003
3:54.62 … Rancocas Valley, 2020
3:54.69 … Eastern, 2023
3:54.82 … Millville, 2008
3:54.99 … Winslow Twp., 2018

A record-setting jumps double today at the Ott Center by Glassboro sophomore Moses Robles, who broke the South Jersey sophomore class triple jump record and the Gloucester County sophomore long jump record.

Robles won the triple jump at 46-4 ½ and long jump at 21-9 ¾.

The best previous indoor sophomore long jump mark I could find is a 43-0 ¾ by Haddon Heights’ Dominique Irons at 2011 Easterns at the Armory. The previous Gloucester County sophomore indoor mark was 41-4 ½ by Delsea’s Tymir Kizee at a meet in 2016 at the Armory.

Nobles’s 21-9 ¾ is the best sophomore long jump by a South Jersey athlete since Chase Campbell of Lenape went 22-7 ½ in a meet at Lehigh’s Rauch Fieldhouse.

On the all-time South Jersey list, Nobles is now No. 10 in the triple jump. He’s No. 5 all-time in Gloucester County in the triple and No. 8 in the long jump.

On Saturday, he hit 21-9 ½ on his 1^st attempt and then 21-9 ¾ on his 2^nd  before fouling on his 3^rd.  In the triple, he opened with a 44-4 ¾ then jumped 45-8 on his 2^nd jump before hitting 46-4 ½ on his 3^rdand final attempt.

Robles had indoor PRs of 21-1 and 40-2 as a freshman – he only triple jumped once indoors last year – and outdoors went 21-3 ¼ and 44-5 ½.

23-7 ¾ … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2012
23-4 ½ … Maurice Hunter [Woodbury], 1983
22-9 ¼ … Shai Mumford [West Deptford], 2013
22-7 ¼ … Keon Grady [Delsea], 2017
22-5 ¾ … Khaliel Burnett [Delsea], 2018
22-2 … Adwon Parker [West Deptford], 2006
22-0 … Damir Lomax [Delsea], 2020
21-9 ¾ … Moses Robles [Glassboro], 2026
21-8 … Ferrell Cooper [West Deptford], 2011
21-6 ½ … Craig Howard [Washington Twp.], 1998
21-6 ½ … Mel Colvin [Delsea], 1999
21-2 … Brandon Greene [Washington Twp.], 2019
21-1 ½ … Enis Hutchinson [Glassboro], 2014
21-0 … Raekwon Little-Martin [Williamstown], 2014

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 ¾ … Jaden Johnson [Timber Creek], 2022
46-10 ¾ … Floyd Whitaker [Highland], 2020
46-6 ½ … Cartrell Moore [Glassboro], 2026
46-5 …….. Orion Joyner [Kingsway], 2019
46-4 ½  … Josiah Williams [Mainland Reg.], 2024
46-4 ½ … Artrill Evans [Winslow Twp.], 2025
46-4 ½ … Moses Robles [Glassboro], 2026
46-3 ½ … Keon Grady [Delsea], 2018
45-11 … Jashad Kersey [Eastern], 2023
45-10 …..… Kevin Kevelier [Collingswood], 2020
45-4 … Zamir Chance [Bridgeton], 2025
45-3 ½ … Zakiyy Williams [Rancocas Valley], 2015
45-3 ½ … Ezra Williams-Thomas [Moorestown], 2025
45-2 … Adris Lewis [Rancocas Valley], 2025
45-0 …….. Earnest Daniel [Kingsway], 2017
45-0 … Hercules Stewart [Ocean City], 2024
44-11 … Devon Carter [Washington Twp.], 2010
44-9 ½ … Josh Gray [Timber Creek], 2012
44-9 ¼ … Carl Smith [Camden], 2005
44-6 ¾ … Kyle Bryant [Cherry Hill East], 2013
44-5 … Darrell Jackson Jr. [Winslow Twp.], 2024
44-3 … Ebeneezer Edzii [Millville], 2019
44-3 … David Goldbolt [Rancocas Valley], 2023
44-1 ¾ … Jordan Floyd [Rancocas Valley], 2020
44-0 ¼ … Gordon Pinnock [Willingboro], 2023
44-0 … Dejon Sullivan [Camden], 2014
43-10 ¾ … Jermane Owens [Lenape], 2014
43-10 ¼ … Rece Englehart [Moorestown], 2024
43-9 ½ … Emmanuel Udutong [Cinnaminson], 2015
43-8 ½ … Dan Givens [Ocean City], 2022
43-6 ½ … Bobby Arnold [Salem], 2020
43-6 … Mubeen Momodu [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2019
43-5 ½ … Damon Albertson [Deptford], 2025
43-3 ¾ … Chace Pearson [Timber Creek], 2022
43-3 ¼ … Spencer Liu [Cinnaminson], 2016
43-3 ¼ … Mekhi Parker [Glassboro], 2025
43-2 … Zecheriah Johnson [Woodstown], 2017
43-1 ¾ … Joe Williams [Willingboro], 2001
43-1 ¼ … Kevin Harrison [Lenape], 2015
43-1 … Jaquay Redding [Pemberton], 2015
43-1 … Charles Naone-Carter [Sterling], 2016
43-1 … Samir Barber [Rancocas Valley], 2022
43-0 ½ … Khaleeb Foster [Mainland Reg.], 2024