The super sprint medley was still in its infancy in 2003, when the Willingboro girls ran 1:44.06 at nationals with the team of Halimah Bashir, Kim Allen, Rhea Mann and Okechi Ogbuokiri.

The event was new, but the record lasted 15 years!

A little history:

The super sprint medley – two 100s, a 200 and a 400 – had been contested in Florida and California since the 1980s but didn’t go national until 2002.

That’s when it was first contested at nationals in Greensboro and added to a few South Jersey meets as well.

Woodrow Wilson set the initial South Jersey record in the spring of 2002, capped by a 1:46.46 with a fifth place at nationals in Raleigh with the team of Jamillah Nock, Latoya Carmichael, Latoya Benson and Taneesha Pittman, also at nationals.

Willingboro claimed the state and South Jersey record of 1:44.06 at outdoor nationals a year later, finishing second to William Penn of Philadelphia, which ran 1:40.95.

That stood as the state record until 2009, when Columbia ran 1:43.33 to win outdoor nationals. It remains No. 5 in state history.

And it held up as the South Jersey record until two years ago, when the Rancocas Valley girls placed second at nationals in Raleigh with a 1:43.19, finishing behind only Nansemond River High of Suffolk, Va., which ran 1:42.53. 

R.V.’s Kristina Tossas and Breacain and McClenahan ran the 100 and Darynn Minus-Vincent the 200, setting up Aliyah Taylor, who anchored in 53.5, fastest anchor in the field, and moved the Red Devils up from fifth in the final to second.

That time is No. 2 in state history.

Here’s our story from two years ago on R.V.’s historic race at nationals: https://sjtrackblog.com/2018/06/17/rancocas-valley-girls-take-2nd-in-super-sprint-medley-at-nationals-and-shatter-south-jersey-record/

And here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey top-50, with six schools – Winslow, Rancocas Valley, Lenape, Camden, Willingboro and Woodrow Wilson – accounting for 30 of the top 50 times. And as a bonus, I added an all-time New Jersey top-10 below it!

As always, send errors and additions to me in the comment’s section!

All-Time South Jersey Girls Super Sprint Medley Top-50

1:43.19 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
1:44.06 … Willingboro, 2003
1:44.31 … Camden, 2006
1:45.07 … Winslow Twp., 2004
1:45.17 … Winslow Twp., 2019
1:45.56 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
1:45.61 … Camden, 2005
1:45.78 … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:45.78 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:46.43 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:46.97 … Woodrow Wilson, 2007
1:46.99 … Winslow Twp., 2019
1:47.07 … Pennsauken, 2014
1:47.21 … Willingboro, 2009
1:47.29 … Lenape, 2015
1:47.33 … Rancocas Valley, 2016
1:47.55 … Cherokee, 2012
1:47.66 … Willingboro, 2008
1:48.18 … Willingboro, 2007
1:48.34 … Camden, 2009
1:48.37 … Winslow Twp., 2013
1:48.60 … Oakcrest, 2009
1:48.74 … Lenape, 2010
1:48.76 … Camden, 2008
1:48.79 … Woodrow Wilson, 2008
1:48.79 … Rancocas Valley, 2016
1:48.92 … Pennsauken, 2015
1:49.03 … Mainland Regional, 2018
1:49.04 … Haddonfield, 2007
1:49.57 … Paul VI, 2017
1:49.62 … Lenape, 2011
1:49.74 … Oakcrest, 2008
1:49.78 … Lenape, 2014
1:49.79 … Rancocas Valley, 2007
1:49.79 … Eastern, 2012
1:49.99 … Timber Creek, 2010
1:50.04 … Cherokee, 2007
1:50.09 … Lenape, 2008
1:50.30 … Pennsauken, 2019
1:50.50 … Paul VI, 2016
1:50.52 … Cherokee, 2016
1:50.59 … Clearview, 2016
1:50.60 … Winslow Twp., 2012
1:50.81 … Millvile, 2009
1:50.95 … Woodrow Wilson, 2008
1:51.04 … Bridgeton, 2010
1:51.09 … Rancocas Valley, 2009
1:51.26 … Paul VI, 2019
1:51.31 … Woodbury, 2010

All-Time New Jersey Girls Super Sprint Medley Top-10

1:41.98 … Columbia, 2010
1:43.19 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
1:43.33 … Columbia, 2009
1:43.76 … Union Catholic, 2016
1:44.06 … Willingboro, 2003
1:44.31 … Camden, 2006
1:44.78 … Summit, 2017
1:45.07 … Winslow Twp., 2004
1:45.17 … Winslow Twp., 2019
1:45.19 … Paul John XXIII, 2012

We’ve really experienced the glory days of the girls distance medley since the turn of the century, with Lenape, Ocean City and Haddonfield combining for 17 of the top 24 times in South Jersey history since 2000.

Unlike most events, you won’t see any marks from the 1980s on the all-time girls outdoor DMR top-40.

Until Ocean City’s 12:06.73 for sixth place at the 1994 Penn Relays with the team of Shelly Solheim [3:46.48], Kellie Adams [1:00.53], Janine Minehan [2:22.48] and Megan Hartman [4:57.24], the South Jersey record was 12:27.9, set in 1982 by Paul VI’s Dawn Hillman, Sue O’Toole, Lois Lucente, Dawn Cody and matched by the Shawnee team of Sue Thompson, Kris Tate, Michelle DiMuro and Deanna Germano at the 1984 Woodbury Relays.

(One note about Paul VI’s 12:27.9 …  I can’t for the life of me find out where they ran that, and all my usual research methods have come up empty! It wasn’t at Penn [which didn’t have a girls DMR yet], it wasn’t at Woodbury, it wasn’t at the Jersey Relays … what other meets even had a girls DMR that year? Help me out, someone!]

Ocean City’s 12:06.73 stood as the South Jersey record until 2000, when Haddonfield ran 12:02.34. Ocean City reclaimed the record with its 12:00.64 in 2004.

That stood for eight years, until Lenape – with the team of Camille Franklin, Ana de las Heras, Emily McGee and Natalia Ocasio – became the first and so far only South Jersey school to crack the 12-minute barrier with a remarkable 11:53.15 at New Balance Nationals in Greensboro in 2012.

(By the way … before 1982, the South Jersey record was 12:57.5 by Holy Cross at the Holmdel Relays in 1980!)

 

The same weekend, as you can see in the New Brunswick Home News, Lenape also ran 9:05.62 at nationals, which also remains the South Jersey record and which we wrote about yesterday.

Since 2012, nobody has come within nine seconds of Lenape’s S.J. record!

All-Time Outdoor Girls S.J. DMR Top-50

11:53.15 … Lenape, 2012
12:00.64 … Ocean City, 2004
12:02.34 … Haddonfield 2000
12:02.37 … Haddonfield, 2014
12:04.39 … Lenape, 2010
12:05.39 … Ocean City 2005
12:05.98 … Sterling, 2017
12:06.73 … Ocean City 1994
12:07.21 … Lenape 2008
12:08.61 … Ocean City, 2014
12:10.75 … Sterling, 2016
12:10.76 … Lenape, 2017
12:12.24 … Millville, 2009
12:13.16 … Bishop Eustace, 2011
12:14.05 … Cherry Hill East, 2007
12:14.24 … Highland, 2004
12:14.61 … Lenape, 2013
12:15.42 … Ocean City, 2015
12:16.79 … Lenape, 2015
12:18.27 … Bishop Eustace, 1995
12:18.29 … Shawnee, 2012
12:19.26 … Woodrow Wilson, 2001
12:19.41 … Rancocas Valley, 2011
12:19.46 … Ocean City, 2013
12:19.60 … Shawnee, 2015
12:19.79 … Haddonfield, 2015
12:21.22 … Haddonfield, 2017
12:21.45 … Haddonfield, 1998
12:21.87 … Cherokee, 2012
12:22.01 … Moorestown, 2002
12:22.29 … Moorestown, 2007
12:22.94 … Shawnee, 1997
12:23.26 … Haddonfield, 1999
12:23.33 … Delsea, 2011
12:23.5h … Millville, 2008
12:24.26 … Lenape, 2007
12:24.64 … Woodrow Wilson, 2000
12:25.21 … Cherokee, 2000
12:26.31 … Shawnee, 2017
12:26.93 … Delsea, 2009
12:27.03 … Shawnee, 2014
12:27.14 … Woodrow Wilson, 2002
12:27.21 … Lenape, 2011
12:27.96 … Cherokee, 2010
12:27.9h … Paul VI, 1982
12:26.9h … Shawnee, 1984
12:28.7h … Paul VI, 1983
12:29.03 … Bishop Eustace, 1996
12:29.72 … Washington Twp., 2012
12:29.9h … Haddonfield, 2008

A truly astonishing weekend at nationals for Lenape in 2012 with two South Jersey records that still stand today!

We’ll get to the DMR in the next day or two (and Lenape earned all-America status in four events that weekend!), but today the focus is on the 4-by-800, with Lenape and Haddonfield taking 12 of the top 16 spots

Eight years ago, Lenape – with the team of Camille Franklin, Emily McGee, Amanda Restivo and Natalia Ocasio – placed fourth at nationals in Greensboro in the 4-by-8 with a time of 9:05.62.

That broke Lenape’s own South Jersey mark of 9:05.83 set four years earlier with Moira Cunningham, Miya Johnson, Brianna Beddall and Caitlin Orr at the Lenox Fast Times Relays at Warwick Valley High in Warwick, N.Y.

Those two marks, set by the same school four years apart with completely different lineups, are still No. 1 and 2 in South Jersey history!

Incredibly, five schools are responsible for the 16-fastest times in South Jersey history: Haddonfield [7], Lenape [5], Seneca [2], Ocean City [1] and Kingsway [1].

All-time S.J. girls outdoor 3,200-Meter Relay Top-50

9:05.62 … Lenape, 2012
9:05.83 … Lenape, 2008
9:06.30 … Haddonfield, 2008
9:10.32 … Haddonfield, 2000
9:12.30 … Haddonfield, 2019
9:15.61 … Ocean City, 2014
9:15.19 … Lenape, 2007
9:15.92 … Haddonfield, 2015
9:16.57 … Seneca, 2017
9:16.79 … Haddonfield, 1999
9:18.22 … Kingsway, 2016
9:18.37 … Haddonfield, 2019
9:18.57 … Seneca, 2018
9:18.71 … Lenape, 2011
9:18.93 … Haddonfield, 2018
9:18.94 … Lenape, 2006
9:19.15 … Wilson, 2002
9:19.68 … Kingsway, 2017
9:20.39 … Sterling, 2017
9:20.39 … Haddonfield, 2014
9:20.39 … Sterling, 2017
9:20.55 … Seneca, 2008
9:21.7h … Ocean City, 1994
9:22.37 … Egg Harbor Township, 2013
9:22.83 … Haddonfield, 2016
9:23.00 … Lenape, 2007
9:23.06 … Ocean City, 2004
9:23.29 … Ocean City, 1995
9:23.53 … Seneca, 2016
9:23.67 … Shawnee, 2014
9:23.84 … Ocean City, 2015
9:24.44 … Shawnee, 2017
9:25.83 … Lenape, 2010
9:26.32 … Woodrow Wilson, 2001
9:26.77 … Cherokee, 2011
9:27.09 … Washington Twp., 2012
9:27.78 … Sterling, 2016
9:28.5h … Holy Cross, 1981
9:28.91 … Willingboro, 1997
9:28.94 … Shawnee, 2016
9:29.05 … Kingsway, 2019
9:29.13 … Highland, 2005
9:29.65 … Lenape, 2005
9:30.28 … Woodrow Wilson, 1999
9:30.51 … Millville, 2013
9:30.72 … Lenape, 2015
9:30.93 … Seneca, 2013
9:30.95 … Millville, 2012
9:31.28 … Millville, 2014
9:31.31 … Delsea, 2011

The 2020 National Scholastic Championships – until recently the New Balance Outdoor Championships – are tentatively scheduled for late July and early August, but if they are held it won’t be in Greensboro.

The National Scholastic Athletics Foundation announced Thursday that if the meet is held on its new date – the weekend of July 30-Aug. 2 – it will be in South Dakota.

The meet has been held at Aggie Stadium in Greensboro on the campus of North Carolina A&T& University since moving across North Carolina from Raleigh after the 2005 meet.

But North Carolina AT&T’s campus is closed through the end of August at the earliest because of COVID-19 concerns so the stadium is unavailable. 

Meet officials said Thursday a decision on whether to hold the meet will be made by June 15, which is a week from Monday.

If it is held, it will be at 10,000-seat Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls, which is currently expected to be available under local and state guidelines.

Obviously, the move 1,300 miles northwest from Greensboro to Sioux Falls would eliminate most if not all of the South Jersey entries that were still considering competing if the meet is held.

The NSAF doesn’t currently have a sponsor for outdoor nationals. The meet in the past has been sponsored by Nike, Foot Locker, American Airlines, adidas and until recently New Balance.   

Willingboro senior Tamia Welch, a sectional champ in two events and a state relay champ, has had a busy spring. 

Even without track.

Although COVID-19 wiped out the spring track season in New Jersey, Welch was very busy and very productive this past weekend with something far more important.

Welch-Smith organized a peaceful march through Willingboro Tuesday that drew over 1,000 men, women and children to protest the killing last week of George Floyd while unarmed and in policy custody in Minneapolis.

What a amazing job by Tamia organizing the march and the rally!

Great story in the Burlington County Times about the event: https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/news/20200602/watch-peaceful-protestors-call-for-change-in-willingboro

Smith was a sectional champ this past winter, winning the Central Jersey Group 1 400-meter dash with an indoor PR of 1:00.33 before placing second at states at 1:00.79. Welch-Smith also placed second in the 55-meter high hurdles in 8.78 before taking third at states in a PR 8.74. She was also a 5-2 high jumper. She also ran on Willingboro’s first-place 1,600-meter relay team. The Willingboro girls won team titles at both indoor sectionals and states.

At the state relays, she was on Willingboro’s winning shuttle hurdles and 1,600-meter relay teams, and Willingboro won the team title.

Last spring, Welch won the CJ-1 sectional title in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles at 1:05.39 as the Chimeras won the team title, and she also placed third at states. She also medaled in the 400 at both sectionals and states. 

Welch will attend St. Peter’s University in Newark and compete for the Peacocks.

A strange story about the South Jersey sprint medley record.

No South Jersey school had broken four minutes for a sprint medley, but Willingboro was loaded in 2003 and at the inaugural Eastern Regional Relay Classic on its home track, the Chimeras took a shot at the South Jersey record of 4:00.71, which they had set a year earlier at adidas Outdoor Nationals.

There was no question pretty early that Boro would win. But would they go under 4?

The team of Chanel Hamilton, Rasheda Spratley, Rhea Mann and Okechi Ogbuokiri wound up running 3:59.6.

I know that’s what they ran because I was standing at the finish line with a stopwatch. My watch and all the officials’ watches agreed. So did Boro coach Tosca Bynoe, who was standing next to me and whose watch had a similar time.

The time was No. 4 in state history, behind only Columbia’s then-national record 3:55.8 (converted from 3:57.0 full mile) at the 1980 New York Relays at Downing Stadium on Randall’s Island and 3:58.56 at the 1995 East Coast Relays at Morristown and Shabazz’s 3:58.59 at the 1986 Jersey Relays at Plainfield. 

There’s only one problem.

The clerk who was recording times on a card and bringing them to the timing tent scribbled 3:59.6 in such a way that the “6” looked like a “0.”

I explained to the timing people that Boro’s time was actually 3:59.6 and not 3:59.0. They went to the timer at the finish line and asked her what she had on her watch, but by then she had cleared it and said she didn’t remember.

This is a South Jersey record we’re talking about here. And the time was No. 15 in U.S. history!

And she didn’t remember.

The timing people had no choice but to go with what they saw on the card, which really did look like 3:59.0.

To this day that mark is listed in all the record books as 3:59.0, but we know better! So the correct time is listed here!

And 17 years later, it remains a South Jersey record, and it’s still No. 13 in state history.

It’s fast! Just not quite as fast as everyone thinks!

All-Time S.J. Girls Outdoor Sprint Medley Top-50

3:59.6h … Willingboro, 2003
4:00.34 … Willingboro, 2006
4:00.71 … Willingboro, 2002
4:01.07 … Lenape, 2015
4:02.60 … Sterling, 2017
4:02.69 … Willingboro, 2004
4:02.89 … Woodrow Wilson, 2002
4:03.04 … Camden, 1995
4:03.42 … Millville, 2008
4:03.54 … Lenape, 2006
4:04.44 … Millville, 2013
4:04.86 … Woodrow Wilson, 2009
4:05.2h … Winslow Twp., 2003
4:05.36 … Willingboro, 2010
4:05.38 … Millville, 2019
4:05.70 … Ocean City, 2004
4:06.06 … Ocean City, 2005
4:06.36 … Millville, 2011
4:06.56 … Rancocas Valley, 2007
4:07.16 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2015
4:08.08 … Kingsway, 2017
4:08.16 … Lenape, 2017
4:08.23 … Timber Creek, 2011
4:08.27 … Washington Twp., 2007
4:08.64 … Woodrow  Wilson, 2003
4:08.76 … Willingboro, 1998
4:08.81 … Cherokee, 2011
4:09.23 … Pennsauken, 2014
4:09.42 … Ocean City, 2014
4:09.47 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
4:10.12 … Lenape, 2007
4:10.0h … Williamstown, 1979
4:10.0h … Camden, 2003
4:10.30 … Holy Spirit, 2011
4:10.39 … Holy Spirit, 2012
4:10.44 … Highland, 1998
4:10.5h … Woodrow Wilson, 2005
4:10.69 … Cherokee, 2016
4:10.74 … Highland, 2003
4:10.74 … Pennauken, 2015
4:10.8h … Haddon Heights, 1980
4:10.9h … Willingboro, 2005
4:11.15 … Buena, 1998
4:11.31 … Seneca, 2008
4:11.2h … Haddonfield, 2009
4:11.5h … Camden, 1994
4:11.5h … Buena, 2000
4:11.73 … Shawnee, 2017
4:11.76 … Washington Twp., 1999
4:11.91 … Timber Creek, 2010
4:11.8h … Overbrook, 2000

I’m going to need your help on this one.

In 2001, the Willingboro girls ran 3:43.94 for third place in the 1,600-meter relay at the adidas Outdoor Nationals in Greensboro.

That broke the South Jersey record of 3:45.41 set six years earlier by Camden in the South Jersey race at Penn and was 3rd-fastest in state history, behind only Montclair’s 3:41.03 at Penn in 1998 and Plainfield’s 3:43.3 at the 1981 Meet of Champions. It remains No. 5 in state history.

I can’t find the official results anywhere, but the Chimeras’ lineup was probably Halimah Bashir, Rhea Mann, Danielle Myricks and Okechi Ogbuokiri. (The lineup was actually Halimah, Chanel Hamilton, Danielle and Okechi … and Myricks split a 53!).  I should know because I was there, but … I don’t. And my old newspaper tragically deleted its entire on-line archive so I can’t even look up my old story. And the Newspaper.com archive doesn’t show any other local papers acknowledging the performance.

So, sadly, this incredible performance has been lost to time.

So if that lineup is incorrect … please let me know!

But it was a remarkable race. That 3:43.94 means Willingboro’s four legs averaged sub-56 in the same race. And that performance has stood as the South Jersey record for 19 years!

The next year, the Chimeras ran 3:44.64 at the Meet of Champions in South Brunswick – I believe with the team of Rhea Mann, Channel Hamilton, Bashir and Ogbuokiri (please correct me if I’m wrong). And nobody has come within 2 1/2 seconds of the Chimeras’ 4×4 record since.

Anyway, this is the all-time South Jersey girls outdoor 1,600-meter relay top-50.

Incredibly, only 14 high schools are represented on here, with Willingboro [14] and Camden [9] accounting for 23 times – nearly half the top 50!

Lenape [4], Eastern [3], Rancocas Valley [2] and Millville [2] each have multiple teams on the list as well, leaving just four other spots.

Please send any additions and corrections to me in the comment’s section!

All-Time S.J. Girls Outdoor 1,600-Meter Relay Top-50

3:43.94 … Willingboro, 2001
3:44.64 … Willingboro, 2002
3:45.41 … Camden, 1995
3:45.67 … Willingboro, 1999
3:46.13 … Willingboro, 2000
3:46.67 … Winslow Twp., 2018
3:47.16 … Eastern, 2003
3:47.30 … Willingboro, 2003
3:47.41 … Winslow Twp., 2017
3:47.4h … Camden, 1978
3:47.55 … Camden, 2006
3:48.00 … Wilson, 2001
3:48.17 … Wilson, 2006
3:48.6y … Camden,, 1978
3:48.78 … Lenape, 2014
3:48.7h … Washington Twp., 1999
3:48.87 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
3:48.91 … Penns Grove, 2013
3:49.25 … Lenape, 2015
3:49.2y … Camden, 1979
3:49.30 … Winslow Twp., 2004
3:49.43 … Willingboro, 1997
3:49.53 … Willingboro, 1998
3:49.63 … Winslow Twp., 2016
3:49.93 … Willingboro, 2009
3:50.10 … Millville, 2008
3:50.21 … Winslow Twp., 2003
3:50.24 … Willingboro, 2009
3:50.27 … Lenape, 2017
3:50.31 … Eastern, 2002
3:50.36 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
3:50.46 … Woodrow Wilson, 2005
3:50.49 … Willingboro, 2010
3:50.56 … Winslow Twp., 2019
3:51.0h … Willingboro, 1982
3:51.18 … Eastern, 2003
3:51.22 … Camden, 2008
3:51.32 … Willingboro, 2000
3:51.43 … Lenape, 2012
3:51.44 … Willingboro, 1994
3:51.51 … Woodrow Wilson, 2007
3:51.68 … Millville, 2007
3:51.70 … Camden, 2010
3:51.6h … Highland, 1992
3:51.85 … Woodrow Wilson, 2000
3:51.91 … Camden, 2005
3:51.8h … Camden, 1979
3:51.9h … Willingboro, 1993
3:52.15 … Pennsauken, 2014
3:52.49 … Paul VI, 2018

For the second year in a row, Kingsway’s Samuel Allen is the recipient of the Bruce MacDonald Athlete of the Year award given annually to the nation’s top high school race walker.

Although there was no outdoor track season, Allen won the award based on his indoor season, when he was the top-ranked high school racewalker in three events – the 1,500, mile and 3,000. According to a story on hsrw.net – a site devoted to high school race walking – Allen ranks No. 4, No. 10 and No. 12 in U.S. history in those three events.

Allen, also an honors student at Kingsway, also competes for Kingsway’s XC team and this past fall was sixth man on the team that placed third at the South Jersey Group 4 sectionals with a time of 16:51 at Delsea.

Last spring, Allen placed second at the USATF Under-20 Championships in Miramar, Fla., in the 10,000-meter race walk with a time of 54:08.19. He also won the 3,000 at the New Balance Nationals in Greensboro in 13:31.53.

The NJSIAA has cancelled the 2020 state relays so it can afford to hold a full slate of indoor sectional meets, according to a story on MileSplit.

There is nothing on the NJSIAA’s web site about this major change in the indoor track schedule, but apparently a revised copy of the minutes of an on-line meeting of the NJSIAA Track and Cross Country Committee reveals a plan to skip the state relays this year and resume them in the winter of 2022.

According to MileSplit, the NJSIAA plans to break sectionals down into more sessions than originally scheduled to comply with safety measure regarding social distancing and because of the expense of using the Bennett Center over more days there isn’t money in the budget to hold the indoor relays.

The state relays are generally held over six days at the Bubble, one day per section. Sectionals were broken down into eight sessions over six days last year.

There is no indoor schedule on the NJSIAA’s web site. The indoor track page only shows last year’s schedule.

The indoor state relays have been held every year since 1966 for boys and 1981 for girls.

The meet was held at the Jersey City Armory from 1966 through 1974, Jadwin Gym from 1975 through 2006, back at Jersey City Armory for two more years, and at the Bubble in Toms River sine 2009.

When the Willingboro girls broke the state record in the 800-meter relay, they really broke it.

Until 1994, the South Jersey 4-by-200 record was 1:43.0, in 1992 by the Highland team of Eusheka Bartley, Melanie Bell, Tonya May and Nichole Bartley at the 1992 East Coast Relays at Morristown. That’s fast, but as you can it’s barely in the all-time South Jersey top-50 at this point.

(By the way, Highland also won the 4-by-400 at the East Coast Relays that day in 3:51.6 with Jaimi Kinsler, May and the Bartleys and also took second in the 400-meter relay in 48.7 probably with the same lineup as the 4-by-200. Pretty good day!)

Then 1994 rolled around and Willingboro shaved a whopping 1 1/2 seconds off Highland’s South Jersey record.

Willingboro first broke the South Jersey record with a 1:41.5 at the East Coast Relays with the team of Tiffany Butler, Corey Thomas, Kim Hargrove and Kia Van Wright. (They also won the 4-by-100 in 47.8 that day and Boro ran 3:56.4 for second in the 4-by-4).

A few weeks later, the Chimeras, with the same lineup, broke their own South Jersey record by running 1:41.2 at the Eastern States Championships at St. John’s, where they also won the 4-by-100 in 47.4.

The record only stood for a year. Camden ran 1:41.1 with Summer Springs, Tiffany Jones, Tunisia Revels and Medina Salaam at the 1995 Cam-Go Relays at Camden and the record has changed hands three times since:

1:41.10 … Washington Township [Latoya Benson) Anita Brooks, Erin McIntyre, Medea Ashton], 1999
1:39.21 … Eastern [Brittany Wright, Jennifer Jackson, Kaliyma Barkley, Jenelle Wilson], 2003
1:38.43 … Winslow Township [Janeya Hammond, Nylah Perry Flora Ahiarakwe, Shakira Dancy], 2018

How long will Winslow’s record stand? That’s going to be a tough one to break!

All-Time S.J. Outdoor Girls 800-Meter Relay Top-50

1:38.43 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:39.21 … Eastern, 2003
1:39.59 … Winslow Twp., 2012
1:39.67 … Winslow Twp., 2019
1:40.25 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
1:40.30 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:40.46 … Eastern, 2019
1:40.62 … Winslow Twp., 2003
1:40.72 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2018
1:40.5h … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:40.91 … Winslow Twp., 2004
1:41.10 … Washington Twp., 1999
1:41.1h …. Camden, 1995
1:41.33 … Camden, 2009
1:41.2h … Willingboro, 1994
1:41.40 … Winslow Twp., 2005
1:41.2h … Camden, 2006
1:41.54 … Willingboro, 1999
1:41.56 … Highland, 1998
1:41.59 … Eastern, 2002
1:41.70 … Paul VI, 2019
1:41.5h … Pleasantville, 1995
1:41.5h … Woodrow Wilson, 2005
1:41.81 … Willingboro, 1995
1:41.7 … Wilson, 2008
1:41.85 … Deptford, 2015
1:41.86 … Willingboro, 2000
1:41.87 … Camden, 2001
1:41.88 … Winslow, 2013
1:41.91 … Winslow, 2018
1:41.97 … Moorestown, 1999
1:41.9h … Willingboro, 2003
1:42.11 … Winslow Twp., 2016
1:42.21 … Willingboro, 1996
1:42.31 … Penns Grove, 2013
1:42.32 … Washington Twp., 2001
1:42.36 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2015
1:42.38 … Lenape, 2012
1:42.40 … Winslow Twp., 2011
1:42.40 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
1:42.59 … Woodrow Wilson, 2002
1:42.63 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2014
1:42.8h … Moorestown, 2000
1:42.98 … Timber Creek, 2015
1:43.01 … Camden, 2002
1:43.03 … Camden, 2000
1:43.04 … Winslow Twp., 2014
1:43.04 … Pennsauken, 2018
1:43.0h … Highland, 1992
1:43.19 … Kingsway, 2015