It looks like Eastern won the mixed 1,600-meter relay at Virginia Beach Nationals Friday night, but there are no names listed either in the entries or results.

With two boys and two girls, Eastern ran 3:35.10, breaking the meet record 3:39.71 set by Haverhill (Mass.) in 2023.

Thanks to the Eastern girls track and XC Twitter account for providing Eastern’s actual lineup. Ashton Gage did indeed lead off, splitting 50.56, then junior Poetry Anderson, who hadn’t run anything over a 200 all year, split 1:01.72, setting up half-miler Brandon Lamon, who split 50.26, with Natalie Dumas anchoring with a hot 52.56.

 Presumably, Natalie Dumas was one of the girls on the Eastern team. The next-fastest female 400 runners at Eastern this year was Adriana Marella, so she may have run the other 400. She ran 61.20 back in December at Ocean Breeze but hasn’t raced in six weeks so maybe it wasn’t her.

On the guys side, Ashton Gage was likely one of the quarter-milers. Gage ran 49.58 at the Ott Center in January and just ran 21.92 for 200 meters two weeks at the Meet of Champions. The other guy on the team? Paul Moore was next-fastest over 400 meters this year for Eastern at 51.54 at the state Group 4 meet at the Bubble.

If anyone knows who actually ran for Eastern please let me know and I can update this post.

Either way, Dumas likely ran a very fast leg because if the two guys averaged 50.5 seconds and the second girl ran 61, that leaves a 53.1 for Natalie.

Williamstown senior Jasiah Gibbons ran the 8^th-fastest 60-meter hurdles time in South Jersey history Friday in qualifying at Virginia Beach Nationals.

There were no times listed in the results for several hours, although Gibbons was listed as a qualifier in the heat sheets for the semifinals. But they have finally fixed the results and Gibbons ran 7.95, the 3^rd-fastest qualifying time out of 63 runners.

Gibbons had a previous PR of 8.54 for the 60-meter highs from last years Boston Nationals. He won the state Group 4 race in 7.29 over 55 meters.

His time is 19^th-fastest in state history and 4^th-fastest this year.

Camden juniro Jaleel Dickerson-Dempsey also qualified for the semifinals with an 8.18 in the quarters.

The semis are scheduled for 8:50 a.m. Saturday with Gibbons racing in lane 5 in the first of two races. The top two finishers in each semi plus the next four-fastest advance to the final, scheduled for 1:56 p.m. Sunday.

All-Time New Jersey 60-Meter Hurdles List
7.63 … Cory Poole [East Orange Campus], 2017
7.64 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 2019
7.65 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2024
7.73 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 1997
7.74 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2024
7.79 … Nathaniel Rayan [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 2023
7.85 … Chris Serrao [East Brunswick], 2022
7.87 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], 2002
7.88 … Yverson Alexandre [Hillside], 2025
7.90 … Corey Nelms [Neptune], 2006
7.90 … Isaac Williams [Willingboro], 2012
7.90 … Essien Plummer [Neptune], 2026
7.92 … Michael Perry [North Brunswick], 2026
7.92 … Elvin Marte Feliz [North Brunswick], 2026
7.94 … Anthony Acklin [Triton], 2001
7.94 … Ihmir Marsette [Weequahic], 2017
7.94 … Akeem Lindo [East Orange Campus], 2017
7.95 … Herb Reid [Lenape], 2000
7.95 … Ron Jules [Toms River East], 2003
7.95 … Jasiah Gibbons [Williamstown], 2026
7.96 … Danyne Brown. [Camden], 1999
7.96 … Joshua Evans [Irvington], 2009
7.96 … Andrew Aguilera [Governor Livingston], 2017
7.97 … Jason Keiser [East Brunswick], 2025
7.97 … Jermaine Collier [Trenton], 2011
7.99 … Zach Gizzone [Union Catholic], 2013
7.99 … Naseem Smith [Deptford], 2019
7.99 … Chais Hill [Highland], 2015

All-Time South Jersey 60-Meter Hurdles List
7.64 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 2019
7.65 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2024
7.73 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 1997
7.74 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2023
7.87 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], 2002
7.90 … Isaac Williams [Willingboro], 2012
7.94 … Anthony Acklin [Triton], 2001
7.95 … Herb Reid [Lenape], 2000
7.95 … Jasiah Gibbons [Williamstown], 2026
7.96 … Danyne Brown. [Camden], 1999
7.99 … Naseem Smith [Deptford], 2019
7.99 … Chais Hill [Highland], 2015

Josh Awotunde, a 2013 Delsea graduate, throws Sunday in the World Championships at the Kujawsko Pomorska Arena.in Torun, Poland., about 25 miles east of Bydgoszcz.

This will be Awotunde’s 5^th  trip to Worlds. In 2022 indoor Worlds in Belgrade, Serbia, he placed 5^th with a throw of 71-2 ¼ and then outdoors that spring in Eugene he placed 3^rd with a 73-1 ½. In 2023 in Budapest, Hungary, he placed 11^th at 65-6 ½. Then last year outdoors in Tokyo he placed 7^th in the final with a 69-4 ¼.

Awotunde qualified this year by placing 3^rd at the U.S. Championships at Ocean Breeeze earlier this month with a 69-1.

Awotunde ranks 12^th in the world this year with his season-best 69-1. He threw his PR 73-8 ½ when he won the 2025 U.S. Championship at Oregon’s Hayward Field. That’s No. 17 in world history and No. 10 in U.S. history.

The shot put at Worlds is scheduled for 11:23 a.m. Central European Time, which is 6:23 a.m. here.

Natalie Dumas, one of the greatest middle-distance runners in U.S. scholastic track history history, will race indoors two more times in her historic high school career.

Dumas is entered in the 400 and 800 at Virginia Beach Nationals this weekend. This is the 3rd and as far as we can tell the final indoor “national meet.”

In the 400, Dumas has run in 53.68 this indoor season and 51.14 last spring, 6th-fastest in U.S. scholastic history. It looks like the one faster seed based on times this year is Kadia Rock of SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, who ran a PR 53.51 in a meet in February in Geneva.

Dumas’s indoor PR and South Jersey record is 53.55 from last year’s Meet of Champions win at Ocean Breeze. Dumas won the 400 last year at Virginia Beach Nationals with a 53.66.

Dumas is coming off a fast 2:05.30 indoor PR and South Jersey indoor record, at Armory Nationals. She set the state record of 2:00.11 in June at West Philly Nationals, 5th-fastest in U.S. history.

Dumas is also listed as anchor for Eastern’s sprint medley team, which also includes junior Poetry Anderson, senior Knoelle Whittle and junior Jolie Merhi.

The 400 in Virginia Beach is scheduled for 2:55 p.m. Saturday with the 800 following at 8:45 p.m. The sprint med is 3:50 p.m. Sunday.

Several other South Jersey athletes are entered in the two-day meet, which runs Saturday and Sunday.

You can find the full entries here: https://www.milesplit.com/meets/704187-adidas-track-nationals-2026/entries/1259554

Order of events here: https://adidastfnationals.com/schedule

✔️ Summer Schaeffer of Pennsauken will run the 60 and 200. She ran 7.21 for 55 meters indoors at the Ott Center and 25.30 this past weekend at Boston Nationals.

✔️ Junior Grace Gutowski of Paul VI is entered in the mile. She has a PR of 5:02.06 from Parochial A states last spring in Galloway Township.

✔️ Paul VI senior Giovanna Mantuano from Paul VI will race the two-mile. She ran 10:54.33 over 3,200 meters at the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze.

✔️ Senior Laila Fairweather of Burlington Township is entered in the 60-meter dash and 400. She ran 7.35 for 55 meters at the Bubble and 57.36 at the Ott.

✔️ Haddonfield junior Nina Fisicaro will compete in the pole vault. Fisicaro cleared 11-0 twice indoors and placed 3rd at Group 2 states.

✔️ Junior Timia Waters of Williamstown is entered in the long jump. Her best jump this year was a 17-10 ½ at the Ott in January.

BOYS
✔️ Eastern senior Ashton Gage, who has sprinted 6.50, 21.92 and 49.58 this indoor season, is entered in the 200 and 400 and will anchor an Eastern 4-by-2 team and race on the sprint medley.

✔️ Eastern senior Brandon Lamon, who PR’d at 1:56.60 at the Meet of Champions, will race the 800 and anchor Eastern’s SMR.

✔️ Camden junior Jaleel Dickerson-Dempsey, the state Group 2 55 hurdles champ at 7.73, will run the 60-meter highs.

✔️ Jasiah Gibbons of Williamstown, the state Group 4 hurdles champ, is also entered in the hurdles. He ran 7.29 for the 55-meter highs, 11th-fastest in state history. He’ll also run on Williamstown’s sprint med, with Dominic Burgio anchoring, and anchor the Braves’ shuttle hurdles.

✔️ Lenape senior Dev’yne Smith, who hit 45-0 ¼ at the Bubble in January, is entered in the triple jump.

✔️ Bishop Eustace senior Noah Glen, 7th in the pentathlon at Armory Nationals, will compete in the two-day multi in Virginia Beach.

✔️ Thomas Howard Jr. of Rancocas Valley is in the 200. He ran 21.33 at Boston Nationals last year.

✔️ Haddonfield senior Brandon Stoner, the South Jersey Group 2 champ, will race the 800.

✔️ Glassboro senior Jaeden Wesley, 7th in the state Group 1 XC race at Holmdel, is entered in the 3,200.

✔️ Haddon Township junior Kyle Stephens, the South Jersey Group 1 sectional champ, will throw the shot.

✔️ Salem’s Ahmad Tucker, who jumped 19-11 ½ at the Ott, No. 2 freshman in New Jersey this year, will shoot for the 20-foot barrier in the freshman long jump. He’s also running the freshman 55.

Bishop Eustace senior Noah Glenn earned All-America honors in the pentathlon at Armory Nationals over the weekend.

Glenn placed 7^th with 3,303 points in five events.

He began with an 8.56 in the 60-meter hurdles for 856 points, his highest total of the competition. He long jumped 21-1 for 682 points, threw the shot 36-0 ¼ for 545 points, high jumped 5-10 ¾ for 627 points and finished by running 1,000 meters in 3:06.37 for 603 points.

Glenn’s strongest event as you can see is the hurdles. He placed 3^rd at the tate Parochial B meet in 8.07 and then PR’d with 7.83 in the Meet of Champions, the fastest time by a Parochial B hurdler this year.

Glenn also has PRs of 6-2 in the high jump from the Bubble in January, 21-2 ¼ from the Ott Center in January, 39-5 from the Bubble in January and 3:04.56 in the 1,000 from Ocean Breeeze in February.

The Bishop Eustace pentathlon record is 3,449 by Chris Feigenbutz in 1999.

Glenn’s score is 4^th-highest in South Jersey history behind Millville’s Raffael Craig [3,814 in 1999], Bridgeton’s Jamil Sanders [3,632 in 1994] and Feigenbutz. Craig and Feigenbutz both recorded their highest score at 1999 Roxbury Nationals at the Reggie Lewis Center outside Boston. They placed 1^st and 6^th.

Delsea senior Hannah Nuhfer made it two All-America performances in three days with a 2^nd-place finish in the shot put at Boston THE TRACK Nationals Sunday.

On Friday, Nuhfer threw 47-10 ¾ – just 1 ¼ of an inch off her South Jersey record of 48-0 – to place 4^th at Armory Nationals. Two days later in Boston, she placed 2^nd with a throw of 46-3 ¼.

Nuhfer led the shot in Boston until the final round of throws, when Sophia Marie Rivera of Ephrata High outside Lancaster threw a PR 46-5 ¾ to move into the lead by 2 ½ inches.

Nuhfer had a strong series, with three throws over 46 feet – 46-2 ¾, 46-3 ¼ and 46-2 ½ – and earned her 3^rd All-America honor with two this past weekend along with her discus win at West Philly Nationals this past June, where she set a South Jersey-record 178-9.

Nuhfer goes into her final season of high school track with three South Jersey records – discus outdoors and shot indoors and out. This spring, she’ll look to build on her outdoor shot record of 47-9 from South Jersey Group 3 sectionals this past May at Delsea.

She’s one of only two throwers in state history to reach 48 feet in the shot and 175 feet in the discus. Alyssa Wilson of Donovan Catholic in Toms River threw 57-5 ½ and 182-0 in 2017. Wilson went on to become a shot, disc and hammer All-America at UCLA and a hammer throw All-America at Texas State.

After running the 2nd-fastest 4-by-200 in South Jersey history in Friday’s qualifying heats, Deptford earned All-America honors Saturday by placing 7^th in the final at Boston THE TRACK Nationals.

Senior Johan Hernandez, junior Xavion Holmes, senior Kareem Brown and senior Damon Albertson ran 1:27.91 in the final after a 1:27.55 in the trials. The names of the four runners in the trials were listed incorretly in the official results, but they now seem to show the correct lineup.

Deptford’s 1:27.55 broke the Gloucester County record of 1:28.28 set in 2023 by Washington Township at Ocean Breeze. It’s 6^th-fastest in state history and 2nd-fastest in South Jersey history indoors, behind only Camden’s iconic 1:26.90 from 2004 Easterns at the Armory with Dwayne Lewis, Sherron Bullock, Alonzo Brown and Carl Smith.

Kingsway junior Aubrey Bishop moved into the No. 5 spot in Gloucester County history at 3,200 meters Friday at Boston THE TRACK Nationals.

Bishop ran 10:50.85 for the full two miles, converting to 10:47.08 for 3,200 meters. Her PR going into the meet was 10:53.83 for 3,200 meters at the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze, so this is a nearly seven-second PR.

Bishop is 2^nd-fastest ever at Kingsway, behind Chelsea Ley, who ran 10:43.10 at the 2009 Meet of Champions at the Bubble and won the Meet of Champions that spring at South Plainfield in 10:19.31.

Bishop’s time is No. 19 in South Jersey hitory.

Not bad considering Bishop’s fastest times last spring were 5:51.68 and 12:53.45. But she had an outstanding XC season, 3^rd at Group 4 sectionals at DREAM Park, 9^th at states at Holmdel and 36^th at the Meet of Champions with a 19:09 at Holmdel. That is 3^rd-fastest ever by a Kingsway girl at Holmdel, behind Ley’s 17:44 in 2008 and Rachel Vick’s 18:29 in 2016.

Bishop’s 3,200 PR was 11:10.65 as recently as late February before a 10:55.85 for 4^th at states and that 10:53.83 at the Meet of Champions. So she’s PR’d by 23 ½ seconds in three weeks.

All-Time South Jersey 3,200-Meter Run List
10:13.41 … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlimgton], 2025
10:15.71 … Brittany Sedberry [Ocean City], 2006
10:23.49y … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2011
10:29.07 … Julia Flanagan [Holy Cross], 2026
10:29.90y … Chelsea Ley [Kingsway], 2009
10:33.95y … Alyssa Aldridge [Mainland Reg.], 2016
10:38.11 … Megan Venables [Highland], 2011
10:38.90 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2001
10:39.88 … Lillie Widmer [Delsea], 2023
10:40.03 … Dina Iacone [Washington Twp.], 2012
10:40.80 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2017
10:42.06 … Holly Bischof [Bishop Eustace], 2012
10:42.22 … Theresa Cattuna [Cherry Hill East], 2007
10:43.2y … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983
10:44.03 … Riley Tolson [Ocean City], 2026 [11]
10:45.20 … Devon Grisbaum [Ocean City], 2015
10:45.40y … Julianna Catania [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2016
10:46.63 … Erika Kemp [Rancocas Valley], 2013
10:47.08y … Aubrey Bishop [Kingsway], 2026
10:47.46 … Addison Weiss [Cherry Hill East], 2026
10:48.28 … Abby Waddington [Clearview], 2023
10:48.78 … Shelby Cain [Haddonfield], 2014
10:49.12 … Madison Coppolino [Sterling], 2017
10:49.46 … Alyssa Condell [Timber Creek], 2016
10:51.65 … Kerry O’Day [Cherokee], 2024
10:52.05 … Amanda Goetschius [Delsea], 2007
10:52.53 … Allie Pierontoni [Kingsway], 2020
10:52.82 … Maeve Smith [Ocean City], 2024
10:53.4h … Christin Bettis [Hammonton], 2012
10:53.89y … Sarah Naticchia [Haddonfield], 2020
10:54.33 … Giovanna Mantuano [Paul VI], 2026
10:55.29y … Ann Klocke [Bishop Eustace], 1996
10:55.58 … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022
10:56.66 … Jordan Hatfield [Schalick], 2025
10:57.28 … Riley Fayer [Audubon], 2026
10:57.53 … Michaela Schlemo [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2023
10:57.68y … Ava Thomas [Haddonfield], 2024
10:57.95 … Katy Storti [Bishop Eustace], 2019
10:59.02 … Catherine Van Horn [Triton], 2005
10:59.04 … Maria Ruiz [Williamstown], 2009
10:59.13 … Vickie Ajimoko [Williamstown], 2013
10:59.26 … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2024

All-Time Gloucester County 3,200-Meter Run List
10:29.90y … Chelsea Ley [Kingsway], 2009
10:39.88 … Lillie Widmer [Delsea], 2023
10:40.03 … Dina Iacone [Washington Twp.], 2012
10:43.2y … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983
10:47.08y … Aubrey Bishop [Kingsway], 2026
10:48.28 … Abby Waddington [Clearview], 2023
10:52.05 … Amanda Goetschius [Delsea], 2007
10:52.53 … Allie Pierontoni [Kingsway], 2020
10:59.04 … Maria Ruiz [Williamstown], 2009
10:59.13 … Vickie Ajimoko [Williamstown], 2013

 

Junior Molly Mills, senior Riley Austin, sophomore Natalie Lacroce and freshman Dylan Hosty ran the 6^th-fastest 3,200-meter relay in South Jersey history Sunday on the final day of Armory Nationals in New York.

Haddonfield placed 4^th, earning the four girls All-America honors. Mills, Austin and Hosty also ran on Haddonfield’s four-mile relay team, which won in 20:58.00 on Friday. Madison Kelsey also ran on that team.

On Sunday, Mills led off in 2:18.03, Austin ran 2:19.85, Lacroce split 2:20.53 and Hosty anchored in 2:14.75.

Haddonfield fell just 23-100ths of a second off the Camden County record of 9:12.91 set by Haddonfield in 2021 at Ocean Breeze.

All-Time South Jersey 4×8 List
9:04.66 … Lenape, 2013
9:07.27 … Cherokee, 2022
9:09.71 … Lenape, 2012
9:11.94 … Lenape, 2008
9:12.91 … Haddonfield, 2021
9:13.14 … Haddonfield, 2026
9:16.28 … Haddonfield, 2024
9:19.01 … Lenape, 2011
9:19.35 … Wilson, 2002
9:19.80 … Cherokee, 2023
9:21.38 … Buena, 1999
9:21.64 … Cherokee, 2025
9:22.18 … Haddonfield, 2020
9:22.30 … Lenape, 2010
9:22.33 … Eastern, 2024
9:23.71 … Lenape, 2009
9:24.68 … Seneca, 2017
9:25.67 … Winslow Twp., 2025
9:26.65 … Kingsway, 2020
9:26.67 … Lenape, 2007
9:27.12 … Moorestown, 2025
9:27.22 … Lenape, 2014
9:28.7 ….. Willingboro, 2003
9:28.90 … Haddonfield, 2019

Winslow’s Amariah Arango, Cinniya Robinson, Olivia Okaro and Jasmine Jackson placed 3^rd in a smoking hot 55 1,600-meter relay, shattering the South Jersey record, posting the 6^th-fastest time in state history and earning All-America honors for all four runners.

Winslow ran 3:43.38, smashing the South Jersey indoor record of 3:44.74 that Winslow set at this meet last year..

Winslow finished behind two national all-star spring factories – Bullis School of Potomac, Md., which ran 3:40.55, and Monteverde (Fla.) Academy, which ran 3:42.08. Their times are 8^th– and 14^th-fastest in U.S. scholastic history.

For Winslow, Arango led off with a 56.38, Robinson ran 55.18, Okaro split 56.71 and Jackson, who had just run the 3^rd-fastest 60 hurdles race in New Jersey history, anchored in 55.13. Jackson was part of two South Jersey records in about two hours.

Winslow actually ran faster than the South Jersey outdoor record of 3:43.46 set by Winslow’s Arango, Jackson, Skyhe Seamon and Robinson last April at the Penn Relays.

A Winslow B team placed 16^th in 3:55.27, with Jones, Lovelace-Crump, Cato and Leeya Joseph. Jones led off in 60.43, Lovelace-Crump split 57.20, Cato ran 59.02 and Joseph anchored in 58.63.

Kingsway ran a season-best 4:01.70, winning its section with with junior Norah Brown running a 58.52 3^rd leg and sophomore Noemi Haller anchoring in 56.43. Senior Savannah Aulich and junior Kenya Nobles ran the first two legs.

All-Time New Jersey 4-by-4 List
3:40.28 … Union Catholic, 2016
3:41.19 … Union Catholic, 2025
3:41.90 … Union Catholic, 2026
3:42.03 … Columbia, 2013
3:43.38 … Union Catholic, 2025
3:44.74 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:45.37 … Willingboro, 2003
3:45.50 … Winslow Twp., 2026
3:46.06 … Winslow Twp., 2026
3:46.42 … Columbia, 2014
3:47.03 … Union Catholic, 2015
3:47.31 … Union Catholic, 2019
3:47.59 … Union Catholic, 2024
3:47.95 … Willingboro, 2002
3:48.9h … Plainfield, 1980
3:49.07 … Camden, 1995
3:49.18 … Rumson-Fair Haven, 2025
3:49.50 … East Orange, 2006
3:49.50 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:49.59 … Timber Creek, 2024