Rancocas Valley senior Damanique Johnston PR’d by more than eight inches in the long jump Saturday morning with a 17-5 at the season-opening SJTCA meet at the Ott Center.

Johnston came into the season with a 16-8 ¼ PR from a meet in January at the Ott Center. She jumped an outdoor PR 16-7 at Delsea last spring on May 1 but that was her last meet of the year.

After a foul on her first jump, Johnston hit 17-5 on her 2^nd and then 16-11 ½, her 2^nd-best jump ever, on her 3^rd attempt. Athletes only got three jumps Saturday.

Johnson is the 5^th R.V. girl to jump 17-5 or better indoors.

Winslow senior Leeya Joseph also hit 17 feet, and she actually did it twice with a 17-4 on her 2^nd jump and then a 17-2 ¾. Joseph jumped 18-8 ½ for 2^ndat Easterns last winter at the Armory. She had a wind-legal 19-0 last June at the Met of Champions at Pennsauken.

All-Time Rancocas Valley Indoor Long Jump List
18-4 ¾ … Tonya Lee, 1988
17-10 … Kristina Tossas, 2020
17-7 ½ … Lauren Fadairo, 2024
17-6 ¼ … Anaya Young, 2020
17-5 … Damanique Johnston, 2026

The Winslow girls opened the 2025-26 season with a hot 800-meter relay Saturday morning at the Ott Center.

Junior Jordyn Cato, junior Amaya Jones, senior Olivia Okaro and sophomore Jasmine Jackson ran 1:41.31, 9^th-fastest in South Jersey history at the SJTCA season-opener.

Winslow ran 1:39.66 last year, No. 2 in South Jersey history, with only Cato and Okaro in the lineup from this race. Winslow’s time is No. 20 on the all-time New Jersey indoor list. Jackson anchored in 24.53.

Winslow ran unpressed, with Pennsauken – minus Sianni Wynn – 2^nd in 1:47.75. senior Sanaya Dupree, junior Abigayle John, junior Jade Georges-Reyes and senior Olivia Dupree ran for Pennsauken.

Winslow has run faster only in 2017, 2018 and 2025.

1:39.55 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:39.66 … Winslow Twp., 2025
1:39.94 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:40.77 … Moorestown, 2000
1:41.19 … Camden, 2008
1:41.14 … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:41.19 … Camden, 2008
1:41.28 … Woodrow Wilson, 2005
1:41.31 … Winslow Twp., 2026
1:41.42 … Moorestown, 1999
1:41.70 … Willingboro, 2002
1:41.78 … Winslow Twp., 2014
1:41.80 … Winslow Twp., 2019

1:38.03 … Union Catholic, 2024
1:38.60 … Union Catholic, 2023
1:38.99 … Columbia, 2014
1:39.29 … Union Catholic, 2016
1:39.37 … Columbia, 2011
1:39.55 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:39.66 … Winslow Twp., 2025
1:39.74 … Franklin, 2003
1:39.94 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:39.94 … East Orange Campus, 2007
1:40.51 … Union Catholic, 2014
1:40.67 … Union Catholic, 2017
1:40.76 … Union Catholic, 2022
1:40.77 … Moorestown, 2000
1:41.07 … Union Catholic, 2015
1:41.14 … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:41.19 … Camden, 2008
1:41.28 … Woodrow Wilson, 2005
1:41.30 … Union Catholic, 2025
1:41.31 … Winslow Twp., 2026

In her first meet since winning a national title, Lindenwold senior Egypt Bolan cleared 5-6 in the high jump Friday at the Bubble.

Bolan cleared 5-10 ¾ in June at Franklin Field Nationals, a South Jersey record and No. 3 in New Jersey history.

Bolan cleared 5-0 on her 2^nd attempt and 5-2 on her 3^rd before getting over the bar at 5-4 on her 1^st attempt. She cleared 5-6 on her 2^nd before taking three tries at 5-8.

That would have matched her indoor PR, which she cleared four times last year, all four also at the Bubble.

Bolan also long jumped 15-11 ½ and ran 7.68 in the hurdles in the season-opening South Jersey Track Coaches Association meet.

Timber Creek’s Darien Cade, a junior at Fairleigh Dickinson, recorded his first 50-foot shot put with the 16-pound ball Friday at Ocean Breeze.

Cade improved his PR from 49-8 ½ from the Northeast Conference Championships in May in Easton, Mass., to 50-8 ¼ on his 2^nd attempt at the Seahawk Shootout.

His previous indoor PR was a 49-9 ¾ Saturday, also at Ocean Breeze.

His throw Friday is the best by an FDU shot putter indoors in four years, since Benjamin Clay threw 58-0 ½ in a meet at the Armory in 2022.

Cade’s high school PR was 49-0 at the 2023 Tri-County Conference Championships at Delsea, so he’s thrown farther with the 16-pound shot than the 12-pounder.

Action begins at the spectacular new Ott Center Saturday with a South Jersey Track Coaches Association meet starting at 8 a.m.

The 73,000-square foot, $69.3 million Ott Center, which opened last year, is a state-of-the-arm indoor track facility with a banked track  located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in West Philly.

The track is tucked between the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks and the Schuylkill Expressway just south of South Street. and just north of Rhodes Field, where Penn’s soccer team plays.

Here’s a look at the complete Ott Center schedule for the 2025-26 indoor track season!

Dec. 13, SJTCA #2, 8 a.m.
Dec. 20, SJTCA #4, 8 a.m.
Dec. 27, SJTCA #7, 8 a.m.
Jan. 2, La Salle Winter Series, 1:30 p.m.
Jan. 3, SJTCA #8, 8 a.m.
Jan. 3, Upper Dublin Winter Series, 1:30 p.m.
Jan. 4, UAGTCA [United Age Group Track Coaches Association], 7:30 a.m.
Jan. 7, La Salle Boys Distance Meet, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 9, DVGTCA [Delaware Valley Girls Track Coaches Association], 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 10, Penn Select, Noon
Jan. 11, UAGTCA, 7:30 a.m.
Jan. 14, Upper Dublin Girls Meet, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 16, T&FCAGP [Track and Field Coaches Association of Greater Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 17, Quaker Invitational, 4 p.m.
Jan. 21, SJTCA #14, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 22, Penn Elite Multi Day 1, 3 p.m.
Jan. 23, Penn Elite Day 1, 10 a.m.
Jan. 24, Penn Elite Day 2, 11 a.m.
Jan. 28, Germantown Friends Invitational, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 30, Penn Invitational, Noon
Jan. 31, Penn Relays Winter Showcase, 9 a.m.
Feb. 1, Widener Meet #1, 1 p.m.
Feb. 2, SJTCA #17, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 4, La Salle Boys Relays, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 6, Penn Classic Day 1, 10 a.m.
Feb. 7, Penn Classic Day 2, 10 a.m.
Feb. 11, Upper Dublin Girls Relays, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 13, DVGTCA, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 14, Widener Invite, 1 p.m.
Feb. 15, PAISAA [Pennsylvania Independent School Athletic Association] Championship, 4:30 p.m.
Feb. 16, T&FCAGP Meet of Champions, 6:30 p.m.|
Feb. 20, Philly Metro, 11 a.m.
Feb. 21, New Jersey Athletic Conference, 4:30 p.m.
Feb. 22, New Jersey Athletic Conference, 2:30 p.m.
March 1, TCNJ Last-Chance Meet, Noon
March 7, PRTC [Philadelphia Runner Track Club] Indoor Classic, 9 a.m.

Rowan senior Masai Byrd from Rancocas Valley ran within 6-100ths of a second of his own school record in the 60 Saturday in the season-opening Fastrack Season Opener at Ocean Breeze.

Byrd ran 6.88 in the prelims before a 6.92 in the final. The 6.88 is just off his school record of the 6.82 he ran at the AARTFC Championships at Ithaca last March. His time is currently No. 13 on the TFRRS Division 3 list.

Rowan’s school record in the 60 has changed hands several times in recent years.

Justyce Pollitt from Sicklerville and St. Augustine was the first to break 7.00, which he did with a 6.98 in the trials of the Malloy Lions Invitational in South Huntington, N.Y., in February of 2015.

Dave Benjamin from Freehold lowered the record to 6.95 in the finals of the 2017 NJAC Championships at Ocean Breeze and then Camden’s Julian Pratt ran 6.93 at the 2020 NJAC Championships at Ocean Breeze.

Nana Agyemang from Parsippany lowered the mark to 6.87 in the prelims of the 2022 NJAC meet, also at Ocean Breeze, and then Bridgeton’s Shamar Love dropped it to 6.85 in the trials of the 2023 AARTFC meet at the Armory.

The record remained at 6.85 until Byrd ran 6.84 in the 2024 Fastrack Invite at Ocean Breeze. He ran 6.84 again in the trials of last year’s NJAC meet at the Ott Center, then dropped it to 6.83 in the final.

I’mara Ford of Moorestown moved into the James Madison all-time top 10 in the high jump Saturday in her first collegiate meet.

Ford cleared an indoor-PR 5-5 at the Colonel Bev Read Opener at VMI’s Corps Physical Training Facility in Lexington, Va.

Ford cleared 5-1 and 5-3 on her first attempts and 5-5 on her 3^rd and took 2^nd to junior teammate Aiden Faith on fewer misses at 5-5. Both went out at 5-6 ¾.

Ford’s previous indoor PR was a 5-4 at the 2024 Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze. Her lifetime best is 5-6 when she placed 2^nd at the 2024 outdoor Meet of Champions.

Ford also long jumped 17-11 and triple jumped 38-1 ¼ during her time at Moorestown. She only high jumped Saturday.

On the all-time JMU performance list, Ford is tied for 9^th. No. 8 on the list at 5-5 ¾ is Bethany Biggi from Rancocas Valley in 2021.

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It was a very impressive – and very busy – season debut for Stockton sophomore Elaina Styer from Ocean City.

Competing at the Fastrack Season Opener at Ocean Breeze, Styer tied her own school record in the 60-meter hurdles, PR’d in the long jump, placed 2^nd in the high jump and ran a leg on the 4^th-place 1,600-meter relay team.

Styer, from Estell Manor, placed 4^th in the hurdles in 9.03, which tied her PR and school record that she set at Tufts in Medford, Mass., this past March.

Her 18-0 ½ long jump was a PR by nearly a foot. She jumped 17-1 ¼ as part of her pentathlon win at the NJAC Championships this past February at the Ott Center. That’s also only 3 ¾ inches off the school record of 18-4 ¼ set by Jassina Surles of Williamstown in March 2016 at the ECAC Division 3 Championships, also at Ocean Breeze. Styer had two other jumps over 17 – a 17-1 ½ on her 1^st attempt that actually set a PR and a 17-0 ¼ on her 2^nd attempt before the 18-footer on her 3^rd.

Styer cleared 5-1 on her 2^nd attempt in the high jump before missing three tries at 5-3. She cleared 5-5 ¼ as part of her NJAC pentathlon win.

Styer teamed up with senior Emma Conroy of Matawan, senior Emma Petrolia from New Milford and sophomore Marlie DiPalma from Pope John XXIII in Sparta to run 4:03.01 in the 4-by-4.

On the first NCAA Division 3 rankings, Styer is 11^th in the long jump and 15^th in the hurdles, and Stockton is 13^th in the 4-by-4.

Paulsboro’s Jamile Gantt, a two-time NCAA All-America, opened his season with a near-indoor PR at the Fastrack Season Opener at Ocean Breeze and led four Rowan high jumpers at 6-6 ¾ or higher.

Gantt, a Rowan junior, cleared 6-10 on his 1^st attempt, just one-quarter of an inch off his indoor lifetime best 6-10 ¼ from Ocean Breeze last December. Gantt hit his outdoor PR of 6-11 when he placed 3^rd at Division 3 Outdoor Nationals in Geneva, Ohio, this past May.

Gantt is No. 3 in Rowan indoor history, behind only Jeffrey Jon Tucker from Eastern [7-0 ½ in 2015] and Harrison Escoffery from Hackensack [7-0 ¼ in 2018]. His 6-11 is No. 3 outdoors behin Tucker [7-2 ¼] and Mark Kelly of Audubon [7-11 ¾ in 1978].

Gantt cleared 6-0 ¾, 6-2 ¾, 6-4 ¾, 6-6 ¾, 6-8 ¾ and 6-10 on his 1^st attempt before taking three tries at 7-0 ¼.

Rutgers-Camden freshman Jayden Deleon from Highland, competing in his first college meet, placed 2^nd at 6-8 ¾, which he cleared on his 1^st attempt. Deleon’s PR and indoor PR is 6-10 ¼ from last year’s Group 3 sectionals at the Bubble. He went on to win the indoor Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze.

That 6-8 ¾ broke the school record of 6-6 ¾ set by Ken Wise from Haddon Township at the 2008 NJAC meet in Toms River. Deleon also surpassed the outdoor school record of 6-5 set by Wise at the 2010 ECAC Championships in Springfield, Mass.

The next-three jumpers were all from Rowan – junior Arrington Rhym from Hamilton West, sophomore Noah Wampole from Radnor and junior Isaiah Davenport from Pleasantville, a transfer from Holy Family in Philadelphia.

Rhym cleared an indoor PR 6-8 ¾ on his 3^rd attempt before missing three tries at a lifetime-best 6-9 ¾. Rhym’s PR is 6-9 from an outdoor meet in Baltimore in May. His indoor PR was 6-6 ¼ from a meet at Ocean Breeze in February 2024..

Wampole cleared an indoor PR 6-6 ¾ on his 1^st attempt. His lifetime best is an outdoor 6-9 at a home meet this past April. His previous indoor PR was 6-6 ¼ at Oeean Breeze this past February.

Davenport, who jumped a PR 6-8 ¼ at Ocean Breeze this past January for Holy Family, cleared 6-6 ¾ on his 1^st attempt Saturday.

Through one weekend of competition, Gantt, Arrington and Deleon are ranked No. 1, 2 and 3 in NCAA Division 3. Wampole and Davenport are tied for 9^th.

Rowan’s high jump stable goes deeper than those three. Sophomore Malakai Pressey from Freehold Boro cleared 6-5 ½ last year as a freshman and was 3^rd in the NJAC outdoor meet, and sophomore Derrick Robinson from Cinnaminson cleared 6-6 three times in high school.

Rowan freshman Anthony Parker from Salem got his college career off to a hot start with a win and legal PR at the Fastrack Season Opener at Ocean Breeze Saturday.

Parker, the state Group 1 long jump champ last year, jumped 23-2 ¾ on his final attempt Saturday to jump from 8^th place to 1^st . Parker had a good series, with 21-5 ½, 21-9 ½, 22-7 ¾, 21-9 ¾ and 22-7 ¼ before his winning 23-2 ¾.

Fifteen jumpers hit at least 22 and the top five all finished within two inches of each other.

Parker’s previous indoor PR was a 22-5 when he placed 4^th at the Meet of Champions this past March at Ocean Breeze. He hit 23-9 in May at Delsea but without a wind gauge. His best (and only) wind-legal jump was a 21-7 ¾ at Franklin Field Nationals in June.

In addition to the long jump, Parker ran 14.32 in the 110 high hurdles and 55.26 in the 400-meter intermediates at Salem.

Stockton junior Ahmad Fogg from Egg Harbor placed 3^rd at 23-1 ¾, not far off his indoor PR of 23-6 ¾ from a meet in Ann Arbor, Mich., when he was a Penn State freshman in the winter of 2024.

Fogg also won the 60-meter dash in 7.10, a lifetime best. His previous PR was 7.30 in January at Ocean Breeze. Those are his only two collegiate 60s.

In addition to Parker, Rowan had three other long jumpers hit 22 feet. Sophomore Damarion Potts jumped 22-7 ¾, senior hurdles star Kwaku Nkrumah from Teaneck jumped 22-3 ¼ and freshman Bright John from Sterling went 22-0 ½.

This was Potts’ first long jump competition in a year and his best jump since his first college meet at Ocean Breeze in December 2023, when he went 23-6 ¾.

Nkrumah, an NCAA Division 3 hurdles champ, had never long jumped since he arrived in Glassboro. He had a high school PR of 20-7 at the 2022 Big North Freedom and National Championships at Ridgewood Middle School, and he hadn’t long jumped since.

That’s an indoor PR for Sterling’s John and an overall legal PR. According to MileSplit, John never competed in high school in an outdoor long jump with a wind guage.