From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

What a remarkable breakthrough race Sunday for Paul VI junior Macy Huber, who didn’t break 5:15 this past spring, didn’t break 5:10 for the first time until two weeks ago and went into the Meet of Champions with a PR of 5:05.15.

Now she’s one of the fastest in South Jersey history.

Huber ran a preposterous 8 ½-second PR and placed 7th in the fastest Meet of Champions 1,600 ever with 4:56.87 at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island.

Huber is the 9th South Jersey girl to run sub-5 at the indoor Meet of Champions, and her time is No. 28 in meet history and 12th-fastest by a South Jersey miler. The race produced the fastest times in meet history for 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th. and seven of the 28-fastest times in meet history.

The only South Jersey girls to run sub-4:57 at the Meet of Champions over the last nine years are Huber and her former teammate Shaelan McNally, who ran 4:52.90 last year and is now a freshman at Bucknell.

Huber didn’t race this indoor season until late January and only ran two races before states, including a 11:04.83 full two miles at Ocean Breeze last month that was an encouraging sign of her fitness. At Parochial A states, she placed 4th in the 1,600 in 5:05.15 and 3rd in the 3,200 in 11:08.44.

Her 4:56.76 is 12th-fastest in South Jersey history and 5th-fastest in Camden County history.

Here are the fastest 1,600 times ever run by South Jersey athletes at the Meet of Champions along with their overall MoC rank:

#4: 4:48.5h … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983 [1]
#9: 4:51.60 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2016 [3]
#10: 4:52.90 … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2024 [3]
#13: 4:53.36 … Lindsey Kane [Washington Twp.], 2014 [2]
#21: 4:54.58 … Celine Mazzi [Delsea], 2014 [4]
#27: 4:56.0h … Ruth Lockbaum [Glassboro], 1985 [1]
#28: 4:56.87 … Macy Huber [Paul VI], 2025 [7]
#30: 4:57.12 … Megan Quimby [Lenape], 2016 [4]
#45: 4:58.54 … Kerry O’Day [Cherokee], 2024 [7]

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 1,600-Meter List
4:41.52y … Michelle Rowen [Wash. Twp.], 1983
4:49.46y … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2001
4:50.44y … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2025
4:51.60 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2016
4:52.34 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 2017
4:52.90 … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2024
4:53.36 … Lindsey Kane [Washington Twp.], 2014
4:53.85 … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022

4:54.58 … Celine Mazzi [Delsea], 2014

4:55.04y … Marielle Hall [Haddonfield], 2010
4:56.1h,y … Ruth Lockbaum [Glassboro], 1985

4:56.87 … Macy Huber [Paul VI], 2025
4:57.12 … Megan Quimby [Lenape], 2015
4:57.72 … Caitlin Orr [Lenape], 2010
4:57.77y … Aubrey Pierontoni [Kingsway], 2022
4:58.48 … Natalia Ocasio [Lenape], 2010
4:58.54 … Kerry O’Day [Cherokee], 2024
4:59.28 … Grace Wassell [Highland], 2022
4:59.29 … Julia Despirito [Shawnee], 2014
4:59.39 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2012

Paul VI senior Christian Napoli and Winslow senior Dominic Bassey both raced their way into the all-time South Jersey top-10 at 800 meters at the 57th annual Meet of Champions Sunday at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island.

Napoli ran ran 1:53.59 and placed 5th, and Bassey ran 1:54.05 and placed 7th. They now rank 7th and 9th on the all-time South Jersey indoor 800-meter performance list.

Napoli broke the Camden County record of 1:54.54 set last month at Ocean Breeze by Bassey. And Bassey lowered his own PR but lost his county record. Napoli and Bassey are now No. 1 and 2 in Camden County indoor history.

Napoli only ran 1:59.00 last spring and had a PR of 1:57.25 from his win at Parochial A states last weekend. He’s lowered his PR from 1:59.00 to 1:53.59 – about 5 ½ seconds – since Jan. 22.

Bassey ran 1:52.15 last year when he placed 2nd at Group 3 states, fastest by a Camden County half-miler in 46 years. But he opted for the intermediate hurdles at the Meet of Champions and placed 4th with a 53.35.

Napoli’s time is 6th-fastest ever run by a South Jersey half-miler at the Meet of Champions, and Bassey’s is 8th-fastest.

The race the fastest times for 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th place in meet history.

Pleasantville’s Melvin Lewis ran a big indoor PR 1:57.25 in the first of three 800 heats and finished 12th overall. WOodstown junior Joshua Crawford, the state Group 1 champ, lowered his PR about 1 1/2 seconds to 1:57.65 in the 2nd heat and lowered his own Salem County record and finished 14th overall.Ocean City senior Kal Heyman, who didn’t break 2:03 until last month, ran 1:58.28 in the first heat and finished 18th overall. And Haddonfield junior Aaron Keith also ran sub-1:59, placing 21st in 1:58.64. Heyman doesn’t appear in the results at states, so not sure what happened to advance him to the Meet of Champs or whether there was a mistake in the results, but he took advantage of the opportunity with a big PR.

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

1:55.00 … Steve Butenewicz [Delsea], 2011

All-Time Meet of Champions 800 Performance List
[South Jersey runners in bold]
1:50.90 … Colin Boler [Delbarton], 2023 [1]
1:51.62 … Ryan Daly [Westfield], 2025 [1]
1:51.72 … Isaac Clark [Pleasantville], 2013 [1]
1:51.80 … Derrell Manhertz [Kingsway], 2013 [2]
1:51.93 … Luke Schagelin [Morris Knolls], 2024 [1]
1:52.09 … Taysaun Wilson [Toms River North], 2025 [2]
1:52.89 … Luke Schagelin [Morris Knolls], 2023 [2]
1:52.15 … Jacob Clark [Pleasantville], 2013 [3]
1:52.18 … Rey Rivera [Old Bridge], 2017 [1]
1:52.24 … Allen Eke [Union Catholic], 2012 [1]
1:52.46 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], 2020 [1]
1:52.66 … Brody Watt [Bernards], 2025 [3]
1:52.67 … A.J. Chavez [West Windsor-Plainsboro-South], 2012 [2]
1:52.70….Charlie Stock [Westfield], 2022 [1]
1:52.76 … Nicholas Medeiros [Old Bridge], 2020 [2]
1:52.81 … Kyle Reers [Delaware Valley], 2020 [3]
1:52.93 … Adam Petitjean [Chatham], 2025 [4]
1:53.19 … Raynier Galvez [Pasaic County Tech], 2024 [2]
1:53.26 … Elijah Brown [Union Catholic], 2020 [4]
1:53.33 … Jared Mason [West Orange], 2012 [3]
1:53.45 … Bobby Poplau [Cherokee], 2024 [3]
1:53.59 … Christian Napoli [Paul VI], 2025 [5]
1:53.68 … Ishmael Muhammad [Oakcrest], 2013 [4]
1:53.70 … Michael Card [Howell], 2025 [6]
1:53.72 … Jalen Ridgeway [Toms River North], 2020 [5]
1:53.77 … Dylan Decambre [Bergen County Vo-Tech], 2023 [3]
1:53.83 … Patrick Coyle [Red Bank Catholic], 2024 [4]
1:53.7h … Jean Destine [Elizabeth], 1991 [1]
1:53.90 … James Buser [Mahwah], 2013 [5]
1:53.95 … Joe White [DePaul], 2014 [1]
1:53.95 … Blaik Slavinski [Point Pleasant Boro], 2023 [4[
1:53.98 … Elijah Brown [Union Catholic], 2019 [1]
1:54.05 … Dominic Bassey [Winslow Twp.], 2025 [7]

Eastern junior Natalie Dumas won her 3rd Meet of Champions title Sunday and demolished a 22-year-old South Jersey record along the way.

Dumas won the 400-meter dash at the 57th annual Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island in 53.55, the 4th-fastest time in state history and nearly three-quarters of a second faster than the South Jersey indoor record of 54.24 set in 2003 by Willingboro’s Okechi Ogbuokiri when she won the 400 at 2003 Armory Nationals.

The only girl to run faster in Meet of Champions history is Olympic gold medalist and 400 hurdles world record holder Sydney McLaughlin of Union Catholic, who won the 2016 race at the Bubble in 53.34 and the 2017 race in 53.17, both in Toms River.

The fastest previous time at a Meet of Champions by a South Jersey girl is a 55.19 by Oakcrest’s Nijgia Snapp when she won the 2008 race, also in Toms River.

Dumas displayed rare range this year, running 24.41 for 200 meters and 2:11.42 for 800 meters. But she chose the 400 for Meet of Champions and it paid off with the fastest time by a New Jersey quarter-miler since Olympic 800 gold medalist Athing Mu of Trenton ran 52.55 in 2018.

Her indoor 400 PR going in was a 54.45 in January at the Ott Center. She ran a lifetime-best 53.16 to win the Meet of Champions last spring at Pennsauken as part of a rare double that saw her also win the 400 hurdles in 58.32. Both times were No. 7 in state history at the time. She went on to win the 400 intermediates at West Philly Nationals in 58.32 the nezt day, 4th-fastest in state history.

In the 400 Sunday, she took on Taylor Aska of Union Catholic, who ran 53.90 last spring and 54.01 indoors last month; Gina Certo of Academy of the Holy Angels, who was 2nd to Dumas in last year’s outdoor MoC in 54.70; and Willingboro‘s Nester Wea, the state Group 2 champ last week.

Dumas started at the top of the track in Lane 6 and Wea and Aska both went out very fast. But Dumas turned on the jets on the second turn and strode in front of Wea and Aska at the break, hitting the 200 in 25.10, already with a three-meter lead. And she just poured it on from there running the second lap unchallenged, with her lead growing to 10 meters by the finish.

Aska finished 2nd in 54.85, Certo was 3rd in 55.47 and Wea 4th in 55.52, 9th-fastest in South Jersey history. The race produced four of the 12-fastest times in meet history.

Winslow sophomore Cinniya Robinson and Paul VI junior Claire Magee made it four South Jersey runners in the top 10. Robinson ran 56.81 for 8th and Magee 56.96 for 10th.

According to the MileSplit national database, Dumas’s time is No. 2 in the U.S. this winter, behind only junior Brooke Lloyd of Humble (Texas) Summer Creek High. Lloyd ran 53.45 in a meet in Lubbock in January.

Dumas also ran a 54.17 anchor leg on Eastern’s 4th-place 1,600-meter relay team. Junior Adriana Marella senior Samantha Osei-Kyei and senior Jasmine Davies ran the first three legs. Eastern ran 3:54.64, lowering the school record from 3:54.69 from the 2023 Meet of Champions.

Dumas is Eastern’s 4th Meet of Champions winner, following English Gardner [55 in 2007 and 2010, 400 in 2007], Courtney McCrudden [800 in 2000] and Jailya Ash [55 in 2019, hurdles in 2020]

All-Time New Jersey Indoor 400 List
51.61 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2017
52.55 … Athing Mu [Trenton], 2018
53.49 … Olivia Baker [Columbia], 2014
53.55 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025
53.73 … Julia Jackson [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 2022
54.01 … Taylor Aska [Union Catholic], 2025
54.24 … Okechi Ogbuokiri [Willingboro], 2003
54.45 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025
54.64 … Mikele Barber [Montclair], 1998
54.70 … Janine Davis [Queen of Peace], 2003
54.91 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 2008
54.98 … Tawana Watkins [Paterson Kennedy], 2002
55.16 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
55.19 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2010
55.19 … Brooke’lyn Drakeford [Piscataway], 2023
55.21 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2017
55.32 … Amber Allen [Passaic Vo Tech], 2009
55.34 … Symone O’Connor [Franklin Twp.], 2006
55.42 … Jennifer Edobi [Union], 2014
55.47 … Gina Certo [Academy of Holy Angels], 2025
55.49 … Kristen Mahon [Notre Dame], 2006
55.49 … Victoria Vanriele [Governor Livingston], 2019
55.52 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025
55.53 … Rhia Randolph [Union Catholic], 2024
55.4h … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
55.58 … Sofia Swindell [Lawrenceville School], 2025
55.59 … Tiffany Grant [Ocean Twp.], 2006
55.65 … Gina Certo [Academy of Holy Angels], 2024
55.6h … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
55.6h … Emily Carrollo [Pope John], 2008
55.75 … Emilie Cowan [Columbia], 2014
55.79 … Kaira Brown [Kent Place], 2019
55.83 … Kiara Lester [Deptford], 2016
55.88 … Sydney Chadwick [Union Catholic], 2025
55.91 … Ajee Wilson [Neptune], 2011
55.94 … Sam Anderson [Matawan], 2014
55.95 … Natalie Englese [Cranford], 2010
55.97 … Reagan Moore [Oak Knoll], 2025

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 400-Meter Dash List
53.55 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025
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
55.51 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023
55.52 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025
55.4h … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
55.6h … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
55.83 … Kiara Lester [Deptford], 2016
56.19 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], 2020
56.21 … Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 1997
56.34 … Katrina Sye [Buena], 1997
56.44 … Avionne Sloan [Camden], 2006
56.44 … Dahlia Beasley [Washington Twp.], 2024
56.56 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 2025
56.59 … Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 2025
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
56.81 … Cinniya Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2025
56.85 … Emily Duffey [Lenape], 2012
56.85 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], 2020
56.88 … Marcene Jack [Mainland Reg.], 2004
56.88 … Amariah Arango [Winslow Twp.], 2025
56.90 … Nadia Davy [Bridgeton], 1999
56.96 … Claire Magee [Paul VI], 2025
56.98 … Jade Pope [Pennsauken], 2020

Fastest 400 Times in Meet History
53.17 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2017 [1]
53.34 …….. McLaughlin, 2016 [1]

53.35 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025 [1]
53.72 …….. McLaughlin, 2015 [1]

54.09 … Olivia Baker [Columbia], 2014 [1]

54.72 …….. Baker, 2013 [1]

54.85 … Taylor Aska [Union Catholic], 2025 [2]
55.19 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 2008
 [1]
55.45 … Mikele Barber [Montclair], 1998 [1]
55.47 … Gina Certo [Academy of the Holy Angels], 2025 [3]
55.51 … Brooke’lyn Drakeford [Piscataway], 2023 [1]

55.52 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025 [4]
55.53 … Rhia Randolph [Union Catholic], 2024 [1]
55.91 … Kaira Brown [Kent Place], 2019 [1]

55.74 …….. Snapp, 2009 [1]

55.74 … Amber Allen [Passaic County Tech], 2008 [2]
55.75 … Emile Cowan [Columbia], 2014 [2]

55.7h … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984 [1]

55.83 … Kiara Lester [Deptford], 2016 [2]

55.88 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2009 [2]

55.95 …….. Allen, 2009 [3]

55.96 …….. Brown, 2010 [1]

After running the 6th-fastest time in U.S. history in the 55-meter dash, Pennsauken senior Sianni Wynn cemented herself as one of the top high school sprinters in history with the 12th-fastest time in U.S. history in the 200.

Wynn set one state record and tied another at the 57th annual Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island.

She’s now one of only three girls in U.S. high school track history to run 6.73 or faster in the 55 and 22.31 or faster in the 200. The others are Shawnti Jackson of South High in Granville, N.C., in 2023 [6.67, 22.91 in 2023] and Tamari Davis of Oak Hall in Gainesville, Fla., in 2019 [6.73, 23.24].

She’s also now won more indoor Meet of Champions titles than anybody else in the girls meet’s 47-year history.

The question wasn’t whether she would win two more Meet of Champions titles – that’s nine and counting – but how fast she would go on the super-charged Ocean Breeze track.

I wrote earlier about Wynn’s explosive win in the 55, where she tied Michelle Glover’s state record of 6.73. You can read about that here. https://sjtrackblog.com/2025/03/02/sianni-wynn-runs-6th-fastest-55-meter-dash-time-in-u-s-history-in-legendary-meet-of-champions-performance/

She came back to win the 200 by a staggering eight meters over Corbin Raston of West Orange, with Timber Creek senior Ryan Jennings 3rd in 24.47. Raston’s time is 11th-fastest in state history.

Her 23.31 is the 2nd-fastest 200 ever run indoors or outdoors by a South Jersey woman. Dennisha Page of Woodrow Wilson ran 22.39 last spring as a senior at Tennessee at the SEC Championships in Gainesville, Fla.

Wynn broke her own state record in the 200. She ran 23.62 on Feb. 1 at the Ott Center in West Philly.

The previous meet records were Wynn’s 6.81 in the 55 and 24.00 in the 200.

Wynn has competed in nine Meet of Champions events in her career and has won all nine. Her six indoor MoC titles are another record. Columbia middle-distance runner Olivia Baker of Columbia won five in the 400 and 800 from 2011 through 2014, and Giselle Harris of Shabazz won five in the same two events from 1984 through 1986.

Wynn will have the opportunity to compete in three more Meet of Champions before she graduates. With three more individual MoC titles indoors and outdoors, she’ll break the state record for combined MoC wins shared by Baker and Sydney McLaughlin

2023 Indoor
55-Meter Dash [7.00]
200-Meter Dash [24.48]
2023 Outdoor
400-Meter Dash [54.56]
2024 Indoor
55-Meter Dash [6.81]
200-Meter Dash [24.00]
2024 Outdoor
100-Meter Dash [11.36]
200-Meter Dash [23.34]
2025 Indoor
55-Meter Dash [6.73]
200-Meter Dash [23.31]

Here’s the all-time U.S. indoor 200 list:
22.33 … Adaejah Hodge [Monteverde (Fla.) Academy], 2023
22.89 … Mia Brahe-Pedersen [Lake Oswego, Ore.], 2023
22.91 … Shawnti Jackson [Granville (N.C.) South], 2023
22.96 … Dana Wilson [Greensboro, N.C.], 2025
22.97 … Biana Knight [Ridgeland, Miss.], 2007
23.08 … Madison Whyte [Heritage, Newport News, Va.], 2023
23.14 … Allyson Felix [Heritage Christian, Northridge, Calif.], 2003
23.22 … Sanya Richards-Ross [St. Thomas Aquinas, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.], 2002
23.22 … Ashton Purvis [St. Elizabeth, Oakland, Calif.], 2010
23.24 … Tamari Davis [Oak Hall, Gainesville, Fla.], 2019
23.26 … Skylar Brazzell [Northwest Nelson, Trophy Club, Texas], 2025
23.31 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2025
23.34 … Tiffany Townsend [Killeen, Texas], 2007
23.34 … Mariah Maxwell [Humble (Texas) Atascocita], 2025
23.34 … Ramiah Elliott [North Central, Indianapolis], 2022

All-Time New Jersey Indoor 200-Meter Dash Alumni List
22.68 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], March 9, 2018, College Station, Texas
22.98 … Shavon Greaves [Lakewood], Feb. 28, 2010, University Park, Pa.
23.06 … Mikele Barber [Montclair], March 10, 2000, Fayetteville, Ark.
23.07 … Wendy Vereen [Trenton], March 13, 1993, Toronto
23.08 … Me’Lisa Barber [Montclair], Feb. 23, 2002, Fayetteville, Ark.
23.12 … Dennisha Page [Wilson], Feb. 2, 2024, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
23.26 … Dominique Booker [Immaculate Conception], Jan. 29, 2011, University Park, Pa.
23.31 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], March 2, 2025, Staten Island, N.Y.
23.34 … English Gardner [Eastern], Feb. 10, 2012, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
23.49 … Gabrielle Farquharson [Williamstown], March 11, 2016, Birmingham, Ala.

All-Time New Jersey Indoor Top-10
23.31 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2025
23.87 … Wendy Vereen [Trenton], 1984
23.93 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 2025
23.97 … Sofia Swindell [The Lawrenceville School], 2024
23.99 … Rhia Randolph [Union Catholic], 2024
24.00 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2016
24.11 … Athing Mu [Trenton], 2019
24.12 … Tylor Aska [Union Catholic], 2024
24.14 … Melisa Barber [Montclair], 1998
24.15 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
24.15 … Corbin Raston [West Orange], 2025

All-Time South Jersey Top-10
23.79 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2024
23.93 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 2025
24.15 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
24.38 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
24.39 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
24.41 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025
21.42 … Dennisha Page [Wilson], 2019
24.46 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
24.52 … Cecelia Gerstenbacher [Delsea], 2017
24.55 … Jasmine Jackson [Winslow], 2025
24.57 … Dahlia Beasley [Washington Twp.], 2024
24.61 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
24.61 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 2017

In one of the greatest distance performances in state history, Northern Burlington senior Liliah Gordon won the Meet of Champions 3,200 with the 3rd-fastest time in state history.

Gordon won in 10:13.41, a South Jersey indoor record and the fastest 3,200 by a South Jersey girl indoors or outdoors in 42 years, since Michelle Rowen of Washington Township ran 10:12.8 for 3,200 meters at the 1983 outdoor South Jersey Group 4 sectionals at Toms River East.

The only New Jersey girls to run faster indoors are Lakeland’s Angelina Perez, who ran 9:53.50 converted from a 9:56.96 at 2022 Armory Nationals and Colts Neck’s Ashley Higginson, who ran 10:13.17 converted from a 10:16.75 two-mile at 2007 Armory Nationals. Perez is the only girl to run faster than Gordon at a Meet of Champions. She ran 10:00.90 to win the 2022 meet.

Gordon broke the South Jersey indoor 3,200 record of 10:15.71 set in 2006 by Ocean City’s Brittany Sedberry. She ran what was then a state record of 10:19.30 over two miles at the Hall of Fame Classic at the Armory. When Sedberry ran that time, she beat Higginson.

She also broke the Burlington County indoor record of 10:23.49 set by Cherokee’s Megan Lacy at the 2011 Armory Nationals over two miles and convergted from 10:27.13. She also surpassed Lacy’s overall indoor-outdoor Burlington County record of 10:22.02 set at the 2012 outdoor Meet of Champions at Old Bridge.

Gordon is the first South Jersey girl to win the 3,200 Meet of Champions since Devin Grisbaum of Ocean City ran 10:45.20 to win the 2015 race at the Bubble. Rowen in 1981 [10:18.9], Bridgeton’s Cathy McGuigan in 1993 [11:21.96], Bishop Eustace’s Ann Klocke in 1996 [10:58.93] and Erin Donohue of Haddonfield in 2001 [10:38.90] also won indoor MoC 3,200s.

Gordon’s time is No. 6 in the U.S. this year.

Gordon placed 2nd in last year’s MoC by 5-100ths of a second. Including cross country, indoors and outdoors, she had placed in the top 8 in seven Meet of Champions races, including two 2nds. But she ran a brilliant tactical race Sunday and that combined with her incredible fitness level made her unbeatable.

She settled in from the start near the front of a large pack that went out very fast – eight girls came through 800 in 2:34 or faster and six came through the 1,600 at 5:14 or faster. But she was content to sit back and not take the lead and let everyone else do the work.

Gordon finally moved into the front on the 10th lap, leading a group of four that had gapped the field. Still running with Gordon with six laps to go were Ocean Township freshman Leah Starkey, the top seed at 10:32.62; Union Catholic sophomore Cayleigh Kaiser, the state Parochial A champ; and Walkill Valley senior Delana Einreinhofer, the state Group 4 champ.

But Gordon put the hammer down on the 14th lap, using a 37.41 to separate from the field. She increased her lead to 15 meters with two laps to go and 30 meters at the bell, ultimately finishing 35 meters ahead of Einreinhofer, who ran 10:20.60 in 2nd. Starkey was 3rd in 10:24.86 and Kaiser 4th in 10:27.01.

Gordon’s official time at 3,000 meters was 9:39.04, which is a South Jersey indoor and overall record. Indoors, Lacy ran 9:53.39 at the 2011 Princeton Invitational at Jadwin Gym and outdoors Haddonfield’s Marielle Hall ran 9:40.23 at the 2010 Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

Coming into the meet, Gordon had a lifetime best of 10:22.20 from last year’s Glenn Loucks Invitational at White Plains High School (hey, that’s my alma mater!) with an indoor PR of 10:26.49 from last year’s MoC.

The race produced four of the 11-fastest times in meet history:

Meet of Champions 3,200-Meter All-Time List
10:00.90 … Angelina Perez [Lakeland], 2022 [1]
10:13.41 … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2025 [1]
10:16.20 … Cate DeSousa [Red Bank Catholic], 2023 [1]

10:20.60 … Delana Einreinhofer [Walkill Valley], 2025 [2]
10:24.73 … Dana Giordano [Bernards], 2012 [1]

10:24.86 … Leah Starkey [Ocean Twp.], 2025 [3]
10:26.25 … Leanna Johnston [Immaculate Heart], 2023 [2]

10:26.44 … Rosemary Shay [Middletown South], 2024 [1]

10:26.49 … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2024 [2]

10:26.53 … Ashley Higginson [Colts Neck], 2007 [1]

10:27.01 … Cayleigh Kaiser [Union Catholic], 2025 [4]

10:27.25 … Mackenzie Barry [Mendham], 2012 [2]

10:31.06 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2012 [3]

10.31.98 … Niamh Hayes [Howell], 2017 [1]

All-Time New Jersey 3,200 Indoor List
9:53.50y … Angelina Perez [Lakeland] 2022
10:13.17y … Ashley Higginson [Colts Neck], 2007
10:13.41 … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2025
10:14.97 … Charlotte Bednar [Lawrenceville School, 2021
10:15.71 … Brittany Sedberry [Ocean City], 2006
10:16.20 … Cate DeSousa [Red Bank Catholic], 2023
10:17.40y… Abby Loveys [Randolph], 2019
10:20.90y … Kathleen McCafferty [Oak Knoll], 2008
10:22.00y … Julia Trethaway [West Morris Central], 2019
10:23.49y … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2011

Combined Indoor-Outdoor Sub-10:20
9:53.29y … Angelina Perez [Lakeland], 2022 [o]
9:59.34y … Charlotte Bednar [Lawrenceville School, 2021 [o]
10:09.88y … Ashley Highinson [Colts Neck], 2007 [o]
10:10.24y … Abby Loveys [Randolph], 2019 [o]
10:12.73y … Dana Giordano [Bernards], 2012 [o]
10:12.8h … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983 [o]
10:13.17y … Ashley Higginson [Colts Neck], 2007 [I]
10:13.41 … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2025 [i]
10:13.60y … Melanie Thompson [Voorhees], 2008 [o]
10:14.5h,y … Jodie Bilotta [North Hunterdon], 1987 [o]
10:15.1h,y … Janet Smith [North Edsion], 1983 [o]
10:15.02 … Sarah DiSanza [High Point Reg.], 2013 [o]
10:15.71 … Brittany Sedberry [Ocean City], 2006 [i]
10;15.82 … Alexa Westley [Warren Hills], 2019 [o]
10:16.20 … Cate DeSousa [Red Bank Catholic], 2023 [o]
10:16.46 … Molly Malague [Metuchen], 2022 [o]
10:17.18 … Melanie Thompson [Voorhees], 2008 [o]
10:17.28 … Kathleen McCafferty [Oak Knoll], 2008 [o]
10:18.08 … Tilly O’Connor [St. Rose], 2023 [o]
10:18.24 … Mackenzie Barry [Mendham], 2012 [o]
10:18.36 … Lilly Shapiro [Colts Neck], 2021 [o]
10:18.93 … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2024 [o]
10:19.31 … Chelsea Ley [Kingsway], 2009 [o]
10:19.37 … Julia Trethaway [West Morris Central], 2019

All-Time South Jersey Indoor List
10:13.41 … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2025
10:15.71 … Brittany Sedberry [Ocean City], 2006
10:23.49y … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2011
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
10:42.42 … Theresa Cattuna [Cherry Hill East], 2007
10:43.2y … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983
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
10:48.28 … Abby Waddington [Clearview], 2023
10:48.78 … Shelby Cain [Haddonfield], 2014
10:49.12 … Madison Coppolino [Sterling], 2017 [3]
10:49.46 … Alyssa Condell [Timber Creek], 2016

The Winslow girls ran the 2nd-fastest 4-by-4 in South Jersey history and 5th-fastest in state history Sundy at the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island.

All four Winslow runners split 56-point, and the Eagles ran 3:45.89 and placed 2nd to a Central Jersey all-star track factory with the 2nd-fastest time in meet history.

With a listed lineup of freshman Amariah Arango, freshman Adaiah Arango, sophomore Cinniya Robinson and freshman Jasmine Jackson, Willingboro posted the fastest time by a South Jersey 4-by-4 in 22 years.

In 2003, Willingboro ran 3:45.37 with Halimah Bashir, Rhea Mann, Channel Hamilton and Okechi Ogbuokiri to win Armory Nationals and set a state record that stood for 10 years.

The Central Jersey all-star team from Scotch Plains won in 3:45.70 and their time and Winslow’s time were both under the previous meet record of 3:47.27 set by the Scotch Plains school in 2016.

All eight runners on the first two teams ran 56-point. For Winslow, Amariah Arango led off in 56.43, Adaiah Arango split 56.65, Robinson ran 56.59 and Jackson anchored in 56.23.

Winslow broke its own Camden County record of 3:46.87 from last month at Ocean Breeze.

Eastern placed 4th with Adriana Marella, Samantha Osei-Kyei, Jasmine Davies and Natalie Dumas running 3:54.64, Willingboro ran 3:55.71 for 5th with Kaila Speight, Jaden Murry, sophomore Maya Bolden and senior Nester Wea, Moorestown was 7th in 3:58.10 with Sarah Brown, Payton Derer, Lilliana Stack Maya and freshman Hope Edwards and Kingsway placed 8th in 3:59.54 with Jonnelle Lewis, Camryn Stanard, Noemi Haller and Norah Brown.

For Eastern, Dumas anchored in 54.17 after winning the 400 in 53.55. Willingboro’s 2nd runner, listed as Murry, split 57.49. Moorestown anchor Edwards split 58.54, and Kingsway anchor Brown split 59.05.

All-Time New Jersey Indoor 4-by-4 List
3:40.28 … Union Catholic, 2016
3:41.19 … Union Catholic, 2025
3:42.03 … Columbia, 2013
3:45.37 … Willingboro, 2003
3:45.89 … Winslow Twp., 2025
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
3:49.9h … Plainfield, 1981
3:50.82 … Union Catholic, 2017
3:50.89 … Scotch Plains-Fanwood, 2022
3:50.90 … Winslow Twp., 2005
3:50.8h … Snyder, 1981

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 4×4 List
3:45.37 … Willingboro, 2003
3:45.89 … Winslow Twp., 2025
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
3:53.61 … 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

All-Time Indoor Meet of Champions 4-by-4 List
3:45.70 … Union Catholic., 2025
3:45.89 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:47.27 … Union Catholic, 2016 [1]
3:48.30 … Columbia, 2013 [1]
3:50.32 … Union Catholic, 2015 [1]
3:50.82 … Union Catholic, 2017 [1]
3:51.49 … Winslow, 2017 [2]
3:51.68 … Union Catholic, 2020 [1]
3:52.06 … Timber Creek, 2024 [1]
3:52.16 … Union Catholic, 2023 [1]
3:52.76 … Columbia, 2014 [1]
3:53.32 … Winslow Twp., 2024 [2]
3:53.50 … Columbia, 2010 [1]
3:53.84 … Union Catholic, 2019 [1]
3:54.10 … Piscataway, 2023 [2]
3:54.59 … Willingboro, 2024 [3]
3:54.69 … Eastern, 2023 [3]
3:55.08 … Camden, 2009 [1]
3:55.24 … Montclair, 1998 [1]
3:55.45 … Mount St. Dominic, 2014 [2]
3:55.58 … Union, 2013 [2]
3:55.69 … Southern, 2009 [1]
3:55.73 … Columbia, 1995 [1]
3:55.83 … Paul VI, 2020 [2]

Delsea junior Matthew Littlehales shattered the South Jersey indoor 1,600 record Sunday morning at the 57th annual Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island.

Littlehales ran 4:09.37 and placed 2nd to Colts Neck senior Hunter Celkupa, who won in 4:09.21. His time is 3rd-fastest in meet history and fastest ever by an underclassman.

Littlehales’s is No. 15 in state history including converted miles. He broke the South Jersey record of 4:09.96 converted from a 4:11.42 full mile at the 2009 Brooks PR Invitational at the Dempsey Tracvk in Seattle.

The race produced three of the six-fastest times in meet history. Haddonfield junior Luke Andresen placed 3rd in 4:10.82, 3rd-fastest in meet history and 4th-fastest in state history.

Littlehales and Andresen ran the two-fastest times in meet history by underclassmen. The previous fastest time in meet history by a non-senior was a 4:11.04 in 2022 by Delbarton junior Collin Boler.

Cherokee’s Jack Tindall was 9th in 4:14.92, Cherry Hill East senior Brady Bogos was 10th in 4:15.74, Haddonfield senior Bennett Wright placed 11th in 4:16.10, Glassboro senior Ty Blackman ran 4:17.46 for 13th and Haddonfield junior Benjamin Andrus was 14th in 4:17.48.

The race produced seven of the 31-fasatest times in South Jersey history.

Tindall broke the state freshman record of 4:16.96 set by Jackson’s Ryan Rafferty in 2015. Rafferty now coaches Northern Burlington’s Liliah Gordon, who won the girls 3,200 later Sunday.

Littlehales negative-split 2:06.22 / 2:03.15, closing in 58.50 and 27.51. Andresen also negative-split the race, out in 2:06.89 and coming back in 2:03.93, closing in 59.37 and 29.06.

Littlehales came into the race with a PR of 4:15.50 from the state Group 3 meet at the Bubble last weekend. Before that his fastest lifetime 1,600 was a 4:21.71 at last year’s indoor state meet. So he’s dropped about 12 ½ seconds in eight days.

The fastest previous 2nd-place time was Boller’s 4:11.04 in 2022. The fastest previous 3rd-place time was a 4:12.24 by Chatham’s Ryan Beegle in 2023.The race produced the fastest time for place for every place from 2nd through at least 10th.

In South Jersey history, Littlehales is 1st, Andresen 4th, Tindall 10th, Bogos 14th and Wright 18th.

Littlehales broke the Gloucester County record of 4:09.99 converted from a 4:11.45 full mile set by Woodbury’s Peyton Shute at Boston Nationals last year.

Andresen broke the Camden County record of 4:11.89 converted from a 4:13.36 full mile by Haddon Township’s Luke Petela at 2015 Armory Nationals.

Tindall came within just over a second of the Burlington County record of 4:13.68 converted from a 4:15.16 full mile by Cherokee’s Marc Pelerin at the 2001 Bishop Loughlin Games (early in the 2002 season).

All-Time State List
4:00.81y … Edward Cheserek [St. Benedict’s], 2012
4:02.63y … Collin Boler [Delbarton], 2023
4:03.18y … Marco Langan [Bridgewater-Raritan], 2022
4:05.2yh … Vince Cartier [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 1972
4:05.50y … Jackson Barna [Ridge], 2022
4:05.79y … Shane Brosnan [Union Catholic], 2022
4:08.10y … Sean Dolan [Hopewell Valley], 2019
4:08.69y … Colin Daly [River Dell], 2016
4;08.74y … William Daly [River Dell], 2016
4;08.98y … Chris Marco [Toms River South], 2013
4:09.04y … Luke Pash [Ridgewood], 2025
4:09.19y … Brandon Tubby [Hillsborough], 2016
4:09.19y … Alex Pelov [Montville], 2025
4:09.21 … Hunter Celkupa [Colts Neck], 2025
4:09.37 … Matthew Littlehales [Delsea], 2025
4:09.64y … Drew Maher [Shore Regional], 2018
4:09.96y … Miles Schoedler [Ocean City], 2011
4:09.99y … Peyton Shute [Woodbury], 2024
4:10.56 … Micah Lawson [Rahway], 2023
4:10.82 … Luke Andresen [Haddonfield], 2025
4:10.83y … Rob Napolitano [Red Bank Catholic], 2013
4:10.85y … Robby Andrews [Manalapan], 2013
4:10.97y … Pat Schellberg [Delbarton], 2010
4:11.03y … Brett Johnson [Ocean City], 2009
4:11.16y … Benjamin Malone [Pascack Valley], 2013
4:11.32y … Kyle Rakitis [Kingsway], 2022
4:11.40 … Jimmy Wischusen [Union Catholic], 2023
4:11.64y … Brian Boler [Delbarton], 2023
4:11.66 … Benjamin Malone [Pascack Valley], 2012
4:11.89y … Myles Plummer [Union Catholic], 2022
4:11.89y … Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 2015
4:11.93y … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2016
4:11.95 … Liam Tansey [Morris Hills, 2009

All-Time South Jersey List
4:09.37 … Matthew Littlehales [Delsea], 2025
4:09.96y … Miles Schoedler [Ocean City], 2011
4:09.99y … Peyton Shute [Woodbury], 2024
4:10.82 … Luke Andresen [Haddonfield], 2025
4:11.03y … Brett Johnson [Ocean City], 2009
4:11.89y … Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 2015
4:11.93y … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2016
4:12.55 … Kyle Rakitis [Kingsway], 2022
4:13.68y … Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 2002
4:13.87y … Stone Caraccio [Kingsway], 2020
4:14.1y … Marty Ludwikowski [C.H. West], 1975
4:14.92 … Jack Tindall [Cherokee], 2025
4:15.26 … Nick Kuenkel [Cherokee], 2024
4:15.34 … Bobby Poplau [Cherokee], 2024
4:15.2y … Jim Smith [Haddonfield], 1980
4:15.74 … Brody Bogos [Cherry Hill East], 2025
4:16.02 … Erik Johnson [Ocean City], 2011
4:16.0y … Greg Stremmel [Gateway], 1974
4:16.02 … Erik Johnson [Ocean City], 2012
4:16.10 … Bennett Wright [Haddonfield], 2025
4:16.3y … Rich Caton [Woodbury], 1979
4:16.61y … Jon Anderson [Cinnaminson], 2004
4:16.62 … Bill Dolan [Clearview], 2014
4:16.71y … Dave Forward [Shawnee], 2009
4:16.85 … Ben Potts [Haddonfield], 2011
4:16.9y … Bob Marino [Williamstown], 1974
4:17.1y … Mike Mantini [Gateway], 1978
4:17.33y … Carmen Cavella [Washington Twp.], 2004
4;17.42 … Peyton Shute [Woodbury], 2024
4:17.46 … Ty Blackman [Glassboro], 2025
4:17.48 … Benjamin Andrus [Haddonfield], 2025
4:17.51y … Connor Melko [Bishop Eustace], 2019
4:17.57 … Tobias Janssen [Haddonfield], 2021
4:17.67 … Derek Gess [Haddonfield], 2018
4:17.67y … Sebastien Reed [Pitman], 2020
4:17.72 … George Andrus [Haddonfield], 2023
4:17.87 … Bennett Wright [Haddonfield], 2024
4;17.98 … Seth Clevenger [Haddonfield], 2022
4:18.21y … Xavier Fraction [Washington Twp.], 2009
4:18.22 … Jacob Clark [Pleasantville], 2013
4:18.28 … Alexander Boyko [Cinnaminson], 2023
4:18.48 … Justin Kelly [Cherokee], 2018
4:18.50 … Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 2013
4:18.53y … Chris Platt [Haddonfield], 2001
4:18.4y … Al Harden [Millville], 1979
4:18.4h … Mike Myers [Eastern], 2001
4:18.62 … Brady Shute [Woodbury], 2021
4:18.70y … Ethan Wechsler [Cherokee], 2019
4:18.73 … Jacob Cobb [West Deptford], 2022
4:18.80y … Austin Gabay [Cinnaminson], 2020
4:18.83 … Tyler Jackson [Cherokee], 2020
4:19.02 … Jack Bolling [Haddon Heights], 2023
4:19.03 … Noah Culbreath [Kingsway, 2014
4:19.40 … Justin Branco [Delsea], 2015
4:19.7y … Chris Hageman [Paul VI], 1985
4:19.96 … Robert Rawls [Triton], 2011
4:19.97 … Steve Burkholder [Cherokee], 2010

Fastest Times in Meet History
4:05.2h … Vince Cartier [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 1972 [1]
4:09.21 … Hunter Celkupa [Colts Neck], 2025 [1]
4:09.37 … Matthew Littlehales [Delsea], 2025 [2]
4:09.42….Shane Brosnan [Union Catholic], 2022 [1]
4:10.56 … Micah Lawson [Rahway], 2023 [1]
4:10.82 … Luke Andresen [Haddonfield], 2025 [3]
4:11.04…..Collin Boler [Delbarton], 2022 [2]
4:11.48 … Brian Boler [Delbarton], 2023 [2]
4:11.66 … Ben Malone [Pascack Valley], 2012 [1]
4:11.83 … Drew Maher [Shore Regional], 2018 [1]
4:11.95 … Liam Tansey [Morris Hills], 2009 [1]
4:12.24 … Ryan Beegle [Chatham], 2023 [3]
4:12.45 … Stephen Kyvelos [Manalapan], 2024 [1]
4:12.54 … D.J. Thornton [Union Catholic], 2010 [1]
4:12.54 … Marcus Valenzuela [Chatham], 2025 [4]
4:12.55….Kyle Rakitis [Kingsway], 2022 [3]
4:12.58 … Jack Dowd [Don Bosco], 2025 [5]
4:12.90 … Will Baginski [Ridgewood], 2019 [1]
4:13.01 … Will Daly, River Dell, 2016 [1]
4:13.12 … Jim Rosa [West Windsor-Plainsboro North], 2009 [2]
4:13.21 … Pat Schellberg, Delbarton, 2010 [2]
4:13.2h … Bll Sieben [Union Catholic], 1970 [1]
4:13.44 … Colin Daly, River Dell, 2016 [2]
4:13.49 … George Kelly [Christian Brothers], 2012 [2]
4:13.65 … Alex Mastroly [Christian Brothers], 2025 [6]
4:13.5h … Chris Inman [Essex Catholic], 1972 [2]
4:13.5h … Harry Kronick [Franklin], 1972 [3]
4:13.70 … Joe Barrett [Christian Brothers], 2025 [7]
4:13.72 … Avery Keight [Westfield], 2024 [2]
4:13.7h … Dave Wall, Dickinson, 1973 [1]
4:13.9h … Chris Elliott, [Ramapo], 1970 [2]
4:14.18 … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2016 [3]
4:14.20 … Mike McClemens [Christian Brothers], 2014 [1]
4:14.24 … Chris Romero [Voorhees], 2018 [2]
4:14.28 … John Richardson [Bernards], 2025 [8]
4:14.51….Amiri Whittle [Hackensack], 2022 [4]
4:14.57 … Sam Macaluso, West Windsor South, 2010 [3]
4:14.71 … Luke Petela, Haddon Twp., 2015 [1]
4:14.71….Nikhil Makker [West Windsor North], 2022 [5]
4:14.79 … Tom Rooney [Christian Brothers], 2014 [2]
4:14.92 … Jack Tindall [Cherokee], 2025 [9]
4:15.00 … Joe Barrett [Christian Brothers], 2024 [3]
4:15.02 … Brenden McMahon [Ridge], 2024 [4]
4:14.8h … Henry Menke, Toms River South, 1976 [1]
4:14.8h … George Mackay, Pascack Hills, 1973 [2]
4:14.9h … Kevin Byrne [Bergen Catholic], 1975 [1]
4:15.0h … Roger Jones, Ramsey, 1977 [1]
4:15.14 … Francis Martingale, Memorial, 2018 [3]
4:15.25 … Jack Stanley [Mendham], 2019 [2]
4:15.48 … Brian Robinson [Millburn], 2010 [4]
4:15.58 … Francis Martingale [Memorial-WNY], 2019 [3]
4:15.4h … Norm Reinhart [Dayton], 1970 [3]
4:15.75 … Brody Bogos [Cherry Hill East], 2025 [10]
4:15.58 … Steve Lewandowski [Mountain Lakes], 2012 [3]
4:15.82 … Drake Anzano [Christian Brothers], 2016 [4]
4:15.9h … George Moore [Morris Knolls], 1973 [3]

Pennsauken’s remarkable Sianni Wynn on Sunday morning raced to a share of a state record that was once thought to be untouchable.

Wynn won the 55-meter dash at the 57th annual Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze in 6.73, tying the hallowed state record set over 60 yards 41 years ago by Willingboro’s Michelle Glover, racing against a world-class field or professionals and top collegiates at the 1981 Dallas Times Herald Invitational at Reunion Arena.

Her time is 6th-fastest in U.S. scholastic track history.

Earlier Sunday, Wynn ran 6.79 in the trials, matching the 2nd-fastest time in state history. Trenton’s Wenda Vereen ran 6.79 at the 1984 TAC Championships at Madison Square Garden.

Wynn won the Meet of Champions sprint with a 7.00 in 2023, then set the meet record of 6.81 when she won last year, breaking the mark of 6.92 set by Montclair Immaculate’s Dominique Booker in 2009. She broke it with her 6.81 last year and twice more on Sunday.

She’s the first girl to win the MoC 55 three years in a row since Takara Wilks from 2000 through 2002 – for Lincoln in 2000 and Queen of Peace in 2001 and 2002 – and she’ll have a chance at No. 4 next year.

The only other South Jersey girl to win the same event three straight years at an indoor Meet of Champions is Bridgeton’s Melinda Boykin, who was 1st in the shot put in 1996, 1997 and 1998.

Wynn has raced eight times in her high school career in an indoor or outdoor Meet of Champions and won all eight races.

Wynn also won Meet of Champions titles indoors in 2023 [7.00 in 55, 24.48 in 200], outdoors in 2003 [400 in 54.56], indoors in 2024 [6.81 in 55, 24.00 in 200] and outdoors in 2024 [11.36 in 100, 23.34w in 200].

Wynn goes for her 3rd straight Meet of Champions 200 win later Sunday.

Timber Creek senior Ryan Jennings placed 2nd in 6.94, and Winslow junior Olivia Okaro was 6th in 7.16.

Here’s a look at the top 55 times in U.S. history:

6.63 … Lisa Raye [West Warwick, R.I.], 2025
6.67 … Melanie Doggett [Landmark Christian, Fairburn, Ga.], 2025
6.67 … Shawnti Jackson [South Granville, N.C.], 2023
6.68 … Aleisha Latimer [Palmer, Ill.], 1996
6.71 … Micayah Holland [Monteverde (Fla.) Academy], 2023
6.73 … Tamari Davis [Gainesville, Fla.], 2018
6.73 … Michelle Glover [Willingboro], 1981
6.73 … Lakya Brookins [Seneca, S.C.], 2007
6.73 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2025
6.74 … Deandra Carney [Arlington, Ind.], 1978
6.74 … Mikiah Brisco [Baton Rouge, La.], 2014
6.74 … Mia Brahe-Pedersen [Lake Oswego, Ore.], 2024
6.74 … Adaejah Hodge [Monteverde (Fla.) Academy], 2023
6.74 … Mia Maxwell [Atascocita, Humble, Texas], 2025
6.75 … McKenzie Travis [Evangelical Christian, Fort Myers, Fla.], 2024

All-Time New Jersey 55-Meter Dash List
6.73y … Michelle Glover [Willingboro], 1981
6.73 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2025
6.79y … Wenda Vereen [Trenton], 1984
6.79 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2024
6.84 … Myasia Jacobs [Paramus Catholic], 2011
6.87 … Aleah Williams [Montclair], 1998
6.88y … Patti Dunlap [Camden], 1979
6.90 … Taylor Cox [Union Catholic], 2024
6.90 … Ryan Jennings [Timbrer Creek], 2025
6.91 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2010
6.93 … Ogechi Nwaneri [Chatham], 2008
6.93 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
6.93 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2024 [-]
6.94 … Stephanie Saleem [Neptune], 1985
6.94 … Taylor Aska [Union Catholic], 2025
6.95 … Bria Mack [Williamstown], 2017
6.95 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
6.95 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2014
6.95 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
6.95 ….Christiana Nwachuku [Kent Place], 2022
6.97 … Melissa Barber [Montclair], 1998
6.97 … Jenna Harris [Franklin], 2003
6.97 … Dominique Booker [Immaculate Conception], 2008
6.98 … Lauren Princz [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2020
6.98 … Sydney Hawkins [Phillipsburg], 2017

Sianni Wynn got the 57th annual Meet of Champions off to an electrifying start Sunday morning with the 2nd-fastest time in state history in the 55-meter dash trials.

The Pennsauken junior, who set a meet of 6.81 in last year’s meet, ran 6.79 to lead all qualifiers into the final later Sunday at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island, N.Y.

The only faster time in state history was record 44 years ago in Dallas, when Willingboro’s Michelle Glover ran 6.73 against a world-class field at the 1981 Dallas Times Herald Invitational at Reunion Arena. Trenton’s Wenda Vereen also ran 6.79 – in the 1984 U.S. Championships at Madison Square Garden.

Her time is fastest in New Jersey in an all-high school race, supplanting her own 6.81 last year at Ocean Breeze. Her previous best this year was a 6.83 at the Ott Center in January.

It’s No. 5 in the U.S. according to the MileSplit national database.

Second-fastest qualifier was Timber Creek senior Ryan Jennings, who ran 6.99 in a different heat. She’s run 6.90 this year, 7th-fastest in state history. Winslow junior Olivia Okara ran a lifetime-best 7.14, the 4th-fastest qualifying time.

All-Time New Jersey 55-Meter Dash Sub-7 list
6.73y … Michelle Glover [Willingboro], 1981
6.79y … Wenda Vereen [Trenton], 1984
6.79 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2024
6.84 … Myasia Jacobs [Paramus Catholic], 2011
6.87 … Aleah Williams [Montclair], 1998
6.88y … Patti Dunlap [Camden], 1979
6.90 … Taylor Cox [Union Catholic], 2024
6.90 … Ryan Jennings [Timbrer Creek], 2025
6.91 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2010
6.93 … Ogechi Nwaneri [Chatham], 2008
6.93 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
6.93 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2024 [-]
6.94 … Stephanie Saleem [Neptune], 1985
6.94 … Taylor Aska [Union Catholic], 2025
6.95 … Bria Mack [Williamstown], 2017
6.95 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
6.95 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 2014
6.95 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
6.95 ….Christiana Nwachuku [Kent Place], 2022
6.97 … Melissa Barber [Montclair], 1998
6.97 … Jenna Harris [Franklin], 2003
6.97 … Dominique Booker [Immaculate Conception], 2008
6.98 … Lauren Princz [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2020
6.98 … Sydney Hawkins [Phillipsburg], 2017

East Stroudsburg sophomore Payton Falkenstein, a Burlington Township graduate, won her 1st conference title Saturday at the PSAC Championships.

Falkenstein ran an indoor PR 17:51.68 to win the 5,000 meters at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championships at Lehigh’s Rauch Fieldhouse in Bethlehem.

Falkenstein, Slippery Rock junior Ruthie Hughes and Edinboro junior Kate Szep were together in the lead pack much of the race, with Hughes leading and Szep 2nd. Falkenstein moved into 2nd with three laps to go and took the lead for good on the final lap, closing in 34.80.

She finished seven meters ahead of Hughes, who was 2nd in 17:53.16. Szep finished 3rd in 18:02.34.

Falkenstein is East Stroudsburg’s 1st conference champ at 5,000 meters in 32 years, since Jenn Moyer won the 5 and 10K at the 1993 meet.

Her time is No. 8 in school history indoors.

Falkenstein is also No. 8 on the all-time East Stroudsburg outdoor list with her 17:36.93 from a meet this past April at Bucknell. Three spots above her is Northern Burlington graduate Laura Mason, who ran 17:23.24 in 1985 and went on to compete in the 1992 Olympic Trials at 10,000 meters.