From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Paul VI senior Shaelan McNally won her 1st state title Friday and smashed the meet record in the 3,200 at the State Parochial A Championships at Stockton University in Galloway Township.

McNally won the race in 10:24.00, finishing 100 meters of 2nd place and broke the meet record of 10:30.97 set in 2022 by Cate DeSousa of Red Bank Catholic.

She’s Paul VI’s first state champion since Aliya Rae Garozzo won both hurdles in the 2019 meet and PVI’s first distance runner to win a state title since Davana Medina won the Parochial B 3,200 in 1992 in 11:40.17.

Despite running solo, McNally ran within six seconds of her PR of 10:18.93 from Cherokee Night at the Races, a mixed race. That’s No. 16 in state history and No. 2 in South Jersey history.

McNally will be the top seed at the Meet of Champions Wednesday at Pennsauken.

Timber Creek senior Naylah Jones turned in one of the fastest 100-meter dash performances in U.S. scholastic track history Friday at the state Group 3 Championships at Delsea.

Running with a legal wind, Jones ran 11.23, shattering the state record of 11.33 set by her current teammate, Timber Creek junior Ryan Jennings, last weekend at Group 3 Sectionals on the same track.

The wind reading for her race was 1.7 meters-per-second. Anything 2.0 or lower is considered legal wind.

Her time is 3rd-fastest in the U.S. this year with legal wind, according to the MileSplit national database.

Trenton’s Wendy Vereen ran 11.17 during the summer between her junior and senior year of high school at the National Sports Festival on Juy 3, 1983, in Colorado Springs, but while some record keepers consider all summer marks for high school lists, we do not recognize summer track meets that are not an extension of the high school season for record purposes. New Jersey Track, which for decades was the unofficial record keeper, did not either.

Jones’ time is under the B standard of 11.30 for the U.S. Olympic Trials later this month in Eugene, Ore. The qualifying window closes on Sunday.

Her time is No. 41 among all U.S. women this year and No. 8 on the World Athletics Under-20 list and No. 3 among U.S. women.

Jones’ previous PR was her 11.38 with a legal 11.9 wind when she finished 2nd to Jennings at sectionals. Jennings was 2nd Friday in 11.65, giving Timber Creek 18 team points. Both will also run the 200.

Here’s my best attempt at an all-time U.S. wind-legal girls 100-meter dash list from various sources, including Track and Field News, DyeState, MileSplit and Jack Shepard’s high school annuals. It shows Jones at No. 25 in U.S. history.

10.89 … Shawnti Jackson [South Granville, Creedmore, N.C.], 2023
10.94 … Briana Williams [Northeast, Oakland Park, Fla., 2019
10.98 … Candace Hill [Rockdale, Conyers, Ga.], 2015
11.00 … Mia Brahe-Pedersen [Lake Oswego, Ore.], 2023
11.10 … Kaylin Whitney [East Ridge, Clermont, Fla.], 2014
11.11 … Angela Williams [Chino, Calif.], 1998
11.11 … Adaejah Hodge [Monteverde Academy, Fla.], 2023
11.13 … Chandra Cheeseborough [Ribault, Jacksonville, Fla.], 1976
11.13 … Ashley Owens [Liberty, Colorado Springs, Colo.], 2004
11.13 … Tamari Davis [Gainesville, Fla.], 2018
11.14 … Marion Jones [Thousand Oaks, Calif.], 1992
11.14 … Gabby Mayo [Southeast Raleigh, N.C.], 2006
11.16 … Victoria Jordan [Dunbar, Texas], 2008
11.16 … Octavious Freeman [Lake Wales, Fla.], 2009
11.17 … Wendy Vereen [Trenton, N.J.], 1983
11.17 … Ashton Purvis [St. Elizabeth, N.C.], 2010
11.19 … Aleisha Latimer [Colorado Springs, Colo.], 1991
11.19 … Khalifa St. Port [St. Thomas Aquinas, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.], 2015
11.21 … Tiffany Townsend [Killeen, Texas], 2007
11.21 … Indya Mayberry [North Crowley, Fort Worth, Texas], 2024
11.22 … Chalonda Goodman [Newnan, Ga.], 2009
11.22 … Ariana Washington [Long Beach Poly, Calif.], 2014
11.23 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek, Erial, N.J.], 2024
11.24 … Jeneba Tarmoh [Mt. Pleasant, Calif.], 2006
11.24 … Semira Killebrew [Brebeuf Jesuit, Indianapolis], 2019
11.24 … Symone Mason [Southridge, Miami, Fla.], 2017

Jones’ time is 7th-fastest ever run by a New Jersey native.

All-Time New Jersey Alumni List
10.74 … English Gardner [Eastern], July 3, 2016, Eugene, Ore. [+1.0]
10.95 … Me’Lisa Barber [Montclair], May 20, 2007, Carson, Calif. [+2.0]
11.02 … Mikele Barber [Montclair], July 24, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [+0.8]
11.10 … Dennisha Page [Wilson], May 11, 2024, Gainesville, Fla. [+0.3]
11.18 … Wenda Vereen [Trenton], July 3, 1983, Colorado Springs [+0.6]
11.21 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], April 13, 2024, Gainesville, Fla. [+1.2]
11.23 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], June 7, 2024, Franklin Township, N.J. [+1.7]
11.29 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], April 17, 2005, Walnut, Calif. [+0.4]
11.31 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], May 14, 2017, Atlanta [+0.8]
11.32 … Gabrielle Farquharson [Williamstown], May 14, 2016, Lincoln, Neb. [+1.6]
11.36 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], May 6, 1984, Houston [+1.7]

Moments after Peyton Shute won the state Group 1 title in 1:52.05, Winslow junior Dominic Bassey ran 1:52.15 at the state Group 3 meet at Delsea.

They’re the two-fastest times by South Jersey half-milers in 10 years.

Bassey placed 2nd to New Jersey No. 1 Luke Schagelin, a senior at Morris Knolls, who won the race in 1:51.17. Bassey’s previous PR was 1:54.08 last weekend at Group 3 sectionals.

His time is fastest by a Camden County runner in 46 years, since Jeff Boyer ran 1:51.53 in 1978. I’m not sure where. Still looking.

All-Time Camden County 800 List
1;51.53 … Jeff Boyer [Camden], 1978
1:52.15 … Dominic Bassey [Winslow Twp.], 2024
1:53.25 … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2016
1:53.49 … Ben Potts [Haddonfield], 2010
1:53.54y … Frank Romero [Haddon Twp.], 1977
1:53.78 … Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 2015
1:53.79 … Mike Shemonsky [Eastern], 1990

Peyton Shute knocked out the first leg of what he hopes is a distance triple at states Friday afternoon with the fastest 800 by a South Jersey runner in 10 years.

Shute won the 800 at the state Group 1 Championships in Somerset in 1:52.05, fastest since Oakcrest’s Ishmael Muhammad set the South Jersey record of 1:48.52 at the 2014 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield.

His time is 4th-fastest ever by a Gloucester County half-miler, behind Rich Caton of Woodbury [1:49.72 in 1979], Paulsboro’s Fred Sharpe [1:49.74 in 1997] and Kingsway’s Derrell Manhertz [1:51.02].

Shute’s previous PR was 1:53.82 last month at Haddonfield Distance Night. He’s also top seed at states in the 1,600 and 3,200. He won the 800 and 3,200 last year in 1:55.90 and 9:25.91.

Shute ran unpressed, winning by 30 meters over Verona senior Ian Zalewski, who was 2nd in 1:56.53. He was out in 54.94 and came back in 57.12.

He’s the first Woodbury boy to win the same event in consecutive years at states since long jumper Keith Washington in 1977 and 1978

Gloucester sophomore Marcus Flagg was 4th in 1:58.94, a two-second PR over his 2:00.95 at the Baker Invitational last month at Haddonfield.

Cherry Hill East’s Johnnie Jackson popped a huge hammer throw PR recently, the best throw ever by a New Jersey athlete, a top-10 U.S. throw this year and an Olympic Trials qualifier.

Jackson, competing at the Tucson Throws Festival at Roy Drachman Stadium at the University of Arizona, bombed a 242-10, surpassing his lifetime-best 237-1 from a meet in April 2021 in Baton Rouge, La.

The Olympic Trials “A” standard is 236-2. Jackson’s throw is No. 10 among U.S. men this year and No. 55 in the world. It’s No. 43 on the all-time U.S. list.

This will be Jackson’s second U.S. Olympic Trials. He placed 10th in 2021 in Eugene with a best throw of 226-4.

After competing at 2022 U.S. Nationals in Eugene in June of 2022, Jackson didn’t compete again for 22 months. He returned at a meet in Ramona, Okla., where he threw 231-10. He improved to 233-7 later in April in a meet in Baton Rouge before his breakthrough in Tucson last month.

In Tucson, Jackson – competing unattatched – opened with a 229-7, 234-2 and 233-4 before a foul and then the PR 242-10 on his 5th attempt. He finished with a 237-11, the 2nd-best throw of his life.

Jackson was the 2017 NCAA champion in the weight throw for LSU and placed 6th in the hammer at NCAAs that spring.

The Olympic Trials are scheduled for June 21-June 30 at Hayward Field in Eugene. The first round of the hammer is scheduled for Friday, June 28, with the final June 30.

The rest of the state will see this weekend just how powerful South Jersey Group 1 is.

Some of the numbers are incredible.

We scored the Group 1 state meet as South Jersey vs. the entire rest of the state – Central, North 1 and North 2 – based on seedings and we came up with this:

South Jersey 403, Rest of the State 155.

In other words, based on the seedings c0ming out of sectionals, South Jersey projects to score 72 percent of the available points when just based on enrollment figures SJ-1 would score 25 percent of the points.

On the track, the disparity is even more pronounced.

Check out the projected points in the 11 track events in the state Group 1 meet based on seedings:

100:South Jersey 31, Everyone else 0 points
200: South Jersey 23, Everyone else 8 points
400: South Jersey 26 points, Everyone else 5 points
800: South Jersey 21 points, Everyone else 10 points
1600: South Jersey 18 points, Everyone else 13 points
3200: South Jersey 26 points, Everyone else 5 points
110HH: South Jersey 30 points, Everyone else 1 point
400IH:South Jersey 29 points, Everyone else 2 points
4×1: South Jersey 31, Everyone else 0 points
4×4: South Jersey 30 points, Everyone else 1 point
4×8: South Jersey 21 points, Everyone else 10 point

That’s absurd.

So based on that, South Jersey outscores the rest of New Jersey Group 1 by a ridiculous 286-55 on the track. That’s 84 percent of the available points, including sweeps or near sweeps in the 100, 110 hurdles, intermediate hurdles, 4-by-1 and 4-by-4.

The numbers aren’t quite as lopsided in the girls Group 1 meet but they still show how deep and talented South Jersey Group 1 is on the girls side.

A state meet projection based on all four sectional meets shows South Jersey girls with 281 points and the three other sectionals combined with 277, so South Jersey gets just over 50 percent of the available points (and 195 of 341 on the track, or 57 percent).

Combining the boys and girls meets, the seeds show South Jersey with 684 of 1,116 points, or just over 61 percent.

Led by standouts like Malachi James, Jamir Brown, Cartrell Moore, Alexander Osayemi and Peyton Shute in the boys meet and Riley Fayer, Sydney Greenidge, Anna Buzby, Alanna Woolfolk and Sunsarai Moore in the girls meet, Group 1 is going to be a blast to watch this weekend in Somerset.

States has almost arrived, and we’ll have you covered throughout the weekend. We’ll start with our annual state track link hub, with direct links to everything you’ll need to enjoy the action.

Groups 1 and 4 are scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Franklin High School in Somerset, Groups 2 and 3 will be held at Delsea and the Parochial A and B meets are scheduled for Stockton University in Galloway Township.

All three meets are scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. Friday and 10:30 a.m. Saturday. We’ll update the links as we go.

2024 Live Results [links now live]
Group 1 and 4 from Franklin Township, Somerset County: Click here.
Group 2 and 3 from Franklin Township, Gloucester County: Click here.
Parochial A & B from Galloway Township: Click here.

2024 NJSIAA State Track Program [with 29 pages of  ads removed]: Click here.
2024 NJSIAA State Track Program [with ads not removed]: Click here.

Order of Events: Click here

Boys meet records: Click here.
Boys all-time team champions: Click here.
Girls meet records: Click here.
Girls all-time team champions: Click here.

2023 Results
Boys
Group 1: Click here.
Group 2: Click here.
Group 3: Click here.
Group 4: Click here.
Parochial A: Click here.
Parochial B: Click here.
Girls
Group 1: Click here.
Group 2: Click here.
Group 3: Click here.
Group 4: Click here.
Parochial A: Click here.
Parochial B: Click here.

State Championship Performance lists
Boys
Group 1: Click here
Group 2: Click here.
Group 3: Click here.
Group 4: Click here.
Parochial A: Click here.
Parochial B: Click here.

Girls
Group 1: Click here.
Group 2: Click here.
Group 3: Click here.
Group 4: Click here.
Parochial A: Click here.
Parochial B: Click here.

How to order a wind gauge: Click here.

We’ve spoken a lot about records over the past few days and how damanging the absence of a wind gauge can be to sprinters and hurdlers trying to break them.

Jim Lambert of MileSplit wrote a good piece about how the absence of a wind gauge at Pennsauken at sectionals negated several records and how the NJSIAA plans to respond belatedly.

In any case, one of the many races impacted negatively by the absence of a functioning wind gauge was the boys Group 4 200, where Ajani Dwyer won the race in 20.86, which would have been the fastest wind-legal time in state history if there had been a wind gauge and the tailwind was measured at 2.0 meters per second or less.

You may not have noticed who placed 3rd in that race behind Dwyer and Southern Regional junior Cole Isaac Cramer, but it was Rancocas Valley sophomore Thomas Howard Jr., who ran 21.36.

Is that a state sophomore record? It’s a complicated question.

It does appear to be the fastest FAT 200 ever recorded by a New Jersey sophomore. But without a legal wind reading it can’t be considered a state sophomore record.

The fastest legit FAT 200 by a sophomore that I was able to find before this weekend was a 21.41 by the late Mario Heslop of Franklin Township, when he won 2017 Group 4 states at Egg Harbor Township. There was no wind reading in that race, either.

Najee Glass of St. Peter’s Prep was credited with a hand-timed 21.1 at the 2010 Hudson County Championships at Secaucus. Why was anybody still running a meet in 2010 without FAT timing? No idea, but Glass’s fastest FAT 200 that year was a 21.88 at the state Parochial A meet at Egg Harbor. He never ran under 21.48 FAT the rest of his high school career, althoug he did go onto win Armory Nationals at 400 meters with a 46.57 in 2012. He ran as fast as 21.05 as a junior at Florida in a meet in Gainesville in April 2014.

Timber Creek’s Jamaad Muse is credited on MileSplit with a 21.24 at the 2012 Group 3 sectionals at Egg Harbor, but the timing in that whole race was messed up – all six medalists ran about half a second faster than they ever ran before or after, and there was clearly some sort of timing irregularity and we don’t recognize times from that race.

Egg Harbor’s T.J. Johnson is credited on MileSplit with a 21.30 at the 2008 Cape Atlantic Championships at Atlantic City, but that whole meet was actually hand-timed. Johnson’s fastest FAT 200 as a sophomore was a 21.79 at the Meet of Champions at South Plainfield

The fastest legit FAT 200 in New Jersey history by a sophomore with a legal wind reading appears to be a 21.42 by Snyder’s Zamir Thomas at 2009 Greensboro Nationals.

Wind gauge or not, Howard’s 21.36 is very fast. It’s 2nd-fastest in Burlington County history, behind only Malachi James’ 21.13 at the USATF New York Youth Challenge Series Opener in New York in April. That’s the only 200 James has run this year with a wind gauage – there was a legal 1.6 MpS tailwind at Icahn Stadium. And Howard’s time is 6th-fastest in South Jersey history regardless of wind reading.

What’s the fastest FAT time by a South Jersey sprinter with legal wind? It’s probably Dennis Mitchell’s 21.06 at the 1984 Keebler Prep Invitational in Elk Grove, Ill., but there’s no indication in any of the results or stories from that meet whether there actually was a wind gauge. I’m guessing even in 1984 there was a wind gauge at a meet like that, but still working on that.

The fastest 200 by a South Jersey runner that definitely had a legal wind is a 21.07 by Paul VI’s Antonio Tarantino at 2018 Greensboro Nationals. And the fastest wind-legal 200 by a South Jersey soph is Muse’s 21.59 with a 1.7 at the 2012 Meet of Champions at Old Bridge.

Whatever the details, R.V. has an impressive stable of young sprinters. Sophomore Julian Coppage-Seepersaud has run 10.84, 21.99 and 48.22 this spring and qualified for states in the 200 and 400, soph Xavier Bancroft has run 11.02, 22.03 and 50.69 and will race in the 200 at states, junior David Smith has run 10.77 and 22.40 and races at states in the 100 and Howard has run 50.54 in addition to his 21.36. R.V. has run 42.00 and 3:22.71 with all underclassmen.

And the best news of all is that there will be a wind gauge this weekend at states.

We didn’t forget South Jersey’s schools that made the trip to Hillsborough and Jackson for the Central Jersey sectionals this weekend.

So here are 10 highlights from the Central Jersey Group 1 and 4 meets at Hillsborough and the Group 2 and 3 meets at Jackson Liberty.

1. Florence sophomore Leaire Williams won the Central Jersey Group 1 long jump with a lifetime-best 21-4 ¼, which makes him the top sophomore in South Jersey this year and the No. 4 seed in the state Group 1 meet. Williams came into the season with a PR of 19-6 from last spring and has improved nearly two feet in the last month.

2. Florence senior Darien Woody remains unbeaten this year in the triple jump, winning his 2nd straight sectional title at 43-10 ½ – just half an inch off his PR from the Burlington County Open at Northern. Woody also took 2nd to Williams in the long jump at 20-6 ¼ and was 4th in the 100 with a 11.37.

3. Florence junior Barone VanKline won the 100 in 11.06 after a 11.01 in the prelims, placed 2nd in the 200 in 22.48 and anchored Florence’s winning 400-meter relay team, which also included Woody leading off, Elijah Quinn and Damien Ricketts and ran 43.88 in the 1st event of the weekend. With Williams, Woody and VanKline combining for 60 points including the relay, Florence placed 3rd overall with 72 points in Central Jersey Group 1.

4. Bordentown senior Brock Schenck won an outstanding Group 2 discus competition with senior Nate Riello of Point Pleasant Borough, with Schenck winning by four feet with a throw of 173-8. Results don’t show field series, unfortunately. Schenck threw just eight inches off his lifetime-best 174-4 from his win at the County Open. Schenck and Riello are the top two seeds at states this weekend. Schenck, who didn’t throw until junior year, had a PR of 138-2 coming into his senior year.

5. Burlington Township junior Dylan Fitzpatrick won the Central Jersey Group 3 javelin with a big seven-foot lifetime-best 177-4, leading three Falcons in the top five. Senior Dylan Zerillo was 3rd at 159-0 and junior Anthony Barber was 5th at 151-10. Fitzpatrick, who has improved more than 30 feet since last year, is the No. 1 seed at states.

6. Overall, Burlington Township placed 4th in CJ-3 with 52 points, only 18 behind team champion Robbinsville. Other big performances came from senior George Sackie, who placed 2nd in the 110-meter highs in a huge PR 14.45 and is the No. 2 seed at states, sophomore Solomon Wesley, who broke 11 seconds for the first time in the 100 and paced 4th in 10.96, sophomore Quayd Hendryx, who also broke 11 for the first time with a 10.99 in the 100 trials before placing 6th in 11.02, senior Brandon Afrifa, 5th in the high hurdles with a PR 15.03, and the 400-meter relay team of Afrifa, Hendryx, junior Yeator Tappia and Wesley, who placed 2nd in 43.16.

7. Northern Burlington junior Liliah Gordon won the Central Jersey Group 3 1,600 in 5:03.80 and was 2nd in the 3,200 in 10:59.36. She’ll be the No. 2 seed in the 32 and the No. 3 seed in the 16 at states. Gordon has now won eight sectional titles in track and cross country with another full season to go.

8. Gordon also ran on Northern’s winning 3,200-meter relay team along with junior Zoe Chou, junior Kayla Leonhardt and sophomore Emma Price. They ran 9:40.98 – no splits available on the results site but they’re the No. 2 seed at states, behind only Ocean City and 10th-fastest in New Jersey this year. Also, NBC freshman Maryam Fall placed 3rd in the triple jump with a PR 34-2 ½ and senior Amara Campbell placed 3rd in both sprints with a 12.42 and 25.78.

9. Northern senior Chibuike Udodi and junior Edson Raymond placed 3rd and 4th in the CJ-3 long jump, Udodi with a 20-11 and Raymond with 20-9 ¾.

10. For the Florence girls, sophomore Zoe Saunders won the 100-meter hurdles in 15.73 and placed 2nd in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:10.82, both big PRs. According to MileSplit, Saunders did not hurdle as a freshman and didn’t contest the highs until the Burlington County Open on May 11 or the intermediates until the BCSL Championships on May 18.

Winslow junior Jayden Poteat put himself in some elite company this weekend when he won the 100, 200 and 400 at Group 3 sectionals and ran 10.69, 21.67 and 48.44 in his triple.

Poteat became only the 5th South Jersey sprinter ever to run sub-10.70, sub-21.70 and sub-48.50 in his entire high school career, and he did it in the span of about 22 hours at Delsea.

He also became the first to run those times at a sectional meet in 41 years.

The 100-200-400 is not an easy triple.

The other sprinters to run that fast for all three events at any point are Olympic gold medalist Dennis Mitchell of Edgewood in 1983 [11.47 in 1983, 21.06, 46.02], Deptford’s Bruce Owens in 2004 [10.66, 21.56, 48.41], Winslow’s Antraye Miles in 2003 [10.67, 21.58, 47.83] and Pennsauken’s Martin Booker in 2017 [10.67, 21.39, 48.33].

Mitchell swept the three sprints as a junior in the South Jersey Group 4 meet in 1983 at Willingboro with 10.4, 21.3 and 46.9. Although those are hand times, they convert to sub-10.70, 21.70 and 48.50. He recorded the same sweep in 1982 and 1984 but in each case one race was too slow.

At 2003 Group 4 sectionals at Egg Harbor Township – where some events were FAT and some were hand timed – Miles won the 100 in 10.4, the 200 in 22.01 and the 400 in 48.10, so his “slow” 200 disqualifies him from consideration.

A year later in the South Jersey Group 3 meet at Buena, Owens was 2nd in the 100 in a hand-timed 10.7, 3rd in the 200 in 22.08 and 1st in the 400 in 48.73.

Booker competed in 2017 in the Central Jersey Group 3 meet at Bernards but took 2nd in the 100 in 10.76, won the 200 in 21.39 and didn’t contest the 400.

So Mitchell and Poteat are the only South Jersey sprinters ever to run 10.70, 21.70 and 48.50 in the same sectional meet.

Antraye Miles ran 10.67 and 47.83 at the state Group 4 meet in 2003 at Egg Harbor but his winning time in the 200 was 22.01. Owens picked up a 1st and two 2nds at the 2004 state Group 3 meet at EHT but his times don’t quite measure up. Booker ran 10.67 in the 100 trials at the 2017 state Group 3 meet at Northern Burlington and 21.47 to win the 200 but didn’t run the 400. Not surprisingly, none of them tripled at the Meet of Champions.

I checked all their county and conference meets as well, and althought Miles was close at the 2003 Camden County meet at Haddon Township [hand-timed 10.4, 21.4, 48.9] and Olympic Conference meet at Pennsauken [10.4, 21.2, did not run 400], he didn’t quite hit the triple crown.

So Mitchell and Poteat are also the only South Jersey sprinters in history to run sub-10.70, sub-21.70 and sub-48.50 at the same meet.

Poteat is the No. 2 seed at states in the 100 behind only Robbinsville’s Maxim Rychkov [10.61], the No. 1 seed in the 200 and the No. 1 seed in the 400 as well.

How far has Poteat come?

According to Poteat’s MileSplit bio, this is his first year running track, and he didn’t compete outdoors until the Camden County Championships on May 11. He did run indoors and ran 22.09 and 51.05 at Ocean Breeze. But his first lifetime 100 was May 11, as were his first outdoor 200 and 400. In his first indoor meet in December, he only high jumped, and he didn’t run anything longer than the 55 until Feb. 5.

For the record, the last South Jersey sprinter to sweep the 100, 200 and 400 at states was Carl Watson of St. Joe’s-Hammton, who won Parochial B titles in 2011 in 11.00, 22.45 and 50.41. The last public school sprinter to pull off that triple was Damiere Byrd of Timber Creek in the 2010 Group 3 meet in 10.68, 21.80 and 47.88. Byrd is now with the Washington Commanders heading into his 9th NFL season.