From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Glassboro ran one of the fastest distance medleys ever by a New Jersey Group 1 school Sunday morning at West Philly Nationals.

Senior Jaeden Wesley, junior Marley Crowl, sophomore Zacchhaeus Harrigan and sophomore Joseph Saicic ran 10:14.37 and placed 14^th overall at Franklin Field.

Wesley led off with a 3:10.42 for 1,200 meters, Crowl split 52.03, Harrigan ran the 800 in 1:54.05 and Saicic anchored in 4:17.88.

The time is 6^th-fastest in South Jersey history and fastest ever by a South Jersey Group 1 and fastest by any New Jersey Group 1 since Bernards ran 10:06.2 to win the 1984 Penn Relays on the same track. It’s No. 2 in Gloucester County history, behind only Washington Township’s 10:10.74 at the 2000 Penn Relays.

All-Time South Jersey DMR List
10:00.9h … Willingboro, 1983
10:06.48 … Haddonfield, 2025
10:10.62 … Haddonfield, 2016
10:10.74 … Washington Twp., 2000
10:10.8y … Haddon Township, 1973
10:12.65 … Mainland Reg., 2004
10:14.37 … Glassboro, 2026
10:15.4y … Paul VI, 1976
10:15.5y … Highland, 1980
10:15.9y … Williamstown, 1973
10:16.11 … Cherokee, 2001
10:16.14 … Haddonfield, 2010
10:16.29 … Highland, 1991
10:17.2y … Williamstown, 1974
10:17.3y … Haddonfield, 1979
10:18.74 … Shawnee, 1991
10:19.11 … Washington Twp., 2009
10:19.47 … Cherokee, 2012
10:19.4y … Haddon Twp., 1972
10:19.4y … Paul VI., 1974
10:19.5y … Holy Cross, 1971
10:19.67 … Haddon Twp., 2015
10:19.90 … Cherry Hill East, 2016

Even without Jasmine Jackson, one of the top hurdlers in the country, the Winslow girls placed 4^th in the shuttle hurdles Sunday morning at West Philly Nationals at Franklin Field.

Jackson, South Jersey record holder the No. 2 sophomore in U.S. history, is the top seed going into the 100-meter hurdles final later Sunday morning, and although she was originally listed as Winslow’s anchor, when they declared for the race they listed a lineup of senior Ma’Syiah Brawner, junior Cinniya Robinson, junior Jordyn Cato and junior Justice Green.

That group ran 1:01.65 and earned All-America honors for Brawner, Robinson, Cato and Green.

Winslow’s time even without Jackson would rank 15^th in South Jersey history. Winslow ran 59.10 with Jackson at the Woodbury Relays, No. 6 in state history.

Brawner, who was 4^th in the triple jump, is now a double All-America this year. She’s long jumping later Sunday.

Incredible 1-2 finish for Deptford and Egg Harbor in the shuttle hurdles at West Philly Nationals Sunday morning at Franklin Field.

Deptford won in 58.42, and Egg Harbor, racing in the previous section, placed 2^nd in 58.91. They were the only schools under 59 seconds in the first event on Day 4 of the meet.

For Deptford, senior Kareem Brown, junior Xavion Holmes, senior Kamaldeep Singh and senior Larry Norman ran 58.42, 6^th-fastest in South Jersey history and fastest in 23 years, since Winslow ran 57.70 at the 2003 Willingboro Relays with Robert Penn, Brandon Bates, Kenny Scott and and Reuben McCoy,

Deptford broke the Gloucester County record of 59.82 set by Washington Township last year at the Randolph Relays with Nico DiGiacomo, Idris Fisher, Joseph McAndrews and Zachary Kotel.

Holmes and Kareem Brown also ran on Deptford’s 4^th-place 800-meter relay team, and Brown was 5^th in the intermediates, so Brown is now a triple All-America and Holmes is a double All-America.

For Egg Harbor, junior Taj Jackson, junior Xavier Aucule, sophomore Sebastian Antonius and senior Ari Bell ran the 12^th-fastest time in South Jersey history and fastest by an Atlantic County school since Oakcrest ran 58.54 at the 2012 Carl Lewis Invitational in Willingboro with Syid Evans White, Chase Toliver, Aaron Wilson and Stephen Adkisson.

North Brunswick placed 3^rd in 59.00, giving New Jersey a 1-2-3 finish.

56.88 … Woodrow Wilson, 1999
57.70 … Winslow Twp., 2003
57.9h … Willingboro, 1982
58.25 … Camden, 1997
58.2h … Moorestown, 1975
58.42 … Deptford, 2026
58.4h … Penns Grove, 1977
58.4h … Camden, 1996
58.54 … Oakcrest, 2012
58.7h … Overbrook, 1977
58.7h … Willingboro, 1978
58.8h … Edgewood, 1984
58.91 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2026
58.93 … Lindenwold, 2010
58.9h … Camden, 1977
58.9h … Willingboro, 1984
58.9h … Pleasantville, 1994
59.12 … Camden, 2000
59.0h … Camden, 1980
59.1h … Kennedy, 1982
59.1h … Wilson, 1998
59.1h … Willingboro, 2007
59.2h … Edgewood, 1983
59.3h … Overbrook, 1976
59.54 … Lenape, 1997
59.62 … Willingboro, 1991
59.5h … Moorestown, 1974
59.5h … Winslow Twp., 2004
59.5h … Bridgeton, 2006
59.69 … Overbrook, 1986
59.82 … Washington Twp., 2025
59.7h … Camden, 1978
59.7h … Willingboro, 1979
59.7h … Willingboro, 1983
59.7h … Camden, 1983
59.7h … Egg Harbor Twp., 2008
59.7h … Camden., 2008
59.91 … Deptford, 2025
58.8h … Edgewood, 1984
59.8h … Willingboro, 1981
59.8h … Willingboro, 1990
58.9h … Willingboro, 1984
59.54 … Lenape, 1997
59.69 … Overbrook, 1986
59.9h … Overbrook, 1975
59.9h … Lenape, 1996

New Jersey Girls Shuttle Hurdles List
58.30 … Union Catholic, 2018
58.39 … Union Catholic, 2015
58.60 … Union Catholic, 2019
58.74 … Union Catholic, 2017
59.0 … Edgewood, 1999
59.10 … Winslow Twp., 2026
59.22 … Columbia, 2013
59.25 … Willingboro, 2025
59.42 … Union Catholic, 2024
59.43 … Paramus Catholic, 2019
59.49 … Union Catholic, 2021
59.52 … Eastern, 2019
59.60 … Winslow Twp., 2026
59.66 … Newark Tech, 2012
59.75 … Irvington, 2012
59.79 … Pennsauken, 1999
59.91 … Columbia, 2012

59.00 … Edgewood, 1999
59.10 … Winslow Twp., 2026
59.25 … Willingboro, 2025
59.52 … Eastern, 2019
59.60 … Winslow Twp., 2026
59.85 … Pennsauken, 1999
1:00.14 … Buena, 2012
1:00.18 … Winslow Twp., 2014
1:00.46 … Winslow Twp., 2013
1:00.68 … Washington Twp., 2025
1:01.17 … Woodrow Wilson, 2002
1:01.38 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:01.58 … Millville, 2019
1:01.59 … Rancocas Valley, 2024
1:01.64 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
1:01.68 … Winslow Twp., 2002
1:01.82 … Winslow Twp., 2012
1:01.84 … Timber Creek, 2024
1:01.6h … Woodrow Wilson, 2005
1:01.94 … Edgewood, 1998

One day after winning the 400-meter hurdles at the U.S. Under-20 Championships at Hayward Field, Natalie Dumas won the flat 400 at Hayward Field Nationals, a high school national meet being run currently with Under-20 Nationals.

Dumas has now won eight national titles [see full list below], tied with four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin for most in state history.

On Thursday, Dumas ran 52.20 in the 400 trials in the Under-20 Championships and she followed that with a 52.54 in the final. She ran 52.21 on Saturday, beating the field in Eugene by eight nmeters. Sophia Castaneda, from Newberg, Ore., who has run 52.17, was 2^nd in 53.25.

With her win on Saturday, Dumas will represent the U.S. in the 40-meter hurdles at the World Under-20 Championships on the same track in Eugene, Ore., in August. The 52.20 and 52.21 races could help her get into the relay pool for the U.S. 4-by-4 team at Worlds.

Natalie Dumas National Titles
2026 USATF Under-20 Championships: 400-meter hurdles: [56.13]
2026 Hayward Field Nationals: 400-meter dash [52.21]
2026 Virginia Beach Indoor Nationals: 400-meter dash [56.13]
2006 Armory Nationals: 800-meter run [2:05.30]
2025 West Philly Nationals: 400-meter dash [51.14]
2025 West Philly Nationals: 800-meter run [2:00.11]
2025 West Philly Nationals: 400-meter hurdles [55.99]
2024 West Philly Nationals: 400-meter hurdles [58.32]

Winslow senior Ma’Syiah Brawner and Williamstown junior Timia Waters both earned All-America honors in the triple jump Saturday at West Philly Nationals at Franklin Field.

Brawner jumped 41-1 ¾ with an assisting wind of 2.7 meters per second. She also had a wind-aided 40-7 ½ and a legal 39-3. Brawner has a lifetime best of 40-6 ¼ with a legal 0.8 wind at 2024 West Philly Nationals. That’s No. 15 in state history, No. 4 in South Jersey history and a Camden County record.

Waters jumped a lifetime-best 40-3 ¼ with a legal 0.1 tailwind, her first 40-foot jump. Waters, whose previous PR was 39-6 when she won the state Group 4 title last month in Somerset, broke the Gloucester County record of 39-7 ½ set at the 2012 state Group 1 meet at Old Bridge by Glassboro’s Zenee Gadson.

Brawner hit 40-7 ½ on her first jump with a 2.3 wind, then had a legal 39-3 and a foul before popping the 41-1 ¾. She fouled on her two final jumps.

Waters opened with her PR 40-3 ¼ and after a foul jumped 37-3 ¾, 38-7, 39-6 ¾ and 38-8 ¼.

All-Time New Jersey Triple Jump List
44-11 … Keturah Orji [Mount Olive], 2013
42-2 ¾ … Charlene Cummings [Englewood], 1998
42-2 ….… Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 2019
41-9 ½ … Sophia Curtis [Ocean City], 2024
41-7 ½ … Mahogany Jenkins [Watchung Hills], 2019
40-11 … Kiara Fleming [Union Catholic], 2026
40-10 ¼ … Ashley Edwards [Northern Burlington], 2014
40-9 ½ … Iana Amsterdam [Essex Tech], 2013
40-9 ¼ … Morgan Holley [Union Catholic], 2026
40-7 ¾ … Kayla Richardson [Columbia], 2013
40-7 … Shenaie Herber [JFK Paterson], 2008
40-7 … Faith Bethea [Snyder], 2022
40-6 ¾ … Tiffany Bautista [Paramus Catholic], 2018
40-6 ¼ … Essence Mayers [Lakewood], 2011
40-6 ¼ … Ma’Syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.], 2024
40-6 … Jordan Fields [Columbia], 2016
40-5 ….. Nnenna Ibe [North Brunswick], 2015
40-4 ½ … Adefunke Sonaike [Montgomery], 2011
40-3 ¼ … Ebony Young [Hillsborough], 2009
40-3 … Arden Gray [Franklin Twp.], 2025
40-1 ½ … Seannah Parsons [Randolph], 2025
40-1 ¼ … Kaitlin Salisbury [Hawthorne], 2016
40-1 …… Domonique Pantin [Freehold Twp.], 2015
40-0 ¼ … Stephanie McIntyre [South Brunswick], 2007
40-0 ……….Bonvie Fosam [Robbinsville], 2017
40-0 ………. Ada Unachukwu [Marlboro], 2009

Winslow’s Jasmine Jackson shattered her own South Jersey record and state sophomore record Saturday in leading all qualifiers into the 100-meter hurdles final at West Philly Nationals.

Jackson ran 13.24, lowering her PR and South Jersey record from 13.28 from the Meet of Champions earlier this month at Pennsauken. She raced with a legal 0.6 meters-per-second tailwind.

Her time is 2^nd-fastest ever by a U.S. high school sophomore, behind only a 13.01 by Tia Jones of Walton High in Washington, D.C., at the 2017 Pan Am Junior Championships in Trujillo, Peru.

It’s 3^rd-fastest in New Jersey history and only 6-100ths of a second off the state record of 13.18 set last year at the Meet of Champions at Pennsauken. Former Neptune star Dawn Bowles is No. 2 on the all-time state list with her 13.20 at the 1985 Golden West Invitational in Sacramento, Calif.

Her time is also 5^th-fastest ever by a New Jersey resident behind 2019 World Champion Nia Ali of Pleasantville [12.34 in Doha, Qatar, in 2019], Bowles [12.76 in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1996], Eastern’s Jailya Ash [13.08 in Fayetteville last month], Winslow’s Tionna Tobias [13.11 in Bloomington, Ind., in 2023] and Pennsville’s Arianna Smith [13.19 last May in Norfolk, Va.].

Atlantic County Tech junior Brianna Growalt also qualified for the final with a legal 13.79. She was 7^th-fastest in the trials. Growalt ran a wind-aided PR 13.59 in the first round. Her legal PR is 13.62 from the Meet of Champions, where she was 2^nd to Jackson.

The final is scheduled for 11:43 a.m. Sunday.

13.01 … Tia Jones [Walton, Washington, D.C.], 2017, Trujillo, Peru
13.26 … Aleesa Samuel [Somerset Academy, Pembroke, Fla.], 2023, Miami
13.27 … Jackie Coward [West, Knoxville, Tenn.], 2006, Baltimore
13.28 … Kendall Williams [Kell, Marietta, Ga.], 2011, Lille, France
13.28 … Rebekah Jhade-Garrett [North Canyon, Phoenix], 2024, Albuqurque
13.28 … Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 2026, Pennsauken
13.32 … Kaahilyah Lacy [San Jacinto (Texas) Valley Academy], 2026, Clovis, Calif.
13.33 … Alexis Duncan [DeSoto (Texas)], 2014, Greensboro, N.C.
13.33 … Nia Armstrong [Sickles, Tampa, Fla.], 2026, Gainesville, Fla.
13.34 … Haley Richardson [Cedar Hill (Texas)], Red Oak, Texas
13.35 … Trinity Wilson [St. Mary’s College, Berkeley, Calif.], 2010, Clovis, Calif.
13.35 … Rylee Hampton [Cypree Ridge, Houston], Eugene, Ore.

13.50 .. Sonya Hardy [Boulder, Colo], 1976

All-Time New Jersey Alumni 100-Meter Hurdles List
12.34 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], Oct. 6, 2019, Doha, Qatar
12.76 … Dawn Bowles [Neptune], July 15, 1996, Nassau, Bahamas
13.11 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow], May 25, 2023, Bloomington, Ind.
13.19 … Arianna Smith [Pennsville], May 17, 2025, Norfolk, Va.

Sianni Wynn advanced to the 200 final with the 2^nd-fastest qualifying time and two hours later led Pennsauken to the 2^nd-fastest 400-meter relay qualifying time Saturday at West Philly Nationals at Franklin Field.

Wynn, already a double national champion after winning the 100 and anchoring Pennsauken’s winning 800-meter relay team, ran 23.32 with a legal 0.1 headwind. The only faster qualifier for the final was Venessa Waite of Lake Minneola High in Minneola, Fla., who ran 23.20.

Wynn has a PR of 23.03 from the Camden County Championships at Haddon Township last month and Waite has a 23.17 PR from her win in the Florida championships last month in Jacksonville.

The final is scheduled for 3:44 p.m. Sunday.

Wynn then anchored Pennsauken to a 45.89 in the 400-meter relay trials. Only Bullis High of Potomac, Md., ran faster in qualifying with a 45.81. Pennsauken has run 45.30 this year on the same track at the Penn Relays. Bullis has run 44.82 in Arcadia, Calif.

Junior Summer Schaffer and senior cousins Sanaya and Olivia Dupree ran the first three legs for Pennsauken.

The 400-meter relay final is scheduled for 1:36 p.m. Sunday.

Winslow also qualified for the 4-by-100 final despite not using its two-fastest 100-meter dash runners. Junior Jordyn Cato, junior Skhye Seamon, senior Leeya Joseph and junior Amaya Jones ran 46.74 to secure the 8^th and final qualifying spot.

Olivia Okaro [11.93] and Jasmine Jackson [12.00] are Winslow’s fastest 100-meter dash runners this year.

Remarkable Egypt Bolan won her 2^nd consecutive national high jump title Saturday at West Philly Nationals at Franklin Field.

Bolan cleared 5-9 ¾ on her 2^nd attempt to take command of the event. There were four other girls who had cleared 5-8 ½. But all four missed three chances at 5-9 ¾, and when the last one, freshman Jala Webster-Jackson of Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte, N.C., missed her final attempt Bolan had clinched another national title.

Bolan finished by taking three jumps at a PR 5-11 ¼. Her PR is 5-11 ¾ from her win at last year’s national meet, a South Jersey record and No. 3 in New Jersey history. Her 5-10 ¼

Bolan passed at the opening height of 5-3 before entering the competition and clearing 5-4 ½, 5-6 ¼ and 5-7 ¼ on her 1^st attempts. She was one of only three girls who was clean through 5-7 ¼.

She got over the bar at 5-8 ½ on her 2^nd attempt, which dropped her behind Webster-Jackson, who was clean through 5-8 ½. But when she cleared 5-9 ¼ and nobody else could, it was over. With the title secured, she cleared 5-10 ½ on her 3^rd attempt.

Bolan is a four-time Meet of Champions winner – 2025 and 2026 indoors and outdoors – and she won last year’s West Philly Nationals with her PR 5-10 ¾. She was also 3^rd at Boston Nationals indoors with a 5-8 ¾

Winslow sophomore Jasmine Jackson and Atlantic County Tech junior Brianna Growalt were among the top qualifiers in the first round of the 100-meter hurdles Saturday at West Philly Nationals in Franklin Field.

Jackson ran 13.48 and was the 2^nd-fastest qualifier for the semifinals on Sunday, and Growalt ran 13.59 and was 4^th-fastest. Jackson’s time in the second heat was legal with a 0.2 headwind. Growalt’s 13.59 in the sixth heat was wind-aided at 2.2.

The 24-fastest in the first round advance to the semifinals at 4:19 p.m. Saturday. The final is scheduled for 11:43 a.m. Sunday.

Jackson set the South Jersey record of 13.28 with legal wind when she won the Meet of Champions at Pennsauken earlier this month. Growalt’s 13.59 is her fastest time, although her wind-legal PR remains 13.62 from the Meet of Champions.

Growalt already earned All-America honors this week with a 5^th place in the 400-meter hurdles in 59.97.

Jackson and Growalt are No. 3 and No. 8 in New Jersey history and No. 1 and 2 all-time South Jersey.

Clayton graduate and Alabama rising sophomore Alexander Osayemi ran a 400 PR and placed 4^th at U.S. Under-20 Nationals Friday night at Hayward Field in Eugene.

Osayemi dropped his PR from 45.59, which he ran in the SEC prelims last month in Auburn, Ala., to 45.46 and with a top-four place qualified for consideration for 4-by-4 duty on the U.S. National team that will compete at the World Under-20 Championships back at Hayward Field in August.

Osayemi’s 45.46 moved him up from 5^th to 4^th on the all-time South Jersey alumni list. He trails only Olympic gold medalists Lamont Smith [44.30] and Dennis Mitchell [45.26] as well as Gabriel Moronta [45.01], who just won the Dominican national title over 400 meters.

With his 45.46, Osayemi passed Darrell Bush of Woodbury, who ran 45.49 in Tucson in 2015, and became the fastest quarter-miler ever from Gloucester County.

44.30 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], June 19, 1996, Atlanta

45.26 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], April 12, 1986, Tampa, Fla.
45.01 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], May 30, 2025, Jacksonville
45.46 … Alexander Osayemi [Clayton], June 19, 2026, Eugene

45.49 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], April 11, 2015, Tucson, Ariz.