From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Winslow’s Jasmine Jackson ran the fastest hurdles race ever by a South Jersey freshman Saturday at the Camden County Championships.

Because there was no wind gauge at Haddon Township the performance isn’t eligible for record purposes, but Jackson won the 100-meter highs in 14.12, lowering her PR from 14.20 from FAT Wednesday at Cherokee. Her legal-wind PR is 14.30 from South Jersey Elite at Delsea. That currently stands as the official South Jersey freshman record. 

Pleasantville’s Isabella Alvarez is 2nd-fastest on that list with her 14.55 on Saturday at the Cape Atlantic Championships at Buena. She has a 14.41 to her credit from the Atlantic County meet earlier this month at Egg Harbor, also with no wind gauge.

The only faster any-conditions times on record by New Jersey freshmen are by two graduates of the Scotch Plains-based Central Jersey all-star program – four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin ran 13.34 at 2014 Greensboro Nationals and current senior Taylor Cox ran 13.93 at 2022 Parochial A states in Middletown.

As for wind-legal times, Jackson is 4th behind McLaughlin, Cox and another Scotch Plains all-star, Amaya Chadwick, who ran 14.26 at 2015 Greensboro Nationals.

Her 14.12 is No. 16 in South Jersey condition regardless of wind readings, 4th-fastest in New Jersey this year and No. 1 in South Jersey.

Jackson also won the 100 in a PR 12.09 at the Camden County meet. That’s No. 13 in New Jersey this year.

13.65 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2006
13.67 … Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 2019
13.72 … Nichole Hill [Oakcrest], 1997
13.79 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow], 2012
13.84 … Lenaami Morton [Camden], 2017
13.85 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1980
13.85 … Sherese Price [Pleasantville], 1998
13.88 … Zonya Cross [Edgewood], 1983
13.98 … Cidae’a Woods [Winslow], 2014
13.99 … Imani Gilliam [Pennsauken], 2004
13.99 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], 2018
14.04 … Jasmine Staten [Lenape], 2016
14.05 … Jasmine Waddell [Kingsway], 2011
14.09 … Nichole Belcher [Wilson], 1992
14.11 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], 2019

14.12 … Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 2025
14.15 … Aliya Rae Garozzo [Paul VI], 2019
14.17 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
14.17 … Samantha Sharper [Wilson], 2008
14.17 … Andrea Olsen [Buena], 2013
14.20 … Alethia Jenkins [Pennsauken], 1999
14.20 … Sarah Jones [Bishop Eustace], 2018

Winslow junior Ma’Syiah Brawner won three events and placed in a 4^th, recorded the top triple jump mark in New Jersey this year, PR’d in the hurdles and won her only high jump competition this year Saturday at the Camden County Championships at Haddon Township.

Brawner has competed in 12 events at the county meet in three years with nine 1sts, one 2^nd and two 3rds.

Brawner won the high jump at 5-0, the long jump at 18-0 ½ and the triple jump with a state-leading 40-0. She ran 14.61 for 3^rd in the hurdles.

She now ranks No. 1 in New Jersey this year in the triple jump, No. 1 in the long jump with a wind-legal 19-7 at South Jersey Elite and 12^th in the hurdles. This was her first time high jumping this year, but she has a PR of 5-5. She has horizontal jump PRs of 19-7 ½ and 40-6 ½.

Winslow won the Large-School title by 145 points, 238-93 over Cherry Hill West.

Here’s a look at what Brawner has done in her first three county meets.

2023: 1^st High Jump [5-2], 1^st Long Jump [17-10 ½], 1^st Triple Jump [38-2 ¾], 2^nd hurdles [15.49]
2024: 1^st High Jump [5-0], 1^st Long Jump [18-11 ½], 1^st Triple Jump [37-10], 3^rd hurdles [15.40]
2025: 1^st High Jump [5-0], 1^st Long Jump [18-0 ½], 1^st Triple Jump [40-0], 3^rd hurdles [14.61]

Abdulazeez Iyiola, a Mount St. Mary’s freshman from Palmyra, won the 400-meter hurdles and placed 2^nd in the 110-meter high hurdles Sunday at the MAAC Championships in Lawrenceville.

First, Iyiola took 2^nd in the high hurdles in 14.49, a lifetime best and tied for 5^th-fastest in school history. It’s 2^nd-fastest by a Mount hurdler in the last 23 years, behind only school record holder Richard Gilchrist, who ran 13.89 in Fairfax in May of 2023. (Mount St. Mary’s all-time list shows Gilchrist with a 13.76 in a meet at High Point, N.C., a few weeks earlier, but that was wind aided at 3.2). Wind was 0.7 for Iyiola’s race.

Iyiola was 3^rd-fastest qualifier with a then-PR 14.51 in Saturday’s trials. Before this weekend, his fastest time over the 42-inch highs was a 14.75 in Harrisonburg, Va., in April, but that was wind-aided. Every other race he ran this spring wasa wind aided, so he technically did not have a PR until Saturday’s trials.

In the intermediates, Iyiola ran away from the field in 54.12, winning by two meters over Connor Ziolkowski of St. Peter’s, who was 2^nd in 54.41.

Iyiola’s college 400 hurdles PR is a 53.39 from last month in High Point, No. 5 in school history. He ran 54.38 in Saturday’s trials. At Palmyra he ran 53.15 when he placed 3^rd at last year’s Meet of Champions at Pennsauken.

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Princeton’s Greg Foster from Lumberton shattered the meet record in the hurdles Sunday with his 2^nd win of the weekend at the Ivy League Championships.

Foster, who won the long jump on Saturday, ran 13.78 in Sunday’s hurdles final, smashing his PR of 13.83 and shattering the meet record of 13.80 set in 2019 by Princeton’s Joseph Daniels at Princeton. Wind was a legal +0.5.

The two Ivy titles are the 5^th and 6^th of his college career. The hurdles title was his first.

Foster is also closing in on Daniels’ school record of 13.70, which he ran twice – at the Canadian Championships in Ottawa in July, 2018 and again at NCAAs in Austin the following June. Foster is No. 2 in school history.

Foster, who missed last spring season to have foot surgery, is one of four South Jersey collegians who’s run sub-13.85 this spring. St. Augustine’s Sincere Rhea of Texas Tech has run 13.48, Riverside’s Jamir Brown of Rowan has run 13.60 and Washington Township’s Yashahya Brown ran 13.82.

On Saturday, Foster won the long jump with a 25-3 ½ (wind-aided at 2.2). He had a legal 24-9 ¼. He has a legal PR of 26-1 ¾ from 2023 Ivys at Franklin Field.

Here’s a look at Foster’s 10 top-three finishes in Ivy League conference championships competition:

2023 Indoor
1^st – Long Jump [25-9 ½]
2^nd – Triple Jump [50-7 ½]
2023 Outdoors
1^st – Long Jump [26-1 ¾]
2^nd – Triple Jump [50-2 ¾]
2024 Indoors
1^st – Long Jump [25-2]
2^nd – Triple Jump [50-2]
2025 Indoors
1^st – Long Jump [24-10 ½]
3^rd – 60-Meter Hurdles [7.85]
2025 Outdoors
1^st – Long Jump [25-3 ½]
1^st – 110-Meter Hurdles [13.78]

Lauren Fadairo PR’d in the triple jump and broke the Quinnipiac school record Sunday at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships in Lawrenceville.

Fadairo, a freshman from Rancocas Valley, PR’d four times Sunday at Rider and finished 4^th at 39-5 ¾.

Rider senior Mariah Stephens from Egg Harbor Township finished just behind Fadairo in 5^th place with a 39-4 ½. Her PR is 39-10 from a meet in April of 2023 at the same track at Rider.

Fadairo entered the meet with a PR of 38-9 ½ from a meet last month in Lewisburg. After opening Sunday with a 38-0 ¼, she PR’d with a wind-legal 38-11 ¾ and followed that with wind-aided jumps of 39-5 ¼ (2.6) and 39-5 ¾ (2.3). But the wind died down for her 5^th jump, and she sailed 39-5 ¾ again, this time with a legal 1.7 tailwind.

Quinnipiac lists the school record as 39-6 ¾ by Britney Del Mundo in 2020. But the Quinnipiac all-time performance list – and good for them for actually having one – but it combines indoor and outdoor marks without any designation which is which. And it turns out Del Mundo hit that 39-6 ¾ indoors (twice), and her best outdoor mark was a 38-4 at the 2022 MAAC Championships, also at Lawrenceville.

Which means Fadairo actually already had the school outdoor record, and she broke her own mark on Sunday.

Big 200 Saturday for Burlington Township junior Quayd Hendryx, who won the Burlington County Open with the 4th-fastest time in the meet’s 57 -year history.

Hendryx ran a big lifetime-best 21.72 (with no wind reading), which is 12th-fastest in any conditions in Burlington County history and trails only Olympic gold medalist Lamont Smith of Willingboro [hand-timed 21.4 in 1991], Lenape’s Rob Gary [hand-timed 21.2 in 1998] and Burlington’s Malachi James [meet-record 21.47 in 2024] in meet history.

Hendryx is the first Township sprinter to win the County Open 200 since Tim Carlock in 1999.The only other Falcon to win was Louis Smith in 1995 and 1996.

Coming into the meet, Hendryx had a PR of 22.08 from the BCSL Championships last weekend at Pennsauken. Hendryx, who has a FAT 10.83 dual meet time to his credit from last month, didn’t run the 100 Saturday at Lenape.

Hendryx is the fastest Burlington County junior since Michael Bolling of Willingboro ran 21.67 at the 2000 Meet of Champions at South Plainfield. (Remember, James was hurt his junior year and didn’t compete outdoors.)

Pennsauken junior Sianni Wynn ran a couple historic sprint times Saturday at the Camden County Championships, a meet that unfortunately did not have a wind guage.

Wynn won the 100 in 11.26 and the 200 in 23.26, but without wind readings the marks cannot be recognized for record purposes.

Regardless of conditions, her 11.26 is 2nd-fastest in state history, behind Timber Creek’s Naylah Jones’ 11.23 at last year’s state Group 3 Championships at Delsea with legal wind.

Her 23.26 is 3rd-fastest in state history in all conditions, behind only four-time Olympic gold medalist and world 400 hurdles record holder Sydney McLaughlin of Union Catholic, who ran 22.96 with legal wind at the 2017 state Parochial A meet at Egg Harbor, and Trenton’s Wenda Vereen, who ran 22.99 with unknown wind at the 1983 Jumbo Elliott Invitational at Villanova. The South Jersey legal 200 record is Jones’ 23.29 at states last year.

Wynn’s legal PRs are 11.36 from last year’s Meet of Champions on her home track at Pennsauken and 23.57 from the South Jersey Elite earlier this month at Delsea.

Regardless of conditions, Wynn is now 9th in the U.S. in the 100 and 24th in the 200, according to the MileSplit database.

Also note the addition of Willingboro senior Nester Wea on the all-time 200 list. Wea won the Burlington County Open in 23.84, which is 12th-fastest in state history regardless of conditions and 6th-fastest in South Jersey history. The only faster time ever recorded by a Burlington County sprinter was Willingboro’s Michele Glover’s 23.69 at the 1981 The Athletics Congress Championships at UCLA’s Drake Stadium in Westwood, Calif.

23.69 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981

ALL-TIME NEW JERSEY 100-METER DASH LIST
11.23 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
11.26 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2025
11.33 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 2024
11.42 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981
11.44 … Myasia Jacobs [Paramus Catholic], 2010
11.49 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
11.50 … Wendy Vereen [Trenton], 1984
11.57 … Patti Dunlap [Camden], 1979
11.57 … M’elisa Barber [Montclair], 1998
11.57 … Jada Ellis [Manchster Twp.], 2021
11.58 … Bria Mack [Williamstown], 2017

ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY 100-METER DASH LIST
11.23 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
11.26 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2025
11.33 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 2024
11.42 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981
11.49 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
11.57 … Patti Dunlap [Camden], 1979
11.58 … Bria Mack [Williamstown], 2017
11.61 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
11.63 … Dennisha Page [Woodrow Wilson], 2019
11.66 … Lauren Princz [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2021

ALL-TIME NEW JERSEY 200-METER DASH LIST
22.96 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2017
22.99 … Wendy Vereen [Trenton], 1983
23.26 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2025
23.29 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
23.42 … Aleah Williams [Montclair], 1999
23.46 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 2025 [+1.5]
23.66 … Dennisha Page [Wilson], 2019
23.69 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981
23.69 … Shavon Greaves [Lakewood], 2007
23.73 … Myasia Jacobs [Paramus Catholic], 2010
23.81 … Taylor Aska [Union Catholic], 2025
23.84 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025
23.85 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
23.85 … Sofia Swindell [Lawrenceville], 2024
23.87 … Jenna Harris [Franklin], 2003
23.90 … Denise Liles [Kingsway], 1984
23.90 … Lauren Princz [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2018
23.91 … Sydney Hawkins [Phillipsburg], 2018
23.92 … Mikele Barber [Montclair], 1997
23.94 … M’elisa Barber [Montclair], 1998
23.95 … Olivia Baker [Columbia], 2013
23.96 … Regina Trotter [Weequahic], 1991
23.96 … Ogechi Nwaneri [Columbia], 2006
23.98 … Cynthia Boakye [Elizabeth], 2023

ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY 200-METER DASH LIST
23.26 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2025
23.29 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], 2024
23.46 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 2025 [+1.5]
23.66 … Dennisha Page [Wilson], 2019
23.69 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981
23.84 … Nester Wea [Willingboro], 2025
23.85 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
23.90 … Denise Liles [Kingsway], 1984
23.90 … Lauren Princz [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2018
24.01 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
24.04 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
24.06 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025
24.11 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
24.12 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2006
24.17 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2008
24.18 … Sheriyah Nutt [Rancocas Valley], 2019
24.19 … Patti Dunlap [Camden] 1978
24.19 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.]
24.19 … Bria Mack [Williamstown], 2017

Freshman Dylan Giloley from Washington Township smashed the Rider school record in the 100 Saturday in the trials at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships in Lawrenceville.

Giloley ran 11.81 with a legal 1.9 meters-per-second wind to break the school record of 11.95 set by La’tazah Coleman at the 2013 VCU Ram Invitational in Richmond, Va.

Giloley’s previous PR was a 12.03 three weeks ago at the Rider Invitational on the same track.

In the 100 trials, the only faster qualifier for Sunday’s final was Nyasia Dailey of Quinnipiac, who ran 11.74. That broke the meet record of 11.78 set in 2023 in Emmitsburg, Md., by Zionna Perez-Tucker of Mount St. Mary’s (who is now at Coastal Carolina).

Giloley’s time is 4th-fastest all-time by a Gloucester County high school alum, behind Gabrielle Farquharson of Williamstown [11.32 in 2016], Bria Mack of Williamstown [11.52 in 2018] and Shardae Anderson of Paulsboro [11.65 in 2007].

Giloley also PR’d in the 200, qualifying with a 24.77, the 3rd-fastest time into the final. Her previous PR was 24.99 from a meet at Durham, N.C., last month, and her 24.77 is 5th-fastest in Rider history. She had a legal wind reading of -0.1. She did run 24.89 indoors in Boston, 2nd-fastest in school history indoors.

The 100 final is scheduled for 1:20 p.m. Sunday and the 200 final at 2:15 p.m.

Camden junior Jaiden Steele ran the fastest 100 by a Camden County sprinter in 15 years Saturday at the Camden County Championships at Haddon Township.

Steele won the 100 in 10.63, tied for 5th-fastest in county history and fastest since Timber Creek’s Damiere Byrd ran 10.36 at 2011 Group 3 Sectionals at Egg Harbor.

Steele’s previous PR was a 10.68 when he won the state Group 2 title last spring at Delsea. His time is 2nd-fastest ever by a Camden sprinter behind Jamar Ervin’s former state-record 10.35 at the 2000 Meet of Champions at South Plainfield.

There are no wind readings listed so it appears that once again there was no wind gauge for a major South Jersey meet. So the performance has to be officially recorded as wind aided. It’s tied for 5th-fastest in county history in all conditions. His time is 7th-fastest in New Jersey this year and No. 2 among South Jersey sprinters.

Steele also won the 200 in a PR 21.75. That’s 9th-fastest in New Jersey this year and 3rd-fastest by a South Jersey sprinter.

It’s my sincere hope that meet directors will furnish wind gauge for all major championship meets so we can readings for the horizontal jumps and the sprints.

All-Time Camden County 100-Meter Dash List
10.35 … Jamar Ervin [Camden], 2000
10.36 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2010
10.47 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
10.58 … Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2003
10.63 … Sabli Gonnet [Eastern], 2007
10.63 … Jaiden Steele [Camden], 2025
10.65 … Dominique Irons [Haddon Heights], 2013
10.67 … Antraye Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2003
10.67 … Kashif Miller [Haddon Heights], 2014
10.67 … Martin Booker [Pennsauken], 2017
10.68 … Antonio Tarantino [Paul VI], 2017
10.69 … Robert Darby [Pennsauken], 2006
10.71 … Albert Newkirk [Camden], 1997
10.73 … Franklin Dallas [Wilson], 1986
10.74 … Sherron Bullock [Camden], 2004
10.74 … Brian Reagan [Cherry Hill East], 2012
10.74 … Adonis Jennings [Timber Creek], 2014
10.75 … Ibrahim Massey [Haddon Heights], 2016

Glassboro’s Mekhi Parker goes into this weekend’s county meet as the top freshman in New Jersey in three events.

Parker ran 15.07 in the 110-meter hurdles in a FAT-timed dual meet at Schalick last month, he ran 56.76 in the Tri-County Conference Showcase at Delsea on Wednesday and he tripled jumped 43-2 ½ earlier this month at the South Jersey Elite, also at Delsea.

Parker is No. 2 in Gloucester County in the triple jump behind Clearview junior Gavin Seaver [44-3 ½], No. 3 in the intermediates behind Deptford junior Kareem Brown [55.32] and Ryan Sanchez [56.51] and 7 in the hurdles.

He’s the top South Jersey freshman in the 110 highs since Sincere Rhea of St. Augustine – now at Texas Tech – ran 14.99 at 2016 Parochial A states at Egg Harbor and the fastest in the intermediates since Cherry Hill East’s Alex Reber ran 54.38 at the 2010 Meet of Champions at South Plainfield. David Stewart, now a sophomore at Schalick, jumped 44-4 as a freshman last year at South Jersey Group 1 Sectionals at Pennsauken.

The Gloucester County Championships are scheduled for 4 p.m. today at Deptford.