From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Pennsauken senior Sianni Wynn ran within 6-100ths of a second of her state record in the 200 Saturday at the Ott Center.

Wynn, who set the state record of 23.31 in March when she won the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze, ran 23.37 to win the Penn Relays Winter Showcase.

They’re the two-fastest times in New Jersey indoor track history.

Wynn’s time is 4th-fastest in the country according to MileSplit’s national database. Seniors Mia and Mariah Maxwell of Atascocita High of Humble, Texas, ran 22.89 and 22.97 in a meet earlier this month in College Station, Texas, and freshman Melanie Dodgett of Landmark Christian School in Fairburn, Ga., ran 23.25 last month in Birmingham, Ala.

Wynn also won the 60 in 7.36, fastest in New Jersey this year and just 7-100ths of a second off her state-record 7.29 from Armory Nationals in March. The only other New Jersey girl to run as fast as 7.36 is Myasia Jacobs of Paramus Catholic, who ran 7.34 in 2011 Armory Nationals.

Wynn officially came through 55 meters in 6.86, also 3rd-fastest nationally this year. She shares the state record of 6.73 with Willingboro legend Michelle Glover, who ran 6.73 in 1981.

Holy Cross senior Julia Flanagan ran the 2nd-fastest 3,000 in South Jersey history Saturday at the Ott Center.

Flanagan ran 9:53.03 and placed 4th in the Penn Relays Winter Showcase. The only faster record by a South Jersey girl is Liliah Gordon’s 9:39.04, an official en route time during her Meet of Champions 3,200 win at Ocean Breeze last March. The fastest previous time in a 3,00-meter race was Megan Lacy’s 9:53.39 at the 2011 Princeton Invitational at Jadwin Gym.

Flanagan was out in 2:34.79 and 5:15.22 before a 2:40.62 800 and closing in 1:47.20 for her final 600 and 37.45 for her final lap.

Her time is No. 23 nationally this year and No. 5 in New Jersey.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 3,000 List
9:39.04e … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2025
9:53.03 … Julia Flanagan [Holy Cross], 2026
9:53.39 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2011
10:00.86 … Alyssa Aldridge [Mainland Reg.], 2017
10:09.80 … Devon Grisbaum [Ocean City], 2015
10:11.65 … Brittany Sedberry [Ocean City], 2006
10:15.70 … Giovanni Mantuano [Paul VI], 2026
10:16.46 … Megan Venables [Highland], 2009
10:18.9h … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1981
10:20.60 … Macy Huber [Paul VI], 2026

Haddonfield’s Dylan Hosty shattered the South Jersey freshman mile record Saturday morning at the Penn Relays Winter Showcase at the Ott Center, winning the race in 4:53.67.

That converts to 4:51.97 for 1,600 meters, 5th-fastest in South Jersey history. She shattered the South Jersey freshman record of 4:58.48 set at the 2010 state Group 4 meet at the Bubble by Lenape’s Natalia Ocasio.

This was Hosty’s second high school 1,600 or mile. She ran 5:11.89 at the Armory last month. In her previous race, she won the 800 at the Ott Center in 2:14.66, also a South Jersey freshman record.

Hosty’s time is 3rd-fastest by a freshman nationally this year, according to the MileSplit U.S. database. Mackenzie Skelly of Penn Charter in Philly ran 4:50.30 in Boston last weekend and Alexandra Scappaticci of Northville (Mich.) ran 4:51.88 in Allendale, Mich., also last weekend.

Hosty’s time is 5th-fastest in New Jersey this year and fastest by a South Jersey runner.

Hosty edged junior Tsadia Bercuvitz of Ithaca by 6-100ths of a second. Bercuvitz led by as much as 4 ½ seconds with 400 to go and still led by 15 meters with one lap to go.

Hosty was out in 74.71 and 75.69 before coming back in 75.33 and 67.95 for massive negative splits of 2:30.40 and 2:23.28. She ran her final lap in 32.68.

Soon after running the 4^th-fastest 800-meter relay in NCAA Division 3 history, Rowan ran the fastest 4-by-4 in D-3 this year.

Rowan ran 1:25.88 to win the 4-by-200 at the Metropolitan Invitational at Ocean Breeze and soon after won the 4-by-4 in 3:15.05, which bumped Wittenberg for the top spot on the 2026 D-3 performance list. Wittenberg ran 3:16.54 on its home track in Springfield, Ohio, last month.

Rowan won the 800-meter relay with sophomore Julian Conigliaro from Delsea, sophomore Madaijoudou Diawara from Toms River North, senior Evan Corcoran from Kingsway and junior Eli Hendricks from Penns Grove but used a completely different lineup for the 4-by-4, with Luke Halbruner of Ocean City, freshman Marquis Taylor of Woodbury, junior Teddy Wilson from Toms River North and senior Dallas Hohney of Glassboro racing.

Halbruner ran 50.14 out of the hole, with Taylor splitting 48.68, Wilson 48.55 and Hohney 47.68.

Rowan’s previous best time this season was 3:17.55 with Eastern’s Rahjan Dixon, Hohney, Wilson and Nicholas Garman of Cedar Crest High in Lebanon, Pa.

School record indoors is 3:10.09, also fastest in Division 3 history. The Profs ran that in Boston in February 2023 with Marquise Young of Sterling, Nana Agyamang from Parsippany, Jah’mere Beasley of Sterling and Amara Conte of Ferris High in Jersey City.

Delaware junior Kadence Dumas ran the 3rd-fastest indoor 800 time in Blue Hens history Friday at Penn State.

Dumas ran 2:09.99 at the Penn State National Open in State College, out in 63.95 and back in 65.04.

The only faster times in school history are Michaela Meyer’s school-record 2:03.40 in 2020 and Jeanette Burroughs’ 2:09.61 in 2018.

Dumas’s previous PR was 2:11.03. Outdoors, she’s also No. 3 in school history with her 2:07.30, behind only Holly Manning’s 2:04.82 in 2021 and Meyer’s 2:07.02 in 2019.

At Eastern, Dumas ran 2:10.44 when she won the 2023 Meet of Champions in Somerset, and her indoor best was 2:17.12 at the 2023 state Group 4 meet at the Bubble.

The 800 was only Dumas’s 2nd race this indoor season. She ran a mile PR of 4:56.28 at the Ott Center two weeks ago. That’s No. 9 in school history. Dumas is also No. 5 in school history in the 500 [1:14.92], No. 7 in the 1,000 [2:55.83] and No. 2 in the 600 behind only Lenape graduate Carly Pettipaw [1:33.15]. Outdoors, she’s 7th in the 400 [55.37] in addition to 3rd in the 800.

Delsea’s Elisia Lancaster won the Millrose Games 20-pound weight throw Friday night for a 2nd straight year. Although most of the 118th annual Millrose is held at the Armory, the weight throws and the high school boys pole vault are held Friday.

Lancaster, who competed collegiately at Southern Illinois through 2022, threw 70-9 and won by more than eight feet over Nattaly Lindo of Albany. Lancaster, has a season-best throw of 71-11 from a meet at Ocean Breeze earlier this month. World Athletics no longer has weight throw rankings, so I don’t have a lot of info on where she ranks on various lists, but I believe her PR – which World Athletics does not list in her bio – is 77-2 ½ from a meet in Champaign, Ill., in January 2024. She won Millrose last year with a throw of 72-1.

Lancaster’s hammer throw PR is 222-7 from a meet last May in Princeton. That’s 66th in U.S. history. She missed reaching the finals in the hammer at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene by six inches.

At Millrose, Lancaster, competing for Shore Athletics Club, opened with a 70-2 ½ and a 66-11 ¼ before her winning 70-9. She added throws of 69-2 ½, 68-7 ¼ and 66-1 in the finals.

Lancaster was a six-time JUCO All-America at Rowan College of South Jersey before attending Towson and then finishing at Southern Illinois.

Junior Maddie Dischert from Atlantic City High School ran the 3rd-fastest 5,000 in Rider history Friday evening in Boston.

Dischert dropped more than 45 seconds from her PR at the John Thomas Terrier Classic at Boston University, covering 25 laps on the 200-meter track in 16:59.86.

The only faster indoor 5,000 runners in Rider history are school record holder Grace Medei of Notre Dame High in Lawrenceville, who ran a school-record 16:41.95 at Boston University in December of 2024, and Keira Mansure of Northern Burlington, who ran 16:56.62 in March of 2024, also at Boston University.

Only three other Rider women have gone sub-17 outdoors, so Dischert is not just 3rd in school history indoors but 6th in all conditions.

Dischert, from Brigantine, ran her 800s in 2:42.95, 2:44.14, 2:42.57, 2:42.17, 2:45.44 an 2:46.07, closing for 77.94 for her final 400 and 37.13 for her final 200.

Her time is 2nd-fastest by any Atlantic County alum, behind a 16:48.96 by Mainland Regional’s Alyssa Aldridge in Charlottesville, Va., in 2021.

Dischert’s 3,200 PR at Atlantic City was 11:12.31 at Ocean Breeze in February 2023. That’s 5:36.15 per mile. Her pace over 5,000 meters Friday was 5:28.7, so she’s running faster now over 3.1 miles than she ran in high school over two miles.

Her time Friday makes her No. 2 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, behind only Iona’s Tayla Guyton, who ran 16:00.63 at Boston University last month.

Greg Foster earned a spot on a Princeton top-10 list on Friday, but it wasn’t in the hurdles, long jump or triple jump. This time, Foster made it as a pure sprinter.

Foster ran a lifetime-best 6.72 and placed 2nd to teammate Jackson Clarke from Danville, Pa., Friday in the 60-meter dash at the Penn Invitational at the Ott Center. Clarke, already No. 4 in school history with a 6.70, won the race in 6.71.

Foster’s previous PR was a 6.77 earlier this month at Navy’s Wesley Brown Fieldhouse in Annapolis, Md. He ran 6.79 in the prelims Friday, then ripped off a 6.72 in the final.

Foster’s 6.72 is now No. 8 in Princeton history but only 2-100ths of a second outside 4th place.

Foster, a Lumberton native who attedned Lawrenceville Prep, is now on six Princeton all-time lists. He’s school record holder in the long jump both indoors [26-5 ¾] and outdoors [26-1 ¾], he’s No. 2 in both hurdles [6.77, 13.78] and his No. 9 outdoors in the triple jump [50-7 ½].

This winter, Foster is No. 1 in the Ivy League in the long jump and hurdles and No. 4 in the 60.

Princeton is back at the Ott Center next weekend for the Penn Classic on Friday.

Another race, another Rider school record for Washington Township’s Dylan Giloley, who now owns four school records in less than two years in Lawrenceville. She’s set three of them this month.

Giloley ran a lifetime-best 56.30 Friday and placed 2nd in the 400 at the Penn Invitational at the Ott Center in West Philly.

Giloley broke a 27-year-old record of 56.41 set by Sheree Duval of Central High in Boston in February 1999.

Yale’s Gloria Guerrier won the race in 54.25, and Giloley and teammate Tamara Rawles from Piscataway were 2nd and 3rd, with Rawles also under the previous school record with a 56.38.

Giloley also holds school records indoors in the 60-meter dash (7.55 earlier this month at the Ott Center) and 200 (24.58 last weekend at Ocean Breeze) and outdoors in the 100 (11.73 in a home meet last May).

Her 56.30 is 2nd-fastest in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, 1-100th of a second behind Isabella Anzaldo of Quinnipiac, who ran 56.29 at Yale last month.

She’s also No. 1 in the MAAC in the 200 with her 24.58 at Oeean Breeze last weekend and No. 2 in the 55 with her 7.55.

Giloley’s high school PR was a 57.34 indoor at the Armory in January 2024. She focused mainly on the 100 and 200 outdoors and didn’t run a single 400 outdoors as either a junior or a senior.

St. Joe’s freshman Crytal Benito from Maple Shade placed 5th in the 400 with an indoor PR 57.19, nearly two seconds faster than her previous college PR of 59.09 from the Ott Center earlier this month. This was only her 3rd lifetime indoor 400. Benito never ran indoor track at Maple Shade, but she ran 56.50 outdoors at Delsea this past May.

Benito’s 57.19 makes her No. 7 in the Atlantic 10 Conference and No. 2 among freshmen, behind A-10 400 leader Reagan Garibaldi of St. Mark’s High in Wilmington, Del., who ran 56.10 in Boston last weekend.

The Rowan men ran the 3rd-fastest indoor 800-meter relay in NCAA Division 3 history Friday afternoon at Ocean Breeze, winning the race in 1:25.88.

And they did it without their fastest 200 runner, Eastern’s Rajahn Dixon, who’s ranked 7th in Division 3 this year in the 200 at 21.52 but wasn’t in today’s lineup.

Sophomore Julian Conigliaro from Delsea, sophomore Madaijoudou Diawara from Toms River North, senior Evan Corcoran from Kingsway and junior Eli Hendricks from Penns Grove won the race at the Metropolitan Championships by 15 meters over Ramapo, which placed 2nd in 1:28.36.

Rowan now owns the four-fastest times in Division 3 history, according to the all-time D-3 performance list on the U.S. Track and Cross Country Coaches Association web site:

Additionally, Rowan’s time is tied for 22nd-fastest in college track history, including schools from all divisions.

Rowan set the D-3 record of 1:25.45 with Dixon, Hendricks, Rancocas Valley’s Masai Byrd and Highland’s Robert McKinney this past February at the NJAC Championships at the Ott Center. A team with Corcoran, Amara Conte, Nana Agyemang and Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley ran 1;25.86 at the Armory in 2023.

Rowan also holds the outdoor record with its 1:25.04 at last year’s Penn Relays with Hendricks, Coniglario, McKinney and Dixon.

According to the World Athletics database, Rowan’s time is No. 2 in the world this year, behind Mladost Zagreb, which ran 1:25.86 at Velesajam Hall in Zagreb, Croatia, last weekend.

Rowan also won the 1,600-meter relay in 3:15.05, fastest this year in Division 3. More on that race later today!