2018 Meet of Champions Order of Events
All-Time Meet of Champions Boys Winners
All-Time Meet of Champions Girls Winners
Meet of Champions Boys Multiple Winners
Meet of Champions Girls Multiple Winners
Meet of Champions Boys Records
Meet of Champions Girls Records
All-Time Boys Top-10 Performance List
All-Time Girls Top-10 Performance List
2018 Meet of Champions Boys Performance List
2018 Meet of Champions Girls Performance List
2018 Meet of Champions Official Program
Cherokee graduate Jessica Woodard took second in the NCAA women’s shot put with a PR of 61-3 1/2, which makes her one of the top 10 collegiate women EVER.
This is the SIXTH time Woodard has earned All-America status during her brilliant career at Oklahoma. She earned All-America honors with a top-eight finish in six straight NCAA Championship meets, indoors and outdoors.
She’s already graduated and is competing this year as a post-graduate senior. She’ll finish her career Saturday, when she competes in the discus. That starts at 6:05 p.m. EST.
Woodard finished second to one of the world’s top throwers, Arizona State’s Maggie Ewen, who is ranked No. 4 in the world at 63-10. The second-place finish is Woodard’s best ever at an NCAA Championships.
Woodard broke her PR of 60-0 1/4 set at last year’s Big 12 Conference Championships in Lawrence, Kans.
Her 61-3 1/2 moves her into the No. 14 spot in the world, according to the IAAF 2018 international performance list
She now ranks No. 4 among U.S. women and No. 22 all-time among U.S. women.
It’s also No. 10 all-time among U.S. collegians, according to the USTFCCCA all-time list.
Woodard threw 56-10, foul and 55-11 3/4 in the trials and was sitting in fourth going into the finals. She moved into second with a 58-8 and stayed there with her 61-3 1/2 and a final-throw 54-10 3/4.
Ewen, the collegiate record holder, had the two-best throws of the competition with a 61-5 3/4 and a 62-10 3/4 on her first two throws. Ewen is also the collegiate record holder in the hammer throw but fouled out at Regionals and didn’t get a legal mark.
Edward came within about a foot of the Oklahoma school record of 62-2 1/2, set by Tia Brooks at the 2013 NCAA West Regionals in Austin. Brooks is the No. 5 woman in U.S. collegiate track history.
UCLA freshman Alyssa Wilson gave New Jersey two of the top five finishers. Wilson, a graduate of Donovan Catholic in Toms River, took fifth with a personal-best 56-5 3/4. She was fourth earlier in the day in the hammer throw at 219-9, also a PR.
This is the second time in two days a former South Jersey shot put star finished a close second at the NCAA Track Championships. On Wednesday, Delsea graduate Josh Awotunde finished second in the men’s shot.
Here is a look at Woodard’s six career All-America performances:
2018 Outdoors – 2nd, 61-3 1/2
2018 Indoors – 3rd, 57-0
2017 Outdoors – 8th, 56-6
2017 Indoors – 5th, 57-6 3/4
2016 Outdoors – 3rd, 58-8
2016 Indoors – 8th, 55-10 3/4
Delsea graduate Josh Awotunde, mired in seventh place with one throw to go, bombed one of the best throws of his life on his final collegiate attempt and placed second in the NCAA Championships Wednesday at historic Hayward Field in Eugene.
Awotunde earned All-America honors for the fourth time in his illustrious career at South Carolina with his second-place finish at 67-6.
Awotunde barely advanced out of the qualifying rounds. The top nine throwers after three throws advance to a three-throw final, and Awotunde threw 62-10 1/2, 64-6 1/2 and 64-6 3/4 in the trials, taking the ninth and final qualifying spot. Tenth place was Payton Otterdahl of North Dakota State, who threw 64-4 1/2. So Awotunde advanced by less than 2 1/2 inches.
After a 62-9 1/4 to open the finals, Awotunde improved from ninth to seventh with a 66-1 3/4 on his fifth throw, then — down to the final throw of his career — he unloaded a 67-6 to move past Mostafa Hassan of Colorado State (67-0 3/4), Adrian Piperi of Texas (66-11 1/2), Jordan Geist of Arizona (66-8) and Oghenakpobo Efekoro of Virginia (66-6 1/2) into second place.
Georgia junior Denzel Comenentia threw 67-7 1/2 on his fifth attempt to win the national title.
Awotunde is the Gamecocks school record holder with a 68-1 3/4 from the SEC Championships last month in Knoxville.
Awotunde also earned All-America honors outdoors in 2016 (7th at 63-9) and indoors in 2017 (5th with 64-6) and 2018 (3rd with 66-1 1/4).
He also threw the discus 191-11 during his career at South Carolina.
At Delsea, Awotunde was a Meet of Champions winner in the shot in 2013 and runner-up to Braheme Days Jr. of Bridgeton in the discus.
One thing about me and Lambo: We love lists. We’re constantly making lists. All-time This. Top-10 That.
Want to know who the top 10 sophomore javelin throwers from Sussex County are? Lambo’s got that list. Want a list of the fastest Cumberland County sprint medleys? I’m on it.
Between the two of us, we’ve been covering New Jersey high school track for over half a century. And during that time we’ve accumulated two garages full of old meet programs, results and records. And when it’s time to put together a list? We put everything else on the back burner and get to work!
One of our favorite projects is the Meet of Champions performance list, which we now share with you guys.
These are the best of the best!
Has anybody thrown the shot put anywhere close to what Nick Vena threw? Is Michelle Rowen still one of the fastest two-milers in M-of-C history? Is Carl Lewis one of the top long jumpers? How many girls 4-by-1’s have gone sub-47?
It’s all here!
So check out our all-time Meet of Champions top-10 lists. And as always, if you notice any errors or omissions, post them in the comments section! Thanks and enjoy!
Bridgeton edged Deptford in the 400-meter relay at sectionals, and Deptford turned the tables on Bridgeton at states.
Going to be quite a showdown at the Meet of Champions!
Deptford and Bridgeton ran the two-fastest 400-meter relays in the state in the Group 3 race at Central Regional Saturday, Deptford with a 41.72 and Bridgeton in 48.05.
At sectionals, Bridgeton ran 42.20 and Deptford 42.28.
Juniors Javon Sanders, Tyriq Bundy and Khi’on Smith and senior James Bettis made up Deptford’s 4-by-1 team. Bridgeton used seniors Basil Williams and Revell Williams and juniors Shamar Love and Taz’Mire Burton.
Deptford missed the meet Group 3 record of 41.71 set by last year’s Spartans team of Smith, Bundy, Mar-Quel Davis and Jaythan Vereen.
Deptford and Bridgeton will be in lanes 4 and 5 Saturday afternoon at the 40th annual Meet of Champions at Northern Burlington, and both will be chasing not only each other but the meet record of 41.45 set in 2014 by Timber Creek.
Deptford’s 41.72 is No. 15 in South Jersey and 17-100ths of the Gloucester County record set by last year’s Deptford quartet at nationals. Bridgeton’s 42.05 lowered the Cumberland County record, which was that 42.20 at sectionals.
Interesting to note that Deptford’s time is also No. 23 in state history. Which means 15 of the 23-fastest times in state history have come from South Jersey schools.
Also interesting to note that Deptford has joined a very small group of schools that has run this fast in back-to-back years. The others would be Camden (2000-04), Franklin (2016-17), Timber Creek (2013-14) and Winslow (2003-04).
All-Time New Jersey 400-Meter Relay List
40.92 … Winslow, 2003
41.0h … Plainfield, 1980
41.09 … Camden, 2000
41.2h … Weequahic, 1972
41.25 … Camden, 2004
41.25 … Camden, 2001
41.45 … Timber Creek, 2014
41.46 … Franklin Twp., 2016
41.49 … Franklin Twp., 2017
41.50 … Timber Creek, 2013
41.52 … Plainfield, 1998
41.54 … Camden, 2002
41.55 … Deptford, 2017
41.57 … Pennsauken, 2017
41.62 … Camden, 2003
41.64 … Winslow Twp., 2004
41.65 … Trenton, 1999
41.69 … Willingboro, 1991
41.71 … Edgewood, 2000
41.71 … Salem, 2017
41.71 … Teaneck, 2010
41.72 … Deptford, 2018
41.74 … Rahway, 1985
41.5h … Westfield, 1978
41.80 … Oakcrest, 2012
41.82 … Neptune, 2009
41.83 … Camden, 1997
41.83 … Westfield, 1977
41.83 … Camden, 1997
41.83 … Oakcrest, 2011
41.85 … Pennsauken, 2016
41.6h … Montclair, 1984
41.6h … Montclair, 1972
41.91 … Irvington, 2005
41.7h … Camden, 1996
41.7h … Edgewood, 2001
41.92 … Perth Amboy, 2017
41.98 … Plainfield, 2000
All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Relay List
40.92 … Winslow, 2003
41.09 … Camden, 2000
41.25 … Camden, 2004
41.25 … Camden, 2001
41.45 … Timber Creek, 2014
41.50 … Timber Creek, 2013
41.54 … Camden, 2002
41.55 … Deptford, 2017
41.57 … Pennsauken, 2017
41.62 … Camden, 2003
41.64 … Winslow Twp., 2004
41.69 … Willingboro, 1991
41.71 … Edgewood, 2000
41.71 … Salem, 2017
41.72 … Deptford, 2018
41.80 … Oakcrest, 2012
41.83 … Camden, 1997
41.83 … Camden, 1997
41.83 … Oakcrest, 2011
41.85 … Pennsauken, 2016
41.86 … Pennsauken, 2017
41.7h … Camden, 1996
41.7h … Edgewood, 2001
Egg Harbor freshman Lauren Princz became the fastest freshman in the 200-meter dash in South Jersey history this weekend and just missed the state freshman class record.
Princz won the state Group 4 200-meter dash title with a personal-best 24.00 on the Franklin Township track, eclipsing the South Jersey freshman mark of 24.04 set by English Gardner of Eastern – now an Olympic gold medalist – when she won the 2007 state Group 4 title at Egg Harbor.
She missed the state freshman record of 23.99 by 1-100th of a second. That mark was set by Paramus Catholic’s Myasia Jacobs at the 2009 Meet of Champions at South Plainfield.
Princz’s previous 200 PR was a 24.34 when she won the Cape-Atlantic meet at Bridgeton.
She also PR’d this past weekend in the 100 with a 12.03 for second behind Phillipsburg junior Sydney Hawkins’ 11.79. That also broke the Atlantic County record, which 12.10, set in 2008 by Nijgia Snapp of Oakcrest at the 2008 Cape-Atlantic meet. The Cape-Atlantic record is 11.78, set by Shameka Speed of Bridgeton at the 2003 Meet of Champions at South Plainfield.
She also teamed up with junior Jadyn Laramore and seniors Viana Magruder and Ajae Alvarez-Tyler to win the 4-by-100 in 47.45. More on that race here.
Princz moved into the No. 15 mark in state history and No. 4 in South Jersey history. She broke the Atlantic County and Cape-Atlantic Conference record of 24.12 set by another Olympic gold medalist, Pleasantville graduate Nia Ali at the 2006 South Jersey Group 2 meet at Buena.
N.J. ALL-TIME 200-METER DASH LIST
22.96 … Sydney McLaughlin [[Union Catholic], 2017
22.99 … Wendy Vereen [Trenton], 1983
23.42 … Aleah Williams [Montclair], 1999
23.69 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981
23.69 … Shavon Greaves [Lakewood], 2007
23.73 … Myasia Jacobs [Paramus Catholic], 2010
23.85 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
23.87 … Jenna Harris [Franklin Twp.], 2003
23.90 … Denise Liles [Kingsway], 1984
23.92 … Mikele Barber [Montclair], 1997
23.94 … Melisa Barber [Montclair], 1998
23.95 … Olivia Baker [Columbia], 2013
23.96 … Regina Trotter [Weequahic], 1991
23.96 … Ogechi Nwaneri [Columbia], 2006
24.00 … Lauren Princz [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2018
24.01 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
24.02 … Georgina Nembhard [Ocean Twp,], 2007
24.04 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
24.05 … Bria Saunders [Parsippany], 2014
24.09 … Sydney Hawkins [Phillipsburg], 2018
24.11 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
24.12 … Nicole Carmichael [JFK Paterson], 1995
24.12 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2006
24.14 … Shauntae Nelson [Piscataway], 2018
24.17 … Dawn Bowles [Neptune], 1998
24.17 … Symone O’Connor [Franklin Twp.], 2006
24.17 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2008
24.18 … Kimberly Lyles [Franklin Twp.], 2001
24.19 … Patti Dunlap [Camden] 1978
24.19 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.]
24.19 … Bria Mack [Williamstown], 2017
S.J. ALL-TIME 200-METER DASH LIST
23.69 … Michele Glover [Willingboro], 1981
23.85 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
23.90 … Denise Liles [Kingsway], 1984
24.00 … Lauren Princz [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2018
24.01 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 2000
24.04 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
24.11 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
24.12 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2006
24.17 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 2008
24.19 … Patti Dunlap [Camden] 1978
24.19 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.]
24.19 … Bria Mack [Williamstown], 2017
24.21 … Audrey Wilson [Deptford], 2006
24.23 … Nichole Hill [Oakcrest], 1997
24.31 … Morgan Gordon [Rancocas Valley], 2009
24.32 … Kiara Lester [Deptford], 2015
24.42 … Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 1996
24.45 … Cecelia Gerstenbacher [Delsea], 2017
24.46 … Feleesha Dowe [Penns Grove], 2014
24.47 … Nadia Davy [Bridgeton], 1999
24.47 … Aisha Morgan [Schalick], 1998
24.48 … Avionne Sloan [Camden], 2003
24.49 … Annie Johnson [Shawnee], 2012
24.50 … Laia Mortimore [Atlantic City], 1998
24.55 … Daneille Myricks [Willingboro], 2000
24.55 … Dennisha Page [Woodrow Wilson], 2018
The 40th annual Meet of Champions is just a few days away, and the NJSIAA has released the official performance list for the final in-state meet of the year.
The Meet of Champions is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. at Northern Burlington Regional High School in Mansfield Township.
The NJSIAA changed the way athletes advance to the M-of-C this year, and the moves were designed to try and turn the meet into more of a championship style event.
In previous years, the top six placers in every event from every group reached the M-of-C. This year, in individual events, the top two finishers in each event in each group qualify, plus the next-nine best performers from each site in each event for a total of 30 athletes per event. This is down from 42 in previous years (top six per event per group).
In the relays, instead of 42 qualifiers, there will be only 24 – the top two finishers in each event, plus the next six-fastest times from each state meet site.
The reality is that most of the Group 1 and Parochial B athletes beyond second place have little chance of medaling at the Meet of Champions, so the move guarantees more competitive fields and more of a championship feel during every race.
Meet of Champions boys and girls performance lists are HERE
Senior Zyra Thomas and the 3,200-meter relay team accounted for more than half of Schalick’s points in a historic weekend for the Schalick girls program at the state group 1 meet at Franklin Township.
Schalick outscored second-place Highland Park 52-49 to win the first state championship in program history,
Thomas on Friday won the shot put with a 42-3 3/4 throw, and junior teammate Ralazha Bell added a point with a 36-7 for sixth. Thomas came back Saturday and threw 124-2 for second place in the discus.
Schalick got 10 huge points Friday, when senior Amanda Chomo, sophomore Marleigh Puglia and freshmen Chloe Gerstenbacher and Julia Smith won the 3,200-meter relay with a school-record 9:48.96.
Versatile senior Camryn Castellini scored in two events, taking second in the high jump with a 5-0 clearance and fifth in the pole vault at 9-6.
Chomo also placed fourth in the 800 in 2:20.74, senior Rayannia Robinson took second in the triple jump at 35-10 and freshman Tia Furbush was fifth in the triple jump at 34-4
Schalick joins Woodbury, Kingsway, Haddon Heights, Haddonfield, Paulsboro, Woodbury, Pitman and Penns Grove as only the ninth South Jersey school to win the state Group 1 girls title since it began in 1973.
Penns Grove, which won Group won in 2013 and 2014, is the only other Salem County school to win a state title in girls track.
S.J. STATE GROUP 1 CHAMPIONS
1976 – Woodbury
1977 – Woodbury
1979 – Woodbury
1986 – Kingsway
1991 – Haddon Heights
1998 – Haddonfield
1999 – Haddonfield
2004 – Paulsboro
2007 – Woodbury
2010 – Pitman [co]
2013 – Penns Grove
2014 – Penns Grove
2018 – Schalick
The NJSIAA won’t release its official Meet of Champions performance lists until Monday, but thanks to the MileSplit database, you can get a pretty good idea who the athletes to watch are.
These lists won’t tell you who is going to the Meet of Champions and who will compete in which events, but they will tell you who the top competitors were this past weekend in every event when all groups are combined.
Remember, the NJSIAA changed the way athletes advance to the Meet of Champions this year.
In individual events, the top two finishers in each event in each group qualify, plus the next-nine best performers from each site in each event for a total of 30 athletes per event. This is down from 42 in previous years (top six per event per group).
In the relays, instead of 42 qualifiers, there will be only 24 – the top two finishers in each event, plus the next six-fastest times from each state meet site.
The Meet of Champions is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at Northern Burlington Regional High School in Mansfield.
BOYS
100-METER DASH
200-METER DASH
400-METER DASH
800-METER RUN
1,600-METER RUN
3,200-METER RUN
110-METER HURDLES
400-METER HURDLES
400-METER RELAY
1,600-METER RELAY
3,200-METER RELAY
HIGH JUMP
LONG JUMP
TRIPLE JUMP
POLE VAULT
SHOT PUT
DISCUS
JAVELIN
GIRLS
100-METER DASH
200-METER DASH
400-METER DASH
800-METER RUN
1,600-METER RUN
3,200-METER RUN
110-METER HURDLES
400-METER HURDLES
400-METER RELAY
1,600-METER RELAY
3,200-METER RELAY
HIGH JUMP
LONG JUMP
TRIPLE JUMP
POLE VAULT
SHOT PUT
DISCUS
JAVELIN
One of many weekend highlights for Winslow was the 400-meter relay, and Winslow moved up to No. 6 all-time in South Jersey history with its 47.19 to win the state Group 3 title at Central Regional.
Sophomore Janeya Hammond, senior Flora Ahiarakwe, junior Tionna Tobias and senior Shakira Dancy will be the No. 1 seed in the Meet of Champions on Wednesday.
The Eagles now own five of the eight-fastest times in South Jersey history, and they’ve all been during Winslow’s historic run of six straight state titles.
The performance is No. 18 in state history.
Since 2013, Winslow has run 47.19 or faster five different years. During the same span, only two other New Jersey schools have run that fast even once — Piscataway with 46.84 in 2014 and Summit with 47.07 last year.
And they still have the Meet of Champions and nationals to go!
Oh, Winslow also ran 3:53.41 in the 4-by-4, fastest this year by a South Jersey school and No. 5 in the state.
Hammond, Ahiarakwe, sophomore Nylah Perry and junior Nicole Hood ran on that team. With Dancy? They’ll go under 3:50.
All-Time State 400-Meter Relay List
45.50 … Montclair, 1998
45.89 … Columbia, 2010
46.08 … Trenton, 1984
46.42 … Franklin Twp., 2003
46.84 … Piscataway, 2014
46.87 … Eastern, 2003
46.89 … Franklin Twp., 2001
46.90 … Paramus Catholic, 2010
46.96 … Columbia, 2009
46.98 … Winslow Twp., 2017
47.02 … Columbia, 2005
47.06 … Winslow Twp., 2014
47.07 … Summit, 2017
47.09 … Shabazz, 1986
47.12 … Columbia, 2012
46.9h … Willingboro, 1980
47.18 … Winslow Twp., 2013
47.19 … Winslow Twp., 2018
47.22 … Trenton, 2002
47.22 … Columbia, 2014
47.27 … Trenton, 1983
47.27 … Delsea, 2017
All-Time S.J. 400-Meter Relay List
46.87 … Eastern, 2003
46.98 … Winslow Twp., 2017
46.9h … Willingboro, 1980
47.06 … Winslow Twp., 2014
47.18 … Winslow Twp., 2013
47.19 … Winslow Twp., 2018
47.27 … Delsea, 2017
47.40 … Winslow Twp., 2016
47.45 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2018
47.45 … Willingboro, 1994
47.49 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
47.3h … Willingboro, 1981
47.54 … Winslow Twp., 2003
47.63 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
47.4h … Camden,, 1978
47.4y … Camden, 1979
47.75 … Eastern, 2002
47.76 … Winslow Twp., 2005
47.76 … Winslow Twp., 2012
47.8h … Willingboro, 2003
47.82 … Moorestown, 2000
47.85 … Deptford, 2015
47.87 … Winslow Twp., 2011
47.9h … Willingboro, 1995
47.94 … Camden, 2000
48.0h … Camden, 1995
48.0h … Wilson, 2008
48.03 … Penns Grove, 2014
48.07 … Camden, 2006
48.08 … Winslow Twp., 2004
48.08 … Willingboro, 2009
48.09 … Lakewood, 2000
48.1h … Willingboro, 1979
48.12 … Washington Twp., 2001
48.14 … Camden, 1997
48.18 … Millville, 2018
48.23 … Wilson, 2006
48.23 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2015
48.24 … Camden, 2008
