From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

We recently put together as complete a rundown of South Jersey athletes headed to Franklin Field this week for the 129th annual Penn Relays. You can find those here: High school boys click here, high school girls click here, local college and open athletes click here.

But with the meet around the corner – first event kicks off at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning – we thought we’d take a deeper look at 10 events where some of South Jersey’s top talent will compete. This isn’t meant to be complete and we apologize in advance if we didn’t get to your school. There is so much track talent from South Jersey that it’s not easy to limit it to 10.

But here are 10 events where South Jersey runners, jumpers and throwers could really do well over the next few days in West Philly.

Live results will be posted here in real time throughout the three days.

Aliya Garozzo, Arianna Smith
Championship 400-Meter Hurdles
5:45 p.m., Thursday
Garozzo returns to Penn, where she spent her four years of college before graduating last spring. She’s now a grad student at Duke and ranked sixth in NCAA Division 1 with her 55.77 earlier this month at the Duke Invitational. That’s 2nd-fastest ever by a New Jersey woman, behind Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin. Smith, a Pennsville graduate, started out at Princeton and was at Rutgers briefly before arriving at Howard. She PR’d with a 57.14 – also at the Duke Invitational – and is ranked No. 19 in Division 1.Garozzo and Smith should be in the same section of the race. Also in the field is Rowan senior Molly Lodge of Woodstown, who is ranked 7th in Division 3 with her PR 1:01.69 from earlier this month in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Jenovia Logan
Championship High Jump
11:30 a.m., Saturday
Logan, a Sterling graduate and sophomore at Rutgers, soared 5-11 ½ in Tampa last month and is ranked 18th in Division 1 in the high jump. That broke the Rutgers school record, and she’s now just half an inch from joining Priscilla Frederick of Paul VI [6-3 in 2015], MaryBeth Labosky of Holy Cross [6-1 ½ in 1992], Nia Ali of Pleasantville [6-1 ¼ in 2011] and Kenady Wilson of Willingboro [6-0 ¾] as the 5th six-footer from South Jersey. Also entered is Rutgers freshman Alanna Woolfolk of Clayton, who cleared 5-8 indoors and 5-7 this spring.

Jamir Brown, Yashahya Brown
Championship 110-Meter Hurdles
3:30 p.m., Friday
Two of the fastest freshmen hurdlers in all of college track are from South Jersey. Riverside’s Jamir Brown, a freshman at Rowan and the indoor NCAA Division 3 record holder, is now No. 2 all-tine outdoors in Division 3 with his 13.79 in Atlanta last weekend. Yashahya Brown, a Rutgers freshman from Washington Township, is the No. 6 freshman in Division 1 with his 13.82 in Tampa two weeks ago. The two Browns haven’t raced each other in college. They last raced at the Meet of Champions at Pennsauken in June, with Yashahya and Jamir finishing 1st and 2nd over the 39-inch hurdles. Across all college divisions, Brown and Brown are the 6th- and 8th-fastest freshmen. Rowan has the three-fastest hurdlers in Division 3, and the other two – junior Kwaku Nkrumah from Teaneck and junior Jason Agyemang from North Plainfield – are also in the championship hurdles field.

Pennsauken, Winslow, Willingboro, R.V., Timber Creek girls
400-Meter Relay heats
Friday 9:45 a.m.
South Jersey is loaded in the girls sprint races, and Pennsuaken, Winslow, Willingboro, Rancocas Valley and Timber Creek are ranked 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th in New Jersey so far this year.Pennsauken has run 47.26, Winslow 47.40, Willingboro 48.17, R.V. 48.31 and Timber Creek 48.55. The nine-fastest teams in the prelims race in the Championship of America on Saturday, the next nine-fastest advance to the International Final, and the nine-fastest from the Northeast [New England plus Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania] race in a Northeast final on Saturday. Note that the 400 relays will run all morning Friday starting at 9:45 a.m.. Pennsauken, Rancocas Valley, Timber Creek, Willingboro and Winslow are all in the final set of heats, starting at 11:50 a.m.
Here are the lineups listed in the Relays program:
Pennsauken: Abigayle John, Amina Dyer, Sanaya Dupree, Sianni Wynn
Winslow: Cinniya Robinson, Jasmine Jackson, Jordyn Cato, Olivia Okaro
Willingboro: Nester Wea, Maya Bolden, Kaila Speight, Jaden Murry
Rancocas Valley: Autumn Austin, Angelina Brown, Damanique Johnston, Rhyann Roseboro
Timber Creek: Ryan Jennings, Billie Frazier, Samiyah Puckett, Taylor Gaines

Greg Foster
Championship Long Jump
11:30 a.m. Saturday
Foster, a Princeton junior from Lumberton, had a couple huge wind-aided jumps this past weekend in Charlottesville with a 26-6 ¾ and a 26-7 ¼ on his last two attempts. But they were aided by tailwinds of 3.6 and 4.1 meters per second. He’s got a wind-legal PR of 26-1 ¾ from the 2023 Ivy League Championships at Franklin Field, but he’s got a wind-legal 25-8 ¾ earlier this month at Princeton. This will be Foster’s first time competing in an individual event at Penn. He also PR’d in Charlottesville in the hurdles with a 13.83 – that was legal and is No. 2 in the Ivy – but he is only long jumping at Penn.

Egypt Bolan, Hannah Byrd-Leitner, Ma’Syiah Brawner, Hannah Nuhfer, Ella Karp
High Jump, Pole Vault, Triple Jump, Discus, Shot Put
9:30 a.m. Friday
We’re listing all these outstanding field event competitors in one entry since they’re all among the best in New Jersey and they all compete at the same time on Friday. Lindenwold’s Bolan is No. 1 in New Jersey with her 5-8 clearance at Woodbury, Moorestown’s Byrd-Leitner is No. 3 in New Jersey history with her 13-2 to win last year’s Meet of Champions, Winslow junior Brawner is New Jersey No. 1 in the triple jump with her 39-1 ½ at Woodbury and jumped 40-6 ¼ last year, Delsea junior Nuhfer is No. 1 in New Jersey with her monster 153-2 discus throw at Woodbury and Washington Township’s Karp was No. 6 in New Jersey indoors with her 43-3 ¾ at Easterns.

Winslow boys
400-Meter Relay
12:20 p.m., Thursday
Winslow leads the New Jersey 4-by-1 contingent after its New Jersey No. 1 42.00 at Woodbury. Expected lineup is Karon Ali, Cameron Miller, Nyquir Helton and Jayden Poteat. Same as the girls race, top nine go to the Championship of America, next nine-fastest to the Internationl final and the nine-fastest from New England plus Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania qualify for a Northeast final. Rancocas Valley [42.62], Camden [42.68], Millville [42.71], Williamstown [42.78] and Deptford [42.95] also ran under 43 at Woodbury and will all also be in the 400 relay heats.

Haddonfield
Distance Medley
5:15 p.m., Friday
The Bulldogs ran 10:11.61 indoors at the Ott Center in February, 2nd-fastest in South Jersey history, and are one of 15 schools invited to the Penn DMR, which is a one-race Championship of America final. Bennet Wright, Luke Andressen, Ben Andrus and Jack Brand are listed as Haddonfield’s runners, although I suspect they won’t run in that order.

Anthony Liakhnovich, Jonathan Harris
Shot Put
9:30 a.m., Thursday
A couple 65-foot throwers from South Jersey will be headed to the shot put area across the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks from Franklin Field. Liakhnovich, a senior at Hammonton, threw 66-3 ¾ when he won Boston Nationals indoors, and Harris has a PR of 65-6 from a meet at the Armory in Decemer. They’re among a field of 18 throwers, including nine from New Jersey.

Rowan, Masai Byrd, Shamir Love, Eli Hendricks, Evan Corcoran
400-Meter Relay
1:25 p.m., Friday
The Profs bring the fastest 400-meter relay team in NCAA Division 3 this year to Franklin Field, and with their 40.27 they qualified for the fastest 4-by-1 section, so they’ll be mixing it up with some of the fastest Division 1 schools in the country. Better yet, this Rowan quarter is comprised entirely of South Jersey high school graduates. Byrd ran for Rancocas Valley, Love for Bridgeton, Hendricks Penns Grove and Corcoran Kingsway. The Profs will also race in the 800-meter relay Championship division at 2:45 p.m. Friday with a listed lineup of Rajahn Dixon from Eastern, Robert McKinney from Highland, Hendricks and James Coleman from Audubon, and in the 4-by-4 at 7:30 p.m. Friday with Coleman, Ocean City’s Luke Halbruner, Samael Milevoix from Union County Vo-Tech and Lowrentzky Ambroise of Toms River North.

Senior Gia Martellacci and Jordan Hadfield each won three events and ran on the winning 1,600-meter relay Tuesday at the Salem County Championships at Pennsville. Hadfield picked up a meet record along the way.

Schalick outscored Woodstown 133-70 to win the team title.

Martellaci and Salem freshman Raniyah Parsons-Smith tied for 1st in the 100 in 12.83, Martellaci won the 200 in 26.41 and won the 400 with a 1:00.26. The 200 and 400 times are fastest this spring by any New Jersey Group 1 sprinter. All three times were lifetime bests for Martellaci, a state Group 1 medalist at 400 metes indoors.

Hadfield won the 800 in 2:21.84, the 1,600 in 5:15.02 and the 3,200 in 11:55.47, unpressed in all three. Her 1,600 time broke her own meet record of 5:16.54 set two years ago at Pennsville.

Hadfield ran 62.88 on the 3rd leg of the relay and Martellaci anchored in 62.22. Sophomore Brooke Valentine and senior Sophia Harris ran the first two legs, and Schalick won in 4:15.44.

Also for Schalick, junior Phoebe Alward won the long jump with a lifetime-best 15-10 ¼ and also placed in the 100 and 200, freshman Jaelynn Jarmon won the triple jump at 32-9 and also placed in the 200 and long jump and senior Allyson Green led a 1-2-3 Schalick sweep in the javelin with a 100-6 throw. Senior Olivia Sacerdote and freshman Navaeh Robinson were 2nd and 3rd.

Pennsville senior Megan Morris cleared 10-6 on her 1st attempt and broke the meet record of 10-0 set in 2016 by Rachel Ondricek, also of Pennsville.

Other winners were: Woodstown junior Lia Covely [17.82 hurdles], Salem senior Audrey Boggs [1:10.65 intermediates], Pennsville junior Kallie Morrison [4-10 high jump] and Salem junior Ava Rogers [32-11 shot].

Monster performance by Salem senior Anthony Parker Tuesday at the Salem County Championships at Pennsville with three wins and a county record.

Parker won the 110-meter hurdles in a county-record 14.32, won the 400-meter hurdles in 56.35, won the long jump at 20-8 ½ and placed 3rd in the 200 in 23.07.

Both hurdles times are fastest in New Jersey Group 1 this year and his long jump mark is 5th-best.

Parker dropped his hurdles PR from 14.75, which he ran at last year’s Salem County meet this past May at Salem. Salem County hurdlers have run faster hand times – Billy Newmuis of Penns Grove ran 13.8 in 1982 and George Bland of Penns Grove ran 13.9 in 1986. But Parker’s 14.32 is the fastest FAT time in county history, 2-100ths of a second faster than Penns Grove’s Jason Stefanski ran at 2016 South Jersey Group 1 sectionals at Egg Harbor. That 14.32 is fastest in South Jersey this year and 3rd-fastest in New Jersey.

Parker’s 400IH time isn’t quite a PR. He ran slightly faster last May – 55.26 at the Tri-County Conference Championships at Delsea.

The 20-8 ½ is an outdoor PR by a quarter of an inch. He jumped 20-8 ¼ at last year’s Salem County meet, where he was 2nd to Schalick’s David Stewart. More on Stewart later. Parker has jumped farther indoors with a 22-5 at the Meet of Champions last month at Ocean Breeze.

The fastest freshman in the country at 1,500 meters is a former South Jersey middle school star who now lives about 5,000 miles away.

Sadie Krueger, who attended Northern Burlington Middle School last year, is now a freshman at Moanalua High School in Honolulu, and she’s the fastest 9th-grader in the U.S. in the 1,500 meters and one of the fastest at 800 meters.

Krueger won the New Jersey Middle School Cross Country Championships in Montgomery Township in October of 2023, and then ran 5:07.91 at Cherokee Night of Distance last June.

Her family moved to Florida during the summer, and in her first season of high school cross country, she placed 6th in Foot Locker West Regionals in Walnut, Calif., earning a spot at Foot Locker Nationals in San Diego, where she was one of only two freshmen to qualify.

Also in that race was her close frien Liliah Gordon, who would have been her teammate at Northern Burlington this year if her family had stayed in New Jersey. Imagine that distance medley?

This spring, Krueger has PR’d at every distance from 400 to 3,200, running 59.63 on her home track in Honolulu, 2:13.34 for 800 meters at the Arcadia Invitational outside Los Angeles, 4:34.47 in the 1,500 on her home track and 10:23.86 for 3,000, also in a home meet.

She’s No. 1 in Hawaii regardless of grade in the 800 and 1,500, and MileSplit doesn’t show any faster 1,500 times, although their database only goes back about 20 years. If anybody out there is an expert on Hawaii state track records let us know if that’s a state record. I found this story [click here] that seems to have some information about Hawaii state records, but it’s behind a paywall in the Star-Advertiser newspaper and I somehow don’t have an acount.

In the MileSplit national database, Krueger is No. 1 in the 1,500 and No. 14 in the 800 and No. 9 in the 3,000.

Timber Creek senior Ryan Jennings made the long journey to Southern California a worthwhile one when she won the invitational 100- and 200-meter dashes at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., with the fastest times this year by a New Jersey sprinter in both races.

Jennings won the 100 in 11.51 with a legal 1.0 meters-per-second wind, then won the 200 with a lifetime-best 23.46, the 5th-fastest legal-wind 200 ever run in New Jersey.

Jennings has run faster in the 100 – her 11.33 at Group 3 sectionals last spring at Delsea is the former state record and still No. 2 in state history – but her 23.46 lowers her PR from 23.86 from last May, also at Delsea.

Jennings’ former teammate, Naylah Jones, broke Jennings’ state record when she ran 11.23 a week later at the state Group 3 meet at Delsea. Jones set the South Jersey record in the 200 at 23.29 the same weekend.

So Jones and Jennings are No. 1 and 2 in state history in the 100, and No. 3 and 5 in the 200. Jones is now a freshman at Rutgers. They’re 1-2 in South Jersey history in both sprints.

Jennings’ 23.46 moves her up to 7th-fastest ever by a South Jersey high school alum. Jones and Jennings are 4th- and 8th-fastest all-time on the South Jersey alumni list in the 100.

Timber Creek will run the 400-meter relay at 11:50 a.m. Friday and the South Jersey Large-School 1,600-meter relay at 12:20 p.m. Saturday.

Billie Frazier, Samiyah Puckett and Taylor Gaines will join Jennings on both relay teams. Timber Creek set a meet record in the South Jersey Large-School 4-by-4 race last year with Jones, Frazier, Gaines and Jennings running 3:46.04.

All-Time South Jersey 200-Meter Dash Alumni List
22.39 … Dennisha Page [Wilson], May 11, 2024, Gainesville, Fla.[+0.6]
22.62 … English Gardner [Eastern], May 12, 2013, Los Angeles
23.07 … Gabrielle Farquharson [Williamstown], May 15, 2016, Lincoln, Neb.
23.24 … Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], June 10, 2004, Austin, Texas
23.29 … Naylah Jones [Timber Creek], June 8, 2024, Franklinville
23.34 … Michelle Glover [Willingboro], May 12, 1984, Austin
23.46 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], April 19, Walnut, Calif. [+1.5]
23.53 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], May 14, 2017, Atlanta
23.53 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], May 12, 2023, Bloomington, Ind.
23.67 … Aisha Morgan [Schalick], May 10, 2002, Louisville, Ky. [+0.9]

All-Time New Jersey 200-Meter Dash List
22.96 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2017
22.99 … Wendy Vereen [Trenton], 1983
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
23.76 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2024
23.85 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
23.85 … Sofia Swindell [Lawrenceville], 2024
23.86 … Taylor Aska [Union Catholic], 2024
23.86 … Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 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

Paul VI graduate Cara Doyle, who had a high school hurdles PR of 17.40, is now a freshman at Misericordia and the top hurdler in her conference.

Doyle ran 15.00 last week with a legal 1.2 meters-per-second tailwind to win the 100-meter hurdles by nearly two seconds at the Misericordia Invitational in Dallas, Pa.

In only her 4th outdoor hurdles race in college, she’s now No. 3 in school history behind co-school record holders Reilly Wagner [14.46 in 2017] and Hilari Norris [14.46 in 2014].

Wagner holds the school’s freshman record with a 14.93 as part of a heptathlon in Westfield, Mass., in the spring of 2016, so Doyle is 7-100ths of a second away from that mark.

Doyle’s high school PR of 17.40 came at Cherokee last April. But she had a breakthrough early in indoor season when she placed 3rd in the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships over the 60-meter highs in 9.33 (after a 9.32 in the trials). That’s 4th-fastest in school history.

Doyle, from Woolwich Township, ran a four-second 400 PR of 1:01.85 in her first college outdoor race in Lexington, Va., last month, then ran a five-second 400 hurdles PR of 1:05.95 a week later in Chester, Pa., where she also PR’d in the highs at 15.42 before dropping all the way down to 15.00 this past week.

Doyle is the fastest freshman in the MAC since 2021, when Laura Matthews of Stevens Institute and Morris Hills High ran 14.61.

Misericordia will race in the Centennial/MAC 1,600-meter relay at the 129th annual Penn Relays at 7:20 p.m. Friday. Doyle is listed as the 3rd leg.

Eastern’s Aaron Brooks recorded the 4th-fastest high hurdles time in Monmouth history Saturday in Piscatway.

Brooks lowered his PR to a wind-legal 14.38 with a 3rd-place finish at the Rutgers Relays. He had just PR’d at 14.43 earlier this month in Fairfax, Va. As of a month ago, his PR over the 42-inch barriers was 14.90.

The only faster hurdlers on the Monmouth all-time list are school record holder Jalen Walker of Burlington Township (14.15 in 2015), Terrell Gissendanner of Rochester (14.20 in 2010) and Geordan Ferguson of Manchester Township (14.33 in 2016).

Brooks, a sophomore, is 9th on the Coastal Athletic Conference performance list. He’s also 5th in the long jump [23-11 ½ earlier this month in Fairfax, 6th in Monmouth history]. He’s triple jumped over 47 feet in the past but hasn’t triple jumped this spring.

Brooks uncle is 1995 Eagles 2nd-round draft pick Barrett Brooks, who currently hosts Birds Huddle on NBC Sports Philadelphia and is on the panel for the Eagles pre- and post-game shows.

In her 2nd 400 competing for Arkansas, Clayton graduate Amirah Sharpe ran the 8th-fastest 400 ever by a South Jersey woman.

Sharpe, who began her collegiate career at Auburn with twin sisters Arianna and Ariel and is now a sophomore at Arkansas, ran 52.78 at the Tom Jones Invitational Saturday at the University of Florida’s Percy Beard Track in Gainesville.

Sharpe raced for Auburn at the NCAA East Prelims in Jacksonville in May of 2023 and ran 53.84 and then didn’t compete in a college race again according to the Track and Field Results Reporting Service until a meet last weekend in Fayetteville, where she PR’d with a 53.06. She lowered her PR again Saturday and became the 10th South Jersey woman to run sub-53. She competed unattached last year with a best time of 53.90 in Atlanta.

Her time is 2nd-fastest ever by a Gloucester County woman. Twin sister Arianna ran 52.42 at Clemson indoors in February of 2023. That is the fastest indoor time ever run by a South Jersey woman. Her outdoor PR is 53.28 in Tallahassee in March of 2023, so Arianna now has the Gloucester County record for the indoor 400 and Amirah has the record for the outdoor 400.

Arianna is also now at Arkansas and ran 53.49 Saturday in a different race than her sister ran. Like Amirah, Arianna last competed for Auburn in the spring of 2023. She did compete in a few 400s unattached last year according to World Athletics, including a 53.32 in Jacksonville. Arianna won her 400 race in 53.49.

Arkansas ran two 4-by-4s Saturday in Gainesville, that ran 3:23.69 – 2nd-fastest in NCAA Division 1 this year – and 3:27.67 – 6th-fastest in D-1 this year. Arianna wasn’t on either one. Amirah led off the 3:27.67 team with a 52.X split.

Here’s my best attempt at an all-time South Jersey sub-53 400-meter dash list (I kept Halima Scott in the list because 53.01 is close enough!):
50.66 … Nadia Davey [Bridgeton], June 14, 2003, Sacramento
51.70 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], June 13, 2014, Eugene, Ore.
51.72 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], June 27, 1987, San Jose, Calif.
52.24 … Tonya Lee [Rancocas Valley], March 16, 1996, Westwood, Calif.
52.42 … Arianna Sharpe [Clayton], Feb. 10, 2023, Clemson, S.C.
52.54 … Aliya Garozzo [Paul VI], March 27, 2025, Raleigh, N.C.
52.77 … Eusheka Bartley [Highland], March 23, 1996, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
52.78 … Amirah Sharpe [Clayton], April 19, 2025, Gainesville
52.80 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], May 12, 2007, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
52.86 … Tina Johnson [Burlington Twp.], May 20, 2001, Bloomington, Ind.
53.01 … Halima Scott [Camden Big Picture Learning Academy / Woodrow Wilson], May 6, 2023,

Delsea junior Hannah Nuhfer recorded the best discus throw by a South Jersey girl in 12 years Saturday at the Woodbury Relays and moved to within one inch of the all-time New Jersey top 10.

Nuhfer opened her series with a 153-2 throw but added three more throws of 143 or more – 143-5, 143-3 and 146-1 in an outstanding series.

Her mark is No. 6 in South Jersey history and No. 11 in state history, one inch out of the No. 10 spot occupied by Brick’s DeAnne Hahn, who threw 153-3 at the 2008 Ocean County Championships at Neptune.

Nuhfer’s previous PR was a 152-6 at last year’s Meet of Champions at Pennsauken. Her 153-2 is No. 1 in New Jersey this year and best by a South Jersey girl since Jessica Woodard of Cherokee threw 168-10 in 2013.

Nuhfer PR’d in the shot put at 46-4 earlier this month at the Deptford Spartan Relays. That’s No. 2 in New Jersey this year.

Nuhfer is one of only six girls in state history to throw 153 feet in the discus and 46 feet in the shot:

Alyssa Wilson, Donovan Catholic, 2017 [182-0, 58-1]
Layla Giordano, Old Tappan, 2024 [172-2, 50-0]
Jessica Woodard, Cherokee, 2013 [168-10, 47-1 ¼]
Jessica Oji, Livingston, 2024 [161-7, 51-10]
DeAnne Hahn [Brick Twp.], 2008 [153-3, 47-6]
Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea], 2024/2025 [153-2, 46-4]

All-Time New Jersey 150-Foot Discus List
182-0 … Alyssa Wilson [Donovan Catholic], 2017
172-2 … Jocelyn White [Delsea], 2004
172-2 … Layla Giordano [Old Tappan], 2024
168-10 … Jessica Woodard [Cherokee], 2013
161-11 … Helene O’Connell [Jackson], 1977
161-7 … Jessica Oji [Livingston], 2024
161-1 … Jamine Moton [Delsea], 1997
155-7 … Jada Mia Puryear [Union Catholic], 2022
153-6 … Tisha Kerrin [Eastern], 1989
153-3 … DeAnne Hahn [Brick Twp.], 2008
153-2 … Sylvia Galarza [Millville], 2004
153-2 … Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea], 2025
152-4 … Kirsten Batts [Marlboro], 2007

All-Time South Jersey 140-Foot Discus List
172-2 … Jocelyn White [Delsea], 2004
168-10 … Jessica Woodard [Cherokee], 2013
161-1 … Jamine Moton [Delsea], 1997
153-6 … Tisha Kerrin [Eastern], 1989
153-2 … Sylvia Galarza [Millville], 2004
153-2 … Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea], 2025
149-3 … Tara Daniels [Kingsway], 2013
147-7 … Brook-lynn Roberts [Winslow Twp.], 2024
146-5 … Kim Warren [Atlantic City], 2006
143-10 … Sunsarai Moore [Glassboro], 2024
143-3 … Mercedes Hicks [Atlantic City], 2006
143-2 … Najeaya Singleton [Vineland], 2017
140-6 … Typhanie Bates [Williamstown], 1995
140-1 … Melinda Boykin[Bridgeton], 1997
140-0 … Geri Riley [Millville], 1987

Winslow ran the fastest 4-by-2 in New Jersey this year and 8th-fastest all-time South Jersey Saturday at the Woodbury Relays.

Junior KaRon Ali, senior Jayden Poteat, junior Nyqir Helton and senior Kristopher Jackson won the Group 3 race in 1:27.22, Winslow’s fastest time since Reuben McCoy, Anthony Miles, Albert Harris and Antraye Miles set the still-standing South Jersey record 1:24.49 when they won 2003 Raleigh Nationals.

Their time is No. 23 on the all-time state list.

Winslow broke the Group 3 and overall meet record of 1:27.38 set in 2016 by Paul VI’s Erich Robertson, Antonio Tarantino, Max Dickens and Conor McAneney.

Camden, Rancocas Valley, Deptford, Williamstown and Clearview also broke 1:30, giving Woodbury six of the nine-fastest teams in New Jersey so far this year.

 Camden won the Group 1 race in 1:29.02 with juniors Jaiden Steele, Wasi Muhammad, Chase Robinson and Christian Braxton;

 Rancocas Valley won Group 4 in 1:27.03 with senior David Smith junior Julian Coppage-Seepersaud, junior Jameer Bellamy and junior Thomas Howard Jr.;

 Deptford was 2nd to Winslow in Group 3 in 1:29.49 with junior Kareem Brown, senior Neo Clark-Tabb, senior Kamari Brown and sophomore Xavion Holmes;

 Williamstown was 2nd in Group 4 in 1:29.67 with sophomore Nasir Buchanan, senior Sam Bruno, freshman Elijah Campbell and sophomore Ian Israel Jr. running 1:29.67;

 Clearview took 3rd in Group 3 in 1:29.88 with senior Matthew Niebalski, senior Steven Niebalski, junior Evan Libucki and junior Michael Pelosi.

Winslow also won the 4-by-100 in a New Jersey No. 1 42.00 with Ali, Jackson, Poteat and Helton racing.

Also under 43 seconds were Rancocas Valley in 42.62 with Bellamy, Coppage-Seepersaud, Smith and Howard, Camden in 42.68 with Robinson, Wasi Muhammad, junior Ibn Muhammad and Steele, Millville at 42.71 with junior Ryan Dingle, senior Chevon Ellis, junior Jaiden Church and senior Asaias Johnson, Williamstown in 42.78 with junior Jasiah Gibbons, Campbell, Israel Jr. and senior Kojo Amissah and Deptford’s 42.95 with Clark-Tabb, Kareem Brown, Holmes and Kamari Brown.

All-Time South Jersey 800-Meter Relay List
1:24.49 … Winslow Twp., 2003
1:24.90 … Camden, 2004
1:26.05 … Camden, 2000
1:26.68 … Camden, 1997
1:26.74 … Pennsauken, 2023
1:26.76 … Rancocas Valley, 2024
1:27.19 … Delsea, 2024
1:27.22 … Winslow Twp., 2025
1:27.38 … Paul VI, 2016
1:27.52 … Woodrow Wilson, 1996
1:27.66 … Oakcrest, 2011
1:27.68 … Pennsauken, 2016
1:27.69 … Oakcrest, 2012
1:27.74 … Pleasantville, 1994
1:27.75 … Willingboro, 2007
1:27.80 … Pleasantville, 1999
1:27.84 … Winslow Twp., 2002
1:27.90 … Winslow Twp., 2008
1:27.96 … Williamstown, 2015
1:27.98 … Camden, 2002

All-Time New Jersey 800-Meter Relay List
1:24.49 … Winslow Twp., 2003
1:24.90 … Camden, 2004
1:26.05 … Camden, 2000
1:26.0h … Somerville, 1973
1:26.3h … Weequahic, 1992
1:26.59 … East Orange, 2018
1:26.59 … Seton Hall Prep, 2018
1:26.66 … Irvington, 2005
1:26.68 … Camden, 1997
1:26.5h … Snyder, 1971
1:26.5h … Rahway, 1971
1:26.5h … Montclair, 1984
1:26.5h … Plainfield, 1998
1:26.74 … Pennsauken, 2023
1:26.76 … Rancocas Valley, 2024
1:26.78 … Teaneck, 2007
1:26.7h … Plainfield, 1980
1:26.93 … St. Peter’s, 2017
1:27.03 … Union Catholic, 2013
1:27.18 … Bergen Catholic, 2023
1:27.18 … Union Catholic, 2014
1:27.19 … Delsea, 2024
1:27.22 … Winslow Twp., 2025