Full Results | Boys 1600m Rankings | Girls 1600m Rankings
Thursday night championship belts were on the line at Holmdel Twilight's Royal Rumble. The boys 1600 meter state rankings were basically re-written with six new top ten times and three boys under 4:16 NJ#1 through NJ#3.
Chris Romero did some major work all alone crossing the line at 4:10.11 NJ#1 US#13 for a personal and meet record. Now the fastest all-time in the series for the 1600 meter to go along with his third all-time 3200 meter win earlier in May at 9:04.59. Romero is the first athlete since 2010 to win both the 1600 meter and 3200 meter in the same season for this series, the last one to do it was Matt Metlitz of Red Bank Regional who won the 1600 meter running 4:20.70 and the 3200 meter at 9:40.10.
Teddy Meredith of Hopewell Valley and Brian Hill of Christian Brothers Academy both had major PRs in second and third running 4:15.51 NJ#2 and 4:15.70 NJ#3 respectively. The top six finishers all made it into the top ten for the state so far this season!
Boys Top 8 1600m Finishers
| 1 | Chris Romero | 11 | Voorhees HS | 04:10.1 |
| 2 | Teddy Meredith | 11 | Hopewell Valley HS | 04:15.5 |
| 3 | Brian Hill | 11 | Christian Brothers Academy | 04:15.7 |
| 4 | Patrick Walsh | 12 | South Amboy HS | 04:16.4 |
| 5 | Matthew Schaefer | 11 | Colts Neck HS | 04:18.0 |
| 6 | Sean Dolan | 10 | Hopewell Valley HS | 04:18.6 |
| 7 | Tim McInerney | 10 | Christian Brothers Academy | 04:19.8 |
| 8 | Anthony Russo | 12 | Colts Neck HS | 04:20.0 |
For the girls 1600 meter run Madison Brand of Middletown South led the way running 5:02.32 NJ#9, the junior is on pace to break five minutes this season. Colleen Megerle of Colts Neck second at 5:03.18 and Alexa Westley of Warren Hills third at 5:04.45 , both sophomores and both in the top 20 this season.
Girls Top 8 1600m Finishers
| 1 | Madison Brand | 11 | Middletown South HS | 05:02.3 |
| 2 | Colleen Megerle | 10 | Colts Neck HS | 05:03.2 |
| 3 | Alexa Westley | 10 | Warren Hills HS | 05:04.5 |
| 4 | Destiny Stanford | 12 | Kingsway HS | 05:06.1 |
| 5 | Kelsey Kobus | 11 | West Windsor Plainsboro South HS | 05:06.7 |
| 6 | Danielle Hayes | 9 | Red Bank Catholic HS | 05:11.1 |
| 7 | Amanda Stone | 10 | Monmouth Reg. HS | 05:12.0 |
| 8 | Julia Mao | 10 | West Windsor Plainsboro South HS | 05:12.3 |
Hot Relay Times
Some quick relay times were thrown down as well. Warren Hills girls clocked a 2:27.49 to win the 1000 meter Swedish SMR, Holmdel won the 800 meter SMR with a 1:51.09.
On the boys side the 1000 meter SMR was led by Hopewell Valley at 2:06.51 and the 800 meter version by Red Bank Catholic 1:36.16.
