EWING, N.J. — Led by NJAC champions Tonna Ogina (North Brunswick, N.J./Highland Park) and Pratt Charles (Jersey City, N.J./University Charter), the New Jersey City University (NJCU) men's and women's track & field teams wrapped up their 2025 New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Outdoor Championships campaign on Sunday, May 4, hosted by The College of New Jersey. Ogina claimed her first outdoor title in the high jump, while Charles sprinted to gold in the 400 meters. The NJCU women's team finished sixth overall with 38 points, and the men's team placed seventh with 21 points.

The highlight of the weekend for the NJCU women's team came from Tonna Ogina (North Brunswick, N.J./Highland Park), who won the high jump with a clearance of 1.57 meters, earning her first NJAC Outdoor title and making her a three-time NJAC Champion overall. Ogina added two more podium finishes, placing third in the triple jump (11.05m) and having already claimed bronze in the long jump on Saturday.

In the sprint events, Reyanna Henderson (Pemberton, N.J./Pemberton Two) was a major contributor, earning bronze in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.98 seconds, the eighth-fastest time in NJCU women's history. She also took third in the 100 meters (12.66s) and fifth in the 400 meters (58.63s), scoring in all three of her events.
In the distance events, Jezena Aponte (Jersey City, N.J./Snyder) ran a strong 1,500 meters, finishing 10th overall with a time of 5:03.52. She returned later in the meet to compete in the 800 meters, where she placed 14th in 2:28.32.

In the throws, Lucy Pelaez (Jersey City, N.J./Snyder) delivered a personal best of 23.10 meters in the discus throw, finishing 19th overall. Evie Tahmazian (Racine, Wis./Monmouth Regional) also competed in the discus, placing 23rd (19.34m), and finished 20th in the shot put with a mark of 7.94 meters.

For the men, Pratt Charles (Jersey City, N.J./University Charter) was the standout performer, capturing the NJAC title in the 400-meter dash with a personal-best time of 48.32 seconds, which now ranks seventh all-time in NJCU program history and qualifies him for the All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference (AARTFC) Outdoor Championships.
In the field events, Sirell Clark (Jersey City, N.J./University Academy Charter) had NJCU's top finish in the discus, placing eighth with a mark of 36.76 meters. Joseph Jean-Marie also competed in both the shot put and discus, recording marks of 10.29 meters (20th) and 29.68 meters (18th), respectively.

The men's 4x100-meter relay team—Charles, Kameron McGainey (Union, N.J./Union), Christan Palmer (Union, N.J./Union), and Isaiah Ramirez (Edison, N.J./John P. Stevens)—ran a solid race, finishing sixth with a time of 43.50 seconds, qualifying them for the AARTFC Outdoor Championships. Later in the day, Charles and Ramirez teamed up again with Goncalo Carvalho (Newark, N.J./East Side High School) and Jeremiah Saunders (Bloomfield, N.J./Bloomfied) for the 4x400-meter relay, finishing seventh in 3:29.46.

In individual mid-distance events, Carvalho and Saunders both ran personal bests in the 800 meters. Carvalho placed 17th in 2:04.59, while Saunders finished 21st in 2:07.62, closing out the meet with competitive efforts.

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