PHILADELPHIA—Hydel High left Franklin Field awestruck on Saturday night, closing the 129th Penn Relays Carnival with a blistering 3 minutes 30.42 seconds to capture their fourth straight Championship of America girls’ 4×400 m title and erase their own meet record from 2022.
Sixteen-year-old Natassia Fletcher set the tone in 53.06 seconds before handing the baton to Abigail Campbell, whose 52.46 leg carved out daylight. Sashana Johnson (52.47) extended the advantage, and anchor Jody-Ann Daley sealed the deal in 52.28 seconds. The combined effort is now the second-fastest time ever recorded by a Jamaican U20 quartet—trailing only the 3:29.66 national mark established in 2001 by legends Kerron Stewart, Sheryl Morgan, Melaine Walker, and Patricia Hall.
Bullis School (Potomac, MD) returned three of last year’s silver-medal runners and again finished runner-up, clocking 3:33.30—history’s third-best high-school performance. Edwin Allen secured bronze in 3:36.14, while Holmwood Technical (3:38.80) and Immaculate Conception (3:43.17) rounded out the Jamaican contingent in fourth and sixth, respectively.
The victory reinforces Hydel’s dominance on U.S. soil and underscores the depth of Jamaica’s school-girls program, which supplied four of the six fastest teams on the day.
