SJM_SpringAthletes_0325FINAL_Reg2 . qxp_Feature 3 / 21 / 25 12 : 45 PM Page 1 ! SIANNI WYNN PENNSAUKEN GIRLS TRACK Clutch Co Just a junior , Wynn is already one of the most decorated track athletes in state history , with nine Meet of Champions ( MOC ) titles combined across the South Jersey is gearing up for another spring sports season , a indoor and outdoor seasons . Last spring , she was a four - time state champ and claimed MOC crowns in both SJM : What are you looking for in a school and stars can make it big ? the 100 and 200 meters . In winter track this year , she a track program ? SW : Definitely . Who doesn’t love Sydney McLaughlin ? I’ve set state records in the 55 and 200 meters , becoming SW : I just want whatever school I choose to feel like home . I met her twice — once when I was a little girl and once last just the third girl ever in U.S . high school track to run don’t have any concrete points that I want the school to hit . year — and her being from New Jersey is inspirational . 6.73 or faster in the 55 and 22.31 or faster in the 200 . Once I take my visits in the fall , I’ll know when I get there . Seeing the level she raced at in high school , college and as a professional athlete is amazing . She’s a once - in - a - genera - South Jersey Magazine : You’re coming off a historic SJM : Do you know what you want to study in tion athlete , and she’s someone I look up to because she’s winter track season . What did those accomplish - college ? grounded throughout the stayed the same and very ments mean to you ? SW : Every day I change my mind . I really like physics , so I process . When I get older , I definitely want to be like her . Sianni Wynn : I’m definitely proud . It felt good to make the kind of want to be an engineer , but I also like psychology , Meet of Champs for the third year in a row and to win the so I was thinking I could be a sports psychologist . I also kind SJM : It must be weird now when fans want to take 55 and 200 like I did previously . To break my own records of want to be a teacher , so it’s up in the air . pictures with you , but is it also flattering ? made me proud , and running 6.7 was definitely one of my SW : [ Laughs ] It is . When people ask me to take a picture , goals for this indoor season . SJM : How far do you want to go with track ? sometimes I think , why do you want to take a picture with SW : I want to be a professional athlete , and one of my me ? But every time somebody asks me to take a picture or SJM : What are your goals heading into the outdoor biggest goals is to go to the Olympics . they just want to talk to me , it makes me feel good that season ? they care enough to ask . SW : I just want to get better . I want to be where my feet SJM : Does it inspire you that are and not think ahead . I want to take one race at a time , somebody like Sydney SJM : What else do you do for fun away from and whatever is meant to happen will happen . McLaughlin — who was run - track ? ning in the Meet of Cham - SW : I really like to watch shows and movies — SJM : How is the recruiting process going for you ? pions not too long ago and that’s my big thing . I also like to read , and right SW : It’s going well . Sometimes it can get a little over - is now an Olympic gold now I’m reading Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy . whelming , but so far I’m having a good time talking to medalist — has shown coaches . that New Jersey track SJM : Is that the one A.J . Brown was reading ? SW : It sure is . My athletic director gave it to me and I like that book so far . It changes your whole perspective on competition and winning . FULL ATHLETE SJM : What do you like about INTERVIEWS growing up in South Jersey ? SW : I like the culture . South Jersey is close available online at SouthJerseyMagazine.com to Philly so we take some of their spice , but we still have our own . We’re close to New York and we’re close to Philly and we have good food . I like our weather too — some people say it’s too cold , but I think it’s perfect . It doesn’t get too hot and it doesn’t get unrea - sonably cold . South Jersey is perfect . BY MATT COSENTINO PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM HAWK SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 21 issue 12 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 32 |