L-R: Walter Pierce, Jayden Deleon, Jacob Dinerman, Dyheim Watson
Rutgers-Camden quartet honored on All-NJAC Men's Indoor Track & Field Team
CAMDEN, N.J. (March 6, 2026) – Four Rutgers University-Camden athletes were honored today when the New Jersey Athletic Conference announced its All-NJAC Men's Indoor Track & Field Team.
Senior
Walter Pierce captured NJAC First Team honors, while juniors
Jacob Dinerman and
Dyheim Watson, and freshman
Jayden Deleon all earned NJAC Second Team recognition. The honors are based upon their performances at the NJAC Indoor Track & Field Championships held Feb. 21 and 27.
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Pierce captured his NJAC First Team honor by winning the heptathlon in an eight-man field with a program-record 4,230 points. Along the way he set his PR in five of the seven events, finishing first in the shot put (11.84 meters), second in the high jump (1.77 meters), second in the pole vault (3.51 meters), fourth in the 60-meer dash (7.31) and sixth in the long jump (5.84 meters). He also placed fourth in the 60-meter hurdles (9.36) and sixth in the 1,000-meter run (3:12.01).
Pierce also holds the indoor program record in the pentathlon (2,654 points on Feb. 8, 2025, at the Frank Colden Invitational) and helped to set the indoor mark by running on the mixed 4x400 team (4:05.02) at the Collegeville Classic (Jan. 19, 2025). During the 2025 outdoor track season he earned NJAC Second Team honors in the decathlon (May 3-4) when he set the Raptors' program record with 5,217 points.
Dinerman finished second of 16 athletes in the mile, posting a program-record time of 4:09.85. He broke his old program record of 4:10.92 set on Feb. 7, 2025, at the FastTrack National Invitational.
In his second year at Rutgers-Camden, Dinerman already holds a trio of Rutgers-Camden program records. Earlier this year he set the indoor track program record at 3,000 meters (8:37.41 on Dec. 12, 2025, at the Wagner Seahawk Shootout). Last fall he set the cross country 8K mark of 24:43.4 at the NCAA Metro Regional (Nov. 15, 2025).
A multi-decorated athlete, Dinerman's NJAC Second Team honor this season adds to a vast haul of conference honors over his Rutgers-Camden career. During the 2024-25 indoor track season he earned NJAC First Team in the mile and NJAC Second Team at 3,000 meters. He also was a two-time NJAC Track Athlete of the Week last season (Jan. 13 and Feb. 10, 2025), an honor he also won this season on Dec. 15.
In his two seasons with the cross country program, Dinerman has captured NJAC First Team honors in 2024 and NJAC Second Team accolades in 2025. He added All-Metro Regional honors in 2025 and was a qualifier for the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships. During the 2024 cross country season, Dinerman was named the NJAC Runner of the Week on Sept. 9, 2024, and he earned that honor twice during the 2025 season (Sept. 8 and Sept. 22).
During his first season on the Raptors' outdoor track team in 2025, Dinerman captured NJAC First Team honors at 1,500 meters and NJAC Second Team recognition at 800 meters. He also earned USTFCCCA All-Region honors in both events.
In addition to all those accolades, Dinerman was named a USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete for the 2025 cross country season and he capped his year by being named the Philly-SIDA Cross Country Performer of the Year.
Deleon had an outstanding freshman season in the high jump with the indoor track team, which will continue March 13-14 when he competes in the event at the NCAA Div. III Men's Indoor Track & Field Championships in Birmingham, Alabama. He will enter the NCAA Championships with the fifth-best Division III high jump in the country, a Rutgers-Camden program record of 2.09 meters set on March 1 at the TCNJ Last Chance Meet.
Deleon made his mark from the beginning of the season when he originally set the program high jump record with a mark of 2.05 meters, finishing second of 25 athletes at the Fasttrack Season Opener (Dec. 5). A week later he finished second of 16 athletes at the Wagner Seahawk Shootout and tied his old program mark with another high jump of 2.05 meters.
Deleon earned his NJAC Second Team honor by finishing second of 17 athletes at the conference championship meet on Feb. 27 with a high jump of 2.03 meters.
Watson has been the Scarlet Raptors' top thrower throughout his three-year career, competing in both the shot put and the weight throw. He earned his NJAC Second Team honor by finishing second of 15 athletes at the conference meet on Feb. 27, posting a PR throw of 15.55 meters. He threw over 14.00 meters at every event this season except the first meet and consistently ranked among the top weight throwers at each meet.
Watson also had another stellar season in the shot put, where he set his PR of 12.52 meters at the Fastrack National Invite on Feb. 6 and tied that PR the next day at the Frank Colden Invitational. At the NJAC Championships he finished 13th of 18 athletes with a shot put of 12.51 meters.
