In one of his final warmups for U.S. Nationals, Curtis Thompson won the javelin at the Iron Wood Classic at the Iron Wood Throwers Center in Rathdrum, Idaho, Saturday.

Thompson threw 268-10 according to results on the World Athletics site, but they don’t show his series. Results of the meet on Athletic.Live don’t even show the javelin being held.

But either way, it’s Thompson’s best result since April, when he threw slightly farther [268-11] at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational at Millican Field in Ramona, Okla.

And it’s the 6th-best throw by an American this year, behind two other throws by Thompson and three by one-time Penn athlete Mark Minichello.

Thompson is U.S. No. 1 and World No. 3 with his PR 287-11 at the Texas Relays in Austin in March.

Thompson and Minichello have accounted for 10 of the top 11 throws by Americans this year, Thompson at No. 1, 5, 6, 8 and 11 and Minichello at No. 2, 3, 4, 9 and 10. Donvan Banks is at No. 7.

The U.S. Championships are scheduled for July 1-Aug. 3 in Eugene, Ore., with the javelin final scheduled for 1:20 p.m. July 31.

The only U.S. athletes with more national javelin titles than Thompson are Breaux Greer [8 from 2000-2007], Tom Pukstys [6 from 1992-1999] and Bud Held [6 from 1949 through 1958].

Thompson is expected to throw at American Javfest July 19 in East Stroudsburg, Pa., before heading to nationals.

 

This is a post I was hoping to have up a few days ago, but things have been a little crazy this week for obvious reasons.

Better late than never, and here is a look at every South Jersey athlete that placed in the top 10 at West Philly Nationals Thursday through Sunday at Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus.

Did I miss anybody? Probably. There are a lot of events and not every athlete is listed with their high school. I included freshman events but not middle school events. If anybody is missing, let me know!

BOYS
400-METER DASH
6. Alexander Osayemi [Clayton], 46.94

400-METER HURDLES FRESHMAN
2. Mehki Parker [Glassboro], 56.33

400-METER RELAY
7. Burlington Twp. [*Solomon Wesley-Passew, Gemaus Sackie, Tappia Yeator, Quayd Hendryx], 41.71

SPRINT MEDLEY
5. Winslow Twp. [*KaRon Ali, Kristopher Jackson, Jayden Poteat, Dominic Bassey], 3:25.37

DISTANCE MEDLEY
8. Haddonfield [Bennett Wright, *Luke Andresen, *Peter Simpson, *Ben Andrus], 10:06.48

HIGH JUMP FRESHMAN
5. ***Moses Robles [Glassboro], 6-2 ¼

LONG JUMP FRESHMAN
2. ***Alexander Adeleye [Glassboro], 22-6 ¼

TRIPLE JUMP FRESHMAN
6. ***Mehki Parker [Glassboro], 43-6

POLE VAULT
9. Marcus Hood [Deptford], 15-9

SHOT PUT
6. Anthony Liakhnovich [Hammonton], 63-1 ½

FOUR-MILE RELAY
10. Haddonfield [*Luke Andressen, *Peter Simpson, *Ben Andrus, Bennett Wright], 17:27.79

GIRLS
100-METER DASH
1. *Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 11.29 [+0.5]

200-METER DASH
2. *Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 23.05 [+0.4]

400-METER DASH
1. *Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 51.14

400-METER DASH FRESHMAN
7. ***Hope Edwards [Moorestown], 56.56
8. ***Amariah Arango [Winslow Twp.], 56.59

800-METER RUN
1. *Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2:00.11

800-METER RUN FRESHMAN
10. ***Hope Edwards [Moorestown], 2:15.11

MILE RUN FRESHMAN
10. ***Payton Derer [Moorestown], 5:04.34

100-METER HURDLES FRESHMAN
2. ***Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 13.73 [+0.8]

400-METER HURDLES
1. *Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 55.99

400-METER HURDLES FRESHMAN
1. ***Hope Edwards [Moorestown], 1:00.32
7. ***Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 1:02.63

HIGH JUMP
1. *Egypt Bolan [Lindenwold], 5-10 ¾

LONG JUMP
6. Jaidah Garrett [Absegami], 19-8

POLE VAULT
6. Hannah Byrd Leitner [Moorestown], 12-5 ½

SHOT PUT FRESHMAN
2. ***Isabella Alvarez [Pleasantville], 39-8 ½
9. ***Chaylin Morine [Deptford], 34-6 ¾

DISCUS
1. *Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea], 178-9
9. *Sunsarai Moore [Glassboro], 147-

400-METER RELAY
3. Willingboro [*Kaila Speight, **Maya Bolden, **Jade Pinder, Nester Wea], 46.20

800-METER RELAY
3. Willingboro [*Kaila Speight, **Maya Bolden, **Jade Pinder, Nester Wea], 1:37.96

1,600-METER RELAY
3. Winslow Twp. [***Amariah Arango, ***Jasmine Jackson, **Skyhe Seamon, **Cinniya Robinson], 3:43.75
5. Willingboro [*Kaila Speight, **Maya Bolden, **Jade Pinder, Nester Wea], 3:45.77

3,200-METER RELAY
3. Cherokee [*Alyssa Surianno, Megan Niglio, *Sofia Recinto, *Madeline Meder], 9:06.06
5. Winslow Twp. [***Amariah Arango, Ava Millner, ***Adaiah Arango, **Tristan Hughes], 9:10.15
6. Moorestown [***Hope Edwards, **Sophia DiFiore, Sarah Brown, ***Payton Derer], 9:16.20

SPRINT MEDLEY
2. Eastern [Johnna Gonter, Jasmine Davies, Samantha Osei-Kyei, *Natalie Dumas], 3;53.15
9. Winslow Twp. [**Cinniya Robinson, **Skhye Seamon, ***Adaiah Arango, ***Amariah Arango], 4:03.47

SHUTTLE HURDLES
2. Willingboro [**Trinity Brapoh, Sunny Obiyo, *Aaliyah Robinson, Nester Wea]. 59.25
3. Washington Twp. [Meciah Howell, ***Nia’Leila Cuascut, Zaida Taylor, Dakota Jones], 1:00.68

FOUR-MILE RELAY
10. Cherokee [Megan Niglio, *Alyssa Suriano, ***Erin Healy, *Madeline Meder], 20:05.33

What will Natalie Dumas run at USATF Senior Nationals in Eugene?

It’s a fascinating question!

Dumas met the A standard in both the 400-meter hurdles and 800 at West Philly Nationals and has a pretty strong provisional B standard in the 400. So she has some options.

Senior Nationals is scheduled for July 31 – Aug. 3 at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon.

At Franklin Field over the weekend, Dumas ran 55.99 to win the intermediate hurdles on Friday, 51.14 to win the 400 on Saturday and 2:00.11 to win the 800 on Sunday.

She’s under the A standards in the intermediates [56.00] and 800 [2:00.50] and close to the A standard in the 400 [51.00] and well under the B standard [52.50]. The way it works is everyone with the A standard qualifies automatically and if the field isn’t filled with A qualifiers – that’s 32 runners in each event – the B qualifiers are added starting with the fastest until the field is full.

According to the World Athletics database, Dumas currently ranks 17^th among U.S. women in the 800, 18^thin the intermediates and 17^th in the 400. That’s for 2025, but the qualifying period opened on June 21, 2024, so those rankings aren’t necessarily identical to the rankings of qualifiers (although they could be).

But the bottom line is Dumas can definitely race the intermediates and/or 800 if she wants and most likely the 400.

Here’s what the schedule looks like in Eugene for Dumas’s three events:

Thursday, July 31
3:21 p.m. – 800-Meter Run first round
4:39 p.m. – 400-Meter Dash first round

Friday, Aug. 1
3:31 p.m. – 400-Meter Hurdles first round
5:04 p.m. –  800-Meter Run semifinals
6:03 p.m. – 400-Meter Dash semifinals

Saturday, Aug. 2
1:03 p.m. – 400-Meter Dash final
1:40 p.m. – 400-Meter Hurdles semifinals

Sunday, Aug. 3
1:18 p.m. – 800-Meter Run final
1:34 p.m. 400-Meter Hurdles final

If Dumas enters one event, she probably has the most room for improvement in the 800, mainly because when she ran that 2:00.11 it was her 4^th hard effort in 48 hours (including a sprint medley anchor) and running an 800 against elite competition fresh would very likely bring her under two minutes, something only two South Jersey runners have ever done – Shawnee’s Michelle DiMuro ran 1:59.85 at the 1996 Olympic Trials in Atlanta, and Haddonfield’s Erin Donohue ran 1:59.99 in Liège, Belgium, in July 2010.

If she elects to enter two events, the 400-800 double is probably impossible, since the 1^st-round races are only 78 minutes apart on Day 1 of Nationals.

If she runs the 400-400IH double, she would have only the 400 trials on Thursday and the intermediates first round and potentially 400 semis on Friday but with about a 2 ½-hour break in between.

If she chooses the 800-400IH double, she would have only the 800 trials on Friday but the intermediates trials and 800 semis about an hour and a half apart on Saturday afternoon.

As we wrote on Tuesday [https://sjtrackblog.com/2025/06/24/how-many-women-in-the-history-of-the-planet-earth-have-done-what-natalie-dumas-did-we-looked-it-up-and-you-wont-believe-the-answer/], Dumas is the only female in the history of the world to run as fast as she did in all three events.

Whatever she winds up racing in Eugene, it’s going to be incredible to watch!

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One note about USATF qualifyiing: Meets must meet specific criteria to be eligible for qualifying. From the entry requirements: “All entry performances must be legal marks that have been achieved at a USATF-sanctioned meet or at a meet listed on the World Athletics Calendar. Meets on the World Athletics Calendar must also have results included in the World Athletics Toplists.”

West Philly Nationals – also known as Insert-Shoe-Company-Here Nationals – was listed on the World Athletics Calendar and its results are in the World Athletics database, which makes Dumas’s performances eligible.

Rancocas Valley’s Erika Kemp, the top-ranked American marathoner this year, has been named to the U.S. team that will compete at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September.

In only her 2^nd lifetime marathon, Kemp ran 2:22.56 in January at the Houston Marathon, the 12^th-fastest time in U.S. history. In her first marathon in April 2023, Kemp ran 2:33.57 in Boston.

Her 2:22.56 is by far the fastest marathon ever by a New Jersey native, breaking the previous record by more than eight minutes. In 1996, North Hunterdon graduate Anne Letko ran 2:31.18 in Columbia, S.C.

Kemp was an All-America both on the track and in XC at North Carolina State. Since graduating, she’s 8:53.06 for 3,000 meters, 15:10.10 for 5,000 meters and 31:28.69 in the 10,000 and won USATF road national titles in 2019 at 15,000 meters in Jacksonville and in 2021 at 20,000 meters in New Haven.

Kemp is currently training in Providence, R.I., with a group that includes Haddonfield graduate Marielle Hall, who is No. 19 all-time U.S. with 31:05.71, when she placed 8^th at Worlds in Doha, Qatar. Hall was inducted in the South Jersey Track Hall of Fame Class of 2025 in March. Kemp and Hall are training with Kurt Benninger, husband of Olympian Molly Huddle. Hall hasn’t raced since June 2023 at the New York Mini 10K.

Also representing the U.S. on the women’s marathon team will be Betsy Saina and Susanna Sullivan. Saina is the No. 3 U.S. woman all-time with her 2:18.19 last year in Tokyo. Saina represented Kenya at 10,000 meters in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Sullivan ran 2:21.56 in Chicago last year, No. 10 all-time on the U.S. list.

The World Championships marathon is scheduled for 7 p.m. EST on Sunday, Sept. 14. You can find a map of the course here.

One interesting twist about Kemp’s performance in Houston: Her Rancocas Valley Class of 2013 teammate, Alicia Bleko, also raced the Houston Marathon that day and ran a lifetime-best of her own at 2:46.44. Belko was an All-America in the steeplechase at Stockton.

Greg Foster popped a season-best 26-0 ¼ with a legal wind Sunday at the Elliott Denman New Jersey International Meet in West Long Branch.

That’s just 1 1/2 inches off his PR, his 2^nd-best wind-legal jump ever and best since he went 26-1 ¾ at Heps at Franklin Field in 2023.

Foster, a Lumberton native who attended Lawrenceville Prep and is a rising senior at Princeton, also had a 25-5 ¾ in his series.

His previous best jump this year was a 25-8 ½ at the Sam Howell Invitational in Princeton in April. He placed 7^th at NCAA’s earlier this month in Eugene with a 25-8 ½, earning 1^st-team All-America honors.

With the legal 26-footer, Foster moves up from 30^th to 20^th on the 2025 U.S. list, although his mark from Sunday hasn’t been added to the World Athletics database yet. He’s got a pretty strong B standard for U.S. Nationals – that’s 25-7 – and would automatically qualify with a wind-legal 26-6 ¾. The top 16 entries are accepted and if there aren’t 16 with the A standard the field is filled starting from the top of the B standard list. Marks made up through July 20 are accepted.

With his 13.78 win at Heps in New Haven in May, Foster is also very close to the B standard of 13.75 in the 110-meter hurdles. The A standard is 13.40. The top 32 hurdlers are accepted.

The Elliott Denman International traces its roots back to the Bob Roggy Invitational, which began in 1986 at Holmdel High School.

Greg Foster best legal jumps 
26-1 ¾, Philadelphia, May 7, 2023
26-0 ¼, West Long Branch, June 22, 2025
25-10 ¾i, Annapolis, Jan. 21, 2023
25-9 ½i, Hanover, N.H., Feb. 26, 2023
25-8 ½, Princeton, April 4, 2025
25-8 ¼i, Annapolis, Md., Jan. 11, 2025
25-7 ¼i, Fayetteville, Feb. 15, 2025
25-7 ¼, Eugene, June 11, 2025

Amazing Sianni Wynn finished her spectacular junior year Sunday with a South Jersey record in the 200 and her 4^th All-America honor.

Wynn, who had won the 100 in a wind-legal PR 11.29, came back to place 2^nd in the 200 in 23.05 with a legal 0.4 meters-per-second tailwind. Elise Cooper of McDonough School in Owings Mills, Md., won the race 22.44, all-time U.S. No. 7. Cooper, a Texas commit, was the U.S. Under-20 200 champ last year in Eugene.

Wynn broke the South Jersey record of 23.29 set by Timber Creek’s Naylah Jones at last year’s Group 3 state meet at Delsea. Her previous PR was a 23.20 (-0.4) at the Meet of Champions earlier this month on her home track at Pennsauken. She ran 23.31 indoors.

Her time is probably No. 2 in state history with legal wind and fastest in 42 years, since Wendy Vereen of Trenton ran 22.99 at the 1983 Jumbo Elliott Invitational at Villanova.

The state record is listed as 22.96 by four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin at the 2017 state Parochial A meet at Egg Harbor, but it’s inconclusive whether there was an operating wind gauge for her race.

At the 2017 Parochial A state meet at EHT there are “0.0” or “NWI” listed for the 100s, 200s and high hurdles event, and it seems unlikely that the wind readings for the handful of events where the wind was recorded – including girls and boys Group 1 and 4 races – were all 0.0. In the Milesplit video of the race [https://nj.milesplit.com/videos/220508/girls-200-heat-2-npa] you can see a wind gauge with about 50 meters to go on the inside of the track but there’s nobody operating it or taking wind readings.

McLaughlin’s fastest confirmed legal high school time was a 23.53 at the 2016 Union County Championships in Plainfield, which she ran with a 0.3 meters-per-second tailwind.

According to the World Athletics web site, there was a 1.1 wind reading at Villanova for the Jumbo Elliott 200, so I’ll let everyone else decide whether McLaughlin has the legit state record and Wynn is No. 3 all-time or Vereen has it and Wynn is No. 2 all-time. Either way, she’s very fast and only 9-100ths of a second off that 22.96 that may or may not have been legal with a year to go.

Wynn will go into her senior year ranked No. 2 in state history in the 100 at 11.29, No. 2 in the 200 at 23.05 and No. 6 in the 400 at 52.80. She’s the only girl in state history to run that fast for all three sprints.

Indoors, Wynn holds state records in the 55 at 6.73, the 60 at 7.29 and the 200 at 23.31 and she’s No. 4 all-time in the 400 at 54.27.

Wynn’s 23.05 is 8th-fastest ever by a New Jersey native and 3rd-fastest by a South Jersey sprinter, behind Wilson’s Dennisha Page [22.39 in Gainesville last May] and Eastern’s English Gardner [22.62 in 2013 in Los Angeles].

On Monday, we wrote about how a few hours of research determined that Natalie Dumas is the only U.S. athlete ever to run as fast as she has in the 400, 800 and 400-meter hurdles.

You can read that piece here.

But it kept nagging at me wondering how many athletes world-wide have run 51.14 in the 400, 2:00.11 in the 800 and 55.99 in the 400-meter hurdles in their life. The research required to find that was daunting, but you know how I am when it comes to track. If there’s a way to figure it out, I’ll figure it out! Once I get started on a track research project, I can’t stop.

So armed with the fantastic World Athletics database, I got to work.

In world history, 468 women have run 55.99 or faster in the 400-meter hurdles. So I went through every one, clicked on their World Athletics profile, then clicked on the “statistics” tab, then clicked on the “personal bests” tab and looked for their 800 PR. Most didn’t have one. The ones who had one at 2:00.11 or faster I looked next for their flat 400 PR.

Then I repeated that for the 467 women other than Dumas who have run 55.99 or faster. Actually, I only had to check 358 women because we had already established that no American had done it. So I only had to look up the 358 non-Americans.

The verdict? By now you’ve probably guessed it.

Natalie Dumas is the only woman in the history of the planet Earth to run 51.14, 2:00.11 and 55.99.

A 16-year-old girl from Voorhees who just finished her junior year at Eastern High achieved something over a 48-hour span from early Friday afternoon through early Sunday afternoon that no other female has ever achieved.

And along the way in her spare time she ran a 2:03.90 anchor and teamed up with  Johnna Gonter, Jasmine Davies and Samantha Osei-Kyei to place 2nd to Rumson-Fair Haven in the sprint medley in 3:53.15 – 12th-fastest in U.S. history!

How long did it take to look this up? You don’t want to know! But it was worth it to provide context to Dumas’s unprecedented achievement at West Philly Nationals at Franklin Field!

I did find a handful of women who have come close to Dumas’s times in all three events. Several ran faster than Dumas in two events but none ran as fast in all three.

And it makes sense. Because not only are most elite athletes incapable of running that fast in three disparate events, they don’t have a reason to even try. If you’re an elite 400 runner, you’re going to get your paycheck by running fast 400s. There’s rarely a reason to run an off event at the highest level, much less two of them. Obviously, you’ll see a lot of 100-200 doubles and occasional 200-400 doubles or maybe 800-1500 doubles at the highest level. But the 400, 800 and intermediates, while using overlapping physiological systems, are very different events that require different types of training. And to excel at the highest level in all three is impossible.

Or was impossible until this weekend!

So let’s take a look at some of the women who’ve come close to achieving in their entire track careers what Dumas did in 48 hours.

✅  Cristina Matei, Romania: Matei ran 54.55 in Moscow in 1986 and 1:59.06 in Bucharest in 1985, but her best 400 was “only” a 52.93 in Budapest, Hungary in 1984.

✅  Ester Goossens, the Netherlands: Goossens ran 54.62 in the intermediates in 1998 – also in Budapest, curiously – and set the Netherlands 800 record of 2:00.01 in Stockholm in 2001. But her best 400 was a 51.35 in Malmö, Sweden, also in 1998.

✅  Selena Goncharova, Russia: Goncharova had a hurdles PR of 54.94 from Sochi, Russia, in 1986, and an 800 PR of 2:00.13 from Voronezh, Russia, in 1992 – slightly slower than Dumis’s – and PR’d at 51.73 in the 400 in Moscow in 1987.

✅  Krystyna Kacperczyk, Poland: Kacperczyk [pronounced Kah-SPAIR-chick] ran 55.44 in the intermediates in Berlin in 1978, 1:59.78 in London in 1978 and 51.78 in the 400 in Brescia, Italy, also in 1978.

✅  Tamara Kupriyanovich, Belarus: Kupriyanovich ran 55.75 in Leningrad in 1989, 2:00.63 in Moscow in 1993 and 52.20 in Šiauliai, Lithuania, in 1988 (with a hand-timed 51.8 in Staiki, Belarus, in 1988.

✅  Britton Wilson, U.S.: Wilson is the closest American to Dumas, with a 49.13 in Baton Rouge in 2023 and a speedy 53.08 400 hurdles at Hayward Field in 2022 – that’s No. 12 all-time U.S. – but with an 800 PR of 2:02.13, which she ran twice, both times indoors at the Tyson Center in Fayetteville, Ark. Wilson owns one of the greatest middle-distance doubles ever by an American with that 49.13 and a 53.28 about an hour later at the 2023 SEC Championships in Baton Rouge. Wilson is the only runner in this group who’s still active – she ran 51.37 last week in Winter Garden, Fla. – but she hasn’t run an 800 since she was in college at Arkansas in 2023.

The Natalie Dumas story is already one of the most remarkable stories in track and field history and it’s just getting started!

After reflecting on what Natalie Dumas accomplished over the past few days, it struck me that we’re looking at her performance all wrong.

This wasn’t just the greatest high school performance in history.

It was one of the greatest performances ever by any American woman. Not just a high schooler but a collegian, a post-collegiate, a pro. Anybody.

I was trying to figure out a way to put Dumas’s historic triple national championship in perspective, and I kept looking at these three numbers: 55.99, 51.14, 2:00.11.

And I started wondering how many U.S. women of any age on any level had ever run that fast for all three events. So I looked it up.

And the answer is … none.

Dumas is the first and only American woman ever to run 55.99 for the 400-meter hurdles, 51.14 for the 400 and 2:00.11 for the 800 at any point in their life.

And she did it in the span of 48 hours, from early afternoon Friday through early afternoon Sunday.

What she did defies belief. She not only ran top-6 all-time high school times, she won all three events. On top of anchoring Eastern to 2nd place in the sprint medley with the 12th-fastest time in U.S. history.

What’s interesting is that while we think of the 400-800 or the 400-400IH as natural doubles because they are in high school and sometimes in college, where the chase for team points generally  determines what events athletes contest, you rarely see those sort of doublers on an elite level because when you’re one of the nation’s leading middle-distance runners or long hurdlers, you have your event and you focus on your event and you rarely if ever run anything else. Because you’re trying to make a living, not pile up team points. When team points are no longer a factor, specialization takes over.

So what Dumas achieved over the weekend is truly unique not just on a scholastic scale but on a national scale.

Dumas isn’t just top-10 all-time in all three of her individual events, she’s No. 14 among U.S. women this year in the 400, No. 17 in the 800 and No. 17 in the intermediates.

On the all-time U.S. list, she’s No. 115 in the 400, No. 96 in the 800 and No. 109 in the 400 hurdles.

So here’s how I spent Sunday night and Monday morning: Going through the all-time U.S. lists to see if anybody showed up all three lists.

I started out cross checking the 400 hurdles and 800 lists because I figured that would be the rarest double out of the three,  and there isn’t one other U.S. citizen that’s ever run as fast as 55.99 and 2:00.11. So that immediately guaranteed she’s the only one to run as fast in all three events,

But I wanted to see how common the other doubles were as well so I kept cross checking.

Next I went to the 400-800 double and found only two women who have run as fast as Dumas in both. One is Trenton’s Athing Mu, the 2021 Olympic 800 gold medalist. She has PRs of 49.57 and 1:54.97. The other is Jearl Mills Clark, a three-time Olympian, 4-by-4 silver medalist in Barcelona in 1992 and 4-by-4 gold medalist in 1996 in Atlanta and 2000 in Sydney. She ran 49.40 and 1:56.40. Of course, neither one ran the intermediates.

Not surprisingly, the most common double is the 400 and 400-meter hurdles. You need world-class 400 speed to be an elite 400-meter hurdler. Still, there are only 10 other U.S. women who have run 55.99 and 51.14.

Sydney McLaughlin, the four-time gold medalist from Scotch Plains, has run 48.74 and a world-record 50.37 and she could probably jog a 1:57 if she wanted to 800. But she hasn’t yet!

Here’s the full list of 400-400IH doubles:

Shae Anderson [50.84 2021 / 55.21 2021]
Kim Batten [50.61 1998 / 52.61 1995]
Jaide Stepter Baynes [50.63 2018 / 54.95 2016]
Natalie Dumas [51.14 2025 / 55.99 2025]
Anna Hall [50.82 2023 / 54.42 2023]
Shamier Little [49.68 2023 / 52.39 2021]
Sydney McLaughlin [48.74 2023 / 50.37 2024]
Dalilah Muhammad [50.60 2019 / 51.58 2021]
Ashley Spencer [50.28 2013 / 53.11 2017
Britton Wilson [49.13 2023 / 53.08 2022]
Linetta Wilson, [51.02 1989 / 55.38 1986]

How many women world-wide have achieved a 51.14 / 55.99 / 2:00.11 triple in their lives? It would take weeks to look that one up.

But I did check the 100 fastest non-American 400-meter hurdlers on the all-time world list and not one of them ever ran 2:00.11 in the 800. The closest was Germany’s Heike Meissner, who ran 54.03 at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and 1:59.74 in Stuttgart in 1998 but never ran faster than 52.66 in the 400 – that was in Charlotte in 1996.

I’ll keep looking. Because the more we learn about other athletes throughout history, the more we realize just how remarkable and unique Dumas’s three days at Franklin Field were.

Deptford senior Marcus Hood broke the Gloucester County pole vault record Sunday at West Philly Nationals at Franklin Field.

Hood cleared 15-9 on his 1^st attempt, breaking the county outdoor mark of 15-7 set by Delsea’s Marco Morales at the 2019 Tri-County Conference Championships at Delsea.

His clearance is 3^rd-best in South Jersey history, behind Bob Green of Haddon Heights [16-0 at the 1992 South Jersey Invitational at Eastern] and Ryan Merlino of Oakcrest [16-0 at 2024 Meet of Champions at Pennsauken]. It’s also No. 17 in state history.

Marco Morales still holds the overall Gloucester County record with an indoor 16-0 clearance at a South Jersey Track Coaches Association meet at Ocean Breeze in February 2020.

Hood cleared 15-6 twice indoors – once at the Ott Center, once at the Bubble – and had three 15-6 clearances this spring. He won the state Group 3 title at 15-0 and placed 4^th in the Meet of Champions at 15-0.

On Sunday, he cleared 14-7 ¼ on his 1^st attempt, 15-3 on his 2^nd try and 15-9 on his 1^st. He missed three tries at 16-0 ¾ and placed 9^th overall and 1^st among New Jersey vaulters.

Two  other South Jersey vaulters cleared 14-7 ¼ Sunday –  senior Ed Frey of Cinnaminson and senior Jacob George of Haddon Township.

All-Time South Jersey Pole Vault List
16-0 … Bob Green [Haddon Heights], 1992
16-0 … Ryan Merlino [Oakcrest], 2024
15-9 … Marcus Hood [Deptford], 2025
15-7 … Brandon Kurtz [Absegami], 1991
15-7 … Nico Morales [Delsea], 2019
15-6 … Marco Morales [Delsea], 2020
15-6 … Dylan Altland [Kingsway], 2014
15-6 … Ed Frey [Cinnaminson], 2025
15-5 … Mike Davis [Haddonfield], 2004
15-5 … Devon Purves [Haddonfield], 2006
15-4 … Jason King [Lenape], 1993
15-3 ¼ … Dan Lamp [Willingboro], 1977
15-3 … Henry Cifaloglio [Delsea], 2025
15-3 … Jacob George [Haddon Twp.], 2025
15-2 … Dan Batdorf [West Deptford], 2008
15-0 ¼ … Mike Hulme [Eastern], 2003
15-0 … Josh Moline [Gateway], 2000
15-0 … Mike Rivard [Haddonfield], 2010
15-0 … Daniel Couse [Clearview], 2023
15-0 … Mike Maira [Seneca], 2010
15-0 … Michael Hulme [Eastern], 2003
15-0 … David Murname [West Deptford], 2000
15-0 … James Lynch [Deptford], 2019
15-0 … Noah Kriesman [Cherry Hill East], 2022

All-Time New Jersey Outdoor Pole Vault List
17-4 ½ … Adam Sarafian [Ocean Township], 2004
16-6 ½ … Brian O’Sullivan [Hillsborough], 2023
16-6 … Craig Hunter [Robbinsville], 2013
16-5 … Cade Zeolla [West Morris Central], 2025
16-4 ¾ … Brian McSweeney [East Brunswick], 2021
16-4 … Will Nesbitt [Millburn], 1980
16-3 … Bradley Jelmert [Watchung Hills], 2020
16-3 … Owen Keating [Pompton Lakes], 2025
16-1 ¼ … Bill Hartley [Southern Regional], 1976
16-1 … Eric Richard [Bridgewater East], 1981
16-1 … Jordan Pacheco [Morris Hills], 2013
16-0 ¼ … Peter Fagan [Westfield], 2013
16-0 … Andrew Ghizzone [Union Catholic], 2014
16-0 … Kevin O’Sullivan [Hillsborough], 2022
16-0 … Max Zuckerman [Pascack Hills], 2022
16-0 … Ryan Merlino [Oakcrest], 2024
15-9 … Marcus Hood [Deptford], 2025
15-8 … Cade Zeolla [West Morris Central], 2024

The Winslow and Willingboro girls closed out 2025 West Philly Nationals by placing 3^rd and 5^th in the final event of the four-day meet, the championship 1,600-meter relay.

Winslow placed 3^rd in 3:43.75 with freshman Amariah Arango, freshman Jasmine Jackson, sophomore Skyhe Seamon and sophomore Cinniya Robinson, who anchored in 54.74, moving the Eagles up from 5^th to 3^rd on the final lap.

Winslow ran slightly faster on the same track at Penn Relays in April – 3:43.46, which is 10^th-fastest in state history and a South Jersey record.

Willingboro finished 5^th with junior Kaila Speight, senior Nester Wea, sophomore Maya Bolden and sophomore Jade Pinder running 3:45.77. That’s No. 21 in state history and No. 8 on the all-time South Jersey list. The Chimeras’ fastest previous time this year was a 3:47.01 at the Meet of Champions at Pennsauken earlier this month.

This is Willingboro’s fastest time – and actually the fastest Burlington County time – since the Chimeras ran 3:44.64 with at the 2002 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield with Halimah Bashir, Rhea Mann, Channel Hamilton and Okechi Ogbuokiri.

Willingboro earned All-America honors in four events this weekend, with Wea becoming a four-time All-America and Speight, Pinder and Bolden three-time All-Americas. Trinity Brapoh, Sunny Oyibo and Aaliyah Robinson were single All-Americas.

All-Time New Jersey 4-by-4 List
3:35.90 … Union Catholic, 2015
3:38.92 … Union Catholic, 2017
3:40.36 … Columbia, 2013
3:41.03 … Montclair, 1998
3:41.17 … Union Catholic, 2024
3:41.19 … Columbia, 2014
3:42.54 … Columbia, 2010
3:42.59 … Union Catholic, 2016
3:42.97 … Union Catholic, 2019
3:43.46 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:43.3h … Plainfield, 1981
3:43.94 … Willingboro, 2003
3;44.43 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:44.64 … Willingboro, 2002
3:44.67 … Clayton, 2022
3:44.9h … Columbia, 1980
3:45.11 … Union Catholic, 2024
3:45.12 … Trenton, 2001
3:45.41 … Camden, 1995
3:45.67 … Willingboro, 1999
3:45.77 … Willingboro, 2025
3:45.89 … Lawrenceville School, 2025
3:46.04 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:46.13 … Willingboro, 2000
3:46.38 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:46.67 … Winslow, 2018
3:46.71 … Union Catholic, 2023
3:46.73 … Scotch Plains-Fanwood
3:46.85 … Winslow Twp., 2024

All-Time South Jersey 4-by-4 List
3:43.46 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:43.94 … Willingboro, 2001
3;44.43 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:44.64 … Willingboro, 2002
3:44.67 … Clayton, 2022
3:45.41 … Camden, 1995
3:45.67 … Willingboro, 1999
3:45.77 … Willingboro, 2025
3:46.04 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:46.13 … Willingboro, 2000
3:46.38 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:46.66 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:46.67 … Winslow Twp., 2018
3:46.85 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:47.16 … Eastern, 2003
3:47.30 … Willingboro, 2003
3:47.41 … Winslow Twp., 2017
3:47.4h … Camden, 1978
3:47.55 … Camden, 2006
3:48.00 … Wilson, 2001
3:48.17 … Wilson, 2006
3:48.6y … Camden,, 1978
3:48.78 … Lenape, 2014
3:48.7h … Washington Twp., 1999
3:48.87 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
3:48.91 … Penns Grove, 2013
3:49.25 … Lenape, 2015
3:49.2y … Camden, 1979
3:49.30 … Winslow Twp., 2004
3:49.43 … Willingboro, 1997
3:49.53 … Willingboro, 1998
3:49.63 … Winslow Twp., 2016
3:49.01 … Eastern, 2024
3:49.93 … Willingboro, 2009