YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT NATALIE DUMAS JUST DID!!!!!!! 6TH-FASTEST 400 HURDLES TIME IN U.S. HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY AND ANOTHER NATIONAL TITLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The remarkable Natalie Dumas won another national title in the intermediate hurdles Friday and she did it with the 6th-fastest time in U.S. scholastic history.

Dumas, a junior at Eastern, needed to run that fast at West Philly Nationals at Franklin Field to hold off Sydney Sutton of the Bullis School in Potomac, Md., who was 2nd in 56.04. That’s the 8th-fastest time in U.S. history.

Dumas is now a back-to-back national champ, but she ran nearly 2 ½ seconds faster Friday than her winning time of 58.32 at last year’s meet.

Her time is fastest by any U.S. girl since four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin of Union Catholic ran 53.32 at 2017 USATF Championships in Sacramento.

It’a 2nd-fastest all-time among high school juniors, behind McLaughlin’s 54.15 at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, where she placed 3rd.

And it’s 2nd-fastest ever in a high school-only race behind McLaughlin’s 55.87 at 2015 Greensboro Nationals.

Dumas broke the South Jersey record of 56.83 – then the state record – set by Winslow’s Krystal Cantey when she won 2005 Greensboro Nationals almost exactly 20 years ago – June 18, 2005.

It’s also 4th-fastest ever by a New Jersey native, behind McLaughlin’s world-record 50.37 last August in the Olympic final in Paris, Paul VI graduate Aliya Garozzo’s 55.77 in Durham, N.C., in April, and a 55.78 by Rancocas Valley’s Tonya Lee in Walnut, Calif., in 1996.

Dumas is now No. 58 in the world this year and No. 17 among all U.S. women. She’s No. 11 on the all-time U.S. Under-20 list.

All-Time U.S. Scholastic 400-Meter Hurdles List
53.32 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2017
55.20 … Leslie Maxie [Mills, Millbrae, Calif.], 1984
55.20 … Anna Cockrell [Providence Day School, Charlotte, N.C.], 2016
55.76 … Lashinda Demus [Long Beach (Calif.) Wilson], 2001
55.96 … Ebony Collins [Long Beach (Calif.) Wilson], 2005
55.99 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025
56.00 … Lauren Hoffman [Battlefield, Haymarket, Va.],. 2023
56.04 … Sydney Sutton [Bulls School, Potomac, Md.], 2025
56.16 … Brandee Johnson [Nansemond River, Suffolk, Va.], 2016
56.16 … Akala Garrett [Harding, Charlotte, N.C.], 2022
56.36 … Britton Wilson [Mills Godwin, Henrico, Va..], 2019
56.66 … Michelle Smith [Monteverde (Fla.) Academy], 2023
56.80 … Kellie Roberts [Central, Seat Pleasant, Md.], 1986
56.82 … Sheena Johnson [Woodbridge, Va.], 2000
56.83 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2005
56.85 … Michelle Smith [Monteverde (Fla.) Academy], 2024
57.09 … Dalilah Muhammad [Cardozo, Queens, N.Y.], 2007
57.20 … Ryann Krais [Methacton, Eagleville, Pa.], 2007
57.21 … Jackie Coward [Knoxville (Tenn.) West], 2007
57.21 … Jade Miller [Great Oak, Temecula, Calif.], 2013
57.24 … Braelyn Baker [Bear Creek, Woodinville, Wash.], 2024
57.25 … Nicole Leach [West Catholic, Philadelphia], 2005
57.30 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025 [#19]
57.31 … Jasmine Robinson [North Cobb, Kennesaw, Ga.], 2024

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