Delaware junior Kadence Dumas ran the 3rd-fastest indoor 800 time in Blue Hens history Friday at Penn State.
Dumas ran 2:09.99 at the Penn State National Open in State College, out in 63.95 and back in 65.04.
The only faster times in school history are Michaela Meyer’s school-record 2:03.40 in 2020 and Jeanette Burroughs’ 2:09.61 in 2018.
Dumas’s previous PR was 2:11.03. Outdoors, she’s also No. 3 in school history with her 2:07.30, behind only Holly Manning’s 2:04.82 in 2021 and Meyer’s 2:07.02 in 2019.
At Eastern, Dumas ran 2:10.44 when she won the 2023 Meet of Champions in Somerset, and her indoor best was 2:17.12 at the 2023 state Group 4 meet at the Bubble.
The 800 was only Dumas’s 2nd race this indoor season. She ran a mile PR of 4:56.28 at the Ott Center two weeks ago. That’s No. 9 in school history. Dumas is also No. 5 in school history in the 500 [1:14.92], No. 7 in the 1,000 [2:55.83] and No. 2 in the 600 behind only Lenape graduate Carly Pettipaw [1:33.15]. Outdoors, she’s 7th in the 400 [55.37] in addition to 3rd in the 800.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 