Dumas is entered in the 400 and 800 at Virginia Beach Nationals this weekend. This is the 3rd and as far as we can tell the final indoor “national meet.”
In the 400, Dumas has run in 53.68 this indoor season and 51.14 last spring, 6th-fastest in U.S. scholastic history. It looks like the one faster seed based on times this year is Kadia Rock of SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, who ran a PR 53.51 in a meet in February in Geneva.
Dumas’s indoor PR and South Jersey record is 53.55 from last year’s Meet of Champions win at Ocean Breeze. Dumas won the 400 last year at Virginia Beach Nationals with a 53.66.
Dumas is coming off a fast 2:05.30 indoor PR and South Jersey indoor record, at Armory Nationals. She set the state record of 2:00.11 in June at West Philly Nationals, 5th-fastest in U.S. history.
Dumas is also listed as anchor for Eastern’s sprint medley team, which also includes junior Poetry Anderson, senior Knoelle Whittle and junior Jolie Merhi.
The 400 in Virginia Beach is scheduled for 2:55 p.m. Saturday with the 800 following at 8:45 p.m. The sprint med is 3:50 p.m. Sunday.
Several other South Jersey athletes are entered in the two-day meet, which runs Saturday and Sunday.
You can find the full entries here: https://www.milesplit.com/meets/704187-adidas-track-nationals-2026/entries/1259554
Order of events here: https://adidastfnationals.com/schedule
✔️ Summer Schaeffer of Pennsauken will run the 60 and 200. She ran 7.21 for 55 meters indoors at the Ott Center and 25.30 this past weekend at Boston Nationals.
✔️ Junior Grace Gutowski of Paul VI is entered in the mile. She has a PR of 5:02.06 from Parochial A states last spring in Galloway Township.
✔️ Paul VI senior Giovanna Mantuano from Paul VI will race the two-mile. She ran 10:54.33 over 3,200 meters at the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze.
✔️ Senior Laila Fairweather of Burlington Township is entered in the 60-meter dash and 400. She ran 7.35 for 55 meters at the Bubble and 57.36 at the Ott.
✔️ Haddonfield junior Nina Fisicaro will compete in the pole vault. Fisicaro cleared 11-0 twice indoors and placed 3rd at Group 2 states.
✔️ Junior Timia Waters of Williamstown is entered in the long jump. Her best jump this year was a 17-10 ½ at the Ott in January.
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✔️ Eastern senior Ashton Gage, who has sprinted 6.50, 21.92 and 49.58 this indoor season, is entered in the 200 and 400 and will anchor an Eastern 4-by-2 team and race on the sprint medley.
✔️ Eastern senior Brandon Lamon, who PR’d at 1:56.60 at the Meet of Champions, will race the 800 and anchor Eastern’s SMR.
✔️ Camden junior Jaleel Dickerson-Dempsey, the state Group 2 55 hurdles champ at 7.73, will run the 60-meter highs.
✔️ Jasiah Gibbons of Williamstown, the state Group 4 hurdles champ, is also entered in the hurdles. He ran 7.29 for the 55-meter highs, 11th-fastest in state history. He’ll also run on Williamstown’s sprint med, with Dominic Burgio anchoring, and anchor the Braves’ shuttle hurdles.
✔️ Lenape senior Dev’yne Smith, who hit 45-0 ¼ at the Bubble in January, is entered in the triple jump.
✔️ Bishop Eustace senior Noah Glen, 7th in the pentathlon at Armory Nationals, will compete in the two-day multi in Virginia Beach.
✔️ Thomas Howard Jr. of Rancocas Valley is in the 200. He ran 21.33 at Boston Nationals last year.
✔️ Haddonfield senior Brandon Stoner, the South Jersey Group 2 champ, will race the 800.
✔️ Glassboro senior Jaeden Wesley, 7th in the state Group 1 XC race at Holmdel, is entered in the 3,200.
✔️ Haddon Township junior Kyle Stephens, the South Jersey Group 1 sectional champ, will throw the shot.
✔️ Salem’s Ahmad Tucker, who jumped 19-11 ½ at the Ott, No. 2 freshman in New Jersey this year, will shoot for the 20-foot barrier in the freshman long jump. He’s also running the freshman 55.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 