Natalie Dumas got her final state Group 4 meet off to a flying start with a meet record in the 800.
Dumas broke a 46-year-old meet record when she ran 2:04.19 to win the 800 in Somerset. That’s just off her season-best 2:04.00 from Icahn Stadium earlier this month. Dumas ran a state-record 2:00.11 when she won West Philly Nationals last June.
Dumas broke the meet record of 2:04.5 hand-timed by four-time Olympian Joetta Clark of Columbia in Piscataway in 1980. That was the oldest Group 4 record on the books.
Dumas won by 80 meters over Addison Hansen of Bergen Tech, who was 2nd in 2:12.54.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 