lol at this bachelorette style selection process. just say where you're going when you make a decision. kids can't do anything without making it a spectacle these days. anything for the dopamine rush of instagram likes at every possible opportunity.
You are comparing University of Miami football to the absolute bottom barrel of big 10 track athletics. Yes there is talent in jersey but Rutgers is not even in the same wheelhouse to have the pull to attract a once of a lifetime athlete like Dumas. Carl Lewis went to Houston to get coached by Tellez and the rest was history.
Also you don’t think that is already Rutgers entire strategy for recruiting? It’s all they do. Their whole job is trying to convince Jersey kids that are better than their program to stay and train in a trash city, versus programs with more successful coaches in places with far more favorable training environments and WAY more successful teams.
What does Rutgers have for Dumas? Great you stay in home in Jersey. You get to wake up in beautiful New Brunswick and train with nobody because their entire girls team is nowhere near Dumas and she still has a year left of high school to continue getting faster than all of them. She’s ELEVEN seconds faster than the nearest 800 girl on her best day this past outdoor season.
I for one am even surprised she has Duke and Vanderbilt even on the post. Those two programs should use that in itself to even take as a win.
Does anyone know what Dumas does in the fall? Does she run XC? Soccer(it is a fall sport in NJ)? or nothing?
Last fall Dumas ran xc and she said that she was going to run xc this fall too. (But she was kind of worn out after the USA Championships, so it's possible that she could start her xc season a little later this year.)
Does anyone know what Dumas does in the fall? Does she run XC? Soccer(it is a fall sport in NJ)? or nothing?
I think she played soccer the first two years. Last fall she ran XC - and ran very well for a 400/800 runner - 18:49 on a fairly flat course and 20:26 on a very challenging course (Holmdel). I think I read somewhere that she was not 100% (sick) for a good part of the XC season. She also ran 4:55 in her one 1600 race of the spring.
That list is all over the place. How is UM on that list? Where does NIL come into the track recruiting space now? We are living in a world of football and basketball handing out money to entice recruits but we have to idea what is allocated to other sports. Does her Nike deal then guarantee she does to a Nike school?
Does her Nike deal then guarantee she does to a Nike school?
No, Natalie Dumas doesn't have to go to a Nike school. There are a lot of runners who have NIL deals from a different sponsor than the sponsor of their school's team.
Like many who post here! ND is not a student…. Title says it all…ND, if not a phenomenal athlete she likely could not be admitted to any of those schools…..choosing NEP over NB/NIL shows someone is on the ball…NEP/NIKE will do more for her than anyone else…..just ask Cooper who asked to remain a NEP athlete!
I'm not sure how into academics Natalie Dumas is. She keeps claiming she's bad at school but maybe that's just a joke she likes to tell.
She did say in a recent interview she wants to go to a college that will help her get into the Olympics. Arkansas student athletes got 7 track and field medals at the 2024 Olympics which is pretty darn good.
I didn't know that. If she's not very bright then Arkansas is probably a perfect school for her.
Intelligence aside, she is seriously Olympic-gold type talent. Even if that doesn't work out, she can always refocus and go back to school somewhere more academically-minded with the track money someone of her talent level will presumably make.