In just two weeks, two Pacific high school track and field records have fallen, the latest to occur last Saturday at Camp Humphreys.

And D’Jhontae Douglas, a junior at Humphreys High School, didn’t just edge out the old 100-meter dash record – he broke it by nearly a quarter of a second.

“He’s on fire,” Blackhawks first-year track and field coach Misty Galamison said of Douglas. He clocked 10.53 seconds on what observers called an “ideal day,” temperatures in the 60s and little to no wind.

And Douglas wasn’t the only runner to top the old record of 10.77, run in 2019 by then-Humphreys freshman Tevijon Williams at the Far East meet. Sean Kwon, a Korea International senior, was timed Saturday in 10.70. Douglas’ senior teammate Javon Foreman was third 10.99.

It takes a team, said Galamison and Humphreys athletics director Ben Pak, to create not just a record-setting runner, but a full unit that both say has a good chance of competing at Far East, May 2-4 at Yokota.

“We may have the two fastest runners in DODEA-Pacific,” Pak said, adding that the two sprinters push each other to do better.

In Wednesday’s meet at Humphreys, this time a cold, blustery day, Douglas won the 100, while Foreman beat out Douglas to win the 200.

Nicknamed “DJ” by his coaches and teammates, Douglas has what Pak calls “a very fast, explosive start, like what you see out of college sprinters. Soon as that gun goes off, he goes out very explosively.”

On March 2 and 9, in frigid conditions at Humphreys, Douglas would get off to his customary fast start, and “Javon would catch up to him,” Pak said. But the stars seemed to align last Saturday.

Douglas “got off to a great start and Javon could not catch him,” Pak said. “And you’re not going to get better times with that weather. It was perfect.”

Douglas is the second DODEA-Pacific athlete to claim a Pacific record in a running event this season.

On March 9 at Yokota, Matthew C. Perry senior Jane Williams, the reigning Far East cross country champion, shattered the girls 3,200-meter record, running 11 minutes, 0.89 seconds, topping the old mark of 11:04.56 set in 2015.

Douglas’ 10.53 stands eighth-best among overseas high school runners worldwide, according to Athletic.net. If he was running in the States, his time would be tied for 36th best nationwide among schoolboy runners.

Though Galamison, known as “Coach G” to her athletes and assistants, is new to coaching Humphreys, she’s not new to coaching track and field. She has built a staff of assistants who coach one aspect of track and field or another, some of whom have collegiate experience.

The goal, she says, is to build not just record runners, but a team capable of capturing its first Far East Division I team title since winning in 2019, the last year prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

“We have a strong team that we’re taking over to Far East,” Galamison said. “The goal is to win Far East.”

The Blackhawks may get a preview of what’s to come at Yokota when they host Kadena and Kubasaki of Okinawa on April 13 in an in-season inter-district meet. “That may be a challenge for DJ and Javon,” Pak said.