Netanel Dorothea, Madonna University
Welcome back to the Red Banner Race Report Podcast, featuring sprinter Netanel Dorothea. His performance at the 2026 NAIA Men’s Indoor Track and Field Championships (held March 5–7 in Gainesville, Florida) was a career-defining weekend. He was the only male athlete to win two individual titles, which earned him the NAIA Most Valuable Performer (MVP). Dorothea is one of the few athletes to achieve the indoor sprint double (winning both the 200m and 400m at the same national meet).
His indoor personal best of 46.69 in the 400 meters is faster than almost every national champion in the last decade, placing him solidly in the top 10 all-time for NAIA indoor 400m sprinters.
In the 200, Dorothea has shown incredible range across both indoor and outdoor seasons. His indoor PB of 20.75 (2025) is an extremely rare sub-21-second mark for the NAIA, and he is consistently within a tenth of a second of the fastest times ever recorded in the association's outdoor history: ONLY eight runners in NAIA history have gone sub-21 indoors.
In this episode, we’ll get to know this incredibly fast and friendly athlete who hails from the Netherlands, but currently calls Madonna University in Michigan home.
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