Gabby Thomas is having the kind of April that athletes dream about. The American sprint sensation has been cruising through the tracks around the globe like a bullet. Honestly, you couldn’t script a better start to her outdoor season.

After walking away with the Grand Slam Track Title in Long Sprints (i.e., 200m, 400m) and pocketing a cool $100,000 prize, Thomas has spelled danger for the season. However, recently, Thomas wasn’t just focused on her own glory. After nearly three weeks of her Grand Slam Track triumph, she took a moment to celebrate a teammate making waves of her own!

What caught Gabby Thomas’ eye recently wasn’t her own pursuit of athletic immortality, but rather the explosive performance of her teammate Tia Jones. Jones scorched the track at the Texas Invitational on April 25, clocking an astonishing 12.49 seconds in the women’s 100m hurdles despite battling a-0.5 m/s headwind. The performance left competitors Christina Clemons (12.73s) and Alaysha Johnson (12.78s) in her wake, and more importantly, the win catapulted Jones to the top of the 2025 world leaderboard.

Thomas, recognizing the athletic achievement, couldn’t help but celebrate her teammate. Taking to Instagram, she shared the results screen showing Jones’s world-leading time, captioning it simply but powerfully: “World lead into a headwind that’s my teammate @tia.ajones (2x clapping emoji)” with Ari Lennox’s aptly titled “Soft Girl Era” playing in the background.

This Texas win didn’t come out of nowhere for Jones, who had been hinting at something special since early April, when she ran 12.63 seconds against a challenging -1.4 m/s wind at Kingston’s National Stadium. That run placed her fourth on the world list at the time, just behind Grace Stark’s world-leading 12.51 set at the Percy Beard Track in Gainesville just two weeks later.

But it isn’t just Tia Jones lighting up the track, Gabby Thomas is edging toward something monumental, too. Her 2025 campaign has been nothing short of electric, and with each meet, she inches closer to joining the all-time greats on one record.

Gabby Thomas is nearing Allyson Felix’s legendary record

It’s no longer just a hot start to the season, it’s a sprinting statement. Gabby Thomas, the Harvard grad-turned-sprint sensation, is putting together one of those once-in-a-generation seasons that makes you wonder: Are we watching history in the making?

Let’s rewind to early April. Thomas landed in Kingston, Jamaica, for the Grand Slam Track Meet and walked away with a title sweep that turned heads globally. On April 4, she ran a 22.62 in the 200m. The very next day, she lined up for the 400m and lit up the track with a blistering 49.14. That was no ordinary weekend. It was the second-fastest 400m of her career and one of the best seen globally this year. And then, just when you thought she might rest, she headed to Austin, Texas.

At the Texas Invitational on April 25, Thomas took on the 100m, not her strongest suit, at least on paper. But don’t tell her that. She clocked 11.02 seconds into a legal 1.0 m/s wind, holding off Cambrea Sturgis (11.15) and Semira Killebrew (11.29).

Now the big picture: if Gabby Thomas breaks 11.00 in the 100m and 22 in 200m this year, she joins an elite club that includes only Allyson Felix (2008) and Gwen Torrence (1993), the only women in history to go sub-11, sub-22, and sub-50 in the same season.

Felix pulled it off in 2008, with her best times recorded in Doha on May 9: 10.93 in the 100m and 49.83 in the 400m, followed by 10.98 at the U.S. Trials in Eugene on June 27. Her 21.93 in the 200m came later that summer.

Torrence did it in 1993, and incredibly, ran her 10.86 (100m) and 21.92 (200m) on the same day — September 3  in Brussels, while clocking 49.83 in Monaco on August 7.

What do you think? Will Thomas be able to pull off the historic feat? Let us know in the comments below.