Adaejah T. Hodge, 16, smashes World U18 & U20 Records in 200m
The high school junior from Montverde Academy -- just 16 years old, her 17th birthday arriving in 10 days – achieved the world standard with her time of 22.33 seconds.
Hodge, who a year ago competed for the [British] Virgin Islands at the CARIFTA Games and picked up wins in the 100m, 200m and long jump, had run 23.39 prior to this weekend.
She posted a time of 22.77 in the prelims, which broke the high school national record of 22.89, which was set in February by Mia Brahe-Pedersen (also a junior).
"I just came off the curve and just let everything on the track," Hodge said.
[British] Virgin Islands teenage sprint
sensation Adaejah T. Hodge crushed the US National High School Record in
the Girls 200m at the New Balance Nationals Indoor (NBNI) in Boston,
Massachusetts on Saturday, March 11, 2023.
The Virgin Islander Hodge was a
triple-gold medallist at the 49th CARIFTA Games in Kingston, Jamaica in
April 2022, and also won the Long Jump in the Girls U17 Division. She
was then given the most prestigious award of the Carifta Games 2022, the
Austin Sealy Award.
