Sixteen-year-old Adaejah Hodge raced to a new World U18 and U20 record in the 200m at the New Balance Indoors High School Championships at the Track at New Balance in Boston on Sunday.
Hodge, who starred at the 2022 Carifta Games in Jamaica where she won the coveted Austin Sealy Award, sped to 22.33 in commanding performance. She won by more than 0.5 seconds over Madison Whyte, who won the silver medal in a time of 23.08.
Elise Cooper was third in 23.42.
"I just came off the curve and just let everything on the track," the Montverde High School junior told MileSplit.
Her school coach Gerald Phiri was equally stunned.
"I don't know when we're going to see athletes like this ever again," he told the track and field website. "I think it's going to be a very long time."
Hodge’s splits were mind-numbing. It took her 6.31s to get to 50m, was at the 100m mark in 11.26 and got to 150 in 17.07.
As a 15-year-old Hodge lit up the track in Jamaica last April when she won the 100m in 11.29 and the 200m in 23.42. In between, she claimed long jump gold and was named most outstanding athlete at the 49th staging of the Games.