Career
2022-23: World Championship debut
In April 2022, Hodge won the girls’ Under-17 100m, 200m and long jump at the Carifta Games in Jamaica. [6] [7] While attending Montverde Academy in Florida under coach Gerald Phiri, she ran an indoor U20 world record time of 22.33 seconds for the 200m at the New Balance Nationals Indoor in Boston, Massachusetts in March 2023, surpassing the time of 22.40 set in 2008 by Bianca Knight. [8] The time broke the US girls' high school indoor 200m record by more than half a second, and placed her second on the all-time high school all-conditions list, behind Allyson Felix. [9] [10] The race came ten days before her seventeenth birthday. [11]
In April 2023, she set a new national junior record for the 100 metres, running 11.12 seconds. [12] Shortly after, in that same month, she lowered it again, running 11.11 seconds in Lubbock, Texas. [13] In June, she broke the British Virgin Islands senior national record in the 200 metres in Montverde, Florida. Her time of 22.60 seconds broke the previous best of 22.98 seconds held by Tahesia Harrigan-Scott since 2007. [14]
Selected for the 200 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, she ran a time of 22.82 seconds and qualified for the semi-finals. She became only the third-ever women athlete from the British Virgin Islands to achieve this feat. [15] [16]
2024: Olympic debut, World U20 champion
Hodge was part of the Montverde Academy team which broke the US national high school record in the indoor 4x400 metre relay at the VA Showcase in February 2024, alongside Michelle Smith, Alivia Williams and Skyler Franklin. [17]
As an 18 year-old, Hodge competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, over 200 metres, and was the youngest competitor in the event. via the repechage round, Hodge became the first BVI athlete to advance to the Olympic semi-finals in the 200m, running 22.70 seconds to place eighth in her semi-final race, in August 2024. [18] [19]
Later that month, Hodge won the gold gold in the 200 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, running the final in 22.74 (0.0m/s) to finish ahead of fellow Paris Olympian, Torrie Lewis of Australia. Hodge had also previously won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres at the championships, running a time of 11.27 seconds in the final to finish behind Alana Reid of Jamaica. [20] [21] [22]
2025-present
Hodge was named one of seven official ambassadors for the 2025 Junior Pan American Games by Panam Sports. [23]
Having not raced in 2025, Hodge make her debut competing indoors for the Georgia Bulldogs in Fayetteville, Arkansas in January 2026. She ran 7.16 seconds for the 60 metres and set a meeting record of 22.53 seconds for the 200 metres at the Razorback International on 31 January 2026. [24]
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