Hodge, Oakley Named Finalists for The Bowerman

NEW ORLEANS – Bulldogs Adaejah Hodge and Dejanea Oakley have been named finalists for The Bowerman introduced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Monday afternoon.

Georgia turns into simply the second ladies’s program in historical past to have two finalists for monitor and discipline’s highest particular person honor in the identical season, becoming a member of Texas A&M’s Athing Mu and Tyra Gittens who had been each finalists in 2021. 

Hodge and Oakley additionally be part of Bulldog legend Keturah Orji as the one Bulldog ladies to be named finalists for The Bowerman. Georgia’s 5 all-time ladies’s finalist alternatives– Orji (three), Hodge and Oakley – are tied with Texas and Oregon for probably the most in NCAA historical past. 

Redshirt freshman Adaejah Hodge put collectively one of many prime dash seasons in collegiate historical past, shattering each the 100-meter (10.63) and 200-meter (21.68) sprint information at this yr’s NCAA Outdoor Championships. The British Virgin Islands native claimed NCAA titles within the 200 meters each indoors and open air, completed runner-up within the 60-meter sprint and 100-meter sprint, and helped Georgia’s 4×100-meter relay place third on the NCAA Outdoor Championships, main the Bulldogs to NCAA workforce titles throughout each the indoor and out of doors seasons. In her first collegiate season, she has collected a formidable 37.5 NCAA factors and earned 5 First-Team All-America honors.

Senior Dejanea  Oakley established herself as collegiate monitor and discipline’s prime quarter-miler after setting the collegiate file within the 400-meter (48.79) on the NCAA Outdoor Championships a couple of weeks in the past. The Clarendon, Jamaica native claimed each the indoor and out of doors 400-meter titles. During her indoor marketing campaign, she clocked a 35.94 end within the 300-meter turning into solely the fourth collegiate lady to run sub-36. Oakley additionally anchored Georgia’s 4×400-meter relay to a runner-up end on the NCAA Outdoor Championships, serving to her squad submit the second-best time in collegiate historical past at 3:20.96.

Fan voting for The Bowerman begins Tuesday, June 30, on The Bowerman’s web site and runs by Thursday, July 2.

 

Hodge and Oakley shall be honored throughout the annual USTFCCCA Convention on Thursday, Dec. 17, on the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. One of the Bulldogs will hope to take residence collegiate monitor and discipline’s highest particular person honor throughout The Bowerman Presentation that night.

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