“One day Adaejah will be the fastest woman in the world” — Wheatley

(JTV News) — Natalio Wheatley, the Seventh District candidate for the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) in the upcoming elections, believes Adaejah Hodge will one day dominate women’s sprinting on the international level.

Hodge, who won three gold medals in the 100m, 200m, and long jump for the territory at the 2022 Carifta Games, is just a high school junior, representing Montverde Academy in Florida, USA.

But her time of 22.33 seconds over the 200m at the New Balance Nationals Indoor in Boston on March 12 is a standard that can best many senior women in the world. She had also broken the old record of 22.89 with a run of 22.77 seconds in the preliminaries at the New Balance meet.

Although awaiting official ratification, 22.33 is a world under-20 record, a US national high school record, and a British Virgin Islands national record.

Wheatley, like so many have been predicting for the past three years, believes that Hodge is on the rise to one day become the fastest woman alive.

“I have said it before, and I will say it again,” Wheatley wrote on his Facebook profile. “One day Adaejah will be the fastest woman in the world.”

Wheatley, who will be seeking to get back into the Premier’s chair after the April 24 polls, said Hodge, who recently turned 17, has a bright future.

“I am so proud of this young superstar! The future is bright, and Adaejah’s name is all over it! Congratulations!” he said.