Jaylen Slade gets a lot of the star attention amongst the track team at the IMG Academy and rightfully so as the high school indoor national record holder at 200 meters as a junior. However, Hannah Douglas is proving to be a worthy female co-star at IMG as well as holding her own among the nation's fastest sprinters.
Today on her home track at the IMG Spring Break Invitational, the senior Douglas recorded the nation's fastest all-conditions 100 and 200 meter dash times at this point of the season with an 11.54 PR clocking in the 100-meter dash and 23.44 personal best performance in the 200-meter dash.
Both performances were wind-aided as IMG and Half Mile Timing had the track set up and ready to run the backstretch of the track in case the home stretch side of the track had to deal with a headwind. So both 100 and 200-meter races for Douglas were run on the backstretch at IMG Stadium.
In the 100 meter dash, Douglas was a late substitute for one of her teammates in a slower heat of the event. So she didn't race head to head against the top section girls that saw I'Asia Wilson (11.79) of Kathleen and Lucheyona Weaver (11.9) of Dunbar both go under 12 seconds in heat one. She knew the times she had to beat though when got in the blocks for heat five and took off to a lifetime best of 11.54 (+2.4 wind) for the top time overall.
In the 200 meter dash, Douglas was seeded with all the top girls in the fast section and never looked back with the lead off the turn to a nation's best 23.44 (+3.8 wind).
After scratching out of the 400 this week to focus on the 200, the unsigned Douglas plans to go after a fast 400 next weekend on her home track in a two-day meet which will include pro, college, and high school competition.