After a series of close calls and wind interference during the 2022 high school season, Lake Oswego’s Mia Brahe-Pedersen finally gets to take home the title of Oregon’s fastest female sprinter after an electric showing at the 2022 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships on Friday afternoon at Hayward Field.
Brahe-Pedersen, competing as a member of The Inner Circle Track Club, finished the first round of the women’s 100-meter dash in 11.25 seconds.
The previous Oregon record was set by Churchill’s Margaret Johnson-Bailes, who ran a 11.30 in 1968.
The Lake Oswego incoming junior won four state championships (100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, 4x100-meter relay and 4x400-meter relay) in her first official high school state meet, and helped the Lakers take home the Class 6A team title.
She also had several close attempts at the Oregon record during her sophomore season. At the Wilsonville Invitational on April 16, Brahe-Pedersen set a new Class 6A record of 11.43 seconds. At the Oregon Relays just a week later, Brahe-Pedersen would hit a new personal best of 11.34 seconds. At the OSAA State Championships, Brahe-Pedersen finished with a jaw-dropping time of 11.09 seconds, but there was no record because of a 3.2 meters per second wind.
In the championship round, Brahe-Pedersen finished second in 11.09. The time is not eligible for a record because of 2.7 meters per second of wind.
Brahe-Pedersen was not the only Oregon competitor in the women’s 100-meter race. Roosevelt alumna Lily Jones finished fifth during the prelims in a new personal best of 11.41. She was sixth in the finals with a wind-aided time of 11.37. Jones will be running for the Oregon Ducks in the 2022-23 school year.
Shawnti Jackson, running unattached out of Raleigh, North Carolina, won the women’s 100-meter dash with a time of 11.07.
On Thursday, Summit alumna Kohana Nakato, now competing collegiately for the University of Oregon, won the championship in the women’s javelin throw with a final of 157 feet, 10 inches.
The USATF U20 Outdoor Championship will continue at Hayward Field through Saturday.
-- Nik Streng, nstreng@oregonian.com, @NikStreng
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