DyeStat.com – News – Mia Brahe-Pedersen Breaks National High School Record In 200 Meters

Lake Oswego OR Junior Runs 22.89 To Break Bianca Knight’s 2007 Record

By Doug Binder, DyeStat Editor

Mia Brahe-Pedersen, a junior from Lake Oswego High in Oregon, broke a 16-year-old national high school record on Friday at the Don Kirby Invitational at Albuquerque, N.M., turning a lap on the 200-meter banked track in 22.89 seconds. 

Brahe-Pedersen, competing unattached, finished second behind Oregon’s Jadyn Mays, who ran 22.86 for the No. 5 time in the NCAA this year. 

Brahe-Pedersen, who was fourth at the World U20 Championships in the 200 meters last August, had a previous best of 23.43 indoors. 

Bianca Knight’s record time of 22.97, also set at altitude at the Simplot Games in 2007, was one of the longest-standing indoor records for high school indoor track. 

Brahe-Pedersen is entered in the women’s 60 meters on Saturday in Albuquerque and comes in with a personal best of 7.35 seconds that she ran in Boston two weeks ago. 

Oregon’s Alysah Hickey, a former club teammate of Brahe-Pedersen, also had a big day in the same building. She jumped a career-best 22-3.50 (6.79m) to take over the NCAA lead in the long jump.