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2025-26 Women's Track & Field Roster

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Megan Hodges

  • Height 5-3
  • Events Distance
  • Hometown Aurora, Colo.
  • High School Cherokee Trail
  • Indoor Yr. Redshirt Senior
  • Outdoor Yr. R-Sr.

Biography



CMU Cross Country Bio
TFRRS Career Results Page

Overall Career Honors
  • CMU School Record Holder - DMR (12:09.89)
  • NCAA Championship Qualifier (2024 XC)
  • Second Team All-RMAC - 2025 Outdoor (5K)
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (2024 XC)
  • 3x RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
2025 Outdoor (Redshirt Junior): Ran in six meets, including the RMAC Championships… Contested three different disciplines… Qualified for the RMAC Championships in all three, but chose to focus on the 1,500 and 5K… Placed sixth in the 5K (18:17.12) to earn Second Team All-RMAC honors… Set a season-best and NCAA Championship provisional qualifying time of 16:55.92 in that event at the Bryan Clay Invitational to move to the No. 4 spot of program history… Finished ninth in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:43.83… Went on to set a season-best of 4:31.10 at the Franson Last Chance meet in Azusa, California… Also ranks fourth in program history for that discipline… Also set a career-best of 2:18.45 in the 800 at the Maverick Invitational… Was ranked amongst the RMAC’s top 20 in all three events, standing 16th in the 1,500, 19th in the 800 with her converted time of 2:17.77 and 19th in the 5K… Won the 1,500 at the Chuck Hearing Classic in 4:39.36… Was named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll.

2024-25 Indoor (Redshirt Junior): Ran in five meets, including the RMAC Championships… Helped the Mavs smash the school record in the distance medley relay with a time of 12:09.89 at the Ichabod Invitational… Also ran the lead-off 1,200-meter leg on the Mavs’ RMAC Championship DMR team that placed seventh in 12:31.77, the third fastest in program history and a season-best 12:07.50 with altitude and track size conversions… Also ran the mile at the RMAC Championships, finishing 12th in a season-best time of 5:15.93… Ranks sixth in program history with that time… Ran a 3K time of 10:08.42 at the Ichabod Invitational to rank second in program history as the fastest Maverick in well more than a decade… Named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll.

2023-24 (Redshirt Sophomore): Did not compete during either the indoor or outdoor seasons.

2023 Outdoor (Redshirt Freshman): Ran in two meets, contesting both the 800 and 1,500 meters at each… Had a season-best times of 2:30.44 in the 800 at the CSU Pueblo Open… Had a time of 5:03.21 in the 1500 at the Maverick Invite.

2022-23 Indoor (Redshirt Freshman): Ran in three meets… Ran to a time of 6:05.62 in the mile at the Western Colorado Open before posting a season-best time of 11:47.52 in the 3K at the Mines Winter Classic & Multi.

2022 Outdoor (Freshman): Redshirt season… Competed unattached in three home meets, running the 1,500 meters in each… Posted a season-best of 5:08.19 to finish fourth at the Maverick Invite #2… Also ran the 800 meters in 2:33.48 at the Maverick Invite #1.

2021-22 Indoor (Freshman): Redshirt season.

Prep: 2021 graduate of Cherokee Trail High School… Was a 3-year letter-winner for the Joshua Tate coached Cougars… Earned Second Team All-Centennial League honors in cross country as a senior in 2020… Was a Academic All-State First Team pick in 2019 and the team’s most improved runner in 2018… Finished 10th at both the Centennial League and 5A Region 1 cross country meets as a senior before taking 48th at the state meet… Went on to finish 68th at the AAU National Championships… Set track PRs of 2:24.61 (800), 5:34.15 (1600) and 11:48.72 (3200) during her 2021 senior season.

Personal: Is majoring in nursing… Daughter of Steve and Meredith Hodges… Has two sisters including twin Lauren, who is also on the CMU squad… Younger sister is Taylor… Wants to become an RN and is thinking about becoming a nurse practitioner… Enjoys spending time with family and friends.

Why I Chose CMU: “I chose it because I like the location, I liked the people we met on the cross country team, and I know people who went there and loved it.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2022-23Redshirt Freshman

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2023-24Redshirt Sophomore

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2024-25Redshirt Junior

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2025-26Redshirt Senior

    Distance
    5'3"