At the 2024 U.S. trials, Regan Smith set a new world record in 100-meter backstroke in long course. “I spent the last two years and a half being this close to it. I knew I was good enough that I ...

In 2019, at 105 years old, she set a new world and U.S. record in the 100-meter race at the Louisiana Senior Games in Hammond. She is the first woman and first American to set a Masters Track ...

Hawkins earned her nickname in 2017 at the age of 101 by becoming the oldest woman to compete in the National Senior Games 50- and 100-meter dash events, records she would break only two years later.