Mia Brahe-Pedersen

Mia Brahe-Pedersen (born 28 November 2005) is an American track and field athlete from Oregon who competes as a sprinter.

Early life
Brahe-Pedersen was born in Mission Viejo, California to Christian Brahe-Pedersen and Pam Cosper. She moved to Lake Oswego, Oregon, in 2008. She is a senior at Lake Oswego High School where she is coached by John Parks and his sprints assistant, the 2012 Olympian Ryan Bailey. She has been a member of the Inner Circle Track Club (formerly Step Ur Game Up), coached by Hashim Hall since 2018, when she started track.

Career
In 2022, she represented the United States at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. In the semi-finals of the 200m, she set a new personal best time of 22.95s, which also equaled the Oregon state record from 1968, set by Margaret Bailes. She finished seventh in the 100m final and fourth in the 200m final.

Brahe-Pedersen recorded the all-time best high school 200m indoor time of 22.89s at the New Mexico Don Kirby Invitational in February 2023, beating the time of Bianca Knight from 2007. She won the 2023 Indoor National High School Championships titles over 60m and 200m in March 2023. She broke Olympic gold medalist Chandra Cheeseborough's high school 100-yard record at the Oregon Relays in the spring of 2023.

She won the 100m, 200m and was part of the winning 4 x 100m relay at the Outdoor National High School Championships. She ran 11.00 for the 100m, placing her fourth on the high school all-time list behind Shawnti Jackson, Briana Williams and Candace Hill;. Her time of 22.43s to win the 200m was the second-fastest outdoor time in high school history (behind Allyson Felix from 2003).

One of only a handful of high school athletes competing at the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Brahe-Pedersen ran a new personal best time of 11.05s in the heats to reach the semi-finals of the 100m. There she ran 11.09 to qualify for the final in which she ran 11.08 to finish seventh. In the 200 metres, she ran a new personal best time of 22.58s to reach the final. A few weeks later Brahe-Pedersen at the NACAC U23 Championships resulted in gold medals in the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay.

Personal life
Brahe-Pedersen made headlines when she beat her prom date, running 11.08s in the mixed-gender 100m at the Secure Storage Summit Invitational in Bend, Oregon on May 6, 2023.

Sponsorship
In July 2023, Brahe-Pedersen signed an endorsement agreement with sportswear brand Nike. In doing so, she became the first high school track and field athlete to have a name, image, and likeness (NIL) agreement with the company.