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2025-26 Track & Field/XC Roster

AJ Henderson - Georgia Southern Athletics
AJ Henderson - Georgia Southern Athletics
AJ Henderson - Georgia Southern Athletics
AJ Henderson - Georgia Southern Athletics

Kennedy Hood

  • Position Sprints/Jumps
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Rex, Ga.
  • High School Morrow

Biography

HONORS AND AWARDS
2024-25 CSC Academic All-Dsitrict Team
2025 Second Team Outdoor All-Sun Belt
GS Dean's List Spring 2025
2023-24 CSC Academic All-District Team 
GS Dean’s List Spring 2023
2022-23 Sun Belt Conference Academic Commissioner's List

Junior (2024-25): Indoor: Competed in all four meets • Moved to fourth all-time in the indoor long jump with a mark of 6.09m at the Bob Pollock Invitational • Finished 12th in the long jump at the Sun Belt Indoor Championship. Outdoor: Competed in eight events • Took home a silver medal in the long jump at the SBC Outdoor Championships, jumping to a mark of 6.11m, the fourth-best in school history • Earned Second Team Outdoor-All Sun Belt • Placed 39th at the NCAA East Regional in the long jump.

Sophomore (2023-24) – Indoor: Placed fourth at the SBC Indoor Championships in the long jump and set a personal best with a mark of 5.93m • Ran a personal best in the 60 meter dash with a mark of 7.68 at the SBC Indoor Championships Outdoor: Competed in four events • placed eighth in the long jump at the Sun Belt Outdoor Championships

Freshman (2022-23) – Indoor: Competed in three meets • Best score in long jump was 5.92m in the Bulldog Open • Outdoor: Competed in six meets • Best score in the long jump was 5.83m at the Sun Belt Championship • Best time in the 100 was 11.91 at the USC Open • Best time in the 200 was 25.41 in the Georgia Southern Classic.

Prep: Lettered for Coach Jerome Weaks at Morrow High School • Club team is Heart of Georgia with Coach Darion Thomas • Finished fourth in the long jump in the 2021 GHSA AAAAAA championship meet • Personal Bests: 100 - 12.08 | 200 - 25.87 | LJ – 19’0.

Personal: Born Kennedy Saniah Hood Jan. 16, in Rex, Georgia • The daughter of Thaddeus and Yolanda Hood.

Major: Plans to major in exercise science.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Freshman

    Sprints/Jumps
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    Sprints/Jumps
  • 2024-25Junior

    Sprints/Jumps
  • 2025-26Senior

    Sprints/Jumps