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HANNAH HODGES
One of the major contenders in the Girls and Womens classes throughout her storied career as an amateur, Hannah Hodges is no stranger to the spotlight. The Team Green Kawasaki rider has accumulated four Loretta Lynn’s National Championships since the introduction of the Girls (12-16) division in 2013, winning the class three years in succession. Hodges has continued to find success at the Ranch as recently as last year, winning the Women (12+) Amateur class aboard her KX250F in addition to a second place finish in the WMX classification. The 2017 racing season produced loads of success for the rider out
of Millsaps Training Facility as she claimed multiple WMX victories and multiple national titles. The Floridian started the 2018 racing season with
a couple of appearances in the A
class in both Amateur Arenacross and Supercross, logging a pair of top ten finishes in the process.
JEREMY RYAN
2017 was a busy year for Jeremy Ryan as he spent countless hours on the road traveling to various amateur motocross races, from west coast to east. The young Californian established himself as one of the riders to beat in the Super- mini class at the beginning of the 2017 season, besting some of the nation’s top talent in the AMSOIL Supermini Domina- tor class at Motofest in Atlanta in order to land on the podium. Ryan continued his podium form as he moved onto Free- stone Raceway in Wortham, Texas for the JS7 Spring Championship, finishing in third position in the Supermini 2 class. The Kawasaki rider always finds a way onto the podium anytime he lines up on the gate and things were no different at Mammoth Mountain Motocross in July, finishing the weekend with two sec-
onds and a third aboard his Supermini machine. Ryan had some unfortunate circumstances affect his results at Loretta’s, but he bounced back under
the bright lights of the Monster Energy Cup as he put himself on the box in the Supermini class. Ryan ended the 2017 season with a number one plate in the Supermini 2 class at Mini O’s and he’s looking stronger than ever before moving into the 2018 season, exemplified by the multitude of podium finish he’s racked up at the beginning of the year in Monster Energy Amateur Supercross competition.
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