Alice Arden (athlete)

Alice Jean Arden Hodge ( born July 23, 1914 in Philadelphia, † 1 March 2012) was an American high jumper.

Alice Arden grew up in Long Iceland on as a child by Ray Arden, an inventor who had filed 400 patents. She started at the school with sports and played basketball, hockey and athletics. Later, she started for the St. George's Dragon Club of New York City and was a champion of physical exercise by women. Even in the former scissor jump technique was three times, so 1933 and 1934, U.S. champion of the Amateur Athletic Union. In 1935, she surpassed with 1.61 meters high jump record of Babe Didriksen. In 1936, she finished second behind Annette Rogers at the U.S. Trials, over which the U.S. athletes for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games qualified in Berlin. She was one of three high jumpers and one of only 15 women of the U.S. team for the games. With a jump of 1.50 meters, she was, together with four other jumpers Ninth initially in the starting field of 13 participants, but moved two years later by the disqualification of intersex Heinrich Ratjen finished eighth on. It was a career highlight and last race for Arden at the same time. After her active career, she belonged in the 1950s to the U.S. Olympic Committee Women's Track & Field Committee.

Four months after the Olympics played the basketball team of their home club in Monticello against the team from Liberty Emeralds. They learned with the semi-professional basketball Russ Hodge know the man, whom she married a year later. The couple had three sons, including the decathlete Russ Hodge Junior. Mother and son were the only U.S. starter in this kinship constellation, each participated in the Olympics. She and her husband operated a dairy farm, a gravel pit and the store Hodge's Fashions in Furniture. The family first lived in Liberty, since 1939 in Roscoe. The couple had been married to Russ' death in 2001, 64 years. Alice Hodge was physically active into old age and was 97 years old. 2003 Mother and son with History Maker award of the Historical Society of Sullivan County were excellent.