Don’t let the tutu fool you — Milla Bizzotto is one badass little girl.
The 53-lb. 9-year-old from South Florida is making headlines as the youngest competitor to complete the Battlefrog race BFX24, a 24-hour obstacle course designed by the U.S. Navy. She raced 36 miles, swam eight kilometers and completed 25 obstacles, such as a rope climb, crawling under barbed wire through mud and scaling a 12-foot wall, for six laps.
She slept between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the race, and was the only competitor under 18.
Bizzotto says she got into fitness after being bullied by her classmates.
“People would call me names and say I wasn’t a good player,” the girl told the Miami Herald. “I didn’t want anyone else to go through what I did. I want to set an example and show other kids that they can do or be anything they want.”
She began training with her father, Christian, who runs a gym, and started training five days a week, three hours a day to prepare for the race. She previously completed a Spartan race with her grandma and father.
Bizzotto hopes her accomplishment will help fellow members of the “iPad generation” get up off the couch and go outside and play.
She adds: “I love what I do. I want to do it forever.”