Hale, 16, set the nation alight last year, shooting to fame as the fastest kid in Australia and sixth fastest youth athlete in the world.

Now, he will turn his attention to the Freight Bar & Restaurant Ballarat Gift on February 7 and 8.

Handicaps have not yet been released for the Ballarat Gift, but Hale is expected to be one of the back markers.

Ballarat Athletics Club president Alec Wiltshire said luring the famed Tasmanian to the gift was a massive coup for the event.

"We are really rapt to get a young talent like Jack across for the gift," Wiltshire said.

"It shows what a significant and prestigious event the Ballarat Gift is in that we can get such big names like Jack Hale across."

Hale became an athletics sensation in 2014, since crossing from his original passion in long jump.

He broke the Australian 100m under-18 record in September, but his biggest record was still to come.

In December he made headlines across the world when he ran a wind-assisted 10.13 seconds for 100m at the Australian All-Schools championships in Adelaide - the fastest youth time in the world for 2014.

"For a 16-year-old to run the times he is shows he is next big thing in Australian athletics," Wiltshire said.

Hale competed in the Bay Sheffield in Glenelg late last year where he was "devastated" to be knocked out in the semi finals, before being pipped at the post in the final of the Backmarkers Invitational at the Burnie Gift on New Year's Day.

The 120m Ballarat Gift boasts a prize pool of $16,000 in 2015.

Entries close on January 23, with late entries accepted until January 25.