[14] At the 2004 Tasmanian Athletics Championships, he competed in the under-18 shot put event where he scored a state record with one of his throws.

[5] In 2009, at an Athletics South flagship interclub competition, he won the shot put with a distance of 15.43 m.[4] At the 2012 Tasmanian Track and Field Championships, he had a season's best throw of 16.04 m to win the event.

Competing at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, he won a bronze medal in the Men's Shot Put F20.

[19] On 13 February 2016 at the Briggs Athletics Classic in Hobart, Tasmania, he threw the shot put 16.33 m to break the world record of 16.24 m for the Men's F20 that he set at the 2012 Paralympic Games.

[20] At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in the Men's Shot Put F20 with a throw of 15.82 m. Hodgetts won bronze medal in the Men's Shot Put F20 with a throw of 15.96 m at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England.

[21] At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, he finished ninth inm the Men's Shot Put F20.

England At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, technical officials flagged that Hodgetts and Ecuador's Jordi Congo-Villalba and Malaysian Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli were late to the pre-event call-room.