St. Augustine senior Sincere Rhea capped his brilliant indoor track career Sunday with a national championship at the New Balance National Championships.
Rhea and rival and U.S. No. 1 Kurt Powdar of Oscar Smith High in Chesapeake — among among the fastest hurdlers in U.S. track history — lined up next to each other in the final, Rhea in lane 4, Powdar in lane 5, and Rhea easily won, clocking 7.69 while Powdar was unable to finish.
Cameron Harris of Brighton High School in Colorado came up to finish second in 7.81.
Rhea’s best previous finish at nationals was a fourth place in the 110-meter highs last spring with a 13.84 in the trials and a 13.96 in the finals.
In the prelims on Saturday, Rhea shattered long-standing South Jersey records in the 55- and 60-meter highs and moved into the No. 10 spot in U.S. history in the 55 highs and the No. 12 spot in the 60’s.
You can read about that here. https://wp.me/p5uW7L-41Q
Earlier Sunday, he led all qualifiers in the semifinals. You can read about that here: https://wp.me/p5uW7L-429
Here’s the all-time U.S. 60-meter high hurdles list:
ALL-TIME U.S. 60-METER HURDLES LIST
7.40 … Trey Cunningham [Winfield, Ala.], 2017
7.53 … Grant Holloway [Grassfield, Va.], 2016
7.57 … Donovan Robertson [Berea-Midpark, Ohio], 2012
7.59 … Ayden Owens [North Allegheny, Pa.], 2018
7.59 … Chad Zallow [JFK, Ohio], 2015
7.60 … Wayne Davis [Southeast Raleigh, Tenn.], 2009
7.61 … Kurt Powder [Oscar Smith, Va.], 2019
7.62 … Ricky Harris [Centreville, Va.], 2000
7.62 … Deworski Odom [Overbrook, D.C.], 1995
7.62 … Terrance Trammell [Decatur, Ga.], 1997
7.63 … Cory Poole [East Orange, N.J.], 2017
7.64 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine, N.J.], 2019
7.64 … Damion Thomas [Northeast, Fla.], 2017
7.66 … Eric Edwards [una., Texas], 2018
7.66 … Braxton Canady [Paxton School, Fla.], 2016
7.67 … Michael Hancock [George Washington, Colo.], 2008
7.68 … Thavius Nelson [Troup County, Wisc.], 1996
7.69 … Marcus Krah [Hillside, N.C.], 2016
And the all-time New Jersey 55-meter hurdles list:
ALL-TIME N.J. 55-METER HURDLES LIST
7.07 … Cory Poole [East Orange Campus], 2017
7.10 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 2019
6.9h … Renaldo Nehemiah [Scotch Plains], 1985
7.18 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 1996
7.19 … Jermaine Collier [Trenton], 2012
7.22 … Dwight Ruff [Camden], 2001
7.22 … Isaac Williams [Willingboro], 2012
7.29 … Nate Harley [Pleasantville], 1996
7.29 … Danyne Brown [Camden], 1999
7.29 … Will Brown [Palmyra], 2006
7.31 … Akeem Lindo [East Orange Campus], 2018
7.32 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 2018
7.32 … Stephan Fletcher [Princeton], 1983
7.32 … Jon Dickey [Penns Grove], 1985
7.32 … Jeff Porter [Franklin Twp.], 2003
7.32 … Al-Tariq Dunson [East Orange], 2018
7.32 … Isaiah Greene [Newark West Side], 2018
7.34 … Chais Hill [Highland], 2015
7.34 … Devon Hill [Trenton], 2008
Here’s the all-time meet performance list
7.40 … Trey Cunningham [Winfield, Winfield, Ala.], 2017
7.53 … Grant Holloway [Grassfield, Chesapeake, Va.], 2016
7.59 … Chad Zallow [John F Kennedy, Warren, Ohio], 2015
7.60 … Wayne Davis II [Southeast, Raleigh, N.C.], 2009
7.62s …Rickey Harris [Centreville, Clifton, Va.], 2000
7.63 … Damion Thomas [Northeast, Oakland Park, Fla.], 2017
7.63t … Kurt Powder [Oscar Smith, Chesapeake, Va.], 2019
7.64t … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine, Richland, N.J.], 2019
7.66 … Braxton Canady [Paxon, Jacksonville, Fla.], 2016
7.67 … Michael Hancock [Washington, Denver, Colo.], 2008
7.69 … Marcus Krah [Hillside, Durham, N.C.], 2016
7.69 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine, Richland, N.J.], 2019
7.70 … Donovan Robertson [Berea, Berea, Ohio], 2012
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