Rowan junior Jason Agyemang joined teammates Kwaku Nkrumah and Jamir Brown on the all-time NCAA Division 3 60-meter hurdles performance list Friday when he ran 7.87 in the trials of the AARTFC Championships in Ithaca.
Agyemang, from North Plainfield, won his heat in 7.87, 8th-fastest in NCAA Division 3 history. Brown is No. 1 on that list with his 7.72 at Ocean Breeze in December, and Agyemang bumped Nkrumah from the top 10 down to No. 11 on that list with his 7.90 in January at Ocean Breeze.
Moments later, Nkrumah, a junior from Teaneck, won his heat in 7.89, which moved him up from 12th all-time in D-3 to 11th.. Brown won his heat in 7.97.
So Rowan now has three of the 11-fastest indoor hurdlers in NCAA Division 3 history on its current roster. And yes, they will be running a shuttle hurdles this spring.
Another Rowan hurdler, Sterling graduate Marquise Young, won his heat in 7.95, which matched his PR from the NJAC Championships at the Ott Center last month.
Their times are 1st-, 2nd-, 4th- and 6th-fastest in Division 3 this year going into the D-3 Championships in Nazareth, Pa., this weekend.
Here’s what the all-time D-3 performance list looks like with the finals still to come on Saturday [only each athlete’s best performance listed]:
7.72 … Jamir Brown [Rowan], Dec. 6, 2024, Ocean Breeze
7.75 … Luke Campbell [Salisbury], March 15, 2014, Lincoln, Neb.
7.80 … Luke Schroeder [Wisconsin-La Crosse], Feb. 3, 2024, La Crosse, Wisc.
7.82 … Oliver Thomas [Worcester Polytechnic Institute], Feb. 12, 2022, Boston
7.82 … Terrence Gibson [Worcester State], March 15, 2014, Lincoln, Neb.
7.83 … Kendrick Gibbons [Lincoln], 2007
7.85 … Dan Arnold [Wisconsin-Platteville], March 12, 2016, Grinnell, Iowa
7.87 … Taylor Rooney [Gustavos, Adolphus], Feb. 6, 2021, St. Paul, Minn.
7.87 … Jason Agyemang [Rowan], March 7, 2025, Ithaca, N.Y.
7.88 … Dontre Sinegal [McMurry], Dec. 7, 2024, Pittsburg, Kan.
7.89 … Kwaku Nkrumah [Rowan], March 7, 2025, Ithaca, N.Y.
Young is 15th on that list with his twin 7.95s.
Another Rowan hurdler, Michael Lawrence, a junior from South Plainfield, lowered his PR from 8.23 to 8.15 and gives the Profs the top five seeds going into the final, which is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. Saturday.
AARTFC stands for All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 