Freshman Jamir Brown from Riverside, 2nd to teammate Jason Agyemang at indoor nationals, won the 110-meter hurdles Saturday at the NCAA Division 3 Nationals in Geneva, Ohio, this time with Agyemang 2nd.
Brown ran 13.75 and Agyemang 13.82, finishing half a hurdle length ahead of the rest of the field.
It’s Rowan’s 2nd straight 1-2 finish at outdoor nationals. Last year, Kwaku Nkrumah won the race in 13.77 and Agyemang was 2nd at 13.80. Nkrumah did not finish the race Thursday in the semis.
Another Rowan hurdler, junior Anaias Hughes from Willingboro, also earned All-America honors with a 7th-place finish in 14.71.
With the 20 points in the hurdles, Rowan finished with 44 ½ points, their most in 41 years, and placed 3rd , equalling their best team finish since 1984.
Riverside’s Brown joins Leon Devero of Linden [14.42 in 1980], Garry Moore of Overbrook [13.96 in 1981, 13.99 in 1982], Overbrook’s Stanley Moore [14.01 in 1983], Bob Beamon of Paulsboro [14.40 in 1984] and Nkrumah last year as Rowan’s 7th NCAA Division 3 hurdles champion
The last three times a school went 1-2 in the highs and had a 3rd medalist were Glassboro State in 1982 and Rowan in 2024 and 2025.
This is the 4th time Rowan has had three medalists in the same event at Nationals.
In 1981 in Cleveland, Gary Moore [Overbrook], Leon Devero [Linden] and Clayton Davis [Atlantic City] went 1-4-5 in the 110-meter hurdles, in 1984, Don Deckert [Oakcrest], Bob Rimkis [Washington Twp.] and Lennie Hernandez [Memorial-West New York] went 1-2-6 in the steeplechase and last year Nkrumah [Teaneck], Agyemang [North Plainfield] and Marquise Young [Sterling] went 1-2-5 in the 110 hurdles.
(No thanks to Rowan’s track web site on this one. They list All-America picks year by year but not their place or performance. It’s called sports INFORMATION. How about providing some? It would take an hour to update the entire list.)
Rowan’s 3rd-place finish wasn’t solidifed until the final event of the three-day meet. When Wisconsin Oshkosh would have moved into 3rd place with a top-three finish but placed 6th .
Rowan’s 3rd-place finish matches their best since they won their 5th straight title in 1984. They’ve now placed in the top five five straight years and they’ve been 3rd four times the last seven times the meet has been contested.
The Profs went into the meet ranked 6th in Division 3 behind Wisconsin La Crosse, Wisconsin Eau Claire, Wisconsin Oshkosh, Lynchburg and Bethel (Minn.). La Crosse [84 points] and Eau Claire [56] finished 1st and 2nd but Rowan beat three teams ranked ahead of them – Oshkosh [5th with 39], Lynchburg [7th with 25] and Bethel [6th with 35]
Rowan year-by-year team place and scoring
2023: 39 points [t3rd]
1974: None
1975: None
1976: tie 33rd [6]
1977: tie 39th [6]
1978: 2nd [35]
1979: 2nd [44]
1980: 1st [61]
1981: 1st [58]
1982: 1st [119]
1983: 1st [97]
1984: 1st [114]
1985: 8th [27]
1986: tie 35th [6]
1987: tie 37th [8]
1988: tie 39th [7]
1989: tie 30th [9]
1990: 20th [15]
1991: 11th [25]
1992: 20th [14]
1993: tie 12th [16]
1994: tie 52nd [4]
1995: 21st [10]
1996: 9th [17]
1997: tie 8th [25]
1998: tie 5th [35]
1999: 16th [16]
2000: 49th [5]
2001: tie 42nd [6]
2002: tie 40th [6]
2003: tie 43rd [6]
2004: None
2005: 33rd [7 ½]
2006: tie 66th [1]
2007: tie 42nd [5]
2008: tie 69th [2]
2009: tie 29th [10]
2010: tie 17th [14]
2011: tie 12th [18]
2012: 8th [23]
2013: tie 31st [8]
2014: None
2015: tie 43rd [6]
2016: tie 18th [15]
2017: tie 7th [23]
2018: 3rd [27]
2019: tie 40th [7]
2020: Not held
2021: 4th [41]
2022: tie 5th [30]
2023: tie 3rd [39]
2024: tie 3rd [43]
2025: 3rd [44 ½]
All-TIme Rowan NCAA Division 3 Hurdles Medalists
1980: Leon Devero, 1st, 14.42
1980: Clayton Davis, 6th, 14.90
1981: Garry Moore, 1st, 13.96
1981: Leon Devero, 4th, 14.22
1981: Clayton Davis, 5th, 14.40
1982: Garry Moore, 1st, 13.99
1982: Robert Beamon, 2nd, 14.22
1983: Stanley Moore, 1st, 14.01
1983: Anthony Abicca, 3rd, 14.69
1984: Robert (Beamon) Abdullah, 1st, 14.40
1985: Jason Mouring, 3rd, 14.39
1986: Jason Mouring, 6th, 14.68
1987: Jason Mouring, 3rd, 14.54
1996: Linval Lewis, 5th, 14.64
2015: Dave Benjamin, 3rd, 14.00w
2017: Dave Benjamin, 2nd, 14.19
2018: Bobby Cooks, 3rd, 14.24
2019: Tyrone Garland, 3rd, 14.40
2023: Nkrumah Kwaku, 4th, 14.25
2024: Nkrumah Kwaku, 1st, 13.77
2024: Jason Agyemang, 2nd, 13.80
2024: Marquise Young, 5th, 14.21
2025: Jamir Brown, 1st,. 13.75
2025: Jason Agyemang, 2nd, 13.82
2025: Anais Hughes, 7th, 14.71
All-Time Rowan National Champions
1978: Mark Kelly, high jump, 6-11 ¾
1978: Mike Juskus, javelin, 222-8
1980: Tavo Rivera, 800, 1:49.54
1980: Leon Devero, 110 hurdles, 14.42
1980: Derick Adamson, 3,000 steeplechase, 9:01.37
1980: Mike Juskus, javelin, 258-5
1981: Willie Richardson, 800, 1:51.12
1981: Mike Juskus, javelin, 248-8
1981: Garry Moore, 110 hurdles, 13.96
1982: Willie Lawson, 800, 1:50.29
1982: Garry Moore, 110 hurdles, 13.99
1983: Stanley Moore, 110 hurdles, 14.01
1983: Stanley Moore, 400 hurdles, 52.39
1984: Don Deckert, 3,000 steeplechase, 9:00.13
1984: Ron Deckert, 5,000-meter run, 14:13.46
1984: Robert Abdullah, 110 hurdles [co], 14.40
1984: 1,600-Meter Relay [R. Moore, Abdullah, Lambing, Stone], 3:12.40
1985: 1,600-Meter Relay [Adams, R. Moore, Thomas, Lawson], 3:11.57
1992: Mike Boone, javelin, 219-4
1997: Rich Dixon, 400, 47.33
1997: William Cruz, 400 hurdles, 51.67
1998: Rich Dixon, 400, 47.58
1998: Ed Colleton, javelin, 210-4
2011: 1,600-Meter Relay [Maxwell, Purdue, Ejaz, Rooks], 3:11.45
2012: 1,600-Meter Relay [Maxwell, Purdue, Ejaz, Rooks], 3:10.56
2017: Anthony Salemo, 400 hurdles, 51.06
2021: Ahmir Johnson, triple jump, 49-7
2021: 1,600-Meter Relay [Conte, Barbieri, Bishop, Terry], 3:11.81
2024: Kwaku Nkrumah, 110 hurdles, 13.77
2025: Jamir Brown, 110 hurdles, 13.77
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 