Riverside’s Jamir Brown won his 1st outdoor conference title Saturday and ran the 9th-fastest time in the world this year at the ACC Championships in Louisville.
Brown, who PR’d with a 13.28 in the trials, ran a wind-legal 13.25 in the final at Owsley B. Frazier Cardinal Park at the University of Louisville, breaking the school record he shared with Jaheen Hayles, who ran 13.28 in Austiin in 2023.
The race was delayed 3 ½ hours by a thunderstorm that struck after the runners had initially warmed up
Brown’s time is tied for 5th-fastest ever by a New Jersey native and fastest in 14 years, since Jeff Porter of Franklin ran 13.08 at the 2012 USATF Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene. He’s 6th-fastest American this year and 5th-fastest collegian.
He’s 6th on the 2026 U.S. list and 7th on the 2026 collegiate list but 4th among hurdlers with wind-legal times.
As a freshman at Rowan last year, Brown set the NCAA Division 3 record of 13.60 in the trials of the NJAC Championships in Ewing, but he didn’t race in the final. So this is his first outdoor conference title.
Brown outraced Florida State hurdlers Zach Extine [13.32] and Andre Korbmacher [13.36] in the final. Extine was the NCAA runner-up last year as a junior at Arizona State.
Brown joins Donald Pollit in 2014, Freddie Crittenden in 2016 and 2017 and Hayles in 2024 as the 4th hurdler to win a conference title since Syracuse joined the ACC in 2014.
All-Time New Jersey Hurdles List
12.93 … Renaldo Nehemiah [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], Aug. 19, 1981, Zürich
12.94 … Jack Pierce [Woodbury], June 22, 1996, Atlanta
13.08 … Jeff Porter [Franklin Twp.], June 30, 2012, Eugene, Ore.
13.08 … Anwar Moore [Camden], May 5, 2007, Modesto, Calif.
13.25 … Dudley Dorival [Ewing], Aug. 9, 1995, Edmonton, Alberty [Canada] [-0.3]
13.25 … Jamir Brown [Riverside], May 16, 2026, Louisville [+0.7]
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 