Riverside’s Jamir Brown punched his ticket to the NCAA Championships with the 2nd-fastest qualifying time in the 110-meter hurdles at the East Prelims in Lexington, Ky.
Brown, a junior at Syracuse, matched his lifetime-best with a 13.25 with a legal 0.3 wind Friday. He’s No. 14 in the world and No. 8 American.
Brown will go into the NCAA Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., as the No. 7 seed in the 110-meter highs behind Auburn junior Ja’Kobe Tharp, who ran 13.05. Tharp is the indoor and outdoor NCAA champion, 3rd-fastest in world history over the 60-meter highs indoors at 7.32 and was a World Championships finalist.
In the West Region in Fayetteville, five hurdlers ran faster than 13.25, including Kendrick Smallwood of Texas, the No. 1 overall seed at NCAAs with a lifetime-best a13.04
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 