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Nejmi Burnside

  • position Hurdles
  • class Sophomore
  • Hometown Nassau, Bahamas
  • position Hurdles
  • class Sophomore
  • Hometown Nassau, Bahamas

Nejmi Burnside Bio

2012: Indoors, competed in the 300m, 400m and 500m…in his only appearance in the 300m, recorded a 36.50…top indoor time in the 400m was at the SEC Indoor Championships where he recorded a time of 49.75…recorded top mark of 1:05.53 in the 500m…Outdoors, competed in the 400m hurdles…logged a time of 53.74 for his best time of the season…competed at SEC Outdoor Championships finishing 18th in the prelims.

2011: Indoors, competed in the 200m and 400m … in the 200m, had a top time of 22.52 to take 23rd at the SEC Indoor Championships … in the 400m, had a top time of 49.20 to take 21st at the SEC Indoor Championships … won the Gamecock Invitational … Outdoors, competed in the 400m hurdles … had a top time of 53.28 to take eight in the prelims at the SEC Outdoor Championships … scored in the final with a time of 55.60 to finish eighth overall.

HIGH SCHOOL: Won the Bahamas national championship in the 400-meter hurdles at a time of 52.48 in Nassau … won the high school division of the Penn Relays and medaled at the CAFIRITA Games … one of three flag bearers for the Bahamas at the IAAF World Junior Championships … top time in the 400m hurdles at 52.23.