Nehemiah, Renaldo, 1959-

LC control no.	n 79105232
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Nehemiah, Renaldo, 1959- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Biography/History note	Individual was a Track-and-Field Hall of Fame inductee.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1959-03-24
Place of birth	Newark (N.J.)
Affiliation	University of Maryland, College Park San Francisco 49ers (Football team) George Mason University
Profession or occupation	Track and field athletes Football players Businesspeople
Found in	Pierson, D. Renaldo Nehemiah, 1980 (subj.) t.p. (Renaldo Nehemiah) CIP author info. (b. 3/24/59; nickname, Skeets) Power for sport & fitness [VR] c1999: container (host, Renaldo Nehemiah, former world record holder in the 110-meter high hurdles and player for the 1984 Super Bowl Champion San Francisco 49ers) African American National Biography, accessed March 5, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Nehemiah, Renaldo; track and field athlete, football player, entrepreneur; born 24 March, 1959 in Newark, New Jersey, United States; BA in Arts and Humanities from University of Maryland, College Park (1977-1981); set national high school records, won Track and Field News High School Athlete of the Year (1977); won NCAA sixty-yard indoor high hurdles (1978); broke NCAA record-breaking times in hurdles and the world record (1979); achieved victories at Pan-American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and at World Cup, Montreal (1979); broke his own world record at Weltklasse track meet, in Zurich, Switzerland (1981); moved to professional football, National Football League's San Francisco 49ers (1982-1985); returned to amateur status (1986) and achieved several world rankings (1988-1991); hosted cable network children's exercise show; assistant track-and-field coach, George Mason University; director of track and field sports, marketing company Octagon (2006); was inducted into Track-and-Field Hall of Fame (1997))