TREY HARDEE

TREY HARDEE

Event: Decathlon
Height: 6-5
Weight: 210
PR: 8,790 points (2009); Day 1 (4454) - 10.28, 7.75m, 14.75m, 2.04m, 47.76;
Day 2 (4080) - 13.71, 52.68m, 5.30m, 63.69m, 4:42.61
Born: Feb. 7, 1984 in Birmingham, Ala.
Current Residence: Austin, Texas
High School: Vestavia Hills (HS) '02
College: Mississippi State '04; University of Texas '06
Coach: Mario Sategna
Agent: Paul Doyle
Club: Nike


Career Highlights: 2009 World champion; 2009 USA champion; 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up; 2006 NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year; 2005 NCAA Outdoor champion; 2004 NCAA Outdoor runner-up; NCAA decathlon record holder

Hardee won the decathlon at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin with a new personal best and world leading score of 8,790 points, which bettered his previous PR of 8,534 by a whopping 256 points. Hardee posted a winning margin of 150 points over silver medalist Leonel Suarez of Cuba. With his performance in Berlin, Hardee is now the #3 all-time American in the decathlon behind only Dan O'Brien and Bryan Clay. Hardee joins O'Brien (1991, 1993, 1995), Tom Pappas (2003) and Clay (2005) as the only Americans ever to win the world decathlon title. Hardee won his first ever national decathlon title with his win at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships in totaling 8,261 points. Hardee came up with the performance of his life at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials finishing second in with a total of 8,534 points, which surpassed his previous personal best of 8,371 points set at the 2008 Texas Relays. Hardee ended the 2008 season ranked top ten in the world for the first time in his career (#5) by Track & Field News. At the 2006 Texas Relays, Hardee set an NCAA record in the decathlon with 8,465 points, which was the second-best decathlon tally by an American that season. On the first day of the decathlon, Hardee scored 4,399 points. By day two, he clocked a personal-best time of 13.83 in the hurdles, topping his previous top mark by one quarter of a second. He added his second victory in the next event, the discus, with a mark of 158-3. He topped his personal best in the pole vault by four inches with a clearance of 17-0.75. Competing in his first javelin event of the season, Hardee added another personal best and his eighth victory of the meet, winning the javelin with a toss of 196-10. At the New Mexico Multi-Events Meet in Albuquerque, he won with 6,208 points in the indoor heptathlon, surpassing the NCAA record of 6,136 points set at the 2004 NCAA Championships by then-UT freshman Donovan Kilmartin. In his junior year at the University of Texas, he posted a UT record score of 7,881 points, with the aid of four personal bests, to win the decathlon at the NCAA Championships. While at Mississippi State, Hardee set a Mississippi State record of 8,041 points while finishing second in the decathlon at the NCAA Championship. Hardee placed first at the 2004 SEC Championships with an overall 7,480 points.

2009: World champion (8,790WL, PR)...USA Champion (8,261)...2nd at Gotzis (8,516)
2008: Olympic Trials runner-up (8,534PR)…was in 4th place prior to dropping out of Olympic Games following no mark in pole vault…1st at Texas Relays (8,371)…ranked #5 in world, #2 U.S. by T&FN…best of 8,534.
2007: Did not compete.
2006: 9th at NCAA Outdoors (7,263)…1st at Texas Relays (8,465 CR)…did not compete at AT&T USA Outdoor Champs…7th in long jump at NCAA Indoor champs (7.75m/25-5.25)…1st in heptathlon at New Mexico Multi (6,208 CR)…ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 8,465.
2005: 1st at the NCAA Championships (7,881 pts)… 1st at Texas Relays (7,839 pts)…5th in the 4x100m at the Penn Relays (40.23)…2nd in the heptathlon at the Houston Indoor (5,633 pts)…2nd at the Big 12 Championships in the heptathlon (5,723 pts)…3rd at the NCAA Championships in the heptathlon (5,859 pts).
2004: 2nd at the NCAA Championship (8,041pts)… 1st at the SEC Championship (7,480 pts)…1st at NACAC U23 (7,218).
2003: 5th at the NCAA Outdoor Championship (7,468)… 3rd at the SEC Championship (7,544)… 7th at the SEC Indoor Championships in pole vault (16-8 3/4).


9/9/09
Courtesy USATF