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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Ole Miss Track & Field Adds Three More
2/21/2012 | Track and Field
Feb. 21, 2012
OXFORD, Miss. - Head coach Joe Walker has announced the addition of three more student-athletes that will join the Ole Miss track and field team for the 2012-13 academic year.
High school seniors Haley Cox (Madison, Miss.) and Racquel Moses (Baltimore, Md.) and junior college standout Orlando Ezell (Opelika, Ala.) bring the 2012 Ole Miss track and field signing class to six. Previously signing with the Rebels were Asia Cooper, Catie Daigre and Hunter Harrison.
"We are really excited about this group of new signees and feel like each one of them will make a valuable contribution to Rebel Track and Field," Walker said. "They are quality people off the track and each of them has a huge upside that should come to fruition here at Ole Miss."
Haley Cox is a senior at Madison Ridgeland Academy in Madison, Miss. She won the 2011 MAIS overall state meet with a long jump of 18-7 her junior year, which broke the overall Mississippi private school record that had lasted 40 years. She also placed third in the 200 and fourth in the 100 at the state meet. As an eighth grader, she broke a 26-year-old AAA record with a jump of 18-0.25. In the 10th grade, she again broke that record with an 18-3 leap.
Racquel Moses is a senior at Milford Mill High School in Baltimore, Md. She was the Baltimore County 2011 Indoor Athlete of the Year after finishing runner-up at the state meet in the 55-meter hurdles. She also placed second in the 2011 state outdoor meet as a member of the Milford Mill 4x200-meter relay team. As a sophomore, she was the 300-meter hurdles state runner-up. She has a personal best of 1:00.80 in the 400-meter hurdles. Already during the 2012 indoor season, she has won the county and north regional championships in the 55-meter hurdles.
Orlando Ezell is a sophomore at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College and will have two years of eligibility when he arrives at Ole Miss. In his freshman season in 2011, he was named an NJCAA All-American in the indoor and outdoor long jump as he placed fifth at the national indoor meet and seventh at the outdoor championships. Ezell was a three-time 6A state long jump champion while at Opelika High School in Opelika, Ala, and won the Mobile Meet of Champions in 2010. He boasts a personal best of 25-1.75 in the long jump, accomplished during his freshman year at Coffeyville.
