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Six Ole Miss Men’s Milers to Compete at Boston University
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A majority of the Ole Miss track & field team will head back to Vanderbilt this weekend for the Music City Challenge on Feb. 8-9, while a handful of Rebel men's distance runners head out to Boston for the David Hemery Valentine Invite at Boston University in search of national-qualifying mile times.
TEAM NOTES
• Ole Miss currently has a total of 15 marks or times that rank within the NCAA top-50, nine of which are within the top-25. To qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships, athletes must rank
within the top-16 in their events at the end of the conference championship weekend.
• Ole Miss head coach Connie Price-Smith is in her fourth season. Price-Smith, who was the head women's coach for Team USA at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, is in her 18th season overall as a head coach.
• In four seasons at Ole Miss, Price-Smith has already mentored seven NCAA champions, 54 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 29 SEC Champions and several of the highest SEC and national team finishes ever at Ole Miss -- including the highest SEC Outdoor finish ever for the women in fifth place in 2018.
• Price-Smith's coaching staff all returns as well, with associate head coach Andre Scott (jumps, women's multis), assistant coach Anthony Acklin (sprints, hurdles), assistant coach Brian Porter (pole vault, javelin, men's multis), assistant coach John Smith (throws) and director of operations Sasha Leeth all returning for their fourth seasons at Ole Miss, with associate head coach Ryan Vanhoy (distance) entering his sixth year as a Rebel.
• Indoors, the Rebels return two Second-Team All-Americans, four Second-Team All-SEC members, and three members from the 2018 SEC All-Freshman team.
WOMEN'S NOTES
• Sophomore Shey Taiwo is currently the highest ranking Rebel female on the NCAA list, sitting at No. 11 in the NCAA and No. 3 in the SEC in the weight throw at her career-best 21.47m (70-05.25). That was a two-foot PR from the Vanderbilt Invitational in which she finished behind former Rebel teammate and NCAA Champion Janeah Stewart (24.17m/79-03.75; U.S. lead, No. 10 World history) and Rebel volunteer coach Jeneva Stevens (23.42m/76-10.00; 3rd U.S.).
• Junior Kieshonna Brooks has had a stellar season thus far, holding two marks within the NCAA top-50 at the moment. Her overall career-best in the long jump of 6.18m (20-03.50) sits at No. 18 on the NCAA list and No. 5 in the SEC, while her 150-point PR in the pentathlon at 3,792 points ranks 27th nationally and No. 6 in the SEC. At IU for the Indiana Relays, Brooks set all-time Rebel pentathlete bests in the 60-meter hurdles (8.48) and long jump (6.16m/20-02.50) while setting PRs in the high jump (1.56m/5-01.25) and 800-meter (2:32.06) and a season-best in the shot put (9.80m/32-02.00).
• Freshman Tedreauna Britt already ranks fifth all-time in the shot put (14.87m/48-09.50) and eighth in the weight throw (17.14m/56-03.00).
• Sophomore Clio Ozanne-Jaques currently holds the SEC's fifth-best 3K time at her career-best 9:37.24 from the Indiana Relays.
MEN'S NOTES
• Running the mile in Boston are freshman Cade Bethmann, freshman Mario Garcia Romo, senior Derek Gutierrez, freshman Dalton Hengst, sophomore Everett Smulders and sophomore Waleed Suliman.
• Just one Rebel has ever broken the 4-minute barrier in the mile indoors: Sean Tobin did so in 2018, running a school-record 3:58.28 at the Millrose Games.
• Derek Gutierrez has broken the 4-minute barrier unattached outdoors before, running 3:59.48 at the St. Louis Festival of Miles on May 31, 2018.
• Ole Miss currently has three mile times ranking within the NCAA top-50 from Suliman (23rd, 4:01.00), Gutierrez (43rd, 4:03.23) and Garcia Romo (45th, 4:03.52). All rank within the top-six in the SEC.
• Senior Derek Gutierrez has been a workhorse for the Rebel men, currently ranking in the NCAA top-50 in the 5K (ninth, 13:58.82), 3K (20th, 7:57.78) and mile (43rd, 4:03.23). All are career-bests, with his 5K and 3K times leading the SEC. Gutierrez is one of just four Rebel men to ever break the 8-minute barrier in the 3K.
• Ole Miss ran its first distance medley relay of the season at Indiana, clocking the SEC's top time and the NCAA's fifth-fastest so far this year at 9:38.09. The quartet consisted of Everett Smulders (1200; 2:56), James Burnett (400; 48.1), Waleed Suliman (800; 1:50) and Derek Gutierrez (1600; 4:03).
• Sophomores Waleed Suliman (18th, 1:49.19) and John Rivera Jr. (34th, 1:50.11) both rank within the top-50 in the 800-meter.
• Rebels Allen Gordon and Manny Foster had excellent career days in the long jump at Vanderbilt, with Gordon leaping an indoor career-best 7.69m (25-02.75) and Foster an overall PR of 7.64m (25-00.75). Both fall within the top-30 nationally and the top-10 in the SEC, with Gordon sitting 19th in the NCAA and Foster 29th.
• Outdoors as a freshman, Gordon leapt an NCAA wind-legal 7.80m (25-07.25) at a wind speed of 2.5 meters/second.
• This past week at SIU, Gordon cleared an overall career-best 2.19m (7-02.25), putting him third all-time at Ole Miss.
• Sophomore Peyton Weissmann opened the season with a career-best clearance of 5.20m (17-00.75) in the pole vault, making him one of just four Rebels to have ever cleared 17 feet both indoors and outdoors. He joins Kyle Wallace, Baker Vinci and Olympic bronze medalist, Sam Kendricks.
• That height currently puts Weissmann tied for 44th nationally and eighth in the SEC.
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field and Cross Country, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
TEAM NOTES
• Ole Miss currently has a total of 15 marks or times that rank within the NCAA top-50, nine of which are within the top-25. To qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships, athletes must rank
within the top-16 in their events at the end of the conference championship weekend.
• Ole Miss head coach Connie Price-Smith is in her fourth season. Price-Smith, who was the head women's coach for Team USA at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, is in her 18th season overall as a head coach.
• In four seasons at Ole Miss, Price-Smith has already mentored seven NCAA champions, 54 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 29 SEC Champions and several of the highest SEC and national team finishes ever at Ole Miss -- including the highest SEC Outdoor finish ever for the women in fifth place in 2018.
• Price-Smith's coaching staff all returns as well, with associate head coach Andre Scott (jumps, women's multis), assistant coach Anthony Acklin (sprints, hurdles), assistant coach Brian Porter (pole vault, javelin, men's multis), assistant coach John Smith (throws) and director of operations Sasha Leeth all returning for their fourth seasons at Ole Miss, with associate head coach Ryan Vanhoy (distance) entering his sixth year as a Rebel.
• Indoors, the Rebels return two Second-Team All-Americans, four Second-Team All-SEC members, and three members from the 2018 SEC All-Freshman team.
WOMEN'S NOTES
• Sophomore Shey Taiwo is currently the highest ranking Rebel female on the NCAA list, sitting at No. 11 in the NCAA and No. 3 in the SEC in the weight throw at her career-best 21.47m (70-05.25). That was a two-foot PR from the Vanderbilt Invitational in which she finished behind former Rebel teammate and NCAA Champion Janeah Stewart (24.17m/79-03.75; U.S. lead, No. 10 World history) and Rebel volunteer coach Jeneva Stevens (23.42m/76-10.00; 3rd U.S.).
• Junior Kieshonna Brooks has had a stellar season thus far, holding two marks within the NCAA top-50 at the moment. Her overall career-best in the long jump of 6.18m (20-03.50) sits at No. 18 on the NCAA list and No. 5 in the SEC, while her 150-point PR in the pentathlon at 3,792 points ranks 27th nationally and No. 6 in the SEC. At IU for the Indiana Relays, Brooks set all-time Rebel pentathlete bests in the 60-meter hurdles (8.48) and long jump (6.16m/20-02.50) while setting PRs in the high jump (1.56m/5-01.25) and 800-meter (2:32.06) and a season-best in the shot put (9.80m/32-02.00).
• Freshman Tedreauna Britt already ranks fifth all-time in the shot put (14.87m/48-09.50) and eighth in the weight throw (17.14m/56-03.00).
• Sophomore Clio Ozanne-Jaques currently holds the SEC's fifth-best 3K time at her career-best 9:37.24 from the Indiana Relays.
MEN'S NOTES
• Running the mile in Boston are freshman Cade Bethmann, freshman Mario Garcia Romo, senior Derek Gutierrez, freshman Dalton Hengst, sophomore Everett Smulders and sophomore Waleed Suliman.
• Just one Rebel has ever broken the 4-minute barrier in the mile indoors: Sean Tobin did so in 2018, running a school-record 3:58.28 at the Millrose Games.
• Derek Gutierrez has broken the 4-minute barrier unattached outdoors before, running 3:59.48 at the St. Louis Festival of Miles on May 31, 2018.
• Ole Miss currently has three mile times ranking within the NCAA top-50 from Suliman (23rd, 4:01.00), Gutierrez (43rd, 4:03.23) and Garcia Romo (45th, 4:03.52). All rank within the top-six in the SEC.
• Senior Derek Gutierrez has been a workhorse for the Rebel men, currently ranking in the NCAA top-50 in the 5K (ninth, 13:58.82), 3K (20th, 7:57.78) and mile (43rd, 4:03.23). All are career-bests, with his 5K and 3K times leading the SEC. Gutierrez is one of just four Rebel men to ever break the 8-minute barrier in the 3K.
• Ole Miss ran its first distance medley relay of the season at Indiana, clocking the SEC's top time and the NCAA's fifth-fastest so far this year at 9:38.09. The quartet consisted of Everett Smulders (1200; 2:56), James Burnett (400; 48.1), Waleed Suliman (800; 1:50) and Derek Gutierrez (1600; 4:03).
• Sophomores Waleed Suliman (18th, 1:49.19) and John Rivera Jr. (34th, 1:50.11) both rank within the top-50 in the 800-meter.
• Rebels Allen Gordon and Manny Foster had excellent career days in the long jump at Vanderbilt, with Gordon leaping an indoor career-best 7.69m (25-02.75) and Foster an overall PR of 7.64m (25-00.75). Both fall within the top-30 nationally and the top-10 in the SEC, with Gordon sitting 19th in the NCAA and Foster 29th.
• Outdoors as a freshman, Gordon leapt an NCAA wind-legal 7.80m (25-07.25) at a wind speed of 2.5 meters/second.
• This past week at SIU, Gordon cleared an overall career-best 2.19m (7-02.25), putting him third all-time at Ole Miss.
• Sophomore Peyton Weissmann opened the season with a career-best clearance of 5.20m (17-00.75) in the pole vault, making him one of just four Rebels to have ever cleared 17 feet both indoors and outdoors. He joins Kyle Wallace, Baker Vinci and Olympic bronze medalist, Sam Kendricks.
• That height currently puts Weissmann tied for 44th nationally and eighth in the SEC.
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field and Cross Country, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
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