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Ole Miss Track & Field Treks to Texas for NCAA Outdoor Championships
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Competition Runs June 5-8 at Texas’ Mike A. Myers Stadium
AUSTIN, Texas – The Lone Star State awaits Ole Miss track & field, which will be represented by 10 student-athletes in nine events on the biggest stage of the year at the NCAA Outdoor Championships – this year held at the University of Texas' Mike A. Myers Stadium from June 5-8.
The finest athletes in Division I will descend upon Austin this week for the four-day meet, which is split into men's competition (June 5 & 7) and women's competition (June 6 & 8). To get to this point, student-athletes needed to qualify for their respective NCAA Regional Preliminary Round Championship (East or West), and then needed to finish within the top-12 of their events at the regional meet in order to punch their ticket to Texas. Athletes competing in either the decathlon or heptathlon needed only to finish within the top-12 nationally by the end of the regular season.
Those 24 total athletes will not only be competing for team or individual national championships, but also to grasp one of the coveted top-eight scoring spots for First-Team All-American status. Places nine through 16 receive Second Team All-American honors, and the remaining eight competitors receive Honorable Mention All-American distinction.
This marks the first time that Texas has hosted the NCAA Championships since 2004, as well as the first year since 2012 that the national meet has not been held at Oregon due to the demolition and subsequent renovations of Hayward Field for the 2021 IAAF World Championships. Texas has hosted the NCAA Championships six times prior to 2019 (1957, '74, '80, '85, '92, 2004).
Ole Miss will look to add onto an already impressive history at the national meet. Across both the men's and women's indoor and outdoor seasons, 21 Rebels have won NCAA titles and 164 have earned First-Team All-American honors, while as a team Ole Miss has tallied 28 top-25 team finishes and scored 591.5 total national points. In four years under head coach Connie Price-Smith, seven Rebels have won NCAA titles, 34 have earned First-Team All-American honors, five Rebel teams have finished in the top-25 and have scored 111 total NCAA points.
The four Rebel men's qualifiers will compete on Wednesday to open the action, with the duo of sophomore Waleed Suliman and freshman Dalton Hengst running in Heat One of the men's 1500-meter prelims at 6:46 p.m. CT to open the meet for Ole Miss. This is the first trip to the outdoor national meet for both Rebels. Suliman, the reigning SEC Champion, enters with the NCAA's sixth-best time at 3:38.72
Also competing on Wednesday include sophomores Allen Gordon in the long jump (8 p.m. CT) and John Rivera Jr. in the 800-meter prelims at 8:14 p.m. CT.
Thursday will be a busy day of women's action for the Rebels. The Ole Miss record 4x100-meter relay of Kelly Rowe, Jayda Eckford, Kaira Simmons and Brandee Presley will run in Heat Three of the prelims at 7:02 p.m. The quartet – comprised of three freshmen and a jumper – have broken the school record twice this year, punching their ticket to Austin on their most recent record of 43.45.
Presley (100-meter prelims, Heat Three, 8:16 p.m. CT) and Eckford (200-meter prelims, Heat One, 9:14 p.m. CT) will also run in individual prelims on Thursday. Other Rebels in competition on Thursday include senior and seven-time NCAA qualifier Lindsey Murray in the women's pole vault (7:30 p.m. CT) and sophomore Lisa Vogelgesang in Heat One of the women's 3000-meter steeplechase prelims at 7:32 p.m. CT.
Competition on Friday and Saturday will vary based on finals qualifying for the track events.
See below for more detailed information on the national qualifiers and the NCAA Championships. Fans can watch all four days of action live on the ESPN family of networks, including specific live streams of individual field events in addition to the main broadcast.
Broadcast Schedule (all times Central)
All events outside of the live network windows will be streamed live ESPN3. A full broadcast schedule can be found HERE
Men's Day One (Wed., June 5)
ESPN2: 4:30 p.m. CT
Men's Long Jump Live Stream: 6 p.m. CT
Women's Day One (Thurs., June 6)
ESPNU: 7 p.m. CT
Women's Pole Vault Live Stream: 7:30 p.m. CT
Men's Final Day (Fri., June 7)
ESPN: 7:30 p.m. CT
Women's Final Day (Sat., June 8)
ESPN2: 5:30 p.m. CT
Men's Entries (4)
Dalton Hengst – Men's 1500-Meter (Heat 1) – Wed., June 5 – 4:46 p.m. CT
Waleed Suliman – Men's 1500-Meter (Heat 1) – Wed., June 5 – 4:46 p.m. CT
Allen Gordon – Men's Long Jump (Flight 1) – Wed., June 5 – 6 p.m. CT
John Rivera Jr. – Men's 800-Meter (Heat 3) – Wed., June 5 – 6:14 p.m. CT
Women's Entries (5)
Women's 4x100-Meter Relay (Heat 3; Rowe, Eckford, Simmons, Presley) – Thurs., June 6 – 7:02 p.m. CT
Lindsey Murray – Women's Pole Vault (Flight 1) – Thurs., June 6 – 7:30 p.m. CT
Lisa Vogelgesang – Women's 3000-Meter Steeplechase (Heat 1) – Thurs., June 6 – 7:32 p.m. CT
Brandee Presley – Women's 100-Meter Dash (Heat 3) – Thurs., June 6 – 8:16 p.m. CT
Jayda Eckford – Women's 200-Meter Dash (Heat 1) – Thurs., June 6 – 9:14 p.m. CT
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DALTON HENGST • MEN'S 1500-METER • WED., JUNE 5 • 4:16 PM • HEAT 1
Class: Freshman
Hometown // High School: York, Pa. // Commonwealth Charter Academy
Season-Best: 3:43.92 // April 12, 2019 // Joe Walker Invite, Oxford, Miss. // 8th in Ole Miss history
Overall Career-Best: 3:43.92
NCAA Rank: 39th
SEC Finish: 5th, 3:50.47
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: SEC Outdoor Men's Co-Freshman Runner of the Year ... Member of SEC cross country championship team in 2018 ... Won the Penn Relays mile title as a high school junior in 2017.
WALEED SULIMAN • MEN'S 1500-METER • WED., JUNE 5 • 4:16 PM • HEAT 1
Class: Sophomore
Hometown // High School: Richmond, Va. // Freeman HS
Season-Best: 3:38.72 // April 19, 2019 // Bryan Clay Invite, Azusa, Calif. // 3rd in Ole Miss history behind Robert Domanic (3:36.33, 2018; 9th NCAA all-time) and Craig Engels (3:37.66, 2016)
Overall Career-Best: 3:38.72
NCAA Rank: 6th
SEC Finish: 1st, 3:47.64
Nationals History: 3x NCAA qualifier // 2018 NCAA Indoor: Distance Medley Relay (10th, Second-Team All-American) // 2019 NCAA Indoor: Mile (9th, Second-Team All-American)
Quick Facts: Made Ole Miss first school to win four straight SEC men's 1500-meter titles since Arkansas won five from 1996-2000 ... Set mile school record indoors (3:56.78) ... All-American in cross country in 2018 (36th) ... Top finisher for first Ole Miss SEC team title in cross country in 2018 ... Also owns an 800-meter PR of 1:47.29.
JOHN RIVERA JR. • MEN'S 800-METER • WED., JUNE 5 • 5:44 PM • HEAT 3
Class: Sophomore
Hometown // High School: Bradenton, Fla. // B.T. Washington HS
Season-Best: 1:48.39 // April 18, 2019 // Bryan Clay Invite, Azusa Calif. // 11th in Ole Miss history
Overall Career-Best: 1:48.39
NCAA Rank: 31st
SEC Finish: 5th, 1:49.18
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: One of three Rebels to run sub-1:50 this year ... Earned a time qualifier spot at the NCAA East Regional ... Has also been a member of the Rebel men's 4x400-meter and distance medley relay teams.
ALLEN GORDON • MEN'S LONG JUMP • WED., JUNE 5 • 6 PM • FLIGHT 1
Class: Sophomore
Hometown // High School: Omaha, Neb. // Omaha North HS
Season-Best: 7.89m (25-10.75) +0.4 // May 10, 2019 // SEC Outdoor Championships, Fayetteville, Ark. // 4th in Ole Miss history
Overall Career-Best: 7.89m (25-10.75) +0.4
NCAA Rank: 14th
SEC Finish: 5th, 7.89m (25-10.75) +0.4
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: One of two Rebels to jump 25-10 or longer and 7-feet or higher in the high jump outdoors, joining NCAA Champion Savante' Stringfellow ... Has qualified in both events for the NCAA East Regional both years at Ole Miss ... First outdoor qualifier in the long jump since 2011 (Caleb Lee, 14th)
WOMEN'S 4X100-METER RELAY • THURS., JUNE 6 • 7:02 PM • HEAT 3
Season-Best: 43.45 // May 25, 2019 // NCAA East Regional, Jacksonville, Fla. // School Record
NCAA Rank: 12th
SEC Finish: 6th, 43.92
Quick Facts: Set the school record twice this year, breaking 2015's 43.80 with a 43.76 at LSU on April 27 ... Fell one hundredth of a second shy of beating LSU in Baton Rouge on April 27 ... Fifth-straight Rebel women's 4x100-meter relay team to qualify for the national meet ... Relay includes three freshmen (Rowe, Eckford, Presley) and one jumper (Simmons), whose long jump PR is 6.27m (20-07.00) during the 2017 indoor season.
Kelly Rowe • Leg 1
Class: Freshman
Hometown: Mansfield, Texas
HS: Mansfield Lake Ridge
100m PR: 11.62 (+1.5)
200m PR: 23.94 (+1.0)
Jayda Eckford • Leg 2
Class: Freshman
Hometown: Clinton, Miss.
HS: Clinton HS
100m PR: --
200m PR: 23.06 (+1.0)
Kaira Simmons • Leg 3
Class: Junior
Hometown: Rockledge, Fla.
HS: Rockledge HS
100m PR: 11.86 (+2.1)
200m PR: 24.41 (+3.6)
Brandee Presley • Anchor
Class: Freshman
Hometown: Bixby, Okla.
HS: Bixby HS
100m PR: 11.37 (+1.1)
200m PR: 23.78 (-0.1)
LISA VOGELGESANG • WOMEN'S 3000-METER STEEPLECHASE • THURS., JUNE 6 • 7:32 PM • HEAT 1
Class: Sophomore
Hometown // High School: Hildesheim, Germany // Goethegymnasium Hildesheim
Season-Best: 9:59.82 // NCAA East Regional, Jacksonville, Fla. // 2nd in school history
Overall Career-Best: 9:59.82
NCAA Rank: 19th
SEC Finish: 4th, 10:17.14
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: Just the second Rebel to qualify in the steeplechase (Shelby Brown, 2017 & 2018) ... One of 19 in the NCAA to break 10 minutes this season ... Ran 10:06.00 as a freshman in 2018 to finish second at the SEC Championships, putting her No. 6 all-time among German U20 athletes with the 15th-best time ... Made the steeple final for Germany at the World U20 Championships.
BRANDEE PRESLEY • WOMEN'S 100-METER • THURS., JUNE 6 • 8:16 PM • HEAT 3
Class: Freshman
Hometown // High School: Bixby, Okla. // Bixby HS
Season-Best: 11.37 (+1.1) // May 24, 2019 // NCAA East Regional, Jacksonville, Fla. // 3rd in Ole Miss history
Overall Career-Best: 11.37 (+1.1)
NCAA Rank: 37th
SEC Finish: 15th, 11.69 (0.0)
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: First Rebel to qualify for NCAAs in the 100-meter since All-American Teneeshia Jones in 2001 ... Second-fastest wind-legal time in Ole Miss history ... Ranks No. 4 in the United States and No. 10 worldwide among U20 athletes ... Entered East Regional ranked No. 43 with a PR of 11.56 ... Owns the Oklahoma high school state record at 11.44 ... Broke 12 seconds in the 100 each year she was in high school.
JAYDA ECKFORD • WOMEN'S 200-METER • THURS., JUNE 6 • 9:14 PM • HEAT 1
Class: Freshman
Hometown // High School: Clinton, Miss. // Clinton HS
Season-Best: 23.06 (+1.0) // May 25, 2019 // NCAA East Regional, Jacksonville, Fla. // Fastest wind-legal time in Ole Miss history (No. 2 overall)
Overall Career-Best: 23.06 (+1.0)
NCAA Rank: 33rd
SEC Finish: 11th, 23.36 (+2.1)
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: Fourth Rebel ever to qualify in the 200-meter outdoors (Shannon Ray, 2015; Willisa Heintz, 2002; Teneeshia Jones, 1999-2001) ... Ranks No. 5 in the United States and No. 7 worldwide among U20 athletes ... Also owns a 400-meter PR of 53.98 (8th all-time) ... Won three state titles her senior year at Clinton, helping lead them to a team state title ... 2016 Junior Olympian, took sixth in the 400-meter.
LINDSEY MURRAY • WOMEN'S POLE VAULT • THURS., JUNE 6 • 9:15 PM
Class: Redshirt Senior
Hometown // High School: Harrisburg, Ill. // Harrisburg HS
Season-Best: 4.31m (14-01.75) // April 27, 2019 // LSU Invite, Baton Rouge, La.
Overall Career-Best: 4.35m (14-03.25) // May 13, 2018 // SEC Outdoor Championships, Knoxville, Tenn. // School Record
NCAA Rank: 20th
SEC Finish: 7th, 4.01m (13-01.75)
Nationals History: 7x NCAA qualifier // 5x Second-Team All-American
Quick Facts: One of four pole vaulters in the nation to have qualified at least six times in eight tries, joining Arkansas' Victoria Hoggard (8-of-8), Lexi Jacobus (8-of-8), Desiree Freier (7-of-8) and Washington's Olivia Gruever (6-of-8) ... Only miss in her career was outdoors in 2015 during her freshman season at Southern Illinois (coincidentally, the West Regional was in Austin).
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The finest athletes in Division I will descend upon Austin this week for the four-day meet, which is split into men's competition (June 5 & 7) and women's competition (June 6 & 8). To get to this point, student-athletes needed to qualify for their respective NCAA Regional Preliminary Round Championship (East or West), and then needed to finish within the top-12 of their events at the regional meet in order to punch their ticket to Texas. Athletes competing in either the decathlon or heptathlon needed only to finish within the top-12 nationally by the end of the regular season.
Those 24 total athletes will not only be competing for team or individual national championships, but also to grasp one of the coveted top-eight scoring spots for First-Team All-American status. Places nine through 16 receive Second Team All-American honors, and the remaining eight competitors receive Honorable Mention All-American distinction.
This marks the first time that Texas has hosted the NCAA Championships since 2004, as well as the first year since 2012 that the national meet has not been held at Oregon due to the demolition and subsequent renovations of Hayward Field for the 2021 IAAF World Championships. Texas has hosted the NCAA Championships six times prior to 2019 (1957, '74, '80, '85, '92, 2004).
Ole Miss will look to add onto an already impressive history at the national meet. Across both the men's and women's indoor and outdoor seasons, 21 Rebels have won NCAA titles and 164 have earned First-Team All-American honors, while as a team Ole Miss has tallied 28 top-25 team finishes and scored 591.5 total national points. In four years under head coach Connie Price-Smith, seven Rebels have won NCAA titles, 34 have earned First-Team All-American honors, five Rebel teams have finished in the top-25 and have scored 111 total NCAA points.
The four Rebel men's qualifiers will compete on Wednesday to open the action, with the duo of sophomore Waleed Suliman and freshman Dalton Hengst running in Heat One of the men's 1500-meter prelims at 6:46 p.m. CT to open the meet for Ole Miss. This is the first trip to the outdoor national meet for both Rebels. Suliman, the reigning SEC Champion, enters with the NCAA's sixth-best time at 3:38.72
Also competing on Wednesday include sophomores Allen Gordon in the long jump (8 p.m. CT) and John Rivera Jr. in the 800-meter prelims at 8:14 p.m. CT.
Thursday will be a busy day of women's action for the Rebels. The Ole Miss record 4x100-meter relay of Kelly Rowe, Jayda Eckford, Kaira Simmons and Brandee Presley will run in Heat Three of the prelims at 7:02 p.m. The quartet – comprised of three freshmen and a jumper – have broken the school record twice this year, punching their ticket to Austin on their most recent record of 43.45.
Presley (100-meter prelims, Heat Three, 8:16 p.m. CT) and Eckford (200-meter prelims, Heat One, 9:14 p.m. CT) will also run in individual prelims on Thursday. Other Rebels in competition on Thursday include senior and seven-time NCAA qualifier Lindsey Murray in the women's pole vault (7:30 p.m. CT) and sophomore Lisa Vogelgesang in Heat One of the women's 3000-meter steeplechase prelims at 7:32 p.m. CT.
Competition on Friday and Saturday will vary based on finals qualifying for the track events.
See below for more detailed information on the national qualifiers and the NCAA Championships. Fans can watch all four days of action live on the ESPN family of networks, including specific live streams of individual field events in addition to the main broadcast.
Broadcast Schedule (all times Central)
All events outside of the live network windows will be streamed live ESPN3. A full broadcast schedule can be found HERE
Men's Day One (Wed., June 5)
ESPN2: 4:30 p.m. CT
Men's Long Jump Live Stream: 6 p.m. CT
Women's Day One (Thurs., June 6)
ESPNU: 7 p.m. CT
Women's Pole Vault Live Stream: 7:30 p.m. CT
Men's Final Day (Fri., June 7)
ESPN: 7:30 p.m. CT
Women's Final Day (Sat., June 8)
ESPN2: 5:30 p.m. CT
Men's Entries (4)
Dalton Hengst – Men's 1500-Meter (Heat 1) – Wed., June 5 – 4:46 p.m. CT
Waleed Suliman – Men's 1500-Meter (Heat 1) – Wed., June 5 – 4:46 p.m. CT
Allen Gordon – Men's Long Jump (Flight 1) – Wed., June 5 – 6 p.m. CT
John Rivera Jr. – Men's 800-Meter (Heat 3) – Wed., June 5 – 6:14 p.m. CT
Women's Entries (5)
Women's 4x100-Meter Relay (Heat 3; Rowe, Eckford, Simmons, Presley) – Thurs., June 6 – 7:02 p.m. CT
Lindsey Murray – Women's Pole Vault (Flight 1) – Thurs., June 6 – 7:30 p.m. CT
Lisa Vogelgesang – Women's 3000-Meter Steeplechase (Heat 1) – Thurs., June 6 – 7:32 p.m. CT
Brandee Presley – Women's 100-Meter Dash (Heat 3) – Thurs., June 6 – 8:16 p.m. CT
Jayda Eckford – Women's 200-Meter Dash (Heat 1) – Thurs., June 6 – 9:14 p.m. CT
| NCAA Outdoor Championships, Master Schedule (all times CT) | |||
| Men's Day One | Wednesday, June 5 | |||
| Time | Event | Live Coverage | Athlete(s) |
| 4:16 p.m. | Men's 1500-Meter Semifinal | ESPN2 | Dalton Hengst (Heat 1) Waleed Suliman (Heat 1) |
| 5:44 p.m. | Men's 800-Meter Semifinal | ESPN2 | John Rivera Jr. (Heat 3) |
| 6:00 p.m. | Men's Long Jump Final | Live Stream | Allen Gordon (Flight 1) |
| Women's Day One | Thursday, June 6 | |||
| 7:02 p.m. | Women's 4x100-Meter Relay Semifinal (Heat 3) | ESPNU | Kelly Rowe (Leg 1) Jayda Eckford (Leg 2) Kaira Simmons (Leg 3) Brandee Presley (Anchor) |
| 7:32 p.m. | Women's 3000-Meter Steeplechase Semifinal | ESPNU | Lisa Vogelgesang (Heat 1) |
| 8:16 p.m. | Women's 100-Meter Dash Semifinal | ESPNU | Brandee Presley (Heat 3) |
| 9:14 p.m. | Women's 200-Meter Dash Semifinal | ESPNU | Jayda Eckford (Heat 1) |
| 9:15 p.m. | Women's Pole Vault Final | Live Stream | Lindsey Murray (Flight 1) |
| Men's Final Day | Friday, June 7 | |||
| 7:41 p.m. | Men's 1500-Meter Final | ESPN | -- |
| 8:44 p.m. | Men's 800-Meter Final | ESPN | -- |
| Women's Final Day | Saturday, June 8 | |||
| 5:32 p.m. | Women's 4x100-Meter Relay Final | ESPN2 | -- |
| 5:54 p.m. | Women's 3000-Meter Steeplechase Final | ESPN2 | -- |
| 6:22 p.m. | Women's 100-Meter Dash Final | ESPN2 | -- |
| 7:07 p.m. | Women's 200-Meter Dash Final | ESPN2 | -- |
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DALTON HENGST • MEN'S 1500-METER • WED., JUNE 5 • 4:16 PM • HEAT 1
Class: Freshman
Hometown // High School: York, Pa. // Commonwealth Charter Academy
Season-Best: 3:43.92 // April 12, 2019 // Joe Walker Invite, Oxford, Miss. // 8th in Ole Miss history
Overall Career-Best: 3:43.92
NCAA Rank: 39th
SEC Finish: 5th, 3:50.47
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: SEC Outdoor Men's Co-Freshman Runner of the Year ... Member of SEC cross country championship team in 2018 ... Won the Penn Relays mile title as a high school junior in 2017.
WALEED SULIMAN • MEN'S 1500-METER • WED., JUNE 5 • 4:16 PM • HEAT 1
Class: Sophomore
Hometown // High School: Richmond, Va. // Freeman HS
Season-Best: 3:38.72 // April 19, 2019 // Bryan Clay Invite, Azusa, Calif. // 3rd in Ole Miss history behind Robert Domanic (3:36.33, 2018; 9th NCAA all-time) and Craig Engels (3:37.66, 2016)
Overall Career-Best: 3:38.72
NCAA Rank: 6th
SEC Finish: 1st, 3:47.64
Nationals History: 3x NCAA qualifier // 2018 NCAA Indoor: Distance Medley Relay (10th, Second-Team All-American) // 2019 NCAA Indoor: Mile (9th, Second-Team All-American)
Quick Facts: Made Ole Miss first school to win four straight SEC men's 1500-meter titles since Arkansas won five from 1996-2000 ... Set mile school record indoors (3:56.78) ... All-American in cross country in 2018 (36th) ... Top finisher for first Ole Miss SEC team title in cross country in 2018 ... Also owns an 800-meter PR of 1:47.29.
JOHN RIVERA JR. • MEN'S 800-METER • WED., JUNE 5 • 5:44 PM • HEAT 3
Class: Sophomore
Hometown // High School: Bradenton, Fla. // B.T. Washington HS
Season-Best: 1:48.39 // April 18, 2019 // Bryan Clay Invite, Azusa Calif. // 11th in Ole Miss history
Overall Career-Best: 1:48.39
NCAA Rank: 31st
SEC Finish: 5th, 1:49.18
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: One of three Rebels to run sub-1:50 this year ... Earned a time qualifier spot at the NCAA East Regional ... Has also been a member of the Rebel men's 4x400-meter and distance medley relay teams.
ALLEN GORDON • MEN'S LONG JUMP • WED., JUNE 5 • 6 PM • FLIGHT 1
Class: Sophomore
Hometown // High School: Omaha, Neb. // Omaha North HS
Season-Best: 7.89m (25-10.75) +0.4 // May 10, 2019 // SEC Outdoor Championships, Fayetteville, Ark. // 4th in Ole Miss history
Overall Career-Best: 7.89m (25-10.75) +0.4
NCAA Rank: 14th
SEC Finish: 5th, 7.89m (25-10.75) +0.4
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: One of two Rebels to jump 25-10 or longer and 7-feet or higher in the high jump outdoors, joining NCAA Champion Savante' Stringfellow ... Has qualified in both events for the NCAA East Regional both years at Ole Miss ... First outdoor qualifier in the long jump since 2011 (Caleb Lee, 14th)
WOMEN'S 4X100-METER RELAY • THURS., JUNE 6 • 7:02 PM • HEAT 3
Season-Best: 43.45 // May 25, 2019 // NCAA East Regional, Jacksonville, Fla. // School Record
NCAA Rank: 12th
SEC Finish: 6th, 43.92
Quick Facts: Set the school record twice this year, breaking 2015's 43.80 with a 43.76 at LSU on April 27 ... Fell one hundredth of a second shy of beating LSU in Baton Rouge on April 27 ... Fifth-straight Rebel women's 4x100-meter relay team to qualify for the national meet ... Relay includes three freshmen (Rowe, Eckford, Presley) and one jumper (Simmons), whose long jump PR is 6.27m (20-07.00) during the 2017 indoor season.
Kelly Rowe • Leg 1
Class: Freshman
Hometown: Mansfield, Texas
HS: Mansfield Lake Ridge
100m PR: 11.62 (+1.5)
200m PR: 23.94 (+1.0)
Jayda Eckford • Leg 2
Class: Freshman
Hometown: Clinton, Miss.
HS: Clinton HS
100m PR: --
200m PR: 23.06 (+1.0)
Kaira Simmons • Leg 3
Class: Junior
Hometown: Rockledge, Fla.
HS: Rockledge HS
100m PR: 11.86 (+2.1)
200m PR: 24.41 (+3.6)
Brandee Presley • Anchor
Class: Freshman
Hometown: Bixby, Okla.
HS: Bixby HS
100m PR: 11.37 (+1.1)
200m PR: 23.78 (-0.1)
LISA VOGELGESANG • WOMEN'S 3000-METER STEEPLECHASE • THURS., JUNE 6 • 7:32 PM • HEAT 1
Class: Sophomore
Hometown // High School: Hildesheim, Germany // Goethegymnasium Hildesheim
Season-Best: 9:59.82 // NCAA East Regional, Jacksonville, Fla. // 2nd in school history
Overall Career-Best: 9:59.82
NCAA Rank: 19th
SEC Finish: 4th, 10:17.14
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: Just the second Rebel to qualify in the steeplechase (Shelby Brown, 2017 & 2018) ... One of 19 in the NCAA to break 10 minutes this season ... Ran 10:06.00 as a freshman in 2018 to finish second at the SEC Championships, putting her No. 6 all-time among German U20 athletes with the 15th-best time ... Made the steeple final for Germany at the World U20 Championships.
BRANDEE PRESLEY • WOMEN'S 100-METER • THURS., JUNE 6 • 8:16 PM • HEAT 3
Class: Freshman
Hometown // High School: Bixby, Okla. // Bixby HS
Season-Best: 11.37 (+1.1) // May 24, 2019 // NCAA East Regional, Jacksonville, Fla. // 3rd in Ole Miss history
Overall Career-Best: 11.37 (+1.1)
NCAA Rank: 37th
SEC Finish: 15th, 11.69 (0.0)
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: First Rebel to qualify for NCAAs in the 100-meter since All-American Teneeshia Jones in 2001 ... Second-fastest wind-legal time in Ole Miss history ... Ranks No. 4 in the United States and No. 10 worldwide among U20 athletes ... Entered East Regional ranked No. 43 with a PR of 11.56 ... Owns the Oklahoma high school state record at 11.44 ... Broke 12 seconds in the 100 each year she was in high school.
JAYDA ECKFORD • WOMEN'S 200-METER • THURS., JUNE 6 • 9:14 PM • HEAT 1
Class: Freshman
Hometown // High School: Clinton, Miss. // Clinton HS
Season-Best: 23.06 (+1.0) // May 25, 2019 // NCAA East Regional, Jacksonville, Fla. // Fastest wind-legal time in Ole Miss history (No. 2 overall)
Overall Career-Best: 23.06 (+1.0)
NCAA Rank: 33rd
SEC Finish: 11th, 23.36 (+2.1)
Nationals History: First-time qualifier
Quick Facts: Fourth Rebel ever to qualify in the 200-meter outdoors (Shannon Ray, 2015; Willisa Heintz, 2002; Teneeshia Jones, 1999-2001) ... Ranks No. 5 in the United States and No. 7 worldwide among U20 athletes ... Also owns a 400-meter PR of 53.98 (8th all-time) ... Won three state titles her senior year at Clinton, helping lead them to a team state title ... 2016 Junior Olympian, took sixth in the 400-meter.
LINDSEY MURRAY • WOMEN'S POLE VAULT • THURS., JUNE 6 • 9:15 PM
Class: Redshirt Senior
Hometown // High School: Harrisburg, Ill. // Harrisburg HS
Season-Best: 4.31m (14-01.75) // April 27, 2019 // LSU Invite, Baton Rouge, La.
Overall Career-Best: 4.35m (14-03.25) // May 13, 2018 // SEC Outdoor Championships, Knoxville, Tenn. // School Record
NCAA Rank: 20th
SEC Finish: 7th, 4.01m (13-01.75)
Nationals History: 7x NCAA qualifier // 5x Second-Team All-American
Quick Facts: One of four pole vaulters in the nation to have qualified at least six times in eight tries, joining Arkansas' Victoria Hoggard (8-of-8), Lexi Jacobus (8-of-8), Desiree Freier (7-of-8) and Washington's Olivia Gruever (6-of-8) ... Only miss in her career was outdoors in 2015 during her freshman season at Southern Illinois (coincidentally, the West Regional was in Austin).
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/ Track and FieldThe Season: New Heights (2025)
Friday, August 01
From Walk-On to National Champ: Arvesta Troupe (T&F)
Monday, June 23
HIGHLIGHTS: Arvesta Troupe Makes History as NCAA High Jump Champ
Friday, June 13
PRESSER: Arvesta Troupe Talks Historic NCAA High Jump Win
Friday, June 13