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Friday, January 17
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Sophomore Brandee Presley Ranks No. 3 in NCAA in 60-Meter Dash
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Ole Miss track and field looks to build on a strong season opener at the Vanderbilt Invite this weekend, held at the Vanderbilt Student Rec Center on Jan. 17-18.
TEAM NOTES
• The Rebels are coming off an impressive indoor open at UAB's Blazer Invite on Jan. 10, in which Ole Miss broke two school records and won eight individual titles.
• Head coach Connie Price-Smith is in her fifth season at the helm of the Ole Miss men's and women's programs and her 19th season overall. In her tenure with the Rebels, Price-Smith has mentored 74 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 32 SEC Champions, while also earning four NCAA event titles and coaching athletes to three different collegiate records.
• In her head coaching career at both Ole Miss and Southern Illinois dating back to 2002, Price-Smith has collected 12 NCAA event titles and mentored 143 All-Americans on the track.
• In its history indoors, Ole Miss has finished in the NCAA top-25 of the team standings 15 total times (11 times on the men's side, four times on the women's side). Under Price-Smith, the Rebels have recorded their highest women's team finish ever indoors (12th, 2017) and the fourth-best indoors for the men (16th, 2017).
• All of 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 fifth seasons at Ole Miss, with associate head coach Ryan Vanhoy (distance) entering his seventh year as a Rebel.
WOMEN'S NOTES
• Sophomore Brandee Presley continued to light the track on fire, following up a superb freshman year with a demonstrative season open at UAB. Presley broke the Ole Miss record in the 60-meter dash twice, running 7.27 in the semifinal before winning at 7.18, currently the No. 3 time in the NCAA and No. 1 time in the SEC. All-American Teneeshia Jones' record of 7.28 had stood since 2001.
• Presley is one of three underclassmen in the NCAA to have already broken 7.20 this season. National leader Cambrea Sturgis of North Carolina A&T ran 7.15, the fastest time ever run by a collegian this early in January.
• Presley, ended her freshman campaign in 2019 with a spectacular streak of improvements in the 100-meter outdoors, ending with the school record at 11.19 (+2.0) to become the first Rebel to ever break 11.20. In her first year, Presley earned two Second-Team All-American honors and a U.S. U20 gold medal before earning a silver in the 100-meter and gold in the women's 4x100-meter relay for Team USA at the Pan American U20 Championships.
• Junior transfer Avisake Bulai, a three-time All-American thrower at Cloud County Community College, opened her Rebel career in stellar fashion at UAB, winning the weight throw at the No. 3 throw in school history at 21.53m (70-07.75). She currently ranks No. 3 in the NCAA and leads the SEC at that mark, which was an eight-foot PR over her junior college best of 18.92m (62-01.00).
• Fellow newcomer and freshman Jasmine Mitchell also had a strong showing in the weight throw at UAB, recording the fifth-best throw in school history and No. 7 throw in the NCAA this year at 21.22m (69-07.50).
• Returning Second-Team All-American junior Shey Taiwo opened her season in the weight throw at 18.84m (65-01.25), the No. 21 throw in the NCAA and No. 5 in the SEC -- giving Ole Miss three marks in the top-five of the conference. Taiwo entered 2020 with the No. 11 throw in the nation from 2019 at 21.51m (70-07.00), which now ranks fourth in school history behind Bulai. As a sophomore, Taiwo earned Second-Team All-American status in the weight throw after a 10th-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
• Senior Kieshonna Brooks had a career day in the 60-meter hurdles at UAB, winning at a PR of 8.42 seconds. Brooks now stands tied for No. 3 in Ole Miss history, as well as No. 30 in the NCAA this year. Brooks enters her senior year ranked fifth in school history in the pentathlon at 3,803 points.
• SEC All-Freshman shot putter Tedreauna Britt started off on the right foot this indoor season, setting a new PR in the shot put at UAB at a three-inch best of 15.46m (50-04.75), the fourth-best in school history as well as No. 30 in the NCAA and No. 6 in the SEC this year. She is coming off a summer that featured a U.S. title in the discus as well as a national runner-up in the shot put prior to a silver medal in the shot put at the Pan-American U20 games.
• Freshman Lyndsey Reed won the pole vault in her first collegiate competition at UAB, clearing 3.80m (12-05.50) toward victory. Reed currently ranks 10th in the SEC at that height, which also stands at No. 7 on the Ole Miss list.
MEN'S NOTES
• Senior Manny Foster led the Rebel men at UAB with a spectacular performance in the triple jump, winning on a huge three-foot PR of 15.71m (51-06.50) -- the ninth-best leap in school history. Foster also currently ranks No. 7 in the NCAA and No. 3 in the SEC at that distance, the longest at Ole Miss since Phillip Young's 16.27m (53-04.50) from the 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships.
• Sophomore Demond Fleming also ranks in the NCAA top-25 in the triple jump at his new PR of 15.17m (49-09.25), currently No. 21.
• Returning outdoor national qualifier and junior Allen Gordon had a solid start in both of his marquee events for the Rebel men at UAB. He began the meet with a second-place finish in the high jump at 2.15m (7-00.50) before winning the long jump at 7.45m (24-05.50). He ranks fifth in the SEC and top-15 nationally in both, coming in at No. 12 in the long jump and No. 13 in the high jump. Gordon began the year ranked No. 21 in the high jump on the NCAA preseason list at his PR of 2.19m (7-02.25), and he is coming off a career year in the long jump as well where he leapt 7.76m (25-05.50) to win bronze at the 2019 SEC Indoor Championships.
• In his career, Gordon is one of two Rebels to have ever cleared 7-2 in the high jump and 25-5 in the long jump indoors, joining Olympian and NCAA Champion Savante' Stringfellow.
• Sophomore Joseph Benedetto dropped a massive new career best in the weight throw at UAB, launching a seven-foot PR to open the season at 20.62m (67-08.00). He now ranks third all-time at Ole Miss, and he currently stands No. 15 in the NCAA and No. 4 in the SEC.
• Ole Miss sports a top-flight men's pole vault duo of senior Cole Colozzo and Peyton Weissmann. Weissmann entered the year ranked No. 33 in the preseason rankings at his career best of 5.25m (17-02.75), the third-best clearance in school history indoors. Colozzo also ranks top-10 all-time in seventh at 5.05m (16.06.75). Weissmann opened the season at UAB last week with a winning height of 5.10m (16-08.75), currently No. 18 in the NCAA and No. 4 in the SEC.
• Junior John Rivera Jr. broke a 29-year old record in the non-standard 600-meter event, winning at a time of 1:17.90 to topple Thomas Johnson's 1991 time of 1:18.75. Rivera, a returning outdoor Second-Team All-American, entered the indoor season ranked No. 26 in the 800-meter at 1:49.41.
• Freshman thrower Daniel Viveros made his debut in a Rebel uniform in the shot put last week at UAB, finishing third at the sixth-best throw in school history at 16.56m (54-04.00). Fellow newcomer and junior Danny Guiliani also notched a top-10 throw with the ninth-best mark at 15.36m (50-04.75). Viveros signed with Ole Miss as the No. 1 high school boys shot putter in the nation.
• Sophomore Kenney Broadnax had a blistering day in the 60-meter hurdles before an untimely injury in the 4x400-meter relay sidelined him at the conclusion of the meet. Broadnax became just the fifth Rebel to ever break eight seconds, finishing second overall at 7.83 seconds -- putting him into a tie for fourth all-time at Ole Miss, as well as No. 14 in the NCAA and No. 5 in the SEC this season. Broadnax made the semifinal at the NCAA East Regional last May in the 110-meter hurdles.
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field and Cross Country, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
TEAM NOTES
• The Rebels are coming off an impressive indoor open at UAB's Blazer Invite on Jan. 10, in which Ole Miss broke two school records and won eight individual titles.
• Head coach Connie Price-Smith is in her fifth season at the helm of the Ole Miss men's and women's programs and her 19th season overall. In her tenure with the Rebels, Price-Smith has mentored 74 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 32 SEC Champions, while also earning four NCAA event titles and coaching athletes to three different collegiate records.
• In her head coaching career at both Ole Miss and Southern Illinois dating back to 2002, Price-Smith has collected 12 NCAA event titles and mentored 143 All-Americans on the track.
• In its history indoors, Ole Miss has finished in the NCAA top-25 of the team standings 15 total times (11 times on the men's side, four times on the women's side). Under Price-Smith, the Rebels have recorded their highest women's team finish ever indoors (12th, 2017) and the fourth-best indoors for the men (16th, 2017).
• All of 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 fifth seasons at Ole Miss, with associate head coach Ryan Vanhoy (distance) entering his seventh year as a Rebel.
WOMEN'S NOTES
• Sophomore Brandee Presley continued to light the track on fire, following up a superb freshman year with a demonstrative season open at UAB. Presley broke the Ole Miss record in the 60-meter dash twice, running 7.27 in the semifinal before winning at 7.18, currently the No. 3 time in the NCAA and No. 1 time in the SEC. All-American Teneeshia Jones' record of 7.28 had stood since 2001.
• Presley is one of three underclassmen in the NCAA to have already broken 7.20 this season. National leader Cambrea Sturgis of North Carolina A&T ran 7.15, the fastest time ever run by a collegian this early in January.
• Presley, ended her freshman campaign in 2019 with a spectacular streak of improvements in the 100-meter outdoors, ending with the school record at 11.19 (+2.0) to become the first Rebel to ever break 11.20. In her first year, Presley earned two Second-Team All-American honors and a U.S. U20 gold medal before earning a silver in the 100-meter and gold in the women's 4x100-meter relay for Team USA at the Pan American U20 Championships.
• Junior transfer Avisake Bulai, a three-time All-American thrower at Cloud County Community College, opened her Rebel career in stellar fashion at UAB, winning the weight throw at the No. 3 throw in school history at 21.53m (70-07.75). She currently ranks No. 3 in the NCAA and leads the SEC at that mark, which was an eight-foot PR over her junior college best of 18.92m (62-01.00).
• Fellow newcomer and freshman Jasmine Mitchell also had a strong showing in the weight throw at UAB, recording the fifth-best throw in school history and No. 7 throw in the NCAA this year at 21.22m (69-07.50).
• Returning Second-Team All-American junior Shey Taiwo opened her season in the weight throw at 18.84m (65-01.25), the No. 21 throw in the NCAA and No. 5 in the SEC -- giving Ole Miss three marks in the top-five of the conference. Taiwo entered 2020 with the No. 11 throw in the nation from 2019 at 21.51m (70-07.00), which now ranks fourth in school history behind Bulai. As a sophomore, Taiwo earned Second-Team All-American status in the weight throw after a 10th-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
• Senior Kieshonna Brooks had a career day in the 60-meter hurdles at UAB, winning at a PR of 8.42 seconds. Brooks now stands tied for No. 3 in Ole Miss history, as well as No. 30 in the NCAA this year. Brooks enters her senior year ranked fifth in school history in the pentathlon at 3,803 points.
• SEC All-Freshman shot putter Tedreauna Britt started off on the right foot this indoor season, setting a new PR in the shot put at UAB at a three-inch best of 15.46m (50-04.75), the fourth-best in school history as well as No. 30 in the NCAA and No. 6 in the SEC this year. She is coming off a summer that featured a U.S. title in the discus as well as a national runner-up in the shot put prior to a silver medal in the shot put at the Pan-American U20 games.
• Freshman Lyndsey Reed won the pole vault in her first collegiate competition at UAB, clearing 3.80m (12-05.50) toward victory. Reed currently ranks 10th in the SEC at that height, which also stands at No. 7 on the Ole Miss list.
MEN'S NOTES
• Senior Manny Foster led the Rebel men at UAB with a spectacular performance in the triple jump, winning on a huge three-foot PR of 15.71m (51-06.50) -- the ninth-best leap in school history. Foster also currently ranks No. 7 in the NCAA and No. 3 in the SEC at that distance, the longest at Ole Miss since Phillip Young's 16.27m (53-04.50) from the 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships.
• Sophomore Demond Fleming also ranks in the NCAA top-25 in the triple jump at his new PR of 15.17m (49-09.25), currently No. 21.
• Returning outdoor national qualifier and junior Allen Gordon had a solid start in both of his marquee events for the Rebel men at UAB. He began the meet with a second-place finish in the high jump at 2.15m (7-00.50) before winning the long jump at 7.45m (24-05.50). He ranks fifth in the SEC and top-15 nationally in both, coming in at No. 12 in the long jump and No. 13 in the high jump. Gordon began the year ranked No. 21 in the high jump on the NCAA preseason list at his PR of 2.19m (7-02.25), and he is coming off a career year in the long jump as well where he leapt 7.76m (25-05.50) to win bronze at the 2019 SEC Indoor Championships.
• In his career, Gordon is one of two Rebels to have ever cleared 7-2 in the high jump and 25-5 in the long jump indoors, joining Olympian and NCAA Champion Savante' Stringfellow.
• Sophomore Joseph Benedetto dropped a massive new career best in the weight throw at UAB, launching a seven-foot PR to open the season at 20.62m (67-08.00). He now ranks third all-time at Ole Miss, and he currently stands No. 15 in the NCAA and No. 4 in the SEC.
• Ole Miss sports a top-flight men's pole vault duo of senior Cole Colozzo and Peyton Weissmann. Weissmann entered the year ranked No. 33 in the preseason rankings at his career best of 5.25m (17-02.75), the third-best clearance in school history indoors. Colozzo also ranks top-10 all-time in seventh at 5.05m (16.06.75). Weissmann opened the season at UAB last week with a winning height of 5.10m (16-08.75), currently No. 18 in the NCAA and No. 4 in the SEC.
• Junior John Rivera Jr. broke a 29-year old record in the non-standard 600-meter event, winning at a time of 1:17.90 to topple Thomas Johnson's 1991 time of 1:18.75. Rivera, a returning outdoor Second-Team All-American, entered the indoor season ranked No. 26 in the 800-meter at 1:49.41.
• Freshman thrower Daniel Viveros made his debut in a Rebel uniform in the shot put last week at UAB, finishing third at the sixth-best throw in school history at 16.56m (54-04.00). Fellow newcomer and junior Danny Guiliani also notched a top-10 throw with the ninth-best mark at 15.36m (50-04.75). Viveros signed with Ole Miss as the No. 1 high school boys shot putter in the nation.
• Sophomore Kenney Broadnax had a blistering day in the 60-meter hurdles before an untimely injury in the 4x400-meter relay sidelined him at the conclusion of the meet. Broadnax became just the fifth Rebel to ever break eight seconds, finishing second overall at 7.83 seconds -- putting him into a tie for fourth all-time at Ole Miss, as well as No. 14 in the NCAA and No. 5 in the SEC this season. Broadnax made the semifinal at the NCAA East Regional last May in the 110-meter hurdles.
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field and Cross Country, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
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