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Friday, January 29
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Competition Runs Jan. 29-30 and Airs on SEC Network+
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ole Miss men's and women's track & field will take part in one of the marquee meets this indoor season when it joins a handful of other high-powered squads for Arkansas' Razorback Invite this weekend. Competition runs Jan. 29-30 and fans can watch the action live on SEC Network+.
ON THE AIR
Day One (Fri., Jan. 29)
SEC Network +
5:30 p.m. CT
Day Two (Sat, Jan. 30
SEC Network +
12:30 p.m. CT
TEAM NOTES
• Alongside the Rebels in competition will be Arkansas (No. 1 men, No. 1 women), Colorado, Georgia (No. 22 men, No. 3 women), Iowa State, Mississippi State, Oregon and USC (No. 10 men, No. 6 women). This weekend will be the first meet of the season for both Mississippi State and Oregon.
• The Rebels are not far out of the top-25 in the Week 1 USTFCCCA National Rating Index, with the Ole Miss women ranking No. 29 and the men No. 32.
• Ole Miss did not compete at last week's Woo Pig Classic at Arkansas (Jan. 22) due to a combination of positive COVID-19 cases and subsequent contact tracing and quarantining of individuals within the program.
• The Rebels opened the season at Vanderbilt's Commodore Indoor on Jan. 15-16, the first meet for Ole Miss in 322 days since a promising 2020 season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic just one day before the NCAA Indoor Championships were set to begin in Albuquerque, New Mexico last March.
• Ole Miss will boasts an SEC-exclusive schedule this indoor season, with remaining stops at South Carolina (South Carolina Invite, Feb. 5-6), Vanderbilt (Music City Classic, Feb. 13), and back to Arkansas for both the SEC Indoor Championships (Feb. 25-27) and NCAA Indoor Championships (March 11-13).
• Ole Miss won two SEC titles in 2020 in the women's weight throw (Shey Taiwo) and the men's distance medley relay (Nick Moulai, James Burnett, Baylor Franklin and Waleed Suliman).
• Ole Miss had eight student-athletes qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, who all earned All-America honors following the cancellation of the national meet. Those Rebel All-Americans all return in 2021 and include senior thrower Deborah Bulai, junior sprinter Jayda Eckford, senior jumper Allen Gordon, sophomore thrower Jasmine Mitchell, senior distance runner John Rivera Jr., junior sprinter Brandee Presley, senior distance runner Waleed Suliman and senior thrower Shey Taiwo.
• A total of 23 new Rebels join the roster in 2021: pole vaulter Alex Brooks, thrower Costen Campion, distance runner Whit Dennis, sprinter Ashanti Denton, distance runner Marcus Dropik, multi athlete Luke Etherton, distance runner Makayla Fick, jumper Skye Gross, pole vaulter Remy Guertel, distance runner Ryann Helmers, jumper Ukurugenzi Kojo, pole vaulter Samara McConnell, jumper Kyla McLaurin, jumper/sprinter Ryan Star, sprinter Isaiah Teer, distance runner Kristel van den Berg, distance runner Sintayehu Vissa, pole vaulter Miles Walden, jumper Tyra Weathersby, sprinter Olivia Womack and sprinter Tristyn Wooley.
• Ole Miss enters year six under head coach Connie Price-Smith, who has led the Rebels to new heights in her time in Oxford with five NCAA top-25 team finishes, four NCAA individual titles, 34 SEC individual titles and 82 total First or Second-Team All-American awards. In 20 years as a head coach at both Ole Miss and Southern Illinois dating back to 2002, Price-Smith has collected 12 NCAA event titles and mentored 151 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).
• Ole Miss owns 105 First or Second-Team All-Americans indoors (70 men, 35 women), as well as eight NCAA titles (11 total NCAA Champions; nine men, two women). Of those 105, a total of 42 All-Americans (27 men, 15 women) have come under Price-Smith, as well as two NCAA titles (Raven Saunders, shot put, 2017; men's DMR, 2017).
WOMEN'S NOTES
• Ole Miss owns 10 times or marks currently within the NCAA top-50, five of which rest within the top-25.
• All-American junior Brandee Presley opened 2021 with a runner-up finish in the 60-meter dash at Vanderbilt's Commodore Indoor, running 7.37 in the final. She currently ranks 18th nationally and seventh in the conference at that time. Presley is the Ole Miss record holder at 7.18 from the 2020 UAB Blazer Invite, where she twice broke All-American Teneeshia Jones' 2001 record of 7.28.
• Presley is also the Ole Miss outdoor record holder in the 100-meter dash at 11.19 (+2.0), which she set her freshman season to become the first Rebel to ever break 11.20. As a freshman, 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.
• Fellow All-American junior Jayda Eckford also toppled a Teneeshia Jones' held record in the 200-meter dash in 2020, breaking it twice at the SEC Indoor Championships. Eckford ran 23.29 in the prelim before breaking the record again in the final at 23.18 to finish fifth overall. Eckford ranked 12th among qualifiers in the event at the national meet. Eckford makes her 200-meter debut in 2021 this weekend at Arkansas.
• Likewise, Eckford also owns the outdoor 200-meter record from her freshman season in 2019, toppling Jones' all-conditions 200-meter record at 22.72 (+2.2). Additionally, that freshman season saw her also become the first Rebel to break 23 seconds at a wind-legal time of 22.98 (+0.6) and win silver in the 200 at both the U.S. U20 and Pan-American U20 Championships.
• Senior Anna Elkin toppled a school record of her own at Vanderbilt, breaking Maddie King's 2019 mile time of 4:46.45 with a 13-second PR of 4:46.23 on Jan. 16. Elkin's mile time currently puts her 19th nationally and 11th in the SEC, and is also the second school record she has claimed after taking the non-standard outdoor 3K crown in 2019 at 9:43.51. Sophomore Loral Winn also owns a top-50 mile time from the Commodore Indoor at 4:52.79, currently No. 35 nationally and No. 13 all-time at Ole Miss.
• Freshman Samara McConnell made her mark in her first collegiate meet, winning the women's pole vault at Vanderbilt on Jan. 16 at a height of 3.95m (12-11.50). McConnell has already vaulted her way into a tie for No. 8 all-time at Ole Miss, as well as No. 40 nationally and No. 9 in the SEC. McConnell leads all SEC freshmen and ranks seventh nationally among freshmen in the pole vault.
• Ole Miss took the women's weight throw by storm in 2020, becoming the first school in NCAA history with three women at or above the 22-meter plateau (Shey Taiwo, Jasmine Mitchell, Deborah Bulai) in a single season, all three of whom qualified for the national meet and earned All-American honors. Prior to 2020, only three schools ever had two 22-meter throwers (Florida, 2004; Louisville, 2010; Southern Illinois, 2011), including a Southern Illinois squad coached by head coach Connie Price-Smith and throws coach John Smith via marks from Olympian Gwen Berry and NCAA Champion Jeneva McCall (both ended up serving as Ole Miss volunteer assistant coaches). Notre Dame also had two throwers beyond 22 meters, making 2020 the first in NCAA history to have multiple schools have multiple athletes throw beyond that mark.
• Taiwo led the crew in fourth nationally at her SEC title winning throw of 22.72m (74-06.50), Mitchell eighth at 22.23m (72-11.75) and Bulai 13th at 22.02m (72-03.00). The trio rank second, third and fourth in school history behind two-time U.S. champion and current world leader Janeah Stewart, whose school record 24.12m (79-01.75) still ranks sixth in NCAA history.
• This season, Mitchell ranks fourth in the NCAA at 21.57m (70-09.25), sophomore Jalani Davis ranks 10th at 20.82m (68-08.75) and Bulai sits 22nd at 19.56m (64-02.25). Taiwo has yet to throw in 2021.
• The Rebel women ended the 2020 indoor season ranked No. 22 in the Week Seven USTFCCCA National Rating Index, their seventh straight appearance in the national poll. That marked the 30th time in women's program history that the Rebels have been ranked in the indoor season, the 22nd such ranking that has come under head coach Connie Price-Smith's tutelage since taking over the combined program in 2015.
MEN'S NOTES
• The Rebel men eight NCAA top-50 times or marks, five of which come from the Ole Miss distance squad.
• All-American senior Waleed Suliman will mark his 2021 debut in the 3K at Arkansas this weekend. His career-best of 7:54.80 from the 2020 Husky Classic ranks third in program history and was the best by a Rebel since 2017 (MJ Erb, 7:54.77). Suliman stands alongside Derek Gutierrez as the lone pair in Ole Miss history to own sub-8 times in the 3K and sub-4 times in the mile. Suliman is the Ole Miss record holder in the mile at 3:56.78 from the 2019 David Hemery Invite at Boston University.
• Suliman also broke the four-minute barrier in 2020 at 3:57.03 at the Vanderbilt Invite, which ended up qualifying him for the national meet with the fifth-best seed time.
• Only two other Rebels have ever broken the four-minute barrier in the mile, and they have all come within the last three years: All-Americans Sean Tobin (3:58.28, Feb. 3, 2018; 3:59.91, Feb. 15, 2014) and Derek Gutierrez (3:58.55, Feb. 9, 2019). Suliman is a three-time All-American indoors, once in the distance medley relay in 2018 (Second-Team) and twice in the mile in 2019 (Second-Team) and 2020 (general).
• The Ole Miss 800-meter squad was ready to go at Vanderbilt two weeks ago, with Baylor Franklin and Everett Smulders both posting sizable PRs in a strong 1-2 punch for the Rebels. Franklin won at a three-second PR of 1:48.61 (No. 6 all-time), while Smulders wasn't far behind in second at a two-second PR of 1:48.75 (No. 7 all-time). The duo rank second and third in the SEC, as well as Nos. 5 and 6 in the NCAA, respectively. Junior Cade Bethmann also owns an NCAA top-50 time at No. 36 with his season-opener of 1:52.97.
• All-American senior John Rivera Jr. makes his 800-meter debut this weekend at the Razorback Invite. Rivera qualified for the NCAA Championships in 2020 with the No. 10 time nationally at 1:48.13, the fifth-best time in program history and the best by a Rebel since All-American Craig Engels clocked 1:47.54 at the 2017 SEC Championships. In 2020, Rivera missed the SEC podium by four hundredths of a second, taking fourth place overall. Rivera is also the Ole Miss record holder in the non-standard 600-meter at 1:17.90, which broke Thomas Johnson's 1991 time of 1:18.75.
• Ole Miss also received stellar openers from veteran distance runners Robinson Snider and Ben Savino in the 3K at Vanderbilt, with Snider clocking a huge 19-second PR at 8:12.56 to finish runner-up at the 15th-best time in program history. Savino had a large improvement as well, a 13-second PR of 8:13.20. The duo rank fourth and fifth in the SEC, respectively, with Snider sitting No. 26 and Savino No. 30 in the NCAA.
• The Rebel throwers are represented in the NCAA top-50 by two marks from the Commodore Indoor. Junior Joseph Benedetto, 2019 U.S. U20 champion in the hammer, currently sits 30th in the NCAA and eighth in the SEC at his season opener of 19.80m (64-11.50). Sophomore Daniel Viveros, the top high school boys shot putter when he signed with Ole Miss in 2019, currently sits 39th nationally and fifth in the SEC at 17.24m (56-06.75).
• All-American senior Allen Gordon currently ranks 48th nationally in the triple jump at 14.74m (48-04.50), but has yet to attempt the high jump yet this season. Gordon is scheduled to compete in both the high jump and long jump at Arkansas this weekend. He enters his final indoor season as one of the better jumpers in Ole Miss history, as last season he joined Olympian Savante' Stringfellow as the only Rebels to clear 7-2 in the high jump and 25-5 in the long jump indoors. Last year, Gordon's indoor career-best long jump distance of 7.83m (25-08.25) ended up 12th on the NCAA performance list heading into the national meet. Gordon proved his versatility all season long, recording additional personal bests in the high jump (2.20m/7-02.50) and triple jump (15.00m/49-02.50).
• The Rebels remained the dominant force in the SEC in the distance medley relay in 2020, winning their sixth DMR title in the last seven years following a gutsy performance from the quartet of Nick Moulai (1200m), James Burnett (400m), Baylor Franklin (800m) and Waleed Suliman (mile). Suliman, the Ole Miss record holder in the mile at 3:56.78, enters his senior season in the upper echelon of milers nationally after qualifying for the NCAA Championships each of the last two seasons.
Rebel Men Competing:
60-Meter Dash: Elijah Dryer, Isaiah Teer, Tristyn Wooley
200-Meter Dash: Elijah Dryer, Isaiah Teer, Tristyn Wooley
800-Meter: Cade Bethmann, Marcus Dropik, Baylor Franklin, Jacob Lough
Mile: Dalton Hengst, Everett Smulders
3K: Cole Bullock, Mario Garcia Romo, Dalton Hengst, Waleed Suliman
60-Meter Hurdles: Kenney Broadnax
4x400-Meter Relay (A)
Distance Medley Relay (A)
Distance Medley Relay (B)
High Jump: Allen Gordon, Ukurugenzi Kojo, Cory Meek
Pole Vault: Ryan Roark, Miles Walden, Peyton Weissmann
Long Jump: Allen Gordon, Ryan Star, Torrence Tuberville
Triple Jump: Cory Meek
Heptathlon: Luke Etherton, Pierce Genereux, Peyton Lowery
Rebel Women Competing:
60-Meter Dash: Brandee Presley, Kelly Rowe
200-Meter Dash: Ashanti Denton, Jayda Eckford, Olivia Womack
400-Meter Dash: Ashanti Denton, Toni Glatz
800-Meter Dash: Sintayehu Vissa
Mile: Skylar Boogerd, Maddie King, Morgan Claire Rose, Loral Winn
3K: Anna Elkin, Maddie King, Victoria Simmons, Cate Tracht, Kristel van den Berg
5K: Anna Elkin, Victoria Simmons
Pole Vault: Alex Brooks, Remy Guertel, Samara McConnell, Elizabeth Nix, Lyndsey Reed
Long Jump: Skye Gross, Tyra Weathersby
Triple Jump: Kyla McLaurin
Pentathlon: Meg Goebel, Sara Van Aken
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field and Cross Country, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
ON THE AIR
Day One (Fri., Jan. 29)
SEC Network +
5:30 p.m. CT
Day Two (Sat, Jan. 30
SEC Network +
12:30 p.m. CT
TEAM NOTES
• Alongside the Rebels in competition will be Arkansas (No. 1 men, No. 1 women), Colorado, Georgia (No. 22 men, No. 3 women), Iowa State, Mississippi State, Oregon and USC (No. 10 men, No. 6 women). This weekend will be the first meet of the season for both Mississippi State and Oregon.
• The Rebels are not far out of the top-25 in the Week 1 USTFCCCA National Rating Index, with the Ole Miss women ranking No. 29 and the men No. 32.
• Ole Miss did not compete at last week's Woo Pig Classic at Arkansas (Jan. 22) due to a combination of positive COVID-19 cases and subsequent contact tracing and quarantining of individuals within the program.
• The Rebels opened the season at Vanderbilt's Commodore Indoor on Jan. 15-16, the first meet for Ole Miss in 322 days since a promising 2020 season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic just one day before the NCAA Indoor Championships were set to begin in Albuquerque, New Mexico last March.
• Ole Miss will boasts an SEC-exclusive schedule this indoor season, with remaining stops at South Carolina (South Carolina Invite, Feb. 5-6), Vanderbilt (Music City Classic, Feb. 13), and back to Arkansas for both the SEC Indoor Championships (Feb. 25-27) and NCAA Indoor Championships (March 11-13).
• Ole Miss won two SEC titles in 2020 in the women's weight throw (Shey Taiwo) and the men's distance medley relay (Nick Moulai, James Burnett, Baylor Franklin and Waleed Suliman).
• Ole Miss had eight student-athletes qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, who all earned All-America honors following the cancellation of the national meet. Those Rebel All-Americans all return in 2021 and include senior thrower Deborah Bulai, junior sprinter Jayda Eckford, senior jumper Allen Gordon, sophomore thrower Jasmine Mitchell, senior distance runner John Rivera Jr., junior sprinter Brandee Presley, senior distance runner Waleed Suliman and senior thrower Shey Taiwo.
• A total of 23 new Rebels join the roster in 2021: pole vaulter Alex Brooks, thrower Costen Campion, distance runner Whit Dennis, sprinter Ashanti Denton, distance runner Marcus Dropik, multi athlete Luke Etherton, distance runner Makayla Fick, jumper Skye Gross, pole vaulter Remy Guertel, distance runner Ryann Helmers, jumper Ukurugenzi Kojo, pole vaulter Samara McConnell, jumper Kyla McLaurin, jumper/sprinter Ryan Star, sprinter Isaiah Teer, distance runner Kristel van den Berg, distance runner Sintayehu Vissa, pole vaulter Miles Walden, jumper Tyra Weathersby, sprinter Olivia Womack and sprinter Tristyn Wooley.
• Ole Miss enters year six under head coach Connie Price-Smith, who has led the Rebels to new heights in her time in Oxford with five NCAA top-25 team finishes, four NCAA individual titles, 34 SEC individual titles and 82 total First or Second-Team All-American awards. In 20 years as a head coach at both Ole Miss and Southern Illinois dating back to 2002, Price-Smith has collected 12 NCAA event titles and mentored 151 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).
• Ole Miss owns 105 First or Second-Team All-Americans indoors (70 men, 35 women), as well as eight NCAA titles (11 total NCAA Champions; nine men, two women). Of those 105, a total of 42 All-Americans (27 men, 15 women) have come under Price-Smith, as well as two NCAA titles (Raven Saunders, shot put, 2017; men's DMR, 2017).
WOMEN'S NOTES
• Ole Miss owns 10 times or marks currently within the NCAA top-50, five of which rest within the top-25.
• All-American junior Brandee Presley opened 2021 with a runner-up finish in the 60-meter dash at Vanderbilt's Commodore Indoor, running 7.37 in the final. She currently ranks 18th nationally and seventh in the conference at that time. Presley is the Ole Miss record holder at 7.18 from the 2020 UAB Blazer Invite, where she twice broke All-American Teneeshia Jones' 2001 record of 7.28.
• Presley is also the Ole Miss outdoor record holder in the 100-meter dash at 11.19 (+2.0), which she set her freshman season to become the first Rebel to ever break 11.20. As a freshman, 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.
• Fellow All-American junior Jayda Eckford also toppled a Teneeshia Jones' held record in the 200-meter dash in 2020, breaking it twice at the SEC Indoor Championships. Eckford ran 23.29 in the prelim before breaking the record again in the final at 23.18 to finish fifth overall. Eckford ranked 12th among qualifiers in the event at the national meet. Eckford makes her 200-meter debut in 2021 this weekend at Arkansas.
• Likewise, Eckford also owns the outdoor 200-meter record from her freshman season in 2019, toppling Jones' all-conditions 200-meter record at 22.72 (+2.2). Additionally, that freshman season saw her also become the first Rebel to break 23 seconds at a wind-legal time of 22.98 (+0.6) and win silver in the 200 at both the U.S. U20 and Pan-American U20 Championships.
• Senior Anna Elkin toppled a school record of her own at Vanderbilt, breaking Maddie King's 2019 mile time of 4:46.45 with a 13-second PR of 4:46.23 on Jan. 16. Elkin's mile time currently puts her 19th nationally and 11th in the SEC, and is also the second school record she has claimed after taking the non-standard outdoor 3K crown in 2019 at 9:43.51. Sophomore Loral Winn also owns a top-50 mile time from the Commodore Indoor at 4:52.79, currently No. 35 nationally and No. 13 all-time at Ole Miss.
• Freshman Samara McConnell made her mark in her first collegiate meet, winning the women's pole vault at Vanderbilt on Jan. 16 at a height of 3.95m (12-11.50). McConnell has already vaulted her way into a tie for No. 8 all-time at Ole Miss, as well as No. 40 nationally and No. 9 in the SEC. McConnell leads all SEC freshmen and ranks seventh nationally among freshmen in the pole vault.
• Ole Miss took the women's weight throw by storm in 2020, becoming the first school in NCAA history with three women at or above the 22-meter plateau (Shey Taiwo, Jasmine Mitchell, Deborah Bulai) in a single season, all three of whom qualified for the national meet and earned All-American honors. Prior to 2020, only three schools ever had two 22-meter throwers (Florida, 2004; Louisville, 2010; Southern Illinois, 2011), including a Southern Illinois squad coached by head coach Connie Price-Smith and throws coach John Smith via marks from Olympian Gwen Berry and NCAA Champion Jeneva McCall (both ended up serving as Ole Miss volunteer assistant coaches). Notre Dame also had two throwers beyond 22 meters, making 2020 the first in NCAA history to have multiple schools have multiple athletes throw beyond that mark.
• Taiwo led the crew in fourth nationally at her SEC title winning throw of 22.72m (74-06.50), Mitchell eighth at 22.23m (72-11.75) and Bulai 13th at 22.02m (72-03.00). The trio rank second, third and fourth in school history behind two-time U.S. champion and current world leader Janeah Stewart, whose school record 24.12m (79-01.75) still ranks sixth in NCAA history.
• This season, Mitchell ranks fourth in the NCAA at 21.57m (70-09.25), sophomore Jalani Davis ranks 10th at 20.82m (68-08.75) and Bulai sits 22nd at 19.56m (64-02.25). Taiwo has yet to throw in 2021.
• The Rebel women ended the 2020 indoor season ranked No. 22 in the Week Seven USTFCCCA National Rating Index, their seventh straight appearance in the national poll. That marked the 30th time in women's program history that the Rebels have been ranked in the indoor season, the 22nd such ranking that has come under head coach Connie Price-Smith's tutelage since taking over the combined program in 2015.
MEN'S NOTES
• The Rebel men eight NCAA top-50 times or marks, five of which come from the Ole Miss distance squad.
• All-American senior Waleed Suliman will mark his 2021 debut in the 3K at Arkansas this weekend. His career-best of 7:54.80 from the 2020 Husky Classic ranks third in program history and was the best by a Rebel since 2017 (MJ Erb, 7:54.77). Suliman stands alongside Derek Gutierrez as the lone pair in Ole Miss history to own sub-8 times in the 3K and sub-4 times in the mile. Suliman is the Ole Miss record holder in the mile at 3:56.78 from the 2019 David Hemery Invite at Boston University.
• Suliman also broke the four-minute barrier in 2020 at 3:57.03 at the Vanderbilt Invite, which ended up qualifying him for the national meet with the fifth-best seed time.
• Only two other Rebels have ever broken the four-minute barrier in the mile, and they have all come within the last three years: All-Americans Sean Tobin (3:58.28, Feb. 3, 2018; 3:59.91, Feb. 15, 2014) and Derek Gutierrez (3:58.55, Feb. 9, 2019). Suliman is a three-time All-American indoors, once in the distance medley relay in 2018 (Second-Team) and twice in the mile in 2019 (Second-Team) and 2020 (general).
• The Ole Miss 800-meter squad was ready to go at Vanderbilt two weeks ago, with Baylor Franklin and Everett Smulders both posting sizable PRs in a strong 1-2 punch for the Rebels. Franklin won at a three-second PR of 1:48.61 (No. 6 all-time), while Smulders wasn't far behind in second at a two-second PR of 1:48.75 (No. 7 all-time). The duo rank second and third in the SEC, as well as Nos. 5 and 6 in the NCAA, respectively. Junior Cade Bethmann also owns an NCAA top-50 time at No. 36 with his season-opener of 1:52.97.
• All-American senior John Rivera Jr. makes his 800-meter debut this weekend at the Razorback Invite. Rivera qualified for the NCAA Championships in 2020 with the No. 10 time nationally at 1:48.13, the fifth-best time in program history and the best by a Rebel since All-American Craig Engels clocked 1:47.54 at the 2017 SEC Championships. In 2020, Rivera missed the SEC podium by four hundredths of a second, taking fourth place overall. Rivera is also the Ole Miss record holder in the non-standard 600-meter at 1:17.90, which broke Thomas Johnson's 1991 time of 1:18.75.
• Ole Miss also received stellar openers from veteran distance runners Robinson Snider and Ben Savino in the 3K at Vanderbilt, with Snider clocking a huge 19-second PR at 8:12.56 to finish runner-up at the 15th-best time in program history. Savino had a large improvement as well, a 13-second PR of 8:13.20. The duo rank fourth and fifth in the SEC, respectively, with Snider sitting No. 26 and Savino No. 30 in the NCAA.
• The Rebel throwers are represented in the NCAA top-50 by two marks from the Commodore Indoor. Junior Joseph Benedetto, 2019 U.S. U20 champion in the hammer, currently sits 30th in the NCAA and eighth in the SEC at his season opener of 19.80m (64-11.50). Sophomore Daniel Viveros, the top high school boys shot putter when he signed with Ole Miss in 2019, currently sits 39th nationally and fifth in the SEC at 17.24m (56-06.75).
• All-American senior Allen Gordon currently ranks 48th nationally in the triple jump at 14.74m (48-04.50), but has yet to attempt the high jump yet this season. Gordon is scheduled to compete in both the high jump and long jump at Arkansas this weekend. He enters his final indoor season as one of the better jumpers in Ole Miss history, as last season he joined Olympian Savante' Stringfellow as the only Rebels to clear 7-2 in the high jump and 25-5 in the long jump indoors. Last year, Gordon's indoor career-best long jump distance of 7.83m (25-08.25) ended up 12th on the NCAA performance list heading into the national meet. Gordon proved his versatility all season long, recording additional personal bests in the high jump (2.20m/7-02.50) and triple jump (15.00m/49-02.50).
• The Rebels remained the dominant force in the SEC in the distance medley relay in 2020, winning their sixth DMR title in the last seven years following a gutsy performance from the quartet of Nick Moulai (1200m), James Burnett (400m), Baylor Franklin (800m) and Waleed Suliman (mile). Suliman, the Ole Miss record holder in the mile at 3:56.78, enters his senior season in the upper echelon of milers nationally after qualifying for the NCAA Championships each of the last two seasons.
Rebel Men Competing:
60-Meter Dash: Elijah Dryer, Isaiah Teer, Tristyn Wooley
200-Meter Dash: Elijah Dryer, Isaiah Teer, Tristyn Wooley
800-Meter: Cade Bethmann, Marcus Dropik, Baylor Franklin, Jacob Lough
Mile: Dalton Hengst, Everett Smulders
3K: Cole Bullock, Mario Garcia Romo, Dalton Hengst, Waleed Suliman
60-Meter Hurdles: Kenney Broadnax
4x400-Meter Relay (A)
Distance Medley Relay (A)
Distance Medley Relay (B)
High Jump: Allen Gordon, Ukurugenzi Kojo, Cory Meek
Pole Vault: Ryan Roark, Miles Walden, Peyton Weissmann
Long Jump: Allen Gordon, Ryan Star, Torrence Tuberville
Triple Jump: Cory Meek
Heptathlon: Luke Etherton, Pierce Genereux, Peyton Lowery
Rebel Women Competing:
60-Meter Dash: Brandee Presley, Kelly Rowe
200-Meter Dash: Ashanti Denton, Jayda Eckford, Olivia Womack
400-Meter Dash: Ashanti Denton, Toni Glatz
800-Meter Dash: Sintayehu Vissa
Mile: Skylar Boogerd, Maddie King, Morgan Claire Rose, Loral Winn
3K: Anna Elkin, Maddie King, Victoria Simmons, Cate Tracht, Kristel van den Berg
5K: Anna Elkin, Victoria Simmons
Pole Vault: Alex Brooks, Remy Guertel, Samara McConnell, Elizabeth Nix, Lyndsey Reed
Long Jump: Skye Gross, Tyra Weathersby
Triple Jump: Kyla McLaurin
Pentathlon: Meg Goebel, Sara Van Aken
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field and Cross Country, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
| Razorback Invite, Master Schedule (all times CT) | ||
| Day One | Friday, January 29 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 11:45 a.m. | Men's Heptathlon (60-Meter Dash) | Luke Etherton (Heat 1) Pierce Genereux (Heat 1) Peyton Lowery (Heat 1) |
| 12:10 p.m. | Women's Pentathlon (60-Meter Hurdles) | Meg Goebel (Heat 1) Sara Van Aken (Heat 1) |
| 12:20 p.m. | Men's Heptathlon (Long Jump) | Luke Etherton Pierce Genereux Peyton Lowery |
| 12:45 p.m. | Women's Pentathlon (High Jump) | Meg Goebel Sara Van Aken |
| 1:20 p.m. | Men's Heptathlon (Shot Put) | Luke Etherton Pierce Genereux Peyton Lowery |
| 2:20 p.m. | Men's Heptathlon (High Jump) | Luke Etherton (Heat 1) Pierce Genereux (Heat 1) Peyton Lowery (Heat 1) |
| Women's Pentathlon (Shot Put) | Meg Goebel Sara Van Aken |
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| 3:00 p.m. | Men's Pole Vault | Ryan Roark Miles Walden Peyton Weissmann |
| 3:20 pm. | Women's Pentathlon (Long Jump) | Meg Goebel Sara Van Aken |
| 4:10 p.m. | Men's Long Jump | Allen Gordon Ryan Star Torrence Tuberville |
| 4:30 p.m. | Women's Pentathlon (800-Meter) | Meg Goebel (Heat 1) Sara Van Aken (Heat 1) |
| 5:35 p.m. | Women's Long Jump | Tyra Weathersby (Flight 1) Skye Gross (Flight 2) |
| 6:05 p.m. | Women's 5K | Anna Elkin (Heat 1) Victoria Simmons (Heat 1) |
| 6:20 p.m. | Women's 200-Meter Dash | Olivia Womack (Heat 1, Lane 4)) Ashanti Denton (Heat 1, Lane 6) Jayda Eckford (Heat 5, Lane 6) |
| 6:35 p.m. | Men's High Jump | Allen Gordon Ukurugenzi Kojo Cory Meek |
| 6:40 p.m. | Men's 200-Meter Dash | Isaiah Teer (Heat 1, Lane 4) Tristyn Wooley (Heat 2, Lane 6) Elijah Dryer (Heat 5, Lane 4) |
| 7:00 p.m. | Men's Distance Medley Relay | Heat 1 (A & B) |
| Day Two | Saturday, January 30 | ||
| 10:15 a.m. | Men's Heptathlon (60-Meter Hurdles) | Luke Etherton (Heat 1) Pierce Genereux (Heat 1) Peyton Lowery (Heat 1) |
| 10:50 a.m. | Men's Heptathlon (Pole Vault) | Luke Etherton Pierce Genereux Peyton Lowery |
| 12:45 p.m. | Men's 60-Meter Hurdles Prelims | Kenney Broadnax (Heat 1, Lane 5) |
| 12:55 p.m. | Women's 60-Meter Dash Prelims | Kelly Rowe (Heat 1, Lane 6) Brandee Presley (Heat 2, Lane 4) |
| 1:00 p.m. | Women's Triple Jump | Kyla McLaurin |
| 1:07 p.m. | Men's 60-Meter Dash Prelims | Tristyn Wooley (Heat 1, Lane 2) Isaiah Teer (Heat 2, Lane 1) Elijah Dryer (Heat 2, Lane 3) |
| 1:20 p.m. | Women's Mile | Skylar Boogerd (Heat 1) Maddie King (Heat 1) Morgan Claire Rose (Heat 1) Loral Winn (Heat 1) |
| 1:28 p.m. | Men's Mile | Dalton Hengst Everett Smulders |
| 1:40 p.m. | Men's 60-Meter Hurdles Final | -- |
| 1:45 p.m. | Women's 400-Meter Dash | Ashanti Denton (Heat 1, Lane 3) Toni Glatz (Heat 1, Lane 6) |
| 2:00 p.m. | Women's Pole Vault | Alex Brooks Remy Guertel Samara McConnell Elizabeth Nix Lyndsey Reed |
| 2:30 p.m. | Women's 60-Meter Dash Final | -- |
| 2:35 p.m. | Men's 60-Meter Dash Final | -- |
| 2:40 p.m. | Men's Heptathlon (1000-Meter) | Luke Etherton Pierce Genereux Peyton Lowery |
| 2:45 p.m. | Men's Triple Jump | Cory Meek |
| Women's 800-Meter | Sintayehu Vissa (Heat 1) | |
| 2:53 p.m. | Men's 800-Meter | Jacob Lough (Heat 1) Cade Bethmann (Heat 2) Baylor Franklin (Heat 3) Marcus Dropik (Heat 3) |
| 3:05 p.m. | Women's 3K | Anna Elkin (Heat 1) Maddie King (Heat 1) Victoria Simmons (Heat 1) Cate Tracht (Heat 1) Kristel van den Berg (Heat 1) |
| 3:18 p.m. | Men's 3K | Cole Bullock (Heat 2) Mario Garcia Romo (Heat 2) Dalton Hengst (Heat 2) Waleed Suliman (Heat 2) |
| 3:50 p.m. | Men's 4x400-Meter Relay | Heat 1 |
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/ Track and FieldINTERVIEW: Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan Talks NCAA Shot Three-Peat
Saturday, March 14
HIGHLIGHTS: Alicia Burnett Finishes Fourth in NCAA 60-Meter Final
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HIGHLIGHTS: Akaoma Odeluga Finishes NCAA Runner-Up in Shot Put
Saturday, March 14
HIGHLIGHTS: Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan Wins Third Straight NCAA Indoor Shot Put Title
Saturday, March 14