The University of Mississippi Athletics
Friday, April 16
Gainesville, Fla.
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Tom Jones Memorial
Ole Miss Track & Field Splits for Florida and Virginia
4/15/2021 | Track and Field
Rebels to Compete at Florida’s Tom Jones Memorial and UVA’s Virginia Challenge
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Ole Miss men's and women's track & field will split squad for the first time this outdoor season, with four distance runners heading to Charlottesville for the Virginia Challenge and the remainder of the team going to Florida for the Tom Jones Memorial.
WOMEN'S NOTES
• Ole Miss enters the weekend with two of the top pole vaulters in the NCAA following a splendid meet at home last week at the Joe Walker Invite. Lyndsey Reed currently sits ninth in the nation at 4.28m (14-00.50), the second-best height in school history that also made her just the second Rebel to ever join the 14-foot club indoors or outdoors. Samara McConnell also ranks in the top-20 in 18th at her outdoor PR of 4.18m (13-08.50), the fourth-best in school history that also earned her SEC Freshman of the Week honors this past week.
• Ole Miss stands as one of just two school in the NCAA to have three or more women's hammer throwers at or beyond 200 feet alongside North Dakota State. Jasmine Mitchell, in just her third outdoor meet as a Rebel, already ranks second all-time and 11th in the NCAA this season at 66.37m (217-09). Other 200-foot throwers this season include Shey Taiwo (22nd, 64.33m/211-01) and Jalani Davis (27th, 63.54m/208-05).
• In her first career 1500-meter race, Rebel newcomer Sintayehu Vissa dismantled the Ole Miss record by three seconds at 4:16.70 – currently the 16th-best time in the NCAA. Vissa also helped rabbit a blistering 800-meter at the Joe Walker Invite last week, bringing the pack through the first 400 in 59.9 seconds.
WOMEN'S NCAA TOP-50
9. Lyndsey Reed – Pole Vault – 4.28m (14-00.50)
11. Jasmine Mitchell – Hammer – 66.37m (217-09)
16. Sintayehu Vissa – 1500-Meter – 4:16.70
18. Samara McConnell – Pole Vault – 4.18m (13-08.50)
22. Tedreauna Britt – Discus – 54.51m (178-10)
22. Shey Taiwo – Hammer – 64.33m (211-01)
24. Jalani Davis – Shot Put – 16.49m (54-01.25)
27. Brandee Presley – 100-Meter Dash – 11.38 (0.1)
27. 4x100-Meter Relay (Presley, Eckford, Brooks, Glatz) – 44.68
27. Jalani Davis – Hammer – 63.54m (208-05)
32. Jasmine Mitchell – Shot Put – 16.27m (53-04.50)
39. Brandee Presley – 200-Meter Dash – 23.40 (1.3)
45. Kieshonna Brooks – Long Jump – 6.16m/20-02.50 (1.0)
48. Skylar Boogerd – 5K – 16:22.58
50. Tedreauna Britt – Shot Put – 15.82m (51-11.00)
MEN'S NOTES
• All-American senior Waleed Suliman led one of the fastest 1500-meter races at the distance-heavy Joe Walker Invite last week, clocking the NCAA's second-best time at 3:36.53. The time is a U.S. Olympic Trials standard for Suliman, who became a U.S. citizen in late 2019 after spending his childhood across Sudan, Jordan and Virginia. Suliman's time puts him at No. 2 in Ole Miss history as well behind Robert Domanic's 2018 record of 3:36.33, which was the ninth-fastest in NCAA history at the time it was run.
• Mario Garcia Romo was right behind Suliman in that blazing 1500-meter race, finishing at the NCAA's third-best time of 3:37.17. Also running an NCAA top-50 time in that heat was Everett Smulders at 3:42.86 (35th).
• Ole Miss also received two fast 800-meter races from Baylor Franklin and Cade Bethmann, with Franklin clocking the NCAA's 15th-best time at an overall PR 1:48.27, and Bethmann the 23rd at a season-best 1:48.76.
• All-American senior Allen Gordon ranks NCAA top-25 in both the long jump (21st, 7.71m/25-03.50) and high jump (23rd, 2.15m/7-00.50). After setting a career-best 15.29m (50-02.00) last week, Gordon currently stands as the only jump in the NCAA to have cleared seven feet in the high jump, 25' 3.50: in the long jump and 50' 2" in the triple jump.
MEN'S NCAA TOP-50
2. Waleed Suliman – 1500-Meter – 3:36.53
3. Mario Garcia Romo – 1500-Meter – 3:37.17
15. Baylor Franklin – 800-Meter – 1:48.27
21. Allen Gordon – Long Jump – 7.71m/25-03.50 (0.5)
23. Cade Bethmann – 800-Meter – 1:48.76
23. Allen Gordon – High Jump – 2.15m (7-00.50)
25. Joseph Benedetto – Hammer – 65.95m (216-04)
28. Kenney Broadnax – 110-Meter Hurdles – 13.90 (2.7)
35. Everett Smulders – 1500-Meter – 3:42.86
37. Daniel Viveros – Shot Put – 18.38m (60-03.75)
39. Peyton Weissmann – Pole Vault – 5.20m (17-00.75)
TEAM NOTES
• Ole Miss is in year six under head coach Connie Price-Smith, who has led the Rebels to new heights in her time in Oxford with seven NCAA top-25 team finishes, four NCAA individual titles, 39 SEC individual titles and 98 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 167 All-Americans on the track.
COMPETITION SCHEDULE
Virginia Challenge • Fri., April 16
6:50 PM – Women's 5K – Anna Elkin
8:05 PM – Women's 10K – Victoria Simmons
8:45 PM – Men's 10K – Ben Savino, Robinson Snider
Tom Jones Invitational • Day One (Fri., April 16)
1:00 PM – Men's Discus – Peyton Lowery (Flight 1), Pierce Genereux (Flight 1), Daniel Viveros (Flight 2)
2:00 PM – Men's High Jump – Allen Gordon, Ukurugenzi Kojo
2:00 PM – Men's Pole Vault – Cole Colozzo, Ryan Roark, Miles Walden, Peyton Weissmann
3:00 PM – Women's Discus – Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2), Jalani Davis (Flight 2), Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2), Shey Taiwo (Flight 2)
3:30 PM – Men's Shot Put – Daniel Viveros
4:00 PM – Women's Long Jump – Skye Gross (Flight 1), Sara Van Aken (Flight 1), Kieshonna Brooks (Flight 2)
5:00 PM – Women's 1500-Meter – Loral Winn (Heat 1), Makayla Fick (Heat 2), Ylvi Traxler (Heat 2)
5:25 PM – Men's 1500-Meter – Cade Bethmann (Heat 1), Michael Coccia (Heat 1), Jacob Lough (Heat 1), Marcus Dropik (Heat 1)
5:50 PM – Women's 200-Meter Dash – Jayda Eckford (Heat 1), Kelly Rowe (Heat 3), Brandee Presley (Heat 3), Olivia Womack (Heat 6)
6:00 PM – Women's Javelin – Sara Van Aken
6:00 PM – Men's Long Jump – Peyton Lowery (Flight 1), Pierce Genereux (Flight 1), Allen Gordon (Flight 2)
6:10 PM – Men's 200-Meter Dash – Elijah Dryer (Heat 2), Isaiah Teer (Heat 3)
7:00 PM – Women's Steeplechase – Morgan Claire Rose, Kristel van den Berg
8:10 PM – Men's 5K – Whit Dennis
Tom Jones Invitational • Day Two (Sat., April 17)
9:00 AM – Women's Hammer – Deborah Bulai (Flight 1), Jalani Davis (Flight 2), Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2), Shey Taiwo (Flight 2)
11:00 AM – Men's Hammer – Joseph Lanham (Flight 1)
11:00 AM – Women's 100-Meter Hurdles (Prelim) – Kieshonna Brooks (Heat 3), Meg Goebel (Heat 4)
11:20 AM – Men's 110-Meter Hurdles (Prelim) – Pierce Genereux (Heat 1), Kenney Broadnax (Heat 3)
12:00 PM – Women's Pole Vault – Alex Brooks, Remy Guertel, Samara McConnell, Elizabeth Nix, Lyndsey Reed
12:00 PM – Women's Triple Jump – Kyla McLaurin (Flight 1)
12:00 PM – Women's 4x100-Meter Relay (Heat 1)
12:20 PM – Women's 800-Meter – Sintayehu Vissa (Heat 1), Loral Winn (Heat 2), Makayla Fick (Heat 4), Lexi King (Heat 4)
12:40 PM – Men's 800-Meter – Cade Bethmann (Heat 1), Everett Smulders (Heat 1), Waleed Suliman (Heat 1), Marcus Dropik (Heat 2), Jacob Lough (Heat 2)
1:00 PM – Women's High Jump – Meg Goebel, Sara Van Aken
1:00 PM – Men's Triple Jump – Demond Fleming
1:00 PM – Women's Shot Put – Shey Taiwo (Flight 1), Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2), Jalani Davis (Flight 2), Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2)
1:00 PM – Women's 100-Meter Hurdles (Final)
1:10 PM – Men's 110-Meter Hurdles (Final)
1:20 PM – Women's 400-Meter Dash – Jayda Eckford (Heat 1), Toni Glatz (Heat 2), Orianna Shaw (Heat 2)
1:40 PM – Men's 400-Meter Dash – Alvin Westbrook (Heat 2)
2:00 PM – Women's 100-Meter Dash – Brandee Presley (Heat 1), Kelly Rowe (Heat 2), Olivia Womack (Heat 4)
2:15 PM – Men's 100-Meter Dash – Elijah Dryer (Heat 2), Isaiah Teer (Heat 2), Peyton Lowery (Heat 4)
2:35 PM – Women's 3K – Brooke Gilmore, Lexi King, Nicole Rice
3:05 PM – Women's 4x400-Meter Relay (Heat 1)
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field and Cross Country, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
WOMEN'S NOTES
• Ole Miss enters the weekend with two of the top pole vaulters in the NCAA following a splendid meet at home last week at the Joe Walker Invite. Lyndsey Reed currently sits ninth in the nation at 4.28m (14-00.50), the second-best height in school history that also made her just the second Rebel to ever join the 14-foot club indoors or outdoors. Samara McConnell also ranks in the top-20 in 18th at her outdoor PR of 4.18m (13-08.50), the fourth-best in school history that also earned her SEC Freshman of the Week honors this past week.
• Ole Miss stands as one of just two school in the NCAA to have three or more women's hammer throwers at or beyond 200 feet alongside North Dakota State. Jasmine Mitchell, in just her third outdoor meet as a Rebel, already ranks second all-time and 11th in the NCAA this season at 66.37m (217-09). Other 200-foot throwers this season include Shey Taiwo (22nd, 64.33m/211-01) and Jalani Davis (27th, 63.54m/208-05).
• In her first career 1500-meter race, Rebel newcomer Sintayehu Vissa dismantled the Ole Miss record by three seconds at 4:16.70 – currently the 16th-best time in the NCAA. Vissa also helped rabbit a blistering 800-meter at the Joe Walker Invite last week, bringing the pack through the first 400 in 59.9 seconds.
WOMEN'S NCAA TOP-50
9. Lyndsey Reed – Pole Vault – 4.28m (14-00.50)
11. Jasmine Mitchell – Hammer – 66.37m (217-09)
16. Sintayehu Vissa – 1500-Meter – 4:16.70
18. Samara McConnell – Pole Vault – 4.18m (13-08.50)
22. Tedreauna Britt – Discus – 54.51m (178-10)
22. Shey Taiwo – Hammer – 64.33m (211-01)
24. Jalani Davis – Shot Put – 16.49m (54-01.25)
27. Brandee Presley – 100-Meter Dash – 11.38 (0.1)
27. 4x100-Meter Relay (Presley, Eckford, Brooks, Glatz) – 44.68
27. Jalani Davis – Hammer – 63.54m (208-05)
32. Jasmine Mitchell – Shot Put – 16.27m (53-04.50)
39. Brandee Presley – 200-Meter Dash – 23.40 (1.3)
45. Kieshonna Brooks – Long Jump – 6.16m/20-02.50 (1.0)
48. Skylar Boogerd – 5K – 16:22.58
50. Tedreauna Britt – Shot Put – 15.82m (51-11.00)
MEN'S NOTES
• All-American senior Waleed Suliman led one of the fastest 1500-meter races at the distance-heavy Joe Walker Invite last week, clocking the NCAA's second-best time at 3:36.53. The time is a U.S. Olympic Trials standard for Suliman, who became a U.S. citizen in late 2019 after spending his childhood across Sudan, Jordan and Virginia. Suliman's time puts him at No. 2 in Ole Miss history as well behind Robert Domanic's 2018 record of 3:36.33, which was the ninth-fastest in NCAA history at the time it was run.
• Mario Garcia Romo was right behind Suliman in that blazing 1500-meter race, finishing at the NCAA's third-best time of 3:37.17. Also running an NCAA top-50 time in that heat was Everett Smulders at 3:42.86 (35th).
• Ole Miss also received two fast 800-meter races from Baylor Franklin and Cade Bethmann, with Franklin clocking the NCAA's 15th-best time at an overall PR 1:48.27, and Bethmann the 23rd at a season-best 1:48.76.
• All-American senior Allen Gordon ranks NCAA top-25 in both the long jump (21st, 7.71m/25-03.50) and high jump (23rd, 2.15m/7-00.50). After setting a career-best 15.29m (50-02.00) last week, Gordon currently stands as the only jump in the NCAA to have cleared seven feet in the high jump, 25' 3.50: in the long jump and 50' 2" in the triple jump.
MEN'S NCAA TOP-50
2. Waleed Suliman – 1500-Meter – 3:36.53
3. Mario Garcia Romo – 1500-Meter – 3:37.17
15. Baylor Franklin – 800-Meter – 1:48.27
21. Allen Gordon – Long Jump – 7.71m/25-03.50 (0.5)
23. Cade Bethmann – 800-Meter – 1:48.76
23. Allen Gordon – High Jump – 2.15m (7-00.50)
25. Joseph Benedetto – Hammer – 65.95m (216-04)
28. Kenney Broadnax – 110-Meter Hurdles – 13.90 (2.7)
35. Everett Smulders – 1500-Meter – 3:42.86
37. Daniel Viveros – Shot Put – 18.38m (60-03.75)
39. Peyton Weissmann – Pole Vault – 5.20m (17-00.75)
TEAM NOTES
• Ole Miss is in year six under head coach Connie Price-Smith, who has led the Rebels to new heights in her time in Oxford with seven NCAA top-25 team finishes, four NCAA individual titles, 39 SEC individual titles and 98 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 167 All-Americans on the track.
COMPETITION SCHEDULE
Virginia Challenge • Fri., April 16
6:50 PM – Women's 5K – Anna Elkin
8:05 PM – Women's 10K – Victoria Simmons
8:45 PM – Men's 10K – Ben Savino, Robinson Snider
Tom Jones Invitational • Day One (Fri., April 16)
1:00 PM – Men's Discus – Peyton Lowery (Flight 1), Pierce Genereux (Flight 1), Daniel Viveros (Flight 2)
2:00 PM – Men's High Jump – Allen Gordon, Ukurugenzi Kojo
2:00 PM – Men's Pole Vault – Cole Colozzo, Ryan Roark, Miles Walden, Peyton Weissmann
3:00 PM – Women's Discus – Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2), Jalani Davis (Flight 2), Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2), Shey Taiwo (Flight 2)
3:30 PM – Men's Shot Put – Daniel Viveros
4:00 PM – Women's Long Jump – Skye Gross (Flight 1), Sara Van Aken (Flight 1), Kieshonna Brooks (Flight 2)
5:00 PM – Women's 1500-Meter – Loral Winn (Heat 1), Makayla Fick (Heat 2), Ylvi Traxler (Heat 2)
5:25 PM – Men's 1500-Meter – Cade Bethmann (Heat 1), Michael Coccia (Heat 1), Jacob Lough (Heat 1), Marcus Dropik (Heat 1)
5:50 PM – Women's 200-Meter Dash – Jayda Eckford (Heat 1), Kelly Rowe (Heat 3), Brandee Presley (Heat 3), Olivia Womack (Heat 6)
6:00 PM – Women's Javelin – Sara Van Aken
6:00 PM – Men's Long Jump – Peyton Lowery (Flight 1), Pierce Genereux (Flight 1), Allen Gordon (Flight 2)
6:10 PM – Men's 200-Meter Dash – Elijah Dryer (Heat 2), Isaiah Teer (Heat 3)
7:00 PM – Women's Steeplechase – Morgan Claire Rose, Kristel van den Berg
8:10 PM – Men's 5K – Whit Dennis
Tom Jones Invitational • Day Two (Sat., April 17)
9:00 AM – Women's Hammer – Deborah Bulai (Flight 1), Jalani Davis (Flight 2), Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2), Shey Taiwo (Flight 2)
11:00 AM – Men's Hammer – Joseph Lanham (Flight 1)
11:00 AM – Women's 100-Meter Hurdles (Prelim) – Kieshonna Brooks (Heat 3), Meg Goebel (Heat 4)
11:20 AM – Men's 110-Meter Hurdles (Prelim) – Pierce Genereux (Heat 1), Kenney Broadnax (Heat 3)
12:00 PM – Women's Pole Vault – Alex Brooks, Remy Guertel, Samara McConnell, Elizabeth Nix, Lyndsey Reed
12:00 PM – Women's Triple Jump – Kyla McLaurin (Flight 1)
12:00 PM – Women's 4x100-Meter Relay (Heat 1)
12:20 PM – Women's 800-Meter – Sintayehu Vissa (Heat 1), Loral Winn (Heat 2), Makayla Fick (Heat 4), Lexi King (Heat 4)
12:40 PM – Men's 800-Meter – Cade Bethmann (Heat 1), Everett Smulders (Heat 1), Waleed Suliman (Heat 1), Marcus Dropik (Heat 2), Jacob Lough (Heat 2)
1:00 PM – Women's High Jump – Meg Goebel, Sara Van Aken
1:00 PM – Men's Triple Jump – Demond Fleming
1:00 PM – Women's Shot Put – Shey Taiwo (Flight 1), Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2), Jalani Davis (Flight 2), Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2)
1:00 PM – Women's 100-Meter Hurdles (Final)
1:10 PM – Men's 110-Meter Hurdles (Final)
1:20 PM – Women's 400-Meter Dash – Jayda Eckford (Heat 1), Toni Glatz (Heat 2), Orianna Shaw (Heat 2)
1:40 PM – Men's 400-Meter Dash – Alvin Westbrook (Heat 2)
2:00 PM – Women's 100-Meter Dash – Brandee Presley (Heat 1), Kelly Rowe (Heat 2), Olivia Womack (Heat 4)
2:15 PM – Men's 100-Meter Dash – Elijah Dryer (Heat 2), Isaiah Teer (Heat 2), Peyton Lowery (Heat 4)
2:35 PM – Women's 3K – Brooke Gilmore, Lexi King, Nicole Rice
3:05 PM – Women's 4x400-Meter Relay (Heat 1)
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field and Cross Country, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
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