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Friday, February 11
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Track & Field Splits for Vanderbilt and Arkansas

2/10/2022 | Track and Field

Last Full Weekend of Regular-Season Competition Prior to SEC Indoor Championships

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MUSIC CITY CHALLENGE
February 11-12 • Nashville, Tenn.
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Vanderbilt
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TYSON INVITATIONAL
February 11-12 • Fayetteville, Ark.
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Arkansas

NASHVILLE, Tenn. / FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ole Miss men's and women's track & field splits squad for its final regular season weekend of competition prior to the conference meet, with the Rebel throwers and distance runners heading back to Vanderbilt for the Music City Challenge, while the Rebel sprinters, hurdlers, jumpers and pole vaulters are off to Arkansas for the Tyson Invitational. Fans can watch live streams of both meets online on SEC Network+.
 
MEET NOTES
 
• Following this week, Ole Miss will begin postseason action at the 2022 SEC Indoor Championships at Texas A&M on Feb. 25-26, which will be followed by the NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham on March 11-12.
 
• Ole Miss enters the weekend with the nation's No. 11 women's squad in the Week Three USTFCCCA National Rating Index, their third straight appearance to start the season. The Rebel women started off the indoor season ranked No. 8 in both Week One and Week two, which tied for the second-best ever for the Ole Miss women indoor -- trailing only a No. 7 ranking in Week One of the 2008 indoor season.
 
• This is the 39th total appearance in the indoor rankings in general since it began in 2008. Additionally, this is the Rebel women's 16th ranking in the last 17 releases after being ranked for the entirety of the 2020 and 2021 indoor regular seasons. Under seventh-year head coach Connie Price-Smith, Ole Miss has notched 31 of those 39 total appearances.
 
• The Ole Miss men were ranked No. 25 in the Week Two edition, but fell three spots after an off week to No. 28 in the Week Three index.
 
• Ole Miss owns a combined 18 marks or times within the NCAA top-50, nine each from the Rebel women and men.
 
• Back on Feb. 2, All-American senior Shey Taiwo became the second Rebel to ever be named to The Bowerman Award Watch List and the first since Olympic medalist and 2016 Bowerman finalist Raven Saunders in 2018. Taiwo is in the midst of the greatest start to an indoor campaign in the history of the weight throw collegiately, currently ranking No. 2 in NCAA history and No. 4 in world history at her massive PR of 25.02m/82-1 at the Indiana Relays on Jan. 28. The Bowerman Award, collegiate track & field's version of the Heisman Trophy, is given out annually to the most outstanding men's and women's athletes in the nation.
 
• Ole Miss won three SEC weekly honors following an extraordinary meet at the Vanderbilt Inviational on Jan. 21-22: John Rivera Jr. (SEC Men's Runner of the Week), Shey Taiwo (SEC Women's Field Athlete of the Week) and Sintayehu Vissa (SEC Co-Women's Runner of the Week).
 
WOMEN'S NOTES
 
• All-American senior Shey Taiwo has taken the throwing world by storm at the start of her final collegiate indoor campaign, earning a slot on The Bowerman Award Watch List update that came out on Feb. 2. Taiwo – a native of South Holland, Illinois – is in the midst of the greatest start to an indoor campaign in the weight throw ever by a collegian. She has put together two of the best back-to-back weeks in the history of the weight throw collegiately, and her latest feat at the Indiana Relays of 25.02m/82-1 made her the No. 2 performer in NCAA history and No. 4 in the history of the world. That throw was a three-foot PR over her previous world-leading mark of 24.11m/79-01.25, and it ranks as the fourth-best throw ever by a collegian and the 11th-best in world history.
 
• On the all-time world list, she only trails world record holder Gwen Berry (2017; 25.60m/84-0), collegiate record holder Brittany Riley of Southern Illinois (2007; 25.56m/83-10.25) and former Rebel great Janeah Stewart (2018; 25.08m/82-03.50) – all four of whom were at one point disciples of Ole Miss head coach Connie Price-Smith and throws coach John Smith. Additionally, that throw ranks as the best by a collegian since Riley's 2008 NCAA title-winning 25.34m/83-01.75, and it also ranks as the best ever by a collegian this early into the season (Jan. 28). Over the last two weeks alone, Taiwo owns nine of the top-50 throws ever by a collegian: 25.02m (No. 4), 24.21m (No. 11), 24.11m (No. 18), 24.02m (No. 22), 23.85m (No. 25), 23.71m (No. 29), 23.70m (No. 31), 23.60m (No. 37) and 23.49m (No. 43).
 
• In her storied Rebel career, Taiwo is a four-time All-American and four-time NCAA qualifier with 14 career NCAA points scored and 33 career SEC points scored. Taiwo was the 2021 NCAA runner-up outdoors in the hammer at a 16-foot PR of 71.27m/233-10, which made her the ninth-best performer in NCAA history and sixth-best in the history of the NCAA Outdoor meet. Taiwo used that performance to qualify for the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, where she finished 14th overall in the hammer. Taiwo was also the NCAA bronze medalist in the weight throw indoors last season. On a conference level, Taiwo's 33 career SEC points come from seven different scoring occasions, including an SEC title in the weight throw in 2020 and a runner-up finish in 2021 to teammate and fellow All-American, Jasmine Mitchell.
 
• Taiwo is the second Rebel to ever be named to the Bowerman Watch List, joining two-time Olympian Raven Saunders, who made 15 total appearances on the Watch List and was a Bowerman finalist in 2016 and semifinalist in 2017.
 
• The week prior at Vanderbilt, the weight throw competition featured the top-three weight throw marks worldwide at the time from Taiwo (24.11m/79-01.75), former Rebel NCAA Champion and two-time U.S. champ Janeah Stewart (No. 2, 23.77m/78-00.00) and All-American teammate, junior Jasmine Mitchell (No. 3, 23.62m/77-06.00), who still ranks No. 2 in the NCAA and No. 11 in collegiate history at that mark.
 
• Mitchell, the reigning SEC Champion over Taiwo, ranks fifth in the world at that throw of 23.62m/77-06.00.
 
• Mitchell and Taiwo, who last year became the first teammates in NCAA history to throw beyond 23 meters in the same season (let alone the same meet) after doing so at the 2021 SEC Championships, are now the first duo to eclipse 77 feet in the same season, and both again did so within the same meet at Vanderbilt. The pair finished back-to-back at the 2021 NCAA Championships, with Taiwo taking third and Mitchell fourth in the nation.
 
• Also ranking in the weight throw is junior Jalani Davis, whose PR of 21.29m/69-10.25 ranks 20th in the NCAA and sixth in the SEC this season, as well as No. 6 all-time at Ole Miss. Davis also owns an NCAA top-25 mark in the shot put at her indoor PR of 16.70m/54-09.50, the No. 21 throw in the NCAA, No. 4 in the SEC, and No. 3 all-time at Ole Miss indoors.
 
• Davis is coming off a superb 2021 outdoor season that saw her take SEC Outdoor runner-up honors at a monster toss of 17.52m/57-05.75 and stand as the lone thrower nationwide -- men's or women's -- to triple at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
 
• Ole Miss owns one of the most fearsome women's weight throw sqauds in NCAA history, with four owning career-best throws of 69 feet or further, three 72 feet or further, and the top-two -- Taiwo and Mitchell -- at 77 feet or further and both within the all-time NCAA top-11. Ole Miss has won four of the last five SEC women's weight throw titles, with Janeah Stewart repeating in 2017 and 2018 before Taiwo won in 2020 and Mitchell in 2021.
 
• In 2020, Ole Miss was also the first school in NCAA history with three women at or beyond the 22-meter plateau in the weight throw in a single season: Shey Taiwo, Jasmine Mitchell, Deborah Bulai. All three qualified and earned All-American honors at the cancelled 2020 NCAA Indoor Championships. 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.
 
• All-American junior Sintayehu Vissa has led an all-out assault on the Ole Miss record book to start the indoor season, currently ranking No. 2 in the NCAA and leading the SEC at her mile record of 4:32.70 from the Vanderbilt Invitational, and her 3K record of 9:04.95 that ranks 17th nationally and second in the conference.
 
• Vissa's mile time was an eight-second PR over her previous school record of 4:40.99, and that mile race was only her second as a Rebel since transferring from Division II Saint Leo last season.
 
• In her first collegiate 3K race at Indiana two weeks ago, Vissa took down teammate Anna Elkin's school record of 9:17.19 by almost 13 seconds, and it stands as the best run by a Rebel on a non-oversized track by nearly 26 seconds over Mary Alex England's 9:30.82 at the 2017 Razorback Invitational.
 
• Vissa took the track by storm in 2021 shortly after joining the Ole Miss roster, running the fastest 800-meter time since 2017 at 2:06.45 in her debut at Arkansas on Jan. 29 before becoming the fourth and fastest Rebel to set the previous mile record at 4:40.99 at the Music City Challenge on Feb. 12. Vissa was also a First-Team All-American indoors on the Rebel women's DMR that finished eighth, she was an NCAA East Region qualifier outdoors in the 800-meter where she ran 2:04.53, and this past fall she became the first Rebel woman to ever earn All-American status in the cross country season after a 33rd-place finish at the national meet.
 
• Vissa also ran on the Rebel women's distance medley relay at IU two weeks ago that ranks ninth in the NCAA and fourth in the SEC. Alongside her were Loral Winn, Jayda Eckford and Anna Elkin, and the quartet finished with the second-best time in Ole Miss history at 11:10.79.
 
• Junior Lyndsey Reed continued her strong start to 2022 with a school record of her own, taking down All-American Lindsey Murray's 2018 record of 4.30m/14-01.25 with a clearance of 4.31m/14-01.75 at Indiana two weeks ago. That height stands as an overall career-best for Reed, who earned Honorable Mention All-American status outdoors last season. Currently she ranks 16th in the NCAA and fifth in the SEC.
 
• Fellow vaulter and sophomore Samara McConnell also had a career-day at Indiana, moving up to No. 3 all-time indoors at 4.26m/13-11.75 -- the 19th-best nationally and sixth-best in the SEC this year.
 
MEN'S NOTES
 
• Of the nine NCAA top-50 marks for the Rebel men entering this weekend of action, seven belong to the deep group of Ole Miss distance runners -- led once again by All-American senior John Rivera Jr.'s NCAA-leading time in the 800-meter.
 
• Rivera currently sits tied for the NCAA lead at his overall career-best of 1:47.48 from the Vanderbilt Invitational, the third-best ever run by a Rebel indoors and the fastest since Ryan Manahan ran 1:47.37 at the 2016 Penn State National. Rivera beat out two professional runners from the Atlanta Track Club for the win.
 
• In his season opener at UAB, Rivera broks his own school record in the 600-meter at a meet-record 1:17.45, toppling his old record of 1:17.90 at the same meet in 2020.
 
• Rivera was narrowly thwarted of an SEC individual title in the 800-meter last season as well, finishing as the silver medalist. Ole Miss won the mile, 3K, 5K and DMR, the closest to an SEC distance sweep since Arkansas did so in 1999. Rivera was an individual national qualifier and All-American for the cancelled 2020 NCAA Indoor Championships in the 800-meter.
 
• Also owning an NCAA top-50 time in the 800-meter is fellow All-American senior Everett Smulders, whose 1:49.22 puts him at No. 29 in the NCAA and No. 5 in the SEC this season.
 
• Both Rivera and Smulders ran on the Ole Miss men's distance medley in its season-opener at IU two weeks ago, where the duo, alongside James Young and Elijah Dryer, ran the SEC's top time this year at 9:36.22 -- currently good for No. 5 in the NCAA.
 
• Ole Miss has remained the dominant force in the DMR in the SEC and one of the best ever nationally over the past decade. Last season, the Rebel men's DMR of Everett Smulders, Elijah Dryer, John Rivera Jr. and Mario Garcia Romo finished NCAA Runner-Up at 9:20.75 -- the third-best time in NCAA history and fourth-best in the history of the world that obliterated the Ole Miss school record set just two weeks earlier at the SEC Indoor Championships.
 
• At SECs, Waleed Suliman, Marcus Dropik, Smulders and Garcia Romo set an SEC meet record at 9:29.35 to win their seventh DMR title in the last eight seasons.
 
• The Ole Miss milers came out in full force at Vanderbilt yet again, this time with three Rebels crossing the line below the prestigious four-minute barrier. Senior James Young (3:57.81; NCAA No. 25), junior Shane Bracken (3:58.36; NCAA No. 33) and junior Dereck Elkins (3:59.46; NCAA No. 50) all broke the barrier for the Rebels, and were followed closely by senior Michael Coccia (4:01.10) and sophomore Cole Bullock (4:03.46). Young ranks third all-time at Ole Miss, followed by Bracken (fifth), Elkins (ninth), and Coccia (13th).
 
• Bracken and Tiarnan Crorken were added to the Ole Miss roster just recently after joining as mid-year enrollees. Bracken hails from Ireland and transfers in from Division II Saint Leo University (where Rebel All-American Sintayehu Vissa ran), and where he was a two-time All-American in the 1500-meter outdoors. Crorken, meanwhile, is from Burnley, England, where he was the U23 English 1500-meter champion in 2021 and ran at the U23 European Championships in Tallinn. He owns a mile PR of 3:58.89.
 
• In its history, Ole Miss holds nine sub-four milers: Waleed Suliman (3:55.60, 2021), Mario Garcia Romo (3:56.46, 2021), Young, Sean Tobin (3:58.28, 2018), Bracken, Derek Gutierrez (3:58.55, 2019), Everett Smulders (3:58.73, 2021), Baylor Franklin (3:59.12, 2021) and Elkins.
 
• All-American senior Mario Garcia Romo will represented Ole Miss and his home country of Spain on a massive stage two weeks ago in the historic Wanamaker Mile at the 114th Millrose Games at The Armory in New York City on Jan. 29. Garcia Romo was the lone collegian in a field filled with high-profile professional runners, where he finished sixth overall at 3:57.98 (No. 29 NCAA), beating out a group of eight professional runners that included four Olympians. He joined former Rebels Robert Domanic (2018 Wanamaker Mile participant) and Sean Tobin (2018 Millrose invitational mile participant) as recent Rebels to have run at the prestigious Millrose Games. Domanic finished 10th in the 2018 Wanamaker Mile.
 
• At Vanderbilt, Garcia Romo broke Doug Smith's 1985 Ole Miss record in the 1000-meter race (2:24.68), becoming the 10th-best performer in NCAA history in the event at a new Rebel record of 2:20.12. Runner-up Cruz Culpepper also would have broken the Ole Miss record at his time of 2:20.66.
 
• A three-time First-Team All-American, Garcia Romo enters his redshirt junior indoor season as the school record holder in the 3K (7:48.40) and No. 2 in the mile (3:56.46). Garcia Romo was one of four Rebels to break the four-minute barrier in the mile all at once in one of the best moments of the season in 2021, joining Suliman (3:55.60), Smulders (3:58.73) and Baylor Franklin (3:59.12) all doing so at Vanderbilt's Music City Challenge on Feb. 12.
 
• Garcia Romo stands as one of just five Rebels all-time to own sub-4 mile times and sub-8 3K times alongside Suliman, Sean Tobin, Derek Gutierrez and Shane Bracken.
 
• Garcia Romo is one of two returning SEC Indoor individual champions from 2021 after winning the 3K last season in addition to running anchor on the SEC title DMR team. The other is Cole Bullock, who opened his 2022 campaign in the mile last weekend after winning the SEC 5K title in 2021.
 
• Garcia Romo is coming off a spectacular track season in 2021 that saw him earn three First-Team All-American honors, two SEC titles, 12 total NCAA points and 17.5 SEC points. He also ran anchor on the 2021 Ole Miss men's distance medley relay team that finished NCAA runner-up at the fourth-fastest time in world history at 9:20.75, which only finished behind the world record holders of Oregon. Garcia Romo split an incredible 3:53.28 on the 1600-meter anchor leg, his second sub-3:55 leg after running 3:54.69 to help the Rebel men win their seventh SEC title in the DMR in the last eight years at a meet record time of 9:29.35.
 
• Garcia Romo also finished third at the Spanish national meet in the hopes of qualifying for the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and two days later on the final day of global qualifying he ran an Ole Miss 1500-meter record 3:35.79 at a last-chance meet in Spain. Garcia Romo closed his summer out with a silver medal at the European U23 Championships in Tallinn.
 
• Rebel newcomer Keirston Paige is off to a great start in the 60-meter hurdles, currently ranking 34th nationally and eighth in the SEC at a career-best 7.87 seconds from the Indiana Relays -- the sixth-best in Ole Miss history. Alongside Kenney Broadnax's 2020 time of 7.83, he is one of four active Rebels below eight seconds beside fellow newcomers Ahmad Young Jr. (7th, 7.93) and Spencer Brown (8th, 7.99).
 
• Senior transfer Montel Johnson opened his Rebel career with an impressive mark in the weight throw at UAB, already jumping up to No. 5 all-time at Ole Miss with a five-foot PR of 20.26m/66-05.75. Johnson, who won the MAAC weight throw title while at Monmouth in 2021, currently ranks 45th nationally and No. 7 in the SEC at that season-opening toss.
 
TEAM NOTES
 
• Ole Miss is coming off a 2021 indoor season for the ages, where the Rebel men finished 10th overall at a program-record 20 NCAA points, and the women scored their third-most points ever with 12, which was good for 19th place overall. The men's 10th-place finish stood as the best by the Ole Miss men since 2001 (10th), and tied for the second-best behind only a tie for ninth in 1991.
 
• With 13 First or Second-Team All-Americans back from the 2021 indoor season, Ole Miss returns nearly all of that historic national roster, including all four members of the NCAA runner-up men's distance medley relay of Everett Smulders, Elijah Dryer, John Rivera Jr. and Mario Garcia Romo that ran the third-fastest time in NCAA history and fourth-fastest time in world history, only finishing behind the world record holders of Oregon.
 
• Other men's All-Americans returning include Second-Teamers Allen Gordon (high jump, 9th; long jump, 9th) and Baylor Franklin (800-meter, 12th). The lone All-American loss for the Rebel men is Waleed Suliman, who finished third in the mile and 15th in the 3K in 2021.
 
• The Ole Miss women, meanwhile, return five of six First-Team All-Americans, with the only departure being Maddie King from the eighth-place women's DMR squad that included returnees Toni Glatz, Sintayehu Vissa and Loral Winn.
 
• Ole Miss also returns one of the most fearsome women's throws units in the history of the NCAA for 2022. All-American duo Jasmine Mitchell and Shey Taiwo return after the pair went back-to-back at the national meet in the weight throw last season, with Taiwo finishing third and Mitchell fourth. Taiwo and Mitchell last season were the first teammates in the history of the NCAA to eclipse the 23-meter mark in the same season.
 
• A total of 26 new Rebels join the roster for 2022: pole vaulter Frankie Amore, sprinter Ariyonna Augustine, jumper Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley, distance runenr Shane Bracken, distance runner Aiden Britt, jumper Spencer Brown, pole vaulter/multi athlete Jose Corbo, distance runner Tiarnan Crorken, distance runner Dereck Elkins, thrower Mason Hickel, distance runner Hannah Ielfield, thrower Montel Johnson, pole vaulter Ford Maberry, sprinter Bria Mack, distance runner Chris Maxon, sprinter Keirston Paige, distance runner Miles Phillips, distance runner Cole Piotrowski, distance runner Chase Rose, distance runner Gabe Scales, jumper LaRiah Shannon, jumper Annie Strong, distance runner Lydia van Dijk, sprinter Isaiah Weasby, distance runner James Young and hurdler Ahmad Young Jr.
 
• Ole Miss enters year seven under head coach Connie Price-Smith, who has led the Rebels to new heights in her time in Oxford. On the track, the Rebels have collected seven NCAA top-25 team finishes, seven NCAA individual champions, five NCAA runners-up, 105 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 161 NCAA points, 50 SEC Champions and program-record SEC finishes in men's indoor (third, 2x), women's indoor (fifth, 2017) and women's outdoor (fifth, 2018). Nationally under her guidance, the track Rebels have recorded program records in women's indoor (T-12th, 2017) and the second-best ever in men's indoor (10th, 2021). In 21 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 179 All-Americans on the track.
 
• In its history indoors, Ole Miss has finished in the NCAA top-25 of the team standings 17 total times (12 times on the men's side, five times on the women's side).
 
• Ole Miss owns 121 First or Second-Team All-Americans indoors (80 men, 41 women), as well as eight NCAA titles (11 total NCAA Champions; nine men, two women). Of those 121, a total of 58 All-Americans (37 men, 21 women) have come under Price-Smith, as well as two NCAA titles (Raven Saunders, shot put, 2017; men's DMR, 2017).
 
• Ole Miss has won 47 SEC Indoor titles (37 men, 10 women) with 68 SEC Champions (58 men, 10 women).
 
• Ole Miss won five SEC titles in 2021 in the women's weight throw (Jasmine Mitchell), men's mile (Waleed Suliman), men's 3K (Mario Garcia Romo), men's 5K (Cole Bullock) and men's distance medley relay (Suliman, Marcus Dropik, Everett Smulders, Garcia Romo).
 
Rebel Men Competing (Music City Challenge):
600-Meter: Jacob Lough (Heat 2)
800-Meter (Unseeded): Cole Piotrowski (Heat 5, Lane 3)
800-Meter (Seeded): Tiarnan Crorken (Heat 1, Lane 1), Baylor Franklin (Heat 1, Lane 2), Everett Smulders (Heat 1, Lane 4), John Rivera Jr. (Heat 1, Lane 8), Marcus Dropik (Heat 2, Lane 5), Jacob Lough (Heat 2, Lane 8), Cade Bethmann (Heat 3, Lane 2), Cole Piotrowski (Heat 3, Lane 8)
Mile: Shane Bracken (Heat 1), Cruz Culpepper (Heat 1), Mario Garcia Romo (Heat 1), Cole Piotrowski (Heat 1), John Rivera Jr. (Heat 1), James Young (Heat 1), Cade Bethmann (Heat 2)
3K (Seeded): Dereck Elkins (Heat 1), Mario Garcia Romo (Heat 1), Nick Moulai (Heat 1)
5K: Cole Bullock (Heat 1), Dereck Elkins (Heat 1)
4x400-Meter Relay (Heat 2, Lane 6): John Rivera Jr., Baylor Franklin, Tiarnan Crorken, Marcus Dropik
Shot Put: Daniel Viveros (Flight 2)
Weight Throw (Open): Costen Campion (Flight 1), Joseph Lanham (Flight 2)
Weight Throw (Invitational): Montel Johnson
 
Rebel Women Competing (Music City Challenge):
Mile: Morgan Claire Rose (Heat 1), Sintayehu Vissa (Heat 1), Loral Winn (Heat 1)
3K (Unseeded): Morgan Claire Rose (Heat 2)
3K (Seeded): Anna Elkin
5K: Skylar Boogerd (Heat 1), Sintayehu Vissa (Heat 1), Loral Winn (Heat 1), Brooke Gilmore (Heat 2), Cate Tracht (Heat 2)
Shot Put (Open): Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2), Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2)
Shot Put (Invitational): Jalani Davis
Weight Throw (Open): Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2), Deborah Bulai (Flight 2), Jalani Davis (Flight 2)
Weight Throw (Invitational): Jasmine Mitchell, Shey Taiwo
 
Rebel Men Competing (Tyson Invitational):
60-Meter Dash: Ryan Star (Heat 2, Lane 3), Pierce Genereux (Heat 4, Lane 1), Luke Etherton (Heat 4, Lane 7), Isaiah Teer (Heat 5, Lane 2), Peyton Lowery (Heat 5, Lane 7)
200-Meter Dash: Elijah Dryer (Heat 10, Lane 4)
60-Meter Hurdles: Keirston Paige (Heat 1, Lane 5), Pierce Genereux (Heat 2, Lane 1), Spencer Brown (Heat 3, Lane 3), Kenney Broadnax (Heat 4, Lane 3), Ahmad Young Jr. (Heat 4, Lane 5)
High Jump: Allen Gordon
Pole Vault: Frankie Amore, Pierce Genereux, Ford Maberry, Miles Walden
Long Jump: Luke Etherton (Flight 1), Peyton Lowery (Flight 1), Spencer Brown (Flight 1), Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley (Flight 1), Allen Gordon (Flight 2)
Triple Jump: Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley (Flight 1), Demond Fleming (Flight 1)
 
Rebel Women Competing (Tyson Invitational):
60-Meter Dash: Ariyonna Augustine (Heat 1, Lane 5), Olivia Womack (Heat 2, Lane 3)
200-Meter Dash: Olivia Womack (Heat 6, Lane 5), Ariyonna Augustine (Heat 10, Lane 4), Jayda Eckford (Heat 10, Lane 6)
60-Meter Hurdles: LaRiah Shannon (Heat 2, Lane 1), Meg Goebel (Heat 2, Lane 7)
High Jump: Meg Goebel, LaRiah Shannon, Sara Van Aken
Pole Vault: Alex Brooks, Remy Guertel, Samara McConnell, Lyndsey Reed
Long Jump: Kyla McLaurin (Flight 1), Skye Gross (Flight 2), Sara Van Aken (Flight 2)
Triple Jump: Kyla McLaurin (Flight 1)
 
Music City Challenge/Tyson Invitational, Master Schedule (all times CT)
Day 1 | Friday, February 11
Time Meet Event Athlete(s)
2:00 p.m. Music City Challenge Men's Weight Throw (Invitational) Montel Johnson
Music City Challenge Men's Weight Throw (Open) Costen Campion (Flight 1)
Joseph Lanham (Flight 2)
2:15 p.m. Tyson Invitational Women's Long Jump Kyla McLaurin (Flight 1)
Skye Gross (Flight 2)
Sara Van Aken (Flight 2)
2:45 p.m. Tyson Invitational Men's Long Jump Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley (Flight 1)
Spencer Brown (Flight 1)
Luke Etherton (Flight 1)
Peyton Lowery (Flight 1)
Allen Gordon (Flight 2)
3:00 p.m. Tyson Invitational Men's 60-Meter Hurdles Qualifying Keirston Paige (Heat 1, Lane 5)
Pierce Genereux (Heat 2, Lane 1)
Spencer Brown (Heat 3, Lane 3)
Kenney Broadnax (Heat 4, Lane 3)
Ahmad Young Jr. (Heat 4, Lane 5)
3:15 p.m. Tyson Invitational Women's 60-Meter Hurdles Qualifying LaRiah Shannon (Heat 2, Lane 1)
Meg Goebel (Heat 2, Lane 7)
3:30 p.m. Tyson Invitational Men's 60-Meter Dash Qualifying Ryan Star (Heat 2, Lane 3)
Pierce Genereux (Heat 4, Lane 1)
Luke Etherton (Heat 4, Lane 7)
Isaiah Teer (Heat 5, Lane 2)
Peyton Lowery (Heat 5, Lane 7)
3:45 p.m. Tyson Invitational Women's 60-Meter Dash Qualifying Ariyonna Augustine (Heat 1, Lane 5)
Olivia Womack (Heat 2, Lane 3)
4:45 p.m. Tyson Invitational Women's Pole Vault Alex Brooks
Remy Guertel
Samara McConnell
Lyndsey Reed
5:00 p.m. Music City Challenge Women's Mile Morgan Claire Rose (Heat 1)
Sintayehu Vissa (Heat 1)
Loral Winn (Heat 1)
5:20 p.m. Tyson Invitational Men's 60-Meter Hurdles Prelims --
5:30 p.m. Tyson Invitational Women's 60-Meter Hurdles Prelims --
5:40 p.m. Music City Challenge Men's Mile Shane Bracken (Heat 1)
Cruz Culpepper (Heat 1)
Mario Garcia Romo (Heat 1)
Cole Piotrowski (Heat 1)
John Rivera Jr. (Heat 1)
James Young (Heat 1)
Cade Bethmann (Heat 2)
5:50 p.m. Tyson Invitational Men's 60-Meter Dash Prelims --
6:00 p.m. Music City Challenge Women's Weight Throw (Invitational) Jasmine Mitchell
Shey Taiwo
Music City Challenge Women's Weight Throw (Open) Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2)
Deborah Bulai (Flight 2)
Jalani Davis (Flight 2)
6:10 p.m. Tyson Invitational Women's 60-Meter Dash Prelims --
6:30 p.m. Music City Challenge Men's 600-Meter Jacob Lough (Heat 2)
6:55 p.m. Tyson Invitational Men's 60-Meter Hurdles Final --
7:05 p.m. Tyson Invitational Women's 60-Meter Hurdles Final --
7:15 p.m. Tyson Invitational Men's 60-Meter Dash Final --
7:25 p.m. Tyson Invitational Women's 60-Meter Dash Final --
Music City Challenge Women's 5K (Section 1) Skylar Boogerd
Sintayehu Vissa
Loral Winn
7:45 p.m. Music City Challenge Men's 5K (Section 1) Cole Bullock
Dereck Elkins
8:00 p.m. Music City Challenge Women's 5K (Section 2) Brooke Gilmore
Cate Tracht
Day 2 | Saturday, February 12
Time Meet Event Athlete(s)
9:00 a.m. Music City Challenge Women's 3K (Unseeded) Morgan Claire Rose (Heat 2)
10:40 a.m. Music City Challenge Men's 800-Meter (Unseeded) Cole Piotrowski (Heat 5, Lane 3)
11:00 a.m. Music City Challenge Men's Shot Put Daniel Viveros (Flight 2)
11:30 a.m. Tyson Invitational Women's High Jump Meg Goebel
LaRiah Shannon
Sara Van Aken
11:45 a.m. Tyson Invitational Men's Triple Jump Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley (Flight 1)
Demond Fleming (Flight 1)
12:30 p.m. Tyson Invitational Men's High Jump Allen Gordon
1:00 p.m. Tyson Invitational Women's Triple Jump Kyla McLaurin (Flight 1)
1:10 p.m. Tyson Invitational Men's 200-Meter Dash Elijah Dryer (Heat 10, Lane 4)
1:30 p.m. Tyson Invitational Men's Pole Vault Frankie Amore
Pierce Genereux
Ford Maberry
Miles Walden
1:50 p.m. Tyson Invitational Women's 200-Meter Dash Olivia Womack (Heat 6, Lane 5)
Ariyonna Augustine (Heat 10, Lane 4)
Jayda Eckford (Heat 10, Lane 6)
2:00 p.m. Music City Challenge Women's Shot Put (Invitational) Jalani Davis
Music City Challenge Women's Shot Put (Open) Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2)
Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2)
2:55 p.m. Music City Challenge Men's 800-Meter (Seeded) Tiarnan Crorken (Heat 1, Lane 1)
Baylor Franklin (Heat 1, Lane 2)
Everett Smulders (Heat 1, Lane 4)
John Rivera Jr. (Heat 1, Lane 8)
Marcus Dropik (Heat 2, Lane 5)
Jacob Lough (Heat 2, Lane 8)
Cade Bethmann (Heat 3, Lane 2)
Cole Piotrowski (Heat 3, Lane 8)
3:10 p.m. Music City Challenge Women's 3K (Seeded) Anna Elkin
3:35 p.m. Music City Challenge Men's 3K (Seeded) Dereck Elkins (Heat 1)
Mario Garcia Romo (Heat 1)
Nick Moulai (Heat 1)
4:15 p.m. Music City Challenge 4x400-Meter Relay (Heat 2, Lane 6) John Rivera Jr.
Baylor Franklin
Tiarnan Crorken
Marcus Dropik
 
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