Track & Field Sends Program Record 12 Entries to NCAA Indoor Championships

			NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS March 11-12 • Birmingham, Ala. • Birmingham CrossPlex
Live Results • Championship Central • Schedule (PDF) Watch Day One: Early (10 AM) • Men's Session (4 PM) • Women's Session (7 PM) Watch Day Two: Early (10:30 AM) • Men's Session (4 PM) • Women's Session (7 PM) Ole Miss Notes (PDF)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Ole Miss track & field will send a program record 12 entries to the national meet in the hopes of bringing some hardware back to Oxford at the 2022 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, held this weekend at the Birmingham CrossPlex on March 11-12.

To qualify for the national meet, student-athletes needed to finish within the top-16 of their individual events or top-12 as a relay by the end of the regular season. Those 16 in each event will be competing not only for team or individual national championships, but also to grasp one of the coveted top-eight scoring spots for First-Team All-American status. Places nine-through-16 receive Second-Team distinction.

Ole Miss enters ranked within the national top-15 in both men's and women's competition, with the Rebel women once again tying their indoor program record at No. 7, and the Rebel men coming in at No. 12 in the pre-championship national rating index.

Representing Ole Miss in Birmingham this weekend will be Tiarnan Crorken in the 800-meter, Jalani Davis in the shot put and weight throw, Mario Garcia Romo in the mile, Jasmine Mitchell in the weight throw, Lyndsey Reed in the pole vault, John Rivera Jr. in the 800-meter, Shey Taiwo in the weight throw, Sintayehu Vissa in the mile and James Young in the mile – as well as both the men's and women's distance medley relays.

ESPN3 will carry the action both days, with coverage beginning at 10 a.m. on Day One and 10:30 a.m. on Day Two. ESPNU will air a combined tape delay re-airing on Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. CT.

See below for more detailed information on the national qualifiers and the NCAA Championships.

ON THE AIR

Day One (Fri., March 11)
ESPN3
Morning Session – 10:00 AM CT
Men's Session – 4:00 PM CT
Women's Session – 7:00 PM CT

Day Two (Sat., March 12)
ESPN3
Morning Session – 10:30 AM CT
Men's Session – 4:00 PM CT
Women's Session – 7:00 PM CT

Tape Delay Re-Air (Sun., March 13)
ESPNU
8:30 PM CT

Live Results
Flash Results

MEET SCHEDULE (All Times CT)

Day One (Fri., March 11)
4:00 PM – Men's Mile Semifinal – Mario Garcia Romo, James Young
4:45 PM – Men's 800-Meter Semifinal – Tiarnan Crorken, John Rivera Jr.
5:45 PM – Men's Distance Medley Relay Final
6:45 PM – Women's Pole Vault Final – Lyndsey Reed
7:00 PM – Women's Weight Throw Final – Jalani Davis, Jasmine Mitchell, Shey Taiwo
7:00 PM – Women's Mile Semifinal – Sintayehu Vissa
8:45 PM – Women's Distance Medley Relay Final

Day Two (Sat., March 12)
4:00 PM – Men's Mile Final
4:30 PM – Men's 800-Meter Final
7:00 PM – Women's Mile Final
7:00 PM – Women's Shot Put Final – Jalani Davis

Women's Entries (7 entries, 10 athletes)
Distance Medley Relay
Jalani Davis – Shot Put
Jalani Davis – Weight Throw
Jasmine Mitchell – Weight Throw
Lyndsey Reed – Pole Vault
Shey Taiwo – Weight Throw
Sintayehu Vissa – Mile

Men's Entries (5 entries, 8 athletes)
Distance Medley Relay
Tiarnan Crorken – 800-Meter
Mario Garcia Romo – Mile
John Rivera Jr. – 800-Meter
James Young – Mile

Team Superlatives
• Program record 12 total entries breaks previous record of 10 set in both 2017 and 2021
• Program record seven total women's entries breaks previous record of five set in 2020, 2017 and 2008
• First time ever Ole Miss has an NCAA representative in the women's mile
• Second consecutive year and just the second total time in school history both men's and women's DMRs qualified
• Second consecutive year Rebel women's DMR qualified after having never done so prior to 2021
• First time in school history both Rebels qualified for both men's and women's mile
• Second time in school history three Rebels qualified in the women's weight throw (2020)
• Third consecutive year multiple Rebel women qualified in the women's weight throw
• Third consecutive year Ole Miss has qualified in the men's 800-meter, as well as the fourth in the last six seasons
• First time with multiple men's 800-meter qualifiers since 2017 (Ryan Manahan, 11th; Craig Engels, 14th)
• Fifth consecutive year Ole Miss has qualified in the men's mile, first time ever with multiple qualifiers

Women's Individual Superlatives
• Women's Distance Medley Relay: second ever NCAA Indoor appearance (8th in 2021)
• Jalani Davis: first career NCAA Indoor qualifying berths; only athlete in the nation to be attempting the shot put/weight throw double in men's or women's competition; one of 10 Rebel women's double attempts at the NCAA Indoor Championships; the fourth to attempt the shot put/weight throw double (all within the last five years since 2017); first Rebel to qualify in the shot put since Janeah Stewart in 2018 (15th)
• Jasmine Mitchell: third consecutive NCAA berth in the weight throw; finished fourth in 2021
• Lyndsey Reed: first career NCAA Indoor berth; third Rebel woman to ever qualify indoors in the pole vault alongside Lindsey Murray (2016, '17, '18) and Neal Tisher (2012)
• Shey Taiwo: fourth consecutive NCAA Indoor berth in the weight throw; finished program-best third in 2021
• Sintayehu Vissa: first individual NCAA berth as a Rebel; first Rebel woman to ever qualify in the mile; first Rebel woman to qualify in a distance event since Brooke Feldmeier in the 800-meter in 2015; first Rebel woman to ever qualify individually in an event beyond 800-meters

Men's Individual Superlatives
• Men's Distance Medley Relay: sixth all-time appearance; sixth NCAA berth in the last seven years, only missing the 2020 meet; have scored in four of five previous appearances, including an NCAA title performance in 2017
• Tiarnan Crorken: first career NCAA Indoor qualifying berth
• Mario Garcia Romo: third career trip to NCAA Indoor meet; first NCAA berth in the mile
• John Rivera Jr.: second career NCAA Indoor berth in the 800-meter
• James Young: first career NCAA Indoor qualifying berth as a Rebel

Ole Miss Best NCAA Indoor Finishes (in events qualified)
Men's 800-Meter: 1st (1991, George Kersh)
Women's Mile: N/A
Men's Mile: 3rd (2021, Waleed Suliman)
Women's Distance Medley Relay: 3rd (2021)
Men's Distance Medley Relay: 1st (2017)
Women's Pole Vault: T-13th (2017, Lindsey Murray)
Women's Shot Put: 1st (2017, Raven Saunders)
Women's Weight Throw: 3rd (2x, last in 2021 by Shey Taiwo)

Ole Miss NCAA Indoor Champions (8 titles, 11 champions)
1991 – George Kersh, Men's 800-Meter
1994 – Greg Saddler, Men's 55-Meter Dash
2001 – Savante' Stringfellow, Men's Long Jump
2004 – Antwon Hicks, Men's 60-Meter Hurdles
2005 – Antwon Hicks, Men's 60-Meter Hurdles
2008 – Brittney Reese, Women's Long Jump
2017 – Raven Saunders, Women's Shot Put
2017 – Men's Distance Medley Relay (Robert Domanic, Nick DeRay, Sean Tobin, Craig Engels)

Ole Miss NCAA Indoor Runners-Up (9)
2001 – James Shelton, Men's 60-Meter Dash
2010 – Ricky Robertson, Men's High Jump
2011 – Mike Granger, Men's 60-Meter Dash
2011 – Ricky Robertson, Men's High Jump
2014 – Sam Kendricks, Men's Pole Vault
2021 – Men's Distance Medley Relay (Everett Smulders, Elijah Dryer, John Rivera Jr., Mario Garcia Romo)

Ole Miss NCAA Indoor Top-25 Team Finishes (17)
2021 – Ole Miss Women – 19th (12 points)
2021 – Ole Miss Men – 10th (20 points)
2017 – Ole Miss Women – T-12th (13 points)
2017 – Ole Miss Men – T-16th (12 points)
2014 – Ole Miss Men – T-24th (9 points)
2013 – Ole Miss Men – T-23rd (2 points)
2011 – Ole Miss Women – T-23rd (10 points)
2011 – Ole Miss Men – T-11th (16 points)
2010 – Ole Miss Men – T-20th (10 points)
2008 – Ole Miss Women – 13th (17 points)
2005 – Ole Miss Men – T-22nd (10 points)
2004 – Ole Miss Men – 22nd (11 points)
2001 – Ole Miss Men – 10th (18 points)
2000 – Ole Miss Women – 18th (10 points)
1994 – Ole Miss Men – T-19th (10 points)
1991 – Ole Miss Men – T-9th (14 points)
1990 – Ole Miss Men – T-23rd (6 points)

REBELS IN COMPETITION

Mario Garcia Romo • Men's Mile • Fri., March 11 • 4:00 PM CT
Class: Redshirt Junior
Hometown / High School: Salamanca, Spain / Ies De Peñaranda De Bracamonte
NCAA Seed: 2nd
SEC Finish: N/A
Season Best: 3:53.36 • School Record, NCAA Record on Oversized Tracks
Career Best: Same
NCAA History: 4x First-Team All-American … 2021 NCAA Indoor runner-up in the DMR (ran No. 4 time in world history, 9:20.75; split 3:53.28 on anchor leg) … 2021 NCAA Outdoor 1500-meter fifth-place finisher … 2021 NCAA Indoor bronze medalist in the 3K … First-Team All-American in the DMR in 2019 (8th place) … 2x NCAA East Region qualifier in the 1500-meter.
Quick Facts: 2022 SEC Indoor Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year … 4x SEC track champion (3x DMR, 1x 3K) … Finished sixth in the Wanamaker Mile as the lone collegian in the field, beating out a group of professionals that included four Olympians … Has set three school records this season (1000m, 2:20.12; mile, 3:53.36; 3K, 7:47.56) … 32.5 career SEC points, 12.75 career NCAA points … Finished third at Spanish national meet in 2021 in the 1500-meter … Ran 3:35.79 in last-ditch effort to attain 2021 Tokyo Olympic standard … 2021 Euro U23 silver medalist in the 1500 in Tallinn … 2020 SEC Cross Country Champion and SEC Cross Country Runner of the Year … 2019 SEC Indoor Freshman Runner of the Year.

James Young • Men's Mile • Fri., March 11 • 4:00 PM CT
Class: Senior
Hometown / Previous School: Blyth, England / Academy of Art
NCAA Seed: 8th
SEC Finish: 9th
Season Best: 3:55.20 • No. 2 Ole Miss history
Career Best: Same
NCAA History: First appearance
Quick Facts: 2x NCAA Division II Champion, won mile indoors and 1500-meter outdoors in 2021 … 2021 English Championships finalist in the 1500-meter (9th).

Tiarnan Crorken • Men's 800-Meter • Fri., March 11 • 4:45 PM CT
Class: Senior
Hometown: Burnley, England
NCAA Seed: 15th
SEC Finish: 4th
Season Best: 1:47.68 • No. 5 Ole Miss history
Career Best: 1:46.75 (July 27, 2021)
NCAA History: First appearance
Quick Facts: 2021 English U23 1500-meter champion … Ran at 2021 European U23 Championships in Tallinn … Made 2019 English senior championship final in the 1500-meter (8th).

John Rivera Jr. • Men's 800-Meter • Fri., March 11 • 4:45 PM CT
Class: Senior
Hometown / High School: Bradenton, Fla. / Lakewood Ranch HS
NCAA Seed: 3rd
SEC Finish: 2nd
Season Best: 1:46.82 • No. 2 Ole Miss history (fastest since 1991)
Career Best: Same
NCAA History: 5x NCAA qualifier, 4x All-American (2x Second-Team) … 2021 NCAA Indoor runner-up in the DMR (ran 800-meter leg on the No. 4 time in world history, 9:20.75) … 3x NCAA East Region qualifier.
Quick Facts: Split 1:47.35 on 800-meter leg of NCAA runner-up DMR in 2021 that ran fourth-best time in world history (9:20.75) … Owns fastest 800-meter time by a Rebel since NCAA Champion George Kersh's title winning time of 1:46.19 in 1991.

Men's Distance Medley Relay • Fri., March 11 • 5:45 PM CT
Qualifying Relay: John Rivera Jr. (1200m), Jacob Lough (400m), Tiarnan Crorken (800m), Mario Garcia Romo (mile)
NCAA Seed: 3rd
SEC Finish: 1st • Eighth SEC win in the last nine years, fourth in a row
Season Best: 9:21.94 • No. 2 Ole Miss history, No. 3 NCAA history on oversized tracks
NCAA History: Ole Miss has qualified in the men's DMR in six of the last seven years … 2017 NCAA Champions … Also earned First-Team All-American status in 2016 (third), 2019 (eighth) and 2021 (second)

Lyndsey Reed • Women's Pole Vault • Fri., March 11 • 6:45 PM CT
Class: Junior
Hometown / High School: State College, Pa. / State College Area HS
NCAA Seed: 9th
SEC Finish: 5th
Season Best: 4.41m/14-05.50 • Ole Miss record
Career Best: Same
NCAA History: Second career NCAA berth, first indoors … No height at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Quick Facts: One of three all-time members of the Ole Miss 14-foot club … One of three Rebel women to ever qualify in the pole vault (Lindsey Murray, Neal Tisher) … Set the Ole Miss record three different times in 2022.

Jalani Davis • Women's Weight Throw/Shot Put
Weight Throw Final: Fri., March 11, 7 p.m. CT
Shot Put Final: Sat., March 12, 7 p.m. CT
Class: Junior
Hometown / High School: Hampton, Va. / Bethel HS
NCAA Seed (Weight Throw): 7th
SEC Finish (Weight Throw): 4th
Season Best (Weight Throw): 22.96m/75-4 • No. 21 NCAA history, No. 4 Ole Miss history
Career Best (Weight Throw): Same
NCAA Seed (Shot Put): 7th
SEC Finish (Shot Put): 1st
Season Best (Shot Put): 17.69m/58-00.50 • No. 2 Ole Miss history
Career Best (Shot Put): Same
NCAA History: Second career NCAA meet, first indoors … Lone thrower, men or women, to double this year … Was the lone thrower, men or women, last season to triple at the NCAA Outdoor Championships … Was one of just two triplers in general alongside Texas A&M's Tyra Gittens … Second-Team All-America in the discus (14th) and hammer (16th); finished 20th in the shot put.
Quick Facts: SEC Champion in the shot put … One of three Rebels at 75 feet or further in the weight throw, the first active trio in NCAA history … 34 career SEC points.

Jasmine Mitchell • Women's Weight Throw • Fri., March 11 • 7:00 PM CT
Class: Junior
Hometown / High School: Hazel Crest, Ill. / Thornwood HS
NCAA Seed: 3rd
SEC Finish: 1st
Season Best: 23.62m/77-6 • No. 3 all-time at Ole Miss, No. 12 NCAA history, No. 7 worldwide in 2022
Career Best: Same
NCAA History: 3x NCAA Indoor qualifier and All-American in the weight throw … Finished fourth in 2021.
Quick Facts: Two-time reigning SEC weight throw champion … Part of first teammate duo in NCAA history to eclipse 23 meters in the same season (2021), 77 feet in the same season (2022), and first active trio at 75 feet (2022) … One of four Rebels beyond 75 feet in NCAA history, the most of any school … Ranks No. 12 in NCAA history at her career-best from this season … One of four Rebels to win an SEC weight throw title; Ole Miss has won five of last six … Went to the same high school as teammate Shey Taiwo and Rebel NCAA Champion thrower, Janeah Stewart.

Shey Taiwo • Women's Weight Throw • Fri., March 11 • 7:00 PM CT
Class: Senior
Hometown / High School: South Holland, Ill. / Thornwood HS
NCAA Seed: 1st
SEC Finish: 2nd
Season Best: 25.19m/82-07.75 • No. 2 NCAA history, No. 3 world history, 2022 world lead
Career Best: Same
NCAA History: 5x NCAA qualifier, 4x All-American … Reigning NCAA Outdoor runner-up in the hammer at 71.27m/233-10 (No. 9 NCAA history) … Finished third in weight throw at NCAA Indoor in 2021.
Quick Facts: 2022 world leader in the weight throw … Bowerman Award Watch List (Feb. 2) … No. 2 NCAA history on third-best throw … No. 3 world history on seventh-best throw … Only trails Gwen Berry (25.60m/84-0; 2017) and Brittany Riley (25.56m/83-10.25; 2007) … Set NCAA record for best mark in the weight throw at that point of the indoor season on Jan. 21 (24.11m), Jan. 28 (25.02m) and Feb. 11 (25.19m) … Owns three of the top-10 NCAA throws all-time, as well as seven of the top-25 and 14 of the top-50 – all from this season … 14 career NCAA points, 41 SEC career points … Part of first teammate duo in NCAA history to eclipse 23 meters in the same season (2021), 77 feet in the same season (2022), and first active trio at 75 feet (2022) … One of four Rebels beyond 75 feet in NCAA history, the most of any school … Two-time SEC weight throw runner-up (2021, '22) … 2020 SEC Champion in the weight throw … Went to the same high school as teammate Jasmine Mitchell and Rebel NCAA Champion thrower, Janeah Stewart.

Sintayehu Vissa • Women's Mile • Fri., March 11 • 7:00 PM CT
Class: Junior
Hometown / Previous School: Bertiolo, Italy / Saint Leo University
NCAA Seed: 6th
SEC Finish: 1st • First-ever Rebel woman to win individual track title at SEC Indoor
Season Best: 4:32.70 • Ole Miss record
Career Best: Same
NCAA History: First-Team All-American on the distance medley relay in 2021 (8th place)
Quick Facts: First Rebel woman to ever win an individual title on the track at the SEC Indoor Championships … First Rebel woman to win the mile … First Rebel woman to qualify for the NCAA Indoor meet in an individual event higher than 800-meters … First individual distance entry to NCAA Indoor for Rebel women since Brooke Feldmeier in the 800-meter in 2015 … Ran anchor to help lead Rebel women to first-ever SEC title in the distance medley relay … Set two school record this season (mile, 4:32.70; 3K, 9:04.95) and ran on two school record DMR teams … In 2021 became the first Rebel woman to ever earn All-American honors in the cross country season (33rd place) … Has helped lead Rebel women's cross country team to record team finishes, the most recent being a record 10th-place finish in 2021.

Women's Distance Medley Relay • Fri., March 11 • 8:45 PM CT
Qualifying Relay: Anna Elkin (1200m), Jayda Eckford (400m), Loral Winn (800m), Sintayehu Vissa (mile)
NCAA Seed: 3rd
SEC Finish: 1st • First DMR title in women's program history
Season Best: 10:56.39 • School record
NCAA History: First-Team All-America finish in 2021 (8th place); first-ever NCAA berth.

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Mario Garcia Romo

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Lyndsey Reed

John Rivera Jr.

Everett Smulders

Waleed Suliman

Shey Taiwo

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Loral Winn

James Young

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