The University of Mississippi Athletics
Thursday, May 12
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Ole Miss Track & Field Set to Host 2022 SEC Outdoor Championships
5/11/2022 | Track and Field
Competition Runs May 12-14 in Oxford
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2022 SEC OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS May 12-14 • Oxford, Miss. Ole Miss Track & Field Complex   |
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OXFORD, Miss. – After 18 years, the SEC Championships return to Oxford when Ole Miss Track & Field plays host to the 2022 SEC Outdoor Championships on May 12-14.
ON THE AIR
Day One – Thursday, May 12
SEC Network+
12:00-6:15 PM CT (Stream Only)
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SEC Network+
6:30-9:30 PM CT (Broadcast)
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Day Two – Friday, May 13
SEC Network+
1:45-5:45 PM CT (Stream Only)
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SEC Network+
6:00-9:30 PM CT (Broadcast)
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Day Three – Saturday, May 14
SEC Network+
12:30-4:45 PM CT (Stream Only)
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SEC Network
5:00-9:00 PM CT (Broadcast)
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Talent:
Dwight Stones (Play-by-Play)
Dan O'Brien (Analysis)
Larra Overton (Analysis)
John Anderson (Field)
MEET NOTES
• Tickets for the entire session are $40 and $15 for a single day, and for students $25 for the whole meet and $10 for a single day (with valid college ID).
• Ole Miss last hosted the conference meet in 2004, the first season in the then newly-built Ole Miss Track & Field Complex. Since, the facility has received a $7.2 million renovation in 2016 and recently opened the $2 million Jerry Hollingsworth Track & Field / Cross Country Locker Room Facility.
• Ole Miss has won 50 SEC Outdoor individual titles, 38 from the men and 12 from the women. Of those, 12 have come under seventh-year head coach Connie Price-Smith (nine men, four women).
• Ole Miss will have a title to defend as well, as reigning SEC discus champion Tedreauna Britt will look to keep her crown on Saturday.
• Under Price-Smith, Ole Miss has set the highest SEC Outdoor finish in women's competition (fifth, 2018).
• Ole Miss remained at No. 20 in the USTFCCCA National Rating Index for Week Seven, its sixth appearance this outdor season and the 37th total appearance for the Rebel women outdoors since the national rankings began in 2008. Under Price-Smith, the Rebel women have appeared 28 times outdoors since 2016, with their best being a No. 15 slot in Week Two of the 2017 season.
• Other ranked SEC women's schools include: No. 2 Texas A&M, No. 3 Florida, No. 4 LSU, No. 5 Arkansas, No. 7 Kentucky, No. 17 South Carolina and No. 22 Auburn.
• Ranked SEC men's schools include: No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Florida, No. 4 LSU, No. 5 Georgia, No. 6 Texas A&M, No. 12 Tennessee, No. 18 Arkansas
TEAM NOTES
• In its post-indoor update, the USTFCCCA ranked Ole Miss fifth in both men's and women's competition in its Program of the Year standings. Last season, the Rebels tied a program-record with a third-place finish in men's competition, and set a new women's best at No. 7. The Program of the Year award assigns a point value to the national finish of each team following the cross country, indoor and outdoor seasons, with the lowest point total being named the winner. In women's competition, Ole Miss finished program-bests indoors (T-6th) and in cross country (10th), while the men finished tied for 10th indoors and were 15th in cross country.
• NCAA Champion and All-American senior Shey Taiwo was recently added back to The Bowerman Award Watch List on March 23. Taiwo won the national title in the weight throw indoors following a historic campaign in which she rewrote the record books and fell just one centimeter shy of the collegiate record and five shy of the world record at 25.55m/83-10. Taiwo is the reigning NCAA runner-up in the hammer as the No. 9 performer in NCAA history at 71.27m/233-10.
• The Rebels are coming off the best combined performance at an NCAA meet in program history at the NCAA Indoor Championships two weeks ago, where the Ole Miss women set an overall program record with a tie for sixth place at 29 points -- the most points ever scored by any Rebel team at nationals. The Ole Miss men, meanwhile, finished in the top-10 in consecutive seasons for the first time in program history, finishing tied for 10th at a men's program record 20 points.
• Three of the six all-time NCAA top-10 finishes in Ole Miss history have come within the last calendar year: 2022 women's indoor (T-6th), 2022 men's indoor (T-10th), 2021 men's indoor (10th), 2013 men's outdoor (8th), 2001 men's indoor (10th) and 1991 men's indoor (9th).
• Ole Miss is one of just four teams nationally to place both men and women within the top-10 at the indoor national meet (alongside Arkansas, Texas and Texas A&M), and one of just two with Arkansas that have placed men and women within the top-15 at the NCAA Cross Country Championships and at the NCAA Indoor Championships this season.
• Ole Miss won two national titles at the NCAA Indoor Championships, with Shey Taiwo nearly breaking both the NCAA and world record in the weight throw, while Mario Garcia Romo claimed the first NCAA mile title by a Rebel and the first by any individual Rebel indoors on the track since Antwon Hicks won the 2005 60-meter hurdles title.
• Ole Miss also had two NCAA runners-up in Jasmine Mitchell (weight throw) and Sintayehu Vissa (mile), who were part of a group of 16 Rebels to earn First or Second-Team All-American status for the indoor season.
• The Rebels are coming off a superb 2021 outdoor campaign that saw Ole Miss send a program record 16 entries to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Returning from that squad are: NCAA hammer runner-up Shey Taiwo, First-Team All-American Mario Garcia Romo (1500-meter, fifth), Second-Team All-Americans Jayda Eckford (4x100-meter relay, 14th), Toni Glatz (4x100-meter relay, 14th), Olivia Womack (4x100-meter relay, 14th), and Jalani Davis (discus, 14th; hammer, 16th; shot put, 19th). Also returning is Honorable Mention All-American Lyndsey Reed in the pole vault.
• Last season, Davis was the only thrower -- male or female -- to triple at the national meet and one of only two total. Indoors this year, Davis was also the only thrower of either gender to double in the weight throw and shot put.
• Ole Miss also returns two SEC Outdoor medalists from 2021: defending discus champion Tedreauna Britt, and shot put runner-up Jalani Davis. Indoors this year, Davis won the SEC shot put title.
• Indoors, Ole Miss tied a program record ranked No. 7 in women's competition for three straight weeks, while the Rebel men rose as high as No. 12 in the pre-championship index.
• Ole Miss is in 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 nine NCAA top-25 team finishes (three in the top-10), nine NCAA individual champions, seven NCAA runners-up, 122 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 210 NCAA points, 61 SEC Champions and program-record SEC finishes in men's indoor (third, 2x), women's indoor (fifth, 2x) and women's outdoor (fifth, 2018). Nationally under her guidance, the track Rebels have recorded program records in women's indoor (T-6th, 2022) and the second-best ever in men's indoor (10th, 2x). In 21 years as a head coach at both Ole Miss and Southern Illinois dating back to 2002, Price-Smith has collected 14 NCAA event titles and mentored 196 All-Americans on the track.
• In Ole Miss history across both seasons, 23 Rebels have won NCAA titles and 194 have earned First-Team All-American honors, while as a team Ole Miss has tallied 32 top-25 team finishes and scored 690.5 total national points.
• All-time, Ole Miss has won 50 SEC Outdoor individual titles, with 38 coming from the men and 12 from the women -- including returning senior and reigning SEC discus champion, Tedreauna Britt. Of those, 13 have come under Price-Smith (nine men, four women).
Rebel Men Competing
200-Meter Dash: Elijah Dryer (Heat 2, Lane 7)
400-Meter Dash: Isaiah Weasby (Heat 2, Lane 4)
800-Meter: Baylor Franklin (Heat 1, Lane 8), Cole Piotrowski (Heat 4, Lane 8), Marcus Dropik (Heat 5, Lane 5)
1500-Meter: Mario Garcia Romo (Heat 1), Cole Piotrowski (Heat 1), Cade Bethmann (Heat 2), James Young (Heat 2), Shane Bracken (Heat 3)
5K: Cade Bethmann, Shane Bracken, Cole Bullock, Dereck Elkins, Mario Garcia Romo
10K: Nick Moulai
110-Meter Hurdles: Keirston Paige (Heat 1, Lane 9), Kenney Broadnax (Heat 2, Lane 2), Spencer Brown (Heat 2, Lane 4)
3000-Meter Steeplechase: Chase Rose
High Jump: Ukurugenzi Kojo
Pole Vault: Frankie Amore, Ford Maberry, Miles Walden
Triple Jump: Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley
Shot Put: Daniel Viveros (Flight 2)
Hammer: Joseph Lanham
Decathlon: Pierce Genereux, Peyton Lowery
Rebel Women Competing
100-Meter Dash: Kelly Rowe (Heat 1, Lane 8)
200-Meter Dash: Ariyonna Augustine (Heat 3, Lane 4), Olivia Womack (Heat 4, Lane 6), Jayda Eckford (Heat 5, Lane 4)
400-Meter Dash: Toni Glatz (Heat 2, Lane 8)
800-Meter: Madison Hulsey (Heat 2, Lane 9)
1500-Meter: Loral Winn (Heat 1), Lydia van Dijk (Heat 3), Sintayehu Vissa (Heat 3)
5K: Kristel van den Berg, Sintayehu Vissa, Loral Winn
10K: Skylar Boogerd, Anna Elkin, Ryann Helmers, Cate Tracht
3000-Meter Steeplechase: Morgan Claire Rose, Kristel van den Berg
4x100-Meter Relay (Lane 3): Olivia Womack, Ariyonna Augustine, Jayda Eckford, Kelly Rowe
Pole Vault: Alex Brooks, Samara McConnell, Elizabeth Nix, Lyndsey Reed
Long Jump: Skye Gross (Flight 1)
Triple Jump: Kyla McLaurin (Flight 1)
Shot Put: Tedreauna Britt, Jalani Davis, Jasmine Mitchell
Discus: Deborah Bulai (Flight 1), Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 1), Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2), Jalani Davis (Flight 2)
Hammer: Deborah Bulai (Flight 1), Jalani Davis (Flight 2), Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2)
Heptathlon: 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.
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