Track & Field Set for Powerhouse Meet at Razorback Invitational

			2023 RAZORBACK INVITATIONAL January 27-28 • Fayetteville, Ark.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Nationally ranked Ole Miss track & field will be among the best teams in the nation at the high-powered Razorback Invitational this weekend, hosted at the University of Arkansas. Competition runs Jan. 27-28 at the Randal Tyson Track Complex, with windows streamed live on SECN+ at 6 p.m. CT on Day One and 11 a.m. CT on Day Two.

MEET NOTES

• This is the first of three stops at Arkansas for the Rebels this indoor season, with a return trip on Feb. 10-11 for the Tyson Invitational, and then again two weeks later for the 2023 SEC Indoor Championships on Feb. 24-25.

• In the initial USTFCCCA National Rating Index for the 2023 indoor season, the Ole Miss men came in at an overall program record No. 5 slot, with the Rebel women at No. 13 in their debut.

• Alongside the Rebels in Fayetteville this weekend will be: Arkansas, Arizona State, Baylor, BYU, Florida, Florida State, Iowa, Iowa State, Kentucky, LSU, Oklahoma State, Oregon State (women only), Stanford, Texas A&M and USC.

• Ranked men's teams in attendance alongside the 5th-ranked Rebels include: No. 1 Stanford, No. 3 Florida State, No. 4 Kentucky, No. 7 BYU, No. 9 Iowa State, No. 11 USC, No. 12 Florida and No. 20 Oklahoma State.

• Ranked women's teams aside from the 13th-ranked Ole Miss squad are: No. 3 Kentucky, No. 5 Florida, No. 7 USC, No. 11 Arkansas, No. 12 Texas A&M, No. 16 Stanford, No. 18 Oklahoma State and No. 20 BYU.

• Ole Miss (No. 5/No. 13) stands as one of seven schools in attendance with both squads ranked nationally with BYU (No. 7/No. 20), Florida (No. 12/No. 5), Kentucky (No. 4/No. 3), Oklahoma State (No. 20/No. 18), Stanford (No. 1/No. 16) and USC (No. 11/No. 7).

• Ole Miss owns 19 total times or marks within the NCAA top-50 entering this weekend (12 men, seven women), including 10 within the NCAA top-16 (seven men, three women). That also includes a pair of one-two punches on the national leaderboard from All-American seniors Baylor Franklin (No. 1, 1:46.74) and Tiarnan Crorken (No. 2, 1:47.39) in the men's 800-meter, and from All-American seniors Jalani Davis (No. 1, 24.13m/79-2) and Jasmine Mitchell (No. 2, 24.06m/78-11.25) in the women's weight throw.

• Ole Miss has won at least two SEC weekly honors in each of the first two weeks this indoor season, opening with Davis (SEC Co-Women's Field Athlete of the Week) and Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (SEC Men's Freshman of the Week) winning on Jan. 17, followed by Franklin (SEC Men's Runner of the Week) and Mitchell (SEC Women's Field Athlete of the Week) winning on Jan. 24.

• Four school records have already come tumbling down two meets into the 2023 season, courtesy of Robinson-O'Hagan in both the men's weight throw (22.24m/72-11.75) and shot put (19.58m/64-3), as well as two non-standard events from the Rebel women in McKenzie Long in the 300-meter dash (37.38) and Loral Winn in the 1000-meter (2:43.85).

REBELS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS

• The No. 5 slot for the Rebel men breaks the previous overall program record – across the indoor, outdoor and cross country seasons, both men and women – set by the 2021 men's indoor squad that ranked No. 6 in Week Two of the 2021 season.

• In its history indoors, Ole Miss has now appeared in the national top-10 a total of 17 times – 12 from the Ole Miss women, and now five from the Rebel men – and of those 17 indoor top-10 appearances, 16 have come under the supervision of eighth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith.

• This marks just the 12th time both Rebel units have been nationally ranked at the same time indoors, with all 12 instances coming within the past three seasons since first occurring in Week Two of the 2021 indoor campaign.

• Overall, this is the 42nd appearance in the indoor national top-25 for the Rebel men since first appearing in 2010, and the 44th ranking for the Rebel women since their first in 2008. Of those 86 combined indoor rankings, Price-Smith has claimed 53 total appearances indoors (36 women, 17 men).

• The Rebel women have been ranked in 21 of the last 23 releases dating back to the Preseason release for the 2020 indoor season, including a current streak of 14 in a row dating back to Week Two of the 2021 campaign.

• Ole Miss ranked No. 7 three times indoors last season in the women's rankings, the best ranking by the Rebel women since hitting No. 7 in Week One of the 2008 season -- the first year national rankings were available. In its history, Ole Miss has ranked within the women's national top-10 a total of 12 times -- half of which came during the 2022 season.

WOMEN'S NOTES

• Ole Miss owns seven NCAA top-50 marks on the women's side, led by a powerful one-two punch in the women's weight throw from Jalani Davis and Jasmine Mitchell. Davis earned her SEC weekly honors last week after setting the NCAA lead in the weight throw on a four-foot personal best 24.13m/79-2. That throw currently ranks third in the world for 2023. Davis also owns an NCAA top-50 mark in the shot put following a season-best toss of 15.56m/51-00.75 at Vanderbilt last week (No. 46 NCAA, No. 8 SEC).

• That season-opening weight throw performance also moved Davis up to No. 8 in collegiate history with the 23rd-best throw all-time, giving Ole Miss four entries in the all-time top-10 who are all beyond 79 feet: 2022 NCAA Champion Shey Taiwo (second, 25.55m/83-10; 2022), Mitchell (third, 24.94m/81-10; 2022), Davis (eighth, 24.13m/79-2; 2023) and world record holder Janeah Stewart (24.12m/79-01.75; 2018).

• In addition to owning 40 percent of the all-time collegiate top-10, Ole Miss has 43 of the 115 total 23-meter throws in collegiate history (37.4 percent). Of those 115, NCAA champ Shey Taiwo collected 21 in her Rebel career (18.3 percent) and Janeah Stewart owns nine, while current Rebels Jasmine Mitchell (10) and Jalani Davis (3) combine for 13 career 23-meter tosses. At the 24-meter plateau, Ole Miss has 14 of 34 total in NCAA history (41.8 percent) -- with Taiwo owning nine such throws by herself (26.5 percent), in addition to four of the top-10 tosses and three of the six 25-meter throws all-time. At four 24-meter throwers all-time, Ole Miss stands as the lone school in the nation to have more than one beyond the 24-meter mark.

• Mitchell earned her SEC honors this week after an impressive double effort at Vanderbilt last week, improving in the weight throw to a season-best 24.06m/78-11.25 to rank second nationally behind Davis and fourth worldwide this season. At Vandy, Mitchell was the top collegiate finisher behind former Rebel great Janeah Stewart, who tied the world record on her winning sixth-round heave of 25.60m/84-0.

• In the shot put, Mitchell unleashed a two-foot PR to win by two feet at 17.42m/57-2 -- putting her atop the SEC leaderboards and No. 3 in the NCAA this season, in addition to No. 4 in the United States and No. 8 worldwide. That throw also improved upon her place in No. 4 all-time in Ole Miss history.

• Senior Tedreauna Britt also had a strong open in the weight throw two weeks ago at Vanderbilt, coming within three inches of her career best at 19.97m/65-06.25 -- currently No. 26 in the NCAA.

• Ole Miss also currently owns two top-50 marks from pentathletes Sara Van Aken (3,532; No. 34) and Meg Goebel (3,465; No. 42), who both completed their first multis of the season last week.

• Senior sprinter Ariyonna Augustine has been consistent so far for the Rebels in 2023, slowly chipping away at her PR in the 60-meter dash in each of her first two outings. Augustine first finished third on Jan. 14 at what was then an Ole Miss career-best 7.47, before finishing runner-up on Jan. 21 at 7.46 -- which puts her into a tie for No. 12 in Ole Miss history. Augustine's overall career-best 7.33 came her freshman season at LSU in the SEC prelims.

• All-American senior Loral Winn opened her 2023 season last week in an identical way as she did the 2022 season: by breaking the Ole Miss record in the 1000-meter race at the Vanderbilt Invitational. Winn reset the record by eight seconds at Vanderbilt on Jan. 21 last year at 2:46.59, and last week she outdid herself by three more seconds, finishing runner-up at 2:43.85.

• Senior transfer McKenzie Long etched her name into the Ole Miss record books in her first race as a Rebel, breaking the long-standing women's school record in the 300-meter dash at Vanderbilt on Jan. 13. Long won at 37.38 to break Sonya Varnell's 1987 record of 37.58, which was a conversion of her 37.8 in the 300-yard dash. Freshman Gabrielle Matthews of Jamaica had a strong Ole Miss debut as well, finishing fifth overall at 38.83.

• Senior transfer Jaiden Paris began her Ole Miss career with a third-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles at Vanderbilt on Jan. 14, and in the prelim she ran 8.40 -- the fourth-best in Ole Miss history. Paris was the Big Ten bronze medalist in the hurdles while at Michigan State last season, running her career-best 8.25 in the Big Ten prelims.

MEN'S NOTES

• Freshman Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan has made short work of the Ole Miss record book, erasing both records in the men's weight throw (22.24m/72-11.75) and shot put (19.58m/64-3) in just two meets.

• In the weight throw, Robinson-O'Hagan's monster season-opening toss of 22.24m/72-11.75 currently ranks fourth in the NCAA and second in the SEC, as well as eighth in the United States and ninth worldwide this season. His throw broke Dempsey McGuigan's 2018 school record by more than three feet, and this season it still leads all NCAA freshmen by more than three feet.

• Robinson-O'Hagan is only the third collegiate true freshman (second in Division I) since 2014 to break 22 meters, and the only freshman in that same timespan to do so in their first meet. The only other true freshmen to break 22 meters since 2014 are Clemson's Daniel Cope in 2022 (22.28m/73-01.25) and Division II Ashland's Brent Fairbanks in 2018 (22.16m/72-08.50).

• In the shot put at Vanderbilt last week, Robinson-O'Hagan took down Brian Williams' 2018 record by more than one foot at 19.58m/64-3, currently the No. 7 throw nationally and No. 3 in the SEC. That throw leads all NCAA freshmen by more than five feet this year, and with it he became the first 64-foot men's shot putter in Ole Miss history -- indoors or outdoors. Robinson-O'Hagan is only the third collegiate freshman to break 64 feet since 2020 alongside Wisconsin's Andrew Stone (19.82m/65-00.50) and Illinois' Tyler Sudduth (19.59m/64-03.25) -- both from 2022.

• Both combined, Robinson-O'Hagan is the lone collegiate freshman since at least 2013 (when available yearly lists begin) to throw 22 meters in the weight and 64 feet in the shot put.

• All-American senior Baylor Franklin opened his 2023 season in superb fashion at Vanderbilt last week, setting the NCAA lead in the 800-meter at an indoor career-best 1:46.74. Franklin wasn't alone, either, with teammate Tiarnan Crorken clocking the nation's second-fastest time at his PR 1:47.39 to finish runner-up. For Franklin, who earned SEC Men's Runner of the Week honors, that time moved him up to No. 2 in Ole Miss history, trailing only national champion George Kersh's 1:46.19 from the 1991 NCAA Indoor Championships.

• Franklin capped off the 2022 outdoor season with a spectacular fifth-place finish in the U.S. men's 800-meter final, where he ran a career-best 1:45.65 and split 52.90 over his final 400 to claw his way from the back of the pack at the bell.

• Crorken was a First-Team All-American in his first indoor season with the Rebels in 2022, finishing fifth in the 800-meter at the NCAA Indoor Championships before injuries hampered his outdoor season. His 1:47.39 open from last week currently ranks fifth in Ole Miss history indoors.

• Also recording an NCAA top-50 time in the 800-meter last week was redshirt freshman Chase Rose at 1:49.29 (No. 16 NCAA, No. 4 SEC, No. 10 Ole Miss history).

• Ole Miss also added two more sub-four minute mile times to its historic all-time list, with seniors Shane Bracken and Anthony Camerieri eclipsing the prestigious barrier. Bracken won the mile at 3:57.95, currently the No. 5 time in the NCAA and within a few tenths of a second of his PR 3:57.27 from last season that ranks fourth all-time at Ole Miss.

• Camerieri was the runner-up at a career-best 3:58.75, making him the No. 9 performer in school history and No. 8 in the NCAA this year. In its history, Ole Miss now boasts 11 all-time sub-four minute milers, all within the last five seasons.

• Senior hurdler Ahmad Young Jr. had an excellent day at Vanderbilt on Jan. 14, notching two qualifying performances and three total career bests. Young won the 60-meter hurdles after clocking a personal best 7.82, pushing him to fourth in Ole Miss history and 25th nationally this year. Young already had run a PR in the prelim at 7.89, and not long after in the 60-meter dash prelim he topped out at a PR 6.80 – 13th-best in school history.

• Fellow senior and hurdler Kenney Broadnax also clocked an NCAA top-50 on Jan. 14, currently ranking 45th nationally and eighth in the SEC at his season-best 7.90.

• Other Rebel men within the NCAA top-50 are senior Daniel Viveros in the shot put (No. 26, 18.46m/60-06.65), senior Noah Mumme in the pole vault (No. 35, 5.22m/17-01.50) and sophomore Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley in the triple jump (No. 41, 15.21m/49-11).

Razorback Invitational, Master Schedule (all times CT)
Day One \| Friday, January 27
Time	Event	Athlete(s)
11:45 AM	Men's Heptathlon (60-Meter Dash)	Pierce Genereux (Heat 3, Lane 3) Peyton Lowery (Heat 3, Lane 6)
12:15 PM	Women's Pentathlon (60-Meter Hurdles)	Sara Van Aken (Heat 3, Lane 4)
~12:25 PM	Men's Heptathlon (Long Jump)	Pierce Genereux (Flight 1) Peyton Lowery (Flight 1)
~1:00 PM	Women's Pentathlon (High Jump)	Sara Van Aken (Flight 2)
~1:25 PM	Men's Heptathlon (Shot Put)	Pierce Genereux (Flight 1) Peyton Lowery (Flight 1)
~2:30 PM	Men's Heptathlon (High Jump)	Pierce Genereux (Flight 1) Peyton Lowery (Flight 1)
	Women's Pentathlon (Shot Put)	Sara Van Aken (Flight 2)
3:00 PM	Men's Pole Vault	Frankie Amore Logan Kelley Ford Maberry Noah Mumme
~3:25 PM	Women's Pentathlon (Long Jump)	Sara Van Aken (Flight 2)
3:30 PM	Women's Shot Put	Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2) Jalani Davis (Flight 2) Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2)
4:15 PM	Women's High Jump	Meg Goebel Kayla Jemison
4:30 PM	Men's Long Jump	Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley (Flight 1) Gavin Nembhard (Flight 1)
~4:30 PM	Women's Pentathlon (800-Meter)	Sara Van Aken
5:50 PM	Men's Shot Put	Mason Hickel (Flight 1) Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 2) Daniel Viveros (Flight 2)
6:50 PM	Women's 200-Meter Dash	Ariyonna Augustine (Heat 14, Lane 6) McKenzie Long (Heat 18, Lane 3)
Day Two \| Saturday, January 28
9:10 AM	Men's 3K	Aiden Britt (Heat 2)
9:45 AM	Men's Mile	Dalton Hengst (Heat 2)
10:15 AM	Men's Heptathlon (60-Meter Hurdles)	Pierce Genereux (Heat 5, Lane 4) Peyton Lowery (Heat 5, Lane 6)
~11:00 AM	Men's Heptathlon (Pole Vault)	Pierce Genereux Peyton Lowery
11:05 AM	Men's 60-Meter Hurdles (Prelims)	Ahmad Young Jr. (Heat 1, Lane 6) Kenney Broadnax (Heat 2, Lane 2)
11:25 AM	Women's 60-Meter Hurdles (Prelims)	Meg Goebel (Heat 1, Lane 1) Jaiden Paris (Heat 1, Lane 6) Gabrielle Matthews (Heat 3, Lane 2) Jerricka Ambus (Heat 3, Lane 6)
11:50 AM	Men's 60-Meter Dash (Prelims)	Keith Robinson (Heat 3, Lane 3)
12:00 PM	Women's Weight Throw	Tedreauna Britt Jalani Davis Brooke Franke Jasmine Mitchell
12:10 PM	Women's 60-Meter Dash (Prelims)	Ariyonna Augustine (Heat 1, Lane 3) Jaiden Paris (Heat 1, Lane 7) McKenzie Long (Heat 2, Lane 4)
12:30 PM	Men's Mile	Chase Rose (Heat 3) Shane Bracken (Heat 5)
12:50 PM	Women's Mile	Sophie Baumann (Heat 3) Kristel van den Berg (Heat 3) Loral Winn (Heat 4)
1:10 PM	Men's 60-Meter Hurdles (Final)	--
1:18 PM	Women's 60-Meter Hurdles (Final)	--
1:30 PM	Women's Triple Jump	Kayla Jemison Kyla McLaurin
2:10 PM	Men's Heptathlon (1000-Meter)	Pierce Genereux Peyton Lowery
2:24 PM	Men's 60-Meter Dash (Final)	--
2:32 PM	Women's 60-Meter Dash (Final)	--
2:30 PM	Women's Pole Vault	Samara McConnell Lyndsey Reed
	Men's Weight Throw	Costen Campion (Flight 1) Joseph Lanham (Flight 1) Mason Hickel (Flight 2) Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 2)
2:35 PM	Men's 800-Meter	Jacob Lough (Heat 2) Cole Piotrowski (Heat 3) Marcus Dropik (Heat 5)
2:45 PM	Men's Triple Jump	Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley Gavin Nembhard
2:55 PM	Women's 800-Meter	Madison Hulsey (Heat 2) Jocelyn Long (Heat 2)
3:15 PM	Men's 3K	Dereck Elkins (Heat 3) Anthony Camerieri (Heat 4)
4:30 PM	Women's 4x400-Meter Relay	Heat 4, Lane 6

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Players Mentioned

Jerricka Ambus

Frankie Amore

Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley

Ariyonna Augustine

Sophie Baumann

Shane Bracken

Aiden Britt

Tedreauna Britt

Kenney Broadnax

Anthony Camerieri

Costen Campion

Tiarnan Crorken

Jalani Davis

Marcus Dropik

Dereck Elkins

Brooke Franke

Baylor Franklin

Pierce Genereux

Meg Goebel

Dalton Hengst

Mason Hickel

Madison Hulsey

Kayla Jemison

Logan Kelley

Joseph Lanham

Jocelyn Long

McKenzie Long

Jacob Lough

Peyton Lowery

Ford Maberry

Gabrielle Matthews

Samara McConnell

Kyla McLaurin

Jasmine Mitchell

Noah Mumme

Gavin Nembhard

Jaiden Paris

Cole Piotrowski

Lyndsey Reed

Keith Robinson

Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan

Chase Rose

Shey Taiwo

Sara Van Aken

Kristel van den Berg

Daniel Viveros

Loral Winn

Ahmad Young Jr.

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