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Ole Miss Track & Field Announces 2024 Schedule
12/15/2023 | Track and Field
OXFORD, Miss. – Ole Miss men's and women's track & field has finalized its schedule for the upcoming 2024 indoor and outdoor seasons. The Rebels will open its 2024 slate next month at Vanderbilt on Jan. 12-13, beginning a nine-meet indoor campaign that ends in March and will roll into an 11-meet schedule outdoors that concludes in June prior to the global qualifying meets for the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris.
For the 2024 indoor season, Ole Miss will open with back-to-back trips to Nashville, first for the Commodore Challenge (Jan. 12-13) and then for the Vanderbilt Invitational (Jan. 19-20). The Rebels will head to Fayetteville the next week for the Razorback Invitational (Jan. 26-27) before a three-way split weekend on Feb. 9-10 for Boston University's David Hemery Valentine Invite, Vanderbilt's Music City Challenge and Arkansas' Tyson Invitational. Ole Miss will then send its distance medley relay squads to Notre Dame for the Alex Wilson Invite (Feb. 17) to close out the regular season. The 2024 SEC Indoor Championships will return to Fayetteville on Feb. 22-24, while the NCAA Indoor Championships will head to Boston for the first time on March 8-9.
Outdoors, the Rebels will open at Georgia Tech's Yellow Jacket Invitational (March 15-16) before returning home to host the 2024 Ole Miss Classic (March 22-23). Ole Miss splits the next weekend on March 29-30 for LSU's Battle on the Bayou and the distance-heavy Stanford Invitational before coming back to Oxford to host the 2024 Joe Walker Invite on April 5-6. Ole Miss then hits a stretch of SEC schools to close out the regular season at Florida's Tom Jones Memorial (April 12-13), Arkansas' John McDonnell Invitational (April 18-19) and the LSU Invitational (April 27). The 2024 outdoor postseason consists of trips to Florida for the SEC Outdoor Championships (May 9-11), Kentucky for the NCAA East Regional (May 22-25) and a return to Oregon's Hayward Field for the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships (June 5-8).
Ole Miss enters year nine under head coach Connie Price-Smith, whose Rebels will look to once again build off a historic campaign last season that saw three top-25 national team finishes, one NCAA champion, five NCAA runners-up, 23 First or Second-Team All-Americans, four SEC champions, 19 SEC medalists and a handful of the best national rankings and SEC finishes in program history. Combined, the Rebels were particularly powerful indoors, ranking as one of just eight schools nationally to place both its men's and women's teams within the top-15. Across 2022 and 2023, Ole Miss stands alongside just Arkansas and Texas as the only schools to finish top-15 indoors in both men's and women's competition in each season.
The Rebel women put together one of their best overall seasons, setting program-best SEC finishes after taking fourth both indoors and outdoors. The Ole Miss women were 10th at the indoor national meet, their second-best NCAA finish ever and their second consecutive top-10 finish indoors. Outdoors, the Rebel women were among the best all season long, topping out at a women's program record No. 7 national ranking while also breaking the school record for consecutive weeks in the top-10 at seven.
Ole Miss returns two of the most exciting women's athletes in the nation for their senior seasons in reigning NCAA weight throw champion Jalani Davis and electric sprinter McKenzie Long. Davis was the best in the weight throw wire-to-wire in 2023, a season that saw her become the No. 5 performer in NCAA history at 24.63m/80-09.75 and also become the first woman in world history to break 80 feet in the weight throw and 60 feet in the shot put. Davis followed that up with a trip to the World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August after a bronze medal finish in the shot put at the U.S. Championships earlier in the summer.
Long, meanwhile, took the track world by storm with a demonstrative comeback season – her first as a Rebel. Long ended the season with four All-America awards, an SEC title and two total SEC medals, but it was her NCAA runner-up finish in the 200-meter dash outdoors that put her into another category in NCAA history. Long crossed the line at a slightly windy but blistering 21.88 (+2.5), making her the third-best collegian ever in all-conditions and putting her near the top of the formchart heading into her final season of competition in 2024.
The Ole Miss men, meanwhile, notched a program record third consecutive top-15 national finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships, and also set an overall program record for top national ranking at No. 5 in the indoor index for Week One. That indoor finish was helped greatly by a thrilling NCAA runner-up performance by the men's distance medley relay – of which returns sophomore middle distance specialist Cade Flatt. But 2023 for the Rebel men, from start to finish, was centered around the dominance of thrower Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan in his superb freshman campaign.
Robinson-O'Hagan entered as a highly-touted recruit fresh off a World U20 title in the shot put in the summer of 2022. As a freshman, he immediately put himself into national title contention, qualifying for nationals and earning All-America honors four times across the weight throw indoors and hammer outdoors, as well as the shot put in both seasons. Robinson-O'Hagan set the collegiate freshman record in the weight throw indoors at 23.62m/77-6 before finishing third nationally – the best by a freshman since 2013 – and he followed that outdoors with an SEC hammer title and an eighth-place finish in the deepest NCAA hammer final ever.
For the 2024 indoor season, Ole Miss will open with back-to-back trips to Nashville, first for the Commodore Challenge (Jan. 12-13) and then for the Vanderbilt Invitational (Jan. 19-20). The Rebels will head to Fayetteville the next week for the Razorback Invitational (Jan. 26-27) before a three-way split weekend on Feb. 9-10 for Boston University's David Hemery Valentine Invite, Vanderbilt's Music City Challenge and Arkansas' Tyson Invitational. Ole Miss will then send its distance medley relay squads to Notre Dame for the Alex Wilson Invite (Feb. 17) to close out the regular season. The 2024 SEC Indoor Championships will return to Fayetteville on Feb. 22-24, while the NCAA Indoor Championships will head to Boston for the first time on March 8-9.
Outdoors, the Rebels will open at Georgia Tech's Yellow Jacket Invitational (March 15-16) before returning home to host the 2024 Ole Miss Classic (March 22-23). Ole Miss splits the next weekend on March 29-30 for LSU's Battle on the Bayou and the distance-heavy Stanford Invitational before coming back to Oxford to host the 2024 Joe Walker Invite on April 5-6. Ole Miss then hits a stretch of SEC schools to close out the regular season at Florida's Tom Jones Memorial (April 12-13), Arkansas' John McDonnell Invitational (April 18-19) and the LSU Invitational (April 27). The 2024 outdoor postseason consists of trips to Florida for the SEC Outdoor Championships (May 9-11), Kentucky for the NCAA East Regional (May 22-25) and a return to Oregon's Hayward Field for the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships (June 5-8).
Ole Miss enters year nine under head coach Connie Price-Smith, whose Rebels will look to once again build off a historic campaign last season that saw three top-25 national team finishes, one NCAA champion, five NCAA runners-up, 23 First or Second-Team All-Americans, four SEC champions, 19 SEC medalists and a handful of the best national rankings and SEC finishes in program history. Combined, the Rebels were particularly powerful indoors, ranking as one of just eight schools nationally to place both its men's and women's teams within the top-15. Across 2022 and 2023, Ole Miss stands alongside just Arkansas and Texas as the only schools to finish top-15 indoors in both men's and women's competition in each season.
The Rebel women put together one of their best overall seasons, setting program-best SEC finishes after taking fourth both indoors and outdoors. The Ole Miss women were 10th at the indoor national meet, their second-best NCAA finish ever and their second consecutive top-10 finish indoors. Outdoors, the Rebel women were among the best all season long, topping out at a women's program record No. 7 national ranking while also breaking the school record for consecutive weeks in the top-10 at seven.
Ole Miss returns two of the most exciting women's athletes in the nation for their senior seasons in reigning NCAA weight throw champion Jalani Davis and electric sprinter McKenzie Long. Davis was the best in the weight throw wire-to-wire in 2023, a season that saw her become the No. 5 performer in NCAA history at 24.63m/80-09.75 and also become the first woman in world history to break 80 feet in the weight throw and 60 feet in the shot put. Davis followed that up with a trip to the World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August after a bronze medal finish in the shot put at the U.S. Championships earlier in the summer.
Long, meanwhile, took the track world by storm with a demonstrative comeback season – her first as a Rebel. Long ended the season with four All-America awards, an SEC title and two total SEC medals, but it was her NCAA runner-up finish in the 200-meter dash outdoors that put her into another category in NCAA history. Long crossed the line at a slightly windy but blistering 21.88 (+2.5), making her the third-best collegian ever in all-conditions and putting her near the top of the formchart heading into her final season of competition in 2024.
The Ole Miss men, meanwhile, notched a program record third consecutive top-15 national finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships, and also set an overall program record for top national ranking at No. 5 in the indoor index for Week One. That indoor finish was helped greatly by a thrilling NCAA runner-up performance by the men's distance medley relay – of which returns sophomore middle distance specialist Cade Flatt. But 2023 for the Rebel men, from start to finish, was centered around the dominance of thrower Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan in his superb freshman campaign.
Robinson-O'Hagan entered as a highly-touted recruit fresh off a World U20 title in the shot put in the summer of 2022. As a freshman, he immediately put himself into national title contention, qualifying for nationals and earning All-America honors four times across the weight throw indoors and hammer outdoors, as well as the shot put in both seasons. Robinson-O'Hagan set the collegiate freshman record in the weight throw indoors at 23.62m/77-6 before finishing third nationally – the best by a freshman since 2013 – and he followed that outdoors with an SEC hammer title and an eighth-place finish in the deepest NCAA hammer final ever.
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