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Women’s Track & Field No. 9, Men No. 24 in Pre-NCAA National Rating Index
3/6/2023 | Track and Field
Rebel Women Up to a Season-High No. 9 Ranking
NEW ORLEANS – Both Ole Miss track & field squads will enter the indoor national meet ranked, with the Rebel women moving up to a season-high No. 9 and the men holding at No. 24 in the Week Seven USTFCCCA National Rating Index released on Monday afternoon.
This week, the index only uses entries to the NCAA Indoor Championships, which is slated for March 10-11 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ole Miss punched 10 total tickets to the indoor national meet, six on the women's side from just three athletes, and four men's entries that includes a distance medley relay for the seventh time in the last eight years.
The No. 9 slot for the Rebel women is tied for the third-highest in women's program history indoors, and it marks their first top-10 appearance since resting within the top-10 for six of the seven index releases of the 2022 indoor season.
In its history indoors, Ole Miss has now appeared in the national top-10 a total of 18 times – 13 from the Ole Miss women, and five from the Rebel men. Of those 18 indoor top-10 appearances, 17 have come under the supervision of eighth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith.
This marks just the 17th time both Rebel units have been nationally ranked at the same time indoors, with all 17 instances coming within the past three seasons since first occurring in Week Two of the 2021 indoor campaign. Overall, this is the 47th appearance in the indoor national top-25 for the Rebel men since first appearing in 2010, and the 50th ranking for the Rebel women since their first in 2008. Of those 97 combined indoor rankings, Price-Smith has claimed 64 total appearances indoors (42 women, 22 men).
Ole Miss received six women's entries from just three athletes, with the senior trio of Jalani Davis (shot put, weight throw), McKenzie Long (60-meter dash, 200-meter dash) and Jasmine Mitchell (shot put, weight throw) all slated to double for the Rebels in Albuquerque.
Davis – the current NCAA leader in the weight – recently won the SEC weight throw title at a one-foot PR and meet record 24.63m/80-09.75, moving her to No. 5 in collegiate history and making her the first woman in world history to break 80 feet in the weight and 60 feet in the indoor shot put. Davis also qualified in the shot put, ranking No. 5 at her SEC runner-up mark and two-foot PR of 18.43m/60-05.75 that ranks No. 15 in collegiate history. In her career, Davis has now doubled at an NCAA meet three times after doing so indoors in 2022 and tripling outdoors in 2021 in the shot put, hammer and discus.
Reigning NCAA weight throw runner-up Jasmine Mitchell has punched her fourth career ticket indoors in the weight in as many tries, currently ranking No. 3 at 24.06m/78-11.25. Mitchell was the runner-up last year to teammate Shey Taiwo, throwing the No. 3 mark in collegiate history at 24.94m/81-10. Mitchell also qualified in the shot put, ranking No. 15 at 17.42m/57-2. Davis and Mitchell are the only throwers in the NCAA this year both beyond 17 meters in the shot put and 24 meters in the weight throw.
McKenzie Long used a superb showing at the SEC Indoor Championships to punch both of her national tickets, ranking No. 3 entering NCAAs at her SEC runner-up and school record 200-meter time of 22.67, and snagging the final spot in the 60-meter dash at her PR of 7.22. These are the first two career national tickets for Long, who transferred to Ole Miss from NC State this season. Long is only the second Rebel woman to ever double in the 60 and 200, joining All-American Teneeshia Jones, who did so three times from 1999-2001.
Freshman phenom Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan leads the way for the Ole Miss men, earning national berths in both the weight throw and shot put. Robinson-O'Hagan enters ranked No. 3 in the weight throw at his SEC runner-up and collegiate freshman record of 23.62m/77-6, and No. 13 in the shot put at 19.73m/64-08.75. At both of those distances, Robinson-O'Hagan is the lone thrower on the planet this season to throw 64 feet in the shot and 77 feet in the weight throw, as well as only the fifth in collegiate history and the first freshman to ever do so.
Robinson-O'Hagan is the first Rebel to qualify in the men's weight throw since Stacy Andrews in 2003, the first in the shot put indoors since Brian Williams in 2017, and he is the first to ever double in those events.
All-American senior Baylor Franklin has booked a return trip to the indoor national meet, entering ranked No. 7 in the 800-meter at his indoor PR of 1:46.74. This is the fourth career national berth for Franklin, his second indoors and first since finishing 12th in the 800-meter in 2021.
Franklin could also be a member of Ole Miss' distance medley relay team, which has now punched its ticket to nationals for the fifth year in a row, as well as the seventh time in the last eight years. Franklin ran a 2:51 opening 1200-meter leg on the Rebels' qualifying DMR time from Notre Dame two weeks ago at 9:21.89, joined by freshman Cade Flatt on the 400-meter leg (0:47), All-American senior Tiarnan Crorken on the 800 (1:46) and senior Anthony Camerieri on the mile anchor (3:54).
The USTFCCCA's National Rating Index is a computer rating system that uses an algorithm that emphasizes individual performances, assigning a point value to each individual mark that contributes to a team total to assess its national ranking.
Click HERE for more information on the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships.
No. 9 Ole Miss Women • USTFCCCA Week 7 Rating Index • 77.17 Points
1. Jalani Davis – Weight Throw – 24.63m/80-09.75 – 23.63 Points
3. Jasmine Mitchell – Weight Throw – 24.06m/78-11.25 – 18.54 Points
5. Jalani Davis – Shot Put – 18.43m/60-05.75 – 13.66 Points
5. McKenzie Long – 200-Meter Dash – 22.67 – 17.88 Points
15. Jasmine Mitchell – Shot Put – 17.42m/57-2 – 1.73 Points
18. McKenzie Long – 60-Meter Dash – 7.22 – 1.73 Points
No. 24 Ole Miss Men • USTFCCCA Week 7 Rating Index • 39.80 Points
3. Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan – Weight Throw – 23.62m/77-6 – 18.82 Points
7. Baylor Franklin – 800-Meter – 1:46.74 – 10.23 Points
8. Distance Medley Relay (Franklin, Flatt, Crorken, Camerieri) – 9:21.89 – 7.33 Points
13. Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan – Shot Put – 19.73m/64-08.75 – 3.42 Points
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This week, the index only uses entries to the NCAA Indoor Championships, which is slated for March 10-11 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ole Miss punched 10 total tickets to the indoor national meet, six on the women's side from just three athletes, and four men's entries that includes a distance medley relay for the seventh time in the last eight years.
The No. 9 slot for the Rebel women is tied for the third-highest in women's program history indoors, and it marks their first top-10 appearance since resting within the top-10 for six of the seven index releases of the 2022 indoor season.
In its history indoors, Ole Miss has now appeared in the national top-10 a total of 18 times – 13 from the Ole Miss women, and five from the Rebel men. Of those 18 indoor top-10 appearances, 17 have come under the supervision of eighth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith.
This marks just the 17th time both Rebel units have been nationally ranked at the same time indoors, with all 17 instances coming within the past three seasons since first occurring in Week Two of the 2021 indoor campaign. Overall, this is the 47th appearance in the indoor national top-25 for the Rebel men since first appearing in 2010, and the 50th ranking for the Rebel women since their first in 2008. Of those 97 combined indoor rankings, Price-Smith has claimed 64 total appearances indoors (42 women, 22 men).
Ole Miss received six women's entries from just three athletes, with the senior trio of Jalani Davis (shot put, weight throw), McKenzie Long (60-meter dash, 200-meter dash) and Jasmine Mitchell (shot put, weight throw) all slated to double for the Rebels in Albuquerque.
Davis – the current NCAA leader in the weight – recently won the SEC weight throw title at a one-foot PR and meet record 24.63m/80-09.75, moving her to No. 5 in collegiate history and making her the first woman in world history to break 80 feet in the weight and 60 feet in the indoor shot put. Davis also qualified in the shot put, ranking No. 5 at her SEC runner-up mark and two-foot PR of 18.43m/60-05.75 that ranks No. 15 in collegiate history. In her career, Davis has now doubled at an NCAA meet three times after doing so indoors in 2022 and tripling outdoors in 2021 in the shot put, hammer and discus.
Reigning NCAA weight throw runner-up Jasmine Mitchell has punched her fourth career ticket indoors in the weight in as many tries, currently ranking No. 3 at 24.06m/78-11.25. Mitchell was the runner-up last year to teammate Shey Taiwo, throwing the No. 3 mark in collegiate history at 24.94m/81-10. Mitchell also qualified in the shot put, ranking No. 15 at 17.42m/57-2. Davis and Mitchell are the only throwers in the NCAA this year both beyond 17 meters in the shot put and 24 meters in the weight throw.
McKenzie Long used a superb showing at the SEC Indoor Championships to punch both of her national tickets, ranking No. 3 entering NCAAs at her SEC runner-up and school record 200-meter time of 22.67, and snagging the final spot in the 60-meter dash at her PR of 7.22. These are the first two career national tickets for Long, who transferred to Ole Miss from NC State this season. Long is only the second Rebel woman to ever double in the 60 and 200, joining All-American Teneeshia Jones, who did so three times from 1999-2001.
Freshman phenom Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan leads the way for the Ole Miss men, earning national berths in both the weight throw and shot put. Robinson-O'Hagan enters ranked No. 3 in the weight throw at his SEC runner-up and collegiate freshman record of 23.62m/77-6, and No. 13 in the shot put at 19.73m/64-08.75. At both of those distances, Robinson-O'Hagan is the lone thrower on the planet this season to throw 64 feet in the shot and 77 feet in the weight throw, as well as only the fifth in collegiate history and the first freshman to ever do so.
Robinson-O'Hagan is the first Rebel to qualify in the men's weight throw since Stacy Andrews in 2003, the first in the shot put indoors since Brian Williams in 2017, and he is the first to ever double in those events.
All-American senior Baylor Franklin has booked a return trip to the indoor national meet, entering ranked No. 7 in the 800-meter at his indoor PR of 1:46.74. This is the fourth career national berth for Franklin, his second indoors and first since finishing 12th in the 800-meter in 2021.
Franklin could also be a member of Ole Miss' distance medley relay team, which has now punched its ticket to nationals for the fifth year in a row, as well as the seventh time in the last eight years. Franklin ran a 2:51 opening 1200-meter leg on the Rebels' qualifying DMR time from Notre Dame two weeks ago at 9:21.89, joined by freshman Cade Flatt on the 400-meter leg (0:47), All-American senior Tiarnan Crorken on the 800 (1:46) and senior Anthony Camerieri on the mile anchor (3:54).
The USTFCCCA's National Rating Index is a computer rating system that uses an algorithm that emphasizes individual performances, assigning a point value to each individual mark that contributes to a team total to assess its national ranking.
Click HERE for more information on the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships.
No. 9 Ole Miss Women • USTFCCCA Week 7 Rating Index • 77.17 Points
1. Jalani Davis – Weight Throw – 24.63m/80-09.75 – 23.63 Points
3. Jasmine Mitchell – Weight Throw – 24.06m/78-11.25 – 18.54 Points
5. Jalani Davis – Shot Put – 18.43m/60-05.75 – 13.66 Points
5. McKenzie Long – 200-Meter Dash – 22.67 – 17.88 Points
15. Jasmine Mitchell – Shot Put – 17.42m/57-2 – 1.73 Points
18. McKenzie Long – 60-Meter Dash – 7.22 – 1.73 Points
No. 24 Ole Miss Men • USTFCCCA Week 7 Rating Index • 39.80 Points
3. Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan – Weight Throw – 23.62m/77-6 – 18.82 Points
7. Baylor Franklin – 800-Meter – 1:46.74 – 10.23 Points
8. Distance Medley Relay (Franklin, Flatt, Crorken, Camerieri) – 9:21.89 – 7.33 Points
13. Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan – Shot Put – 19.73m/64-08.75 – 3.42 Points
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field and Cross Country, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
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