Track & Field Set for 2023 SEC Outdoor Championships

			2023 SEC OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS May 11-13 • Baton Rouge, La. Bernie Moore Track Stadium
Meet Info • Championship Central • Schedule (PDF) • Live Results Watch: Day 1 (Early) • Day 1 (Late) • Day 2 (Early) • Day 2 (Late) • Day 3 (Early) • Day 3 (Late) Ole Miss Notes (PDF) • Outdoor Records (PDF)

BATON ROUGE, La. – Ole Miss track & field will look for some conference hardware down on the bayou at this week's 2023 SEC Outdoor Championships, held at LSU's Bernie Moore Track Stadium on May 11-13. Fans will be able to watch all three days live online via SEC Network+ and a live window on SEC Network for Championship Saturday.

ON THE AIR

Day One (Thurs., May 11)
SEC Network+
Noon CT – WATCH
5:30 PM CT – WATCH

Day Two (Fri., May 12)
SEC Network+
11:30 AM CT – WATCH
5 PM CT – WATCH

Day Three (Sat., May 13)
SEC Network+ / SEC Network
2 PM CT – WATCH (SECN+)
5 PM CT – WATCH (SEC Network)

Talent
Dwight Stones (Play-by-Play)
Dan O'Brien (Analyst)
Larra Overton (Analyst)
John Anderson (Reporter)

MEET NOTES

• Ole Miss enters the championship meet ranked No. 10 on the women's side, extending its school record top-10 streak to seven straight. The Rebel men, meanwhile, fell just outside the top-25 at No. 26 in the Week Seven release.

• Other ranked SEC women's schools: No. 2 Florida, No. 3 Arkansas, No. 6 LSU, No. 7 Texas A&M, No. 8 Georgia, No. 9 Kentucky, No. 18 Alabama and No. 20 Tennessee.

• Ranked SEC men's schools include: No. 1 Arkansas, No. 3 Florida, No. 4 Alabama, No. 5 Tennessee, No. 6 LSU, No. 16 Georgia and No. 24 Auburn.

• Ole Miss has won 52 SEC Outdoor individual titles, 39 from the men and 13 from the women. Of those, 15 have come under eighth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith (10 men, five women).

• Last season, Ole Miss became the first school to sweep the men's and women's 1500-meter races since Arkansas in 2002 after wins from current professional runners Mario Garcia Romo and eventual NCAA women's champion Sintayehu Vissa.

• Returning SEC champs overall include senior Tedreauna Britt in the women's discus (2021).

• Ole Miss currently owns 24 total times or marks within the NCAA top-50, 14 from the Rebel women and 10 from the men. Of those, 11 fall within the NCAA top-10 and five within the top-five.

• Senior McKenzie Long currently ranks as the top sprinter in the SEC in both the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes at both of her school record times. Long's windy 10.80 (+3.5) from the Texas Relays puts her No. 2 in the NCAA and No. 3 worldwide on the all-conditions list, and her legal 11.00 (+0.2) also from the Texas Relays ranks her No. 12 worldwide this outdoor season. Long's 200-meter time of 22.31 (+1.8) ranks No. 3 in the NCAA and No. 4 in the world.

REBELS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS

• Ole Miss currently ranks No. 10 in the women's USTFCCCA National Rating Index for Week Seven heading into the SEC Championships. The Rebel women have ranked within the top-10 all outdoor season long, a new school record for consecutive top-10 appearances at seven in a row.

• The Rebel women rose as high as No. 7 in Week Two, which broke the previous outdoor record of No. 8 set both by the Rebel women in Week One, and the 2012 Rebel men, who rose to No. 8 in Week Five of the 2012 outdoor campaign.

• Overall, this is the 45th all-time appearance in the outdoor rating index for the Rebel women, and the 36th since 2016 under the supervision of eighth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith.

• The Rebel men, meanwhile, aren't far outside the top-25 in the Week Seven release, currently sitting in 26th nationally. The Ole Miss men have appeared once this outdoor season at No. 24 in Week Six, and have not ranked lower than 36th.

WOMEN'S NOTES

• Senior McKenzie Long rolled right from a spectacular indoor season right into a show-stopping outing at the Texas Relays to open her outdoor season, setting the stage for Long becoming one of the top women's sprinters worldwide in 2023.

• At Texas, Long ran what was then an all-conditions world-lead 10.80 (+3.5) in the prelim and winning at a wind-legal 11.00 (+0.2) in the final -- both Ole Miss records. Currently, her windy 10.80 leads the SEC and ranks No. 2 in the NCAA (since it accepts up to 4.0 meters per second wind readings), and is No. 3 on the world all-conditions list for 2023.

• All-time, Long's 10.80 ranks tied for sixth on the collegiate all-conditions list, trailing only Texas' Julien Alfred from April of this year (10.72/+2.4), North Carolina A&T's Cambrea Sturgis from the 2021 NCAA Championships (10.74/+2.2), LSU's Sha'Carri Richardson from the 2019 NCAA Championships (10.75/+1.6), LSU's Dawn Sowell from the 1989 NCAA Championships (10.78/+1.0) and USC's Twanisha Terry from the 2021 NCAA Championships (10.79/+2.2).

• Immediately following her final was an invitational section of the 100-meter dash filled with professionals and Olympians, and when the times flashed on the screen, Long's two-day performance became even more impressive as her 11.00 beat out the heat winner – Olympian Gabby Thomas – by nine hundredths of a second.

• Both of those times flew past Long's previous career-bests, a wind-legal 11.49 (+0.3) from the 2022 Virginia Challenge and a windy 11.40 (+3.1) from the 2019 U.S. U20 Championships.

• Long is the first Rebel woman to ever break 11 seconds in the 100-meter in any conditions – joining her similar feats indoors as the first Rebel woman to hit 7.10 in the 60-meter (7.10) and break 23 seconds in the 200-meter (22.48). Combined with another windy 10.92 (+2.4) at Florida's Tom Jones Memorial, Long has hit or broken 11 seconds three times this outdoor season.

• At Florida, Long took down the Ole Miss outdoor record in the 200-meter dash at a wind-legal 22.31 (+1.8), currently the SEC lead and the No. 3 time in the NCAA this season. Long also ranks tied for fourth on the world list at that time this outdoor campaign.

• No Rebel woman has ever won an SEC title in the 100 or 200-meter dashes, and no Rebel -- man or woman -- has ever won an SEC 100-meter dash title. On the men's side, only Olympians Isiah Young (2012, '13) and Tony Dees (1984) have ever won a 200-meter title.

• Indoors, Long wowed with massive improvements in the 60-meter and 200-meter dashes, culminating with an SEC silver in the 200 and First-Team All-America finishes in both events.

• Long already owns five Ole Miss records in less than three months in a Rebel uniform: the indoor 60-meter (7.10), the outdoor 100-meter (10.80/+3.5), the indoor 200-meter (22.48), the outdoor 200-meter (22.31/+1.8) and the indoor 300-meter (37.38).

• Long will be looking to add a sixth record soon, as she has been part of a Rebel women's 4x100-meter relay team that came close two weeks ago on this same track at LSU. The quartet of Long on the leadoff leg, followed by Gabrielle Matthews, Jayda Eckford and Ariyonna Augustine passed the stick in 43.53 two weeks ago, currently the No. 9 time nationally, No. 7 time in the East Region and No. 5 time in the SEC. That time fell within one tenth of the Ole Miss record of 43.45 set at the 2019 NCAA East Regional by Kelly Rowe, Eckford, Kaira Simmons and Brandee Preslee.

• Ole Miss has qualified its women's 4x100-meter relay for the NCAA Championships in each of the last seven seasons.

• Ole Miss enters SECs with a powerful trio in the women's hammer that holds three of the top four marks in the conference this season.

• All-American Jasmine Mitchell currently leads the SEC at her 11-foot PR of 69.58m/228-03 from the LSU Invite two weeks ago. That toss also puts Mitchell No. 3 in the NCAA, No. 2 in the East Region and No. 28 in the United States this season.

• Reigning NCAA Indoor weight throw champion Jalani Davis currently ranks No. 3 in the conference, No. 5 in the East and No. 7 in the NCAA at her season-best 68.04m/223-03 from LSU two weeks ago as well. Combined with her SEC No. 3 and NCAA No. 9 shot put outdoor PR of 17.91m/58-09.25, Davis is the only thrower in the NCAA at 222 feet in the hammer and 58 feet in the shot put, and worldwide she is one of two alongside professional Maggie Ewen.

• Indoors, Davis became the first woman in world history to break 80 feet in the weight throw and 60 feet in the shot put, and she did so in the same meet at the SEC Indoor Championships. Combined, Davis is also the only thrower in world history at 80 feet in the weight throw (24.63m/80-09.75; 2023), 60 feet in the shot put in either season (18.43m/60-05.75; 2023 indoor), 228 feet in the hammer (69.53m/228-01; 2022) and 184 feet in the discus (56.23m/184-06; 2021).

• In her career, Davis owns 60 SEC points, five SEC medals and two SEC titles -- the 2022 SEC Indoor shot put and 2023 SEC Indoor weight throw.

• Senior Shey Taiwo's season-opening 67.69m/222-01 still has her within title contention at No. 4 in the SEC, No. 7 in the East Region and No. 9 in the NCAA. Taiwo missed the 2022 outdoor season due to injury and was granted an extra year in 2023.

• Taiwo put together the most prolific weight throw season in NCAA history in 2022 en route to the national title, ending one centimeter shy of the collegiate record at 25.55m/83-10. The year before -- her last full outdoor season -- Taiwo was the NCAA runner-up in the hammer at 71.27m/233-10. That mark still ranks her as the No. 10 performer in collegiate history and the top returner for 2023.

• When combining the season-bests for Davis, Mitchell and Taiwo, the Rebel trio hold an average hammer distance of 68.44m/224-06. When combining their career bests, that number shoots up to 70.13m/230-01.

• Fellow senior thrower Tedreauna Britt is looking to make the podium in the women's discus for the third straight year, currently ranking No. 7 in the SEC at her career-best 54.94m/180-03 that also ranks No. 18 in the East and No. 34 in the NCAA. Britt was the 2021 champion in the discus and lost on the final throw of competition in 2022 to finish as the runner-up.

• Combined, the Rebel quartet of Britt (31), Davis (60), Mitchell (51) and Taiwo (41) owns 183 career SEC points, 14 medals and six SEC titles.

• Senior hurdler Jaiden Paris has been consistent all outdoor season long, taking down the Ole Miss record in the 100-meter hurdles multiple times. Her current record of 13.11 (+0.9) currently has her in scoring contention at eighth in the SEC, as well as No. 11 in the East and No. 19 in the NCAA. Paris is the first Rebel woman to break 13.20 in the hurdles, regardless of wind reading.

• Reigning SEC 10K silver medalist Skylar Boogerd will switch things up in 2023 as one of five Rebel women entered into the 5K at the conference meet this weekend. Boogerd broke the Ole Miss record in the 10K earlier this season at 32:47.83 (No. 18 NCAA), but she also owns an impressive 5K career-best at 15:54.46 -- which was the Ole Miss record until last month when it was broken by fellow senior Kristel van den Berg at 15:54.27 (SEC No. 3).

• van den Berg will be attempting a steeple/5K double this weekend, as she enters with the SEC's fifth-best 3000-meter steeplechase time this year at 10:26.37. Also attempting a double is All-American senior Loral Winn, who ranks fourth in the 5K at 15:55.57 and seventh in the 1500-meter at 4:16.11.

MEN'S NOTES

• Two weeks ago at the Penn Relays, Ole Miss became the first school to repeat in the men's 4x800-meter relay since Penn State in 2012-13, winning at the fifth-best time in collegiate history at 7:12.37. The All-American quartet of Cade Flatt, Shane Bracken, Tiarnan Crorken and Baylor Franklin brought the wheel back home to Oxford, the 11th Penn Relays win in school history. That time fell within two seconds of the Penn Relays record of 7:11.17 set by Penn State in 1985, and Franklin was the hero down the stretch as he took Ole Miss from third to first on his anchor leg of 1:47.78. Other splits were Flatt at 1:50.85, Bracken in 1:47.04 and Crorken in 1:46.70.

• This week at the conference meet, the Rebel men's distance runners will look to do similar damage with numerous entries across the 800, 1500, 5K and 10K races.

• Ole Miss packs a strong punch in the 800 in particular with All-Americans Tiarnan Crorken and Baylor Franklin. Crorken leads the SEC and ranks No. 2 in the East and No. 3 in the NCAA at his PR of 1:46.82 from the Texas Relays. Franklin, meanwhile, ranks third in the SEC, No. 5 in the East and No. 10 in the NCAA at his season-best 1:47.21 from the Virginia Challenge.

• All-American senior Anthony Camerieri will be attempting a double in his top two events of the outdoor season so far in the 5K and 1500-meter. Camerieri, who scored 10 points at his first SEC meet indoors this year, currently owns the top 5K time in the conference at his school record 13:26.58. That time ranks No. 3 in the East and No. 4 overall in the NCAA, as well as No. 8 worldwide this year. Camerieri will be one of eight total Rebel entries in the 5K this week.

• In the 1500-meter, Camerieri will be one of three Rebels entered within scoring contention alongside Shane Bracken and Dalton Hengst. Camerieri ranks third in the conference at his career-best 3:38.34 -- No. 4 in the East and No. 11 in the NCAA -- while Bracken ranks sixth at his PR of 3:40.15 and Hengst eighth at his best of 3:42.09.

• Senior Ben Savino will be Ole Miss' top entrant in the 10K at his school record of 28:50.64 from the Stanford Invitational earlier this season. He enters the meet ranked No. 5 in the conference at that time.

• Freshman Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan enters the conference meet as the newly-minted school record holder in the hammer, finishing runner-up and as the top collegiate finisher at the LSU Invite two weeks ago at a four-foot PR of 70.83m/232-04. That toss broke All-American Dempsey McGuigan's 2017 record of 70.55m/231-05, and it currently ranks second in the SEC, sixth in the East and ninth in the NCAA overall. Furthermore, it leads all freshman nationally by nearly four feet.

• Robinson-O'Hagan is one of only four collegiate freshmen to break 70 meters since 2019, and one of only seven to do so since 2018. This season, he is one of just two throwers in the NCAA -- and the only freshman -- to break 232 feet in the hammer and 61 feet in the shot put alongside Arizona's Jordan Geist. Robinson-O'Hagan ranks ninth in the SEC in the shot put at his outdoor best of 18.63m/61-01.50.

• Indoors, Robinson-O'Hagan scored 12 points in his first career SEC meet, finishing as the runner-up in the weight throw and taking fifth in the shot put. He put together the best freshman season in the history of collegiate track & field in the weight throw, breaking the collegiate freshman record in the weight throw (23.62m/77-6) and also ranking as one of just five in collegiate history -- regardless of year -- to breakn 77 feet in the weight and 64 feet in the shot put (19.73m/64-08.75).

• Senior hurdler Ahmad Young Jr. is in the midst of the best season of his collegiate career in the 110-meter hurdles, currently ranking third in the conference at his career-best 13.54 (+0.6) -- the third-best time in school history.

• Senior pole vaulter Noah Mumme will be looking to repeat some of his magic from the SEC Indoor meet when he claimed a silver medal on a huge indoor career performance of 5.30m/17-04.50. Mumme has cleared that exact height for an outdoor PR this season, currently ranking No. 4 in the SEC, No. 16 in the East and No. 41 in the NCAA at that height.

SEC Outdoor Championships, Master Schedule (all times CT)
Day One \| Thursday, May 11
Time	Event	Athlete(s)
11:30 AM	Men's Decathlon (100-Meter Dash)	Pierce Genereux (Heat 1, Lane 3)
12:00 PM	Women's Heptathlon (100-Meter Hurdles)	Sara Van Aken (Heat 1, Lane 4) Meg Goebel (Heat 2, Lane 4)
	Men's Hammer Final	Costen Campion (Flight 1) Mason Hickel (Flight 1) Joseph Lanham (Flight 1) Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 2)
12:10 PM	Men's Decathlon (Long Jump)	Pierce Genereux
12:45 PM	Women's Heptathlon (High Jump)	Meg Goebel Sara Van Aken
1:10 PM	Men's Decathlon (Shot Put)	Pierce Genereux
2:10 PM	Men's Decathlon (High Jump)	Pierce Genereux
2:15 PM	Women's Hammer Final	Brooke Franke (Flight 1) Jalani Davis (Flight 2) Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2) Shey Taiwo (Flight 2)
2:45 PM	Women's Heptathlon (Shot Put)	Meg Goebel Sara Van Aken
4:00 PM	Women's Heptathlon (200-Meter Dash)	Meg Goebel (Heat 1, Lane 4) Sara Van Aken (Heat 1, Lane 7)
4:15 PM	Men's Decathlon (400-Meter Dash)	Pierce Genereux (Heat 1, Lane 6)
5:30 PM	Men's 800-Meter Prelims	Tiarnan Crorken (Heat 1, Lane 6) Baylor Franklin (Heat 2, Lane 3) Marcus Dropik (Heat 2, Lane 6) Cade Flatt (Heat 4, Lane 8)
5:50 PM	Women's 800-Meter Prelims	Madison Hulsey (Heat 2, Lane 3)
6:35 PM	Women's 200-Meter Dash Prelims	McKenzie Long (Heat 2, Lane 7) Jayda Eckford (Heat 7, Lane 7)
6:45 PM	Women's Javelin Final	Abigail Green
7:20 PM	Women's 400-Meter Hurdles Prelims	Gabrielle Matthews (Heat 3, Lane 6)
7:40 PM	Men's 10K Final	Dereck Elkins Chris Maxon Ben Savino
8:15 PM	Women's 10K Final	Ryann Helmers
Day Two \| Friday, May 12
Time	Event	Athlete(s)
11:00 AM	Men's Decathlon (110-Meter Hurdles)	Pierce Genereux (Heat 1, Lane 2)
11:45 AM	Men's Decathlon (Discus)	Pierce Genereux
	Women's Heptathlon (Long Jump)	Meg Goebel Sara Van Aken
12:55 PM	Men's Decathlon (Pole Vault)	Pierce Genereux
1:00 PM	Women's Heptathlon (Javelin)	Meg Goebel Sara Van Aken
2:30 PM	Men's Decathlon (Javelin)	Pierce Genereux
	Women's Heptathlon (800-Meter)	Meg Goebel Sara Van Aken
4:00 PM	Men's Decathlon (1500-Meter)	Pierce Genereux
	Women's Pole Vault Final	Samara McConnell
4:15 PM	Men's Shot Put Final	Mason Hickel Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan Daniel Viveros
4:30 PM	Men's High Jump Final	Arvesta Troupe
5:00 PM	Men's 110-Meter Hurdles Prelims	Kenney Broadnax (Heat 1, Lane 3) Spencer Brown (Heat 2, Lane 4) Ahmad Young Jr. (Heat 2, Lane 7)
5:15 PM	Women's 100-Meter Hurdles Prelims	Jaiden Paris (Heat 2, Lane 2)
5:40 PM	Men's 1500-Meter Prelims	Anthony Camerieri (Heat 1) Gabe Scales (Heat 1) Shane Bracken (Heat 2) Landen McNair (Heat 3) Dalton Hengst (Heat 3)
6:00 PM	Women's 1500-Meter Prelims	Jocelyn Long (Heat 1) Frances Luna (Heat 1) Loral Winn (Heat 1) Sophie Baumann (Heat 2)
6:45 PM	Women's Shot Put Final	Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2) Jalani Davis (Flight 2) Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2)
7:10 PM	Men's 100-Meter Dash Prelims	Keith Robinson (Heat 2, Lane 7)
7:35 PM	Women's 100-Meter Dash Prelims	McKenzie Long (Heat 3, Lane 1) Ariyonna Augustine (Heat 4, Lane 4)
8:00 PM	Men's 3000-Meter Steeplechase Final	Chase Rose
8:20 PM	Women's 3000-Meter Steeplechase Final	Hannah Ielfield Kristel van den Berg
Day Three \| Saturday, May 13
Time	Event	Athlete(s)
2:00 PM	Men's Discus Final	Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 1)
3:00 PM	Men's Pole Vault Final	Logan Kelley Noah Mumme Miles Walden
3:15 PM	Women's High Jump Final	Kayla Jemison Sara Van Aken
4:30 PM	Women's Discus Final	Jalani Davis (Flight 1) Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 1) Shey Taiwo (Flight 1) Tedreauna Britt (Flight 2)
5:05 PM	Men's 4x100-Meter Relay Final	Heat 1, Lane 8 Spencer Brown Keith Robinson Kenney Broadnax Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley
5:15 PM	Women's 4x100-Meter Relay Final	Heat 2, Lane 4 McKenzie Long Gabrielle Matthews Jayda Eckford Ariyonna Augustine
	Women's Triple Jump Final	Kyla McLaurin
5:25 PM	Men's 1500-Meter Final	Shane Bracken Anthony Camerieri Dalton Hengst
5:35 PM	Women's 1500-Meter Final	Loral Winn
	Men's Triple Jump Final	Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley
6:35 PM	Women's 100-Meter Dash Final	McKenzie Long (Lane 8)
6:45 PM	Men's 800-Meter Final	Tiarnan Crorken (Lane 7) Baylor Franklin (Lane 8)
7:35 PM	Women's 200-Meter Dash Final	McKenzie Long (Lane 5)
7:45 PM	Men's 5K Final	Shane Bracken Cole Bullock Anthony Camerieri Dereck Elkins Dalton Hengst Landen McNair Chase Rose Gabe Scales
8:05 PM	Women's 5K Final	Sophie Baumann Skylar Boogerd Jocelyn Long Kristel van den Berg Loral Winn
8:30 PM	Men's 4x400-Meter Relay Final	Heat 1, Lane 5 Marcus Dropik Baylor Franklin Cade Flatt Jacob Lough
8:40 PM	Women's 4x400-Meter Relay Final	Heat 1, Lane 8 McKenzie Long Gabrielle Matthews Jayda Eckford Olivia Womack

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Players Mentioned

Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley

Ariyonna Augustine

Sophie Baumann

Skylar Boogerd

Shane Bracken

Tedreauna Britt

Kenney Broadnax

Spencer Brown

Cole Bullock

Anthony Camerieri

Costen Campion

Tiarnan Crorken

Jalani Davis

Marcus Dropik

Jayda Eckford

Dereck Elkins

Cade Flatt

Brooke Franke

Baylor Franklin

Mario Garcia Romo

Pierce Genereux

Meg Goebel

Abigail Green

Ryann Helmers

Dalton Hengst

Mason Hickel

Madison Hulsey

Hannah Ielfield

Kayla Jemison

Logan Kelley

Joseph Lanham

Jocelyn Long

McKenzie Long

Jacob Lough

Frances Luna

Gabrielle Matthews

Chris Maxon

Samara McConnell

Kyla McLaurin

Landen McNair

Jasmine Mitchell

Noah Mumme

Jaiden Paris

Keith Robinson

Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan

Chase Rose

Kelly Rowe

Ben Savino

Gabe Scales

Shey Taiwo

Arvesta Troupe

Sara Van Aken

Kristel van den Berg

Sintayehu Vissa

Daniel Viveros

Miles Walden

Loral Winn

Olivia Womack

Ahmad Young Jr.

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