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Stage Set for Ole Miss Track & Field at 2024 SEC Indoor Championships
2/22/2024 | Track and Field
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ole Miss track & field will be in search of conference hardware when both its men's and women's squads compete at the 2024 SEC Indoor Championships, held at Arkansas' Randal Tyson Track Center this coming weekend on Feb. 23-24.
Fans will be able to watch both days live online via SEC Network+, with the Day One stream beginning at 1:30 p.m. CT and the Day Two stream starting at 2 p.m. CT. A tape delayed broadcast of highlights from both days will air on SEC Network on Mon., Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. CT.
ON THE AIR
Day One (Fri., Feb. 23)
SEC Network+
1:30-3:00 PM CT – WATCH
4:00-8:30 PM CT – WATCH
Day Two (Sat., Feb. 24)
SEC Network+
2:00-3:00 PM CT – WATCH
4:00-7:30 PM CT – WATCH
Tape Delay (Mon., Feb. 26)
SEC Network
8 p.m. CT
Talent
Dwight Stones (Play-by-Play)
Dan O'Brien (Analyst)
Larra Overton (Analyst)
John Anderson (Infield)
MEET NOTES
• Ole Miss currently ranks No. 14 in the women's USTFCCCA Indoor Rating Index released for Week Five, with the Rebel men just outside the national top-25 at No. 29.
• Other ranked SEC women's schools include: No. 1 Arkansas, No. 2 Florida, No. 9 LSU, No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 12 Alabama, No. 13 Georgia, No. 15 South Carolina and No. 16 Tennessee.
• Ranked SEC men's schools include: No. 3 Arkansas, No. 6 Florida, No. 9 Alabama, No. 11 Kentucky, No. 12 Georgia, No. 14 Texas A&M and No. 16 South Carolina.
• Ole Miss has won 53 SEC Indoor titles (38 men, 15 women) with 80 SEC Champions (62 men, 18 women).
• Under ninth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith, Ole Miss has set its highest SEC Indoor finish in women's competition three times (tied for fourth, 2023; fifth, 2017, 2022), and tied for the best men's finish twice with third-place finishes in 2016 and 2017.
• Ole Miss has won six of the last seven SEC women's weight throw titles since 2017, with Janeah Stewart winning in 2017 and 2018, Shey Taiwo winning in 2020, current senior Jasmine Mitchell winning in 2021 and 2022, and fellow senior Jalani Davis winning in 2023 before her eventual NCAA title two weeks later. At four straight wins since 2020, a win in 2024 would tie the SEC record of five set by Florida from 2001-05.
• The Ole Miss men have won eight of the last 10 DMR titles, and have finished as the runners-up in the two they did not win in 2018 and 2023. That stretch includes two separate four-peats from 2014-17 and 2019-22. The stretch of eight out of nine from 2014-22 tied for the best in SEC history with an exactly similar run by Arkansas from 1997-2005, with the Razorbacks' lone loss coming to Florida in 2003.
• Ole Miss owns 21 marks or times within the NCAA top-50 heading into conference weekend, seven of which currently residing within the national qualifying top-16. That includes six national top-10 performances from the Rebel throwers, highlighted by reigning NCAA Champion Jalani Davis' national lead in the weight throw (24.64m/80-10.25) and fellow All-American senior Jasmine Mitchell's No. 2 ranking (24.20m/79-04.75).
• Davis also owns a top-10 mark in the shot put at No. 5 (18.00m/59-00.75), as does freshman Mensi Stiff at No. 9 (17.54m/57-06.50). Davis is the lone thrower worldwide this season at 24 meters in the weight and 18 in the shot put.
• For the Rebel men, All-American sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan holds both top-10 marks at No. 2 in the weight throw (23.59m/77-04.75) and No. 7 in the shot put (19.84m/65-01.25).
• Other Rebel women within the NCAA top-50 are: Mitchell in the shot put (No. 15, 17.19m/56-04.75), All-American senior McKenzie Long in both the 200-meter (No. 19, 23.10) and 60-meter (No. 29, 7.28), senior Jahniya Bowers in the 60-meter (No. 22, 7.27), freshman Skylar Soli in the weight throw (No. 39, 20.34m/66-08.75), freshman Akaoma Odeluga in the shot put (No. 40, 16.10m/52-10), senior Skylar Boogerd in the 5K (No. 42, 15:55.16) and senior Loral Winn in the mile (No. 43, 4:35.36).
• Other Rebel men in the NCAA top-50 are: Toby Gillen in both the 5K (No. 21, 13:28.81) and 3K (No. 39, 7:53.08), the men's DMR of Cruz Gomez, Cade Flatt, Marcus Dropik and Gillen (No. 21, 9:29.86), Drew O'Connor (No. 35, 5.32m/17-05.50) and Logan Kelley (No. 47, 5.25m/17-02.75) in the pole vault, Costen Campion in the weight throw (No. 48, 20.71m/67-11.50) and Marcus Dropik in the 800-meter (No. 49, 1:48.43).
REBELS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS
• The Rebel women come in at No. 14 in the Week Five USTFCCCA Indoor Rating Index, while the Ole Miss men are just outside the top-25 at No. 29.
• Overall, this is the 55th ranking for the Rebel women since their first in 2008. Of the 104 combined indoor rankings between the Ole Miss men and women all-time, ninth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith has claimed 71 total appearances indoors (47 women, 24 men).
• The Rebel women ended the 2023 regular season ranked No. 9 in the national poll, tied for third-highest in women's program history indoors. In its history indoors, Ole Miss has 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 Price-Smith.
WOMEN'S NOTES
• All-American senior Jalani Davis is both the reigning NCAA and SEC champion in the weight throw, and she enters the conference meet this season in prime shape yet again. Two weeks ago at the Music City Challenge she set the NCAA lead and currently ranks fifth worldwide at a new PR of 24.64m/80-10.25, which improved upon her spot at No. 5 in collegiate history by one centimeter. That throw was the ninth-best toss in collegiate history, as well as only the 15th to ever travel at least 80 feet.
• That 80-foot toss was the fourth of Davis' career, tying the all-time collegiate record with former Ole Miss great and 2022 NCAA Champion, Shey Taiwo.
• Davis' season-best in the shot put of 18.00m/59-00.75 currently ranks fifth in the NCAA and second in the SEC, and it makes her the lone thrower worldwide in 2024 at 24 meters in the weight throw and 18 meters in the shot put. In 2023 at the SEC Indoor Championships, Davis became the first woman in world history to break 80 feet in the weight and 60 in the shot put indoors.
• This past summer, Davis earned a spot on Team USA in the shot put for the World Athletics Championships, punching a ticket to Budapest after a bronze medal finish at USAs, capping a summer that saw her throw both 18.64m/61-2 and 18.62m/61-01.25 in the span of one month.
• In her career, Davis has two SEC titles: the 2022 indoor shot put title and last year's weight title. Last season, Davis nearly pulled off the double as the runner-up in the shot put at her indoor PR of 18.43m/60-05.75, losing on the last throw. Only Florida's Candice Scott has ever doubled in those events at the SEC Indoor Championships, doing so twice in 2002 and 2005.
• At the SEC Indoor Championships across her career, Davis owns 41 total points, three medals and those two titles. Outdoors she has 35 outdoor points and four medals, giving her a combined 76 career SEC points and seven total medals.
• Davis has formed a formidable combination with teammate and All-American senior Jasmine Mitchell, who ranks No. 2 in the NCAA and No. 7 worldwide in the weight throw at 24.20m/79-04.75. This season, Davis and Mitchell have combined for 14 throws beyond 23 meters and five beyond 24 meters. That compares to just five 23-meter throws and one 24-meter throw among all other throwers nationally this season.
• Davis and Mitchell have both broken 24 meters in the same meet twice this season, making them the first teammate duo to ever do so during the regular season. Only one duo had ever done so prior: Mitchell (24.94m/81-10) and Taiwo (25.55m/83-10) in the 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships.
• Mitchell has surpassed 23 meters nine times so far this season, giving her 22 career throws beyond that plateau to break Shey Taiwo's previous collegiate record of 21. Davis, meanwhile, ranks tied for third with 16 such throws in her career -- four this season.
• At 24 meters, Taiwo and Riley are tied at the top with nine, but Mitchell and Davis are closing in, both tied for third at six.
• On the all-time collegiate leaderboard, Mitchell ranks third at her 2022 NCAA runner-up toss of 24.94m/81-10 and Davis fifth at her PR two weeks ago of 24.64m/80-10.25.
• Of the 159 total 23-meter throws in women's collegiate history, Ole Miss has accounted for 68 since 2018 alone, giving the Rebels 42.8 percent of the all-time list. At 24 meters, Ole Miss holds half, owning 22 of the 44 total in collegiate history.
• In her illustrious SEC career, Mitchell has never finished worse than second in the weight throw, winning in 2021 and 2022 while finishing runner-up in 2020 and 2023. At the indoor championships, Mitchell owns 45 career points, four medals and two titles. Combined with Davis, the duo have 86 SEC points, seven SEC medals and four SEC titles. Across both indoor and outdoor, the Rebel senior duo combine for 131 SEC points, 11 SEC medals and four SEC titles.
• Mitchell is also within national qualifying contention in the shot put, sitting at No. 15 in the NCAA and No. 6 in the SEC at 17.19m/56-04.75.
• Davis and Mitchell rank No. 1 and No. 2 in collegiate history in combined weight throw/shot put distance, with Davis owning the record at 43.07m and Mitchell second at 42.36m. Those combined distances rank No. 4 and No. 7 in world history, respectively.
• Additionally, Davis and Mitchell rank among just four throwers in world history to break both 80 feet in the weight throw and 57 feet in the shot put indoors alongside former Ole Miss great Janeah Stewart and former Ohio State standout Sade Olatoye -- both currently top throwers on the professional circuit.
• Freshman shot putter Mensi Stiff quickly established herself as one of the top shot putters in Ole Miss history early into her Rebel career, breaking the Ole Miss freshman record twice in her first three meets, first at 17.17m/56-4 at Vanderbilt's Commodore Challenge on Jan. 13 before unleashing a new freshman record 17.54m/57-06.50 at Vanderbilt again for the Music City Challenge on Feb. 10 -- already No. 4 in Ole Miss history.
• Stiff currently ranks ninth nationally and third in the SEC at that mark, and among freshmen she leads the SEC and ranks second nationally. Since 2010, Stiff is among just eight freshmen to grace 57 feet indoors, as well as one of seven since 2017 and one of six since 2022.
• Stiff won a gold for Team USA in the shot put at the 2023 Pan American U20's in Puerto Rico.
• Stiff is one of several excellent women's freshman throwers on the Ole Miss squad this season, such as current fellow top-50 members Skylar Soli in the weight throw (No. 39, 20.34m/66-08.75) and Akaoma Odeluga in the shot put (No. 40, 16.10m/52-10). Soli also won a silver medal with Stiff at Pan Ams in the hammer.
• All-American senior and NCAA Outdoor 200-meter runner-up McKenzie Long returns to the scene of her big breakout in 2023 at the SEC Indoor Championships. Long decimated the Ole Miss record at 22.67 in the final to finish as the silver medalist, a time she would better two weeks later at altitude for NCAAs at 22.48. Long was also the fifth-place finisher in the 60-meter dash at SEC Indoor last season.
• This year, Long's 200-meter best of 23.10 ranks 19th and her 60-meter best of 7.28 ranks 29th.
• Last season, Long began a torrid stretch from the end of January through the end of the outdoor season as one of the NCAA's most exciting sprinters. Long would finish as a First-Team All-American indoors in both the 60 and 200 after a rapid set of improvements over the following weeks.
• Senior Jahniya Bowers has also had a strong season in the 60-meter dash, currently ranking 22nd nationally at her 7.27 from the Tyson Invitational.
• Senior Skylar Boogerd broke her own school record in the 5K out at Boston's David Hemery Valentine Invite two weeks ago, clocking a five-second PR of 15:55.16 to break her old record 16:00.28 from 2023. Boogerd is now the first Rebel woman to ever break 16 minutes indoors. Coincidentally, Boogerd was also the first Ole Miss woman to ever break 16 minutes outdoors in 2022 at what was then a school record of 15:54.46. This season, that time puts her No. 42 in the NCAA and No. 7 in the SEC.
• Boogerd was the 2022 SEC Outdoor runner-up in the 10K.
• All-American senior Loral Winn improved upon her spot at No. 2 in Ole Miss history in the mile while out in Boston, clocking a PR 4:35.36 that currently ranks fifth in the SEC. Winn is no stranger to the conference meet, owning 15.75 career SEC points (9.75 indoors) and a conference title to her name as part of the 2022 SEC Indoor champion distance medley relay team.
MEN'S NOTES
• Sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan is in the midst of another great season to follow his spectacular freshman campaign in 2023, currently ranking second nationally in the weight throw at 23.59m/77-04.75 and seventh in the shot put at 19.84m/65-01.25.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is currently the lone thrower worldwide in 2024 at 77 feet in the weight throw and 65 feet in the shot put.
• Robinson-O'Hagan's season-best in the weight throw is currently just three centimeters off his career-best 23.62m/77-6, and his shot put best ranks as an indoor PR and an Ole Miss indoor record.
• At 19.84m/65-01.25, Robinson-O'Hagan is the first Rebel man to break 65 feet in the shot put indoors. As a freshman in 2023, he also was the first to break 65 feet outdoors at his overall PR 20.07m/65-10.25 from the NCAA East Regional.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is undefeated in the weight throw this season, winning by an average of 4.5 feet. Dating back to 2023, he has now won six of seven regular season weight throw competitions, sitting at 8-3 when including both the SEC and NCAA Indoor Championships from last season.
• Last season, he set the Ole Miss record and national collegiate freshman record in the weight throw at 23.62m/77-6, and registered three of the six total 23-meter throws by freshmen all-time.
• At 43.46m, he is currently ranked No. 6 in collegiate history in combined PRs in the indoor shot put (19.84m) and weight throw (23.62m).
• In just one season, Robinson-O'Hagan has 24 SEC points to his name, thanks to an outdoor title in the hammer and a runner-up finish in the weight throw last year.
• Junior transfer Toby Gillen struck down the Ole Miss record in the indoor 5K out in Boston two weeks ago in his first attempt. Gillen ran a 13-second PR of 13:28.81, besting Ryan Walling's 2016 record of 13:39.44 by almost 11 seconds. This season, that time puts Gillen at No. 21 nationally and No. 4 in the SEC.
• Gillen also owns an impressive 3K time this indoor season at 7:53.08, currently the No. 8 time in the SEC that also makes him third-best in Ole Miss history.. He is one of three Rebels to break eight minutes in the 3K this season alone alongside Aiden Britt (No. 9, 7:55.98) and Jack Meijer (No. 12, 7:58.18), giving Ole Miss 13 total sub-8 runners in the 3K all-time.
• Gillen recently ran anchor on Ole Miss' distance medley relay at Notre Dame's Alex Wilson Invite alongside Cruz Gomez, Cade Flatt and Marcus Dropik. The Rebel quartet ran 9:29.86, the fifth-best time in Ole Miss history that currently ranks 21st nationally and fourth in the SEC.
• Dropik has gone 3-for-3 on PRs this indoor season in the 800-meter, with his latest of 1:48.43 from the Music City Challenge tying his overall PR and ranking eighth in the SEC this year.
• Gomez also ran out in Boston, becoming the 12th Rebel to break the four-minute barrier in the mile at 3:58.69 -- ninth-best in Ole Miss history.
• Senior transfer Drew O'Connor is coming off a career day at the Tyson Invitational, clearing an overall PR 5.32m/17-05.50 in the pole vault to rank fourth in the SEC. That height puts him into a tie for third all-time at Ole Miss indoors, making him the third Rebel to clear at least that high since 2020. Before then, only one Rebel had ever jumped that high indoors: three-time Olympian Sam Kendricks.
• Sophomore Logan Kelley is one of those tied with O'Connor at No. 3 all-time at Ole Miss, while his season-best 5.25m/17-02.75 puts him in scoring contention at No. 6 in the SEC.
Fans will be able to watch both days live online via SEC Network+, with the Day One stream beginning at 1:30 p.m. CT and the Day Two stream starting at 2 p.m. CT. A tape delayed broadcast of highlights from both days will air on SEC Network on Mon., Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. CT.
ON THE AIR
Day One (Fri., Feb. 23)
SEC Network+
1:30-3:00 PM CT – WATCH
4:00-8:30 PM CT – WATCH
Day Two (Sat., Feb. 24)
SEC Network+
2:00-3:00 PM CT – WATCH
4:00-7:30 PM CT – WATCH
Tape Delay (Mon., Feb. 26)
SEC Network
8 p.m. CT
Talent
Dwight Stones (Play-by-Play)
Dan O'Brien (Analyst)
Larra Overton (Analyst)
John Anderson (Infield)
MEET NOTES
• Ole Miss currently ranks No. 14 in the women's USTFCCCA Indoor Rating Index released for Week Five, with the Rebel men just outside the national top-25 at No. 29.
• Other ranked SEC women's schools include: No. 1 Arkansas, No. 2 Florida, No. 9 LSU, No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 12 Alabama, No. 13 Georgia, No. 15 South Carolina and No. 16 Tennessee.
• Ranked SEC men's schools include: No. 3 Arkansas, No. 6 Florida, No. 9 Alabama, No. 11 Kentucky, No. 12 Georgia, No. 14 Texas A&M and No. 16 South Carolina.
• Ole Miss has won 53 SEC Indoor titles (38 men, 15 women) with 80 SEC Champions (62 men, 18 women).
• Under ninth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith, Ole Miss has set its highest SEC Indoor finish in women's competition three times (tied for fourth, 2023; fifth, 2017, 2022), and tied for the best men's finish twice with third-place finishes in 2016 and 2017.
• Ole Miss has won six of the last seven SEC women's weight throw titles since 2017, with Janeah Stewart winning in 2017 and 2018, Shey Taiwo winning in 2020, current senior Jasmine Mitchell winning in 2021 and 2022, and fellow senior Jalani Davis winning in 2023 before her eventual NCAA title two weeks later. At four straight wins since 2020, a win in 2024 would tie the SEC record of five set by Florida from 2001-05.
• The Ole Miss men have won eight of the last 10 DMR titles, and have finished as the runners-up in the two they did not win in 2018 and 2023. That stretch includes two separate four-peats from 2014-17 and 2019-22. The stretch of eight out of nine from 2014-22 tied for the best in SEC history with an exactly similar run by Arkansas from 1997-2005, with the Razorbacks' lone loss coming to Florida in 2003.
• Ole Miss owns 21 marks or times within the NCAA top-50 heading into conference weekend, seven of which currently residing within the national qualifying top-16. That includes six national top-10 performances from the Rebel throwers, highlighted by reigning NCAA Champion Jalani Davis' national lead in the weight throw (24.64m/80-10.25) and fellow All-American senior Jasmine Mitchell's No. 2 ranking (24.20m/79-04.75).
• Davis also owns a top-10 mark in the shot put at No. 5 (18.00m/59-00.75), as does freshman Mensi Stiff at No. 9 (17.54m/57-06.50). Davis is the lone thrower worldwide this season at 24 meters in the weight and 18 in the shot put.
• For the Rebel men, All-American sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan holds both top-10 marks at No. 2 in the weight throw (23.59m/77-04.75) and No. 7 in the shot put (19.84m/65-01.25).
• Other Rebel women within the NCAA top-50 are: Mitchell in the shot put (No. 15, 17.19m/56-04.75), All-American senior McKenzie Long in both the 200-meter (No. 19, 23.10) and 60-meter (No. 29, 7.28), senior Jahniya Bowers in the 60-meter (No. 22, 7.27), freshman Skylar Soli in the weight throw (No. 39, 20.34m/66-08.75), freshman Akaoma Odeluga in the shot put (No. 40, 16.10m/52-10), senior Skylar Boogerd in the 5K (No. 42, 15:55.16) and senior Loral Winn in the mile (No. 43, 4:35.36).
• Other Rebel men in the NCAA top-50 are: Toby Gillen in both the 5K (No. 21, 13:28.81) and 3K (No. 39, 7:53.08), the men's DMR of Cruz Gomez, Cade Flatt, Marcus Dropik and Gillen (No. 21, 9:29.86), Drew O'Connor (No. 35, 5.32m/17-05.50) and Logan Kelley (No. 47, 5.25m/17-02.75) in the pole vault, Costen Campion in the weight throw (No. 48, 20.71m/67-11.50) and Marcus Dropik in the 800-meter (No. 49, 1:48.43).
REBELS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS
• The Rebel women come in at No. 14 in the Week Five USTFCCCA Indoor Rating Index, while the Ole Miss men are just outside the top-25 at No. 29.
• Overall, this is the 55th ranking for the Rebel women since their first in 2008. Of the 104 combined indoor rankings between the Ole Miss men and women all-time, ninth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith has claimed 71 total appearances indoors (47 women, 24 men).
• The Rebel women ended the 2023 regular season ranked No. 9 in the national poll, tied for third-highest in women's program history indoors. In its history indoors, Ole Miss has 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 Price-Smith.
WOMEN'S NOTES
• All-American senior Jalani Davis is both the reigning NCAA and SEC champion in the weight throw, and she enters the conference meet this season in prime shape yet again. Two weeks ago at the Music City Challenge she set the NCAA lead and currently ranks fifth worldwide at a new PR of 24.64m/80-10.25, which improved upon her spot at No. 5 in collegiate history by one centimeter. That throw was the ninth-best toss in collegiate history, as well as only the 15th to ever travel at least 80 feet.
• That 80-foot toss was the fourth of Davis' career, tying the all-time collegiate record with former Ole Miss great and 2022 NCAA Champion, Shey Taiwo.
• Davis' season-best in the shot put of 18.00m/59-00.75 currently ranks fifth in the NCAA and second in the SEC, and it makes her the lone thrower worldwide in 2024 at 24 meters in the weight throw and 18 meters in the shot put. In 2023 at the SEC Indoor Championships, Davis became the first woman in world history to break 80 feet in the weight and 60 in the shot put indoors.
• This past summer, Davis earned a spot on Team USA in the shot put for the World Athletics Championships, punching a ticket to Budapest after a bronze medal finish at USAs, capping a summer that saw her throw both 18.64m/61-2 and 18.62m/61-01.25 in the span of one month.
• In her career, Davis has two SEC titles: the 2022 indoor shot put title and last year's weight title. Last season, Davis nearly pulled off the double as the runner-up in the shot put at her indoor PR of 18.43m/60-05.75, losing on the last throw. Only Florida's Candice Scott has ever doubled in those events at the SEC Indoor Championships, doing so twice in 2002 and 2005.
• At the SEC Indoor Championships across her career, Davis owns 41 total points, three medals and those two titles. Outdoors she has 35 outdoor points and four medals, giving her a combined 76 career SEC points and seven total medals.
• Davis has formed a formidable combination with teammate and All-American senior Jasmine Mitchell, who ranks No. 2 in the NCAA and No. 7 worldwide in the weight throw at 24.20m/79-04.75. This season, Davis and Mitchell have combined for 14 throws beyond 23 meters and five beyond 24 meters. That compares to just five 23-meter throws and one 24-meter throw among all other throwers nationally this season.
• Davis and Mitchell have both broken 24 meters in the same meet twice this season, making them the first teammate duo to ever do so during the regular season. Only one duo had ever done so prior: Mitchell (24.94m/81-10) and Taiwo (25.55m/83-10) in the 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships.
• Mitchell has surpassed 23 meters nine times so far this season, giving her 22 career throws beyond that plateau to break Shey Taiwo's previous collegiate record of 21. Davis, meanwhile, ranks tied for third with 16 such throws in her career -- four this season.
• At 24 meters, Taiwo and Riley are tied at the top with nine, but Mitchell and Davis are closing in, both tied for third at six.
• On the all-time collegiate leaderboard, Mitchell ranks third at her 2022 NCAA runner-up toss of 24.94m/81-10 and Davis fifth at her PR two weeks ago of 24.64m/80-10.25.
• Of the 159 total 23-meter throws in women's collegiate history, Ole Miss has accounted for 68 since 2018 alone, giving the Rebels 42.8 percent of the all-time list. At 24 meters, Ole Miss holds half, owning 22 of the 44 total in collegiate history.
• In her illustrious SEC career, Mitchell has never finished worse than second in the weight throw, winning in 2021 and 2022 while finishing runner-up in 2020 and 2023. At the indoor championships, Mitchell owns 45 career points, four medals and two titles. Combined with Davis, the duo have 86 SEC points, seven SEC medals and four SEC titles. Across both indoor and outdoor, the Rebel senior duo combine for 131 SEC points, 11 SEC medals and four SEC titles.
• Mitchell is also within national qualifying contention in the shot put, sitting at No. 15 in the NCAA and No. 6 in the SEC at 17.19m/56-04.75.
• Davis and Mitchell rank No. 1 and No. 2 in collegiate history in combined weight throw/shot put distance, with Davis owning the record at 43.07m and Mitchell second at 42.36m. Those combined distances rank No. 4 and No. 7 in world history, respectively.
• Additionally, Davis and Mitchell rank among just four throwers in world history to break both 80 feet in the weight throw and 57 feet in the shot put indoors alongside former Ole Miss great Janeah Stewart and former Ohio State standout Sade Olatoye -- both currently top throwers on the professional circuit.
• Freshman shot putter Mensi Stiff quickly established herself as one of the top shot putters in Ole Miss history early into her Rebel career, breaking the Ole Miss freshman record twice in her first three meets, first at 17.17m/56-4 at Vanderbilt's Commodore Challenge on Jan. 13 before unleashing a new freshman record 17.54m/57-06.50 at Vanderbilt again for the Music City Challenge on Feb. 10 -- already No. 4 in Ole Miss history.
• Stiff currently ranks ninth nationally and third in the SEC at that mark, and among freshmen she leads the SEC and ranks second nationally. Since 2010, Stiff is among just eight freshmen to grace 57 feet indoors, as well as one of seven since 2017 and one of six since 2022.
• Stiff won a gold for Team USA in the shot put at the 2023 Pan American U20's in Puerto Rico.
• Stiff is one of several excellent women's freshman throwers on the Ole Miss squad this season, such as current fellow top-50 members Skylar Soli in the weight throw (No. 39, 20.34m/66-08.75) and Akaoma Odeluga in the shot put (No. 40, 16.10m/52-10). Soli also won a silver medal with Stiff at Pan Ams in the hammer.
• All-American senior and NCAA Outdoor 200-meter runner-up McKenzie Long returns to the scene of her big breakout in 2023 at the SEC Indoor Championships. Long decimated the Ole Miss record at 22.67 in the final to finish as the silver medalist, a time she would better two weeks later at altitude for NCAAs at 22.48. Long was also the fifth-place finisher in the 60-meter dash at SEC Indoor last season.
• This year, Long's 200-meter best of 23.10 ranks 19th and her 60-meter best of 7.28 ranks 29th.
• Last season, Long began a torrid stretch from the end of January through the end of the outdoor season as one of the NCAA's most exciting sprinters. Long would finish as a First-Team All-American indoors in both the 60 and 200 after a rapid set of improvements over the following weeks.
• Senior Jahniya Bowers has also had a strong season in the 60-meter dash, currently ranking 22nd nationally at her 7.27 from the Tyson Invitational.
• Senior Skylar Boogerd broke her own school record in the 5K out at Boston's David Hemery Valentine Invite two weeks ago, clocking a five-second PR of 15:55.16 to break her old record 16:00.28 from 2023. Boogerd is now the first Rebel woman to ever break 16 minutes indoors. Coincidentally, Boogerd was also the first Ole Miss woman to ever break 16 minutes outdoors in 2022 at what was then a school record of 15:54.46. This season, that time puts her No. 42 in the NCAA and No. 7 in the SEC.
• Boogerd was the 2022 SEC Outdoor runner-up in the 10K.
• All-American senior Loral Winn improved upon her spot at No. 2 in Ole Miss history in the mile while out in Boston, clocking a PR 4:35.36 that currently ranks fifth in the SEC. Winn is no stranger to the conference meet, owning 15.75 career SEC points (9.75 indoors) and a conference title to her name as part of the 2022 SEC Indoor champion distance medley relay team.
MEN'S NOTES
• Sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan is in the midst of another great season to follow his spectacular freshman campaign in 2023, currently ranking second nationally in the weight throw at 23.59m/77-04.75 and seventh in the shot put at 19.84m/65-01.25.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is currently the lone thrower worldwide in 2024 at 77 feet in the weight throw and 65 feet in the shot put.
• Robinson-O'Hagan's season-best in the weight throw is currently just three centimeters off his career-best 23.62m/77-6, and his shot put best ranks as an indoor PR and an Ole Miss indoor record.
• At 19.84m/65-01.25, Robinson-O'Hagan is the first Rebel man to break 65 feet in the shot put indoors. As a freshman in 2023, he also was the first to break 65 feet outdoors at his overall PR 20.07m/65-10.25 from the NCAA East Regional.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is undefeated in the weight throw this season, winning by an average of 4.5 feet. Dating back to 2023, he has now won six of seven regular season weight throw competitions, sitting at 8-3 when including both the SEC and NCAA Indoor Championships from last season.
• Last season, he set the Ole Miss record and national collegiate freshman record in the weight throw at 23.62m/77-6, and registered three of the six total 23-meter throws by freshmen all-time.
• At 43.46m, he is currently ranked No. 6 in collegiate history in combined PRs in the indoor shot put (19.84m) and weight throw (23.62m).
• In just one season, Robinson-O'Hagan has 24 SEC points to his name, thanks to an outdoor title in the hammer and a runner-up finish in the weight throw last year.
• Junior transfer Toby Gillen struck down the Ole Miss record in the indoor 5K out in Boston two weeks ago in his first attempt. Gillen ran a 13-second PR of 13:28.81, besting Ryan Walling's 2016 record of 13:39.44 by almost 11 seconds. This season, that time puts Gillen at No. 21 nationally and No. 4 in the SEC.
• Gillen also owns an impressive 3K time this indoor season at 7:53.08, currently the No. 8 time in the SEC that also makes him third-best in Ole Miss history.. He is one of three Rebels to break eight minutes in the 3K this season alone alongside Aiden Britt (No. 9, 7:55.98) and Jack Meijer (No. 12, 7:58.18), giving Ole Miss 13 total sub-8 runners in the 3K all-time.
• Gillen recently ran anchor on Ole Miss' distance medley relay at Notre Dame's Alex Wilson Invite alongside Cruz Gomez, Cade Flatt and Marcus Dropik. The Rebel quartet ran 9:29.86, the fifth-best time in Ole Miss history that currently ranks 21st nationally and fourth in the SEC.
• Dropik has gone 3-for-3 on PRs this indoor season in the 800-meter, with his latest of 1:48.43 from the Music City Challenge tying his overall PR and ranking eighth in the SEC this year.
• Gomez also ran out in Boston, becoming the 12th Rebel to break the four-minute barrier in the mile at 3:58.69 -- ninth-best in Ole Miss history.
• Senior transfer Drew O'Connor is coming off a career day at the Tyson Invitational, clearing an overall PR 5.32m/17-05.50 in the pole vault to rank fourth in the SEC. That height puts him into a tie for third all-time at Ole Miss indoors, making him the third Rebel to clear at least that high since 2020. Before then, only one Rebel had ever jumped that high indoors: three-time Olympian Sam Kendricks.
• Sophomore Logan Kelley is one of those tied with O'Connor at No. 3 all-time at Ole Miss, while his season-best 5.25m/17-02.75 puts him in scoring contention at No. 6 in the SEC.
| SEC Indoor Championships, Master Schedule (all times CT) | ||
| Day One | Friday, February 23 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 12:00 PM | Men's Heptathlon (60-Meter Dash) | Pierce Genereux (Heat 2, Lane 6) |
| 12:40 PM | Men's Heptathlon (Long Jump) | Pierce Genereux |
| 1:30 PM | Women's Pole Vault (Final) | Samara McConnell |
| 2:05 PM | Men's Heptathlon (Shot Put) | Pierce Genereux |
| 3:00 PM | Men's Heptathlon (High Jump) | Pierce Genereux (Flight 2) |
| 4:00 PM | Women's Mile (Prelims) | Jocelyn Long (Heat 1) Loral Winn (Heat 1) |
| 4:15 PM | Women's Weight Throw (Final) | Jalani Davis Jasmine Mitchell Akaoma Odeluga Skylar Soli |
| Men's Mile (Prelims) | Aidan Hodge (Heat 1) Landen McNair (Heat 1) Cruz Gomez (Heat 2) Connor Henson (Heat 2) Gabe Scales (Heat 2) |
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| 4:30 PM | Women's 60-Meter Dash (Prelims) | Jahniya Bowers (Heat 3, Lane 2) McKenzie Long (Heat 3, Lane 5) |
| 5:15 PM | Men's Pole Vault (Final) | Logan Kelley Drew O'Connor Miles Walden |
| 6:05 PM | Women's 800-Meter (Prelims) | Madison Hulsey (Heat 1) Jo-Lauren Keane (Heat 3) |
| 6:20 PM | Men's 800-Meter (Prelims) | Cade Flatt (Heat 1) Carson Turner (Heat 1) Marcus Dropik (Heat 2) |
| 6:35 PM | Women's 60-Meter Hurdles (Prelims) | Jerricka Ambus (Heat 3, Lane 6) |
| 6:45 PM | Men's Weight Throw (Final) | Costen Campion (Flight 2) Mason Hickel (Flight 2) Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 2) |
| 6:50 PM | Men's 60-Meter Hurdles (Prelims) | Deshaun Jones (Heat 2, Lane 6) |
| 7:25 PM | Women's 200-Meter Dash (Prelims) | McKenzie Long (Heat 3, Lane 4) Gabrielle Matthews (Heat 9, Lane 4) |
| 7:45 PM | Men's 5K (Final) | Aiden Britt Cole Bullock Dereck Elkins Toby Gillen Jack Meijer |
| 8:25 PM | Women's Distance Medley Relay (Final) | -- |
| 8:40 PM | Men's Distance Medley Relay (Final) | -- |
| Day Two | Saturday, February 25 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 12:00 PM | Men's Heptathlon (60-Meter Hurdles) | Pierce Genereux (Heat 3, Lane 4) |
| 12:45 PM | Men's Heptathlon (Pole Vault) | Pierce Genereux |
| 2:15 PM | Men's High Jump (Final) | Guy Bond Arvesta Troupe |
| 3:00 PM | Women's Shot Put (Final) | Jalani Davis (Flight 2) Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2) Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 2) Mensi Stiff (Flight 2) |
| 4:05 PM | Women's Mile (Final) | Loral Winn |
| 4:15 PM | Men's Triple Jump (Final) | Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley Gavin Nembhard |
| Men's Mile (Final) | Cruz Gomez Gabe Scales |
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| 4:25 PM | Women's 60-Meter Dash (Final) | Jahniya Bowers (Lane 2) |
| 4:40 PM | Men's Heptathlon (1000-Meter) | Pierce Genereux |
| 5:00 PM | Women's Triple Jump (Final) | Kayla Jemison |
| Men's Shot Put (Final) | Mason Hickel Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan |
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| 5:15 PM | Men's 800-Meter (Final) | Marcus Dropik (Lane 4) |
| 5:37 PM | Women's 200-Meter Dash (Final) | McKenzie Long (Heat 1, Lane 5) |
| 5:55 PM | Women's 3K (Final) | Beth Arentz (Heat 1) Hannah Ielfield (Heat 1) Jocelyn Long (Heat 1) Ella Rodwell (Heat 1) Sarah Schiffmann (Heat 1) Loral Winn (Heat 1) Skylar Boogerd (Heat 2) |
| 6:20 PM | Men's 3K (Final) | Elyas Ayyoub (Heat 1) Cole Bullock (Heat 1) Dereck Elkins (Heat 1) Chase Rose (Heat 1) Aiden Britt (Heat 2) Toby Gillen (Heat 2) Jack Meijer (Heat 2) |
| 6:45 PM | Women's 4x400-Meter Relay | Heat 1, Lane 3 |
| 7:00 PM | Men's 4x400-Meter Relay | Heat 1, Lane 4 |
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