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Friday, March 29
Baton Rouge, La.
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Battle on the Bayou
Track & Field Splits for LSU, Stanford
3/28/2024 | Track and Field
Battle on the Bayou
March 29-30 • Baton Rouge, La.
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Stanford Invitational
March 29 • Palo Alto, Calif.
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BATON ROUGE, La. / PALO ALTO, Calif. – Ole Miss track & field will split squad for the first time this outdoor season, sending a delegation of long-distance runners to the Stanford Invitational, while the remainder of the Rebel squad heads to LSU for the Battle on the Bayou this weekend. No live stream will be available at LSU, but fans can watch the Stanford Invitational live on FloTrack.
MEET NOTES
• At Stanford, the Rebels will run in both the men's and women's editions of the 5K and 10K races, as well as the women's 3000-meter steeplechase. Each year the Stanford Invite ends up proving crucial for regional qualifying times. Last year alone it produced 110 total times among the men's and women's 5K and 10K races that ranked within the top-48 of the East and West Regions, as well as 10 such times in the women's steeple.
• That includes eight 5K and 10K qualifying times by the Rebels last year at Stanford, where Ole Miss set four school records: graduates Kristel van den Berg (15:54.27) and Anthony Camerieri (13:26.58) in the 5K, graduate Ben Savino in the 10K (28:50.64), and current senior Skylar Boogerd in the 10K (32:47.83). Boogerd is set to once again run in the 10K at Stanford this weekend.
• At LSU, Ole Miss will be among four schools with both of its teams nationally ranked in the initial Week One USTFCCCA Outdoor Rating Index. The Rebel men came in at an outdoor men's program record No. 7, while the Rebel women currently rank No. 14. Competing alongside the Rebels and Tigers in Baton Rouge this week are: Alabama, Baylor (No. 11 women), Clemson (No. 11 men, No. 12 women), Colorado, Georgia (No. 5 women), Indiana, Kansas (No. 18 women), Kentucky (No. 13 men, No. 15 women), Michigan (No. 2 women), Mississippi State (No. 3 men), St. Norbert, Tennessee (No. 20 women), Texas A&M (No. 1 men, No. 8 women) and Wisconsin.
• A large majority of the group heading to Palo Alto this weekend will be making their outdoor season debuts. Notable debuts on the women's side include Boogerd and Hannah Ielfield in the 10K, and on the men's feature Toby Gillen and Cruz Gomez in the 5K, as well as Dereck Elkins and Jack Meijer in the 10K -- among several others.
• Notable debuts at LSU include All-American senior McKenzie Long in the 100-meter dash, SEC scorer and senior Jahniya Bowers in both the 100 and 200, Madison Hulsey and Jo-Lauren Keane in the 800-meter, and a deep men's 800-meter crew highlighted by SEC Indoor scorer Marcus Dropik.
• Ole Miss enters this weekend with 24 marks or times within the NCAA top-50 at this early part of the outdoor season, 14 from the Rebel men and 10 from the women. Of those 24, four apiece come from both the Ole Miss men and women.
• Leading that charge for the Rebel men is reigning NCAA Indoor shot put champion, SEC Men's Field Athlete of the Week and sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, who ranks within the top-three nationally in both the shot put and hammer. Last week in his outdoor debut at the Ole Miss Classic, Robinson-O'Hagan set the NCAA lead in the shot put on his school and facility record 20.69m/67-10.75. One day earlier, he set the SEC lead and the No. 3 mark nationally in the hammer, breaking his own school record on a winning toss of 72.42m/237-07.
• Outdoors, that shot put mark leads all throwers in the United States and ranks eighth worldwide so far this season, and he is the lone thrower worldwide so far this year at 72 meters in the hammer and 20 in the shot put.
• In the shot put, Robinson-O'Hagan has now thrown beyond 20 meters in the shot put six times in the last month after doing so once as a freshman in 2023, including four times in his NCAA title winning field series indoors last month capped by his victorious 21.05m/69-00.75.
• Two-time NCAA Champion and senior Jalani Davis was also honored by the SEC this past week, earning the Women's Field Athlete of the Week award after setting the national lead in the women's shot put and nothing two additional national top-30 performances in busy triple weekend at the Ole Miss Classic last week.
• Davis finished as the top collegiate finisher as the runner-up in the shot put at an NCAA-leading 17.23m/56-06.50, which ranks No. 3 among all Americans and No. 11 worldwide so far this outdoor season. A day earlier, she finished fourth in a women's hammer competition that featured four of the top seven throwers in the United States this season, topping out at 65.73m/215-08 – which is good for No. 7 in the U.S., No. 6 in the NCAA, No. 3 in the East Region and No. 2 in the SEC this year.
• Davis was also the top collegiate finisher in the discus as the runner-up at 52.91m/173-07, currently No. 30 in the NCAA, No. 10 in the East Region and No. 5 in the SEC.
• Davis is one of two throwers worldwide this season at 17 meters in the shot put and 52 meters in the discus, and is the lone thrower worldwide at 17 in the shot, 52 in the discus and 65 in the hammer. This past indoor season, Davis was the NCAA Champion in the weight throw, the third-place finisher in the shot put, and became the second woman in SEC history to sweep both events at the conference meet.
• Fellow All-American senior Jasmine Mitchell is also off to an excellent start to the 2024 outdoor season, ranking within the national top-five within both the hammer and shot put. Mitchell was the top-collegiate finisher in that stacked women's hammer competition in Oxford last weekend, finishing third overall at 68.08m/223-04 to lead the SEC and rank second in the NCAA. Mitchell's season-debut in the shot put of 16.88m/55-04.75 one week earlier at Georgia Tech ranks fourth nationally and second in the SEC to Davis, and it was worth an SEC Women's Field Athlete of the Week honor.
• Ole Miss also owns five additional marks currently within the NCAA top-20 at this early point of the outdoor season. On the men's side that includes Arvesta Troupe in the high jump (No. 4, 2.18m/7-01.75), Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley in the triple jump (No. 7, 15.36m/50-04.75), Chase Rose in the 800-meter (No. 17, 1:49.84) and Drew O'Connor in the pole vault (No. 19, 5.22m/17-01.50). On the women's side, that includes freshman Akaoma Odeluga in the shot put at 16.27m/53-04.50 (No. 15).
REBELS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS
• The Rebel men come in at an outdoor men's program record No. 7 in the Week One USTFCCCA Outdoor Rating Index, while the Ole Miss women rank No. 14. The No. 7 slot for the Rebel men broke the previous record of No. 8 set in Week Five of the 2012 season, and it also tied the combined outdoor record across both men's and women's program history alongside a No. 7 ranking by the Rebel women in Week Two of the 2023 season.
• In its history outdoors, Ole Miss has cracked the national top-10 a total of 11 times: eight times by the Rebel women (all under ninth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith and all within the 2023 season), and three times now for the Rebel men alongside additional appearances in 2010 (Week Four, No. 10) and 2012 (Week Five, No. 8).
• Overall, this is the 68th appearance in the outdoor national top-25 for the Rebel men since their first appearance in 2010, and the 49th for the Rebel women since first doing so in 2008. Of the 117 combined outdoor rankings in Ole Miss history, Price-Smith's teams since arriving in 2015-16 own 58 total appearances (40 women, 18 men).
• This also marks the 16th time in program history that both the Rebel men and women have been simultaneously ranked within the top-25 outdoors, with all such instances occurring under Price-Smith's watch.
March 29-30 • Baton Rouge, La.
Meet Info | Schedule | Live Results
Stanford Invitational
March 29 • Palo Alto, Calif.
Meet Info | Schedule | Live Results | Watch
BATON ROUGE, La. / PALO ALTO, Calif. – Ole Miss track & field will split squad for the first time this outdoor season, sending a delegation of long-distance runners to the Stanford Invitational, while the remainder of the Rebel squad heads to LSU for the Battle on the Bayou this weekend. No live stream will be available at LSU, but fans can watch the Stanford Invitational live on FloTrack.
MEET NOTES
• At Stanford, the Rebels will run in both the men's and women's editions of the 5K and 10K races, as well as the women's 3000-meter steeplechase. Each year the Stanford Invite ends up proving crucial for regional qualifying times. Last year alone it produced 110 total times among the men's and women's 5K and 10K races that ranked within the top-48 of the East and West Regions, as well as 10 such times in the women's steeple.
• That includes eight 5K and 10K qualifying times by the Rebels last year at Stanford, where Ole Miss set four school records: graduates Kristel van den Berg (15:54.27) and Anthony Camerieri (13:26.58) in the 5K, graduate Ben Savino in the 10K (28:50.64), and current senior Skylar Boogerd in the 10K (32:47.83). Boogerd is set to once again run in the 10K at Stanford this weekend.
• At LSU, Ole Miss will be among four schools with both of its teams nationally ranked in the initial Week One USTFCCCA Outdoor Rating Index. The Rebel men came in at an outdoor men's program record No. 7, while the Rebel women currently rank No. 14. Competing alongside the Rebels and Tigers in Baton Rouge this week are: Alabama, Baylor (No. 11 women), Clemson (No. 11 men, No. 12 women), Colorado, Georgia (No. 5 women), Indiana, Kansas (No. 18 women), Kentucky (No. 13 men, No. 15 women), Michigan (No. 2 women), Mississippi State (No. 3 men), St. Norbert, Tennessee (No. 20 women), Texas A&M (No. 1 men, No. 8 women) and Wisconsin.
• A large majority of the group heading to Palo Alto this weekend will be making their outdoor season debuts. Notable debuts on the women's side include Boogerd and Hannah Ielfield in the 10K, and on the men's feature Toby Gillen and Cruz Gomez in the 5K, as well as Dereck Elkins and Jack Meijer in the 10K -- among several others.
• Notable debuts at LSU include All-American senior McKenzie Long in the 100-meter dash, SEC scorer and senior Jahniya Bowers in both the 100 and 200, Madison Hulsey and Jo-Lauren Keane in the 800-meter, and a deep men's 800-meter crew highlighted by SEC Indoor scorer Marcus Dropik.
• Ole Miss enters this weekend with 24 marks or times within the NCAA top-50 at this early part of the outdoor season, 14 from the Rebel men and 10 from the women. Of those 24, four apiece come from both the Ole Miss men and women.
• Leading that charge for the Rebel men is reigning NCAA Indoor shot put champion, SEC Men's Field Athlete of the Week and sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, who ranks within the top-three nationally in both the shot put and hammer. Last week in his outdoor debut at the Ole Miss Classic, Robinson-O'Hagan set the NCAA lead in the shot put on his school and facility record 20.69m/67-10.75. One day earlier, he set the SEC lead and the No. 3 mark nationally in the hammer, breaking his own school record on a winning toss of 72.42m/237-07.
• Outdoors, that shot put mark leads all throwers in the United States and ranks eighth worldwide so far this season, and he is the lone thrower worldwide so far this year at 72 meters in the hammer and 20 in the shot put.
• In the shot put, Robinson-O'Hagan has now thrown beyond 20 meters in the shot put six times in the last month after doing so once as a freshman in 2023, including four times in his NCAA title winning field series indoors last month capped by his victorious 21.05m/69-00.75.
• Two-time NCAA Champion and senior Jalani Davis was also honored by the SEC this past week, earning the Women's Field Athlete of the Week award after setting the national lead in the women's shot put and nothing two additional national top-30 performances in busy triple weekend at the Ole Miss Classic last week.
• Davis finished as the top collegiate finisher as the runner-up in the shot put at an NCAA-leading 17.23m/56-06.50, which ranks No. 3 among all Americans and No. 11 worldwide so far this outdoor season. A day earlier, she finished fourth in a women's hammer competition that featured four of the top seven throwers in the United States this season, topping out at 65.73m/215-08 – which is good for No. 7 in the U.S., No. 6 in the NCAA, No. 3 in the East Region and No. 2 in the SEC this year.
• Davis was also the top collegiate finisher in the discus as the runner-up at 52.91m/173-07, currently No. 30 in the NCAA, No. 10 in the East Region and No. 5 in the SEC.
• Davis is one of two throwers worldwide this season at 17 meters in the shot put and 52 meters in the discus, and is the lone thrower worldwide at 17 in the shot, 52 in the discus and 65 in the hammer. This past indoor season, Davis was the NCAA Champion in the weight throw, the third-place finisher in the shot put, and became the second woman in SEC history to sweep both events at the conference meet.
• Fellow All-American senior Jasmine Mitchell is also off to an excellent start to the 2024 outdoor season, ranking within the national top-five within both the hammer and shot put. Mitchell was the top-collegiate finisher in that stacked women's hammer competition in Oxford last weekend, finishing third overall at 68.08m/223-04 to lead the SEC and rank second in the NCAA. Mitchell's season-debut in the shot put of 16.88m/55-04.75 one week earlier at Georgia Tech ranks fourth nationally and second in the SEC to Davis, and it was worth an SEC Women's Field Athlete of the Week honor.
• Ole Miss also owns five additional marks currently within the NCAA top-20 at this early point of the outdoor season. On the men's side that includes Arvesta Troupe in the high jump (No. 4, 2.18m/7-01.75), Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley in the triple jump (No. 7, 15.36m/50-04.75), Chase Rose in the 800-meter (No. 17, 1:49.84) and Drew O'Connor in the pole vault (No. 19, 5.22m/17-01.50). On the women's side, that includes freshman Akaoma Odeluga in the shot put at 16.27m/53-04.50 (No. 15).
REBELS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS
• The Rebel men come in at an outdoor men's program record No. 7 in the Week One USTFCCCA Outdoor Rating Index, while the Ole Miss women rank No. 14. The No. 7 slot for the Rebel men broke the previous record of No. 8 set in Week Five of the 2012 season, and it also tied the combined outdoor record across both men's and women's program history alongside a No. 7 ranking by the Rebel women in Week Two of the 2023 season.
• In its history outdoors, Ole Miss has cracked the national top-10 a total of 11 times: eight times by the Rebel women (all under ninth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith and all within the 2023 season), and three times now for the Rebel men alongside additional appearances in 2010 (Week Four, No. 10) and 2012 (Week Five, No. 8).
• Overall, this is the 68th appearance in the outdoor national top-25 for the Rebel men since their first appearance in 2010, and the 49th for the Rebel women since first doing so in 2008. Of the 117 combined outdoor rankings in Ole Miss history, Price-Smith's teams since arriving in 2015-16 own 58 total appearances (40 women, 18 men).
• This also marks the 16th time in program history that both the Rebel men and women have been simultaneously ranked within the top-25 outdoors, with all such instances occurring under Price-Smith's watch.
| Battle on the Bayou / Stanford Invitational, Master Schedule (all times CT) | |||
| Day One | Friday, March 29 | |||
| Time | Meet | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 11:54 AM | Stanford Invitational | Women's 5K (Section 5) | Ainhoa Brea |
| 12:14 PM | Stanford Invitational | Women's 5K (Section 4) | Beth Arentz |
| 12:30 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's Hammer | Joseph Lanham (Flight 1) Costen Campion (Flight 2) Jake Dalton (Flight 2) Mason Hickel (Flight 2) Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 2) |
| 3:00 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's Hammer | Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 1) Naomi Woolfolk (Flight 1) Jalani Davis (Flight 2) Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2) Skylar Soli (Flight 2) |
| 3:15 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's Pole Vault | Mary Cate Doughty Samara McConnell |
| 5:30 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's Javelin | Jake Railey |
| 5:50 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 200-Meter Dash | Jahniya Bowers (Heat 3, Lane 8) Gabrielle Matthews (Heat 4, Lane 8) Hannah Foxx (Heat 7, Lane 5) |
| 6:00 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's Long Jump | Guy Bond (Flight 1) Gavin Nembhard (Flight 1) |
| 6:15 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 1500-Meter | Connor Henson (Heat 1) Aidan Hodge (Heat 1) Landen McNair (Heat 1) Cole Piotrowski (Heat 2) |
| Battle on the Bayou | Men's Pole Vault | Frankie Amore Logan Kelley Ford Maberry Drew O'Connor Miles Walden |
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| 6:30 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 1500-Meter | Jocelyn Long (Heat 1) Frances Luna (Heat 2) Samantha Ouellette (Heat 2) |
| 7:15 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's Javelin | Abigail Green (Flight 2) |
| 7:34 PM | Stanford Invitational | Women's 3000-Meter Steeplechase (Section 2) | Ella Rodwell |
| 9:36 PM | Stanford Invitational | Women's 5K (Section 3) | Sophie Baumann Sarah Schiffmann |
| 10:16 PM | Stanford Invitational | Men's 5K (Section 3) | Evan Thornton-Sherman |
| 11:11 PM | Stanford Invitational | Men's 5K Invitational (Section 1) | Cole Bullock Toby Gillen Cruz Gomez |
| 11:29 PM | Stanford Invitational | Women's 10K Invitational (Section 1) | Skylar Boogerd |
| 12:08 AM (Sat.) | Stanford Invitational | Men's 10K Invitational (Section 1) | Jack Meijer |
| 12:43 AM (Sat.) | Stanford Invitational | Women's 10K (Section 2) | Hannah Ielfield |
| 1:22 AM (Sat.) | Stanford Invitational | Men's 10K (Section 2) | Aiden Britt Dereck Elkins |
| Day Two | Saturday, March 30 | |||
| Time | Meet | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 10:00 AM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's Discus | Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 1) Skylar Soli (Flight 1) Mensi Stiff (Flight 1) Jalani Davis (Flight 2) |
| Battle on the Bayou | Men's Shot Put | Mason Hickel Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan |
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| 11:00 AM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's High Jump | Kayla Jemison |
| 12:00 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's Triple Jump | Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley Gavin Nembhard |
| Battle on the Bayou | Women's Triple Jump | Eni Akinniyi Kayla Jemison Kyla McLaurin |
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| 12:10 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 4x100-Meter Relay (Heat 1, Lane 2) | -- |
| 12:20 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 800-Meter | Marcus Dropik (Heat 1, Lane 2) Carson Turner (Heat 2, Lane 2) Chase Rose (Heat 2, Lane 3) Cade Flatt (Heat 2, Lane 9) Jonathan Stock (Heat 3, Lane 2) Cole Piotrowski (Heat 3, Lane 6) Gabe Scales (Heat 5, Lane 4) |
| 12:30 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's Discus | Mason Hickel (Flight 1) |
| Battle on the Bayou | Women's Shot Put | Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 1) Skylar Soli (Flight 1) Jalani Davis (Flight 2) Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 2) Mensi Stiff (Flight 2) |
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| 12:40 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 800-Meter | Madison Hulsey (Heat 2, Lane 8) Jo-Lauren Keane (Heat 2, Lane 9) Jocelyn Long (Heat 3, Lane 1) |
| 12:45 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's High Jump | Arvesta Troupe |
| 12:50 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 110-Meter Hurdles | Ahmad Young Jr. (Heat 1, Lane 7) Deshaun Jones (Heat 2, Lane 2) |
| 1:35 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 400-Meter Dash | Gracyn Yelverton (Heat 3, Lane 2) |
| 2:15 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 100-Meter Dash | Jahniya Bowers (Heat 1, Lane 1) McKenzie Long (Heat 1, Lane 5) |
| 2:30 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 4x400-Meter Relay (Heat 3, Lane 3) | -- |
| 2:50 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 4x400-Meter Relay (Heat 2, Lane 7) | |
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