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Track & Field Sends Five to Boston for 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships
3/5/2024 | Track and Field
BOSTON – Ole Miss track & field will have eight total entries from five athletes on the biggest stage of the collegiate indoor season at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, held this weekend in Boston at The Track at New Balance on March 7-9.
To qualify for the national meet, student-athletes needed to finish within the top-16 of their individual events or top-12 as a relay by the end of the regular season. Those 16 in each event will be competing not only for team or individual national championships, but also to grasp one of the coveted top-eight scoring spots for First-Team All-American status. Places nine-through-16 receive Second-Team distinction.
Ole Miss is ranked in both women's and men's competition entering this weekend, with the Rebel women at No. 7 and the men No. 25 in the Week Seven USTFCCCA National Rating Index released on Monday. This final ranking of the indoor season only uses entries to the national meet as a basis in its calculation.
Representing Ole Miss in Boston this weekend will be: both reigning NCAA Champion Jalani Davis and fellow All-American senior Jasmine Mitchell in both the women's weight throw and shot put, freshman Mensi Stiff in the women's shot put, McKenzie Long in the women's 200-meter dash, and All-American sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan in both the men's weight throw and shot put.
ESPN+ will carry the action Friday and Saturday across both men's and women's sessions, while ESPNU will air a combined tape delay replay on both Monday and Tuesday evening.
ON THE AIR
Friday, March 8
ESPN+
Early Session – 8:30 a.m. CT
Late Session – 6 p.m. CT
Saturday, March 9
ESPN+
Early Session – 10:30 a.m. CT
Late Session – 6 p.m. CT
Live Results
Flash Results
SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 7
5:00 PM – Men's Weight Throw (Final) – Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan
7:00 PM – Women's Weight Throw (Final) – Jalani Davis, Jasmine Mitchell
Friday, March 8
7:40 PM – Women's 200-Meter Dash (Semifinal) – McKenzie Long
Saturday, March 9
1:45 PM – Men's Shot Put (Final) – Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan
4:45 PM – Women's Shot Put (Final) – Jalani Davis, Jasmine Mitchell, Mensi Stiff
6:50 PM – Women's 200-Meter Dash (Final)
Team Superlatives
• Eight combined entries ranks as the third-most in program history indoors, trailing only a record 12 by the Rebels in 2022 and 10 apiece in 2021 and 2017 -- all under head coach Connie Price-Smith.
• Six women's entries ranks tied for second in Ole Miss history behind a record seven berths in 2022.
• First repeat qualifier in the women's 200-meter dash indoors since 1999-2001 (Teneeshia Jones).
• Most-ever individual entries in the women's shot put (three); most in any individual event for Ole Miss since 2022 (weight throw, three).
• Fifth consecutive year multiple Rebel women qualified in the weight throw.
• One of three schools (Alabama, Vanderbilt) with women's athletes doubling across the shot and weight.
• A win in the women's weight throw would give Ole Miss three in a row since 2022, joining just Florida (2002-05) and South Carolina (1996-98) as the only schools to win at least three consecutively.
• A win in the women's weight throw by Jalani Davis would make her the first repeat winner since Louisville's D'Ana McCarty in 2009-10, as well as one of just seven in collegiate history to win multiple weight throw titles alongside McCarty, Indiana State's Felisha Johnson (2011, '13), Southern Illinois' Brittany Riley (2007-08), Florida's Candice Scott (2002, '04-05), SMU's Florence Ezeh (2000-01) and South Carolina's Dawn Ellerbe (1996-97).
• A win in both the women's shot put and weight throw would mark the first NCAA sweep of those events in collegiate history, either by the same person or the same school.
• First repeat qualifier in both the men's shot put and weight throw; second-ever double (Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, 2023); one of two this year attempting the men's shot/weight double (Cam Jones, Iowa State).
• A win in both the men's shot put and weight throw by Robinson-O'Hagan would be the first by the same athlete since North Dakota State's Payton Otterdahl in 2019, and would mark only the third occurrence in collegiate history alongside Otterdahl and Ohio State's Dan Taylor in 2004. Schools to sweep regardless of the athlete include North Dakota State (2019), Arizona State (2009), Ohio State (2004), SMU (1981, 1983, 2000) and UTEP (1975).
• A complete men's and women's sweep of the shot put and weight throw would mark the first occurrence in collegiate history by the same school.
• A win in both the men's and women's weight throws would mark only the second sweep by the same school, the first since SMU in 2000 (Florence Ezeh, Libor Charfreitag).
• A win in both the men's and women's shot puts would be the first by the same school since Arizona State in 2022 (Jorinde Van Klinken, Turner Washington), and would be just the fifth-such instance alongside that Arizona State sweep in 2022 and a trio by UCLA in 1991 (Tracie Mullett, Eric Bergreen), 1995 (Dawn Dumble, John Godina) and 1996 (Valeyta Althouse, Jonathan Ogden).
Individual Superlatives
• Jalani Davis: Fifth and sixth career NCAA Indoor qualifying berths ... Ninth and 10th overall career NCAA berths ... Fourth career double attempt, third indoors ... One of just 16 total Rebel women's double attempts ever at the NCAA Indoor Championships ... Owns three of eight total shot put/weight throw double attempts ever by the Rebel women, all since 2017 ... Looking to become the first Rebel woman to ever repeat as an NCAA Champion, indoors or outdoors.
• McKenzie Long: Sixth career NCAA qualifying berth, third indoors (all since transferring to Ole Miss) ... First Rebel woman to repeat as a 200-meter qualifier since Teneeshia Jones (1999-2001).
• Jasmine Mitchell: Fifth consecutive NCAA Indoor berth in the weight throw ... Second straight berth in the shot put indoors ... Ninth and 10th overall career NCAA berths (seven indoors, three outdoors) ... Third career double attempt, second indoors ... One of just 16 total Rebel women's double attempts ever at the NCAA Indoor Championships ... Owns two of the eight total shot put/weight throw double attempts ever by the Rebel women, all since 2017 ... Has never finished worse than fourth in the weight throw.
• Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan: Fifth and sixth career NCAA qualifying berths, third and fourth indoors ... First Rebel to repeat as a doubler in the men's shot put and weight throw after becoming the first to ever double in those events in 2023 ... One of two nationally this year attempting the shot/weight double.
• Mensi Stiff: First career NCAA qualifying berth ... One of two freshmen to qualify for the women's shot put ... First Ole Miss freshman to ever qualify for the women's shot put indoors.
Ole Miss Best NCAA Indoor Finishes (in events qualified)
Women's 200-Meter Dash: 4th (2023, McKenzie Long)
Women's Shot Put: 1st (2017, Raven Saunders)
Women's Weight Throw: 1st (2x: 2022, Shey Taiwo; 2023, Jalani Davis)
Men's Shot Put: 11th (2023, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan)
Men's Weight Throw: 3rd (2023, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan)
Ole Miss NCAA Indoor Champions (11 titles, 14 champions)
1991 – George Kersh, Men's 800-Meter
1994 – Greg Saddler, Men's 55-Meter Dash
2001 – Savante' Stringfellow, Men's Long Jump
2004 – Antwon Hicks, Men's 60-Meter Hurdles
2005 – Antwon Hicks, Men's 60-Meter Hurdles
2008 – Brittney Reese, Women's Long Jump
2017 – Raven Saunders, Women's Shot Put
2017 – Men's Distance Medley Relay (Robert Domanic, Nick DeRay, Sean Tobin, Craig Engels)
2022 – Mario Garcia Romo, Men's Mile
2022 – Shey Taiwo, Women's Weight Throw
2023 – Jalani Davis, Women's Weight Throw
Ole Miss NCAA Indoor Runners-Up (15)
2001 – James Shelton, Men's 60-Meter Dash
2010 – Ricky Robertson, Men's High Jump
2011 – Mike Granger, Men's 60-Meter Dash
2011 – Ricky Robertson, Men's High Jump
2014 – Sam Kendricks, Men's Pole Vault
2021 – Men's Distance Medley Relay (Everett Smulders, Elijah Dryer, John Rivera Jr., Mario Garcia Romo)
2022 – Sintayehu Vissa, Women's Mile
2022 – Jasmine Mitchell, Women's Weight Throw
2023 – Men's Distance Medley Relay (Shane Bracken, Cade Flatt, Tiarnan Crorken, Anthony Camerieri)
Ole Miss NCAA Indoor Top-25 Finishes (21)
1990 – Ole Miss Men – T-23rd (6 points)
1991 – Ole Miss Men – T-9th (14 points)
1994 – Ole Miss Men – T-19th (10 points)
2000 – Ole Miss Women – 18th (10 points)
2001 – Ole Miss Men – 10th (18 points)
2004 – Ole Miss Men – 22nd (11 points)
2005 – Ole Miss Men – T-22nd (10 points)
2008 – Ole Miss Women – 13th (17 points)
2010 – Ole Miss Men – T-20th (10 points)
2011 – Ole Miss Men – T-11th (16 points)
2011 – Ole Miss Women – T-23rd (10 points)
2013 – Ole Miss Men – T-23rd (2 points)
2014 – Ole Miss Men – T-24th (9 points)
2017 – Ole Miss Women – T-12th (13 points)
2017 – Ole Miss Men – T-16th (12 points)
2021 – Ole Miss Men – 10th (20 points)
2021 – Ole Miss Women – 19th (12 points)
2022 – Ole Miss Women – T-6th (29 points)
2022 – Ole Miss Men – T-10th (20 points)
2023 – Ole Miss Women – 10th (23 points)
2023 – Ole Miss Men – T-12th (17 points)
Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan • Men's Weight Throw / Shot Put
Weight Throw Final: Thurs., March 7 • 5 p.m. CT
Shot Put Final: Sat., March 9 • 1:45 p.m. CT
Class: Sophomore
Major: Multi-Disciplinary Studies
Hometown / High School: Woonsocket, R.I. / Woonsocket
Weight Throw Season-Best: 23.59m/77-04.75 • 2024 No. 4 NCAA, No. 5 U.S., No. 8 World • Feb. 9, 2024 (Music City Challenge)
Weight Throw Career-Best: 23.62m/77-6 • Collegiate freshman record, Ole Miss record • Feb. 24, 2023 (SEC Championships)
Shot Put Career-Best: 20.38m/66-10.50 • 2024 No. 2 NCAA, No. 5 U.S., No. 24 World • Ole Miss record • Feb. 24, 2024 (SEC Championships)
Shot Put Career-Best: Same
Weight Throw NCAA Seed: 4th
Weight Throw SEC Finish: 1st
Shot Put NCAA Seed: 2nd
Shot Put SEC Finish: 1st
NCAA History: 6x NCAA qualifier (4x indoor, 2x outdoor) ... 4x All-American (2x First-Team) ... 7 career NCAA points (6 indoor) ... Finished third in the weight in 2023, best by a freshman since 2013 ... Set collegiate freshman NCAA Indoor meet record with his third-place 22.96m/75-4 ... First Rebel to ever attempt the weight/shot double indoors and hammer/shot double outdoors ... First Rebel man to ever repeat as a weight/shot doubler indoors ... Finished eighth in the deepest NCAA hammer final of all-time outdoors in 2023.
Quick Facts: One of only four collegians ever at 77 feet in the men's weight and 66 feet in the men's shot put ... One of two attempting the weight/shot double indoors this year (Cam Jones, Iowa State) ... First in SEC history to sweep the men's shot put and weight throw at the conference meet ... First Rebel thrower to break 66 feet in the shot put; was also the first to break 64 and 65 feet indoors, as well as 63, 64 and 65 feet outdoors ... Currently the only thrower worldwide at 77 feet in the weight and 66 feet in the shot put ... Undefeated in 2024 in the weight throw, winning by an average of 4.5 feet ... Is 9-3 in the weight in his collegiate career, including 8-1 in the regular season ... Ranks fifth in collegiate history in combiend shot put/weight throw PRs indoors (44.00m) ... Owns Ole Miss records indoors in the shot put (20.38m/66-10.50) and weight throw (23.62m/77-6); outdoors in the shot put (20.07m/65-10.25) and hammer (71.38m/234-02) ... In 2023, was the first freshman in available records (since at least 2009) to eclipse both 20 meters in the shot put and 71 meters in the hammer ... Set the collegiate freshman record in the weight throw in 2023 at 23.62m/77-6 ... Owns three of the six total 23-meter throws ever by a collegiate freshman ... 3x SEC Champion (2x indoor) ... First Rebel to ever win an SEC hammer title, man or woman ... First Rebel to ever win an SEC men's weight throw title ... Was first freshman to win SEC hammer title since 2016 ... Was the first collegiate freshman to break 71 meters in the hammer since 2018 when two freshmen did so: LSU's Jake Norris (73.24m/240-04) and Florida's Thomas Mardal (72.20m/236-11) ... 44 career SEC points scored ... Owns a combined distance of 91.45m in the outdoor shot put/hammer ... 2022 World U20 Champion in the shot put, finalist in the hammer ... 2022 U.S. U20 Champion in both the shot put and hammer ... 2x high school national champion ... No. 4 U.S. boys high school history in the junior shot put, No. 3 in the junior hammer and No. 7 in the high school hammer.
Jalani Davis • Women's Weight Throw / Shot Put
Weight Throw Final: Thurs., March 7 • 7 p.m. CT
Shot Put Final: Sat., March 9 • 4:45 p.m. CT
Class: Senior
Major: Master's in Sport Analytics
Hometown / High School: Hampton, Va. / Bethel HS
Weight Throw Season-Best: 25.09m/82-03.75 • 2024 No. 1 NCAA, No. 3 U.S., No. 3 World • SEC Meet Record, No. 2 Ole Miss history, No. 3 NCAA history (No. 5 throw), No. 8 U.S. history, No. 9 World history • Feb. 23, 2024 (SEC Championships)
Weight Throw Career-Best: Same
Shot Put Season-Best: 18.61m/61-00.75 • 2024 No. 3 NCAA, No. 6 U.S., No. 15 World • No. 2 Ole Miss history, No. 12 NCAA history • Feb. 24, 2024 (SEC Championships)
Shot Put Career-Best: 18.64m/61-2 • June 3, 2023 (Nashville, Tennessee; unattached)
Weight Throw NCAA Seed: 1st
Weight Throw SEC Finish: 1st
Shot Put NCAA Seed: 3rd
Shot Put SEC Finish: 1st
NCAA History: 10x NCAA qualifier … 2023 NCAA Indoor Champion (weight throw) ... 5x All-American: First-Team indoors in the weight throw in 2023 (1st) and outdoors in the hammer in 2022 (6th), Second-Team in 2023 indoors in the shot put (9th) and in 2021 outdoors in the discus (14th) and hammer (16th) ... 13 career NCAA points (10 indoor) ... Fourth career national meet double (third indoors).
Quick Facts: 2023 World Outdoor Championship qualifier (shot put) ... 2023 U.S. bronze medalist (shot put) ... 2023 NACAC U23 gold medalists in the hammer, silver in the shot put ... One of only two Rebel women to ever eclipse 60 feet in the shot put both indoors and outdoors alongside two-time Olympian Raven Saunders ... 2023 NCAA Indoor Champion in the weight throw ... No. 4 performer in NCAA meet history in weight throw at 24.51m/80-5 ... No. 3 in collegiate history (fifth-best throw), No. 9 in world history ... Third collegian to ever break 25 meters ... Only woman in world history to break 80 feet in the weight and 60 feet in the shot put; has done so twice in the same meet at 2023 and 2024 SEC Indoor Championships ... World record holder in combined indoor weight/shot PRs (43.70m) ... Only woman in world history at 80 feet in the weight, 60 in the shot, 184 in the discus and 228 in the hammer ... Owns collegiate record for most career 80-foot throws in the weight (5) ... One of only three women in collegiate history with multiple 80-foot throws in the same series (Brittany Riley, 2007; Shey Taiwo, Ole Miss, 2022) ... Ranks third in collegiate history with 19 throws of at least 23 meters ... Also ranks third in 24-meter throws with eight ... 5x All-American ... 13 career NCAA points (10 indoor) ... 4x SEC Champion ... 9x SEC medalist ... 96 career SEC points (61 indoors) ... 3x U.S. Outdoor qualifier ... 4x USTFCCCA All-Academic ... Came to Ole Miss as a walk-on.
Jasmine Mitchell • Women's Weight Throw / Shot Put
Weight Throw Final: Thurs., March 7 • 7 p.m. CT
Shot Put Final: Sat., March 9 • 4:45 p.m. CT
Class: Senior
Major: Multi-Disciplinary Studies
Hometown / High School: Hazel Crest, Ill. / Thornwood HS
Weight Throw Season-Best: 24.20m/79-04.75 • 2024 No. 2 NCAA, No. 6 U.S., No. 7 World • Feb. 9, 2024 (Music City Challenge)
Weight Throw Career-Best: 24.94m/81-10 • No. 4 NCAA history, No. 5 NCAA meet history, No. 10 U.S. history, No. 11 world history • March 11, 2022 (NCAA Championships)
Shot Put Season-Best: 17.19m/56-04.75 • 2024 No. 16 NCAA • Feb. 10, 2024 (Music City Challenge)
Shot Put Career-Best: 17.42m/57-2 • No. 5 Ole Miss history • Jan. 20, 2023 (Vanderbilt Invitational)
Weight Throw NCAA Seed: 2nd
Weight Throw SEC Finish: 2nd
Shot Put NCAA Seed: 16th
Shot Put SEC Finish: 6th
NCAA History: 10x NCAA qualifier (7x indoors) ... 2022 NCAA Runner-Up (Weight Throw) ... Fifth in NCAA meet history in the weight throw at 24.94m/81-10 (No. 4 collegian all-time) ... 5x All-American ... 19 career NCAA points. ... Has qualified for the weight throw five years in a row; has never finished worse than fourth ... Third career national meet double (second indoors).
Quick Facts: 2x SEC Champion (weight throw) ... 5x SEC medalist (all in weight throw) ... Seventh in world history, second in collegiate history in combined indoor weight/shot PRs (42.36m) ... One of four in world history at 80 feet in the weight and 57 feet in the shot indoors ... Collegiate record holder in career 23-meter throws (25) ... Fourth in career 24-meter throws (6) ... Part of first active teammate duo in NCAA history to eclipse 23 meters in the same season (2021), first active duo at 77 feet in the same season (2022), first active trio at 75 feet (2022), first active duo at 79 feet (2022), first active duo at 80 feet (2022), first active duo at 24 meters (2022) ... Along with 2022 NCAA Champion Shey Taiwo (25.55m/83-10), first duo in NCAA history to break 24 meters/80 feet in same competition ... Along with Jalani Davis, part of first duo to break 24 meters in the same regular season meet (twice in 2024) ... One of four Rebels beyond 79 feet in NCAA history, most of any school ... 62 career SEC points … Same high school as Rebel NCAA Champions Shey Taiwo and Janeah Stewart.
McKenzie Long • Women's 200-Meter Dash
200-Meter Dash Semifinal: Fri., March 8 • 7:40 p.m. CT
200-Meter Dash Final: Sat., March 9 • 6:50 p.m. CT
Class: Senior
Major: Master's in Public Health
Hometown / High School / Previous School: Ironton, Ohio / Pickerington Central / NC State
Indoor 200m Season-Best: 22.60 • 2024 NCAA No. 3, U.S. No. 5, World No. 7 •Feb. 24, 2024 (SEC Championships)
Indoor 200m PR: 22.48 (altitude) • Ole Miss Record, No. 13 Collegiate History • March 10, 2023 (NCAA Championships)
Overall 200m PR: 21.88 (+2.5) • Ole Miss Record, No. 3 Collegiate History All-Conditions • June 10, 2023 (NCAA Championships)
Wind-Legal 200m PR: 22.31 (+1.8) • Ole Miss Wind-Legal Record • April 14, 2023 (Tom Jones Memorial)
NCAA Seed: 4th
SEC Finish: 3rd
NCAA History: 6x NCAA qualifier (all at Ole Miss) ... 4x NCAA qualifier indoors ... 4x All-American (3x First-Team) ... 2023 NCAA Outdoor runner-up (200-meter) ... 15 career NCAA points scored ... Fourth-place finisher indoors in 200-meter in 2023 (best ever by a Rebel woman).
Quick Facts: First Ole Miss woman to repeat as an indoor national qualifier in the 200-meter since Teneeshia Jones (1999-2001) ... Owns six Ole Miss records: indoors in the 60-meter (7.10), 200-meter (22.48) and 300-meter (37.38); outdoors in the 100-meter (10.80/+3.5), 200-meter (21.88/+2.5) and 4x100-meter relay (43.43) ... In the collegiate record book indoors, ranks 13th in the 200-meter (22.48) and 18th in the 60-meter (7.10) ... Outdoors, her 21.88 (+2.5) from NCAAs ranks third and her 10.80 (+3.5) ranks sixth on the collegiate all-conditions list ... First Rebel woman to break 7.10 in the 60-meter (7.10), 11.00 in the 100-meter (10.80/+3.5; 11.00/+0.2), 23.00 in the indoor 200-meter (22.48) and 22.7 in the outdoor 200-meter (21.88/+2.5; 22.31/+1.8) ... Outdoors in 2023, was first Rebel woman to ever attempt the 100/200/4x100 triple (sixth Rebel woman to ever attempt a triple at the outdoor national meet) ... One of two Rebel women to ever attempt the 100/200 double outdoors alongside Teneeshia Jones, who did so three times from 1999-2001 ... In 2023 indoors, became one of two Rebel women to ever attempt the 60/200 double alongside Jones ... 2023 SEC Outdoor Champion in the 200-meter dash (first win in the event ever by a Rebel woman, indoors or outdoors) ... 2023 U.S. semifinalist in the 200-meter dash ... 4x SEC medalist ... 6x SEC scorer ... 35.5 career SEC points scored ... 6x NCAA East Region qualifier ... Left NC State as school record holder in: outdoor 200 (23.00), 4x100-meter relay (44.11), indoor 4x400-meter relay (3:44.51) ... 2x U.S. U20 finalist (2019, 100/200).
Mensi Stiff • Women's Shot Put
Shot Put Final: Sat., March 9 • 4:45 p.m. CT
Class: Freshman
Major: History
Hometown / High School: Lewisburg, Tenn. / Brentwood Academy
Shot Put Career-Best: 17.54m/57-06.50 • 2024 No. 9 NCAA • Ole Miss freshman record, No. 4 Ole Miss history • Feb. 10, 2024 (Music City Challenge)
NCAA Seed: 9th
SEC Finish: 8th
NCAA History: First career NCAA meet ... One of two freshmen to qualify in the women's shot put ... First Ole Miss freshman to ever qualify in the women's shot put.
Quick Facts: One of just eight freshmen since 2010 to break 57 feet in the shot put indoors ... Set the Ole Miss freshman record twice ... 1x SEC scorer ... 1 career SEC point ... 2023 Pan-American U20 gold medal for Team USA in the shot put ... Finished high school career ranked fourth in U.S. girls history in the shot put at 54-09.50 ... 2x Tennessee Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year ... 3x Nike national shot put champion ... 2022 Track & Field News All-American in shot put and discus ... 6x state champion ... Set state records in the shot put and discus ... 3x all-state ... 2x Middle Tennessee Track Athlete of the Year ... 2021 USA Today Tennessee Rising Star of the Year.
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MEET NOTES
• Across both seasons, 25 Rebels have won NCAA titles and 211 have earned First-Team All-America honors, while as a team Ole Miss has tallied 36 top-25 team finishes and scored 764.5 total national points.
• On the track across the indoor and outdoor seasons under ninth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith, the Rebels have had 13 NCAA top-25 team finishes, 11 NCAA individual champions, 13 NCAA runners-up, 153 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 284 NCAA points, 67 SEC individual champions and a bevy of the best team finishes in program history at both the SEC and NCAA levels.
• Four of the seven all-time NCAA top-10 track finishes in Ole Miss history have come within the last three years: 2023 women's indoor (10th), 2022 women's indoor (T-6th), 2022 men's indoor (T-10th), 2021 men's indoor (10th), 2013 men's outdoor (8th), 2001 men's indoor (10th) and 1991 men's indoor (9th).
• In its history indoors, Ole Miss has finished in the NCAA top-25 of the team standings 21 total times (14 times on the men's side, seven for the women).
• The Ole Miss women have finished in the top-10 in each of the last two seasons, taking 10th in 2023 and an overall program record sixth in 2022 -- the best track finish by any Rebel team, indoor or outdoor.
• The Rebel men have finished top-15 in each of the last three seasons, taking 10th in both 2021 and 2022, as well as a tie for 12th in 2023. Those top-10 finishes in 2021 and 2022 marked the first consecutive top-10 national track finishes for Ole Miss in men's or women's history, regardless of season, as do the three straight top-15 finishes.
• Ole Miss is one of just three schools nationally alongside Arkansas and Texas to place both its men's and women's teams in the top-15 in each of the last two seasons.
• Ole Miss owns 149 First or Second-Team All-Americans indoors (94 men, 55 women), as well as 11 NCAA titles (14 total NCAA Champions; 10 men, four women). Of those 149, a total of 87 All-Americans (52 men, 35 women) have come under Price-Smith, as well as five NCAA titles (Raven Saunders, shot put, 2017; men's DMR, 2017; Shey Taiwo, weight throw, 2022; Mario Garcia Romo, mile, 2022; Jalani Davis, weight throw, 2023).
• Ole Miss is coming off a pair of top-five team finishes at the SEC Indoor Championships, just the third time the Rebels have done so in the same season (2017, '21, '24). Ole Miss won four total titles and became just the second school to sweep the men's and women's shot put and weight throw following sweeps by Jalani Davis and Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan. Also earning medals were Jasmine Mitchell in the women's weight throw (silver), Toby Gillen in the 5K (silver) and McKenzie Long in the 200-meter dash (bronze).
REBELS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS
• The Ole Miss women held in the top-10 at No. 7, while the Rebel men also held at No. 25 in the pre-championships USTFCCCA Indoor Rating Index. This week, the index only uses entries to the NCAA Indoor Championships, which will be held in Boston on March 7-9.
• The No. 7 slot is the second top-10 ranking for the Rebel women this season after setting an Ole Miss women's program record at No. 6 last week.
• In its history indoors, Ole Miss has now appeared in the national top-10 a total of 20 times – 15 from the Ole Miss women and five from the Rebel men. Of those 20 indoor top-10 appearances, 19 have come under the supervision of ninth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith.
• This is the 21st time both Rebel units have been ranked at the same time indoors, with all 21 instances coming within the past four seasons since first occurring in Week Two of the 2021 indoor campaign.
• Overall, this is the 57th appearance in the indoor top-25 for the Rebel women since their first appearance in 2008, and the 51st ranking for the Rebel men since first doing so in 2010. Of the 108 combined indoor rankings in Ole Miss history, Price-Smith's teams own 75 total appearances (49 women, 26 men).
WOMEN'S NOTES
• The No. 7 Rebel women are looking for their third consecutive top-10 team finish at the indoor national meet, which would constitute a record-best streak in the combined history of Ole Miss men's and women's track & field and cross country. Ole Miss finished a combined program record sixth in 2022 and took 10th in 2023.
• Senior Jalani Davis will look to defend her crown as the 2023 NCAA Champion in the women's weight throw, and she enters in great shape to do so as the national leader at her SEC-winning toss of 25.09m/82-03.75 (No. 3 worldwide in 2024). A win would make Davis the first repeat winner of any NCAA event in Ole Miss women's track & field history, indoors or outdoors. It would also make her just the seventh in collegiate history to ever win multiple titles in the women's weight.
• Davis' entry mark not only won her an SEC title two weeks ago, but it also moved her to No. 3 on the all-time collegiate list (fifth-best throw) and No. 9 on the all-time world list. She is one of just three collegians and one of just 10 women in world history to ever break 25 meters.
• Davis enters her final weight throw competition at Ole Miss as the all-time collegiate record holder in 80-foot throws with five.
• Davis has formed a formidable combination with teammate and All-American senior Jasmine Mitchell, who enters ranked second behind Davis and seventh worldwide this season at 24.20m/79-04.75. This is Mitchell's fifth NCAA berth in the weight throw, and she has never finished worse than fourth in the event in her career nationally -- topped by a runner-up finish in 2022.
• Mitchell was recently the SEC runner-up to Davis in the weight throw, her fifth career SEC medal in the event (two golds, three silvers).
• This season, Davis and Mitchell have combined for 20 throws beyond 23 meters and seven beyond 24 meters. That compares to just seven 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 12 times so far this season, giving her 25 career throws beyond that plateau to break Shey Taiwo's previous collegiate record of 21. Davis, meanwhile, ranks third with 19 such throws in her career -- seven this season.
• At 24 meters, Taiwo and Riley are tied at the top with nine, but Mitchell and Davis are closing in, with Davis third at eight and Mitchell fourth with six.
• On the all-time collegiate leaderboard, Davis ranks third at her SEC winning performance from two weeks ago, and Mitchell ranks fourth at her 2022 NCAA runner-up toss of 24.94m/81-10.
• Of the 167 total 23-meter throws in women's collegiate history, Ole Miss has accounted for 74 since 2018 alone, giving the Rebels 44.3 percent of the all-time list. At 24 meters, Ole Miss holds more than half, owning 24 of the 46 total in collegiate history.
• Combined with his time at Southern Illinois from 2004-15, Ole Miss throws coach John Smith owns 53.3 percent of all the women's 23-meter throws (89), 71.7 percent of the 24-meter throws (33), 87.5 percent of the 80-foot throws (14) and all seven of the 25-meter throws in collegiate history.
• Together, Mitchell and Davis own 44 career 23-meter throws (26.3%), 14 at 24 meters (40.4%) and six at 80 feet (37.5%).
• Both Davis and Mitchell have qualified in the shot put as well for the second straight season.
• Davis won the SEC shot put title at an indoor PR of 18.61m/61-00.75, making her just the second woman in conference history to win both in the same season alongside Florida's Candice Scott (2002, 2005). Mitchell, meanwhile, snagged the 16th and final qualifying spot at her season-best of 17.19m/56-04.75.
• Davis' SEC sweep marked just the second time in world history that the same woman broke both 80 feet in the weight and 60 in the shot put, joining her own feat from a year earlier as the first woman ever to do that across a career -- let alone the same meet.
• 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 their combined NCAA history, Davis and Mitchell have scored 32 career national points -- 29 alone in the weight throw indoors.
• Davis and Mitchell rank No. 1 and No. 2 in collegiate history in combined weight throw/shot put distance, with Davis owning the world record at 43.70m and Mitchell seventh all-time at 42.36m.
• 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 Mensi Stiff has also qualified in the women's shot put, giving Ole Miss three entries for the national meet. Stiff enters ranked ninth at her Ole Miss freshman record of 17.54m/57-06.50, which ranks her fourth in Ole Miss history.
• Stiff is one of two freshmen to qualify in the women's shot put this season alongside Texas' Nina Ndubuisi. 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.
• All-American senior and NCAA Outdoor 200-meter runner-up McKenzie Long again used a superb showing at the SEC's to punch her return ticket to indoor nationals, finishing as the SEC bronze medalist in the 200-meter dash at 22.60 to enter NCAAs ranked fourth among entrants.
• Long finished fourth nationally in the 200 last season at her still-standing indoor school record 22.48, which was run at altitude in New Mexico. Outdoors, Long was the NCAA runner-up in the 200 at 21.88 (+2.5), making her the third-fastest collegian all-time on the all-conditions list.
MEN'S NOTES
• Sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan is coming off a historic sweep of his own as the first in conference history to ever win both the men's shot put and weight throw.
• His winning toss (and Ole Miss record) in the shot put of 20.38m/66-10.50 enters the national meet ranked second overall, and his weight throw season-best of 23.59m/77-04.75 enters ranked fourth.
• This is the second career NCAA Indoor double for Robinson-O'Hagan, who did so as a freshman in 2023. He finished third in the weight in 2023, the best by a freshman since 2013.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is currently the lone thrower worldwide in 2024 at 77 feet in the weight throw and 66 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, set at the SEC Championships in 2023.
• At 20.38m/66-10.50, Robinson-O'Hagan is the first Rebel man to break 66 feet in the shot put indoors. Across less than two years in a Rebel uniform, Robinson-O'Hagan has been the first 64, 65 and 66 feet indoors, in addition to being the first to do so at 63, 64 and 65 feet outdoors.
• 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 won six of seven regular season weight throw competitions and sits at 9-3 when including both SEC and NCAA Championship meets.
• 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 44.00m, he is currently ranked No. 5 in collegiate history in combined PRs in the indoor shot put (20.38m) and weight throw (23.62m).
To qualify for the national meet, student-athletes needed to finish within the top-16 of their individual events or top-12 as a relay by the end of the regular season. Those 16 in each event will be competing not only for team or individual national championships, but also to grasp one of the coveted top-eight scoring spots for First-Team All-American status. Places nine-through-16 receive Second-Team distinction.
Ole Miss is ranked in both women's and men's competition entering this weekend, with the Rebel women at No. 7 and the men No. 25 in the Week Seven USTFCCCA National Rating Index released on Monday. This final ranking of the indoor season only uses entries to the national meet as a basis in its calculation.
Representing Ole Miss in Boston this weekend will be: both reigning NCAA Champion Jalani Davis and fellow All-American senior Jasmine Mitchell in both the women's weight throw and shot put, freshman Mensi Stiff in the women's shot put, McKenzie Long in the women's 200-meter dash, and All-American sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan in both the men's weight throw and shot put.
ESPN+ will carry the action Friday and Saturday across both men's and women's sessions, while ESPNU will air a combined tape delay replay on both Monday and Tuesday evening.
ON THE AIR
Friday, March 8
ESPN+
Early Session – 8:30 a.m. CT
Late Session – 6 p.m. CT
Saturday, March 9
ESPN+
Early Session – 10:30 a.m. CT
Late Session – 6 p.m. CT
Live Results
Flash Results
SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 7
5:00 PM – Men's Weight Throw (Final) – Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan
7:00 PM – Women's Weight Throw (Final) – Jalani Davis, Jasmine Mitchell
Friday, March 8
7:40 PM – Women's 200-Meter Dash (Semifinal) – McKenzie Long
Saturday, March 9
1:45 PM – Men's Shot Put (Final) – Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan
4:45 PM – Women's Shot Put (Final) – Jalani Davis, Jasmine Mitchell, Mensi Stiff
6:50 PM – Women's 200-Meter Dash (Final)
Team Superlatives
• Eight combined entries ranks as the third-most in program history indoors, trailing only a record 12 by the Rebels in 2022 and 10 apiece in 2021 and 2017 -- all under head coach Connie Price-Smith.
• Six women's entries ranks tied for second in Ole Miss history behind a record seven berths in 2022.
• First repeat qualifier in the women's 200-meter dash indoors since 1999-2001 (Teneeshia Jones).
• Most-ever individual entries in the women's shot put (three); most in any individual event for Ole Miss since 2022 (weight throw, three).
• Fifth consecutive year multiple Rebel women qualified in the weight throw.
• One of three schools (Alabama, Vanderbilt) with women's athletes doubling across the shot and weight.
• A win in the women's weight throw would give Ole Miss three in a row since 2022, joining just Florida (2002-05) and South Carolina (1996-98) as the only schools to win at least three consecutively.
• A win in the women's weight throw by Jalani Davis would make her the first repeat winner since Louisville's D'Ana McCarty in 2009-10, as well as one of just seven in collegiate history to win multiple weight throw titles alongside McCarty, Indiana State's Felisha Johnson (2011, '13), Southern Illinois' Brittany Riley (2007-08), Florida's Candice Scott (2002, '04-05), SMU's Florence Ezeh (2000-01) and South Carolina's Dawn Ellerbe (1996-97).
• A win in both the women's shot put and weight throw would mark the first NCAA sweep of those events in collegiate history, either by the same person or the same school.
• First repeat qualifier in both the men's shot put and weight throw; second-ever double (Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, 2023); one of two this year attempting the men's shot/weight double (Cam Jones, Iowa State).
• A win in both the men's shot put and weight throw by Robinson-O'Hagan would be the first by the same athlete since North Dakota State's Payton Otterdahl in 2019, and would mark only the third occurrence in collegiate history alongside Otterdahl and Ohio State's Dan Taylor in 2004. Schools to sweep regardless of the athlete include North Dakota State (2019), Arizona State (2009), Ohio State (2004), SMU (1981, 1983, 2000) and UTEP (1975).
• A complete men's and women's sweep of the shot put and weight throw would mark the first occurrence in collegiate history by the same school.
• A win in both the men's and women's weight throws would mark only the second sweep by the same school, the first since SMU in 2000 (Florence Ezeh, Libor Charfreitag).
• A win in both the men's and women's shot puts would be the first by the same school since Arizona State in 2022 (Jorinde Van Klinken, Turner Washington), and would be just the fifth-such instance alongside that Arizona State sweep in 2022 and a trio by UCLA in 1991 (Tracie Mullett, Eric Bergreen), 1995 (Dawn Dumble, John Godina) and 1996 (Valeyta Althouse, Jonathan Ogden).
Individual Superlatives
• Jalani Davis: Fifth and sixth career NCAA Indoor qualifying berths ... Ninth and 10th overall career NCAA berths ... Fourth career double attempt, third indoors ... One of just 16 total Rebel women's double attempts ever at the NCAA Indoor Championships ... Owns three of eight total shot put/weight throw double attempts ever by the Rebel women, all since 2017 ... Looking to become the first Rebel woman to ever repeat as an NCAA Champion, indoors or outdoors.
• McKenzie Long: Sixth career NCAA qualifying berth, third indoors (all since transferring to Ole Miss) ... First Rebel woman to repeat as a 200-meter qualifier since Teneeshia Jones (1999-2001).
• Jasmine Mitchell: Fifth consecutive NCAA Indoor berth in the weight throw ... Second straight berth in the shot put indoors ... Ninth and 10th overall career NCAA berths (seven indoors, three outdoors) ... Third career double attempt, second indoors ... One of just 16 total Rebel women's double attempts ever at the NCAA Indoor Championships ... Owns two of the eight total shot put/weight throw double attempts ever by the Rebel women, all since 2017 ... Has never finished worse than fourth in the weight throw.
• Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan: Fifth and sixth career NCAA qualifying berths, third and fourth indoors ... First Rebel to repeat as a doubler in the men's shot put and weight throw after becoming the first to ever double in those events in 2023 ... One of two nationally this year attempting the shot/weight double.
• Mensi Stiff: First career NCAA qualifying berth ... One of two freshmen to qualify for the women's shot put ... First Ole Miss freshman to ever qualify for the women's shot put indoors.
Ole Miss Best NCAA Indoor Finishes (in events qualified)
Women's 200-Meter Dash: 4th (2023, McKenzie Long)
Women's Shot Put: 1st (2017, Raven Saunders)
Women's Weight Throw: 1st (2x: 2022, Shey Taiwo; 2023, Jalani Davis)
Men's Shot Put: 11th (2023, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan)
Men's Weight Throw: 3rd (2023, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan)
Ole Miss NCAA Indoor Champions (11 titles, 14 champions)
1991 – George Kersh, Men's 800-Meter
1994 – Greg Saddler, Men's 55-Meter Dash
2001 – Savante' Stringfellow, Men's Long Jump
2004 – Antwon Hicks, Men's 60-Meter Hurdles
2005 – Antwon Hicks, Men's 60-Meter Hurdles
2008 – Brittney Reese, Women's Long Jump
2017 – Raven Saunders, Women's Shot Put
2017 – Men's Distance Medley Relay (Robert Domanic, Nick DeRay, Sean Tobin, Craig Engels)
2022 – Mario Garcia Romo, Men's Mile
2022 – Shey Taiwo, Women's Weight Throw
2023 – Jalani Davis, Women's Weight Throw
Ole Miss NCAA Indoor Runners-Up (15)
2001 – James Shelton, Men's 60-Meter Dash
2010 – Ricky Robertson, Men's High Jump
2011 – Mike Granger, Men's 60-Meter Dash
2011 – Ricky Robertson, Men's High Jump
2014 – Sam Kendricks, Men's Pole Vault
2021 – Men's Distance Medley Relay (Everett Smulders, Elijah Dryer, John Rivera Jr., Mario Garcia Romo)
2022 – Sintayehu Vissa, Women's Mile
2022 – Jasmine Mitchell, Women's Weight Throw
2023 – Men's Distance Medley Relay (Shane Bracken, Cade Flatt, Tiarnan Crorken, Anthony Camerieri)
Ole Miss NCAA Indoor Top-25 Finishes (21)
1990 – Ole Miss Men – T-23rd (6 points)
1991 – Ole Miss Men – T-9th (14 points)
1994 – Ole Miss Men – T-19th (10 points)
2000 – Ole Miss Women – 18th (10 points)
2001 – Ole Miss Men – 10th (18 points)
2004 – Ole Miss Men – 22nd (11 points)
2005 – Ole Miss Men – T-22nd (10 points)
2008 – Ole Miss Women – 13th (17 points)
2010 – Ole Miss Men – T-20th (10 points)
2011 – Ole Miss Men – T-11th (16 points)
2011 – Ole Miss Women – T-23rd (10 points)
2013 – Ole Miss Men – T-23rd (2 points)
2014 – Ole Miss Men – T-24th (9 points)
2017 – Ole Miss Women – T-12th (13 points)
2017 – Ole Miss Men – T-16th (12 points)
2021 – Ole Miss Men – 10th (20 points)
2021 – Ole Miss Women – 19th (12 points)
2022 – Ole Miss Women – T-6th (29 points)
2022 – Ole Miss Men – T-10th (20 points)
2023 – Ole Miss Women – 10th (23 points)
2023 – Ole Miss Men – T-12th (17 points)
Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan • Men's Weight Throw / Shot Put
Weight Throw Final: Thurs., March 7 • 5 p.m. CT
Shot Put Final: Sat., March 9 • 1:45 p.m. CT
Class: Sophomore
Major: Multi-Disciplinary Studies
Hometown / High School: Woonsocket, R.I. / Woonsocket
Weight Throw Season-Best: 23.59m/77-04.75 • 2024 No. 4 NCAA, No. 5 U.S., No. 8 World • Feb. 9, 2024 (Music City Challenge)
Weight Throw Career-Best: 23.62m/77-6 • Collegiate freshman record, Ole Miss record • Feb. 24, 2023 (SEC Championships)
Shot Put Career-Best: 20.38m/66-10.50 • 2024 No. 2 NCAA, No. 5 U.S., No. 24 World • Ole Miss record • Feb. 24, 2024 (SEC Championships)
Shot Put Career-Best: Same
Weight Throw NCAA Seed: 4th
Weight Throw SEC Finish: 1st
Shot Put NCAA Seed: 2nd
Shot Put SEC Finish: 1st
NCAA History: 6x NCAA qualifier (4x indoor, 2x outdoor) ... 4x All-American (2x First-Team) ... 7 career NCAA points (6 indoor) ... Finished third in the weight in 2023, best by a freshman since 2013 ... Set collegiate freshman NCAA Indoor meet record with his third-place 22.96m/75-4 ... First Rebel to ever attempt the weight/shot double indoors and hammer/shot double outdoors ... First Rebel man to ever repeat as a weight/shot doubler indoors ... Finished eighth in the deepest NCAA hammer final of all-time outdoors in 2023.
Quick Facts: One of only four collegians ever at 77 feet in the men's weight and 66 feet in the men's shot put ... One of two attempting the weight/shot double indoors this year (Cam Jones, Iowa State) ... First in SEC history to sweep the men's shot put and weight throw at the conference meet ... First Rebel thrower to break 66 feet in the shot put; was also the first to break 64 and 65 feet indoors, as well as 63, 64 and 65 feet outdoors ... Currently the only thrower worldwide at 77 feet in the weight and 66 feet in the shot put ... Undefeated in 2024 in the weight throw, winning by an average of 4.5 feet ... Is 9-3 in the weight in his collegiate career, including 8-1 in the regular season ... Ranks fifth in collegiate history in combiend shot put/weight throw PRs indoors (44.00m) ... Owns Ole Miss records indoors in the shot put (20.38m/66-10.50) and weight throw (23.62m/77-6); outdoors in the shot put (20.07m/65-10.25) and hammer (71.38m/234-02) ... In 2023, was the first freshman in available records (since at least 2009) to eclipse both 20 meters in the shot put and 71 meters in the hammer ... Set the collegiate freshman record in the weight throw in 2023 at 23.62m/77-6 ... Owns three of the six total 23-meter throws ever by a collegiate freshman ... 3x SEC Champion (2x indoor) ... First Rebel to ever win an SEC hammer title, man or woman ... First Rebel to ever win an SEC men's weight throw title ... Was first freshman to win SEC hammer title since 2016 ... Was the first collegiate freshman to break 71 meters in the hammer since 2018 when two freshmen did so: LSU's Jake Norris (73.24m/240-04) and Florida's Thomas Mardal (72.20m/236-11) ... 44 career SEC points scored ... Owns a combined distance of 91.45m in the outdoor shot put/hammer ... 2022 World U20 Champion in the shot put, finalist in the hammer ... 2022 U.S. U20 Champion in both the shot put and hammer ... 2x high school national champion ... No. 4 U.S. boys high school history in the junior shot put, No. 3 in the junior hammer and No. 7 in the high school hammer.
Jalani Davis • Women's Weight Throw / Shot Put
Weight Throw Final: Thurs., March 7 • 7 p.m. CT
Shot Put Final: Sat., March 9 • 4:45 p.m. CT
Class: Senior
Major: Master's in Sport Analytics
Hometown / High School: Hampton, Va. / Bethel HS
Weight Throw Season-Best: 25.09m/82-03.75 • 2024 No. 1 NCAA, No. 3 U.S., No. 3 World • SEC Meet Record, No. 2 Ole Miss history, No. 3 NCAA history (No. 5 throw), No. 8 U.S. history, No. 9 World history • Feb. 23, 2024 (SEC Championships)
Weight Throw Career-Best: Same
Shot Put Season-Best: 18.61m/61-00.75 • 2024 No. 3 NCAA, No. 6 U.S., No. 15 World • No. 2 Ole Miss history, No. 12 NCAA history • Feb. 24, 2024 (SEC Championships)
Shot Put Career-Best: 18.64m/61-2 • June 3, 2023 (Nashville, Tennessee; unattached)
Weight Throw NCAA Seed: 1st
Weight Throw SEC Finish: 1st
Shot Put NCAA Seed: 3rd
Shot Put SEC Finish: 1st
NCAA History: 10x NCAA qualifier … 2023 NCAA Indoor Champion (weight throw) ... 5x All-American: First-Team indoors in the weight throw in 2023 (1st) and outdoors in the hammer in 2022 (6th), Second-Team in 2023 indoors in the shot put (9th) and in 2021 outdoors in the discus (14th) and hammer (16th) ... 13 career NCAA points (10 indoor) ... Fourth career national meet double (third indoors).
Quick Facts: 2023 World Outdoor Championship qualifier (shot put) ... 2023 U.S. bronze medalist (shot put) ... 2023 NACAC U23 gold medalists in the hammer, silver in the shot put ... One of only two Rebel women to ever eclipse 60 feet in the shot put both indoors and outdoors alongside two-time Olympian Raven Saunders ... 2023 NCAA Indoor Champion in the weight throw ... No. 4 performer in NCAA meet history in weight throw at 24.51m/80-5 ... No. 3 in collegiate history (fifth-best throw), No. 9 in world history ... Third collegian to ever break 25 meters ... Only woman in world history to break 80 feet in the weight and 60 feet in the shot put; has done so twice in the same meet at 2023 and 2024 SEC Indoor Championships ... World record holder in combined indoor weight/shot PRs (43.70m) ... Only woman in world history at 80 feet in the weight, 60 in the shot, 184 in the discus and 228 in the hammer ... Owns collegiate record for most career 80-foot throws in the weight (5) ... One of only three women in collegiate history with multiple 80-foot throws in the same series (Brittany Riley, 2007; Shey Taiwo, Ole Miss, 2022) ... Ranks third in collegiate history with 19 throws of at least 23 meters ... Also ranks third in 24-meter throws with eight ... 5x All-American ... 13 career NCAA points (10 indoor) ... 4x SEC Champion ... 9x SEC medalist ... 96 career SEC points (61 indoors) ... 3x U.S. Outdoor qualifier ... 4x USTFCCCA All-Academic ... Came to Ole Miss as a walk-on.
Jasmine Mitchell • Women's Weight Throw / Shot Put
Weight Throw Final: Thurs., March 7 • 7 p.m. CT
Shot Put Final: Sat., March 9 • 4:45 p.m. CT
Class: Senior
Major: Multi-Disciplinary Studies
Hometown / High School: Hazel Crest, Ill. / Thornwood HS
Weight Throw Season-Best: 24.20m/79-04.75 • 2024 No. 2 NCAA, No. 6 U.S., No. 7 World • Feb. 9, 2024 (Music City Challenge)
Weight Throw Career-Best: 24.94m/81-10 • No. 4 NCAA history, No. 5 NCAA meet history, No. 10 U.S. history, No. 11 world history • March 11, 2022 (NCAA Championships)
Shot Put Season-Best: 17.19m/56-04.75 • 2024 No. 16 NCAA • Feb. 10, 2024 (Music City Challenge)
Shot Put Career-Best: 17.42m/57-2 • No. 5 Ole Miss history • Jan. 20, 2023 (Vanderbilt Invitational)
Weight Throw NCAA Seed: 2nd
Weight Throw SEC Finish: 2nd
Shot Put NCAA Seed: 16th
Shot Put SEC Finish: 6th
NCAA History: 10x NCAA qualifier (7x indoors) ... 2022 NCAA Runner-Up (Weight Throw) ... Fifth in NCAA meet history in the weight throw at 24.94m/81-10 (No. 4 collegian all-time) ... 5x All-American ... 19 career NCAA points. ... Has qualified for the weight throw five years in a row; has never finished worse than fourth ... Third career national meet double (second indoors).
Quick Facts: 2x SEC Champion (weight throw) ... 5x SEC medalist (all in weight throw) ... Seventh in world history, second in collegiate history in combined indoor weight/shot PRs (42.36m) ... One of four in world history at 80 feet in the weight and 57 feet in the shot indoors ... Collegiate record holder in career 23-meter throws (25) ... Fourth in career 24-meter throws (6) ... Part of first active teammate duo in NCAA history to eclipse 23 meters in the same season (2021), first active duo at 77 feet in the same season (2022), first active trio at 75 feet (2022), first active duo at 79 feet (2022), first active duo at 80 feet (2022), first active duo at 24 meters (2022) ... Along with 2022 NCAA Champion Shey Taiwo (25.55m/83-10), first duo in NCAA history to break 24 meters/80 feet in same competition ... Along with Jalani Davis, part of first duo to break 24 meters in the same regular season meet (twice in 2024) ... One of four Rebels beyond 79 feet in NCAA history, most of any school ... 62 career SEC points … Same high school as Rebel NCAA Champions Shey Taiwo and Janeah Stewart.
McKenzie Long • Women's 200-Meter Dash
200-Meter Dash Semifinal: Fri., March 8 • 7:40 p.m. CT
200-Meter Dash Final: Sat., March 9 • 6:50 p.m. CT
Class: Senior
Major: Master's in Public Health
Hometown / High School / Previous School: Ironton, Ohio / Pickerington Central / NC State
Indoor 200m Season-Best: 22.60 • 2024 NCAA No. 3, U.S. No. 5, World No. 7 •Feb. 24, 2024 (SEC Championships)
Indoor 200m PR: 22.48 (altitude) • Ole Miss Record, No. 13 Collegiate History • March 10, 2023 (NCAA Championships)
Overall 200m PR: 21.88 (+2.5) • Ole Miss Record, No. 3 Collegiate History All-Conditions • June 10, 2023 (NCAA Championships)
Wind-Legal 200m PR: 22.31 (+1.8) • Ole Miss Wind-Legal Record • April 14, 2023 (Tom Jones Memorial)
NCAA Seed: 4th
SEC Finish: 3rd
NCAA History: 6x NCAA qualifier (all at Ole Miss) ... 4x NCAA qualifier indoors ... 4x All-American (3x First-Team) ... 2023 NCAA Outdoor runner-up (200-meter) ... 15 career NCAA points scored ... Fourth-place finisher indoors in 200-meter in 2023 (best ever by a Rebel woman).
Quick Facts: First Ole Miss woman to repeat as an indoor national qualifier in the 200-meter since Teneeshia Jones (1999-2001) ... Owns six Ole Miss records: indoors in the 60-meter (7.10), 200-meter (22.48) and 300-meter (37.38); outdoors in the 100-meter (10.80/+3.5), 200-meter (21.88/+2.5) and 4x100-meter relay (43.43) ... In the collegiate record book indoors, ranks 13th in the 200-meter (22.48) and 18th in the 60-meter (7.10) ... Outdoors, her 21.88 (+2.5) from NCAAs ranks third and her 10.80 (+3.5) ranks sixth on the collegiate all-conditions list ... First Rebel woman to break 7.10 in the 60-meter (7.10), 11.00 in the 100-meter (10.80/+3.5; 11.00/+0.2), 23.00 in the indoor 200-meter (22.48) and 22.7 in the outdoor 200-meter (21.88/+2.5; 22.31/+1.8) ... Outdoors in 2023, was first Rebel woman to ever attempt the 100/200/4x100 triple (sixth Rebel woman to ever attempt a triple at the outdoor national meet) ... One of two Rebel women to ever attempt the 100/200 double outdoors alongside Teneeshia Jones, who did so three times from 1999-2001 ... In 2023 indoors, became one of two Rebel women to ever attempt the 60/200 double alongside Jones ... 2023 SEC Outdoor Champion in the 200-meter dash (first win in the event ever by a Rebel woman, indoors or outdoors) ... 2023 U.S. semifinalist in the 200-meter dash ... 4x SEC medalist ... 6x SEC scorer ... 35.5 career SEC points scored ... 6x NCAA East Region qualifier ... Left NC State as school record holder in: outdoor 200 (23.00), 4x100-meter relay (44.11), indoor 4x400-meter relay (3:44.51) ... 2x U.S. U20 finalist (2019, 100/200).
Mensi Stiff • Women's Shot Put
Shot Put Final: Sat., March 9 • 4:45 p.m. CT
Class: Freshman
Major: History
Hometown / High School: Lewisburg, Tenn. / Brentwood Academy
Shot Put Career-Best: 17.54m/57-06.50 • 2024 No. 9 NCAA • Ole Miss freshman record, No. 4 Ole Miss history • Feb. 10, 2024 (Music City Challenge)
NCAA Seed: 9th
SEC Finish: 8th
NCAA History: First career NCAA meet ... One of two freshmen to qualify in the women's shot put ... First Ole Miss freshman to ever qualify in the women's shot put.
Quick Facts: One of just eight freshmen since 2010 to break 57 feet in the shot put indoors ... Set the Ole Miss freshman record twice ... 1x SEC scorer ... 1 career SEC point ... 2023 Pan-American U20 gold medal for Team USA in the shot put ... Finished high school career ranked fourth in U.S. girls history in the shot put at 54-09.50 ... 2x Tennessee Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year ... 3x Nike national shot put champion ... 2022 Track & Field News All-American in shot put and discus ... 6x state champion ... Set state records in the shot put and discus ... 3x all-state ... 2x Middle Tennessee Track Athlete of the Year ... 2021 USA Today Tennessee Rising Star of the Year.
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MEET NOTES
• Across both seasons, 25 Rebels have won NCAA titles and 211 have earned First-Team All-America honors, while as a team Ole Miss has tallied 36 top-25 team finishes and scored 764.5 total national points.
• On the track across the indoor and outdoor seasons under ninth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith, the Rebels have had 13 NCAA top-25 team finishes, 11 NCAA individual champions, 13 NCAA runners-up, 153 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 284 NCAA points, 67 SEC individual champions and a bevy of the best team finishes in program history at both the SEC and NCAA levels.
• Four of the seven all-time NCAA top-10 track finishes in Ole Miss history have come within the last three years: 2023 women's indoor (10th), 2022 women's indoor (T-6th), 2022 men's indoor (T-10th), 2021 men's indoor (10th), 2013 men's outdoor (8th), 2001 men's indoor (10th) and 1991 men's indoor (9th).
• In its history indoors, Ole Miss has finished in the NCAA top-25 of the team standings 21 total times (14 times on the men's side, seven for the women).
• The Ole Miss women have finished in the top-10 in each of the last two seasons, taking 10th in 2023 and an overall program record sixth in 2022 -- the best track finish by any Rebel team, indoor or outdoor.
• The Rebel men have finished top-15 in each of the last three seasons, taking 10th in both 2021 and 2022, as well as a tie for 12th in 2023. Those top-10 finishes in 2021 and 2022 marked the first consecutive top-10 national track finishes for Ole Miss in men's or women's history, regardless of season, as do the three straight top-15 finishes.
• Ole Miss is one of just three schools nationally alongside Arkansas and Texas to place both its men's and women's teams in the top-15 in each of the last two seasons.
• Ole Miss owns 149 First or Second-Team All-Americans indoors (94 men, 55 women), as well as 11 NCAA titles (14 total NCAA Champions; 10 men, four women). Of those 149, a total of 87 All-Americans (52 men, 35 women) have come under Price-Smith, as well as five NCAA titles (Raven Saunders, shot put, 2017; men's DMR, 2017; Shey Taiwo, weight throw, 2022; Mario Garcia Romo, mile, 2022; Jalani Davis, weight throw, 2023).
• Ole Miss is coming off a pair of top-five team finishes at the SEC Indoor Championships, just the third time the Rebels have done so in the same season (2017, '21, '24). Ole Miss won four total titles and became just the second school to sweep the men's and women's shot put and weight throw following sweeps by Jalani Davis and Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan. Also earning medals were Jasmine Mitchell in the women's weight throw (silver), Toby Gillen in the 5K (silver) and McKenzie Long in the 200-meter dash (bronze).
REBELS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS
• The Ole Miss women held in the top-10 at No. 7, while the Rebel men also held at No. 25 in the pre-championships USTFCCCA Indoor Rating Index. This week, the index only uses entries to the NCAA Indoor Championships, which will be held in Boston on March 7-9.
• The No. 7 slot is the second top-10 ranking for the Rebel women this season after setting an Ole Miss women's program record at No. 6 last week.
• In its history indoors, Ole Miss has now appeared in the national top-10 a total of 20 times – 15 from the Ole Miss women and five from the Rebel men. Of those 20 indoor top-10 appearances, 19 have come under the supervision of ninth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith.
• This is the 21st time both Rebel units have been ranked at the same time indoors, with all 21 instances coming within the past four seasons since first occurring in Week Two of the 2021 indoor campaign.
• Overall, this is the 57th appearance in the indoor top-25 for the Rebel women since their first appearance in 2008, and the 51st ranking for the Rebel men since first doing so in 2010. Of the 108 combined indoor rankings in Ole Miss history, Price-Smith's teams own 75 total appearances (49 women, 26 men).
WOMEN'S NOTES
• The No. 7 Rebel women are looking for their third consecutive top-10 team finish at the indoor national meet, which would constitute a record-best streak in the combined history of Ole Miss men's and women's track & field and cross country. Ole Miss finished a combined program record sixth in 2022 and took 10th in 2023.
• Senior Jalani Davis will look to defend her crown as the 2023 NCAA Champion in the women's weight throw, and she enters in great shape to do so as the national leader at her SEC-winning toss of 25.09m/82-03.75 (No. 3 worldwide in 2024). A win would make Davis the first repeat winner of any NCAA event in Ole Miss women's track & field history, indoors or outdoors. It would also make her just the seventh in collegiate history to ever win multiple titles in the women's weight.
• Davis' entry mark not only won her an SEC title two weeks ago, but it also moved her to No. 3 on the all-time collegiate list (fifth-best throw) and No. 9 on the all-time world list. She is one of just three collegians and one of just 10 women in world history to ever break 25 meters.
• Davis enters her final weight throw competition at Ole Miss as the all-time collegiate record holder in 80-foot throws with five.
• Davis has formed a formidable combination with teammate and All-American senior Jasmine Mitchell, who enters ranked second behind Davis and seventh worldwide this season at 24.20m/79-04.75. This is Mitchell's fifth NCAA berth in the weight throw, and she has never finished worse than fourth in the event in her career nationally -- topped by a runner-up finish in 2022.
• Mitchell was recently the SEC runner-up to Davis in the weight throw, her fifth career SEC medal in the event (two golds, three silvers).
• This season, Davis and Mitchell have combined for 20 throws beyond 23 meters and seven beyond 24 meters. That compares to just seven 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 12 times so far this season, giving her 25 career throws beyond that plateau to break Shey Taiwo's previous collegiate record of 21. Davis, meanwhile, ranks third with 19 such throws in her career -- seven this season.
• At 24 meters, Taiwo and Riley are tied at the top with nine, but Mitchell and Davis are closing in, with Davis third at eight and Mitchell fourth with six.
• On the all-time collegiate leaderboard, Davis ranks third at her SEC winning performance from two weeks ago, and Mitchell ranks fourth at her 2022 NCAA runner-up toss of 24.94m/81-10.
• Of the 167 total 23-meter throws in women's collegiate history, Ole Miss has accounted for 74 since 2018 alone, giving the Rebels 44.3 percent of the all-time list. At 24 meters, Ole Miss holds more than half, owning 24 of the 46 total in collegiate history.
• Combined with his time at Southern Illinois from 2004-15, Ole Miss throws coach John Smith owns 53.3 percent of all the women's 23-meter throws (89), 71.7 percent of the 24-meter throws (33), 87.5 percent of the 80-foot throws (14) and all seven of the 25-meter throws in collegiate history.
• Together, Mitchell and Davis own 44 career 23-meter throws (26.3%), 14 at 24 meters (40.4%) and six at 80 feet (37.5%).
• Both Davis and Mitchell have qualified in the shot put as well for the second straight season.
• Davis won the SEC shot put title at an indoor PR of 18.61m/61-00.75, making her just the second woman in conference history to win both in the same season alongside Florida's Candice Scott (2002, 2005). Mitchell, meanwhile, snagged the 16th and final qualifying spot at her season-best of 17.19m/56-04.75.
• Davis' SEC sweep marked just the second time in world history that the same woman broke both 80 feet in the weight and 60 in the shot put, joining her own feat from a year earlier as the first woman ever to do that across a career -- let alone the same meet.
• 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 their combined NCAA history, Davis and Mitchell have scored 32 career national points -- 29 alone in the weight throw indoors.
• Davis and Mitchell rank No. 1 and No. 2 in collegiate history in combined weight throw/shot put distance, with Davis owning the world record at 43.70m and Mitchell seventh all-time at 42.36m.
• 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 Mensi Stiff has also qualified in the women's shot put, giving Ole Miss three entries for the national meet. Stiff enters ranked ninth at her Ole Miss freshman record of 17.54m/57-06.50, which ranks her fourth in Ole Miss history.
• Stiff is one of two freshmen to qualify in the women's shot put this season alongside Texas' Nina Ndubuisi. 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.
• All-American senior and NCAA Outdoor 200-meter runner-up McKenzie Long again used a superb showing at the SEC's to punch her return ticket to indoor nationals, finishing as the SEC bronze medalist in the 200-meter dash at 22.60 to enter NCAAs ranked fourth among entrants.
• Long finished fourth nationally in the 200 last season at her still-standing indoor school record 22.48, which was run at altitude in New Mexico. Outdoors, Long was the NCAA runner-up in the 200 at 21.88 (+2.5), making her the third-fastest collegian all-time on the all-conditions list.
MEN'S NOTES
• Sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan is coming off a historic sweep of his own as the first in conference history to ever win both the men's shot put and weight throw.
• His winning toss (and Ole Miss record) in the shot put of 20.38m/66-10.50 enters the national meet ranked second overall, and his weight throw season-best of 23.59m/77-04.75 enters ranked fourth.
• This is the second career NCAA Indoor double for Robinson-O'Hagan, who did so as a freshman in 2023. He finished third in the weight in 2023, the best by a freshman since 2013.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is currently the lone thrower worldwide in 2024 at 77 feet in the weight throw and 66 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, set at the SEC Championships in 2023.
• At 20.38m/66-10.50, Robinson-O'Hagan is the first Rebel man to break 66 feet in the shot put indoors. Across less than two years in a Rebel uniform, Robinson-O'Hagan has been the first 64, 65 and 66 feet indoors, in addition to being the first to do so at 63, 64 and 65 feet outdoors.
• 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 won six of seven regular season weight throw competitions and sits at 9-3 when including both SEC and NCAA Championship meets.
• 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 44.00m, he is currently ranked No. 5 in collegiate history in combined PRs in the indoor shot put (20.38m) and weight throw (23.62m).
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