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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Track & Field’s Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan Named SEC Indoor Men’s Field Athlete of the Year
3/6/2024 | Track and Field
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Ole Miss men's track & field All-American sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan has been named the SEC Indoor Men's Field Athlete of the Year, as announced by the conference on Wednesday morning.
Robinson-O'Hagan is the third Rebel to ever win the men's award indoors, joining Olympians Ricky Robertson in 2012 and Sam Kendricks in 2014.
The sophomore native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island is coming off a historic sweep at the SEC Indoor Championships two weeks ago, where he became the first in conference history to ever win both the men's shot put and weight throw. Robinson-O'Hagan won the shot put at an overall PR and Ole Miss indoor record of 20.38m/66-10.50, and he took the weight throw on a season-best heave of 23.59m/77-04.75.
Both of those marks currently have him within the top-five nationally entering this week's NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston, sitting at No. 2 in the shot put and No. 4 in the weight throw. This is the second career NCAA Indoor double for the four-time All-American Robinson-O'Hagan, who did so as a freshman in 2023 – capped by a third-place finish in the weight throw, 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, and he is just one of four throwers in collegiate history indoors to ever eclipse both distances alongside Georgia's Denzel Comenentia (2016-19), North Dakota State's Peyton Otterdahl (2015-19) and Ohio State's Dan Taylor (2000-04). 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) behind Otterdahl (45.92m), Taylor (45.34m), Comenentia (44.43m) and Purdue's Chuk Enekwechi (44.34m/2013-16).
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. In the weight throw, he also holds that distinction for every distance beyond 70 feet.
He is undefeated in the weight in 2024, 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.
Robinson-O'Hagan will be one of five Rebel athletes competing this week in Boston at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships, which run March 7-9 at The Track at New Balance.
Robinson-O'Hagan is the third Rebel to ever win the men's award indoors, joining Olympians Ricky Robertson in 2012 and Sam Kendricks in 2014.
The sophomore native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island is coming off a historic sweep at the SEC Indoor Championships two weeks ago, where he became the first in conference history to ever win both the men's shot put and weight throw. Robinson-O'Hagan won the shot put at an overall PR and Ole Miss indoor record of 20.38m/66-10.50, and he took the weight throw on a season-best heave of 23.59m/77-04.75.
Both of those marks currently have him within the top-five nationally entering this week's NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston, sitting at No. 2 in the shot put and No. 4 in the weight throw. This is the second career NCAA Indoor double for the four-time All-American Robinson-O'Hagan, who did so as a freshman in 2023 – capped by a third-place finish in the weight throw, 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, and he is just one of four throwers in collegiate history indoors to ever eclipse both distances alongside Georgia's Denzel Comenentia (2016-19), North Dakota State's Peyton Otterdahl (2015-19) and Ohio State's Dan Taylor (2000-04). 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) behind Otterdahl (45.92m), Taylor (45.34m), Comenentia (44.43m) and Purdue's Chuk Enekwechi (44.34m/2013-16).
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. In the weight throw, he also holds that distinction for every distance beyond 70 feet.
He is undefeated in the weight in 2024, 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.
Robinson-O'Hagan will be one of five Rebel athletes competing this week in Boston at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships, which run March 7-9 at The Track at New Balance.
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